A seedbed is a specially prepared area of the garden that has been made suitable for the sowing and germination of plant seeds. A seedbed has usually been well broken down into a fine tilth[?] using a tool such as a rake[?], and will have had any stones or weeds removed. The site will have been levelled for even drainage.
... from
the heading of the first book, De imitatione Christi
et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi. It consists
of four books and seems to have been written in
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