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A00419	Maison rustique, or The countrey farme· Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. The whole contents are in the page following; Agriculture et maison rustique. English	Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.; Liébault, Jean, ca. 1535-1596. aut; Surflet, Richard, fl. 1600-1616.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1616 (1616)	STC 10549; ESTC S121357	1,137,113	746

principally in that which is moist Neither the one nor yet the other doth beare any seed as Writers record notwithstanding it hath beene tried that the male beareth seed and that it cleaueth to the hindermost part of the leaues but yet so little that hardly can a man see it and which cannot be acknowledged or gathered but in the end of Iulie which is the time when it is ripe for to gather it you must cut the leafe neere vnto the root and then hang them vp in your house spreading a linnen cloth vnder them or else some faire cleane white paper I know well that the common sort doe verily thinke and auerre that this seed cannot be gathered but on the night of the wakes of S. Iohn in Sommer and that more is not without great ceremonies and mumbling and muttering of many words betweene the teeth which haue power to driue away Deuills which haue the custodie of the same seed but all this is nothing but fables The decoction thereof is good to prouoke womens termes to cast out the dead child to kill wormes and some doe vse it to heale the frettings or hurts that may be in the fundament fallen downe but especially the female Hearbe Two-pence so called because the leaues resemble small peeces of siluer requireth no great peece of husbandrie about it saue onely that it would haue a moist ground The whole hearbe either in decoction or powder but especially the water thereof distilled in a limbecke is verie singular good for the falling downe of the fundament Fleawort being called of the Latines Psyllium craueth a verie fat well manured and batled ground for else there will no good come of it The seed prepared in forme of a Mucilage and applied in vinegar doth kill the wild fire and te●●er applied vnto the head or brows it taketh away the paine thereof it taketh away also the rednesse of the eyes being applyed thereunto The distilled water is of infinite goodnesse seruing in the paynes of the eyes two or three drops thereof onely being dropt into them This hearbe requireth a verie fat place well manured and tilled likewise we see it grow aboundantly in vineyards and grounds for Wheat and Barlie The leaues are verie singular good for the opening of the liuer and cleansing away of adust humours and this also is the cause why physitians prescribe it with whay in scuruie scabbie and itchie cases and where the leprosie is The juice thereof is good to cleere bleared eyes Ground-swell groweth in euerie ground and without any great care we see if grow likewise neere vnto walls and vpon the townes walls it is greene all the yere and flourisheth as it were in euerie moneth and this is the cause why the Italians call it euerie moneths flower Some thinke that Ground-swell distilled is verie singular good for the Whites in women but beleeue it not before you find it true by proofe for I haue obserued by often vse that this hearbe whether in decoction or otherwise prouoketh the termes that are stayed Birt-wort as well the long as the round must be planted in a fat and fertile soyle such as that where Wheat is sowne and Oliue trees planted Their roots amongst other al●●ost in●inite vertues cause womens courses purge the lungs cause spitting cure the cough and prouoke vrine which more is if either of them be taken in drinke especially the round one made in powder with Pepper and Myrrhe it driueth forth the after-birth the dead conception and all other superfluities gathered in the Matrix it doth the like being applied in forme of a Mother suppositorie It purgeth all obstructions of the liuer and easeth all manner of colicke or other griefes which proceed from windie causes it is soueraigne against all manner of poyson or any other infection it cleanseth the bloud and by rubbing the gummes therewith it preserueth the teeth from rotting Centaurie or the gall of the earth aswel the great as the smal desireth a fat ground that is fruitfull and well tilled and yet in such a ground they thriue not well without the great care and industrie of the Gardener Their root in decoction juice or powder moueth womens termes and prouoketh vrine expelleth the dead child purgeth ●legmaticke humors which cause the sciatica openeth the obstructions of the liuer and spleene killeth the wormes profiteth and helpeth palsies convulsions and diseases of the sinews it cleareth the sight and taketh away all mistinesse from them especially the juice dropt into the eyes doth heale their fresh and new wounds and siccatriceth old and maligne vlcers Woodbind craueth no great tilling or husbanding for it groweth euerie where and in what place soeuer it listeth It is true that it desireth greatly to be neere broome hedges and also the borders of fields The fruit of Woodbind drunke with Wine the space of fortie daies taketh away the obstructions of a hard and indurat spleene it purgeth out vrine with such force as that the tenth day the vrine becommeth all bloudie it helpeth women in their child-birth the leaues in decoction or distilled doe heale wounds and filthie vlcers wipe away the spots and scarres of the bodie and of the face Pimpernel hath red and blew flowers and craueth a moist and shadowed ground so likewise we see it grow in the shadows of hedges and bushes Pimpernell with the red flowers stampe and applied vnto the eyes or the juice thereof dropt within them taketh away the inflammations dimnes●e and vlcers of the eyes and heal●th the inflammations of the secret parts Pimpernell with the blew flower boyled with salt and water is a verie good and proper medicine to cure the itch or scurfe and the lice or wormes in the hands if you wash them o●t therewith Buckwheat is a verie common hearbe and yet but little knowne by his name it is verie ordinarie in corne and tilled grounds about haruest time The Peasants of Champaigne doe commonly call it Veluote because in my judgement the leaues are hairie which name I mind not to change but rather to keepe for the easier knowing of the hearbe They make vse of it by applying it if at any time in shearing they happen to cut themselues with their sickles For to know it better therefore than onely by the name it putteth forth from the root fiue sixe seuen or eight small branches for the most part layed along vpon the earth of the length of a hand and sometime of a foot bearing leaues somewhat like vnto the little bindweed but indeed they be lesse and more round verie hairie and a little fattie The flower is small and of diuers colours drawing verie neere vnto a pale yellow but in greatnesse it commeth ne●re vnto the flower of eye● bright but in shape and fashion vnto the nettle slower The water of the leaues and branches distilled whiles it is in force in a Limbeck in Maries-bath is singular

