and séeth them asunder Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first drie in the second Best in cold weather for grosse and homely feeders Fabae Storie for Table-talke TOng-tying Pytagor biddeth vs tie vp our chaps also from eating of Beanes A Fabis abstineto Wherein Iudicious Antiquaries say there is much mysterie and therefore diuersly interpret it Simeon in his Dyet Booke saith Pythagor forbad them for that they cause turbulent fearfull dreames Other referre it to their flatulencie whereby they prouoke to lechery Other expound it mystically not according to the grammaticke sense therein shewing much reading if not wit But to gather togither their gatherings were to send my wit a wooll-gathering and indeed to contend de lana caprina Rize Choise BRight and cleare kernels like Pearles Margarite such as swell in seething Vse Wonderfully asswage the bâ—rning heate of the stomacke encreaseth séed stops fluxes Hurt Bad for the Collicke for being of a clammy and glewish nature it sticketh too long in the guts and breeds some winde Preparation Séeth it in Cowes milke or in the creame or oyle of swéete Almonds Degree Hot in the first dry in the second temperatly saith Auicens and Rhasis Season Age. Constitution In winter for youth and labourers Oriza Storie for Table-talke RIze is sowne in a moyst and lowe ground Frumentie made of Barley is moister then Rice yeeldeth singular good nourishment to the bodie verie holesome for the sicke You may much meliorate your Rice both for nourishment toothsomenesse by seething it in fat flesh-broath or in passing good Cowes morning milke Sodden with Oyle or Butter it relinquisheth his astringent qualitie The Painters Prouerbe Manum de Tabula THat is as present occasion interpreteth no more Table-talke The reason hereof as I gesse may be these First and principally except I speake wiselyer Secondly the consequent is like to proue barren for Certs fruitles for all the fruite is antecedent Thirdly and lastly it's Dinner-time so that if more time be spent in prating my Dry Dinner will not be ready in due time Quod omnium rerum est primum These reasons would binde any man any reasonable man to the peace Yet for all this presuming vpon your fauourable estimates who are wise Et nostis os adolescentiae quà m sit impudens I am purposed to proceed in my perpetuall paralell of paraphrase The which I desire it may be serued in amongst the rest of the dishes and be tasted also but yet of such onely as are of eager appetite If any be desirous to know what a maÌ„ may call it surely I can thinke of no fitter name then an hasty pudding For I protest in so great haste I composed it that when a friend of mine came into my chamber and suddenly surprising me asked what I was making I as not minding what he ask't or what I answerd tolde him in my haste that I made haste Hearbs Sage Choise GArden or set the lesser sort the litle leaues of it Vse Good against the paulsie and quiuering of the ioynts procéeding of a cold cause coÌ„forteth the head braine senses and memorie Hurt Annoyeth melancholicke persons by ouer-drying them also the hot and chollericke by ouer-heating and burning them Correction Eate it in sallets with other cold and moist hearbes as Lettuse or with moist meates Degree Hot and drie in the beginning of the third or in the verie end of the second somewhat astringent Season Age. Constitution In winter and the spring for old cold and phlegmaticke Saluia Storie for Table-talke MAny do much extoll Sage calling it an holy Hearbe auerring that it preuenteth all abortument in women They counsell a woman the fourth day of her going abroad after childe-birth to drinke nine ounces of Sage iuyce with a little salt and forthwith to vse the company of her husbant The holesomenesse of Sage-ale is notoriously famous Heywoods merry wit noted two kindes of Sage not named in our Herbals Sages wise Sage foole Foenill or Finckle Choise GArden young if you eate it gréene full ripe if you keepe it sodden with the rootes and tender stalkes Vse Doth make store of milke prouoke vrine and monthly flur open obstructions purge y e reines wondronsly helpe the sight Hurt Attenuate and inflame the blood neither sodden nor rawe is easie of digestion especially eaten much Correction A litle yong laied a while in cold water Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second many say in the third dry in the first very opening For any time age or constitution least for youth and chollerists Foeniculus Story for Table-talke SNakes Serpents by eating of Foenill renew their age and repaire their decaied sight by rubbing their eyes with it Wherfore it is vsed of vs to the like purposes There is a bad propertie in the seede to breede poysonous wormes whose poyson is curable by no Antidot Therefore afore they be eaten they must be opened and carefully purged Sparage Choise HOme lately sowne the â—ep now bowing to the ground-ward Vse Doth open obstructions of the reines and liuer make soluble prouoke vrine and Venus Hurt Eaten cold disposeth to domit and through his bitternesse greatly increaseth choller in collerickâ— stomackes Correction Is boyled and the first decoction cast out condite with Oyle Vineger Pepper and salt Degree Hotte in the first temperately moist Season Age. Constitution For any age or temperature chiefly for old and cold Asparagi Story for Table-taske DIoscorides saith that Sparage causeth barrennesse but it is not probable sithence it nourisheth very much and manifestly prouoketh Venus It is very soone sodden and therefore Caesar speaking of any thing that was soone done had this prouerbe vsually in his mouth Citiùs quà m Asparagi coquantur Id est Sooner then Sparage can be sodden As much in effect as while you caÌ„ say what's this in the turne of an hand in the twinckling of an eye Spinache Choise VEry yong growing in a wel manured and fat soyle watred from aboue Vse Doth enlarge the breast cure the cough moderately coole the lungs make the belly soluble the weasand smooth Hurt Is verie windie annoyeth the stomacke engenders watry humours in a cold stomacke Correction Fried with it owne iuyce without water then condite with Oile Sorrel-iuyce and Raysons of the sun Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the first For any age or constitution especially youth and chollerists Spinachia Storie for Table-talke SOme will needes haue this hearbe a bred natiue Spaniard and therefore miscall it Spagnaeci But they much abuse it for the Arabians called it Sphinache the reason of the name is obuious because the seed thereof is Spinosum That is prickly The iuyce of Spinache drunke cureth any wound receiued of a Scorpion Therefore it is of much request in Italy Artichokes Choise THiffle or prickly Artichokes coÌ„ming of Artichoke tender Vse Please the taste prouoke vrine and Venus remoue flatiue humours open obstructions heate the entralls Hurt
