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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

ones 21● vlcers of the mouth 197 199 203. of the eares 209. inward 207. of the lungs 205. of the ●eme● 459. comming of the pocks 58 203. vlcers in Oxen. 102 A low and base Votte 148. to haue a good voice 176 To stay Vomiting 48 204 213 249. to cause vomiting speedily 449. to prouoke vomite 285. to the curing of a quartane and tertian ague 298 Vrine of all sorts and to procure the making of vrine 〈◊〉 97 171 176 180 182 194 197 199 203 205 208 210 211 212 246 248 251 371 397 453 679 690 Horses hardly able to make their Vrine 141. W WArts 60 206. hanging Warts ●16 Against Witchcraf● 199 Fuke● for Women c. 208 304 465 Wormes amongst Bee● 398 Wormes and how to kill them 157 200 201 203 205. 207 220 245 247 251 285 372 〈◊〉 690. wormes in little children 180 210 244 246 561 693. wormes menting horses 146. to cause the wormes that trouble dogges to fall from them 677 678. to kill them that destroy trees 405 406. to keepe flesh from all manner of wormes 197. to cause them to come out of the earth in great aboundance 386 The flying 〈◊〉 a disease in horses 142 To kill earth W●rmes that eat the roots of hearbes 401 Wounds in dogges 678 Wound● 198 200 207 214 against all sorts of wounds 204. against the inflammation thereof 28● wounds fresh and new ●7 207 209 214 220. old 58 214. maligned 201. wounds in the armes and legges 219. in the noble and ●nner parts 207 208. in the head 〈◊〉 in the guts 288. wounds with Dagges 59. to draw y●on out of a wound 199. for to consider of inward and outward wounds 202 205 207 211 212. an excellent balme for green wounds and cuts 57 204 437 Wring●●●● 249 Windinesse in the stomacke or bellie ibid. Y THe Yard swolne and the cure thereof The Yard of an Oxe growne hard FINIS P●●tarch in ●eg Apoh 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 2. Chro. 26. ●0 Genes 4. ● ● Sam. ● 14. 〈…〉 The varietie of Countries causeth a diuers manner of labouring of the earth Ouer-much curiositie the ruin● of good wits What manner of Husbandrie i● entreated of in that which follow●th The name of the Country ●ouse 〈◊〉 a Farme Meese or field Inheritance The Translator The English practise added to the French The Summe of the first Booke The S●mme of the second Booke The Summe of the third Booke The Summe of the fourth Book The Summe of the fi●● Booke The Summe of the sixt Booke The Summe of the seventh Booke The Kitchin must be the first piece of building in a good house Purchase by statute the surest of al others That there be 〈◊〉 foolish buyers than sellers That Land 〈◊〉 stri●e in hand Labour 〈…〉 a Householder That 〈◊〉 to say that euerything hauing attained his height doth in the ●nd decrease 〈…〉 A good aire 〈…〉 Farme Neere vnto a good neighbor Farre from places of garrison Farre from Riuers and Brookt It behoueth v● to content our selues with that which God and Nature affoordeth Rock●e grounds good for the bearing of Vines and so for such Countries as a bound with Vines A high and flat Countrey Pooles Cesternes Pits called Aranques To make a Cesterne for to hold and keepe Raine water The way to prepare ground for the bearing of wood A Country neare vnto Riuers The pleasures of Princes A drie Countrey A Hill to build vpon 〈…〉 Wells of good Water Fountaines To find out the beads of Fountaines The best time to 〈◊〉 out Spring-heads 〈…〉 What Waters are best Places giuen t● bring forth 〈◊〉 Deceitfull stone-pits Why the earth is termed by the name of a Mother That it is against the nature of the free Countrey of Bea●x to beare any Rie To●●aine the Garden of France Man by labour is able to tame euery thing Watrie and marish places The vnder parts of watrie grounds Islands of Flaunders To build on the tops of high ground Wild grounds Desarts and Bull-rushes St●nie grounds Vntilled grounds Sandie grounds What is 〈◊〉 to know the nature of great Sand. Strong grounds Rough ground A clay ground To build vpon a high ground Territories and fields lying in Croye and Ardose The nature of the earth must be knowne An old prouerh That of compulsions comes no good Good ground a fruitfull countrey of France The fruitfulnes of Aquitaine The inconueniences of the Southerne wind in Languedoc Prouence and Guienne The signes of a good and sertile ground Naughtie earth Great Cages make not thei● Birds good Vnfaithfull Farmers The eye of the Master fatteth the Horse 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 The base Courts 〈…〉 Of the Lig●ts to be made in Building 〈…〉 The Wells of the C●●rt T●e dore of ●he H●use A partition The Farmers Lodge The Farmers Ouen The Farmers Chamber Garners Stables for Ho●se 〈…〉 Oxe-hous●s The entrance of the householde●s dwelling place The round staires The Kitchin The chietest Lights must be t●ward the East Garners The North wind good for the keeping of Corne. A Henne-house Turk●● Henn●● and Cock● Fesants 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 What things are most fit to be farmed out The chiefe key of all the rest 〈…〉 To order his Suites What time the Householder should keepe at his Farme and when he may best go● abroad to the Towne or elsewher● Men cannot abide to be roughly entreated Husbandmens apparrell To know to write and read is not necessarie for a farm●r Paper endureth all t●ings A Farmer must haue much knowledge 〈…〉 N●cessarie things to be prouided It is not good ●o exact too much at a seruants hands The naturall inclimat●on of the s●uerall C●unt●imen of France Normans Normans Picards B●yais Lim●sins Goscoins 〈…〉 〈…〉 The f●retelling of Raine Signes ●ore●●kening great store of Raine Signes ●oret●kening Snow Haile Signes ●or●●tkening Winds The signes foretokening T●●nder Lightnings and Tempests The signes ●ore-tokening faire