louseth the bellie but the same harmeth the stomacke in pinching or biting it especially those persons whiche haue a tender and delicate stomacke so that the Herbe is better commended sodden than the rawe iuice vsed The iuice of the Beete mixed with the oyle of bitter Almonds after the heating in a sawcer supped or drawen vp into the nosethrills doth greately healp the stopping of y e nose recouer smelling thorough the purging or clensing of the head The roote of the Beete boyled in water and three or foure droppes of the licoure dropped into the eares doth remoue the rage and paine of the. And the iuice of the Beete rubbed in the gummes doth aswage the raging of them The iuice of the rawe Beete annointed on any bald place of the head procureth y e heare to growe and killeth Lyse The decoction of the leaues and rootes doe also clense the head of Nules and Dandrie The Beete after the tender boyling â–ª applyed on Whelâ—es and blisters of skalding or burning doth in short time heale them The iuice of the Beete drunke with Cumin or Dyll Seedes remoueth the gripings of the Bellie The blacke or redde Beete boyled with the pulse Lentiles and the same receyued stayeth a loose Bellie whiche as I aboue said the white Beete looseth This white Beete also â—â—dden and eaten with raw Garlike doth driue away the Wormes of the Bellie The Beete boyled healpeth the obstructions or stoppings of the Liuer more than the great Mallowes or hollie Oke doth especially when the same is eaten with Mustard or Uinegre and eaten in like manner as with Mustard or Uinegre dothe maruellously aswage and healp the corrupted Splene The iuice auaileth against the holy 〈◊〉 Sâ—ingles This Herbe is rather eaten after this manner for Phisicke causes than for nourishment in that there is but a small nourishment of this as of all other Pot Hearbes whiche to the full eaten of at a time or often eaten dothe not only grype and bite the stomacke but encreaseth euill humors as wel in the healthfull as sicke persons The speciall effectes of the distilled water of the white Beetes THe time of the destilling of this Herbe is in the ende of June and that both the leaues and stalkes togither The newe water of the white Beete drunke morning and euening vnto the quantitie of foure ounces at a time dothe maruellously preuayle againste the Sunne in that the same consumeth it This quantitie like drunke preuayleth against the griefe of the Stone in that it purgeth the Loynes and Kidneis Thâ—â— ceasseth the â—â—xing paine of ioy 〈◊〉 aches by applying wette clothes on the â—late◠〈…〉 it What fate draweâ— and 〈◊〉 to be learned in the sowing and setting of the Blete Chapter 3. THere are two kindes of this Blete as the white and the redde or blacke both at this day very well knowen through their growing as common in the field as Garden The stalkes and leaues of the redde waxe so redde in the growing that they appeare as dyed with a scarlet coloure but after a further growth in time these from that coloure are changed into a purple and at length waxe blacke of y e eye of which the same also is named o◠〈◊〉 the blacke Bleete The roote besides of this Hearbe in the breaking appeareth so redde as any bloud The white Blete possesseth or rather â—â—â—deth forthe branches and leaues like to the Beete and the same without any sharpnes or biting being vnsauerie and eche is of the same coÌ„dition that it spedely springeth in the Garden as Plinie reporteth And the white or redde Blete may be sowen in any earth but rather in a well dressed ground in the moneth of March as the skilfull Neapolitane Ruellius willeth whiche strongly growen in the Earthe or fully come vp continueth and yearely reneweth of it selfe without any proper sowing so that in time this so taketh roote by the seedes yearely falling that the Gardener after can hardely weede the same out of hys ground if he would wherefore this once sowen in a fertile Earth prospereth many yeares by the yearely yeride and falling of the Seedes and requireth neyther raking nor weeding about it as the worthy Palladius reporteth The Phisicke healpes and commodities of the Blete THe worthy Galen in his Booke â—span writeth that the Blete is a Pot Hearbe much and often eaten of the sâ—â—pler â—â—te and in qualitie colde and moyst This as Plinie writeth is thought to be vnprofitable to y e stomacke and so much molesting the bellie â—hat in some â—hâ—s moueth and causeth the Choller to increase 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the 〈…〉 Yâ—â— this moueth also vomitings with gripings of the Bellie 〈…〉 and stirred vp which by the dayly or too much eating of it at a time proceedeth yet the Blete of practise knowen dothe lesse harme the stomacke and bellie if the first water powred forth and the softe Herbe put into a Panne bee fryed with Oyle or Butter and a little Salte added or Uinegre and so eaten But this notwithstanding may not bee often eaten nor to the ful at a time for somuch as this of experience knoweÌ„ procureth vomiting and engendreth paine in the stomacke griping in the bowels and to be laxatiue through the mouing of Choller And in the eating also this is to bee remembred that the Hearbe bee not eaten with Oyle alone and a little Salte but rather with Uinegre added for the more parte in y t the same otherwise is knowen to be enimie to the stomacke This Hearbe as aboue vttered hath a propertie in softning the Bellie especially wheÌ„ the force of it is encreased by some other slipperie and clammie matter These hitherto Galen This notwithstanding drunke in Wine as Plinie reporteth preuayleth against the bitte of a Scorpion and layed in playster forme on the thicke skinne of the feete and in like manner for the beating payne of the Temples and with Oyle on the Milte doth greately profite And the worthy Hipocrates writeth that the same eaten in the manner as afore taughte doth restrayne or stay the Tearmes These hitherto Plinie What diligence and skill is required in the sowing and setting of the Garden Arage Chapter 4. THe Garden Orage for the Potte ought by the agreement of the skilfull to bee sowen in the Moneth of March and Aprill and in y e other Monethes following vnto Haruest the apt seasons and times heerein considered But in some places are the Seedes bestowed in the Moneth of December in a well dressed and dunged Earthe and the plantes better prosper being thinne sowen These also may bee sowen by themselues in beddes and togither with other Herbes and they alwayes desire to be cut or broken off with an iron instrumente that they ceasse not yeelding forth of yong The Orache ioyeth in the often watering if the season and ground be very drie The Seedes of the Arage ought diligently to bee couered incontinent after they are bestowed in the Earthe and the rootes of the Hearbes to
by the heate of the smal pockes or of any other occasion The Artochocke tenderly boyled and eaten is sayde to strengthen y e stomacke and helpe somewhat the priuie places that men childreÌ„ may be conceiued as the Athenian Cherias and Glaucias affirme The worthy Galen reporteth the meate of the Artochocke to bee of an euil nourishment and incommodious to the stomacke especially when the same shall be harde at the first yeelding of the floure for then the Eares possesse a great quantitie of Cholericke iuyce in theÌ„ â–ª which for the same ought rather to bee eaten boyled than raw yet some be of this minde that the yonger heades tender and ful of iuyce being prepared as afore taught may with the more delight and lesser harme be eaten What skil and diligence to be learned in sowing and workmanly ordering both of the Endyue and Succorie Chap. 14. THe Endyue otherwise named the Sycorie or soure Lettuce serueth rather for the vse of Medicine than for other purposes so that by a trauel caused to grow acceptable in the Garden for as muche as this of it selfe by nature is euermore soure although it bee a kinde of the Lettuce which ought often to be remoued and changed into sundry places that the nature of it may on such wise be altered with lesser trauaile to the Gardener The Endyue thus bestowed in Beddes may wel abyde the colde season of wynter wherefore in colde Countries this better agreeth to be sowen neare the ende of Haruest and well growen vp to be remoued and layde againe in the earth that these in the lying may on such wise become whyte if so be before the couering the Herbes be strewed ouer with riuer sande and often watered if not holpen by shoures of rayne which then