kept a while in strawâ— Vse Taken afore meate stay fluxes and immoderate casting taken after meate strengthen the stomack mend the breath Hurt Much hinder concoction immoderatly vsed burthen the stomack bréed litle cold grosse and melancholious iuyce Correction Eaten after meate moderately and after them an hony-combe Degree Cold in the first drie in the second verie astringent Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ An Autumne and Winter 〈◊〉 youth and hot constitutions Sorba Storie for Table-talke THe Soruice and Medlar are much alike in nature taste and operation Plinie li. 15. cap. 21. noteth foure differences of them arising from their forme and fashion None of them all fructifie vntill they be three yeares old Cato willeth vs to condite them in the decoction of new Wine A Lotion of their decoction straiteneth the matrice Galen vtterly forbiddeth them as meate commendes them for good astringent phisicke Hasil Nuts Choise GReat ones little couered with their huske ful of iuyce not worme eaten nor any way contaminate Vse Nourish more then Walnuts encrease braine sodden with hony cure an olde cough touÌ„ed and eaten with pepper ripen the distillations of reume Hurt Annoy the stomacke hard of concoction windie engender much choller cause headach it much eaten Correction Eate them new macerated a while in water moderately and after them meates condite with sugar Degree The gréene or new are temperate in the first qualitie the old or drie are hot and drie in the ende of the first Season Age. Constiution In winter for yong strong and laborious persons Avellanae Story for Table-talke AVellanae of AvellanuÌ„ a towne in Campania or else à Vellendo because any may haue them for the plucking or gathering The Greekes call them Ponticae for that as saith Pliny they were first brought out of Pontus Nut in English of Nux the Latine and Nux à Nocendo because it annoyeth all other plantes or hearbes that are subiect and obnoxious to his leaues-dropping All hard or shell-fruite are called Nuces all soft or pulp-fruite Poma Melons commonly called Pompions Choise OF most exquisit sauour pleasant to the palate new ripe Vse Quench thirst cause appetite coole sensibly cleanse the bodie prouoke vrine daily vse of them preserueth from the stone in the bladder and reines Hurt Bréede winde and belly-ache naught for collick splenticke aged phlegmaticke melancholicke Correction Eaten with old Chéese falt or tart meates and a cup of briske Wine Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the third For yong and hot bloods Melones seu Melopepones Story for Table-talke ANguria which Galen calleth Melopepon of Melon and Pepon because it is not distinguished with stemmes as the single Melon or Pumpion is but round and smooth like an Apple Also its eaten together with the inwards of it which the Pumpion is not yet retaineth it the smell and sauour of the Pumpion This fruite is the greatest or biggest of all Hearbes or Trees That it hath a scouring and clensing properly its euident in that if you rub any part of the body with it it becommeth much the brighter and cleaner VValnuts Choise BIg long ripe easily shaled especially new not rotten Vse Repaire decaied téeth eaten with Figges and rewe saue from mortall venims and kill wormes in the belly Hurt Immoderately vsed hurt the throate pallate and tongue stuffe the breast cause the cough and headach especially if they be dry CorrectioÌ„ Eate them new stéeped in wine and then pilled a small quantitie and with a litle garlicke old with raysons or after fish in stead of chéese Degree The dried are hot in the third dry in the beginning of the second the gréene are excéedingly moist and partake litle heate Season Age. Constitution In winter for phlegmatick melancolicque old not straight brested Nuces Iuglandes Story for Table-talke IVglandes quasi Iouis glandes Ioues Acornes For when our grand-forefathers had a long time liued with Acornes at last finding Nuts they called them Ioues Acornes for their excelleÌ„cie Therein apppeared their thankfull hearts for any benifit receiued at Gods hands by acknowledging God the author and bestower of it Contrary to the base humour of many muck-borne Scarab-flyes and earth-rooting hogges of this age who are content to eate of Ioues Acornes but like swine as they are neuer lift vp their eyes to the tree whence they fall Pine-Nuts or pine Apples Choise OF Orchard pines femall of best sauour very new Vse Nourish much fat cleanse the brest lights reynes and bladden sodden with honey prouoke vriâ—â— restore the weake consume all corrupt humours good for the shoâ—t winded and paraliticke Hurt Concoct somewhat slowly 〈◊〉 but grosse iuyce much eaten grow the stomack and belly Correction Macerated hot the space of 〈◊〉 houre giue them with sugar to 〈◊〉 and phlegmaticke with honey to youth and chollericke Degree Hot in the beginning of the second moist in the first Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In cold we ather for the foresaid as aforesaid Pineae Story for Table-talke IF the tops of the pinetree be once lopped off it neuer bears fruite nor prospereth after WheÌ„ce it was that Croesus threatned the Citizens of Lampsacum that he would destroy them like a Pine-tree meaning he would cut off all their heads or else slay all their heads Id est their gouernors magistrates which done the citie like a lopped Pine shuld pine away and come to nought Pine Nuts much augment seed especially if three or foure drops of their oile be put into a soft egge and so sooped off Pistake Nuts Choise GReat Smelling like Turpeâ—tine of old trees of a sadde gréene colour most new Vse Purge the brest strengthen the reynes and stomacke open obstructions of the liuer stay disposition to vemit heale the biting of serpents preuoke Venus wondrously Hurt Though they fat yet nourish litle vnholsome for boyes and hot constitutions for they extenuate inflame the blood and bring dizinesse Correction Eate them immediatly afore meate with Orenges or Saccarum Rosatum Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the second order of the second degree In cold weather for flegmatists Pistacia Story for Table-talke MAthiolus holdeth this plant to be a kind of Terebinth or Turpentine it groweth in Aegypt Syria Thence brought to Venice a few yeare since they haue fructified in Sicily The Husbandmen say it growes of an Almond-tree Imp inserted to a Mastick stock Lucius Vitellius Censor first brought Pistakes into Italy in the beginning of Tiberius Caesars raigne when he was Embassadour into Syria Dates Choise SWéete ripe within some and vncorrupt Vse Make sat good for the â—â—er cure the cough loose the belly Hurt Hurt the téeth and mouth cause gripings in the stomacke and scalles to breake out gnaw the bottome of the belly plague the head with ache obstruct the liâ—â— splene and veynes Correction Eaten sodden or condite wâ—â— sugar or rawe with sewer and taxt in meates after them Degree Season Age. Constiution Hot in
and séeth them asunder Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first drie in the second Best in cold weather for grosse and homely feeders Fabae Storie for Table-talke TOng-tying Pytagor biddeth vs tie vp our chaps also from eating of Beanes A Fabis abstineto Wherein Iudicious Antiquaries say there is much mysterie and therefore diuersly interpret it Simeon in his Dyet Booke saith Pythagor forbad them for that they cause turbulent fearfull dreames Other referre it to their flatulencie whereby they prouoke to lechery Other expound it mystically not according to the grammaticke sense therein shewing much reading if not wit But to gather togither their gatherings were to send my wit a wooll-gathering and indeed to contend de lana caprina Rize Choise BRight and cleare kernels like Pearles Margarite such as swell in seething Vse Wonderfully asswage the bâ—rning heate of the stomacke encreaseth séed stops fluxes Hurt Bad for the Collicke for being of a clammy and glewish nature it sticketh too long in the guts and breeds some winde Preparation Séeth it in Cowes milke or in the creame or oyle of swéete Almonds Degree Hot in the first dry in the second temperatly saith Auicens and Rhasis Season Age. Constitution In winter for youth and labourers Oriza Storie for Table-talke RIze is sowne in a moyst and lowe ground Frumentie made of Barley is moister then Rice yeeldeth singular good nourishment to the bodie verie holesome for the sicke You may much meliorate your Rice both for nourishment toothsomenesse by seething it in fat flesh-broath or in passing good Cowes morning milke Sodden with Oyle or Butter it relinquisheth his astringent qualitie The Painters Prouerbe Manum de Tabula THat is as present