Although Dodoens neither lived in England nor had any of his works printed here, his _Cruÿdtboeck_ became one of the standard works in this country through Lyte's translation. Dodoens was born at Malines about 1517 and, after studying at Louvain, visited the universities and medical schools of France, Italy and Germany, graduated M.D., and was appointed physician to Maximilian II. and Rudolf II. successively. In the latter part of his life he was Professor of Medicine at Leyden, where he died in 1585. Plantin published Dodoens's most important work, _Stirpium historiæ pemptades sex sive libri triginta_, in which some of the figures are copied from the fifth-century manuscript[73] copy of Dioscorides. Dodoens's first book, the _Cruÿdtboeck_, was translated into French by his friend Charles de l'Escluse[74] and afterwards into English by Henry Lyte. Lyte, who was an Oxford man, travelled extensively in his youth and made a collection of rare plants. He contributed nothing original to the literature on herbs, but his translation of the French version of the _Cruÿdtboeck_ was an inestimable service. His own copy of the French version, which is now in the British Museum, has on the title-page the quaint inscription "Henry Lyte taught me to speake Englishe." The book is full of MS. notes and references to Turner. The full title of Lyte's book is as follows: "A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes: wherein is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of Herbes and Plantes: their divers and sundry kindes: their straunge Figures, Fashions and Shapes: their Names, Natures, Operations, and Vertues: and that not only of those which are here growyng in this our Countrie of Englande but of all others also of forrayne Realmes, commonly used in Physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, Physition to the Emperour: And nowe first translated out of French into English by Henry Lyte Esquyer." (_Colophon._) "Imprinted at Antwerpe by Me Henry Loë Booke printer and are to be solde at London in Paul's churchyarde by Gerard Dewes."[75] The beautiful illustrations in Lyte's _Dodoens_ are to a large extent printed from the same blocks as those in the octavo edition (1545) of Fuchs. In Fuchs there are about 516 illustrations, and in Lyte's _Dodoens_ about 870. Those which are not copied from Fuchs were probably collected by Dodoens himself, who, according to some verses at the beginning of the herbal, took a practical interest in the publication of the English translation of his book. "Till Rembert he did sende additions store, For to augment Lyte's travell past before." The original wood-blocks never came to England, and three years later van der Loë's widow sold them to Christophe Plantin for 420 florins.