couer with light earth letting these so rest vntill by a diligence in the watering they become sufficientlye white for Salettes or other purposes The yong plants of the Endiue are not to be remoued before that soure leaues be sufficiently sprong vp and these cutte at the endes of the rootes aswel as the toppes of the leaues with softe Cowe dung annoynted about the rootes before y e bestowing in the earth whiche lightly couered water so long vntil the plants be sufficient strong in the Earth The Sycorie is of the nature of the Endyue which in like maner retayneth the proper bitternesse being not like remoued and ordered as the Endyue This desireth a moyst grounde and the Earth to bee well laboured when soure leaues be come vp the plants after the remouing ought againe to bee set in a wel dunged earth and that these may yelde faire large and long leaues let the owner after the leaues be somewhat more shot vp or on the myddle of them lay a peece of a Tylestone for by the waight of the same wyll the leaues spreade out and inioye more Touffrs or grow thicker By this workmanly ordering wil the bitternesse of the leaues be remoued they aptly serue in the winter tyme for the vse of the Sallets if so be the plants be set againe in the ende of August or rather in the beginning of September when the leaues are shotte vp big and in the pulling vp the Earth not knocked of the rootes but with soft Cow dung the rootes gentlye annoynted aboute and bestowed after in beds wel turned in with dung The leaues layde along in wel dunged Beddes to be white couer so ouer with lose Earth that the rootes maye lye vpwarde and ouer them lying a long in the Earth make some couerture in the forme of a herboring place or rather strewe vpon them the chaffe or corne for the better defence of the colde and bitter windes Certayne report that the like may be purchased if the owner after certaine leaues of the Sycorie shotte vppe byndeth altogither with a browne threede and couereth them after with a potte of Earth to the ende that those may dayly drawe by the rootes a nourishment from y e earth which by the same meanes shall purchase both a whitenesse and tendernesse and loose a greate part of the proper sourenesse The Phisicke helpes both of the Endyue and Sychorie The Endiue which by another name is termed the wilde Lettuce is reported to be colde and drye in the seconde degree and of this onlye the leaues seeds serue to the vse of Phisicke yet are the leaues brought apte to be eaten in Sallets The roote by the consent of al writers is to little vse therfore in our time seldome applyed in Medicine The greene leaues exercised in Medicine are to great purpose but y e drie preuaile little or nothing at al. The greene serue to comforte for which cause they preuaile against the stopping of the Liuer and Mylte through the occasion of Choler and these like preuaile againste a simple and double Tertian and against the heate of the Lyuer and against hot or burning impostumes eaten eyther sodden or rawe with vineger The Syrupe made of the decoction of the Hearbe with Sugar auayleth in al the abouesayde The iuyce or Syrupe giuen with Ruberbe about the fourth or sixt day after digestion of the matter greatly preuaileth for the heate of the Liuer and a burning impostume the saide Hearbe or iuyce applyed in plaister forme greatly auayleth If the leaues can not be had then vse the seeds brused and boyled it to applying the same hotte places which greatly profiteth The iuyce of leaues applyed on hot pushes qualifieth and draweth forth the heate in them the Herbe brused and layd on hot impostumes greatly helpeth The herbe aplyed on the left pap with vineger mightily profiteth the Cardiacke passion the same on the bellie stayeth the flyxe The Sirupe made or the Endiue and Hartes tongue preuayleth against the kings euill the Herbe applyed in plaister forme with Ceruse and vineger healeth the Shingles hot impostumes and swellings the iuyce applyed with vineger and Rosewater on the temples aswageth the headache The drinking of the iuyce euery seconde day recouereth the spitting of bloud and aswageth the excesse of Sperme The iuice is effectuously annoynted with Ceruse and vineger on all partes whiche are healed by cooling The Sicorie is of a drie and colde quality yet somewhat more than y e Endyue this Hearbe as Aegineta reporteth is both of cooling drying in the first degree and hath also the vertue of bynding The Hearbe brused with the roote and rounde Trochyses or flatte Bals made of the same which after dissolued in Rosewater annoynted on scabbed places doth both cure them and causeth a fayrer skinne If any vse this potion made with the iuyce of Cychorie Endyue and Harts tong to which a quantitie of Sugar added in the boyling with water and a little vineger doth in short time recouer the stopping of y e Liuer and Mylt So that pilles of Ruberbe be after ministrâ—d and the comforting Electuarie of the three Saunders taken If any prepareth this playster made of Serapium Myrre
only made of the lettuce and applied on hot impostumes and the Shingles â–ª doth mightily coole The lettuce sodden and mixed with the oyle Oliue receiued inward by potion doth helpe in shorte tyme the dropsie The iuyce of the Lettuce annoynted on the forhead of him that hath the feuer can not slepe procureth rest slepe to the pacient as y e skilful Florentinus writeth which also affirmeth that a man shal not be ouercome w t drink if he afore eat with a fasting stomack grene lettuce To these he addeth that seedes of the Lettuce brused and drunke â–ª to stay the sheding of Sperm for which cause this is profitably taken or drunk against the night pollutioÌ„s hapning to many yong persons Thys author besides vttereth that the Lettuce layde vnder the couerlet the sick person not knowing therof and gathered after this maner as with the left hande pulled vp by the roote before the Sun rising dothe soone after cause sleepe A lyke to this hee reporteth if fyue three or one leafe be layde priuily vnder the bolster of the sicke but in such maner that the bigger ende of the stalke and leafe lye to the feeteward and the toppe or smaller ende to the head Here learne that the plentifull and dayly eating of the Lettuce of marryed persons is verye incommodious and noysome to them as the Greeke wryters of Husbandrye haue noted in that the same as they write not only doth diminish the fruitfulnesse of childreÌ„ but the children after borne to become idle foolish and peuish persons But the physitions in our time write contrary for they say that Lettuce neither doth increase euil bloud nor the same throughly perfect yet is the Lettuce by their agreemeÌ„t worthier than the other potherbs For the Lettuce is preferred as Galen writeth not without good reson to other herâ—es in y t there is none known or found to be of better norishment This also in the Sommer time as the saide Authour writeth is a gratefull and profitable meate forasmuch as by nature it cooleth This ministred too hotte and Cholericke stomackes is maruelously auailable yet the often vse dulleth the sight of the eies procureth a moistnes yea and abateth the desire of the venereall act This also through the often eating greatly harmeth such fetching the winde short spitting vp of bloud and the fleumatike This herbe besides too ofteÌ„ and much vsed as wel sodden as raw is no lesse perillous than the eating of the Hemlock The Lettuce in the sommer time is vsed rather for Physik sake than for the proper nourishment which it yeldeth as vnto the moystening and cooling yet this seing it may be discerned colde who needeth to doubt that it can ingender in any manner sounde and pure bloud in vs for the substance of it common to vs whiche is both mylkie and sweete and to these meanly digested is for the same readily and lightly chaunged into bloud The Lettuce therfore eaten moderately doth procure in vs good bloud and helpeth many tymes the tertian agewe and the herbe is sayd to loose the belly in that this thorough the proper moysture and coldnes both colleth and tempreth the immoderate heat of the lyuer whiche notwithstanding for the speedy and vehement distribution and carying away of the meate and drinke is many tymes wont to bynde the belly The herbe eaten either rawe or boyled with vineger and Suger doth dissolue the stopping of the milte and lyuer yet eaten rawe in much quantitie is sayd to trouble the sight and both harme the eyes and cause a mistinesse that thickneth and dulleth the visiue