radishes Physitians doe hold that among other discommodities the radish is an enemie vnto the teeth and they make hard and stonie places in the mouthes of such as vse them but this inconuenience may be amended if presently after you eat some certaine slips of Hyssope or Thyme or Organie or if they be eaten with oyle and againe in stead of this one discommoditie they bring a thousand profits for the health of mankind The roots of radishes being new chopt small and sprinkled with white wine that is neat and warmed in a frying-panne and applied vnto the stomach canseth a man to pisse aboundantly the water which he could not auoid of a long time the juice of the same root drunke to the quantity of two ounces with Malmesey worketh the like effect take an ounce of the rindes of radishes as much of the lea●es of Mercurie foure graines of saffron one dram of sweet Cassia and two drams of the juice of sauin poune them all together in a mortar and put them in a linnen cloth which being put vp into the matrix is a singular remedie to helpe them that tra●ell of child-birth The juice of the root of radishes mixt with oyle of sweet or bitter almonds a little white wine and a little coloquintida all heated at the fire and strained and afterward dropt into the eares doth take away the windinesse and noise of the ●ares being drunke with honied water it cureth the jaundise The leaues boyled in pottage in stead of coleworts do take away the obstructions of the liuer spleene Their seed bruised and strayned with white Wine is soueraigne against all 〈◊〉 of poysons and other dangerous diseases The roots eaten fasting do preserue and keep● a man from venime and poyson Some hold it for a certaine truth that turneps 〈◊〉 in stinking and ill-sauouring wine doth take away altogether the ill tast thereof They wipe away the spots of the face heale the places of the bodie raced with the twigs of rods and couer the places with haire which are bare and should not But aboue all the rest the●e is no more certaine a remedie for the griefe of the reines the stone grauell or difficultie to make water than to drinke euening and morning going into bed or comming out of it a small draught of white Wine warme wherein haue beene sleeped the space of eight houres the rindes of radishes with the fourth part of the kernels of medlars made in powder For the same matter there may be prouided a Wine to vse a long time wherein hath beene infused a certaine time th● powder of the roots of radish dried I cannot forget to set downe that the often vsing of radishes bringeth vnto nurses great store of milke And that water how stinking soeuer it be wherein radishes haue beene boyled will become better and th● they may not be eaten in the later end but at the beginning of meat whatsoeuer 〈◊〉 pleaseth Dioscortdes to say that so they may goe presently out of the stomach and nothing hinder the digestion of the rest of the meat CHAP. XXXV Of Parsneps Mypes Carrets and Skirworts PArsneps Mypes Carrets and Skirworts are sowen all after one fashions in a ground well digged freed from stones clensed and scoured from all weeds and vnprofitable roots being also manured and rilled well before they may not be sowen thicke that so they may grow the longer and thicker They must be watered as soone as they be sowen and if the time proue drie once a weeke so long as till they be well sprung vp They are set also after one and the same fashion The time to sow or plant th●m is in Aut●mne and in the Spring but Autumne is the better that so you may haue them in Lent time He that desireth to haue their roots great faire and thicke must often plucke away the● leaues they must be gathered halfe a yeare after they be sowen and then their leaues taken from them and they kept vnder sandie grauell especially in Winter for 〈◊〉 causeth them to corrupt P●rs●eps may be kept a whole yeare or two in the earth so as that one may know by the falling of the flowers both the old and the new and which are good in Winter and Lent whether they be fried or otherwise All of them haue vertue to expell vrine to asswage the paine of the colicke and to prouoke womens termes their leaues stamped and layed vpon wounds which happen in the legges are verie profitable for them CHAP. XXXVI Of Mustard and Poppie SEnuie Mustard delighteth in a fat ground and is ●owen with mould● before and after Winter and it must be often weeded and watered bu● it would not be sowen too thicke for it spreadeth very easily insomuch as it is hard to destroy it where it hath beene once sowen the seed will keepe 〈◊〉 yeare but the newer that it is so much the better it is either to sow or ●at It is discerned to be good when being broken or crackt with the teeth it appeareth greene within but not white for and if it be white it is old and not worth any thing either to sow or eat That which is intended to be kept to eat shall be good to be remoued when it is growing for so it will yeeld a greater and fairer top but that which is intended to vse for seed must not be remoued or haue his place and habitation changed The seed of Mustard chawed and holden vnder the tongue is of great force against the pal●ey of the tongue as also against all other manner of palsey if vpon the grieued part there be applied a bagge full of the said seed hauing beene first boyled in Wine The powder thereof cast into the nosthrils causeth ne●sing and purgeth the braine from superfluities The decoction of Senuie or Mustard doth asswage the tooth-ach comming of a cold cause and being drunke breaketh the stone and prouoketh the termes of women It keepeth the haire cleane and from falling The oyl● of Mustard is soueraigne against the ach of the hips and weaknesse of the sinews Mustard seed brayed and put into sweet wine preserueth the same in his sweetnesse so that it shal not loose it the reason is because it keepeth it from taking of a heat th● same made in powder and mixt with vinegar doth heale the stingings of serpents and scorpions being drunke it ouercommeth the venime of Mushromes that haue 〈◊〉 eaten mingled with the vrine of a young child and rubbed vpon the bellies of such as haue the dropsie it causeth them to auoid water of you temper it with water and rubbe your hand or any other part that hath need to be made cleane therewith you shall perceiue the benefit thereof The white poppie which is sometimes vsed in pottage and clensed barly cartes and other confections for to quench the thirst prouoke sleepe and coole the great heat of agues neuer groweth of

