E-text prepared by Susan Skinner
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"Flowers, Plants and Fishes, Birds, Beasts, Flyes, and Bees,
Hils, Dales, Plaines, Pastures, Skies, Seas, Rivers, Trees,
There's nothing neere at hand, or farthest sought,
But with the needle may be shap'd and wrought."
—John Taylor ("The Praise of the Needle").
SECOND EDITION REVISED
(A reprint of the First Edition, with various slight alterations
in text)
THIRD EDITION REVISED
(A reprint of the Second Edition)