Weather Sig●es ●oretokening the be●innings and endings of times Signes ●oretokening Cold. A long Winter The heat o● Summer The knowledge of the disposition of eueri●●oneth 〈…〉 A good or bad yeare Signes foretokening fruitfulnesse A barren ●●are Tokens ●●reshewing Corn● to be good cheape or deare Signes fore●●kening a sickly or sound yeare Th● Sunne and the Moone great Lights Of the Moone T●e cause of the grow●h and wa●● of th● Moone To slaughter Ca●●ell in the new of the Moone Fruit-trees and others To cleanse trees To gather fruits Grapes To sow Corn● To winnow or fanne to searce and lay vp Corne vnder locke To grind Corne. Onions so●n in the wan● T● mow Med●w●s To dung them Ianuarie Februarie March Aprill May. Iune Iuly August September October Nouember December To ●se Bread temperately Prouision for Drinke The Plague Naphe A continuall Feauer A Quartane Agu● Thirst. A Tertian Ague A Quotidian Ague Headach comming of Heat Headach comming of drinking of Wine Headach proceeding of Cold● Frensie Drowsinesse or heauinesse of Sleepe

bloud 50. bleeding at the nose 45. to purifie the bloud 182 Bloud-suckers 61 Blondie fluxes 118 122 171 172 176 195 196 201 203 206 209 211 224 The Bodie to make it sound and well disposed 428 462 Bots in horses 14● Breath and difficultie of breathing 110 247. shortnesse of breath 114 115 178 and 5● 8. an ●ll breath ●4● a stinking breath 199. to cause one to haue a good breath 239 246. shortnesse of breath in horses 202 The Brea●●s 209 214. the breast● ouer-ha●d 244 39● to trusse into a round and ●lose ●athion the flagging withered and hanging breasts 47● 〈◊〉 also sut them when they are in●●amed ●8 for the canker in the breasts 60 144 219 437 to resolue and wast the tumo●●s of the breasts 18● 〈◊〉 and blacke spots 59 207 ●●4 Buboes to cure 120 Burning 60 75 178 206 207 208 214 239 240 286 288 Burstings or ruptures 55 207. bu●rsting of the vessels of the bodie 207. rupture or bursting of some of the inward parts 237 C CAnkers of all sorts 60 144 198 200 205 207 214 387. Cankers growing in the mouth 387. Cankers growing in the ●ares of dogges ibid. A plague Carbuncle 201 210 220 Carn●●●●● in the bladder 210 Cathars 10 69 95 203 207 262 Chast●tie and to make men chast 239 243 291 Cheese to keepe from being spoiled and rotten 244 The Child dead in the wombe and the mane● of drawing it forth 205 207 210 21● 248 285 287. the child not borne out his full time 246 Chops 214 435. of the lippes 177 668. of the hands 177 Chops growing in the feet of horses 143 Chosicke and the cure thereof 49 144 152 180 183 184 16● 207 213 244 288 To Conceiue and to make to conceiue 245 246 248 The false Conception in the wombe ●35 Conserue for the heart 47 For such as are in a Consumption 75 Contraction of ligaments 163 Co●●●sion 263 212 248 251 The Co●●● a horses disease 145 An old Cough 119. a hard Cough 245 Cough● of all sorts and the remedies for the same 75 178 212 247 in Oxen. 95 100 in Sheepe 114 115 of Mules 152 Counterpoysons 293 304 The Courbe a horses maladie 145 D ●Easnesse 45 178 ●To make a faite Die or colour 249 Difficultie of Vrine in Horses 141 ●●pe and comfort Digestion 244 246 249 ●●ses beginning in the encrease of the Moone are of long continuance 32 prognosticated 36 of Oxen. 93 102 of Horses in diuers sorts and the meanes to cure them 136 152 their vrine scalding them 137 of Sheepe 114 of Lambes 116 of Goats 119 of Asses 150 of Mules and Mulets 152 diuers of Swine 107 of Dogs and remedies for the same 12● 677 of seuerall Birds and their cures 748 of Fishes 181 〈…〉 of humors 200 207 〈…〉 falling downe vpon the eyes 207 213 〈◊〉 Dog and the remedies against his bitings 61 ●● Draught-gut fallen downe 54 202 209 213 140 〈◊〉 Oxe hi● Draught-gut hurt 96 〈◊〉 and Hydropicall persons 49 104 171 178 183 ●89 207 209 211 213 230 239 247 250 280 285 286 287 〈◊〉 sinesse and the remedies against it 41 244 245 ●● unkennesse and how to preuent it 166 371 203 E EAres the paine and diseases thereof 44. silthie and perulent 178. wormie 197. noise in them 188 20● 397. exulcerate 209 〈◊〉 211 〈◊〉 99 ●● wes with la●●be 116. hauing the sniuell 114. troubled with cornes 115 ●●●eake Eyes 120. their diseases and remedies 4● 44 84 1●7 213 243. the web in the Eye 74 198. spots of the Eye 199. the Eyes full of spots 696. bleared Eyes 192. weeping Eyes 452. fissulated Eyes 461. to clarifie the Eyes 252. Distillations and 〈◊〉 falling downe vpon the Eyes 207. rednesse of the eyes 195 〈◊〉 and other griefes of the same 460 461 The Eyes of Oxen and their diseases 98 99. Oxen hauing weeping Eyes 101 ●●lotses their blea●ed Eyes 138. and other their griefes 139 F FAintings 47 Falles 209 Falle● from on high 57 Falling sicknesse 42 148 182 203 204 211 240 245 248 375 453 454 460 668 The Falling sicknesse is gotten by eating of Goats flesh 119 Fars●● in Horses 143 201 Feet and the stench of the fee● 53 Feuers 200 387 Feuers of all sorts 252 Feuers continuall 39 quotidian 203 tertian 40 198 203 208 210 211 213 387 hot 177 188 191 298 208 quartane agues 40 173 199 200 202 203 210 ●●3 ●57 long and lasting 253 comming of obstructions 197 pestilent 201 of the Oxe 100 of the Horse 128 of the Sheepe 115 of the Swine 107 the Goats ague called continuall because they neuer are without it 119 The Fig a disease in Horses 129 A Fire without smoake 419 Fistula 193 206 213 435 458 The Horse his Fistula 144 A Flea in the ●are 237. to kill fleas 248 Flegme and flegmatike diseases 212 Flesh and to keepe it from putrifying in Summer 246 To driue away Flies and Gnats ibid. Flowers of women to stay them 52 204 206 213 237 246 690. to cause them 172 203 348 Fluxe of bloud 176 209 ●9● 690 of bloud of all sorts 297 of bloud at the nose 45 75 178 204 206 208 of bloud by a wound 204 206 to stay them of all sorts 204 285 287 The Fluxe of the bellie 74 120 203 213 29● The Fluxe of the bellie and bloud 207 The Fluxe of the bellie in Oxen 94. in Horses 224. and in Hennes ●9 Fr●●kles in the face 199 201 208 212 239 Frensies and franticke persons 42 116 Frets in little children 248 Fundament fallen 205 G GAlling of Horses their backs 141 145 197 Gang●●ne 434 Garlicke eaten and how to take away the stench and ill sauour thereof 179 Garments and how to keepe them from vermine 239 Garrot a Horses maladie 145 Giddinesse in mens heads 183 Goomes 19● to cleanse them 246 The Goomes of Horses exulcerated 140 Gowt 55 147 202 209 214 237 For all manner of Gowts and ioint-aches 56 Grauell 74 183 188 203 205 259 288 371 461 555 563. 