L●pines 〈◊〉 good Honie and of the whole strayned make him take a Pine eight 〈◊〉 ●●gether If he be costiuene he may be helped by drinke or clyster the drinke shall be 〈◊〉 giue him ordinarily of the powder of vvild Rue with the seed thereof 〈…〉 good red wine or else take the root of yellow Flower-de-luce with Annisseed● 〈◊〉 Opopa●ax and of all these beaten together verie small you shall make 〈…〉 or draughts vvith three ounces of good Red vvine and as much Oyle oliue and those on three seuerall dayes In the clyster you shall put the juice of pale coloured Flower-de-luce in three pound of the decoction of Mallows and Perrie and into the vvhole you shall put of Sall-nitrum and the dung of Pigeons of each an ounce of Oyle-de-bayes and Rue of each three ounces After the clyster giuen he must be vvalked a great vvhile and verie softly Some Farriers or Horse-leaches haue in this disease made triall of Hares dung with nine spoonefulls of Honie and fiue grains of Pepper to make a drinke to take with the broth of Cich Pease or Red Coleworts The Horse oftentimes hauing eaten too much Barley or other prouender that is hurtfull is troubled vvith the swelling of his flankes and the rest of his bodie to take the same away you must make a decoction of Mallowes Pellitorie Beares 〈◊〉 Mercurie and other soluble hearbes putting thereto Bran Salt Honie and Oyle and hauing vvarmed this decoction he shall haue a clyster giuen him with a clysterpipe hauing the shanke thereof proportionably great and long this being well accomplished annoint his bellie with Oyle and after cause it to be rubbed vvith a round staffe by two men beginning before and so going backward stopping vp his fundament after this get vpon him and vvalke him verie softly and a long time vntill that he haue voided not onely this clyster but vvithall some part of the dung which he had in his bodie and he will be well by and by after For bursting or rupture some are of opinion that there is nothing so soueraigne as to take seuen ounces of the ashes of the vvood of vine braunches or of Elme with three ounces of Oyle oliue Scallions brayed seuen in number Honie three ounces fresh Butter and Goats Sewe● of each an ounce the juice of Plantaine three ounces vvith old white vvine or the broth of Cych Pease this will serue for thrice to be taken three seuerall daies together To keepe your great Horses that they may not be molested and troubled in great heat vvith the stinging of Flies you must rub their haire vvith the juice of leaues of gourdes For the farcie of the legges you must shau●● the place and after annoint it with the Oyle of Iuniper for the space of foure daies euening and morning and let not the horse goe forth to water all the whiles that his haire is not growne againe or else let him haue a strake vvith an yron long-waies and ouerthwhart otherwise for the farcie of a horse how hard to cure so euer it be you must take the roots of common cotton thistle which is the broad and white leaued thistle and make him eat them in shiues with his oats it will heale him without all faile in lesse than fifteene daies or three weekes if it be continually giuen him to eat and the remedie is verie easie seeing the horse will willingly eat it For clefts which happen betwixt the joynt of the legge and the hoofe shaue away the haire wash the place with vvine annoint it vvith an ointment made of Soot V●●degrease and Honie pouned and boyled together mingling therewith in the end some Lime if the chaps be verie deepe in ●●are them For the scabbe you must let him bloud in conuenient places according to that place vvhere the disease is for a conuenient purge it vvill be good to vse of the powder of the root of vvild Cucumber mingled vvith Sal-nitrum and giuen in a ●o●ne vvith vvhite vvine the medicine oftentimes giuen doth purge him of euill humours for an ourward remedie take quicke Brimstone fat Pitch Clay of Iudea called Asphaltu● mingle all together and dissolue it in new Butter salted and with this oyntment you shall rub him all ouer his bodie in the greatest heat of the Sunne and by many persons and a long time If you loue not rather to take of vinegar a quarter of a pin●e of Perrosin foure ounces Pitch or Gum of the Cedar-tree foure ounces and mixe them all vvell together in an oyn●ment vvith mans vrine and vvarme vvater putting thereto of sweet Seame and old Oyle of each three oun●●● make a liniment or cerote if it like you not better to vvash him all ouer 〈◊〉 else to foment him vvith vrine and warme vvater and after to appl●e your lin●ment vpon the places so washed The hearbe called Rose-baie or Oleander boyled in Oyle I meane the leaues onely is an exquisite remedie for this disease 〈◊〉 thereto fat pitch vinegar and waxe and remember alwaies in rubbing and annointings to rubbe the beast against the haire It is also a soueraigne remedie to 〈◊〉 him first in the s●abbed place vntill it bleed and after to wash it with Lee made with one part of Lyme two of Beane-meale and three of the ashes of Ash-tree all these not boyled but steeped onely in the Lee. After the washing you must annoint the place with an oyntment made of quick-siluer hellebor brimstone alum colts-foot 〈◊〉 Swines-grease When the horse complaineth himselfe and his flankes be swolne as also the re●● of his bodie by hauing eaten some bad Hay or Prouender you shall make him this drinke take the thin skinnes that are in the stomach of three Hens and drie the● vvell in an ouen afterward powder them vvith halfe an ounce of pepper and fou●● spoonefulls of Honie and an ounce of the powder of fine Frankencense make him take this medicine vvith a pint of vvarme vvine and to the end that it may loosen his bellie giue him at the fundament by a clyster sufficient great and long a clyster of the decoction of Mallowes Mercurie Pellitorie and other loosening hearbes putting thereto Bran Salt Honie and Oyle Against the colicke take Asarum bacchar the leaues and roots of Parsley and Fennell of each one ounce blacke Pepper two ounces Horehound an ounce Soothernwood halfe an ounce fine Honie a pottle boile it well and scum it altogether and thereof make trochiskes of the bignesse of Filberts and with a quarter of a pint of good wine you shall make the horse to take it in manner of a drinke and the day that the colicke doth paine him you shall bruise three or foure spoonefulls of Fennel-seed and cause him to drinke it downe roundly with wine and then count him well to cause him to sweat For the swelling of the cods or stones make as it were a pap of strong vinegar fullers day and salt to