kept a while in strawâ— Vse Taken afore meate stay fluxes and immoderate casting taken after meate strengthen the stomack mend the breath Hurt Much hinder concoction immoderatly vsed burthen the stomack bréed litle cold grosse and melancholious iuyce Correction Eaten after meate moderately and after them an hony-combe Degree Cold in the first drie in the second verie astringent Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ An Autumne and Winter 〈◊〉 youth and hot constitutions Sorba Storie for Table-talke THe Soruice and Medlar are much alike in nature taste and operation Plinie li. 15. cap. 21. noteth foure differences of them arising from their forme and fashion None of them all fructifie vntill they be three yeares old Cato willeth vs to condite them in the decoction of new Wine A Lotion of their decoction straiteneth the matrice Galen vtterly forbiddeth them as meate commendes them for good astringent phisicke Hasil Nuts Choise GReat ones little couered with their huske ful of iuyce not worme eaten nor any way contaminate Vse Nourish more then Walnuts encrease braine sodden with hony cure an olde cough touÌ„ed and eaten with pepper ripen the distillations of reume Hurt Annoy the stomacke hard of concoction windie engender much choller cause headach it much eaten Correction Eate them new macerated a while in water moderately and after them meates condite with sugar Degree The gréene or new are temperate in the first qualitie the old or drie are hot and drie in the ende of the first Season Age. Constiution In winter for yong strong and laborious persons Avellanae Story for Table-talke AVellanae of AvellanuÌ„ a towne in Campania or else à Vellendo because any may haue them for the plucking or gathering The Greekes call them Ponticae for that as saith Pliny they were first brought out of Pontus Nut in English of Nux the Latine and Nux à Nocendo because it annoyeth all other plantes or hearbes that are subiect and obnoxious to his leaues-dropping All hard or shell-fruite are called Nuces all soft or pulp-fruite Poma Melons commonly called Pompions Choise OF most exquisit sauour pleasant to the palate new ripe Vse Quench thirst cause appetite coole sensibly cleanse the bodie prouoke vrine daily vse of them preserueth from the stone in the bladder and reines Hurt Bréede winde and belly-ache naught for collick splenticke aged phlegmaticke melancholicke Correction Eaten with old Chéese falt or tart meates and a cup of briske Wine Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the third For yong and hot bloods Melones seu Melopepones Story for Table-talke ANguria which Galen calleth Melopepon of Melon and Pepon because it is not distinguished with stemmes as the single Melon or Pumpion is but round and smooth like an Apple Also its eaten together with the inwards of it which the Pumpion is not yet retaineth it the smell and sauour of the Pumpion This fruite is the greatest or biggest of all Hearbes or Trees That it hath a scouring and clensing properly its euident in that if you rub any part of the body with it it becommeth much the brighter and cleaner VValnuts Choise BIg long ripe easily shaled especially new not rotten Vse Repaire decaied téeth eaten with Figges and rewe saue from mortall venims and kill wormes in the belly Hurt Immoderately vsed hurt the throate pallate and tongue stuffe the breast cause the cough and headach especially if they be dry CorrectioÌ„ Eate them new stéeped in wine and then pilled a small quantitie and with a litle garlicke old with raysons or after fish in stead of chéese Degree The dried are hot in the third dry in the beginning of the second the gréene are excéedingly moist and partake litle heate Season Age. Constitution In winter for phlegmatick melancolicque old not straight brested Nuces Iuglandes Story for Table-talke IVglandes quasi Iouis glandes Ioues Acornes For when our grand-forefathers had a long time liued with Acornes at last finding Nuts they called them Ioues Acornes for their excelleÌ„cie Therein apppeared their thankfull hearts for any benifit receiued at Gods hands by acknowledging God the author and bestower of it Contrary to the base humour of many muck-borne Scarab-flyes and earth-rooting hogges of this age who are content to eate of Ioues Acornes but like swine as they are neuer lift vp their eyes to the tree whence they fall Pine-Nuts or pine Apples Choise OF Orchard pines femall of best sauour very new Vse Nourish much fat cleanse the brest lights reynes and bladden sodden with honey prouoke vriâ—â— restore the weake consume all corrupt humours good for the shoâ—t winded and paraliticke Hurt Concoct somewhat slowly 〈◊〉 but grosse iuyce much eaten grow the stomack and belly Correction Macerated hot the space of 〈◊〉 houre giue them with sugar to 〈◊〉 and phlegmaticke with honey to youth and chollericke Degree Hot in the beginning of the second moist in the first Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In cold we ather for the foresaid as aforesaid Pineae Story for Table-talke IF the tops of the pinetree be once lopped off it neuer bears fruite nor prospereth after WheÌ„ce it was that Croesus threatned the Citizens of Lampsacum that he would destroy them like a Pine-tree meaning he would cut off all their heads or else slay all their heads Id est their gouernors magistrates which done the citie like a lopped Pine shuld pine away and come to nought Pine Nuts much augment seed especially if three or foure drops of their oile be put into a soft egge and so sooped off Pistake Nuts Choise GReat Smelling like Turpeâ—tine of old trees of a sadde gréene colour most new Vse Purge the brest strengthen the reynes and stomacke open obstructions of the liuer stay disposition to vemit heale the biting of serpents preuoke Venus wondrously Hurt Though they fat yet nourish litle vnholsome for boyes and hot constitutions for they extenuate inflame the blood and bring dizinesse Correction Eate them immediatly afore meate with Orenges or Saccarum Rosatum Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the second order of the second degree In cold weather for flegmatists Pistacia Story for Table-talke MAthiolus holdeth this plant to be a kind of Terebinth or Turpentine it groweth in Aegypt Syria Thence brought to Venice a few yeare since they haue fructified in Sicily The Husbandmen say it growes of an Almond-tree Imp inserted to a Mastick stock Lucius Vitellius Censor first brought Pistakes into Italy in the beginning of Tiberius Caesars raigne when he was Embassadour into Syria Dates Choise SWéete ripe within some and vncorrupt Vse Make sat good for the â—â—er cure the cough loose the belly Hurt Hurt the téeth and mouth cause gripings in the stomacke and scalles to breake out gnaw the bottome of the belly plague the head with ache obstruct the liâ—â— splene and veynes Correction Eaten sodden or condite wâ—â— sugar or rawe with sewer and taxt in meates after them Degree Season Age. Constiution Hot in
