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
the second moist in the first For no season age or constitution but well sugard Dactyli Story for Table-talke PAlme or Date-trees are most rife in AEgyt and Iudea In Italy the fruite neuer ripeneth throughly in the coasts of Spaine they are sower and vnsauoury There are 49. sundry kindes of Palme-trees numbred and noted by writers so different that they may scarce seeme to be al Palmes This tree is of a most asspiring nature it will beare no coales It resisteth all burden bearing it vpward with his armes boughs Therefore is it an Hieroglyphick or Embleme of victory and conquest Almonds Choise SWéet new not corrupt by vnseasonable weather that grew in an hot soile Vse Yéeld store of nourishment fat helpe the sight encrease seed and braine fetch vp fleame purge the breast cause sléepe open â—bstructions of the liuer Hurt Ouer-dry they are hard of câ—ncoction stick long in the stomacke cause headach Correction Holsome being tender and full of milke blaunched with a good deale of sugar Degree The swéete are temperately hot and moist almost in the first the bitter are drie in the second Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For all seasons ages constitutions Amygdalae Story for Table-talke AMygdala the Greeke name signifieth as much as the long Nut some call it Nuâ—lica It prospereth best in hot countries and therfore better in Apulia and Sicily then in Italy Spaine or Fraunce The tree and fruite both much resemble the Peach yet somewhat bigger Phillis was turned into an Almond-tree for telling tales out of schoole euer sithence it hath bene a by-word an Almond for the Parrat which least it be applied to me I will leaue my prating Chestnuts Choise BIgge which by being kept are growne more toothsome and lesse vnholsome Vse Being flatulent incite Veâ—â—â— yéeld strong and very good noâ—rishment step flures taken with sugar abate choller with honey fleame wrought with honey and sugar cure the biting of mad dogs Hurt Eaten much cause headach and winde binde and rawe are hart of digestion Correction Loast or roast them then eâ—ti them moderately with a good deale of sugar Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the beginning of the second drie in the second In cold weather for any Castaneae Story for Table-talke CAstanea quast casta nux Chestnut Chastnut say some I knowe not vpon what ground I am sure not by a metonimie of the cause For being flatulent it prouokes lust yea further this nut in his huske much resembleth Testes the instrumeÌ„ts of lust So that some deuide this Nut not as other Nuts In NuceÌ„ et â—ucleuns But In Testam et Testes The enucleating of it they call castrating or gelding So then by this reason it is not Casta nux till 〈◊〉 be Nux castrata Id est Testa siâ—e testibus I'le bee his witnesse â—he is chaste with a witnesse Oliues Choise GRéene best condite such 〈◊〉 grew in sun-shine greâ—â— ones as are at Bonomâ— which being naught to make oâ—â— of are condite becomming moâ—â— sauoury and toothsome Vse Cleanse the stomacke of fleaâ—â— prouoke appetite stay casting Hurt Cause watchfulnesse and heâ—â— ach or much eaten stuffe the heaâ—â— especially the salted Correction Eate them well condite wâ—â— vinegar at the second course wâ—â— other meats Degree Season Age. Constitution The salt are hot in the second the rest temperate somewhat 〈◊〉 stringent and strengthening In cold weather for any Oliuae Storie for Table-talke OLea is the tree Oliua the fruite Oleum the iuyce or oyle The Oliue was an Embleme of peace euer since the Doue brought an Oliue leafe in her mouth into Noahs Arke The Spanish Oliues are bigger then the Italian Yet the Italians especially they of Bonony condite them far better then the Spaniards Besides that the Spanish haue an od vnsauory smell and looke yellow vnpleasant to the eye Wash the mouth with their pickle it closeth the gums and fastneth the loose teeth Cappars Choise COndite in vinegar which art not so hot as the salted Vse Very good for the short winded and splenaticke prouoke Venus and monthly flure cure the Haemorhoids kill wormes passing good for a moist and phlegmaticke stomacke Hurt Cause thirst especially the salted which also inflame the entralls Correction Vse the salted rather for phisicke then meate rinse them well in water first the condite in Vinigar are to be eaten afore other meals like sallets with oyle raisons of the sun or Opymell Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ The salted are hot in the second dry in the third the other hot in the first dry in the second For cold season age constitutioÌ„ Cappares Storie for Table-talke THe plant it selfe is a prickly shrub the braunches falling to the grounde somewhat like a Bramble or Briar Cappars are to say the truth rather sauce or medicine then nourishment or meate especially the salted or if they yeelde any nourishment it is passing little not passing good The best Cappars are thought to be brought from Geneua Cappars in dyet and Capers in dauncing serue both for relish Gourde Choise NEw tender gréene light swéete Vse Helpeth the chollericke by quenching thirst sodden with veriuyce cooleth the liuer Hurt Hurteth the cold flegmaticke bréedes winde and wheyish humors weakeneth the stomacke yéelds