occasion interpreteth no more Table-talke The reason hereof as I gesse may be these First and principally except I speake wiselyer Secondly the consequent is like to proue barren for Certs fruitles for all the fruite is antecedent Thirdly and lastly it's Dinner-time so that if more time be spent in prating my Dry Dinner will not be ready in due time Quod omnium rerum est primum These reasons would binde any man any reasonable man to the peace Yet for all this presuming vpon your fauourable estimates who are wise Et nostis os adolescentiae quà m sit impudens I am purposed to proceed in my perpetuall paralell of paraphrase The which I desire it may be serued in amongst the rest of the dishes and be tasted also but yet of such onely as are of eager appetite If any be desirous to know what a maÌ„ may call it surely I can thinke of no fitter name then an hasty pudding For I protest in so great haste I composed it that when a friend of mine came into my chamber and suddenly surprising me asked what I was making I as not minding what he ask't or what I answerd tolde him in my haste that I made haste Hearbs Sage Choise GArden or set the lesser sort the litle leaues of it Vse Good against the paulsie and quiuering of the ioynts procéeding of a cold cause coÌ„forteth the head braine senses and memorie Hurt Annoyeth melancholicke persons by ouer-drying them also the hot and chollericke by ouer-heating and burning them Correction Eate it in sallets with other cold and moist hearbes as Lettuse or with moist meates Degree Hot and drie in the beginning of the third or in the verie end of the second somewhat astringent Season Age. Constitution In winter and the spring for old cold and phlegmaticke Saluia Storie for Table-talke MAny do much extoll Sage calling it an holy Hearbe auerring that it preuenteth all abortument in women They counsell a woman the fourth day of her going abroad after childe-birth to drinke nine ounces of Sage iuyce with a little salt and forthwith to vse the company of her husbant The holesomenesse of Sage-ale is notoriously famous Heywoods merry wit noted two kindes of Sage not named in our Herbals Sages wise Sage foole Foenill or Finckle Choise GArden young if you eate it gréene full ripe if you keepe it sodden with the rootes and tender stalkes Vse Doth make store of milke prouoke vrine and monthly flur open obstructions purge y e reines wondronsly helpe the sight Hurt Attenuate and inflame the blood neither sodden nor rawe is easie of digestion especially eaten much Correction A litle yong laied a while in cold water Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second many say in the third dry in the first very opening For any time age or constitution least for youth and chollerists Foeniculus Story for Table-talke SNakes Serpents by eating of Foenill renew their age and repaire their decaied sight by rubbing their eyes with it Wherfore it is vsed of vs to the like purposes There is a bad propertie in the seede to breede poysonous wormes whose poyson is curable by no Antidot Therefore afore they be eaten they must be opened and carefully purged Sparage Choise HOme lately sowne the â—ep now bowing to the ground-ward Vse Doth open obstructions of the reines and liuer make soluble prouoke vrine and Venus Hurt Eaten cold disposeth to domit and through his bitternesse greatly increaseth choller in collerickâ— stomackes Correction Is boyled and the first decoction cast out condite with Oyle Vineger Pepper and salt Degree Hotte in the first temperately moist Season Age. Constitution For any age or temperature chiefly for old and cold Asparagi Story for Table-taske DIoscorides saith that Sparage causeth barrennesse but it is not probable sithence it nourisheth very much and manifestly prouoketh Venus It is very soone sodden and therefore Caesar speaking of any thing that was soone done had this prouerbe vsually in his mouth Citiùs quà m Asparagi coquantur Id est Sooner then Sparage can be sodden As much in effect as while you caÌ„ say what's this in the turne of an hand in the twinckling of an eye Spinache Choise VEry yong growing in a wel manured and fat soyle watred from aboue Vse Doth enlarge the breast cure the cough moderately coole the lungs make the belly soluble the weasand smooth Hurt Is verie windie annoyeth the stomacke engenders watry humours in a cold stomacke Correction Fried with it owne iuyce without water then condite with Oile Sorrel-iuyce and Raysons of the sun Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the first For any age or constitution especially youth and chollerists Spinachia Storie for Table-talke SOme will needes haue this hearbe a bred natiue Spaniard and therefore miscall it Spagnaeci But they much abuse it for the Arabians called it Sphinache the reason of the name is obuious because the seed thereof is Spinosum That is prickly The iuyce of Spinache drunke cureth any wound receiued of a Scorpion Therefore it is of much request in Italy Artichokes Choise THiffle or prickly Artichokes coÌ„ming of Artichoke tender Vse Please the taste prouoke vrine and Venus remoue flatiue humours open obstructions heate the entralls Hurt
The Thistle is somewhat flatulent annoyeth the head burdneth the stomacke Artichoke is not so hurtfull Correction The Thistle sodden or raw is eaten in the last course with salt and pepper Artichokes are boyled in Pottage and eaten as the Thistle Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the first The sodden are preferred afore the raw for cold season age constitution Cardui seu Cinarae Story for Table-talke THe Thistle or prickly Artichoke differeth from the plaine or common Artichoke onely by certaine prickles vpon the stalke The Italian most esteemeth of the Thistle In former times they were to be had no where but in Sicily now euery where Theophrastus calleth them Pinei because they somewhat resemble Pine-apples consisting of many skales coÌ„pacted Globe-wise Lettuse Choise THick commonly called Cabbage Lettuse growing in a fat soyle afore it swell with milke not washt in water Vse Câ—â—sâ—â— of digestion the best of pot-heaâ—â—â—s increaseth milke procureth sleepe states the running of the reines all wageth heate in the stomacke especially eaten with vinegâ—â— Hurt Dimmeth the sight quencheth naturall heate corrupteth the seed causâ—â— barrâ—nnesse mortifieth venus makes the bodie sluggish weâ—keneth the stomacke Correction Eaten with Mint Rewe and 〈◊〉 heaâ—bes sodden rather thâ—â— rawe vnwasht good Wine drunke vpon it Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the second In hâ—t weather for youth verie choâ—â—â—ricke and hot stomackes Lactuca Storie for Table-talke GAlen commendeth Lettuse thus in a yong man it abateth the burning heat of his stomack vnto an old man it causeth sleepe In olde time they ate Lettuse after supper to represse vapors arising from the stomack to the braine and to dispose them selues to sleepe For they vsed to dine very spaâ—ingly but supped largely Aristoxenes Cyraenaeus watred his Lettuses with Mead to make them bigger and sweeter Lactuca a lacte quasi Lactoca because it breeds milk in women saith Martiall Endiue Choise GArden tender not yet milky sauouring most swéetly Vse Asswageth inflammation and thirst prouokes vrine appetite especially in hot weather Hurt Bad for the Palsie quiuering of the ioynts and cold stomacks somewhat sloweth concoction Correction Eaten with Nip the stalkes of Mint Rew and such hot hearbs Degree Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the end of the first Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youth chollericke sanguine and very hot stomacks Intubus Story for Table-talke ENdiue is much of the nature and operation of Lettuse The wilde Endife is not so cold or moist as the Garden or homegrowing and hath a more sharpe and vigorous taste The wilde Endife is curled and crisped somewhat like to Cabbage Lettuse but much bigger Borage Choise COmmonly vsed is that veriâ— Buglosse of old This therfore taken with the leaues Vse Wondrously cleanseth the blood recreateth exhilerateth the heart and spirits especially put in wine strengtheneth all the entrals very good for such as are in recouery Hurt Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Somewhat hard of digestion greatly annoyeth sore mouthes Séeth it in very good flesh broath Cold and moist in the first For any season age or temperature Borago Story for Table-talke APuleius writeth that they of Lucania calleth this Buglosse Corage because it hath an apparant sympathy and notable affinitie with the affects of the heart Whence in tract of time the name is depraued and B. put for C. Surely it is a most excellent hearbe and of speciall vse It