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The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)

Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 162

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that the rough woods andforrefts,even the moft hideous parts of the earth,and fearauU to fee un-to,be not without their plants medicinable. Nay the very wilds and de-fer ts are enriched and furnilhed therewith :infbmuch, as in every coaftand corner of the world there may be obferved both fympathies… … iy6 The fbure and twentieth Booke frame. For firft and formoftj the Oke and the Olive tree beare fuchmutuall rancour and mallice q(as it were) and are fo ftiffely bent to warre one with anoiher, that if a man replant one of tliefetreesinthc trench or hole from whence the other was taken…

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