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 19
ng bee come. See moreover how well this unhappie handofhisfpeeds^for there is nota plant againe commeth upfooner^ or ihriveth fafler than this I lax. And to conclude^ that wee mayknow how Nature her felfijs nothing well pleafed therewith^ andthatitgrowethmaugre her willj Itburnes the field wherein… … *It fcemcththai fine Hol-land cloth andCambrick wasift requcft byPlfnicf time. Jitjlme AUa^K^Turocb. ^ The manner offowing Line or Flax: thefundrie kinds thereof The order hew to drcffeit,Alfo of Tiapkins and other Naperie, of Flax and Linnen that willr^ot burnein thefire,Andwhen the Theatres er…
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