648 668 693 G●ipings 249 288 389. in the bellie 201 ●49 Wom●ns Gripings or throwes after child-birth 54 Guts falling downe and the rupture 54 202 211 213 240 288 207. the rupture in a horse 145 H HAire and to keepe it from falling 189. to colour that of the head and beard 456 457. to make it red 285. or black 247. the Haire fallen 75 The falling of the Haire called Tine● 61 197 201 214 Ha●ting in a Horse ●44 Hands wrinkled 46. shaking 246 Hand-wormes 213 Heart the paine and griefe thereof 169 203 251. faintnesse of the Heart 128 200 239. beating of the Heart 47 Heart-ache 169 The Heart-●ore a disease that killeth horses suddenly 139 Head-ach paine of the head 40 85 176 178 193 211 199 221 244 246 248 252 286 Hemorrhoids and their cure 51 168 178 198 206 214 Hicket 48 244 249 Horse cloyed 206 I IAundise 49 78 104 143 169 172 173 195 202 205 237 326 457 Iaundise in trees 405

tenne dayes the child borne thereon shall not be subiect to women In the sixteenth day Iacob was borne For this cause it maketh good to buy and ●ame Horses Oxen and other Cattell the sicke shall be in great danger of death if he change not his Ayre or House dreames shall come to passe the child shall not liue long In the seuenteenth day Sodome and Gomorrha was destroyed It is ill to attempt and doe any thing Physicke taken will doe no good vnto the Patient the dreames will be verified within th●ee dayes the child will not be prosperous in all things In the eighteenth day Isaac was borne It is good to be at leisure and to goe about businesse the sicke shall be in danger of death the dreame shall be true the child shall not trauaile farre but he shall get grea● goods In the nineteenth day King Pharoah was borne This day is dangerous wherefore it will be good to auoid companie and drunkards and to liue peaceably without doing any thing the diseased will soon● recouer the dreame will proue tru● the child will not be malicious or a mocker In the twentieth day the Prophet Ionas was borne This is a good day for the doing of all things the disease will continue long the dreame true and apparent the child which shall be borne will be malicious and a mocker In the one and twentieth day was borne King Saul It is good to reioyce and cheare vp ones selfe in faire and honest Apparrell good to buy prouision for sustenance the theft committed will be found out the taken sicke in great danger of his disease the dreame vaine and vnprofitable the child borne subiect to endure great ●rauaile In the two and twentieth Iob was borne It is not good to goe about Merchandise not to enterprise or vndertake any charge That sicke shall be in danger to die of the sicknesse that hee shall take this day the dreame shall be true the child borne shall be good and honest In the three and twentieth day was Beniamin borne Whatsoeuer a man doth vpon that day it shall turne to his honour the disease shall be long but not mortall the dreames false the child borne a dissembling wretch and ill fauoured In the foure and twentieth day Iaphet was borne It is an indifferent day that is to say neither good nor bad the sicknesse will hold long but the patient will recouer the dreame will be of no effect the child that is borne will be mild and courteous and will loue to make great cheare In the fiue and twentieth Mortalitie entred into Egypt The sicke will be in danger of death the sixt day after the beginning of the sicknesse the child that is borne therein shall be subiect vnto many dangers perils and aduersities In the six and twentieth Moises diuided the Sea the same day died Saul and Ionathan for which cause the day is verie dangerous and not good to doe any thing in He that falleth sicke vpon that day will neuer escape the dreames will proue true the child borne will not be any man of great prosperitie or pleasure that is to say neither poore nor rich In the seuen and twentieth it is good to take paines in all manner of businesses the sicknesse will be variable the dreames will be doubtfull the child borne will be mild and louely In the eight and twentieth all good things will be good to be done the sick shall be recouered of his sicknesse the child borne shall be slouthfull and negligent In the nine and twentieth day Herod caused the children to be slaine This is a dismall and vnhappie day wherefore there must nothing be done that day nor yet vndertaken the dreames will be verie certaine the sicke will turne found the child borne will liue and keepe societie in peaceable manner among men The thirtieth and last day is good to doe all things in The sicke shall be in great danger euen vnto death but if he be well and carefully looked vnto he will recouer the dreames will be turned into ioy within the fift day the child borne will be subtill and deceitfull As concerning the Sunne which is the other Instrument of the whole World performing the greatest part of his actions really and in deed during the day whereof it is the author as the Moone doth hers during the night as being then when she is in her force and vigour it by his naturall heat influence actions