spirites and causeth the christalline humor troubled and offendeth the animal spirite through the proper coldnesse consisting in it Many vse the Lettuce before it bee risen into a stalke boyling it in water or broath which likewise the worthy Galen reporteth that he did in his olde age yet not eating the â—ame before the boyling for the hardnesse which he founde to ensue by the eating of it rawe notwithstanding the sayd Galene in yong age vsed the rawe Lettuce to represse the heate of choler in the stomacke but when he came to olde age he vsed to eate the lettuce boyled at supper to procure the sweeter and longer sleepe in the night so that the lettuce boyled and eaten at supper or at the houre of going to bed was to him a singular remedie to cause a quiete sleepe The auncient vsed not to eate the Lettuce at the beginning of supper but at the latter ende the reason of which was that seing the Lettuce as we haue aforesayd is of a cold and moyst nature therefore the eating of the same at the ende of supper and mixed with the other dainties in the stomack it causeth the sooner and sounder sleep in the night and this the readyer represseth the vaporous fumes of heady wine and drunkennesse also it is the sooner maistre and stayed thorough the mightie moistening of the braine The Lettuce seedes brused and mixed wyth the white of an egge and womans â—â—lke applyed in playster forme on the temples of foreheade warme at the going to reste doth maruellouslie procure sleepe A lyke to this dothe the iuice of the Lettuce and womans milke of eche a like quantitie to whyche halfe an ounce of white Popie seede brused and applied warme on the forehead The Seede brused and druncke ceasseth the often imaginations of the venereall acte in sleepe and represseth the desire of the naturall acte The worthy Phisitions in oure time haue deuised a more healthfull way for the eating of rawe Lettuce at Dynners and Suppers in the Sommer tyme by mixing with it vineger oyle Olyue and salte which so prepared ioyning with other meates on the table that the same may stirre vp the feeble appetite caused by great heate and bothe temper the burnyng of bloud and mitigate the heate of the lyuer and hearte notwithstanding the herbe in this maner prepared ought waryly to be vsed seâ—ng the immoderate vse of the herbe as afore vttered doth extinguishe the earneste will to the venereall acte The married persons desiring the procreation of children oughte soberly and measurably feede on the Lettuce but to the Cholericke persons this hearbe is not denyed so that the coldnesse of it with Rocket Cresses â–ª Mintes Maioram and suche like be afore tempered to the apter cooling of their stomackes The commended vertues of the distilled water of Lettuce THe Garden Lettuce gathered aboute the middle of Maye oughte after the finely shredding to be distilled wyth a softe fyre in eyther Balneo Mariae or Tynne Lymbecke This water of the crisped or Garden Lettuce druncke to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time bothe morning and euening profiteth the Lyuer in that by nature it cooleth and comforteth the same and cooleth the bloud inflamed The water in like manner drunke stayeth the perillous Flixe Disenteria and other vehemente Flixes of the bellie this amendeth the trembling of mâ—mbers and healpeth those
or Gardener whiche woulde haue plantes growe vnto a greater bignesse than customable ought to remoue after four or fiue leaues be well come vppe and set them againe as out of one bedde bestowed into another and like from one Bordure into an other Although the owner maye at all seasons dispose plantes at hys will and pleasure yet is it better commended that all plantes bee chaunged into other Earth prepared when showers of rayne haue well moystned and softned the same The plantes also remoued and set agayne into a fatte Earthe well laboured and dressed needeth besides as Columella witnesseth no other amendemente by dung The skilful Neapolitane Palladius Rutilius in his worthy worke of Husbandry reporteth that when the Gardener hath bestowed sundrye kindes of seedes in one bedde togither whych after the dyligente watering bee so rysen that foure or fiue leaues of diuerse plantes are sprung aboue the Earth suche then after this Authours consent maye well bee remoued and set agayne into beddes workmanly prepared a certaine distance asunder being such plantes that before the setting require to hane the toppes of the leaues and endes of the rootes cut off wherby they may the freelyer grow vppe broade in Touffe or bigge in roote Those kindes of seedes which after their committing to the Earth and dyligente wateryng neede not after certaine leaues sprung vp to be remoued maye the owner or Gardener bestowe as Rutilius witnesseth in the Beddes the thynner the Moone herein remembred The worthy Columella in instructions of the Garden wylleth the owner or Gardener hauing an occasion to pull vp plantes and sette them agayne in Beddes and that the grounde the same tyme for the lacke of rayne bee ouer drye and harde to moysten and soften well the Earth a daye before with water sprinckled forth by a wateryng potte seruing onlye to that vse And certayne of these whiche require to bee sette a good distance asunder the worthy Rutilius wylleth to clippe off the toppes of the yong leaues and the endes of the rootes to cutte awaye before the bestowing agayne in Beddes workmanly prepared as lyke the Coleworte Cabedge Lettuce greate Leeke Nauewe and Rape agayne a good distaunce asunder are the Cucumber Gourde Melone Artichocke Nigella Romana and sundry otherâ— which thus placed in Beddes artly prepared may the readyer and handsomer be weeded and cherished by earth digged about so often as neede shall requyre wherby the plantes through helpe of diligent watering and furtheraunce of the Moone in the setting are after procured to increase the better and delectabler to the eye The yong settes for the Garden of pleasant delight and smell may the owner or Gardener also bestow in Bordurs at al seasons although better commended to bee done in the Spring time in breaking of the slyps or Braunches of one yeares groweth from the bodies of olde stockes and in wrything the endes aboute so to set them a good deapth into the Earth the Moone at that time drawing neare to hir chaunge and knowen to be vnder the Earth which much furthereth the settes in the sooner taking of roote But the skilfull Columella rather willeth to cleaue the ende of the Braunche or slyppe beneath into whyche clefte an Ote grayne to bee thrusted or puâ— and in y e setting deepe into the grounde to bestowt Ote graynes rounde about the same the Moone then neare to hir change rather than any dung And those yong Herbes whiche the Gardener myndeth to remoue neede not sayeth thys Columella to bee stryked aboute the rootes with any Dung but rather that the endes of theyr rootes before the setting agayne be cutte off as I aboue vttered The Marigolde Daysie Collumbine Primrose Conslippe sweete John Gilyfloures Carnations Pinckes and sundry other delectable floures are procured to increase the bigger fayrer and doubler if the owner or Gardener do often chaunge these into Beddes workmanlye prepared the Moone at those tymes consydered to bee increasyng of lyghte and that a diligence bestowed in the often watering As touching the pulling vppe of sundry dayntie Hearbes of pleasaunt sauour and that these â—o be sette agayne in Beddes orderly prepared after the course of the Moone with a care and dilygence to bee bestowed particularly on moste plantes of the Garden shall at large be vttered in the seconde parte of thys treatise where we purpose â—o iâ—treate of many laudable and weighty matters besydes The plantes which after certaine leaues spring vppe neede not to bee remoued into other Beddes are the Spynage Arache Dyll Sperage Sorrell Cheruile Parsely and dyuerse other of like sorte The laudable instructions of the wise in the gathering and preseruing of the greater number of Kitchyn Herbes and rootes with the times aptest for the like doing by aâ— floures dainty Herbes and rootes to the vse of physicke Chap. 26. THe best and worthyest rootes of Hearbes are for the more parte to be gathered in apt places when the leaues are beginning to fal off and the fruites or seedes already shedde so that the season be fayre for done in a raynie time the rootes be caused the weaker and filled wyth rude moysture The floures in like manner are to be gathered as the Borage