hath this peculier vertue that laied in Wine it strengthneth and cheareth the heart putting merry conceits into the minde Succory Choise VVIth blew flowers following the sunne therefore called Heliotropium tender the tops of it Vse Very much helpes an inflamed stomacke without all measure openeth the obstructions of the liuer Hurt Hurteth a weake and cold stomacke makes litle and bad noâ—rishment Correction Eaten boiled in sallets with 〈◊〉 and vinegar or raw with Nip and such hot hearbs Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second Conuement alwaies best in sommer for youth and hot constitutions Cichorium Story for Table-talke IT hath bene and yet is a thing which superstition hath beleeued that the body anoynted with the iuyce of Cichory is very auaileable to obtaine the fauour of great persons howsoeuer it is of a most opening nature and maketh way or free passage in the body by taking away al obstructions and opilations The leaues of Succory brused are very good against inflamation of the eyes being outwardly appâ—ied Hoppe Choise THe first buds or yong braunches shooting from the roote not yet least of a tender and slender stalke Vse Not only engenders singular good humours but also reduceth them into an equall and due temper strengtheneth all the entrals makes pure and refined blood Hurt Somewhat flatulent stuffeth the bead Correction Boyled and eaten with Vineger and Oyle Degree Tempertately hot moist in the first Season Age. Constitution For any season age constitution Lupulus Storie for Table-talke OVr forefathers knewe not Hoppe howbeit it is a most excellent hearbe exceedeth all other for good iuyce for cleansing the blood and scouring all the entrals Besides the necessitie hereof in brewing of Beere is sufficiently knowne to Germany and England and all these Northerne parts of the worlde yet I know not how it happened as he merrily saith that herisie beere came hopping into England both in a yeere Mint Choise SMall garden-spear-mint the tops onely Vse Very exceedingly comforteth the stomacke especially cold and weake consumeth fleame and prouoketh appetite Hurt Annoyeth an hot stomacke or liuer for it in a manner scaldeth and burneth the blood CorrectioÌ„ Eate it sparingly with cold Hearbs Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the end of the second or beginning of the third In cold weather for old men flegmaticke and melancholicke Mentha Story for Table-talke THe Poets faigne that Mentha Proserpines Nymph was metamorphosed into this hearbe being taken at her lechery with Pluto the black Prince The Graecians liked the sauour of it so well that they called it Hedyosmus that is sweete-smell Perhaps their mint was of better sauour then ours for we hâ—ue many other hearbes which deserue that name rather then Mint although it sauoureth very well Sorrell Choise GArden of a déepe gréene colour the leaues no whit red Vse Restraineth choller quencheth thirst exciteth appetite cureth fluxes is very holsome in burning and pestilentiall feuers Hurt Exasperateth the stomacke bindeth the belly hurteth melancholists Correction Eate it in Sallets with other hearbs as Lettuse which is moist and Mint which is hot Degree Cold in the first moist in the beginning of the second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youths chollerists and sanguines Oxalis seu Acetosa Story for Table-talke BY reason of the tart taste it is called in Latin Acetosa That is Vineger hearbe And in Lombardie they call it the sowre hearbe It was wholly vnknowne to the Antique There be two sorts
of it the greater sowne in Gardens which is the better the lesse growing in the fields hauing lesse leaues and the stalke like a speare the leaues very red and shining Burnet Choise LOw set in gardens for sallets with litle leaues notcht like a Saw and indented rounde about the Verge the stalke red Vse Doth purge the reines and bladder verie much prouoke vrine voyd the stone and grauell verie good against the plague put in wine greatly comforts the hart Hurt Hard of digestion stuffeth the belly and in many inflameth the liuer and blood Correction Eaten raw in sallets with other cold hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and drie in the second Pimpinella Storie for Table-talke IT is an Hearbe that the auncient were verie litle acquâ—â—nted with Yet the Nomenclators haue referred it vnto that sort of hearbes which are good against the stone The decoction of it made in pottage is a present remedie against the plague Also the water distilled is pâ—ssing good for that purpose It is vulgarly thought to be put in wine as a cooler but it heaâ—eth in the second degree and ioyneth with wine in his operation for the strengthening of the heart Persley Choise THe braunches afore either they flower or séed the rootes at halfe their growth Vse Very much prouoke vrine and womens fluxe clenseth the liuer and matrice openeth the obstructions of those parts is verie pleasing to theistomacke the decoction of it resists poyson Hurt Is of no verie good iuyce enflameth the blood sâ—uffeth the head is slowly digested Correction Eate it little rawe with colde hearbes sodden in flesh pottage the roote boyled throughly Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the end of the first Good sodden for any season age or constitution Petroselinum Storie for Table-talke THe excellency of this hearb accordeth with the frequent vse thereof For there is almost no meate or sauce which may not haue Persley either in it or about it Our English word Persly is a manifest contract of the Latin Petroselinum The chiefest vertue lieth in the roote second in the seed last and least in the leaues and yet these are of most vse in the kitching Taragon or byting Dragon Choise GArden in a fat moist soile the tender branches leaues not spread vpon the ground Vse Chiefe of hearbes for acâ—â—ony and sauourmes Cardâ—all exciting appetite and Venus comforting the stomacke Hurt Atteâ—uateth the blood and burns 〈◊〉 liuer naught for hot constitutions Correction Eate it sparingly with Borage flowers or Endiue Lettule and such cooling hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot almost in the beginning of the third drie in the second For cold old phlegmaticke Dracunculus Hortensis Story for Table-talke THis is an Artificiall herbe for it commeth of a Lineseede put into an Onyon or Leek so buried in the ground Husbandmen haue a stronge conceit of it and not without some cause that it is a preseruatiue against the plague all maner of poysoÌ„ inward or outward experience and proofe is no detracter of the credit and estimation thereof Radish Choise TEnder byting the tongue most whiâ—e Vse Helpeth vrin voydeth grauel and sand from the reines and bladder healeth the stomackâ— clarifieth the voyce Hurt Causeth lâ—annesse belechings headache and lice bâ—â—nes the blood hurseth the teeth and eyes is slowly conceâ—ed Correction Therefore is best eaten after meate Degree Hot in the second dry in the first Season Age. Constitution In colde weather for youth labourers and hot stomackes Raphanus Story for Table-talke WE English haue greatly honour'd this roote by calling it a Radish that is Radix a roote as if this roote were the only roote and all other rootes no rootes in coÌ„parison of this roote or at leastwise that the Radish is Radix radicum the roote of rootes a roote indeede a roote Cath ' Hexochen as the Rhetoricians speake a most excellent roote But I feare mee I haue ouercloy'd you with rootes may it please you to fall to somewhat else Carot or red Parsnip Choise Vse REd great sweet Prouoketh vrin Venus and monthly slure engenders milke opeâ—â—th obstructions is preferred afore the Parsnip Hurt Of 〈◊〉 and bad nourishment slowly digested very windie Preparation Boyle it thâ—oughly then eate le with 〈◊〉 oyle mustard and coriander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second moyst in the first In colde weather for all but olde and phlegmatique Carota seu pastinaca rubens Storie for Table-talke CArot that is redde roote as some Antiquaries gesse Athenaeus quoting Diphilus saith the Grecians called the Carot Philtrum for that it is thought to be agreat furtherer of Venus her pleasure and of loues delights but although generally it furdereth Venus yet it is especially to bee vnderstood of the wilde Carot Onyons Choise THat grow in a moyst soyle great full of iuyce round as the Flemish Vse Excite Venus increase séede and milke restore appetitie preserue in change of water Hurt Eaten raw or much cause headache burne the blood dull the vnderstanding hurtes the eyes Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Lay it sliced a while in cold water then séethe it throughly Hot in the