and casting forth of his coelestiall beames giueth vnto earthly bodies their forme and vegetatiue life accompanied with certaine powers and vertues so farre forth as euerie naturall bodie is capable and deserueth or requireth it Which operations of the Sunne in these Earthly matters are wrought and effected by certaine his motions accomplished in the foure quarters of the yeare which is that time wherein the Sunne dispatcheth his whole course Wherefore the wise and prudent Husbandman shall giue heed to the foure quarters of the yeare which are the Spring Summer Autumne and Winter to the end that according to the motion and power of the Sunne in these foure quarters hee handle manage and gouerne all his affaires of Husbandrie And this is the thing that wee will more particularly handle at large in the Chapter following by the workes that the Husbandman must doe in euerie seuerall moneth of the yeare CHAP. X. The particular Workes that a Husbandman must be carefull to doe euerie Moneth in the yeare FVrthermore to the end that his people may not liue idle and that they may not loose one small minute of time which being imployed about some one or other worke he shall dispose of his workes so as that they may euerie one haue his certaine time and he shall know at his fingers ends what things is to be done euerie moneth and time of the yeare Yet thus euer to gouerne his memorie that these labours following being more naturall to the Kingdome of France than to any of her neighbours they shall for their satisfaction because the Booke is now intended generall returne to the sixt Chapter and there behold the conuenient labours fit for colder Countries as is the Island of great Britaine Ireland and the Low Countries In the moneth of Ianuarie chiefely toward the end hee shall cut downe his Wood which hee appointeth for Building or other Worke when the Moone is vnder the Earth for the brightnesse of the Moone maketh the Wood more tender and the Wood which shall be cut at such time will endure a long time without rotting He shall dung the Fruit-trees not letting the dung touch their roots He shall graft all such great and little Trees which bud betimes as Rose-trees Damaske Plum-trees Apricock-trees Almond-trees and Cherry-trees He shall digge the Earth for the casting in of Nuts Almonds and the kernels of Apricockes Peaches and Plums and such others in grounds that are cold and moist in the two first quarters of the Moone Hee shall cut his Vine in

Mithridate and vpon the right arme the head of a Bat. To cause them to sleepe which cannot well slumber it is good to make a Frontlet with the seed of Poppie Henbane Lettuce and the iuice of Nightshade or the milke of a woman giuing a girle sucke or with the leaues of ground yu●e stamped with the white of an egge or put vnder the pillow a Mandrake apple or the greene leaues of Henbane and rub the soles of the feet with the grea●e of a Dormouse For the swimming in the Head there is commonly vsed the conserue of the flowers of Betonie or Aqua vitae or the confection called Electuarium Anacardinum To preserue such from the Apoplexie as are subiect vnto it let them drinke in Winter a good spoonefull of Aqua vitae well sugred and let them eat a bit of White bread by and by after or in stead of Aqua vitae let them drinke the Claret water which I will set downe hereafter or of the water of the root of the wild Vine or of the powder of the root thereof continually for the space of a yeare For the Palsie rub the place afflicted with the oyle of Foxes Bayes and Castoreum mixing therewith a little Aqua vitae vse likewise oftentimes the water of Cinnamon and of S. Iohns wort or the conserues of Sage Rosemarie Cowslips Baul●●e and Mithridate make him drie Bathes with the decoction of Lauander Coastmarie Danewort Sage and Marierome To preserue one from the Falling sicknesse otherwise called S. Iohns disease it is a soueraigne thing to drinke for the space of nine dayes a little draught of the iuice of the hearbe Paralysis or Cows●●ps or of the distilled water of the Linden tree or of Coriander or to vse euerie morning for the space of fortie dayes a powder made of the seed of Pionie and Missletoe of the Oake or of the skull of a Man and more specially of that part of the skull which is neerest vnto the seame of the crowne with neat Wine or with the decoction of Pionie as also to hang about his necke the Missletoe of the Oake or some piece of a mans skull or of the root or seed of male Pionie or of the stone that is found in Swallowes neasts or to weare about his necke or vpon one of his fingers some ring wherein shal be set the bone of the foot of the Oxe called Elam or Alce and that so as that the bone may touch the flesh or bare skin you shall deliuer them that are in that fit if you tickle them and pinch their great toe or rub their lips with mans bloud To take away the rednesse of the Face it is good to wash the face with the decoction of the chaffe of Barley and Oates and to foment it afterward with the iuice of Citrons or else take foure ounces of Peach kernels two ounces of the husked seedes of Gourds bruise them and presse them out strongly to the end they may yeeld their oyle rub or touch with this liquor the pimples or red places To take away the spots of the Face make a composition of the flower of Lupines Goats gall iuice of Limons and verie white Allome touch the spotted places with this oyntment or else make an oyntment with the oyle of bitter Almonds Honey Ireos and Waxe or else rub your face with the bloud of a Cocke Henne or Pigeon or foment it with the water of the flowers of Beanes Orenges or Mulberries For the Kings euill take Leekes with the leaues and roots of the hearbe Patience presse out about some pound of the iuice thereof in which