Table-talke CHerryes take their name of the Latine Cerasa and Cerasa of Cerasunte a Towne in Pontus whence Lucullus first brought them to Rome after hee had conquered Mithridate in the sixe hundreth and eightieth yeare of the Citie Cantabrigian Achademicks may very fitly interpret Cerasunte Cherry-HintoÌ„ their neighbour Cherry-Towne Where many Athenian Squires are so ouercome by cherryes that they can very hardly conuey them cleanly home to Athens and afterward are constrained to implore the ayde of Mithridate and his Cosin Triacle in regaining to them the Castle of health Plums Choise KIndely and throughly ripe tender skinned swéete and toothsome gathered afore sunne Vse Purge choller abate heate refresh and moisten the body slake thirst excite appetite superexcellent in burning agues Hurt Losen and weaken the stomack engender watry humours in cold and weake stomacks yéeld litle or no nourishment hurt the aged stuft with fleame or such as haue the collicque Correction Eate them afore meate and eate after them Saccarum Rosatum aromaticum or salt meats Degree Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the end of the third Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For hot weather youth cholleticke and sanguine Pruna Story for Table-talke DAmascena or Damaske-prunes are so called of Damascus in Syria which yeeldeth your best and most commended Prune Next in Galens iudgement is the Spanish sweeter then the Damaske and not so astringent The French with vs is of much request for speciall vse Damascens of all other Plums are thought most wholesome in so much as many are of the minde that a good stomack can very hardly surfet of them Apples Choise OLd swéete faire ripe in any case Vse Comfort the hart quench thirst enlarge the brest dispatch distillations of rume cause to spit quiet the cough Hurt Annoy weake stomacks and diseased sinowes especially eaten raw or many PreparatioÌ„ CorrectioÌ„ Roast baked stewed powdered with sugar and aniséed comfits or else eate Saccarum Rosatum vpon them Degree Swéet are hot in the first temperately moist sower are cold and dry Season Age. Constitution In Autumne and spring for youth chollericke and good stomacks Mala. Story for Table-talke AN Apples is of euill report or at leastwise hath but an euil name amongst the Romaines for the very name Malum signifieth euill Hence some forbid both cheese an apples with this fallacian Caseus est nequam et mala sunt mala Howbeit not origination but fortune made theÌ„ Sophisters For Mâlum an apple deriueth his line of Ancestry froÌ„ the Greeke Melon of great antiquitie not vnknowne to Homer Yet the obuious Notation passing plausible and more passable because an apple was the cause or occasion of all euill but whether it were an apple or no fides sit penes Authores Peares Choise THroughly ripe swéete Please the taste Vse cause appetite comfort a weake stomacke by forcing the iawes to raise and spit out fleame proucke to the stoole Hurt Bréed cold and flatulent blood nought for the collicke Correction After meate powdered with much sugar drinke olde wine of good sauour vpon them or indeed prepare them thus PreparatioÌ„ First part them in halfes and cut out the Cores Then pare salt and cast them so out of doores Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second In Autumne and winter for all but the aged and rumaticke Pyra Story for Table-talke OVr English name Peare comes of the Latine Pyrum or Pyrus and Pyrus of Pyramis because both the Peare-tree and the Peare it selfe also somewhat resemble that figure or proportion yet inversim if they be compared For the Peare-tree aspireth and riseth with a kinde of Conus in the top the Peare Contrâ pointeth toward the stalke and his broad crowne reprefenteth the basis The Italians call their chiefe or best Peare Bergmot Mot is a Peare and Berkg signifies Lord or Master in the Turkish tongue whence they borrowed it As we say a Pome-roy from the French Aprecocks Choise THe greatest best coloured ripe whose inward kernels are passing swéet and comes easily from the shell pleasant in taste Vse Quench thirst whâ—t the stomack the kernel kils wormes Hurt Instale the stomacke soone corrupt possesse the blood with much water and make it soone putrifie Correction Eate after them Anyse-séedes meates well salted or spiced and old cheeâ—e drinke old wine of good sauour vpon them Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and moist in the second About the end of May or beginning of Iune for youth such as abound with choller or blood and haue strong stomacks Mala Armeniaca Story for Table-talke SO cald in Latine of Armenia whence they were first transplanted in Greeke Bericoccia in Latine Praecocia or Praematura Id est Soone ripe or first ripe for they offer themselues about the end of the spring Hence we call a ripe-headed young boy a princock Horace saith Non amo puerum praecocis ingeni Id est I loue no Aprecocks And so on the contrary a Cockni is inuerted being as much as Incoct vnripe Other deriue Apricock of Apricum because it ripeneth best in Aprico Now as Aprecocks be soone ripe so according to the old rule soone rotten And though Galen saith Aprecocks be not so obnoxious to corruption as the Peach yet experience giues him the lye Peaches Choise OF a good colour fragrant smell and pleasant taste ripe such as come easily froÌ„ their stone Vse Mend the euill sauour of the breath arising from the stomacke their smell is wondrous good in cordiaque passions Hurt Being soft moist and flatulent they engender humours very subiect to corruption euil for old flegmaticke and weake stomackes Correction Eate them alwaies fasting and drinke a cup of the best wine most fragrant and well aromatized Degree Cold in the first moist in the second Season Age. Constitution For youth chollerists and sanguines Mala persica Story for Table-talke CAld Persica of Persia Persiques Therfore haue we notoriously impeached their name as we do all other deriuatiues indeed For in stead of Persiques we say Peaches But no great matter for the name that will neuer feed or fill our mawes As he said Voca panem lapidem et da mihi lapidem Those Peaches whose meate cleaueth fast to the stone are coÌ„mended of some as also such as seeme friezed ouer with a thinne downe like a Quince But questionlesse both these are of last and least request Orenges Choise VVAightie full ripe sad coloured twixt sweete and sower Vse The sweete open obstructions are good for melancholists and such as be subiect to distillations the middle sort are good in Agues and recall appetite Hurt The exquisitly swéet are too hot the sower coole and offend the stomack stuffe the belly constraine the brest and arteries CorrectioÌ„ Therefore eate but litle of them after them Orenge pils condite which are good for the stomacke Degree The sower are cold in the first moist in the second the sweet temperately hot the middle cold and temperately