A Linimen● made of Garlicke Salt and Vineger killeth Nits and Lice The decoction of Garlicke not bruised giuen in Clysters or applyed vnto th● bellie in manner of a fomentation assuageth the paine of the Colicke and expelleth wind Against an old Cough comming of a cold cause it is verie good to rub the soles of the feet the backe bone and wrists of the hands with an Oyntment o● Liniment made of three Garlicke heads well powned and beaten in Swin● Seame Against the paine of the Teeth comming of a cold cause there is nothing be●ter than to hold in the mouth Vineger or the decoction of Garlicke or to apply vnto the aking tooth three cloues of Garlicke stamped in Vineger For the killing of Wormes in children it is good to giue them to eat Garlicke with fresh Butter or else to make a Cataplasme thereof to lay vpon the Stomacke They which can scarce or hardly make their Water or are subiect vnto the Stone receiue great comfort by eating of Garlicke To keepe Birds from h●●ting of young Fruit you must hang at the boughes of those Trees some quantitie of Garlicke CHAP. XXV Of Scalio●s SCalions are like vnto Garlicke in tast and smell but in stalke and fashion the leaues resemble Onions saue onely that out of their head there grow manie hulles or huskes which bring forth manie round little leaues They thriue and grow better when they be set than when they be sowne for when they be sowne there is no great hope of their comming to any fairenesse before the second yeare They may be planted from the first day of Nouember vnto the moneth of Februarie to haue the fruit thereof the next Spring and they are planted as Garlicke But in the meane time you must gather 〈◊〉 before the March Violets doe flower for if one vse them not before that they be flowred they will fall away and become but sillie ones They are knowne to be ripe if their leaues begin to drie away below For to cause them to haue 〈◊〉 and thicke heads you must put brickes round about their rootes as hath beene said of Leekes As concerning the vse of Scalions there is no great helpe or profit to be hoped for or expected except of such as are giuen more to their pleasure than to their health for the Scalion serueth for no other thing but to prouoke and stirre folke 〈◊〉 the act of carnall copulation and to haue a good appetite They haue the same ve●●wes that Garlicke saue onely that they be somewhat troublesome to the 〈◊〉 because of their more sharpe and subtle tast CHAP. XXVI Of Parsley PArsley craueth no great labour but loueth a stonie and sandie ground for which cause it is called Parsley againe it craueth not anie store of manure wherefore it will be good to sow it vnder Arbors It desireth aboue all things to be well watred and if it so fall out as that it be sowne or planted neere vnto anie Fountaine or Riuer it groweth verie faire and in great quantitie And if anie be desirous that it should haue large leaues hee must put into a faire Linnen Cloth so much seed as he can hold in his three fingers and so cast it amongst the stones in the ground or else he must put in a Goats trottle a quantitie of Parsley seed and so set or sow it And he that will haue it curled must bruise the seed with a pestle of Willow to the end that the huske may breake and fall off and afterward wrap it in a Linnen Cloth and so put it in the ground Otherwise without thus much to doe it may be made to curle howsoeuer it be sowne if you draw a Rowler vpon it so soone as it beginneth to grow It is a good time to sow it from mid May vntill the Sunne be risen to his highest point in the Heauens for it somewhat craueth the heat The seed thereof that is but a yeare old is nothing worth for looke how much elder the seed is by so much it is the better and endureth a long time vnsowne in such sort as that it will not be needfull to sow or plant it of fiue yeares although when it is sowne it groweth not vnder the space of threescore daies Notwithstanding to cause it to grow and put more speedily out of the earth it behoueth that the seed be steeped in vineger some certaine time and after sowne in a well toyled ground and filled or mixed with one halfe of the ashes of Beane stalkes and after it is sowne it must be oft watered and sleightly with a little Aqua vitae and by and by after the watering to lay aloft it a piece of Cloth that the heat thereof may not be spent and breath away and by this meanes it will grow vp within a few houres and then you must take off the Cloth couering it and water it oft and by this meanes it will haue both a high stalke and great leaues A Cataplasme made of the leaues of Parsley with the crummes of White bread doth heale a Tettar or Ringworme doth resolue the swellings of the Breasts and maketh Women that are brought in bed to loose their Milke The iuice of Parsley drawne ●ut with vineger and mixt with a little salt helpeth Women that are in trauell to be deliuered The often vse of Parsley taketh away the stinking of the breath especially from such as haue drunke much Wine or eaten Garlicke And therefore such as vse to keepe companie much and haue an ill breath must not goe vnprouided of good store of fresh Parsley to chew or hold in their mouthes The decoction of the roots or leaues of Parsley helpeth downe Womens termes 〈◊〉 Vrine casteth out Grauell contained in the Vrinarie vessels taketh away the paine of the Colicke and of the Reines applyed in manner of a fomentation vpon the pained parts It serueth also for the obstructions of the Liuer but better for such as are flegmaticke than for the cholericke or those that are of sanguine complexion The leaues of Parsley cast vpon the water of Fish-ponds doe recreate and reioyce the sicke and diseased Fish CHAP. XXVII Of Rocket and Tarragon ROcket being an hearbe verie vsuall in Salads and good to temper the coldnesse of Lettuces may be sowne as well in Winter as in Summe● for it feareth not cold nor other iniurie of the ayre neither doth it ●●quire anie great labour it loueth notwithstanding to be 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 in a grauellie ground Rocket must not be eaten by it selfe by reason of the great heat that it maketh in them that eat it and for that cause it hath commonly for his companion in Salads the leaues of Lettuce seeing that the one of these doth notably temper the other It is good notwithstanding to prouoke vrine applyed in forme of a Cataplasme vpon the share bone And some say that three leaues