you shall dissolue an ounce of Pellitorie powdred and a scruple of Viridis aeris mixe all verie well together and herewithall you shall daily foment the said disease Hang about your necke the roots of water Betonie and the lesser Plantaine If you cut the foot of a great Witwall or Toad when the Moone is declining and beginneth to ioyne it selfe to the Sunne and that you apply it round about his neck which hath the Kings euill you shall find it verie soueraigne for the said disease The dung of a Cow or Oxe heated vnder the ashes betwixt Vine or Colewort leaues and mingled with Vineger hath a propertie to bring the swelling to ripenesse Or else vse this remedie which is alwayes readie singular good and well approued Take a sufficient quantitie of Nicotiana stampe it in a verie cleane Mortar and apply both the iuice and drossie parts thereof vnto the said tumour together and doe this nine or tenne times The Rheume falling downe vpon the eyes is stayed by a Cataplasme applyed to the browes made of the muscillage of shell-Snailes and corporated with the flower of Frankincense and Aloes well stirred together vntill that the whole become to the thicknesse of Honey For a weake Sight take Fennell Veruaine Clarey Rue Eye-bright and Roses of each a like and distill them all in a Limbecke of this water distilled put three or foure drops in your eyes morning and euening Also the water of young Pies distilled in a Furnace is verie good in like manner the water of rotten Apples putting two or three drops thereof into them It is good for the same disease to take the vapour of the decoction of Fennell Eye-bright and Rue to drinke euerie morning a small draught of Eye-bright wine or to prepare a powder with dried Eye-bright and Sugar to take thereof euerie morning the weight of a French crowne two or three houres before meat There is a stone found within the gall of an Oxe which put into the nosthrils doth maruellously cleare the sight ●o doth the wine made of the root of Maiden haire if it be oft vsed in the morning For the paine of the Eyes it is good to make the decoction of Camomile Melilot and the seed of Fennell in water and white Wine and dipping a foure-fold Linnen Cloth therein and after wringing it well to apply the same oftentimes to the eye or else to lay vpon it womans milke and the white of an egge well beat together The rednesse of the Eyes is amended by the applying of Linnen Clothes or Plegets of Flaxe moistened in the whites of egges well beat together with Rose or Plantaine water or else boyle a sowre and sharpe Apple take the pulpe thereof and mix it with Nurce milke afterward make a little Liniment to be applyed to the red eye-lids In the meane time you may apply to the temples a frontlet made with Prouence Roses or conserue of Roses and other astringent things to the end that the ●he●me falling from the braine may be stayed seeing it is the cause of such rednesse Other cause small thinne and daintie slices of Veale or of the necke of an Oxe newly killed to be steeped in womans milke and lay them vpon the eyes laying againe aboue them stupes of Flaxe Some cause little children to

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

gladly accepteth the watering of hi● roots with the lees of old red Wine strained Note likewise that seeing of one Date stone alone there will hardly grow vp any Date-tree bearing sufficient bignesse in the bole and bodie to carrie and 〈◊〉 the weight of the head it will be good to put and ioyne together two or three 〈◊〉 stones sowed vp in a Linnen cloth in such sort as that the sharpe sides may behold one another and so to set them for by this ioyning of two or three together your tree may come by a bodie sufficient big to beare the head Not further that if you would haue the female Date tree to beare fruit that then you must plant it neere vnto a male Date tree and not one onely but manie if it be possible because the neere standing of the one vnto the other causeth that the vertue of the male is conueyed and imparted vnto the female and that by the commixtion made by the wind from 〈◊〉 ariseth aboundance of fruit But and if you haue not the meanes to plant manie 〈◊〉 Date trees neere vnto the female it will be sufficient if you doe but touch the male oftentimes with your hand and then afterward lay the same hand vpon the female● or you must gather o● the flowers of the top o● the male or of the mos●e of the male and sprinkle the same vpon the female Eat but as ●ew Dates as you can for they make obstructions in the liuer and spleene and are also of hard digestion and 〈◊〉 the head-ach The Pine-tree groweth chiefely of a kernell which must be planted in October or Nouember in warme places or in cold places in Februarie or in March or about the fall of the apple or a little after and that in pits well digged and which ha●e lyen vntilled and vnoccupied a g●od time the apple must not be broken by force of an yron thing to get out the kernels which must lie in steepe three dayes before hand and seuen of them set together and that fiue fingers deepe onely when they are growne vp you must not be too hastie to remoue them because they take 〈…〉 but in long time and verie hardly nay they cannot abide at all to be transplanted without their great hurt and hinderance but yet when time may serue to transplant them in any c●se beware that you doe not hurt their roots especially the principall and thickest ones The Pine-tree groweth chiefely and thr●ueth best vpon high mountaines and places that are open vnto the wind still regard being had that the place where they shall be planted be as carefully husbanded and tilled as if it 〈◊〉 for to beare and bring forth wheat It will continue the longer time if the barke 〈◊〉 oft taken from it because that vnder the