Buglosse and al others of like sorte when they be wholly opened and before they feble except the floures of the Rose and Jacemyne whyche ought to bee gathered for the better and longer keeping before they bee much or rather but little opened The leaues and whole Herbes are to be gathered wheÌ„ these be come to their ful growth and perfection The fruites as the Melone Cucumber Cytrone and Gourde when these appeare yealowe and be come to their perfitte growth and perfection The seedes in like condition are to bee gathered when they be well ripened and before y e seeds shed on y e earth but those which remayn after the Herbes through dryed ought to be rubbed furth with the hands and kept vnto the time of sowing Here remembring that the seedes ought to bee gathered in a cleare season and in the wayne of the Moone And this for a general rule obserue that al those to be gathered as the Hearbes floures rootes fruites and seedes are to be done in a fayre and drye season and in the decrease of the Moone The Hearbes which the owner mindeth to preserue are afore to bee cleane picked and clensed and dryed in the shadowe being a place open towardes the South not moyste and free from smoake and dust These after are to be put in leather Bags rather than into Canuase the mouthes at the hanging vppe faste tyed and into wooden Boxes of the Boxe tree to the ende the Hearbes maye not lose theyr proper vertue as wee see those persons to doe whiche preserue daintie Hearbes for the winter time So that the Potecaries in my opinion are verye negligente which hang vppe the Physicke Hearbes in their open shoppes and warehouses through whiche the vertue of these not onlye breath away but the bags charged and
be often digged vnder and left hollow of Earthe that the rootes may growe within the stronger This Hearbe is supposed to growâ— the greater beeing not remoued at all and for that cause the plantes thinne bestowed in beddes do euermore ioy and encrease the better The plant in like manner encreaseth and becommeth the sooner greate through the often and diligent weeding exercised about the same To be briefe this plant after the mind of Rutilius requireth to be watered all the hote and drie seasons vnto the time of Haruest in that the same delighteth and encreaseth the faster through the dayly moysture bestowed on it The Phisicke benefytes of the Orache THe Seedes of this Herbe may bee kepte to vse for foure yeares and these through their clensing qualitie healpe greately the stopping of the Liuer causing the sheading of the Gaule or yellowe Jandise Two drammes of the Seedes brused ministred with two ounces of Hony and a draught of warme water and drunke fasting dothe on such wise by vomiting caste vp Choller The Herbe in qualitie is knowen to be colde in the firste degree and moyst in the second through whyche reason it softneth the bellie The Herbe smallie nourisheth in that the licour or iuice of it is waterie and slipperie through whiche it lightly looseth the bellie and the leaues after the brusing layd in playster forme on hote impostumes and swellings and like on the Shingles doe both speedelie coole and heale them The Seedes after the brusing taken with a quantitie of Hony and the same sundry times healpeth such as fetch the winde hardly The Seedes like vsed doe expell the Wormes in the Bellie and prouoke vomiting Pythagoras greately misliked the Orach in that the same as he affirmed caused by the often eating both a palenesse of face and the kings euill But the worthy Dioseorides farâ—e otherwise iudged in that hee affirmed the Arache Seedes to healp the Jandise The Arache also helpeth suche as haue a hote Lyuer If the Hearbe Mercurie with the Orach be diligently boyled and the broath sundry times vsed it doth both loose the Bellie and deliuereth the paine of the Bladder The person dayly vsing the decoction or broth of the Orach with the Hearbe Mercurie and Beetes for a time togither doth speedely deliuer and ridde the Agew The Orach eaten is thought profitable for the person spitting bloud The Herbe brused and applyed to the bellie not onely clenseth the defaultes or corrupt matter within the priuie place but ceasseth in shorte time the paynefull griefe of the Matrice The Orache brused and layd in playster forme on any member hurte eyther with Thorne or Nayle doth with expedition drawe the same forth and healeth it The Herbe boiled with hony and applyed on rough nayles of the fingers dothe within short time loose them off The Orache brused and after the mixing with hony applyed in playster forme doth in short time remoue the aching paine of the hote Goute in the feete The Hearbe so tender and soft boyled as any other Potte Hearbe and eaten of the patient doth not only soften the bellie hardned or costiue by heate but remoueth diuers swellings What singular skill and secretes to be knowen in the sowing remouing and setting againe of the worthy Hearbe named Sperage Chapter 5. THe field and garden Sperage ioyeth in a fatte moist and wel drâ—ssed Earth and the Hearbe growen vp to heigth hath by euery leafe growing forthe a redde Bearie hanging downe in whiche a Seede is that the Hearbe in the sowing commeth of The Seedes to be committed to the Earth as the worthy Didymus in his Greeke instructions of Husbandrie reporteth ought to bee bestowed in the Spring time into little holes of three fingers deepe in whiche the owner or Gardener may putte two or three Seedes togyther well halfe a foote distante one from the other whyche thus bestowed require after no more trauell nor care for the first yeare sauing the digging about and plucking vp of weedes growing among them But for the sowing and increase of the Sperages it shall be to great purpose and commoditie to heare the wittie preceptes and instructions of Marcus Cato Columella Plinie and Palladius like agreeing The Seedes say they as muche as three fyngers can take vppe to one tyme maye the owner or Gardener workemanly putte and lyghtely couer in Earthe bothe fatte and dunged and in verye little furrowes so straight made as a line whyche on this wise handled will by the fortith day after growe so inward in the Earthe that the rootes shot forth wil clasp and fold one in another as if they ioyned togither in one and for the same named of the auntiente Gardeners Earth Spunges If the places in whiche you purpose to committe the Seedes shall bee drie then these layd in soft dung lying alowe in the furrowes shall on suche wise bee ordered and couered as if they lay or were bestowed in little Hyues But in a contrary manner shal the owner or Gardener worke and doe in continuall moyst places for the Seedes in like places shall bee bestowed on high ridges workemanly raysed with dung that the moysture maye lesser annoy the plantes in the growing which only ought to be fed or watered with the moysture passing by and not still to abide in that moysture to be cloyed with it The Seedes on such wise bestowed will yeelde a Sperage in the firste yeare whiche the owner or Gardener shall then breake or cutte off beneath But if the owner assay to pull at it neere the ground the small rootes as yet tender and weake in the Earth may happen to rise and followe with the whole Spunge whiche therefore workemanly broken off ought thus to be fedde and nourished in one proper place growyng still for two yeres with dung and diligent weeding In the other yeres following the Sperage shal not be broken off by the stalke but plucked vp by y t roote that the same may so open the eyes of his branching for except the plant be handled on such wise the stemmes broken off will not encrease the eyes of the Spunges but rather growe as blinde so y t these will not after suffer the Sperage to yeeld or send forth the proper encrease The same shal y e Gardener preserue of whiche hee gathered the seede and burne after the croppes knobbed endes or iointes of the same Herbe After this about the Winter time shal the owner lay or bestowe on the Spunges both ashes dung whiche the learned M. Cato rather willeth to be Sheepes dung There is another manner and way of sowing by Spunges onely which after two yeares ought to be remoued into a Sunny wel duÌ„ged place The like furrowes ought to be made well a fote distante one from the other and not aboue twelue fyngers deepe in which the tender yong Spunges are so to be set that lightly couered with Earthe they may easily spring and shoote vp But in the Spring time before they shall