third dry in the second For old and colde onely Cepa Story for Table-talke THe word Onyon comes of the olde Latine name Vnio For so the olde Latine Rusticks tearmed that which the latter call Cepa And the reason why they called it Vnio was because one herbe or branche as it were groweth vpon one roote Whereto accordeth that that Columella saith in his 12. Booke and 10. cha of Husbandry Cepa simplex quam Vnionem Rustici vocant Garlicke Storie for Table-talke Choise THat comes vp about March put in sallets or vsed dry full of sprigs and knots Vse Greene qualifieth the coldnes and moystnes of sallets dry it resists poysons cleares the voyce kils wormes prouoketh vrin and Venus consumes the salt rume in the stomacke Hurt Hurtes the voyding facultie braine sight head very bad for women with childe youth and hot constitutions reuiueth old diseasâ—s 〈◊〉 the blood CorrectioÌ„ Boâ—ls 〈◊〉 throughly then eate it wâ—th oile vinegâ—r or other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the fourth dry in the third In colde weather for the aged and phlegmatique Allium Story for Table-talke GArlicke is of most speciall vse for Sea-faring men a most excellent preseruaâ—iue against all infection proceeding from the nastie sauor of the pump or sincke and of tainted meates which Mariners are faine to eate for fault of better It also pacifieth the disposition to vomit crused by the roughnesse of the sea and greatly strengthneth the rowers therefore they eate it by break of day It may be rightly termed the poore mans phisicke Scallion or litle Onyon Choise SMall like a Daffodill Roote red hard sweete Vse Helpeth a saâ—nt stomack languishing through ouermuch heate causeth appetite furthereth concoction Hurt Causeth winde grosse humors headache thirst dreames Correction Prepared as the Onyon condite with strong Viâ—
comforteth the stomacke sharpeneth y e wit exciteth Venus Hurt Being exceeding dry hurts chollerists and melancholists Correction Fedde in the house with moyst meates then kill and hang it two nights in the coole Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and dry in the second In colde weather for old folkes and phlegmatike Turtur Storie for Table-talke AT the beginning of the Springe they hide themselues because they then â—ast their feathers and are in a maner naked It is a thing noted in the Turtle that while it drinketh it lifteth not vp her head as all other birdes doe The time of her life is eight yeares It purgeth it self with an herbe that groweth vpon walles Quaile Choise NOt fed with Hellebore or Beare-foote taken with the Quaile-pipeâ— fat and tender Vse Doth helpe melancholists onely by moistning their dry constitutioÌ„ Hurt Easily corrupteth in the stomack inuiteth the Ague Palsie Cramp Correction Eaten with Vinegar and Corander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the end of the first moist in the end of the second In cold weather hurteth olde folkes paralytick and flegmatick Coturnix Storie for Table-talke I Am much in doubt whether Coturnix be our Quaile Cardan also doubteth and his maner of doubting maketh me dout more for setting downe sixe degrees of delicates that please the taste he maketh Quaile the first dish of the first courâ—e His words are these Aues videntur primum locuÌ„ vendicare atque inter eas qualea seu sit Coturnix seu non hand refert I am sure all other writers giue Coturnix their euil word affirming that it is a breeder of the Crampe Palsie and Falling sicknesse and in a word passeth for badnesse Thrush Mauis or Blacke-bird Choise IN cold weather fat fed with holly Iuniper and Mertle berryes Vse Is of very good iuyce easily digested very holesome for such as are in recouery Hurt Naught for those that are subiect to the migram or frensie PreparatioÌ„ Sod in good flesh broath with parsly and other opening herbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the very ende of the first In colde weather for any but olde folkes Turdus Story for Table-talke THis Lataine name soundeth to English eares somewhat vnsauoury but much worse as I haue heard it ioyned with other like Consonants As for example Edo Fartum Turdum pistum But there is nothing euill spoken but being euill taken Now because it signifies diuersly a Thrush a Black-birde a Manis some may bee desirous to know if all these bee much of a nature yet Virum horum which is best and holesomest Therefore to his Virum horuÌ„ I answere Mauis accipe Pliny reporteth Agrippa Claudius Caesars wife had a Mâ—uis that did speake very plainly Egges Choise OF yong and fat Hens Cock trodden new laied Vse Nourish soone and much excite Venus supplying matter for it very much helpe them that are in a consumption open the breast stay spitting of blood clarifie the voyce Hurt Hinder the concoction of meates eaten presently after them make the face freckled Correction Eate them boyled she yolke only and pawse betwixt Egges and other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperately hot and moyst New for all seasons ages constitutions and diseases Ovum Storie for Table-talke EGges some thinke because theâ— egge on backward husbands Egges haue the possibilitie of being liuing creatures The white is cold the yolke hot They nourish soone and much by reason of the pliable softnesse of their substance and temperature very proportionable to our flesh and nature Not only Hens Egs but Partritch Phesant and Turkies be verie holesome Fish Carpe Choise VVHensoeuer you can get it great or litle Vse Nourishith best tasteth most excellently and erquisirely in all mens iudgementes a fish of chiefe note Hurt Onely it is soonetainted therefore dresie it presently Preparation Lay it sealed and gutted sire houres in salt then fry it in oyle and besprinkle it with vinegar in which Spaces and Saffâ—on haue boyled Degree Temperately hot and moyst in the 〈◊〉 either first Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For any season age or constitution Cyprinus qui Carpio Story for Table-talke NOne of the Greeke or Latine writers euer knewe this fish In Italy it is somewhat rare and thought to bee onely in the lake Benacus and the lake commonly called Della posta It spawneth about the beginning of the summer Many are of the minde that it eateth gold because in the guites are found no other excrementes but a bright sanâ— glittering like golde and besides it liueâ—h alway at the bottome of the lake Trout Choise THick caught in May in a 〈◊〉 running Riuer full of deepe down-fals and Rocks and not out of standing pooles Vse Nourisheth well soone digested yeelds coole iuyce for an ouer hottâ— Liuer and blood therefore good in hot Agues Hurt It soone putrifieth scarse fit for old men and weake stomackes Correction Seethe it in iust somuch Vineger as water ease it with sower sance assoone as you can Degree Cold in the beginning of the first moist in the ende Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ In hot weather for all ages but decrepit euery temperature but phlegmaticke Trocta seu Turtur Story for Table-talke IT is very much commended for good nourishment Insomuch as it is permitted vnto one sicke of an hot ague That it is passing holesome our vulgar prouerbe accordeth As sound as a Trout And another phrase Fish-whole I think is most ment of the Trout It is a fish that loueth to be flattered and clawed in the water by which meanes it is often taken Sturgion Choise RIuer for it is fatter and therfore more gratefull to the palate then sea Sturgion in sommer the belly of it Vse A friendly dish on the table very daintie and of chiefe account nourisheth very well inciteth Venus cooleth the blood moderately Hurt Naught for the sicke or in recouery for it is somewhat too fatte makes thicke and clammy iuyce slowly digested Correction Séeth it in water and vineger let the sauce be white vineger with a litle Cynamon or Fennel in it Degree Hot in the beginning of the first moyst in the second Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In hot weather for all but those that are plagued with distillations and diseased ioynts Sturio seu Acipenser Story for Table-talke PLiny in his 9. booke of Naturall story and 17. Chapter writeth thus In former times Sturgion was counted a most noble Fish now it is of no reckoning the which I much maruell at sithens it is so rare We may now a dayes vse Plinies wordes with an inuersioÌ„ of the sense For what fish is there almost now of greater esteeme It hath his skales turning toward his mouth and swimmeth against the streame Lamprey Choise RIuer in March or Aprill for then it is notably fat and the backe bone marrow tenderest Vse It hath a most excellent fine relish nourisheth passing well increaseth seed a Lordly dish Hurt Somewhat slowe of digestion especially not boiled inogh naught for the Gout and