barke certaine little wormes do breed whi●● fret and destroy the wood The distilled water of new Pine-kernells ●●ake away the wrinckles of the face and diminish the breasts that are too great and swagging if there be laid vnto 〈…〉 clothes dipped ●n this water as oft as you can this water also is singular good to draw narrower the secret parts of women being too much distended and enlarged and to cure them of all manner of rheumes and distillations but yet their juice ●s more effectuall for these matters than the distilled water Pineapples are a meat of verie easie nourishment ●nd for that cause are verie good for such as ar●troubled with the cough for them which are in a consumption and such as are sicke of an hect●cke ●euer but they must haue beene s●●●pt sometime in Rosewater to take away their acrimonie sharpnesse and oylie substance it is true that they be hard to digest and therefore to such as are cold of nature you must giue them with home and to those which are hot with sugar to helpe out with the hardne●●e of their digestion They are good for such as haue the palsey for ach in the sinews and backe for heat of the vrine and gnawing of the stomach taken with the juice of Purslaine Figges being one of the best fruits we haue according to the ground and plant whereof they come are either more or les●e sweet and sauorie and this commeth of the ayre as it is tempered with heat cold or a milder temper or else in respect of the moisture and drinesse of the grounds their fatnesse and leannesse their roughnes●e or smoothnes●e their s●●ngth or gentlenesse and easinesse their sto●●nesse or being without stones or their scituation amongst some old ruines and rotten stone walls for in respect of all these it falleth out that there are great diuersitie of figges as hauing some great some small some round some sharpe pointed some white some blacke some greene and some gray So that this tree loueth to be in places standing open vpon the Sunne and therewithall rockie or clayie stonie or mixt much with lyme neere vnto walls or old ruines yea within the verie walls being 〈◊〉 or halfe fallen downe especially that which beareth little figges verie sweet and white ones such as are those of Mar●●●llis for such a figge-tree delighteth in a drie and grauelly place as on the contrarie the figge-tree that bringeth forth great lesse sweet and reddish figs desireth a fat and well manured ground It thriueth and prosper●th in a hot and t●mperate aire so that the ground be somewhat moist for this tree is verie daintie and quickly wronged and injured by frosts broken downe by winds and made thin and leane by drought by the which the fig will sooner be ouerth●owne and spoyled than the Mulberrie They are easily hurt by Frosts Mists and great Cold wherefore they must be planted in the Spring when Frosts are past vpon the South or East quarter in great deepe and well-digged pits of shootes and boughes of two yeares growth being faire and round ones and full of knots for these are most fruitfull And to cause them the better to take root you shall take away their barke at the nether end of the stemme about halfe a foot and yet leauing it notwithstanding fastened thereunto that so the said barke may turne into ●ootes It may in like manner be sowne of figges layd in steepe and bound about with small lines and then afterward planted in that manner and watered often and diligently but it would su●e better if it were grafted vpon a Plumme tree or Almond tree for so it continueth a great deale longer But whether it be planted or grafted it must not be much watred for aboundance of water corrupteth the naturall beautie of the figge-tree and maketh them verie subiect to rot It would be a great deale better to make them grow faire and become fruitfull to thrust the plant into a wild Garlick called in Latine Squilla and better in English Sea-Onion or else to steepe it in Brine or to set it round about with Oxe dung or with vnquencht Lime And to keepe and guard them

vve make readie and trim vp a greene plot for fruit trees containing in it as much ground as both the other gardens and that without any manner of other a●●eys of 〈◊〉 beewixt it and the gardens or in the middest of it selfe than such distance and spare as must of necessitie be betwixt the trees and whereof we will speake more 〈◊〉 and without also whatsoeuer other husbandri● grasse or other things whereof you might hope to make some pro●it vnderneath whether of hay or any such other thing which would grow there for the fruit tree would not haue his sustenance pur●oyned or kept from it by the ●●lling of other plants which might be ●eared about it neither doth it craue to be kept vva●me in Winter time but onely tilled and ordered according to his seasons because that otherwise it would yeeld no profit vnto the owner thereof The situation of the orchard would be vpon some hill top or some little hill rather than in a plaine ground for besides that such seats haue better ayre more ple●sant and delightsome for contentment of contemplation and view and diuers other all●rements which will there offer themselues the tops of hills are yet more apt to containe greater number of fruit trees to be planted therein than the plaine gro●●● possibly can for such as stand in plaines if they be planted any whitneere do annoy one another vvith their shade the other on the contrarie side according as it 〈◊〉 more and more from the foot causing euerie tree to ouer-looke his fellow taketh away the discommoditie or inconuenience of such ouershadowing one of another It must also be planted somewhat more vpon the North than vpon the South quarter that so it may minister matter of rejoycing to such as shall behold it out at the windowes in his beautie and jolitie Indeed if it be planted