The Thistle is somewhat flatulent annoyeth the head burdneth the stomacke Artichoke is not so hurtfull Correction The Thistle sodden or raw is eaten in the last course with salt and pepper Artichokes are boyled in Pottage and eaten as the Thistle Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the first The sodden are preferred afore the raw for cold season age constitution Cardui seu Cinarae Story for Table-talke THe Thistle or prickly Artichoke differeth from the plaine or common Artichoke onely by certaine prickles vpon the stalke The Italian most esteemeth of the Thistle In former times they were to be had no where but in Sicily now euery where Theophrastus calleth them Pinei because they somewhat resemble Pine-apples consisting of many skales coÌ„pacted Globe-wise Lettuse Choise THick commonly called Cabbage Lettuse growing in a fat soyle afore it swell with milke not washt in water Vse Câ—â—sâ—â— of digestion the best of pot-heaâ—â—â—s increaseth milke procureth sleepe states the running of the reines all wageth heate in the stomacke especially eaten with vinegâ—â— Hurt Dimmeth the sight quencheth naturall heate corrupteth the seed causâ—â— barrâ—nnesse mortifieth venus makes the bodie sluggish weâ—keneth the stomacke Correction Eaten with Mint Rewe and 〈◊〉 heaâ—bes sodden rather thâ—â— rawe vnwasht good Wine drunke vpon it Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the second In hâ—t weather for youth verie choâ—â—â—ricke and hot stomackes Lactuca Storie for Table-talke GAlen commendeth Lettuse thus in a yong man it abateth the burning heat of his stomack vnto an old man it causeth sleepe In olde time they ate Lettuse after supper to represse vapors arising from the stomack to the braine and to dispose them selues to sleepe For they vsed to dine very spaâ—ingly but supped largely Aristoxenes Cyraenaeus watred his Lettuses with Mead to make them bigger and sweeter Lactuca a lacte quasi Lactoca because it breeds milk in women saith Martiall Endiue Choise GArden tender not yet milky sauouring most swéetly Vse Asswageth inflammation and thirst prouokes vrine appetite especially in hot weather Hurt Bad for the Palsie quiuering of the ioynts and cold stomacks somewhat sloweth concoction Correction Eaten with Nip the stalkes of Mint Rew and such hot hearbs Degree Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the end of the first Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youth chollericke sanguine and very hot stomacks Intubus Story for Table-talke ENdiue is much of the nature and operation of Lettuse The wilde Endife is not so cold or moist as the Garden or homegrowing and hath a more sharpe and vigorous taste The wilde Endife is curled and crisped somewhat like to Cabbage Lettuse but much bigger Borage Choise COmmonly vsed is that veriâ— Buglosse of old This therfore taken with the leaues Vse Wondrously cleanseth the blood recreateth exhilerateth the heart and spirits especially put in wine strengtheneth all the entrals very good for such as are in recouery Hurt Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Somewhat hard of digestion greatly annoyeth sore mouthes Séeth it in very good flesh broath Cold and moist in the first For any season age or temperature Borago Story for Table-talke APuleius writeth that they of Lucania calleth this Buglosse Corage because it hath an apparant sympathy and notable affinitie with the affects of the heart Whence in tract of time the name is depraued and B. put for C. Surely it is a most excellent hearbe and of speciall vse It hath this peculier vertue that laied in Wine it strengthneth and cheareth the heart putting merry conceits into the minde Succory Choise VVIth blew flowers following the sunne therefore called Heliotropium tender the tops of it Vse Very much helpes an inflamed stomacke without all measure openeth the obstructions of the liuer Hurt Hurteth a weake and cold stomacke makes litle and bad noâ—rishment Correction Eaten boiled in sallets with 〈◊〉 and vinegar or raw with Nip and such hot hearbs Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second Conuement alwaies best in sommer for youth and hot constitutions Cichorium Story for Table-talke IT hath bene and yet is a thing which superstition hath beleeued that the body anoynted with the iuyce of Cichory is very auaileable to obtaine the fauour of great persons howsoeuer it is of a most opening nature and maketh way or free passage in the body by taking away al obstructions and opilations The leaues of Succory brused are very good against inflamation of the eyes being outwardly appâ—ied Hoppe Choise THe first buds or yong braunches shooting from the roote not yet least of a tender and slender stalke Vse Not only engenders singular good humours but also reduceth them into an equall and due temper strengtheneth all the entrals makes pure and refined blood Hurt Somewhat flatulent stuffeth the bead Correction Boyled and eaten with Vineger and Oyle Degree Tempertately hot moist in the first Season Age. Constitution For any season age constitution Lupulus Storie for Table-talke OVr forefathers knewe not Hoppe howbeit it is a most excellent hearbe exceedeth all other for good iuyce for cleansing the blood and scouring all the entrals Besides the necessitie hereof in brewing of Beere is sufficiently knowne to Germany and England and all these Northerne parts of the worlde yet I know not how it happened as he merrily saith that herisie beere came hopping into England both in a yeere Mint Choise SMall garden-spear-mint the tops onely Vse Very exceedingly comforteth the stomacke especially cold and weake consumeth fleame and prouoketh appetite Hurt Annoyeth an hot stomacke or liuer for it in a manner scaldeth and burneth the blood CorrectioÌ„ Eate it sparingly with cold Hearbs Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the end of the second or beginning of the third In cold weather for old men flegmaticke and melancholicke Mentha Story for Table-talke THe Poets faigne that Mentha Proserpines Nymph was metamorphosed into this hearbe being taken at her lechery with Pluto the black Prince The Graecians liked the sauour of it so well that they called it Hedyosmus that is sweete-smell Perhaps their mint was of better sauour then ours for we hâ—ue many other hearbes which deserue that name rather then Mint although it sauoureth very well Sorrell Choise GArden of a déepe gréene colour the leaues no whit red Vse Restraineth choller quencheth thirst exciteth appetite cureth fluxes is very holsome in burning and pestilentiall feuers Hurt Exasperateth the stomacke bindeth the belly hurteth melancholists Correction Eate it in Sallets with other hearbs as Lettuse which is moist and Mint which is hot Degree Cold in the first moist in the beginning of the second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youths chollerists and sanguines Oxalis seu Acetosa Story for Table-talke BY reason of the tart taste it is called in Latin Acetosa That is Vineger hearbe And in Lombardie they call it the sowre hearbe It was wholly vnknowne to the Antique There be two sorts