the thyrd water boyled to giue a very good norishment to the eater being boyled with fat fleshe and other pleasaunte spices added yet are they weaker than the green in working although the euilnesse of the iuyce no longer remayning nor felte The raw Onyon moderately vsed according to the rule of Phisick heateth and cutteth asunder grosse and clammy humours openeth the wayes of the vaynes prouoketh the Termes and vrine and increaseth the appetite the iuyce also drawen vp by the Nosethrels or the sauor receiued by the Nose purgeth maruellously the heade The Onyon is better commended to be eaten than the sauoure allowed in that the person whiche dayly eateth of the yong and tender Onyons with Hony fasting shall continue a longer time in perfitte helth and strength The iuyce remoueth the white spottes as wel on the face as bodye the iuyce applyed wyth Hennes greace healeth the kybes gallyng of the heeles by a straight shooe The Juice mixed with Hens greace and annointed remoueth the red and wanne spottes of the face the Onion brused with vineger and annointed on scabbed places both healeth and causeth a cleare skinne The Onions after the boyling in wine or water fried in Oyle and applied in plaister forme vnder the nauell aswageth the painfull gripings and fluxe happening to women in child bed the Onions rosted vnder hotte embers and mixed with leuen and oyle of Lillies and applied in plaister forme on impostumes speedily breaketh and procureth them to runne The commended vertues of the distilled Water of the Onions THe moste chosen and aptest time for the distilling of Onions is in the first moneth of Haruest for then ought the roots to be shred and workmanly distilled This water drunke foure or fiue times vnto the quātitie of two ounces at a time recouereth the swelling caused by the bitte of a mad dog or other beast the same drawne vp by the nostrels aswageth the greuous paine of the head The water helpeth the ache payn of the teeth if they be eyther rubbed or washed with the same thys also causeth heares to growe in any balde place of the head if the same be annointed wyth it the drinking of the water expelleth wormes What care skill and secreates to be learned in the sowing and ordering both of the lesser and greater Garlike Chap. 21. THe Garlike muche desired and often eaten of the husbandman with fat Beefe and other sodden meates ioyeth in an earth especially white diligently digged and labored without any dung bestowed in it whose cloues broken off from the heade ought to be bestowed on the borders of beds rounde about well a hand-bredth asunder about the same tyme when the Onions are and these with the beddes or little ridges made in forme to suche in the fielde to be highe raised wherby the plantes commyng vp maye the lesser be harmed with the shoures falling and the naturall moisture consisting in the earthe The Cloues set in the ridges and borders of the beddes may not be deepe nor the earthe raysed on them like to hillockes as manye do but in an euen manner and vnto the middle ioyntes bestowed whych when they shall haue yeelded or sente vp three blades then these to be diligently weeded about for throughe the often dooyng they encrease the better and yeelde a bigger heade The Neapolitane Rutilius writing of the Garlike in his instructions of Husbandry willeth that the seedes to be committed to the earthe in the moneths of Nouember December January and Februarye in a grounde well digged and laboured and the same white without any dung bestowed in it besides the earth the same tyme indifferent drye in a warme day for the seedes on suche wise handled are caused to prosper and yeeld the better Although the learned Plinie seemeth to write that the seedes bestowed in the earth doe slowly come vp whereby these in the firste yeare only yeelde a heade no greater than a Leeke but in the seconde yeare they growe deuided and in the thirde yeare come to their full growth and perfection and suche some suppose to be the fairer and seemelier The Seedes of the Garlike wyth vs better agree to be bestowed in the moneths of September October February and March in a earth white indifferent drye and well laboured wythout dunging If anye happen to remaine in beddes as 〈◊〉 reporteth after the seedes full ripe and gone those then renew in the yeare following of the owne accorde both in the roote and blade yea yeelde seedes the same yeare whiche may after be sowen in well laboured beddes to sende forthe greene Garlike If the owner woulde possesse Garlike both great and bigge in the Heade then before the same bee shotte vppe into a stemme hee muste workmanlye tye all the toppes of the greene blades to an other growing nexte to it whiche after treade softly downe with the foote The worthy Rutilius willeth that when the stemme begynneth to appeare to couer the same with Earthe after the treading downe whiche in suche maner to foresee that it encrease not into a bushe or many blades this so handled in the hard treading downe to be dayly applied that the Juice may run to the roote and cause the head to waxe the bigger The like of which Plinie in his time firste experienced The worthy Sotion in his greke obseruations of husbandry also Rutilius with certaine others reporte that if the cloues of Garlike heades be committed to the Earthe and the like pulled out of the grounde when the Moone shall bee discending and vnder the Horizone as hidde to vs that the stinking sauoure will in a manner bee extinguished so that the breath of the eaters shall very little be felte which Plinie seemeth somwhat otherwyse to vtter instructing that the heades vnto the same purpose oughte to be bestowed when the Moone shal bee vnder the Earthe and to bee gathered when the Moone shall bee in coniunction or wyth the Sunne The saide Greeke Sotion seemeth to affirme that the Garlike heads maye bee caused to growe sweete of fauoure if in the setting the kernels of Olyues after the ioynyng wyth them be bestowed togyther in the Earthe or the sharper endes blunted on some stone and then committed to the earth or else in the setting that lies of the Oliues be bestowed with the cloues The singuler Didymus Ruellius noting the same vttereth or rather Sotion as the Greeke copy sheweth that the lothsomnesse or stinking sauoure by the eating of Garlicke heades is abolished or put away if the greene and rawe beane bee soone after eaten Others there are which will the roote of the Bete to be eaten after the rostyng vnder hotte embers affirming the same to be sufficiente to remoue the strong sauour Also with the like remedy Menander one of the Greeke writers witnesseth as Plinie writeth of him the sauour to be dissebled and bidde Oure later writers of husbandrye and Phisicke reporte ▪ that the rancke sauour of Garlike may be extinguished with the onely eating
skil is requyred in the sowing and ordering both of the Scalion and Squyll Onyon Chap. 2◠THe Scalyons better prosper and come vp being set than sowen for when they are committed to the erth in the Seedes the owner may not hope for a seemely groweth of them before the seconde yeare The owner may bestow y e Scallions in wel dressed beds frō y e beginning of Nouēber vnto the end of Februarie for to enioy the proper yelde the next Spring following and they require to bee likewise set in the grounde as afore taught of the Garlik But they are to bee plucked vp to vse before that the March vyolettes be in their full pride and flourish for if these be longer suffered as vnto the time of the perfit flourishing of the violettes they are then founde feeble and wythered And for to knowe when the Scallions are rype it behoueth the Gardener to marke whether the blades beneath be wythered for on such wise seene denoteth the ful rypenesse of them And to possesse Scalions with bigge heades it behoueth the Gardener to bestowe rounde about the rootes softe Cow dung and to water them often which growen to a reasonable height he must also treade downe and order as afore vttered in the using of the Leeke The Squyl Onyon better commeth forwarde in the Garden being set with the heade than sowen in the seede for when the seedes are committed to the Earth they yeelde slowlye their seemelye bushe and heades The owner maye bestowe the heades of the Squyll Onyons in well laboured and dressed Beddes so that the ground bee of a drye nature and tending vnto a Saltnesse whether grauellie or Sandie for they desire a like diligence to be bestowed on them as is afore vttered of the Onyon and Garlike The auntient and latter writers