For the account of Birds and Fishes found in Norfolk (pp. 513-539), Professor Alfred Newton generously placed his annotated copy at the disposal of the editor. As those actual pages were in the press, Professor Newton passed away, and Death has deprived us of the pleasure of placing this volume in his hands. In this edition Professor Newton’s readings have been in the main followed, with the additional help of the valuable recension, published by Mr. Thomas Southwell of Norwich, in 1902, to which every serious student of this treatise must always refer.

For further assistance in questions of identification, I am again indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. Aldis Wright; and for one correction to Mr. A. R. Waller.

Sir Thomas Browne’s Latin treatises and his correspondence are not included in these volumes. It was the determination of the original publisher of this edition that they should be omitted; and indeed they do not form the most characteristic part of Sir Thomas Browne’s work. His erudition, and the resources from which he drew, his amazing industry, his marvellous diction, and natural piety—all these are apparent to the general reader of his English text; and it is to such that the present edition of Sir Thomas Browne’s works, as they originally appeared, will primarily appeal.

C. S.

16th June 1907.

[CONTENTS]

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[Prefatory Note by the Editor]v
PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA
[The Seventh Book:(continued):]
[1. Of the Forbidden Fruit,]1
[2. That a Man hath one Rib less then a Woman,]5
[3. Of Methuselah,]8
[4. That there was no Rain-bow before the Flood,]11
[5. Of Sem, Ham, and Japhet,]15
[6. That the Tower of Babel was erected against a Second Deluge,]17
[7. Of the Mandrakes of Leah,]19
[8. Of the three Kings of Collein,]25
[9. Of the food of John Baptist, Locust and Wild Honey,]27
[10. That John Evangelist should not die,]29
[11. More compendiously of some others,]36
[12. Of the Cessation of Oracles,]39
[13. Of the death of Aristotle,]42
[14. Of the Wish of Philoxenus,]49
[15. Of the Lake Asphaltites,]52
[16. Of divers other Relations,]56
[17. Of some others,]65
[18. More briefly of some others,]74
[19. Of some Relations whose truth we fear,]81
[HYDRIOTAPHIA AND THE GARDEN OF CYRUS (1658),]87
[Epistle to Thomas Le Gros,]89
[Epistle to Nicholas Bacon,]93
[Hydriotaphia,]97
[The garden of Cyrus,]145
[The Stationer to the Reader,]211
[CERTAIN MISCELLANY TRACTS (1684),]213
[The Publisher to the Reader,]215
[1. Observations upon several Plants mentioned in Scripture,]218
[2. Of Garlands and Coronary or Garden-plants,]281
[3. Of the Fishes eaten by Our Saviour,]286
[4. An Answer to certain Queries relating to
Fishes, Birds, Insects,]		289
[5. Of Hawks and Falconry,]286
[6. Of Cymbals, etc.,]301
[7. Of Ropalic or Gradual Verses, etc.,]304
[8. Of Languages, and particularly of the Saxon Tongue,]307
[9. Of Artificial Hills, Mounts or Burrows,]322
[10. Of Troas, etc.,]326
[11. Of the Answers of Apollo at Delphos to Crœsus,]333
[12. A Prophecy concerning several Nations,]342
[13. Musæum Clausum, or Bibliotheca Abscondita,]350
[A LETTER TO A FRIEND (1690),]367
[POSTHUMOUS WORKS (1712),]395
[Repertorium, or some Account of the
Tombs and Monuments in the Cathedral
Church of Norwich in 1680,]		397
[Miscellanies:]
[1. An Account of Island, alias Ice-land, in 1662,]427
[2. Concerning some Urnes found in Brampton-Field, in Norfolk, in 1667,]430
[3. Concerning too nice Curiosity,]437
[4. Upon reading Hudibras,]438
[CHRISTIAN MORALS (1716),]439
[Dedication,]441
[Preface,]442
[Christian Morals,]443
[Notes on certain Birds found in Norfolk,]513
[Notes on certain Fishes and Marine Animals found in Norfolk,]526
[On the Ostrich,]540
[Boulimia Centenaria,]544
[Upon the dark Mist, 27th November 1674,]545
[Account of a Thunderstorm at Norwich, 1665,]548
[On Dreams,]550
[Observations on Grafting,]555
[Corrigenda,]559
[Index,]561