of it the greater sowne in Gardens which is the better the lesse growing in the fields hauing lesse leaues and the stalke like a speare the leaues very red and shining Burnet Choise LOw set in gardens for sallets with litle leaues notcht like a Saw and indented rounde about the Verge the stalke red Vse Doth purge the reines and bladder verie much prouoke vrine voyd the stone and grauell verie good against the plague put in wine greatly comforts the hart Hurt Hard of digestion stuffeth the belly and in many inflameth the liuer and blood Correction Eaten raw in sallets with other cold hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and drie in the second Pimpinella Storie for Table-talke IT is an Hearbe that the auncient were verie litle acquâ—â—nted with Yet the Nomenclators haue referred it vnto that sort of hearbes which are good against the stone The decoction of it made in pottage is a present remedie against the plague Also the water distilled is pâ—ssing good for that purpose It is vulgarly thought to be put in wine as a cooler but it heaâ—eth in the second degree and ioyneth with wine in his operation for the strengthening of the heart Persley Choise THe braunches afore either they flower or séed the rootes at halfe their growth Vse Very much prouoke vrine and womens fluxe clenseth the liuer and matrice openeth the obstructions of those parts is verie pleasing to theistomacke the decoction of it resists poyson Hurt Is of no verie good iuyce enflameth the blood sâ—uffeth the head is slowly digested Correction Eate it little rawe with colde hearbes sodden in flesh pottage the roote boyled throughly Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the end of the first Good sodden for any season age or constitution Petroselinum Storie for Table-talke THe excellency of this hearb accordeth with the frequent vse thereof For there is almost no meate or sauce which may not haue Persley either in it or about it Our English word Persly is a manifest contract of the Latin Petroselinum The chiefest vertue lieth in the roote second in the seed last and least in the leaues and yet these are of most vse in the kitching Taragon or byting Dragon Choise GArden in a fat moist soile the tender branches leaues not spread vpon the ground Vse Chiefe of hearbes for acâ—â—ony and sauourmes Cardâ—all exciting appetite and Venus comforting the stomacke Hurt Atteâ—uateth the blood and burns 〈◊〉 liuer naught for hot constitutions Correction Eate it sparingly with Borage flowers or Endiue Lettule and such cooling hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot almost in the beginning of the third drie in the second For cold old phlegmaticke Dracunculus Hortensis Story for Table-talke THis is an Artificiall herbe for it commeth of a Lineseede put into an Onyon or Leek so buried in the ground Husbandmen haue a stronge conceit of it and not without some cause that it is a preseruatiue against the plague all maner of poysoÌ„ inward or outward experience and proofe is no detracter of the credit and estimation thereof Radish Choise TEnder byting the tongue most whiâ—e Vse Helpeth vrin voydeth grauel and sand from the reines and bladder healeth the stomackâ— clarifieth the voyce Hurt Causeth lâ—annesse belechings headache and lice bâ—â—nes the blood hurseth the teeth and eyes is slowly conceâ—ed Correction Therefore is best eaten after meate Degree Hot in the second dry in the first Season Age. Constitution In colde weather for youth labourers and hot stomackes Raphanus Story for Table-talke WE English haue greatly honour'd this roote by calling it a Radish that is Radix a roote as if this roote were the only roote and all other rootes no rootes in coÌ„parison of this roote or at leastwise that the Radish is Radix radicum the roote of rootes a roote indeede a roote Cath ' Hexochen as the Rhetoricians speake a most excellent roote But I feare mee I haue ouercloy'd you with rootes may it please you to fall to somewhat else Carot or red Parsnip Choise Vse REd great sweet Prouoketh vrin Venus and monthly slure engenders milke opeâ—â—th obstructions is preferred afore the Parsnip Hurt Of 〈◊〉 and bad nourishment slowly digested very windie Preparation Boyle it thâ—oughly then eate le with 〈◊〉 oyle mustard and coriander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second moyst in the first In colde weather for all but olde and phlegmatique Carota seu pastinaca rubens Storie for Table-talke CArot that is redde roote as some Antiquaries gesse Athenaeus quoting Diphilus saith the Grecians called the Carot Philtrum for that it is thought to be agreat furtherer of Venus her pleasure and of loues delights but although generally it furdereth Venus yet it is especially to bee vnderstood of the wilde Carot Onyons Choise THat grow in a moyst soyle great full of iuyce round as the Flemish Vse Excite Venus increase séede and milke restore appetitie preserue in change of water Hurt Eaten raw or much cause headache burne the blood dull the vnderstanding hurtes the eyes Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Lay it sliced a while in cold water then séethe it throughly Hot in the third dry in the second For old and colde onely Cepa Story for Table-talke THe word Onyon comes of the olde Latine name Vnio For so the olde Latine Rusticks tearmed that which the latter call Cepa And the reason why they called it Vnio was because one herbe or branche as it were groweth vpon one roote Whereto accordeth that that Columella saith in his 12. Booke and 10. cha of Husbandry Cepa simplex quam Vnionem Rustici vocant Garlicke Storie for Table-talke Choise THat comes vp about March put in sallets or vsed dry full of sprigs and knots Vse Greene qualifieth the coldnes and moystnes of sallets dry it resists poysons cleares the voyce kils wormes prouoketh vrin and Venus consumes the salt rume in the stomacke Hurt Hurtes the voyding facultie braine sight head very bad for women with childe youth and hot constitutions reuiueth old diseasâ—s 〈◊〉 the blood CorrectioÌ„ Boâ—ls 〈◊〉 throughly then eate it wâ—th oile vinegâ—r or other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the fourth dry in the third In colde weather for the aged and phlegmatique Allium Story for Table-talke GArlicke is of most speciall vse for Sea-faring men a most excellent preseruaâ—iue against all infection proceeding from the nastie sauor of the pump or sincke and of tainted meates which Mariners are faine to eate for fault of better It also pacifieth the disposition to vomit crused by the roughnesse of the sea and greatly strengthneth the rowers therefore they eate it by break of day It may be rightly termed the poore mans phisicke Scallion or litle Onyon Choise SMall like a Daffodill Roote red hard sweete Vse Helpeth a saâ—nt stomack languishing through ouermuch heate causeth appetite furthereth concoction Hurt Causeth winde grosse humors headache thirst dreames Correction Prepared as the Onyon condite with strong Viâ—
