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JOHN EVELYN
To Mr. Wotton.
Worthy Sir,
I should exceedingly mistake the person, and my
owne discernment, could I believe Mr. Wotton stood
in the least neede of my assistance; but such an
expression of your’s to one who so well knows his own
imperfections as I do mine, ought to be taken for a
reproche ; since I am sure it cannot proceede from
your judgment. But forgiving this fault, I most
heartily thank you for your animadversion on Sylva ;
which, tho’ I frequently find it so written for £vXeia&
v\t], wood, timber, wild & forest trees, yet indeede I
think it more properly belongs to a promiscuous casting
of severall things together, & as I think my Lord
Bacon has us’d it in his “Natural History,” without
much reguard to method. Deleatur, therefore, wherever
you meete it.
Concerning the Gardning & Husbandry of the
Antients, which is your inquirie (especialy of the first),
that it had certainely nothing approaching the elegancy
of the present age, Rapinus (whom I send you) will
aboundantly satisfie you. The discourse you will find
at the end of Hortorum, lib. 40. capp. 6. 7. What
JOHN EVELYN
To Mr. Wotton.
Worthy Sir,
I should exceedingly mistake the person, and my
owne discernment, could I believe Mr. Wotton stood
in the least neede of my assistance; but such an
expression of your’s to one who so well knows his own
imperfections as I do mine, ought to be taken for a
reproche ; since I am sure it cannot proceede from
your judgment. But forgiving this fault, I most
heartily thank you for your animadversion on Sylva ;
which, tho’ I frequently find it so written for £vXeia&
v\t], wood, timber, wild & forest trees, yet indeede I
think it more properly belongs to a promiscuous casting
of severall things together, & as I think my Lord
Bacon has us’d it in his “Natural History,” without
much reguard to method. Deleatur, therefore, wherever
you meete it.
Concerning the Gardning & Husbandry of the
Antients, which is your inquirie (especialy of the first),
that it had certainely nothing approaching the elegancy
of the present age, Rapinus (whom I send you) will
aboundantly satisfie you. The discourse you will find
at the end of Hortorum, lib. 40. capp. 6. 7. What