And for this cause some make Sage Wine for 〈◊〉 drinke and a fomentation with the decoction of Sage for the trembling of the 〈◊〉 and other parts It comforteth the mother being taken in a fume at the secret 〈◊〉 by such fume it also stayeth the whites Such as cannot beare their conception 〈◊〉 their time but miscarrie vpon slight causes must oftentimes in the morningeat 〈◊〉 Sage leaues for they strengthen the retentiue facultie keepe aliue and strengthen 〈◊〉 child and make women verie fruitfull And this is the cause why the Egyptian● 〈◊〉 a great mortalitie constrained their wiues to drinke the iuice of Sage with a little 〈◊〉 keeping themselues foure daies from hauing to doe with their husbands and then 〈◊〉 to lye with them that so they might conceiue and bring forth manie children To stirre vp appetite and cleanse the stomacke full of ill humours Sage 〈◊〉 be vsed oftentimes in pottage and otherwise it assuageth the paine of the head 〈◊〉 cleanseth the teeth and gummes it maketh a sweet breath being boyled in wine 〈◊〉 distilled water thereof doth cleare the sight the conserue of the flowers of Sage 〈◊〉 the like vertues Oake of Ierusalem called of the Latines Botrys craueth a drie and sandi● 〈◊〉 or else a watrie ground but such a one as is sandie or grauellie We behold it also 〈◊〉 and then to grow in swift running Brookes Being once sowne it needeth not 〈…〉 sowne againe afterward for it groweth againe euerie yeare and that as it were in 〈◊〉 of a shrub It hath vertues much like vnto Thyme that is to say it is good●●gainst the suppression of the termes and vrine Being dried and laid in 〈◊〉 it giueth a verie good smell vnto the garments and keepeth them from 〈…〉 decoction thereof with Licorice is wonderfull good for such as haue a short 〈◊〉 and are ●●uffed in their lungs if you put thereto a little Sugar or syrrup of 〈◊〉 ●ea and furthermore to such as spit matter vpon no other penaltie but that it be v●ed a long time The hearbe parched vpon a hot tyle and besprinkled with Malme●ey and applyed vnto the bsllie asswageth the pains of the matrix yea and more too ●f you adde thereunto the leaues of Mugwort and the flowers of Cammomile all fri●●d with oyle of Lillies and the yolke of an egge Horehound called in Latine Marrubium or Prassium as well the blacke 〈◊〉 the white groweth in euerie ground but rather in an vntilled than in a tilled ground you may also see it grow neere vnto walls hedges wayes and borders of fields 〈◊〉 is ●rue that the wild de●ireth wattie places as ditches little riuers moist and low pla●es It is verie good in decoction for the cough and difficultie of breath because it cleanseth the lungs and causeth spitting it prouoketh womens termes and bring●th ●orth the after-birth Sea Romane and common Wormewood is not so much sowne or set because of his smell as for the profit that it bringeth vnto the health The Romane groweth in a sandie ground the Sea-Wormewood groweth in a salt and ashi● ground ●he common in hillie stonie drie and vntilled grounds for to set them you must writhe the roots Wormwood amongst other his vertues almost infinite and admirable doth especially comfort the stomach laden with cholericke humours but not the stomach oppressed with flegmaticke humors and for that cause there is a Wine made of Wormwood and called by the same name The decoction of dogs-grasse his roots and the crops of Wormewood doe heale the Iaundise The conserue of the crops made of a pound thereof and three pounds of Sugar doth cure the old in●eterate and desperate dropsie if it be oftentimes vsed after purging it doth preserue likewise from drunkennesse It is an antidote in case a man haue ●aten venimous Mushromes or taken downe any other venime especially the Hemlocke as also in bitings and stingings of Spide●s and other venimous beasts The juice mingled with the kernells of Peaches doth kill the Wormes The leaues made into ashes and mingled with oile of Roses doth make the haire blacke The leaues layed in Wardrobes doe keepe the garments and doe driue away Flies and Gnats Southernewood groweth best being planted of roots or shoots for it doth not so well being sowne of seed It cannot abide much cold nor much heat and therefore it must be planted in some such place of the garden as is temperate The seed the weight of a French Crowne stampt with some of the leaues in white Wine adding thereto an old Nut and a little Bole-Armoniacke all being st●ayned and drunke is a singular drinke against the Plague and all manner of poyson The crops of the tops of the leaues and the flowers being beaten and stampt in oyle and made into the forme of a liniment doe serue to shift off the shiuerings of agues if so be that the soles of the feet and verebres of the backe o● him that hath the ague be rubbed therewith Southernwood taken inward or applied outward doth kill wormes in young children It is true that Galen for biddeth the taking of it at the mouth because it is an enemie to the stomach Rosemarie loueth chiefly a reasonable sat ground it groweth in any ayre but best by the Sea sides and thereupon it bea●eth his name It must be planted in the Spring and Autumne of roots on braunches writhen and see fast in the earth and that in a warme place or at the least lying open vpon the Sunne and not such a place as is verie moist or subject vnto the Northern● vvind because this plane can hardly endure the cold and therefore it must be planted vpon the South vader some wall and the good time of planting or it is when it will pricke and then you must take off the small young sprigs and set them three inches vvithin the earth making the earth fast and close vnto them aboue or else of some part of the most leauie branches therof which being afterward helped by making the ground light doth spread and continue fresh hauing no need to be watered except at the verie time of setting of it if the ground be 〈◊〉 and yet notwithstanding if it be watered it will prosper the better and flourish the more So long as it is young it would be diligently weeded and picked it requireth no dung but onely a good mould and to be compassed 〈◊〉 the root with good earth The lees of Wine and the scraps broken off from 〈◊〉 layd at the foot thereof doe cause it to grow maruellously There are two 〈◊〉 Rosemarie the one bearing seed and the other not Some plant it for food 〈◊〉 vnto Hiues because it flowreth betimes and for that the Bees doe greatly deligh●● 〈◊〉 it and by it doe better continue in health as also make better honey than th●se which feed not vpon it at all The flowers of