eger Oyle Salt eaten with brused Sage Parsly moderately Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hotte in the fourth drie in the third Vnholesome for hot season age comâ—tution Cepa Ascalonia Storie for Table-talke A Scalion is so called of Ascalon a Towne in Iudaea where it is very plentifull and was first found Thence transplanted to Greece and Italy and so to these paits The Latines call the Scalion Onyon Lecke and Garlicke by one common name Buâ—bus The Scalion infinitely furthereth Venus as some say that haue vsed it to that purpose Leekes Choise GArden sowne in a moyst soyle or often watred vâ—rie small and tender Prouoke vrine Venus monthly flux breakâ— winde 〈◊〉 with hony â—â—â—difie the lungs lights applied in a plaister cure the Hemorhoids Hurt Bréed melancholious humours annoy the head dimme the sight procure fearefull dreames ouerlay the stomacke make vlcers in the bladder Correction Sodden twiâ—â— then dressed with Oyle of sweet Almonds and eaten with Lettuse Endiue Purslane Degree Season Age. Constitution Hotte in the third drie in the second Vnfit nourishment for any but rusticke swaines Porrum Story for Table-talke THe Emperour Nero tooke great pleasure in this roote and therefore was nick-named Pâ—rrophaguâ— which to English is as much as Welchman Garlick Onion and Leekes are very holesome but their sauour is passing loathsome and offensiue Wherefore some haue thought of a medicament to take away the sent of them But none like Syr Thomas Mores To take away the smell of Onions eate Leekes and to conuince your Leekes eate a clowe or two of Garlicke and if then Garlicke breath be strong choke him with a piece of a T. with a u. with an r. with a d. Colewort Choise ONly the tender buddes and long sprowtes cropt off the herbe whose leaues are wide open and â—et câ—mpacted Vse Halfe sodâ—â—n make soluble thorowly boylâ—d 〈◊〉 Hurt Anns◠〈◊〉 lists especially in somâ—â—◠〈◊〉 it is harder then at other times Preparation Seethe them 〈◊〉 in water then that decâ—ction 〈◊〉 in fat flesh broath with 〈◊〉 and Pepper Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and 〈◊〉 in the fist In the priâ—â—â— of the spring Brassica Storie for Table-talke MAister Gerard in his newe Hâ—rbal reckoneth 18 sorts of Colewoâ—ts differing either in colour or forme It is called by the Graecians Amethystus because it repelleth drunkennesse or because it resembleth the precious stone called the Amethyst The Apothicaries and common Herbarists call it Caulâ—s because it hath so goodly a stalke so the right name is Cawle not Cole Flesh Veale Choise Of a sucking Calfe let runne abroad two or three dayes afore from the Dame fed in châ—â—â—â— pasture Vse Nourisheth excellently makes 〈◊〉 good blood holesome for them that exercise much Hurt Though yong and tender yet being of grâ—sse substance naturally hurteth the weake or in recouery Correction Boyled with yong Pullets or fat Capons and Parsly Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperate in all qualities For all seasons ages constitutions Vitulina Storie for Table-talke THe Italians should be calfes by their name for Italos in Greeke is the same that Vitulus in Latine and calfe in English Therefore they collaude it by tearming it Vitella id est vitam illia dans signifying the holesomnesse thereof to a good stomacke It is good for sound and ableconstitutions not so good for the weake sicke or languishing stomackes for it is of a lash and yet grosse substance not very digestible Essex calfes the prouerb praiseth and some are of the minde that Waltome calfe was also that countrey man Beefe Choise MOst yong and tender fat wrought at plowe or other strong labour Vse Nourisheth exceedingly engendreth very much blood stoppes chollerous fluxes Hurt Is of bad nourishment slowe of digestion makes grosse blood yea clodders of blood in the veines and other melanchollicke diseases Correction Is powdred with much sall 24 houres and sodden exquisitly Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second The tenderest in cold weather for youth labourers and great exercisers Vaccina seu Bubula Story for Table-talke BEefe quasi Boue of Bos an Oxe Cowe or Steere Sir Thomas More in his Vtopia Li. 2. commendeth the Oxe farre aboue the Horse Oxen yeeld to horses in fiercenes but excell them in patience neyther are they subiect to so many diseases are kept with lesse charge and lastly worne out at plowe and cart yet are mans meate in fine The Oxe is the Country-mans fellow-labourer and one of Ceres 〈◊〉 houshold seruants Prometheus first slew an Oxe Wethers Mutton Choise NOt yet of the first Shere â— sheepe Wether not Goate Vse Makes very much and very good nourishment for the weake Hurt Olde is vnholesouâ—e being corrupted with age and ouermuch dried for want of his stones Degree The yonger boyled is eaten with opening and cardiall herbes Season Age. Constitution Temperately hot and moyst For any time age constitution or region Veruex Story for Table-talke THose things which are most necessarie vnto vs by Gods great goodnes are also most common what more necessary to life then ayre and what more obuious insomuch as that onely is the Eliment elmeno Tyrant can depriue the meanest Vassall off not taking away his life Aqua igni interdici potest so the most holesome and conuenient meate for sustenante of our bodyes is mutton and beefe of all other flesh most coÌ„mon I dare say there are no foure other sundry meates wherewith wee may continue longer full fedde with lesse loathing Goate-flesh Choise REd and blacke kiddes scarse halfe yeare lately caned not yet weaned Vse Is easily and soone digested of best nourishment good especially for such as are weake or in recouery Hurt Vnholesome for the aged colde and moyst stomackes and such as exercise much Preparation Holesommer roast then sodde the hinder quarters then the fore because they lesse abounde with excrementitious moysture Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst temperately â— the first For yong and hot stomackes not old nor flegmaticke Caprilla Story for Table-talke CApra à Carpendo because it carpeth and biteth off the yong buddes and sprowtes of plants and shrubbes That which we call a Kidde the Italians call Capretto till it be halfe yeare olde and then they alter the name An heard of Goates finding Eringium gather together to it and depart not thence vntill they haue eaten it all vp quite and cleane They can best render the reason who are goatish and loue to eat Eringoes Lambe Choise MAle a yeare olde fit for seasoning not in winter Vse It is of excéeding good and plentifull nourishment resisting melancholly best for an hot constitution Hurt Sucking Lambe is excéeding moyst therefore nought for phlegmatique stomackes PreparatioÌ„ A yéerling roasted and eaten with Rosemary Garlicke Sage cloues and such hot things Degree Hot in the first moyst in the second the sucking is moyst in the third order Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For hot weather youth and chollerists Agnus Story for Table-talke