vpon the South it 〈◊〉 more open vpon the Sunne whose heat is verie requisite for fruit trees but then 〈◊〉 would not stand so faire for prospect besides that it vvould be offended and 〈◊〉 of the dust and filth of the threshing f●oore vvhen the corne is thresh● if in case it should stand neere vnto it In any case let it not stand vpon the North-West quarter because it is a mo●● deadly enemie vnto all sorts of plants but principally of flowers which it singeth as if a fire had passed that vvay and the cause is for that it commeth from the 〈◊〉 side and taketh part with the North vvhich is verie rough and sharpe but yet not so dangerous as that North-West vvind vvhich bloweth once a yeare chi●●ly 〈◊〉 the Spring and spoyleth the cher●●e-tree-flowers and the vine more than any of the 〈◊〉 Whereupon there arose this Latine verse Vae tibi galerna per qu●m sit clausa 〈◊〉 In any case let not the ground vvhereon you plant your orchard be marshie or 〈◊〉 terish for the fruits growing vpon such grounds are not vvell relished neither 〈◊〉 vvill they last long it must likewise be inriched one yeare before that it be cast and digged to make any nurceri● there either of seeds or steckes and after it hath 〈◊〉 the second time digged and d●●ged or marled you must let it rest digest his dung and marle and in like manner pick out the stones that are in it most carefully And as concerning the naturall disposition and goodnesse thereof it must be ●at in handling blacke in colour and vvhich murleth easily in breaking and stirring it vvith your fingers not being hard clayie chalkie or sandie Yet if it be so that the situation of your Farme lyeth in such a soyle as is marshie and vvaterish for 〈◊〉 man cannot make choice of his abiding and it is a brauer reputation to the Husbandman to make a barren earth fruitfull than to make a fruitfull ground pleasant therefore as ● said if your ground lye low and be much sub●ect to wet and rottenne●●e you shall trench it diuers waies almost in the manner of a Labyr●th cutting one ●rench into another in such wi●e that the water may haue a descent of falling away into some Brooke Riuer or other Dike which as a Sewer may carrie away the wet and keep● the Orchard dr●● and also you shall bring from some other Grounds Lakes or Ponds great store of earth mudde and other compas wherewith you shall raise and heighten the bankes betweene the trenches in such ●ort that they may remaine and be farre from the danger of washing or ouerflowing of anie water and these bankes you shall stake well with strong Oaken stakes on euerie side and plant great store of Oziers also about them to maintain and hold vp the earth from falling Then as soone as you see these bankes firme and beginning to grow to haue a greene swar●h vpon them you shall plant your fruit-stocks of euerie seuerall kind vpon the same and without all doubt they wil prosper and grow there as well as in any ground whatsoeuer as may be seene in diuers places both of this and other Kingdomes The inclosure or defence vnto the Orchard shall be either a hedge of Quickset which is in truth the most pleasant and conuenient though yet the wall be more profitable as being more strong and built in lesse time which also being planted and handsomely dressed affoordeth not much lesse pleasure than the hedge or else if you like it better a ditch cast about it with a Quickset hedge set vpon the raised side thereof but in this according as the sufficiencie and reuenues of the Farme will beare it 〈◊〉 yet alwaies prouided that it be out of the way of the cattell and where no man 〈…〉 except he enter in at the gare●● and graunted that the wall is the surest kind 〈◊〉 defence as also the strongest most profitable and perfected in least time Besides the wall of all other ●ences is most needfull for the Orchard as well for the strength indur●ance and safe keeping of the same as also for the great profit which commeth thereby to all maner of fruit which is planted and plashit vp against the same chiefly in those cold countries where the Sunne is not altogether so violent nor so readie to 〈◊〉 as in these our 〈◊〉 ●oyles of France for it is most certaine that by planting any daintie or render fruit close to a wall and spreading his braunches open against the same which with loopes of leather or felt together with small nailes may easily be done ●a●●ning euerie principall braunch and materiall twig to the wall it will doubtlesse put ●orth as early flower knit and ripen being in a cold and hard ●oyle as if it were in the war●nest and fertillest earth which doth best of all agree with its nature as may be seene daily both in the cold and barren countries of Fraunce as also in other kingdomes much more Northerly and lesse beholden to the Suns warmenesse And herein you shall vnderstand that the principall fruit trees which delight

fine and in tast very pleasing vnto the pala●e and therefore eagerly ●ought after for the vse of Kings Princes and great Lords being yet therewithall such wines as the Greekes call Oligophora and will not admit the mixture of much water The wines of Isancy are of a middle consistence and red of colour when they are come to their ripenes they proue strong and noble wines in so much as that you may iustly compare them in goodnesse with the wines of Nera● notwithstanding they be so highly esteemed of and had in request for great personages The wines of Orleance are set in the first ranke and chiefe place for goodnesse and per●ection amongst all the wines of France Such are red for the most part of a middle consistence betwixt thicke and thinne of a good tast strong and profitable for the stomach and inward parts They heate more without comparison and more nourish the bodie than any French wines as few excepted as the wines of