〈◊〉 the start by which the Pomegrana●e hangeth or else lay Pomegranates in 〈◊〉 clay tempered with water and after drie them in the Sunne It is good likewise 〈◊〉 lay them in dust or scrapings or sawings of the Poplar tree the Holme tree or the Oake in a new earthen pot and within it to set them in order in manner of 〈◊〉 and then afterward to couer the pot and lute it verie well But whatsoeuer way 〈◊〉 take the principall end must be to keepe Oranges in a cold and drie pla●e and 〈◊〉 they be gathered with their stalkes as also with their little branches if possibly it may be done without hurting the tree for this helpeth much to keepe them long They must likewise be gathered in the old of the Moone so that they be then 〈◊〉 verie drie and not being wet from aboue and then after that to keepe them ● day 〈◊〉 two in the Sunne their flowers lying downeward then after that to clo●● them 〈◊〉 in a pot verie well stopt and well pitcht or ●eared that the ayre may not get in 〈◊〉 doe couer them and worke them ouer verie thicke with Potters earth verie well beaten and tempered and when it is drie then they hang them in a cold place and wh●● they will eat them they steepe them in water and take away the earth Others doe wrap euerie one of them alone by it selfe in hay or in straw within cases The 〈◊〉 of Pomegranate trees doe driue away ven●mous beasts and this was the cause why men in auncient time were wont to put the boughs of Pomegranate trees both v●de● and aboue them in their beds The Plane tree is more commended for the beautie of his leaues and shadow than for his fruit it groweth of shoots and siences drawne and taken from the tree and planted in a verie moist ground and such as is neere vnto some Fountaine or Riu●● and yet besides this it delighteth to be wa●red oftentimes with neat Wine and sometimes with mens Vrine to helpe it to shoot vp and grow high and to put forth larg● and ample branches and long leaues for to make the better shade In this Coun●●ey we cannot see manie faire ones I remember that I haue seene one at Basil in 〈◊〉 Peters place betwixt the height of fifteene or sixteene cubits vnder the shield and shadow whereof the people betooke themselues for their refreshment during the time of great and scorching heat Some make dishes of Plane tree wood to 〈◊〉 paine and wringings in the bellie being applyed thereunto You must beware of the dust which hangeth vpon the leaues for being taken into the bodie by drawing in of your breath it hurteth the rough arterie and voice and in like manner the ●ight and hearing if it fall into the eyes or eares The Nettle tree is well ynough knowne in Languedoc and Prou●n●e especially in a borough neere vnto Mompelier called Bontonnet it groweth in a fat ground well man●red and toyled open to the South or East Sunne The wood is good to make Flutes Cornets and other Instruments of Musicke it is good also to make handles for Kniues and Swords The fruit is verie much desired at the Tables of great States of his great sweetnesse and most pleasant and delightsome smell which they find in it that doe eat or smell to it Likewise some doe presse a Wine out of this fruit being stamped and beaten which is verie sweet and seemeth like vnto other new pressed sweet Wines but it lesteth not aboue tenne or twelue daies The Masticke tree delighteth in moist places and is planted after the first day of Februarie it beareth fruit thrice a yeare The leaues barke and wood in decoctions haue power to restraine strengthen and comfort And this is the cause why it is vsed to make Tooth-pickes thereof The Turpentine tree delighteth in a low and moist ground and withall in a 〈◊〉 and warme ayre open vpon the Sunne The leaues barke and wood haue the 〈◊〉 vertue that the Masticke tree The Iuiube tree and others as well foraine as growing in our owne 〈…〉 further to be seene and read of in the third Booke CHAP. LV. Of the two particular Gardens scituate or lying at the end of the Kitchin Garden and of the Garden of Pleasure THe Kitchin Garden and the other of Pleasure being of the largenesse aboue declared may haue referued out of them two or three acres for the profit of the Lord of the farme as for Madder Wo●d Tasel Line and Hempe And we may also adde vnto these Saffron albeit that all these things euen as well as pulse if it be a free and kind ground doe well deserue 〈◊〉 haue euerie one his seueral field by it selfe and to be tilled and husbanded after the ●anner of corne and pulse For Madder therefore it is meet that there should be appointed out foure or fiue ●eres of ground in a place by it selfe which must not lye farre from the water but in 〈◊〉 free and not in a strong mould and yet not too light which hath had his three or foure arders with the plough or as indeed is best digged and si●ted notwithstanding that the sifting of it be a longer peece of worke and of greater cost it being v●ed to be cast and tilled with thicker raisings of the earth and smaller clouds than is ●ont to be in the casting or digging of a new vineyard For this plant hath his proper and particular seasons to be dressed and planted in as well as the vine but in this they differ verie manifestly that the one is an hearbe and the other a shrubbe and as it were a knot to many trees the one dieth yearely and there is nothing of it 〈◊〉 request but roots for to make good colours of but the other lasteth and conti●●eth at the least twelue yeares in good liking and liuelihood of which the first sixe is for growth and a little for bringing forth of fruit and the later sixe for whole ●●mple and intire profit the daunger of haile washing away of the grapes when the ●ines be flowre by much raine and frost being excepted vnto which in like ma●●er Madder in subject and oftentimes more than the vine because of his tendernesse This prehemencie it hath that the vine being frozen cannot be recouered but Madder may be either set or ●owne againe as also Woad the speciall husbandrie of such as dwell in Prouence and the wealth and commoditie of Dyers of Cloth or Wooll with what colour soeuer it be It may be sowne or planted but indeed being sowne it yeeldeth scarce at any time any great store of increase but if you will sow it then bestow the like quantitie of the seed thereof vpon an acre as you are wont to doe of Hempe and that in the moneth of March vpon the tops of hills well battilled and ●manured thus the seed being cast into the ground and the same well incorporated with harrows of rakes

