“Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.”

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves", Paracelsus, 1490–1541. (From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p. 234).
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

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French writer 1544–1590

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