bad iuyce Correction Eate it with pepper mustard vineger or hot hearbes as onions and parsley Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the second For hot weather youth and hot temperatures Cucurbita Storie for Table-talke THe Poet as his chiefe pride resteth in hitting the nayle on the head with a quainte Epithitae called the Onion Sapientissima cepa That is most wise The Gourd Voracissima Cucurbita that is most rauenous His reason was the Onion is all head and the Gourd all belly The Radish hearing this steppeth in and tels the Poet he was deceiued For saith he the Onion wanteth wit and the Gourd wanteth teeth Pease Choise CRéene new tender not corrupt Vse Please the taste mundifie the brest cure the cough yeeld singular good nourishment Hurt Hurt euil teeth and whom soeuer winde annoyeth Preparation Dresse them well with salt oile pepper and the iuyce of sower hearbes Oyle of Almonds is good condiment for them Degree Colde in the first temperately moist Season Age. Constitution For hot seasons youth chollerists Pisa Storie for Table-talke PEase are either wilde or tame The wilde do differ in kinde but one kind of them is called euerlasting pease because their roote neuer dieth but being once sowne or planted so continueth for euer yeelding fruite in due season Pease are much of the nature and operation of Beanes but lesse windie as saith Hippocrates And our common prouerb accordeth speaking somewhat homely Euery pease wil haue a fease but euerie beane fifteene Beanes Choise GReat pure bright without spots not worme-eaten yong and tender Vse Cause sleepe restraine the Migram fat the bodie Hurt Bréed much winde dull the senses cause terrible dreames Preparation Huske them with salt and Maioram
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
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—
or Cra-fish Choise RIuer or fresh water rather then sea Crab at the prime of the spring or in haruest when the Moone is at the full Vse Good for the corsumption and biting of a mad dog prouoketh â—rine Venus purgeth the reynes nourisheth very much Hurt The meate is hard of conection bréedeth grosse and phlegmaticke humours Preparation Degree Season Age. Constitution Roast it quicke on the â—â—bers eate it with vineger and pepper Colde in the second moyst in the first Cancer Storie for Table-talke THe Crab also wants a head and therfore hath all the Organs of sense placed in his breast It engendreth at the mouth goeth as readily backewarde It turneth red in seething In the Coasts and riuer bancks of Phaenicia there be Crabbes so swift in running that it is a great masterie to ouertake them on foote white-meates Milke Choise OF yong beastes â—edde in the choise pasture 1. Womans 2. Cowes 3. Sheepes 4. Goates Vse Milke increaseth braine fattes the body good for hecticke asswageth scalding heat of the vrin nourisheth plentefully procureth good colour furthereth Venus Hurt Naught for feuers headaches sore eyes distillations of rume diseased reynes obstructions the teeth the gummes olde folkes CorrectioÌ„ A litle afore you take it put into it some salt sugar or hony least it curdle in the stomacke drinke it fasting Degree Moyst in the second temperately hot Season Age. Constitution For hot weather youth chollerists and strong stomackes Lac. Story for Table-talke MIlke consisteth of a threefold substance The first is whitish colde and moyst Nitrous and powerfull to make the belly soluble The second fat and oyly of temperate qualitie of which butter is made The third is grosse clammy and flegmaticke whereof cheese is made Eate no more Milke then you can well digest though it seemeth to be soft and easie meat fit for children and milkesops yet it is not so Vse no vilolence after it nor drinke wine afore you feele it throughly decocted Butter Choise THe newest and swéetest shéeps Cleanseth and mightily fetcheth vp fleame cloddered about the breast and longs especially procéeding of a colde cause quieteth the cough Vse Too often vsed makes the stomake loose and weake and causeth loathing Hurt Eate strengthening and astringent meates vpon it or old Saccarum Rosatum Correction Hot and moist in the beginning of the second Degree Season Age. Constitution At any time for olde folkes rather then youth because it much purgeth distillations Butyrum Storie for Table-talke NEw Butter and newe Oyle are of like nature and operation The benefite and vse of salt Butter is very notable For only that way it may be preserued neither thereby doeth it lose his proper vertue to open and enlarge the breast the older it is the hotter also it waxeth The Flemming or Hollander is thought to liue so long as hee doth onely for his excessiue eating of Butter Some eate it first and last Creame Choise NEw boyled with a soft fire so soone as it is flette of the milke Vse As good as butter for the diseases of the brest pleasant to the taste cureth the sharpenesse and drowth of the stomacke Hurt Slowly concocted swimmeth aboue other meates of grosse iuyce easily turnes to fumes Preparation Vse it sparingly put store of sugar and hony into it Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst in the first Fitter for youth chollericke and strong stomackes then the old and rumaticke Flos lactis Story for Table-talke