or hang vpon the sides of the vessell as being the verie marke of the perfect and sufficient boiling If you be disposed to put any spice into it as Cinnamon Cloues Nutmegs and Ginger you must doe it in the end of the boiling of them and then also stirre it well about with the spatule After the same manner you may preserue or make Marmalade of Peaches Peares and other fruits Yet there is another Marmalade which is made of Oranges which desireth a great deale of more curiositie in the working and is exceeding pleasant to tast and indeed more wholesome than anie other Marmalade whatsoeuer especially for those which are sicke and weake for it fortifieth the stomacke and encreaseth appetite it expelleth wind and comforteth the vitall spirits This Marmalade of Oranges is made in this manner Take of the fairest and best Oranges you can get not those which are called Ciuill and haue a sweet tast but those which are of a cleere high and bright colour and are sowre in tast then with a very sharpe knife pare away the vpper yellow rinde I doe not meane to the white but so exceeding thinne as is possible taking away as it were but onely the smooth thinne skinne and leauing the Orange as yellow as before onely looking a little more blanke and rough this done you shall by them in faire running water pressing them so downe that they may be all couerted ouer with the water then at the end of euerie fiue houres shift them into fresh water till hauing layne full fiue or six houres in each of them you cannot tast anie bi●●ernesse in the water but that it is sweet and pleasant as when it came out of the Fo●●taine then you may be assured that they are steept ynough so that then you shall take them forth of the water and drie them with a fine cleane cloth then to euerie pound of Oranges you shall take a pound of refined Sugar well beaten and ●earced and six or eight spoonefuls of Damaske-Rose-water and in the same you shall boil● the Oranges till they burst and become like vnto pappe or pulpe which you shall the more occasion by continually stirring them with a spoone or spatule then when they are fully broken ynough you shall take them from the fire and presently strain● them through a cleane Strainer into your boxes and so let them coole and stiffen I● this sort you may make Marmalade of Limons Citrons or anie other whole 〈◊〉 whose rinde is bitter or vnpleasant You may also after this manner preserue other Oranges Limons Citrons or anie other such like fruit obseruing not to let them boile vntill they breake but keeping them in a verie moderate and gentle temper If you would make a laxatiue Marmalade such as they vse at Lyons looke into the 26. Chapter of this Booke To make good and excellent Gellie of Quinces cleanse your Quinces that 〈◊〉 verie ripe and yellow taking out of them their kernels them cut them in small quarters without paring of them for the skinne doth encrease the smell whiles you are thus making of them cleane and cutting them in quarters cast them presently into a basin full of vvater for if they be not cast into vvater so soone as they be thus chopt in peeces they vvill become blacke boyle them in a great quantitie of water vntill such time as they be almost become like pap meat vvhen they are sufficiently boyled strayne this water through a new linnen cloth that is good and thicke and that euen all the decoction and so strongly as possibly you can To this decoction thus strained adde the fourth part of fine sugar cause all to boyle vpon a reasonable coale fire so long as till in the end you perceiue it verie neere perfectly boyled then make a small fire that so it may not burne to the sides for that would make the gelly to be of an euill colour and you shall know when it is perfectly boyled if you find it cleauing like glue vnto the oyle and therefore you must then put it in boxes To preserue Walnuts Gather vvalnuts whiles they are small tender and greene vvith their rinde and all and make many small holes therein and after lay them to sleepe in vvater eleuen or twelue dayes more or lesse cleanse then from the skinne that lyeth vpon the shell vvithout shaling of them and boyle them in clarified Sugar a long time still putting vnto them more and more clarified Sugar because the long boyling vvill make great vvaste in the end put them into vessells with cloues ginger and cinnamome but lesse of cloues than of any of the rest because they would make them ouer bitter Another vvay to preserue them is to take greene Walnuts about the moneth of May or of Iune before that their pilling become hard pill them and let them steepe nine dayes more or lesse according as you shall perceiue them to become tender in pure water vvhich must be changed euerie day three or foure times boyle them yet afterward to make them more tender being boyled drie them in the shadow of the Sunne or vvipe them drie with a linnen cloth afterward pricke them with cinnamome and cloues In the end set them a boyling in clarified sugar so long till the sugar be boyled vp to the consistence of a sirope afterward put them in tinne or earthen vessells made for the purpose together vvith the sirope vvherein they were boyled Others doe them otherwise They gather the Walnut whiles it is greene they pricke it vpon a spindle or some such like instrument of wood not of yron for yron vvould make it more blacke and let it steepe in water often changed and then boyle it till it be tender being tender they cast it by and by into verie cleane cold water being cooled they cleanse it from a little skin which sheweth it selfe aboue the shell and drie it with a linnen cloth and finally pricke it about with cloues and cinnamome they put it thus in vessells and couer it with sirope to keepe it in if it happen that after some small time the sirope become too thin then they boyle it againe and put it againe into the vessell this is the way to keepe walnuts alwaies greene according to their naturall colour In steed of sugar or honie to make liquid preserues you may for need vse cute such as we will intreat of in the fi●t Booke vvhich cute or boyled vvine is of no lesse sweetnesse and goodnesse than honie or sugar To preserue pills of Cytrons or Oranges chuse great pills of Cytrons or of Oranges or of Assyrian Cytrons cut in foure or six peeces cleanse th●m from their inward skin and pippins steepe them in cleare vvater for the space of nine daies changing the water the fifth day vvhen the nine daies are past put them againe in cleare vvater to steepe vntill they become sweet and haue lost their bitternesse and withall appeare cleare