Cinnamomum Story for Table-talke OVr vsually receiued Cinnamon is not the right and true Spice but this is passing rare and scarse very little or none of it is brought to vs. The vse thereof is great and manifold to the body and all the parts of it Onely we must moderate our selues least ouermuch enflame vs. The more substantiall and grosse in quantity it seemeth the lesse vertue and power it possesseth Clowes Choise PLaine or smooth which nipt with the nayle yéeld some moisture of a most absolute fine smell new Vse StrengththeÌ„ the principal parts of the body and principally the stomacke stay fluxes and casting ameud stinking breath Hurt Annoy chollerists especially in summer much put in meates cause an vnpleasant and bitter taste in them Correction Taken moderately when the stomacke is full of fleame in colde weather and with moyst meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the third In winter for olde men phlegmaticke and such are troubled with distillations Garyophylli Story for Table-talke CLowes quasi Glowes because thorough their vehement and ardent heate they cause a glowing in the mouth Thy grow in certaine Ilandes of the Orientall Indian sea And thence wee haue them transported to vs for their fragrancy and sweete vertue whereof they whose breath is tainted make very good vse For they most excellently relish the mouth mend and commend the breath Ginger Choise NEw not rotten of the best smel which biteth the tongne most cut in pieces turnes not to dust Vse Breaketh winde yet heateth slowlier then pepper good for cold stomacks prouoketh sluggish husbandes wosteth fleame sharpeneth the sight Hurt Enflameth hot constitutions in hot weather or in hotte countries Correction Greene Ginger condite with hony warmes olde mens bellyes or dry moderately vsed Degree The gréene is hot in the third moyst in the first the dry dryeth in she second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for olde phlegmaticke or troubled with winde Zinziber Story for Table-talke GInger new or greene is passing moyst which may bee gathered in that it most soone rotteth and corrupteth Hence also it heateth slowlier then pepper vnto which notwithstanding in all other qualities it is very like It is first fetched from Calecut the most famous Indian Mart where being condite greene with sugar or hony it is very restoratiue Nutmegges Choise NEw not rotten weightie Full of iuyce and oyle the colonr inclining to red Vse Mendeth a strong breath taketh away pimpels comforteth the sight stomacke spleane and belly prouokes vrine Hurt Bindeth and therefore hurteth such as haue the Haemorhoids are costiue or melancholicke Correction Vse it sildome moderately and with a litle Ginger Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the ende of second In winter for very olde folkes full of â—leame Nux Myristica Story for Table-talke SO called in Greeke for his most sweete and pleasant sauour As therefore the common Essay As weake as water is very badly applied to Aqua fortis so contrariwise that other Adage As sweete as a Nutte may most properly and kindely be vnderstood of the Nut Myricstick or sweete Nut. Euen as he that saith he is Dog-sicke as sicke as a Dog meaneth a sicke Dog doubtlesse Saffron Choise NEw well coloured the tops of it a little white in the very ende long tough not soone brayed of most fragrant smell which moistened dieth the hand Vse Preserueth all the entrals causeth good colour wonderfully recreateth the heart prouokes vrin and Venus drunk hasteneth child-birth driueth away drunkennesse Hurt Stuffeth and paineth the head makes drowste takes away appetite Correction Vse it moderately and in colde weather Degree Season Age. Constitution Hotte in the second dry in the first In winter for the olde phlegmaticke and melanchollicke Crocus Story for Table-talke SAffron as it groweth in the ground much resembleth the Onyon as Aristotle noteth but they differ in that the SaffroÌ„ head is continuous and solid not diuided into tunicles or skinnes as the Onyonis neither yeeldeth seed as doth the Onyon But the Sementiue vertue of Saffron resteth in the head or roote It is so good a preparatiue that Pliny saith he that drinks Saffron in some liquor shall neither surfet nòr be drunke Sugar Choise CAndid heauie solide hard not going soone to powder Vse It kéepes the bodie cleane and neate holesome for the reines nourisheth more then honny clenseth the breast Hurt Causeth thirst soone turnes to choller naught for hot constitutions Correction Eate it with Pome-Granates and sower Orenges Degree Hot and moyst in the first or as some thinke possessing an equall temperature of all qualities Season Age. Constitution In winter for old cold and such as be troubled with distillations Saccarum Story for Table-talke SVgar by some writers is tearmed Cane or Reede-Honny because it is excocted foorth a Cane or Reede No kind of meat refuseth Sugar for his condiment but only the inwards of beasts as tripes which if you condite with it they grow most vnsauourly If I were not very reuerently sparing of your reuerent modestie especially at the table I wold tell you it makes them smell and stincke like newe Oxe-dung Honny Choise PVre cleare most splendent whitest curdled and thicke Vse It heateth the stomack therfore holesome for old folkes disposeth to the stoole resisteth putrifaction makes good blood Hurt Worst for hot stomackes enflaming the blood and through his accrimony increaseth choller Correction Eate it with fruit sower meats or with Saccarum Rosatum Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and drie in the second In winter for old cold and reumaticke Mel. Storie for Table-talke ALl Honny is made of Dewe For out of flowers the Bees gather that of which they make their Combes of the gum which droppeth from trees they make Waxe of Dewe they make Honny So that Dewe is congealed togither or crassified either by liuing creatures and is made Honny or of it owne accord which also is Honny vsually tearmed Dry Manna or is not thickned at all which they call liquid Manna Whereof there is great store about Hormus a Cittie in Arabia Faelix Sauce Salt Choise VVHite dry and hard for preseruing but moist for euery bit Vse The first thing that is set on the Table and the last taken away vsed almost in all meates to season or preserue by drying resists poyson consumeth al corrupt humors Hurt Makes soone looke old dries the bodie wasteth séede engenders sharpe and biting humors causeth itch and scabbes CorrectioÌ„ Eate little of it and that in or with moyst meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in dry In cold weather for flegmaticke and cold stomackes bad for chollericke Sal. Storie for Table-talke VVE haue onely added a letter to the latin name which takes his original as Salt it selfe doth a Sole Salo Solo. For the Sunne naturally oft times makes Salt of the fome which the sea waues leaue vpon the shore Howbeit art is a much perfecter Salt-maker There is Salt of diuerse colours
Table-talke CHerryes take their name of the Latine Cerasa and Cerasa of Cerasunte a Towne in Pontus whence Lucullus first brought them to Rome after hee had conquered Mithridate in the sixe hundreth and eightieth yeare of the Citie Cantabrigian Achademicks may very fitly interpret Cerasunte Cherry-HintoÌ„ their neighbour Cherry-Towne Where many Athenian Squires are so ouercome by cherryes that they can very hardly conuey them cleanly home to Athens and afterward are constrained to implore the ayde of Mithridate and his Cosin Triacle in regaining to them the Castle of health Plums Choise KIndely and throughly ripe tender skinned swéete and toothsome gathered afore sunne Vse Purge choller abate heate refresh and moisten the body slake thirst excite appetite superexcellent in burning agues Hurt Losen and weaken the stomack engender watry humours in cold and weake stomacks yéeld litle or no nourishment hurt the aged stuft with fleame or such as haue the collicque Correction Eate them afore meate and eate after them Saccarum Rosatum aromaticum or salt meats Degree Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the end of the third Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For hot weather youth cholleticke and sanguine Pruna Story for Table-talke DAmascena or Damaske-prunes are so called of Damascus in Syria which yeeldeth your best and most commended Prune Next in Galens iudgement is the Spanish sweeter then the Damaske and not so astringent The French with vs is of much request for speciall vse Damascens of all other Plums are thought most wholesome in so much as many are of the minde that a good stomack can very