IF the Southwinde blow in seasoning time the Sheepheardes may looke for store of Ewe lambes if the North winde then for Males So soone as the Lambe is eaned it knoweth his damme and presently gins to play and dally with her All femall mutton or vnder a yeere olde breedes bâ—d iuâ—ce for it is ouermoyst making thicke and clammy humours It is no meate for cold seasons Swines Flesh Choise NOr olde nor thinne but of a full groweth and middle age male fed in the fields Vse Doth yéeld very much and very good nourishment for labourers especially kéepe the paunch slipperie prouoke vrine Hurt Hurt olde folke and those that liue delicately or at ease hasten the Gowte and Sciatica CorrectioÌ„ The leane of a yong fat Hog eaten moderately with spices and such hot things Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the first moist in the end of the second In colde weather for youth hot stomackes and labourers Porcus Story for Table-talke IN olde time they detested Swines flesh accounting it ouer moyst especially sucking pigges or yong shotes and surely they were wiser then we our appetite captiuates our reason in this matter The most tollerable is such as is at his full growth and naturall perfection Which flesh questionles commeth neerest to mans in taste and sauour especially being a litle powdred BacoÌ„ may be eaten with other flesh to prouoke appetite and to cut asunder fleame cloddered in the stomack wilde Boare Choise YOng fat tender much chased in winter Vse Of much nourishment is fit meate for great excercisers easie of digestion Hurt Nought for olde and idle folkes in making store of excrâ—mentitions and superfluous homours Preparation Carued into steakes and spiced or as the Italians make their Brolardieri or else baked with store of spice Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst in the first temperatly In colde weather for hot and laborious Aper seu Apcugna Storie for Table-talke IN the beginning of winter the wilde saine gender and about the prime of the spring they pigge in desart streyte craggie and deuious places If they bee at any time sicke their physicke is Iuie They are so so loadeÌ„ with the weight of their vrin that Hunters surprize them at such time as it vrgeth them not giuing them leasure to voyde it and so not being able to escape by flight take thm P. Seruillius Rullus first serued in Wilde Boare to the table mongst the Romaines Red Deere Choise YOng and if it may bée such as yet sucketh gelt so soone as it is calfed Vse Is of excéeding good nourishment Hurt Olde breedes euill humours harde of digestion causeth a quartane feuer Preparation Roast or baked in pasties larded with the fat of other beastes Degree Hot somewhat remisty in the first dry in the second Season Age. Constitution Neither for hot weather nor for olde folkes very bad for melancholists Ceruus Storie for Table-talke HArtes flesh yeeldeth but grosse and melancholious nourishment EateÌ„ at breakfast it is said to prolong ones life at supper to abridge the same The Hinde goeth 8. moneths with her yong which so soone as she hath calued she exerciseth them to the race carryeth them to steepe down-fals and teacheth them to leape It is a most simple and innocent Animall howsoeuer nature in a mockery hath armed it most magnificently It is the very Emblem of a Gull girded to a sword being as hartlesse as the Hartis Fallow Deere Choise YOng fat very well chased hang'd vntill it be tender Vse Nourisheth better then any other Venison especially resisteth the collicke palsie good for such as abound with humours Hurt Hurteth the leane and thinne for making dry blood it annoyes the sinewes especially being olde Correction In roasting basted throughly with oyle or larded very much Degree Season Age ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and dry in the second Bad for youth and chollerists good for them that haue the palsie and store of rume Dama Storie for Table-talke IT is a rare thing to see a tame Doe and yet it may hardly be tearmed wilde howsoeuer the Latines call it Fera in speciall and the flesh thereof Forina For there are many brutes which are Neuters neither wilde nor tame but in a meane as the Swallow amongst Foules amongst Flies the Bee mongst Fishes the Dolphin Martiall hath penned the Does lamentable women-tation in two verses thus The Bore is feared for his tosh His hornes defend the Hart But we poore harmles hartles Does Are nak'd on euery part Hare Choise YOng well coursed Vse It maketh slender causeth good fresh colour in the face Hurt Slowly digested engenders melancolike blood much eaten makes sléepie and drowsie Preparation Farsed with suet or gobbets of Larde and spices Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the second In winter for youth sanguine not for melancholists or students Lepus Story for Table-talke HAres flesh is good for those that wold be leane faire It is a receiued opinion that vse of Hares fleshe procureth beautie fresh colour and cheerfull countenance for a seuenight space in so much as the Italians haue a by-word which speaketh thus of a faire man He hath eaten an Hare And Martiall mockes a foule sowe telling her that shee htah not eaten any Hares fleshe of a weeke It runneth most swiftly especially vp the hill because the fore feet be shorter then the hinder legges Conny Choise YOng fat in winter hangd a night in the coole Vse Affordeth store of verie good nourishment consumes all corrupt humours and fleame in the stomacke Hurt Hurteth melancholists and olde folkes PreparatioÌ„ Parboyled then roasted with swéete hearbes cloues and other spices Degree Cold in the beginning of the first drie in the second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather somewhat vnholesome for the foresaid Cuniculus Story for Table-talke BEcause the Conny is somewhat like the Hare it is called Paruus Lepus the lesse Hare It taught the souldier to vndermine his enemy by earthing which the Latines tearme Cuniculum agere to play the Conny And yet alas of it selfe it is very Conny a most simple Animall wheÌ„ce are deriued our vsual phrases of Conny and Conny-catching There is so great store of Connies in the Baleares Insulae vsually called Maiorica and Minorica that oft they waste their whole crop of corne and cause extreme dearth in those Ilands Capon Choise YOng fat well crammed set vp a fatting in a wide Coâ—pe Vse Yéelds to mans body better nourishment then any other meat principally good for the braine procureth an equall temperature of all the humors Hurt Giueth such as take their ease ouermuch nourishment Correction Vsed moderatly and with extraordinary exercise Degree Season Age. Constitution Possesseth an equal temperaturâ— of all qualities For any time age constitution Capo Story for Table-talke SO named for his excellencie and chiefe worth amongst all foules of that kinde It makes perfect blood The Italians denue the name of two Hetrurian words Quá pone that is huc appone set it
