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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05312	An herbal for the Bible Containing a plaine and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, and metaphors, both in the olde Testament and the newe, as are borrowed and taken from herbs, plants, trees, fruits and simples, by obseruation of their vertues, qualities, natures, properties, operations, and effects: and by the holie prophets, sacred writers, Christ himselfe, and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged, and into their heauenly oracles, for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same, profitably inserted. Drawen into English by Thomas Newton.; Herbarum atque arborum quæ in Bibliis passim obviæ sunt. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 15454; ESTC S108475	134,297	304

would be For saith he If the Grape gatherers should come vpon thee would they not leaue so●● Grapes If theeues should come vpon thee by night would they not destroy and rob till they had ynough That is they would not altogither haue spoiled thee nor vtterly ransacked all thy goods but would haue left somewhat behind them But I saith the Lord haue left Esau bare and discouered his secrets that he shall not be able to hide himselfe or any thing that he hath And as all pride arrogancie and hawtines comming of aboundance and prosperitie wherwith thanklesse Caitifs droonken with wealth do grow stately and insolent is vnto Almightie God odious and detestable so doth he in sundrie places sharpely reprooue and vehemently beate downe the same pronouncing and giuing seuere sentence against all such as are stained therewith that albeit they seeme for a while to flourish and stand scotfree yet shall they be cut downe as corne which the Mowers with full handfuls mowe and reape so that euen those few which shall be left of many shall also be gleaned and gathered vp as the eares are gleaned in the end of haruest And yet some he promiseth to leaue bringing another Similitude euen as Grapes are left on the Vines and Oliue berries on the Oliue tree For as in Vintage time the Grape-gathering cannot be so cleane but that some be left behind nor the shaking off of Oliues so precisely done but that some berries remaine either among the leaues or in the top of the tree euen so in the dolefull massacre and lamentable destruction of the people there should not bee made such a generall sweepestake but that some should be left and reserued vnder hope of mercie In that day saith he shall it come to passe that the glorie of Iacob shall be impouerished and the fatnesse of his flesh shall be made leane And it shall be as when the haruest man gathereth the corne and reapeth the eares with his arme Yet shall not the gleaning be so but that some gathering of eares shall be left and some Grapes and Oliues remaine as of two or three berries in the top of the vpmost boughes and of fower or fiue in the high fruitfull branches Whereby his meaning is that the rich Cobs and head Rulers swelling with pride and arrogancie should be throwen downe and ruinated but of the poore Communaltie and seelie inferiour people there should a remnant be left as in the Vintage season it is seene to come to passe that some clusters and berries be left wherwith the poore people are somewhat refreshed and releeued The 26. Chapter Of Hysope HYsope is a Garden herbe of excellent smell and pleasant taste and therfore good to be vsed in broths for that being boiled with meats it maketh the same not onely wholesome but the better also in relish and sauour It clenseth the breast and lungs and purgeth the head very orderly from flegme and tough clammie humors and therefore is of singular effect to helpe the Pleurisie Stitch or any other griefe and paine in the side Wherupon it pleased the Lord to appoint this herbe to be vsed in solmne sacrifices either when as Lepers were to be clensed or any other enormous offence to be expiated by dipping a bundle of Hysope in the blood of a Sparrow or of a red Cow Dauid also acknowledging his greeuous sinnes of adulterie and murther beseecheth God to forgiue him and to purge him with Hysope that hauing the foule spots of his soule clensed he may haue quiet of conscience and be renued in spirit Wherin he had respect vnto the rites and sacrifices of the olde Testament by the which it was ordeined that whosoeuer was purified according to the Law of Moses with blood sprinckled on him with Hysope and a scarlet lace were clensed All which thinges were shadowes and figures of Christ by whose blood all our sins are clensed and washed away through faith for euer But whereas we reade of Hysope in the Bookes of the Kings where Solomon is saide to be so skilfull and wise that he was able to dispute of the nature of ech plant and herbe from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon euen vnto the Hysope that springeth out of the wall my opinion is that the same is not there ment of our common Hysope which is not any small and slender herbe but sometime of a foote or more in heigth bearing a spiked purple or dark blewish flower I think therfore that therby is ment the herb called Maydenhaire whose leaues are hackt or snipt rounde about and which groweth by wals and stony shadowie places And bicause in leaues it is like to Rue it is sometime called Ruta muraria that is Stone Rue or Wall Rue Like also vnto this is that which wee call Trichomanes which groweth alwaies in moist shadowie places being cōmonly of a span long and hath the stalkes of his leaues small streight and leane beset on either side with many little pretie leaues standing in comely order one against another and continueth alwaies greene His effects and faculties are the same in operation that Maydenhaire hath and is of great vertue to helpe olde coughes shortnes of winde and obstructions of the lungs and breast And these are sometimes called by other names as Polytrichon and Callitrichon bicause of the effect which they worke in fastening the haire and making it to growe blacke thicke and curled Therefore this being such a small lowe Herbe scarcely a span high and also growing in wals I am persuaded that it is in that place to be vnderstood for Hysope For the drift and meaning of the wordes in that sentence is none other but that hee had perfect skil and exact knowledge of all manner of thinges euen from the tallest and highest Cedar to the lowest and least herbe that groweth out of the wall The 27. Chapter Of the Reede with the seuerall sorts and differences thereof of Flaxe Stubble Chaffe Chips Parings and other trifling thinges of sleight and slender acount OF Reede there be sundry sortes and kindes Whereof one hath a long smooth naked stalke without knots or ioyntes called in latin Typha palustris and with vs Reede Mace Cattes taile or Water Torch Such a Reede was that which was in derision deliuered into Christs right hande in steede of a Scepter royall for that he called himselfe a king For in the top thereof it hath the forme of a Scepter imperiall two handfuls high or there abouts rounde in compasse and as bigge as a mans thumbe thicke soft and smooth as though it were wooll or flockes which in the handling hath a fine soft and thrummie nap like Veluet and when it waxeth ripe is dissolued and turned into a Downe or Cotton easily carried away with the winde Another kinde of Reede there is growing by the banks of standing waters and on the shores of riuers which hath a long round and hollowe stalke