hardly surfet of them Apples Choise OLd swéete faire ripe in any case Vse Comfort the hart quench thirst enlarge the brest dispatch distillations of rume cause to spit quiet the cough Hurt Annoy weake stomacks and diseased sinowes especially eaten raw or many PreparatioÌ„ CorrectioÌ„ Roast baked stewed powdered with sugar and aniséed comfits or else eate Saccarum Rosatum vpon them Degree Swéet are hot in the first temperately moist sower are cold and dry Season Age. Constitution In Autumne and spring for youth chollericke and good stomacks Mala. Story for Table-talke AN Apples is of euill report or at leastwise hath but an euil name amongst the Romaines for the very name Malum signifieth euill Hence some forbid both cheese an apples with this fallacian Caseus est nequam et mala sunt mala Howbeit not origination but fortune made theÌ„ Sophisters For Mâlum an apple deriueth his line of Ancestry froÌ„ the Greeke Melon of great antiquitie not vnknowne to Homer Yet the obuious Notation passing plausible and more passable because an apple was the cause or occasion of all euill but whether it were an apple or no fides sit penes Authores Peares Choise THroughly ripe swéete Please the taste Vse cause appetite comfort a weake stomacke by forcing the iawes to raise and spit out fleame proucke to the stoole Hurt Bréed cold and flatulent blood nought for the collicke Correction After meate powdered with much sugar drinke olde wine of good sauour vpon them or indeed prepare them thus PreparatioÌ„ First part them in halfes and cut out the Cores Then pare salt and cast them so out of doores Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second In Autumne and winter for all but the aged and rumaticke Pyra Story for Table-talke OVr English name Peare comes of the Latine Pyrum or Pyrus and Pyrus of Pyramis because both the Peare-tree and the Peare it selfe also somewhat resemble that figure or proportion yet inversim if they be compared For the Peare-tree aspireth and riseth with a kinde of Conus in the top the Peare Contrâ pointeth toward the stalke and his broad crowne reprefenteth the basis The Italians call their chiefe or best Peare Bergmot Mot is a Peare and Berkg signifies Lord or Master in the Turkish tongue whence they borrowed it As we say a Pome-roy from the French Aprecocks Choise THe greatest best coloured ripe whose inward kernels are passing swéet and comes easily from the shell pleasant in taste Vse Quench thirst whâ—t the stomack the kernel kils wormes Hurt Instale the stomacke soone corrupt possesse the blood with much water and make it soone putrifie Correction Eate after them Anyse-séedes meates well salted or spiced and old cheeâ—e drinke old wine of good sauour vpon them Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and moist in the second About the end of May or beginning of Iune for youth such as abound with choller or blood and haue strong stomacks Mala Armeniaca Story for Table-talke SO cald in Latine of Armenia whence they were first transplanted in Greeke Bericoccia in Latine Praecocia or Praematura Id est Soone ripe or first ripe for they offer themselues about the end of the spring Hence we call a ripe-headed young boy a princock Horace saith Non amo puerum praecocis ingeni Id est I loue no Aprecocks And so on the contrary a Cockni is inuerted being as much as Incoct vnripe Other deriue Apricock of Apricum because it ripeneth best in Aprico Now as Aprecocks be soone ripe so according to the old rule soone rotten And though Galen saith Aprecocks be not so obnoxious to corruption as the Peach yet experience giues him the lye Peaches Choise OF a good colour fragrant smell and pleasant taste ripe such as come easily froÌ„ their stone Vse Mend the euill sauour of the breath arising from the stomacke their smell is wondrous good in cordiaque passions Hurt Being soft moist and flatulent they engender humours very subiect to corruption euil for old flegmaticke and weake stomackes Correction Eate them alwaies fasting and drinke a cup of the best wine most fragrant and well aromatized Degree Cold in the first moist in the second Season Age. Constitution For youth chollerists and sanguines Mala persica Story for Table-talke CAld Persica of Persia Persiques Therfore haue we notoriously impeached their name as we do all other deriuatiues indeed For in stead of Persiques we say Peaches But no great matter for the name that will neuer feed or fill our mawes As he said Voca panem lapidem et da mihi lapidem Those Peaches whose meate cleaueth fast to the stone are coÌ„mended of some as also such as seeme friezed ouer with a thinne downe like a Quince But questionlesse both these are of last and least request Orenges Choise VVAightie full ripe sad coloured twixt sweete and sower Vse The sweete open obstructions are good for melancholists and such as be subiect to distillations the middle sort are good in Agues and recall appetite Hurt The exquisitly swéet are too hot the sower coole and offend the stomack stuffe the belly constraine the brest and arteries CorrectioÌ„ Therefore eate but litle of them after them Orenge pils condite which are good for the stomacke Degree The sower are cold in the first moist in the second the sweet temperately hot the middle cold and temperately
IF the Southwinde blow in seasoning time the Sheepheardes may looke for store of Ewe lambes if the North winde then for Males So soone as the Lambe is eaned it knoweth his damme and presently gins to play and dally with her All femall mutton or vnder a yeere olde breedes bâ—d iuâ—ce for it is ouermoyst making thicke and clammy humours It is no meate for cold seasons Swines Flesh Choise NOr olde nor thinne but of a full groweth and middle age male fed in the fields Vse Doth yéeld very much and very good nourishment for labourers especially kéepe the paunch slipperie prouoke vrine Hurt Hurt olde folke and those that liue delicately or at ease hasten the Gowte and Sciatica CorrectioÌ„ The leane of a yong fat Hog eaten moderately with spices and such hot things Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the first moist in the end of the second In colde weather for youth hot stomackes and labourers Porcus Story for Table-talke IN olde time they detested Swines flesh accounting it ouer moyst especially sucking pigges or yong shotes and surely they were wiser then we our appetite captiuates our reason in this matter The most tollerable is such as is at his full growth and naturall perfection Which flesh questionles commeth neerest to mans in taste and sauour especially being a litle powdred BacoÌ„ may be eaten with other flesh to prouoke appetite and to cut asunder fleame cloddered in the stomack wilde Boare Choise YOng fat tender much chased in winter Vse Of much nourishment is fit meate for great excercisers easie of digestion Hurt Nought for olde and idle folkes in making store of excrâ—mentitions and superfluous homours Preparation Carued into steakes and spiced or as the Italians make their Brolardieri or else baked with store of spice Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst in the first temperatly In colde weather for hot and laborious Aper seu Apcugna Storie for Table-talke IN the beginning of winter the wilde saine gender and about the prime of the spring they pigge in desart streyte craggie and deuious places If they bee at any time sicke their physicke is Iuie They are so so loadeÌ„ with the weight of their vrin that Hunters surprize them at such time as it vrgeth them not giuing them leasure to voyde it and so not being able to escape by flight take thm P. Seruillius Rullus first serued in Wilde Boare to the table mongst the Romaines Red Deere Choise YOng and if it may bée such as yet sucketh gelt so soone as it is calfed Vse Is of excéeding good nourishment Hurt Olde breedes euill humours harde of digestion causeth a quartane feuer Preparation Roast or baked in pasties larded with the fat of other beastes Degree Hot somewhat remisty in the first dry in the second Season Age. Constitution Neither for hot weather nor for olde folkes very bad for melancholists Ceruus Storie for Table-talke HArtes flesh yeeldeth but grosse and melancholious nourishment EateÌ„ at breakfast it is said to prolong ones life at supper to abridge the same The Hinde goeth 8. moneths with her yong which so soone as she hath calued she exerciseth them to the race carryeth them to steepe down-fals and teacheth them to leape It is a most simple and innocent Animall howsoeuer nature in a mockery hath armed it most magnificently It is the very Emblem of a Gull girded to a sword being as hartlesse as the Hartis Fallow Deere Choise YOng fat very well chased hang'd vntill it be tender Vse