reporte that there are two kyndes of the Squil Onion as the Male and Female the Male yelding white leaues and the Female blacke This strong by nature will continue in the hanging vp in a shadowie place a long time greene and it lightly groweth as Theophrastus writeth bestowed in drie Earth speedily shooteth vp to a height it keepeth fruites to be preserued especiallye Pomegranates the stalkes afore broken off and this is sayde to beare floure thrice in a yere foreshewing by it the three seasons of cōmitting seedes to the Earth as the first tyme of bearing floures to signifie the first tyme of plowing the seconde time of floure bearing the seconde time the thirde the last time for how many times these appeare euē so often is the Earth accustomed to be laboured The floure also of the Squil Onyon as Beritius writeth shooting vp in a straight stemme if so be it doth not hastily wyther signifieth the large or plentiful yeelde of fruites The Phisicke helpes both of the Scalion and Squil Onion AS touchyng the benefite of the Scalions there is no other ayde nor profite to be hoped after sauing that these yeelde a more delight to the mouth than the helth of the body for the Scallions serue to no other purpose than to styrre vppe or moue persons vnto the veneriall act The Squyll Onyon hath the vertue of heatyng in the seconde degree and cuttyng especiallye of the toughe matter in the stomacke The Squyll Onyon vsed rawe is verye hurtful to the body especially to the inwarde members or partes for which cause the Squyll Onyon is not inwardly to be taken except they afore be either rosted or boyled or by some other maner prepared The worthiest force of the same in Medicines is by sharpuing it especially with vyneger for whyche cause being so prepared named the Squilitike vyneger the makyng of whyche is after thys manner Take the heades cleane pilled from the outwarde skynnes those after the shredding hang in a Sunnye place being stytched through wyth small Packthreed in suche manner that the partes bee a prety dystance asunder whcyh like handled let hang for xl days space The drye peeces after bestowe into a Hogs heade of moste sharp◠vineger but in suche manner that these of no parte touche the vessell The Hogs heade after couered so close that no vapours maye breath forth and set into the hotte Sunne After the xlvii daye let the vessell be lift vp and the pieces taken forthe whyche done the owner shall then possesse a moste sharpe vineger There are others whych make the Squiliticke wyne after thys maner y e pieces of it shred they bestow into a vessel of wine new made y t being put in it may on such wise heate togither they vse this wine to those purposes as the vineger The Physicke commodities of the Squill Onyon are as the learned Constantyne in hys booke de gradibus vttereth to amende the dropsie persons suche fetching the winde hardely the defaultes of the Liuer and Mylte proceeding of clammy humours The persons sicke of the Ague and hauing exulcerations or soares wythin the bodye oughte to refrayne the taking of the Squyliticke vineger For the Squiliticke vineger or wyne purgeth grosse fleume and corrodeth procureth the going to the stoole and vrine and causeth vomyting The Squil Onyon after the minde of Dioscorides is rosted after thys manner thys wrought in Paste or Elay sette into an Ouen or couered wyth coles vntyll the paste or crust about it bee sufficientlye baked which drawen or taken forth if the heade be yet not sufficiently softned then after the couering of it wyth paste the seconde tyme and set in an Ouen bake the same throughly The Onyons are also kindly baked or rosted in an Earthen potte the mouth well stopped wyth dowe or course paste and sette into the Ouen Thys besides cut into rounde pieces and after the flitching through wyth Packthreede that these be a prety distaunce asunder hang in the ayre from the Sunne beames for on such wise handeled it serueth to the makyng of the Oyle vineger and wine The singular Dioscorides teacheth the manner of boylyng the Squyll Onyon after thys sorte Take the middle partes the outwarde skynnes pylled awaye whiche after the slycing into partes and boyled throwe the firste water forth on whyche poure other water boyling in lyke condition and thys so often doe vntill no more bytternesse nor tartnesse in the water be felte after these the slyces hanged vppe and dryed in the shadowe as aboue vttered whych done if halfe a dramme of the fine pouder bee sucked downe wyth Honye the same amendeth the long continuance of the hard fetchyng of breath an olde coughe and the griefes both of the Lyuer and Mylte yea the dropsie and Jaundise The lyke worketh the Squiliticke vyneger and the same expelleth wormes and other corruptions in the bodie The Oximel made of the Squilitick vyneger expelleth Malancholie remoueth y e Apoplexie falling sicknes breaketh sendeth forth y e stone the same also purgeth the Matrice of Clammye humours and helpeth the ache in the Hippes The Squilliticke vineger fastneth the teeth by sundrye tymes
open fielde and where Corne grewe if so be the grounde be diligently plowed and the rootes weeded foorth these after the bestowyng in the Earthe may the owner only couer with the harrowe or rake bicause the seedes lye shallow on the ground The Seedes ioy in an open fielde far from the shadowe of Trees in that these lying vnder shadow be muche harmed if the owner minde to commit Seedes to the earth in a drye season he may then bestow them in some well dressed place being moiste and shadowie thicke togyther after the maner of the Coleworte After this when the plantes be well growen vp and the earthe sufficiently moistned with shoures the owner maye remoue and sette the plantes in larger places well dressed from the ende of August vnto the entring of the Sunne into Libra or middle of September The Rapes to serue in the winter time oughte to be gathered in the moneth of October and those whiche are the fairer by plucking away the outward leaues may be set againe in well dunged and dressed earth to yeelde Seedes the Sommer following And to preserue the Rape or Turnup rootes to serue the Winter and Lente time the owner may worke after this manner by washing first the rootes and these raw bestowe in rankes one vppon another and in eche rank strew salt fennell seedes and sauerie or only couer them with salte close couched and on suche wise letting these remayne for eyghte dayes poure so muche faire water vppon as will well couer them Whiche done lette the vessell stande in some vaulte or Seller to serue for the aboue saide times or longer if the owner will if so be he fill vp the vessell when these lye bare and drye These hitherto Ruellius in his instructions of husbandry This one thing is in maruellous and worthy the noting so small a seede to encrease in roote to suche a bignesse as wee manye tymes see them of which the like hathe bene seene to haue wayed thirtie yea fortie pounde weighte to the admiration of many The owner oughte especially to take heed that the seedes to be committed to the Earthe be not aboue three yeares olde For the grounde otherwise of the Rapes will change and bring foorth Colewortes For to enioy faire and big rootes let the owner new sette those rootes which be grown vnto a finger bignesse wel a span distant one from the other Which done and these somwhat more growen the owner ought to treade downe with the 〈◊〉 and diligentlye couer the heades thicke with Earthe whereby the Juice of the leaues and stalkes may runne to the encreasing of the rootes The rootes after the gatheryng in the moneth of Nouember maye likewise be preserued to serue the Winter and Lente time as afore is vttered of the Nauewe The phisicke vertues and helpes of the Rapes THe Rapes brate in the seconde degree and moisten in the firste these cause many humoures hardely digests and encrease muche winde The sowen Rapes are harde of digestion whyche notwythstandyng boyled doe swell the bellye and encrease humours in the body The Rapes haue a maruellous propertie in sharpning the sighte as the singuler Auerrois writeth Yet these throughlye boyled as I afore vttered to be done by the Nauewes doe yeelde a nourishement and are profitable to the body contrariwise these eaten rawishe or not wel boiled doe hardelye digeste cause winde in the body and moleste the stomacke The Rape seedes vsed in the steede of Triacle recouereth and helpeth poysoning if any hauing druncke or eaten poyson shal take the seeds brused in water