Coussy and Seure But in the meane time they fill the head and hurt the braine more than any other if you continue the vse of them any long time especially in such as haue a weake braine and are subiect to cause many distillations as also in those which are subiect to inflammations of the lungs and disposed by their bodily constitution to fall into pleurisies yea these vvines are worse than any other for gowtie folke as also for such as are troubled with agues and others which haue their principall and inward parts of a hot and drie constitution and to them that are troubled with the diseases of the skinne as the itch leprosie benummednesse tettars wild fire scabs and others such like But on the contrarie they are most apt for and best agreeing with natures and diseases that are cold and mooued of cold causes in swounes and faintnesse comming of aboundant and excessiue euacuation by too much vse of vvomen vvatching or other such like causes and in like manner of them which languish vpon cold and long diseases And thus much of that which wee can iudge to be in the vvines of Orleance For as in other Countries and Soiles so likewise in the grounds about Orleance the earth doth naturally engender diuers qualities and faculties in wine For amongst others such as are yellowish claret and bright cleare are accounted the excellentest and best of all such are they which grow and are gathered neere vnto Orleance in the boroughes of Sainctay S. Hillaries Chappell S. Mesmain the long of the Loyre or at Checy Those which grow at the village of S. de Bouc are in good sooth all of them right noble and excellent vvines but somewhat of a more gros●e and r●ddish consistence vvhich is the cause that they come not to their best till about Easter The weakest and feeblest are those of Liuet S. Gy and Nigray vvhich yet are more healthfull for such as liue idly and follow their studie than the vvines vvhich are stronger At Paris wee account for very precious those vvhich are brought vs from Messay vvhich although they be farre behind in goodnesse and perfection vnto the best vvines of Orleance because they are of a thicke consistence and cost not much notwithstanding seeing that by transportation and carriage they become thinner and more ripe they are the better accounted of of the Marchants Such as grow neere the Abbey of Neighbours are cousin germans and much alike to the vvines of Messay The vvhite vvines of Orleance doe surrender and partly giue ouer the praise vnto French vvhite vvines vvhich is the cause that they are transported but as little as may be out of the Countrey The vvines of Lourye which doe tast somewhat sweet are accounted the chiefe of all the rest in that place as likewise those of Rebechi The vvines of Aniou such of them as are good are in a manner all of them white and sweet and for the most part temperate or hot and drie when the temperature of the yeare falleth out hot and drie strong noble and mightie in such sort as that amongst all French vvines they keepe the first place for goodnesse All the while they are sweet thick and vnconcocted they swell the stomacke and the ●lankes stoppe the veines swell the noble parts and prouoke thirst especially in cholericke natures and sometimes also they loosen the belly But when as through their working and boyling vp they haue cast out all their drosse and dregges and that they are become sufficiently ripe concocted and digested that is to say in their middle age vvhich they attaine vnto the second yeare as then they become faire bright and cleare as also very pleasant so hauing lost their ill qualities mentioned before they get such qualities powers and vertues as are altogether contrarie vnto those which they had at such time as they were sweet and of a grosse consistence for they become easily concocted quickly piercing sufficiently prouoking vrine and causing to spit aboundantly When the yeare falleth cold and rainie the most part of the vvines of Aniou become raw and greenish as by experience wee plainely saw in the yeares 1576. and 1577. When the yeare is hot and drie the wines growing in Aniou are strong and mightie and keepe their vertues and qualities entire and whole till they be sixe or seuen yeares old But when the yeare falleth out cold and moist they proue to be of cleane contrarie qualities The vvines of high Normandie I meane not those which are gathered and beaten downe with poles doe somewhat resemble the French vvines vvhen the yeares fall seasonable and keepe their naturall temperature such for the most part are of a yellow colour but not continuing so any long time they by and by loose their force which is the cause that they are easily digested and quickly distributed and carried along all the veines vvithout annoying the braine any whit in as much as they be not strong or mightie but oligophorous But when the yeares fall out cold and moist the greatest part of them will not keepe well because they be greene and that in such sort as that their greenenesse cannot be concocted and digested by reason of the weakenesse of their heat and therefore it behoueth to drinke them in the beginning of the first yeare The vvines which grow in Compiegne and other parts of Picardie are of the same consistence qualitie and vertue that those of Normandie are and therefore deserue not to be much set by or desired but when others are wasting The Countries of Guyenne send vs varietie of vvines The best of them are those which grow about Nerac vvhich come very neere vnto the goodnesse of the French vvines of Cous●y which by reason of their russet colour are called in the Countrey Rus●e● vvines in the number whereof are contained the red vvines or sad and light red They nourish sufficient aboundantly but in that they make obstructions and