RIghtly so tearmed by the Latines for it is the very flower of milke as also butter is the flower of Creame Although it be not altogether so fat and oyly as butter yet shal one be glutted and euen loathed with it far sooner then with butter neither is it so lasting as butter but changeth in a moment many times as Dairy maides can better informe you Curdes Choise MAde of the most choise morning milke fire-newe for these be most digestable Vse Holesome for hot constitutions and such as are troubled with the distillations of chollerous humors quench thirst and restraine choller Hurt Annoy colde stomakes and the smowes make drowsie slowly digested Degree Season Age. Constitution Colde and dry in the first At any time for youth chollerists and such as exercise much Lac coagulatum Recocta vulgo Storie for Table-talke PLatina missed his cushion where he saith that Curds are hot of temperature for experience thereof we may note the vse of them For let a sound hot and strong stomacke eate them and they doe him more good then hurt but if a colde stomacke eate them they will neuer be concocted enough The reason is plaine their colde and grosse temprature Cheese Choise NEw made of well tempered milke of beastes fed in choise pasture Vse Mollifieth fatteth gratefull to the palate Hurt Too often vse of it bréedes obstructions especially in a weake stomacke Correction Eate it with Nuts Almondes Peares and Apples and neuer but when you haue neede Degree Season Age. Constitution Colde and moyst in the second For youth and great exercisers for it requireth a strong stomacke Caseus Storie for Table-talke GReene or new cheese newly made nourisheth and moysteneth more theÌ„ salt and olde That which is neither new nor old but in a meane best agreeth with the stomacke especially eaten moderately They that haue best leysure loue cheese best I would wish them to write an Apologie in defense of the common dislike thereof why so many loue it not Spice Pepper Choise THe cornes new full not full of withered wrinckles Vse Helpes concoction recals appetite breakes winde strengtheneth the stomacke very much heateth the sinewes and muskles prouokes vrine wasts fleame Hurt Hurtful to hot constitutions especially in hot weather and hot countries consumeth séede immoderately vsed burneth the blood Correction Vsed moderately in cold weather and in moyst meates not ouermuch beaten Degree Hot and dry in the third and almost in the beginning of the fourth Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ For colde weather olde folkes rumaticke and such as are subiect to distillations Piper Storie for Table-tacke IN India Pepper is gathered in October and dryed in the Sunne the Cornes strewed in beds of palme-leaues vntill they be wrinckled Isidorus telleth a mad tale of Pepper that it groweth in certaine woods on the South side of Caucase mount which woods are full of serpents therefore the inhabitantes of those partes set the woodes on fire to scarre away the serpentes and so the Pepper comes to be blacke Cinamon Choise THe finest or thinnest of an exquisite sweete smell biting taste and colour red new Vse Prouokes vrine resists poysons strengthens the braine and all the entralles comforteth the sight preserues from putrifaction Hurt Hurtes the colleâ—â—ke in hots weather and hot couÌ„tries also hot constitutions by inflaming the inward parts and blood Correction Vsed moderately with colde or moyst meates not beaten ouer much Degree Season Age. Constitution Very hot in the third In colde weather for olde and colde and weake stomakes
Arts nature sheene â—here man kindes meate meates Diet Diets Inne â—here some Phisicke yea summe of Phisicke bin â—â—inst common ills these writtes came well me se â—hat Well is come Well may be Welcome deemd These with Cates Delices Tabacco Mell â—ew to Fare well bring Well-fare thus Fare-weâ—â— Eiusdem ad Libri nomen allusio â—S noctu convina negant hoc Prandia Viniâ—es â—gurges Sicca negant Lurco Diaeta negat Prandia vis Prandebis apud me abstemia 〈◊〉 â—andia Sicca dabo sana Diaeta dabit â—â—ndit olus Cyuicus patiens qui hac Prandia teâ—nâ— â—n'erit Cynicus non erit ille Canis Grace before Diets dry Dinner serued in by Time Puer stans ad mensam â—IRST Giue ye thankes vnto the giuer And carefull Cator of this Dinner The sooner he will on you thinke â—d to your Dinner send you drinke Then loose no time you see youâ— fare Eate I beshrew you if you spare â—soft and fayre oregreedy iawes â— not their meate with decent pause â—ke on your right hand there standes Time â—ixt your Dinner and this â—ime â—eate Drincke and Leysure take together â—se saith olde Cronus come not hether â—annerd Time th'art ouer rude â—ixt Grace and Dinner to intrude â—at doth olde Ribax Cronus here â—ere is not Wine nor Ale not Beere Though here for Cronus be no Merum â—et Time you know is Edax rerum â—is will not suffice your minde â—pther reason you shall finde 〈◊〉 Time brought all these courses in 〈◊〉 they in order serued bin 〈◊〉 then thinke not much my gentle Guest 〈…〉 OCCVLTA VERITAS TEMPORE PATET R S DYETS DRY Dinner Fruites Figges Choise WHite best red second blacke basest full ripe tender-skinned Vse Nourish very well and much more then other fruits take away the stone in the reines resist venims quench