TO
THE READER.
With the same leave the ancients called that kind of body Sylva, or Ὓλη, in which there were works of divers nature and matter congested; as the multitude call timber-trees promiscuously growing, a Wood or Forest; so I am bold to entitule these lesser poems of later growth, by this of Underwood, out of the analogy they hold to the Forest in my former book, and no otherwise.
BEN JONSON.