afore vs as much as our by-word It saith Come eate me So these two words Eate it are the vnlettered mans latine for any good meate The eleuenth yeare afore the third Punique warre Caius Fannius Consull made a decree that no foule should be serued to the table but the Capon or Hen fatted abroad Turky-Cocke or Ginny-Cocke Choise YOng fatted abroad in winter hangd all night Vse Of very plentifull and very good nourishment restoreth bodily forces passing good for such as are in recouery maketh store of séede enflameth Venus Hurt Bad for those that line at ease disposeth to the gout and such like defluxions Preparation Eaten little and seldome spiced throughly in roasting Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and moist in the second At any time for any but decrepit age Gallus Indicus Story for Table-talke IT may be the vulgar for Indy Cock miscall it Ginny-Cock The Cocke Hen and Chickens are all of one nature the Chicken is preferred for tender flesh The Ginny-Cocke was first brought out of Numidia into Italy and not from India The Graecians call these foules Meleagrides induced thereunto by Poeticall fiction For they say Meleagers Sisters were transformed into Ginny-hens while they mourned for their brothers death Peacocke Choise YOng sed in a most cleare and open place tender Vse Nourisheth exceedingly fit for hot stomackes Hurt Hard of digestion bréeds melancholious blood vnfit for idle folkes Correction The throate cut and hanged with a waite tyed at the heeles in some cold place fiftéene dayes Drinke good wine vpon it Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second dry in the first For colde weather hotte stomackes and great exercisers Pauo Storie for Table-talke PEacocke is very hard meate of bad temperature as euil iuyce Wonderously increaseth melancholy casteth as it were a clowd vpon the minde It layeth at the third yeare and liueth fiue and twentie It is so spitefull enuious that it eateth his owne dung least any body should make any vse of it Great Alexander imposed a great penaltie on him that killed a Peacocke Quintus Hortensius the Romane Oratour first set it vpon the table beeing himselfe a perfect glutton Pigeons Choise THat first assay to goe and get their owne meate plump and fat Vse Cure the palsie procéeding of a cold cause excite Venus increase heate in the weake purge the reines are easily digested Hurt Enflame the blood annoy hote coÌ„stitutions and their heads which which delight to eate PigeoÌ„s heds therefore we alway behead them Correction Boyled in fat flesh broath with Veriuyce Plums sower Cheries or with Vineger and Coriander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moist in the second In cold weather for old folkes and stomackes full of fleame Pipio Storie for Table-talke VVIlde or wood Doues are but dry meate They liue 30. yeares They are mute all winter long in the spring they begin to mouth it Some of them are called Viuariae Stockdoues other Torquatae Ringdoues The house or tame Pigeon is much the better yet a â—tle too moyst Their flesh is very preseruatiue in time of pestilence â—â—ising of corruption It is the Embleme of sincere and simple meaning also of pure loue voyd of all malice It was good Angell to Noah Gosling Choise YOng fat bred in the chempion and free ayre Vse Yéeldes very good nourishment fatteth the macilent Hurt Fils the body with superfluous humours is slowly concocted the flesh of an olde Goose causeth a feuer CorrectioÌ„ Stifled with borage-smoake set in at the throate then farâ—ed with swéete herbes and spices and for roast Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the first moyst in the second In colde weather for hot stomackes and great exercisers Pullus Anserinus Story for Table-talke THe Iewes are great Goose-eaters therefore their complexion is passing melancholious their colour swort and their diseases very perillous The liuer and wings are best especially of fat Geese Sessius first commended the goodnes and pleasant taste of the Goose-liuer some ascribe it to Metellus other to Scipio A gard of Geese kept the Capitoll at Rome in times past A Goose is the Embleme of meere modestie Duck or Mallard Choise YOng fat tender Vse Dâ—oth nourish excéeding much fat cause very good colour cleare the voice increase seed dispearle winde Hurt Get them an heate that are cold and them a feuer that are hote digest hardly yeeldes but bad nourishment Correction Is perfumed at the mouth with Borage and so forth as it is said of the Gosling Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and moist in the second In colde weather only for hot stomacks and such as vse great exercise Anas Story for Table-talke OF all foules that vse to flock the Duck is the hottest and moistest The liuer and wings are most commended Martiall willeth the whole Duck to be set afore him but he chooseth onely the neck and the brest and sends the relicks back to the Cooke They hatch their yoong neare vnto Lakes and Fennes but so soone as they are out of the shell they take the water and afterward mount vp into the ayre Pheasant Choise FAt gotten in hawking in winter Vse Good in hecticks feuers â—â—storeth their strength that are in recouery of singular good nourishment helpeth a weake stomacke Hurt It onely makes the Swaine short winded Therefore good Peasant Touch not the Pheasant But saue thy weasant Y'ar somewhat pleasant Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperate in all qualities In Autumne and winter for any Pheasianus Storie for Table-talke PHeasant in digestion and nourishing is very like Hen yet more toothesome in a meane betwixt Capon and Partritch Passing restoratiue for the thinne and macilent It taketh his name of Phasis a riuer in Choichis The Italian vulgars call it Fasan quasi faciens sanum because it is so exceeding holesome It is much molested with lice which it riddeth it selfe off by tumbling in the dust Pertritch Choise YOng female like Chickens fed in the house if it may be Vse Yéelds excellent nourishment soone digests fats dries vp superfluous humours in the stomack very healthsome for such as are in recouerie Hurt Young hurts none but the rusticks the old be tougher and of bad sauour Correction Eate the young hang the old all night in the coole Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the first dry in the second For all in cold weather especially the yong ones Perdix Story for Table-talke THe Partiâ—ch neuer liues loÌ„ger then 16. yeares It is not good if not yong The Henne is better then the Cock. They are so venerious that the Cock opposed to the Henne on the windie fide she conceiueth through the winde that blowes from him Cardan thinks the Hen is partly Cockish If they feele themselues sicke they purge themselues with Laurell In Paphlagonia they haue two harts The Partritch is consecrated to Iupiter and Latona Turtle Choise YOng fatted in the house a while afore it be eaten Vse It pleaseth the taste affords very good nourishment digesteth eastly