thirst cleanse the breast Hurt Immoderately vsed engender flatiue humors and crudities therfore greatly annoy such as are subiect to the Collicque Preparation and correction Mundified and pared then eaten with Orenges Pomgranats tart meates or condite with Vineger Degree Hot in the first degrée moist in the second Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Alway in season chiefiy in Autumne conuenient for all ages and constitutions least for old folkes Ficus Story for Table-talke A Ioue principium SOme good Scholastique Diuines think the fruite forbidden to be bitten was not an Apple but a Figge then surely as our first parents wilfully discouered their ambitious minds by eating of the frute so very witlesly thought sought they to couer their shame with an apren of the leaues this was as the latine prouerbe speakes Ficulneum Auxilium A Figs worth of help therfore whensoeuer we fall to Figges we haue occasioÌ„ to remember our fal froÌ„ God This plant in it selfe very bitter yeeldeth passing sweete fruite transfusing indeed all his sweet iuyce into his frute leaueth it selfe exhaust of sweetnesse and so by consequence bitter Grapes Choise RIpe white swéete thin-skinned Vse Passe quickly bréede lesse wind nourish very well make fat with an R. some say coole inflammation of the Liuer prouoke vrine and Venus Hurt Cause thirst and wind trouble the belly immoderatly vsed bréed Collicke passions puffe the spléene and make it sicke encrease defluxions in old folkes Correction Eate them moderatly and after them salt meates Pomegranates and such sharpe things or conditâ— with Vineger Degree Hot in the first moyst in the second yet without excesse Season Age. Constitution In Autumne and the spring for all but old folkes Vuae Storie for Table-talke THat Grapes are verie nourishing it is well seene by the Grape-gatherers in the time of Vintage for they eate little or nothing else yet growe they passing fat and corpulent The superexcellency of this plant and frute is inestimable yet by the way to bee noted in that God calleth his Church a Vine the fruite or Vuae whereof are good workes therefore in many places of the scripture euery vine is cursed with a Vae wheron there are found no Vuae Aue blesseth a Vae curseth Mulberries Choise BLacke fulsome best ripe not corrupt by touch of any thing gathered afore sunne Vse Remedie hoarsenesse quench thirst supple the bodie asswaye choller cause appetite Hurt Bréed winde disturbe the stomacke especially fraught with baâ— humours Correction Kinse them first in Wine and eate tart things after them Degree Ripe are hot and moist in the second vnripe cold and drie Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youth choâ—lerists and sanguines Mora. Storie for Table-talke MOros is Greeke for Foole yet the Poets call this plant Prudents Morus the wise Mulberry because it springeth last of Trees not till the cold byting frosts and nipping blasts of black mouthed winter are al ouer All contradiction is reconciled and the matter moderated by rutning Prudents Morus a wise Foole. For this is the height and depth of Fooles wisedome they haue the wit to keepe themselues out of the raine Id est Out of apparant daÌ„ger Which notwithstanding if one most wise Morus minime moros had bene so wise as to haue done the winter storms of angry Ioue had not nipt him on the head or naped him rather in the neck for speaking against the head This fruite was at first white til it was dyed red with the blood of Pâ—â—â—mus and This be Strawberries Choise REd ripe faire fragrant Garden set Vse Asswage the boiling heate and acrimony of blood and choller coole the liuer quench thirst prouoke vrine and appetite are passing gratefull to the pallate Hurt Nought for the Paisey diseased sinows and weak stomacks those that growe of themselues or in woods offend their stomacks with their sharpnesse Correction Rinse and mundify them with the best wine then eate them with a good deale of sugar Degree Season Age. Constition Cold and dry in the first the riper the temperater For hot weather youth chollericke and sanguine Fraga Story for Table-talke THey were vtterly vnknown to Antique leeches and are indeed yet more beholding to Poets then Phisitians They named them Fraga neither haue they any other name as farre as I know The English name importeth their manner of setting in beds not cast on heapes but as it were strawed here and there with manifest distance Conradus Gesner reporteth he knew a woman that was cured of the pimples on her face onely by washing it with Strawberrie-water and yet it was very homely and rudely distilled betwixt two platters and not in a limbeck Cheryes Choise RIpe sharpe new-gashered whose pulpe is hard and iuyce steyneth blood-red Vse Eaten fasting or afore dinner make soluble passe quickly slake thirst coole moderately prouoke appetite moysten the body Hurt Soone corrupt much eaten inflate the stomacke hurt the aged or very phlegmaticke do the body litle good Correction Eate presently after them meats of good iuyce salt or tart Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first moist in the second For hot weather youth chollericke Cerasa Story for
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
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