with the frounce or mouth canker you shall wash the ●ore with allome and strong vineger beaten together till they be as thicke as puddle If you will prepare her stomake for the receiuing of a purge and both comfort and strengthen it you shall wash her meate in water in which cloues and licoras haue beene steept if you will purge her stomake you shall giue her Aloes if you will purge her liuer you shall giue her Rubarbe if you will purge her kidnes or take away the shortnesse of breath or kill wormes giue her Agaricke if you will purge her of her gripings in the bodie or take away the pantas or kill fellanders giue her Rewe or herbe of grace if you will comfort the heart or fortifie the lungs giue her Saffron to clense away all putrifaction giue her Myrthe if you will purge her head take away windinesse or what griefe commeth of cold causes giue her Mustard-seed if you will purge from her grosse humours giue her wormewood for any disease of the liuer whatsoeuer there is nothing better than to wash her meate in the water of Liuerworte for any inward inflammation wish her meate in the water of Sorrell for the casting of her gordge and to strengthen the stomak againe wash her meate in the iuice of Mints or the distilled water thereof for all dulnesse of spirit and sadnesse of heart wash her meate in the water or iuice of burrage or buglosse to molli●ie the hardnesse of the liuer or any other oppellations giue her the iuice of Hearts-tongue to make away obstructions or stoppings in the head giue her either Ros●marie or the water thereof for the weakenesse of the sinewes trembling of members or for cramps swellings soares or canker giue her sage-bruise outwardly or the iuice inwardly for pur●inesse or short breath giue her the iuice of Horehound for the numbnesse or stiffenesse of ioines cankers or sores bathe them in the decoction o● of woodbine for all manner of infection poyson or inward bruises giue her the herbe Cardus Benedictus which herbe you may giue either greene or dryed either the iuice or the powder or if you please you may giue the distilled water for the biting of any mad dogge or any other venimous beast annoynt the place either with Angelica or the iuice of an onion for any extreame drought or heate which is in the stomake wash all her meate in the decoction of French Barley for any Fistula or cankorous sore take Brimstone for the Pantas take Butter and Rose-water for the Crampe take Polipodie of the oake or the iuice of Brianie or of Garlicke or where they faile take the powder of the rootes of Pionie and let the Hawke smell to the same or pounce her na●es therewith for the falling sicknesse wash her meat in the iuice of Pellitorie of Spaine for the pinne in the foot make her a plaister of Galbanum white pitch and Venice-turpentine and applie it to the same Lastly for the Rie which is a disease of all other most common and incident to all manner of hawkes but especially to these short winged hawkes you shall take a rumpe of mutton and cut away the fat which is about it very cleane and then foulding the same in a handfull of parceley let your hawke feed and tire herselfe thereupon at her pleasure and it will make the filth to issue and come forth out of her nares and purge her head wonderfully The Faulcon as we haue said in the art of hawking is sometimes a generall word taken for all kinds of hawks sometimes it is taken for a speciall word and according to that sence there are diuers sorts of that name which I omit to intreat seuerally of because of such as haue written of the nature of birds but howsoeuer the Faulcon is the prince of the birds of pray I meane in respect of flight for her stoutnesse and great courage and is to be accounted of great value when she hath a round head and the top of her head is full her beake short and thicke her nostrels great and open her eie browes high and thicke her eies great and cloaked a long necke a high brest large shoulders the feathers of her wings thinne long thighes short and chicke legs greene great and well spred feet blacke sharpe and pearching ●alon● and which i● for bignesse neither too great nor too little The Faulcon as all other birds of prey hath her Tiercelet and they are called of the Latines Pomiliones that is to say small birds resembling them and nothing differing from them saue onely in greatnesse and they are all of them as it were the males of the birds of prey the females being for the most part of greater bulke and bodies than the males That of the Faulcon is called nothing but a Tiercelet or the male Faulcon The Tiercelets of the other Hawkes haue their proper names as the male Sparrow-hawke is called a Musket the male Lanier a Laneret and the male Sacre a Sacret The Tiercelet of the Faulcon hath his feathers ver●e glittering his head and eyes black ash-coloured vpon his back and traine and yet glittering He is a Hawke for the lure as also the Faulcon and not for the fist His legges and feet are yellow hauing for the most part a pale breast he carrieth two very black spots vpon his feathers on the sides of his eies To reclaime the Faulcon you must haue him commonly vpon your fist feed him with the wings and legges of Hennes soked in water and set him in a darke place sometimes presenting them with a bason full of water wherein they may bathe themselues and after their bathing drie them at the fire they must be vsed first to take small birds then indifferent great ones and afterward greater ones but you must not feed them with any part of the birds which they shall haue taken They flie maruellous swift and mount very high there houering and soaring but withall still looking downeward and when they see the Duck the greene Goose Crane or Heron they come downe like an arrow their wings shut and drawne together right vpon the Fowle to breake in vpon her with her tallons behind at vvhich time if they happen to mis●e and the Fowle flie away they presently flie after but and if they cannot seize vpon her as enraged and angrie they take so long a ●light thereupon as that they loose their master The Faul●on is more fit than any other Hawke to flie the Heron and all other fowle of the riuer Her diseases and the curing of them are like vnto those of the Sparrow-hawke howbeit the Faulcon is of a stronger nature than the Sparrow-hawke The Hobbie is the least of all Hawkes in respect of bodie except the Merlin and is likewise for the lure and not for the fist being of the number of those that soare aloft as the Faulcon the Lanier the Sacre This bird is sufficiently knowne euery where for there