and honye this of experience knowen represseth or abateth the force of the poison that the same can not harme The Rape or Turnup roots confected with vineger doth coole and ingender winde yet these extinguishe the hot and dry bloude of whiche moste greate and perillous sicknesses are caused The rootes and seedes eaten doe stirre and moue the veneriall acte They are profitable to helth being eaten after the third boyling and if any foule arayed with scabâ— whych represent the kinde of a Leaprie do wash al the body with the water in which the Rape seeds shall afore be boiled it doth w t the same cause in shorte time a fairer clearer skin The rape roots boiled in May butter after the tender see thing eateÌ„ with a little salte doe loose the breaste the decoction of theâ—â— taken ceasseth a drye cough boiled with oyle Olive and eaten with pepper and a little salte doe helpe digestion The rootes daily eaten do engender grosse humoures for whiche cause greatly misliken of Democritus to be vsed for a proper sustenaunce The decoction or broth of the roots tenderly boyled applied on palsie members the hot Eâ—â—te and kiâ—eâ— hecles do speedilye amend and help these if any in the side of the roote after the makyng of a hole doe bestow in it the oile of roses and vnwrought waxe and after the tender roastyng vnder hotte embers doe applye the same in vlcered or sore kybes it shal in short time cure them The benefites of the distilled water of Rapes THe Garden Rape or Turnup both leaues and rootes shred ought to be distilled about the rude of June in a Tinne Lymbecke This water preuayleth against the galling of members if those bee dayly washed and supled with the same and that a linnen cloth wet in it be applyed twice or thrice a day This helpeth any burning or scalding if the same be washed with it but after a crust gathered on the place the same will in no manner bee remoued but through the dayly washing of it with this water whiche in the ende perfitly cureth the sore The distilled water of the putrified Rapes applyed often hot with a linnen cloth wet in it doth greatly profit the swellyng and sores of the feete caused of colde What skil and diligence is required with the secretes to be learned in the sowing and ordering of the Radish Chap. 26. THe Garden Radish with vs is better knowen than I with pen can vtter the discription of the same for in a maner euery person aswel the rich as the poore the Cytizen as Countreyman when their stomacke is slacke or yrketh at meate they then to procure an appetite to feeding by the same roote by cutting y e rootes eyther into a length on eche side or into round slyces do workmanlye season them with salte beating them for the more delight to the mouth betweene two 〈◊〉 supposing a more tendernesse caused to the rootes through the like â—doyng whose care and diligence in the bestowing of it in the Earthe oughte after the minde of Columella to bee after this manner then the beddes before the bestowing of the seedes be wel labored and workmanly turned in with dung and when the rootes be growen to some bignesse then the Earthe to bee raysed and diligentlye heaped aboute them for if the rootes shall bee naked or lye bare of Earthe that doth the Sunne and ayre beate vppon them then wyll
the drying finely beating and searsing of the seedes vseth the same in steede of a clensing pouder The learned Galen writing of the vse and properties of the Cucumbers vttereth an instruction worthy the learning that although these sayth he be well digested of the Chollericke and that suche wythout care eate plentie or muche at a time of them doe after in the continuance of time increase a cold and somwhat grosse humour in the veines whyche not able to be digested in them doeth after corrupte the sounde bloude For that cause saithe he I iudge it profitable to refraine the meates being of an euill Juice and nourishemente although that those in certaine persons may easily be digested For to vs not takyng a care and regard of them is an euill Juice gathered after a good distance of time in the veines which assoone as the same once putrified by a lyghte occasion doth immediatly kindle and cause wicked feuers these hitherto Galen of the incommodities of the Cucumbers What skil and secreates are to be learned in the sowing and workmanly ordering of the Gourde Chap. 30. AL the kindes of the Gourdes requyre the same trauaile and diligence in the bestowing in the Earthe as afore vttred of the Cucumbers which after the large setting asunder and often watering appeare for the more parte aboue the Earthe by the sixte or seuenth day after the bestowing in beds The weake and tender braunches shot vp to some heigth and coueting by a certaine propertie in nature vpward require to be diuersly aided with poles to run vp in sundry manners as either ouer a rounde and vaulted Harboure to giue a more delighte throughe the shadowe caused by it and the seemely fruites hanging downe or else by poles directed quite vprighte in whiche the Gourde of all other fruites most earnestly desireth rather than to run braunching and creeping on the grounde like to the Cucumbers The plants loue a fat moyst and dunged loose ground as the Neapolitan Rutilius in his instructions of husbandry hath noted If a diligēce be bestowed in the oftē watring of them the plants require a lesser care and trauaile in that they are very muche furthered by the store of moisture although there may be found of those which resonably prosper with small store of moysture or being seldome watered and that they of the same yeelde fruite of a delectabler taste If the owner or Gardner happen to commit Seedes to the Earthe in a drye grounde and that the tender plants appear aboue the Earth hys care shall then bee to water them plentifullye for the speedier shooting vp after this manner by taking certayn pottes filled with water into whiche tongues of clothe afore layde to the bottoms of the pottes that these may the workmanlier distill and droppe often on the plants through y e stouping forward of them which no doubt profiteth greatly the plantes in drowth and hot seasons The longer and smaller haue fewe Seedes in them and for the same more delectable in the eating yea these better accompted of and solde in the Market The Gardner minding to committe of the Seedes to the Earthe oughte afore to stiepe them in a boll or panne of water for a nighte whereby the Seedes apte to be sowen may the surer be knowen whiche hee shall well perceiue by those resting in the bottome of the cunninger sorte preferred and vsed but the others swimmyng aboue as vnprofytable and seruing to no vse are willed to be throwen away The chosen Seedes are to be set in beds two togither with three fingers vnto the middle Jointes and the sharper endes fixed vpward but the beds afore oughte to be digged two foote deepe and so many broad and the Seedes bestowed well three or foure foote asunder one from the other in these filled vp with olde dung well turned in with the earth or rather to procure them speedier to grow and yeelde the fruite the sooner lette the beddes be filled with hotte horse dung new taken oute of the stable If the Gardner woulde possesse Gourdes of diuers formes as long rounde and shorte it behoueth hym to choose and sette the seedes accordinglye For those Seedes taken oute of the necke of the Gourde shall the owner after the councell of the singular Columella learned Plinie and Rutilius set in well dunged ground with the sharpe endes vpwarde Which after the well watering as aboue taught yeelde fruits long in fourme tenderer and better esteemed The Seedes taken oute of the myddes of the bellye and sette into the Earthe with the bigge endes vpwarde doe yeelde after the husbandely handeling and watering greate fruites rounde and large of whiche after the through drying and meate taken oute bee bottels and other vessells made to serue for diuers vses in that these growe farre larger in the belly than any of the other kindes The Seedes taken oute of the bottome of the Gourde and set with the grosse or big endes vpwarde doe also yeelde after the workmanlye ordering fruits both greate and large yet these far lesser and shorter And the Seedes in generall in what place they bee sette oughte to be bestowed in earth well dunged and the rather with hot horse dung new taken out of the stable if these bee set in the moneth of March But y e seeds in no maner may be bestowed in low places lest shours of rain falling hinder and corrupte