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INTRODUCTION
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How thankfully would he receive admonition, how soone be reconciled! how indifferent, yet continually chereful! He would give grave advice to his Brother John, beare with his impertinencies, and say he was but a child!' Even allowing for Evelyn's tendency to exaggeration, this is surely one of the very saddest stories about a child of tender years, reared in a wrong manner, that has ever been written in the English language.

This loss was no doubt the occasion of his writing his fourth work, _The Golden Book of St.John Chrysostom, concerning the Education of Children.

Translated out of the Greek_, which was published in September, 1658.

A further relief from grief was also found in the translation of _The French Gardiner: instructing how to cultivate all sorts of Fruit-trees and Herbs for the Garden; together with directions to dry and conserve them in their natural; six times printed in France and once in Holland.

An accomplished piece, first written by N.de Bonnefons, and now transplanted into English by Philocepos_.
It must have gratified his royalist feelings when, on 22 Oct.


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