Nourisheth better then any other Venison especially resisteth the collicke palsie good for such as abound with humours Hurt Hurteth the leane and thinne for making dry blood it annoyes the sinewes especially being olde Correction In roasting basted throughly with oyle or larded very much Degree Season Age ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and dry in the second Bad for youth and chollerists good for them that haue the palsie and store of rume Dama Storie for Table-talke IT is a rare thing to see a tame Doe and yet it may hardly be tearmed wilde howsoeuer the Latines call it Fera in speciall and the flesh thereof Forina For there are many brutes which are Neuters neither wilde nor tame but in a meane as the Swallow amongst Foules amongst Flies the Bee mongst Fishes the Dolphin Martiall hath penned the Does lamentable women-tation in two verses thus The Bore is feared for his tosh His hornes defend the Hart But we poore harmles hartles Does Are nak'd on euery part Hare Choise YOng well coursed Vse It maketh slender causeth good fresh colour in the face Hurt Slowly digested engenders melancolike blood much eaten makes sléepie and drowsie Preparation Farsed with suet or gobbets of Larde and spices Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the second In winter for youth sanguine not for melancholists or students Lepus Story for Table-talke HAres flesh is good for those that wold be leane faire It is a receiued opinion that vse of Hares fleshe procureth beautie fresh colour and cheerfull countenance for a seuenight space in so much as the Italians haue a by-word which speaketh thus of a faire man He hath eaten an Hare And Martiall mockes a foule sowe telling her that shee htah not eaten any Hares fleshe of a weeke It runneth most swiftly especially vp the hill because the fore feet be shorter then the hinder legges Conny Choise YOng fat in winter hangd a night in the coole Vse Affordeth store of verie good nourishment consumes all corrupt humours and fleame in the stomacke Hurt Hurteth melancholists and olde folkes PreparatioÌ„ Parboyled then roasted with swéete hearbes cloues and other spices Degree Cold in the beginning of the first drie in the second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather somewhat vnholesome for the foresaid Cuniculus Story for Table-talke BEcause the Conny is somewhat like the Hare it is called Paruus Lepus the lesse Hare It taught the souldier to vndermine his enemy by earthing which the Latines tearme Cuniculum agere to play the Conny And yet alas of it selfe it is very Conny a most simple Animall wheÌ„ce are deriued our vsual phrases of Conny and Conny-catching There is so great store of Connies in the Baleares Insulae vsually called Maiorica and Minorica that oft they waste their whole crop of corne and cause extreme dearth in those Ilands Capon Choise YOng fat well crammed set vp a fatting in a wide Coâ—pe Vse Yéelds to mans body better nourishment then any other meat principally good for the braine procureth an equall temperature of all the humors Hurt Giueth such as take their ease ouermuch nourishment Correction Vsed moderatly and with extraordinary exercise Degree Season Age. Constitution Possesseth an equal temperaturâ— of all qualities For any time age constitution Capo Story for Table-talke SO named for his excellencie and chiefe worth amongst all foules of that kinde It makes perfect blood The Italians denue the name of two Hetrurian words Quá pone that is huc appone set it
drie Season Age. Constitution The sweete are good euen for old folkes the sower in hot weather for youth chollerists and sanguine Mala Aurantia Story for Table-talke THe flowers of this plant are siluer-coloured and from them is distilled a water surpassing all other in fragrancy and sweete smell The leaues are in colour like an Emeraud The fruite like Golde Whence they are called Aurantia of Aurum gold in Latine and in Greek Chrysomêla golden apples In English properly and truly Aurange but we haue both them and their name by tradition from the French So wee both speake and write it Orenge Limons Choise SMelling like a Citron best ripe of good colour a day or two gathered Vse The iuyce is good sauce to prouoke appetite stayeth casting breaketh grosse humours reâ—â—steth pestilenticall feuers good for the stone nourisheth not at all Hurt Excessiuely cooleth the stomack causeth collicque-passions leanenesse and melancholious humours hurteth the aged phlegmaticke and cold stomacks Correction Used moderately and seldome without the rinde laide in water condite with sugar Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Cold and drie in the second Onely for hot weather youth and chollericke Malum Limonium Storie for Table-talke THe Citron Limon and Orenge growe especially on the sea-coasts of Italy and in the Adriatique and Tyrrhene Ilandes They were brought first out of Media into these parts and thence are they called Mala Medica They beare fruite all the yeare long some at the same time ripe and falling off other but now budding and sprouting forth All say a Limon in Wine is good some thinke a Leman and Wine better Quinces Choise RIght Quinces small dimpled or dawked mosie most swéetly fragrant best ripe Vse Recreate the heart comfort strengthen and close the mouth of the stomacke staie â—luxes Hurt Eaten rawe or ouergréedily afore meate hurt the sinowes procure to many collicke passions but being exquisitly ripe Correction Boyled verie well with hony boyled and then powdered with store of sugar or a grain of muske or made in Marmalat and eaten in the last course Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first drie in the beginning of the second In haruest and winter for any Malum Cydonium Storie for Table-talke CAld in Latine Cydonium of Cydone a Castle in Crete Also Cotoneum because clad in a sute of white thin Cotten As for our English name I finde as litle sauour in it as in an vnripe raw Quince In Galens time Quince was brought out of Syria to Rome Simeon Sethi counselleth women with child to eat many quinces if they desire to haue wise children Pomegranats Choise SWéete ripe big with great kernels whose rinde comes easily off the sharpe full of iuycâ— Vse The swéete excite Venus goâ—â— for the stomacke brest cough the sharpe for hot liuers and agues Hurt The swéet bréed wind and heat naught in feuers the sharp offeâ—â— the teeth and gummes constrainâ— the brest naught for old folkes Correction Eate the kernelles of both together Degree The swéete are temperatly hot and moyst the sower colde and somewhat binding Season Age. Constitution The swéet in winter for all she sharpe in sommer for youth and chollerists Malum punicuÌ„ se granatuÌ„ Storie for Table-talke CAlled PunicuÌ„ because brought out of Affricke from Carthage â—t may now be called MaluÌ„ Tuâ—ituÌ„ for that which was Carthage 〈◊〉 now Tunis Granatum or Pomeâ—ranate of his multitude of grains â—r kernels not of Granata or Graâ—ado in Spaine as some fondly coÌ„â—eit it but rather Malum Granaâ—um was god-father to the realme of Grando for they beare a Pomegrant in their Eschutcheon If one eate three small Pomegranate flowers they say for an whole yeare he shall be safe from all maner of eye-sore Citron Choise FVll ripe a great faire one thâ—â— grew in an hot Country soâ—â— time gathered Vse Best preserueth against poysoâ—â— the rinde mendes concoction 〈◊〉 commends the breath Hurt Slowe of concoction annoyeâ—â— hot braines eaten at night causeth dizinesse Correction Condite with sugar and eaten not afore meate or with meate but alone and fragrant violents or new Saccarum Rosatum presently after Degree The rinde and séed are hote and dry in the second the pulpe or meat cold and moyst she sower is colde and drie in the third Season Age. Constitution Condite with sugar for all at al times raw for none at no time Malum Citrium Story for Table-talke THe bigger Citrons though they be fairer to see too yet those that growe in Italy about the Laque Benacus surpasse in taste The decoction of Citron held in the mouth commendeth the breath The rind laid amongst cloaths keepeth them from moth-eating and smelt on preserueth in time of pestilence or corrupt aire The Citron is the Embleme of Loue Loues delightfull paines or painefull delightes A bitter sweete an Oxymel or Glycypicron Citrull Cucumbers Choice LOng thicke best ripe yellow like a ripe Orenge Vse Excéedingly cooleth an hote stomacke quencheth thirst appeaseth choller Hurt Is hard of digestion engendreth flearue clammy humours which soone after proue virulent but in a stomacke hote aboue measure pâ—â—son to a cold stomacke Correction Eate it with Onions Oraggon wort Mint Rewe Pepper and such other