the fruites throughe the ouermuche water cloying and standyng in the Alley or other low place The plants shot vppe to some heigthe oughte to bee diligentlye weeded aboute and the earthe heaped highe vp and when neede requyreth in the hot seasons to water them often If the Seedes happen to bee set in a Earthe smally laboured and hollowe when the plants be somwhat growen aboue the grounde the owner oughte to digge away of a good depthe from the yong plantes the Earthe rounde aboute that the rootes may the freelier runne and spreade abroad the plants further growen and shot vp may the owner erecte to runne and spreade like to a Uine well a mans heigthe If the plantes happen to be annoyed with the Leke or Garden fleas the owner shal remoue and driue them away by the only setting of the herbe Organye in sundry places among them on whiche if these happen to lighte they eyther are incontinente killed or caused to encrease but few after as the Greeke writers of husbandry in their skilful practises witnesse Out of which with diligence we haue also gathered these that to the owner or gardner may happily appere profitable as the Gourde a matter somwhat strange to yelde fruits without seeeds If the Seedes before the setting be stieped for three dayes at the least in Sesaminum or Sauine oyle as the Neapolitane Rutilius vttereth or in the Juice of that hearbe infused named Conyza in Englishe Fleabane The like may bee wroughte if after the condition of the Uine the principallest and firste stemme shotte vp be on such wise digged about
partes annointed with it doth muche auaile For prouokyng of the Termes and clensing the matrice let a fomente be often applied with the water of the decoction of the same The commended vertues of the distilled water of Celondine THe time of gathering and distilling the Celondine is that the herb with the whole substaunce be small shred and distilled in the middle of May. The distilled water druncke vnto the quantitie of foure ounces at a time bothe morning and euening expelleth the yelowe Jaundise this drunke in the like manner auaileth againste the gripings of the belly The distilled water druncke in the abouesayde manner mitigateth the ague and remoueth scabbes caused of colde if they often be bathed or soupled with it The distilled water drunke vnto the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time eyther twise or thrise a daye profiteth vnto the stoppyng of the liuer and milte This water dropped into the eyes correcteth the pinne and webbe putteth away the rednesse of them and causeth a sharpe and redy sight If the mouthe be washed with the saide water it ceasseth the tooth-ache and putteth away spottes of the face if the face bee washed wyth this water The distilled water dryeth and healeth a Canker yea Fistula also and remoueth pestilent pushes if a linnen cloth wette in it be applied on the places twice or thrice a daye The care in the bestowing of the hearbe Filipendula Chap. 40. THe hearbe Filipendula groweth in stonye and roughe places as on hils bearing a leafe like to the wilde parsenep or parseley the stemme bigge and a foote or somwhat more in heigth yeeldyng on the toppe a white floure in the moneth of July after that the Seede like to the Orache and a bigge roote out of whiche many round heades or kernelles growe The roote oughte to be digged vp in the ende of haruest whyche endureth for tenne yeares The Filipendula commeth well vppe in anye Earth yet doeth the Hearbe more ioy beyng sowen or sette in a stonye or grauellye grounde the Seedes require to bee committed to the Earth in the moneth of Aprill and to be like ordered after the shooting vp in the weeding and watering as afore taught of the other hearbes The phisicke commodities of the hearbe Filipendula THe Filipendula of qualitie is hotte and drye in the thirde degree whiche his vehement bitternesse sufficiently declareth The seede leaues and stemme of the Filipendula druncke in wine and hony boyled togyther sende downe the after burden and further the birth of childe The root of the Filipendula brought to pouder and drunk in wine not only helpeth the Kings euill and strangury but the stone payne of the kidneys and ache of the hippes The pouder of this roote taken in wine remoueth the swelling and coldenesse of stomacke healpeth the hardnesse of fetching breath and suche shorte winded yea all sicknesses whych proceede of a colde cause The meale of this roote mixed with meate and giuen to eate recouereth the falling sickenesse by sundry dayes vsing Against the hardnesse of fetching breath take this pouder and Gentiane in like waight and vse the same in meate for this without doubt auaileth in shorte time The commended vertues of the distilled water of Filipendula THe chosen time for the distilling of it is that the whole herbe with the roote be finely shred togither and distilled in the ende of May. The distilled water of Filipendula drunk vnto the quantitie of three ounces at a time bothe morning and euenyng recouereth the plague The said water druncke vnto the quantitie of foure or sixe ounces at a time auaileth against poyson if a man by happe hatne eyther eaten or drunke poyson The distilled water drunke vnto the quantitie of foure ounces at a time both morning and euening dissolueth and cureth the stone of the kidneys and bladder FINIS ¶ A necessary Table to the second part of this Booke briefly shewyng the Physical operations of euery herbe and plant therein conteyned with the vertues of their distilled waters A. ANgelica cureth poysons cleareth bloud and preserueth the body against the plague fol. 162 Angelica auaileth against a pestilente ayre it ceasseth grypings of the belly it recouereth all inwarde griefs it helpeth ruptures it amendeth the dimnesse of sight the bit of a dogge the heate of the feuer deepe woundes renueth fleshe c. fol. 163 Angelica asswageth the ache of the hippes and the Goute it cureth new and olde vlcers fol. 163 Artochoke reformeth the sauoure of the mouth fol. 53 Artochoke causeth vrine and venerial acte fol. 53 Artochoke amendeth the hardnesse of making water and the rancke sauor of the arme pittes fol. 53 Artochoke strengthneth the stomacke and helpeth the priuie places that men childrē may be cōceiued fol. 53 Arage or Orage helpeth y t stopping of the lyuer it ceaseth the sheading of y e gaule or yelow Jandise it casteth vp choler softneth the belly healeth impostumes swellings swimmings drawing of the wind short expelleth worms prouoketh vomityng helpeth a hote lyuer it loseth the bely deliuereth the pain of the blader helpeth the ague profiteth agaynst spitting of bloud it helpeth the matrice draweth a thorne or nayle out of the skinne it loaseth rough nayles from the fyngers it helpeth the hot goute in the feet it softneth the belly being hardened by heate and remoueth swellings fo 18. 19. B. BEere looseth the bellye prouoketh vrine purgeth the body of euil humours it helpeth the smellyng the payne of the eares the payne of the gummes it procareth hear to grow and killeth lyce nittes and dandrie it healeth whelkes blisters of scalding or burning gripings of y t belly stayeth a lose belly driueth away the worms of the belly helyeth the obstructions or stoppings of the lyuer the corrupted Splene and the shingles fo 14. 15 The discommodities of the Beete it grypesh and byteth the stomack and encreaseth euil humours fol. 15 Blete softneth the belly cureth the biting of a scorpion the beating parn of the temples it profiteth the Oyle on the mytt it restrayneth the Termes fol. 17 Borage procureth gladsomnes it helpeth the giddinesse and swimming of the head the trembling and beating of the hearte it encreaseth memorie and remoueth melancolie and the kings euill it doth only comforte Bugiosse preuaileth for the roughnesse of the throat and cough it procureth gladsomnesse it purgeth red Choller it recouereth the Cardiake passion it expelleth the noisome humors of the Lungs it remoueth the swelling of the feet it preserueth a good memory it comforteth the heart and engendreth good bloud fol. 28. 29 ▪ Buckeshorne helpeth the griefs of the ioyntes it bindeth it putteth awaye the feuer fol. 77 Betonie stayeth belching and rawnesse of the stomacke fol. 165 Bitonye profiteth the diseases of the matrice all inward griefs fol. 165 Bitonie purgeth all poyson it profiteth frensy persons falling sicknes palsy ache of the hips it helpeth digestiō stayeth vomiting it expelleth the ague c. fol. 165 Bitonie fastneth broken bones