Sylva Sylvarum (1631 English edition)

Order) was because he conceived that other
men would now think that they could do the
same, and so continue with a further collection.
If the method had been exact, many
would have despaired of achieving it by imitation. As
for his Lordship’s love of order, I can refer any
man to his Lordship’s Latin book, On the Advancement
of Learning original: De Augmentis Scientiarum, which (if my judgment is
worth anything) is written in the most exact order that
I have ever known any writing to be. I will conclude with
a common saying of his Lordship’s: that this
This letter original: Epistle is the same one that would have been placed at the front of this book if his Lordship had lived.

work of his, Natural History, is the world as
God made it, and not as men have made it; for
it has nothing of imagination.