very hot things Degree Colde in the ende of the second moist in the end of the third Season Age. Constitution Bad nourishment for any season age or constitution Cucumis citrulus Storie for Table-talke THe best vse of Citrull Cucumber is this Pare off the rinde and cut the Cucumer into thiâ— broad sliees lay them in waâ—â—r Then apply them to the tongue of one sicke of a burning ague it shall do him great case If you seeth them first with sugar all the better for by this means they quench his thirst mitigaâ—e the scalding heate of the feauâ—r and in place of siccitie or 〈◊〉 coÌ„tinually instilla verie gratefull liquor with which the tongue palate throate and drie soule of the patient is wondrously suppled and refreshed Medlars Choise GReat full and plumpe with litle kernels rightly ripened or mellowed Vse Good against drinkenesse 〈◊〉 casting pleasing to the stomack especially to women with childe Hurt Slowly concocted hinder the concoction of other meates ouâ—â— much vsed ouetlay the stomack Correction Eate Pâ—nidâ—â—e Sacraâ—um Volarum Sugar Candid â—ieyâ—â—s or such other pectorals after them Degree Cold and drie in the first Season Age. Constitution For winter youth thollerists and strong stomackes Mespila Storie for Table-talke Meddle not with Medlers THis Fruite ripeneth verie slowly the flowers leaues are of a binding nature Such hurt as commeth by eating Medlars the like also ensueth by dealing and medling with medlers or common smatterers they are hard and dry meat hardly digested not soone brought to any reasonable order besides they hinder disturbe and interrupt the course and orderly proceeding of other mens matters and if you deale much with them they wil extremely irck loath you Seruices Choise PLump best ripe not corrupt hung vp or
féeble sinowes Correction Choake it with white Wine stop the mouth with a Nut-meg and the other holes with Cloues then fry it with Nuttes Bread Oyle Spices and white Wine Degree Temperately hot moyst in the first Season Age. Constitution For any season age constitution but decrepit gowtie and diseased sinowes Lampreta Storie for Table-talke TEarmed so a Lambendis Petris a Suck-stone About the beginning of the Spring it enters the fresh waters and in Summer departeth againe into the sea Whereas all other fishes haue finnes to swim withal some more some lesse the Lamprey hath none at all but moueth in the waters as Snakes and Serpents creepe glide vpon the earth Many in England haue surfetted of Lampry pies as our Chronicles will tell vs if we looke into them Mullet or Barbell Choise OF the lesser size not taken in muddie places or standing lakes but grauelly cleare Vse Pleasing to the palate the flesh applied cures the biting of venemous things or any harme done by womens menstruous flure Hurt The wine wherein a Mullet is stifled drunke depriueth men of all genital vertue makes women barren the meate is hard and slow of digestion Correction Roast vpoÌ„ a gridiron sprinckled with Oyle and the iuyce of Orenges or boyled condite with Vineger swéete hearbes and Saffron Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot in the first dry in the beginning of the second In hot weather for youth chollericke strong stomackes Mullus seu Barbo Story for Table-talke BArbo bicause it hath a double beard vpon the neather lip And therfore Tully in his Paradox calleth those that are well barbed Mulli Fenestella thinkes they were called Mulli because they are in colour like the shoes of the Almane Kings and the Patricij amongst the Romans which Shoes were tearmed Mullei of Millo an obsolet word signifying the same that suo to sowe as Sowters do The Romanes prized this fish at a wonderfull high rate It is incredible to tell what Asinius Celer and Crispinus gaue for a Mullet Tench Choise FEmall Riuer in Autumne or Winter Vse It litle benefiteth the bodie but only as some think cut length-wayes in halfes and applied to the soles of the féete stancheth the heat of Agues Hurt Is sllowly digested heauy on the stomacke bad nourishment especially in the Dogge dayes Correction Bake it with Garlicke swéete hearbes and spices or boyle it with Oyle Onyons and Raysons farsed with Garlicke Parsly and Vineger Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and moyst in the second In Autumne and Winter for youth collericke and very laborious Tinca Storie for Table-talke THe Anticke make no mention of this fish not respecting it in deede because it was so common and the poore mans prouin Onely Tully in his Booke de claris Oratoribus mentioneth one Placentinus an Oratour who was called Tinca for his merry conceited wit It is onely to be found in fresh waters riuers lakes and ponds and is fittest meate for labouring men Pike or Pickerell Choise RIuer rather then Pond and Pond not muddy great fresh new and fat Vse It nourisheth much the iawe-bones burnt to power and giuen the weight of French crowne in wine will breake the stone Hurt Hard of concoction badde nutriment burdeneth the belly increaseth fleame naught for the sicke Correction Seeth it with sweete hearbes and oyle eate it with white vineger or broyled with wild marioram and vineger Degree Season Age. Constitution Colde and moyst in the second Being hard meate it is fittest for winter youth and chollericke Lucius Storie for Table-talke NOr yet of the pickerill haue old writters recorded any thing which is companion and an associate of the Tench by rubbing vpon whom the Pickerill cureth himselfe of any wound or hurt receiued It is a very rauenous Fish deuoring any thing be it fish or flesh that lyeth in his way It is no meate for those that be sicke or weake whatsoeuer triuiall Leeches prate Eele Choise TAken in a sandy sea not muddy in March dressed presently Vse Tasteth very pleasantly nourisheth marueilous well may bée kept long salt good for the stomack against fleame Hurt Somewhat windie especially the backe of it also ouer moyst Preparation Roast in a leafe of paper with oyle parsly coriander or kéepe it condite a day or two with salt and origan Degree Cold in the beginning moyst in the end of the first Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ In the spring for any age or temperature taken moderately Anguilla Storie for Table-talke THe generation of Eeles is in nature very easie but to our vnderstanding passing difficult For they breed euen in dryed lakes presently after a sudden raine of the very corruption and slime of the soyle Athenaeus sayeth he himselfe sawe in Arethusa of Eubaea Eeles with siluer and golden earings so tame that they would eate meate out of ones hands The Ile of Ely may be called the Ile of Eeles for the aboundance of Eeles which it yeeldeth Rotchet Choise NEw sodden and eaten colde Vse Tender meate and gratefull to the palate easlie digested nourisheth very well excéedingly holesome if continually vsed Hurt Whatsoeuer fault if hath prepare it as followeth PreparatioÌ„ Fry and condite it with Orange iuyce and peper or eate it hot with veneger Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperate in the actiue qualities moyst in the first Best in winter for any age or temperature moderately taken Erythrinos Story for Table-talke THe Graecians so tearme it because it is red of colour The Venetians call it Arbor the Latines in imitation of the Graekes Rubellus It is a Sea fish neither comes at any time into the fâ—esh waters It harbowreth some time about the shore So soone as they are spawned they are presently full of egges And therefore it is thought they be all faemall They vse to rout together and roue about the sea in troopes Oyster Choise THat that growes vpon great ships bottomes or in places not muddy Vse in those Moneths that haue the letter R. in their names Hurt It hath a kinde of salt iuyce in it that affecteth the palate more then other shell fishes exciteth appetite and Venus nourisheth litle Preparation Somewhat hard of degistion greatly increaseth fleame in a cold stomacke causeth obstructions Degree Dresse it with pepper oyle the iuyce of sowre Orenges after it be roasted on the imbers Season Hot in the first moyst in the second Age. Constitution For cold weather youth chollerists and hot stomackes Ostreum Story for Table-talke THe Oyster is an headlesse fish yet passing toothesome it is engendred of meere myre or mudde inclining to corruption or of the sea froth and spume which cleaueth vpon ships It liueth not out of the water yet breatheth not ayre nor taketh in any external moysture It hath not locall motion and plucked from his proper place is deuoyd of sense increasing and decreasing with the Moone It is vnseasonable and vnholesome in all monethes that haue not the letter R. in their name because it is then venerious Crab