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
Quartayne or anye other Ague by taking three ounces of the distilled water of the hearbe fastyng well a quarter of an houre before the fytte of colde beginning and lying down to sweate be well couered wyth clothes shall within certaine fittes so vsing hymselfe be deliuered either of the one or other Ague the like doth the decoction of the hearbe or the pouder druncke hot with wine Against eating Cankers or any other putride vlcers there is scarcely to be found any other worthier than the leaues the Juice decoction or water of the blessed Thistle And notable diseases hathe the hearbe recouered especiallye in women whose breastes were eaten and consumed with the Canker euen vnto the bare ribbes by clensing first the places wyth this water and applying after the pouder of the hearbe which on such wise handled healed them in shorte time And Bathes are profitably made of this hearbe for the dissoluing of the stone and prouoking of the Termes What care and secrets ar to be lerned in the sowing and setting of the hearbe Angelica Chap. 33. THe hearbe Smyrnium which at this daye of all the phisitions and poticaries throughe out Europe is named Angelica thys when in the firste yeare it shall come vp of the Seede yeldeth stalkes of a foote and a halfe high a finger bigge rounde tender smoothe and bendyng backe to the Earth these also deuided and spreade foorth into twoo three and manye tymes foure smaller stalkes or armes in whose toppe are leaues in forme like to the leaues of the Smallache but farre greater and those diuided into three partes sharpe fashioned at the ende and growyng vnto twelue fingers in heigth and breadth and greene all the Winter In the second or thirde yere the stemme shooteth vp out of the middle of the leaues and in heigth twoo or somtymes three cubites encreasing a within thombe bignesse for the more parte rounde ioynted whitish and smoothe and as the same were sprinckled with dusty spots and hollowe within beset also wyth leaues in ioynte forme much lesser than the abouesaide Thys also hathe little braunches and certayne stemmes shooting foorth in whose toppe are greate tuffes well fiue or sixe ynches broade and those in forme imbosed rounde and full of whitishe floures in whiche do after succeede twoo seedes conioyned togyther long cornered and of an ashie white coloure those also contained within the hulke be long plaine blacke without white wythin and the tough kernell couered with a rinde or pillyng sharp edged This encreaseth in roote many times so bigge as the hand can clappe aboute and somtimes bigger yea it sendeth foorthe the roote before the stemme bee come vppe whyche roote encreaseth in yeares well a soote of length or into many partes deuided beyng blacke wythout and white wythin bigge softe and full of Juice whiche being cut sendeth foorth a yelow Juice or licoure from the inner side of the rinde and a like licoure is cōtained in the veyns of the leaues but the same more watery The root sedes and leaues possesse an eger taste fretting the iawes somwhat bitter thinne and aromaticke or sweete smelling The moste effectuous of all the partes is the proper licoure nexte the seedes then the roote laste the floures and leaues The hearbe Angelica ioyeth to be sowen in a well laboured earthe and the same rather drye than moiste for the harming by wormes after the commyng vp this requireth to be diligently weeded aboute and seldome watered This Angelica florisheth and beareth floures in the moneths of July and August The phisicke commodities of the Angelica THe hearbe of qualitie is botte and dry in the third degree it openeth extenuateth and dissolueth This hathe speciall properties against poysons it cleareth the bloud and the bodye The roote is soueraigne againste the plague and all manner of poysons the like doth the distilled water of the roote preuaile The pouder of the herbe vnto the quantitie of half a dram with a dramme waighte of pure Triacle gyuen in foure or fiue ounces of the distilled water of the same and the patient well couered to sweate dothe maruellouslie helpe the infection of the plague and sodaine agues or sweating And for lacke of the Triacle may a whole dramme of the pouder be ministred The roote of the hearbe after the infusing in vineger applied to the nose or the pouder of the roote drunke somtimes fasting in wine very muche auaileth agaynste a pestilent ayre The distilled water of the Angelica or pouder of the roote ceasseth gripings of the belly proceeding of colde if the belly otherwise be not costine To be briefe the distilled water and pouder of the roote recouereth all inwarde griefs of the body and in the pleurisie or stitches of the sides this is profitably ministred The pouder of the Angelica or as some write the distilled water of the hearbe helpeth ruptures and the diseases of the Lungs it putteth away gripings of the belly amendeth the strangury sendeth foorth the yongling and Termes and dissolueth all inwarde swellings of the body The roote voyled in wine or water and hony and drunke preuaileth in all the aboue said griefs being in due order ministred The Juice bestowed into hollow teeth stayeth the running of them the water of the hearbe dropped into the eares doth like auaile in the same This also amendeth the dimnesse of sight The leaues of the Angelica wroughte wyth the leaues of Rue and Honey in playster forme and the same workemanly applied doeth not onely heale the bit of a madde Dogge but the sting of venemous wormes This plaister applied on the heade of the patiente sicke of the ague doth in shorte time drawe to it all the heate of the feuer The distilled water Juice and pouder of the hearbe workmanly applied in olde depe woundes do clense and regenerate or renue fleshe in the places The destilled water applied with linnen clothes wet in it doth maruelously assuage the ache of the hippes and goute in that the same consumeth soft and clammy humoures gathered Many other vertues of this hearbe maye bee gathered by the former helpes vttered The seedes haue like properties as the roote possesseth the wilde Angelica is weaker in vertue but boyled in wine and applyed in playster forme doth especiallye cure new and olde vlcers What care diligence is required in the artely sowing of the hearbe Ualerian Chap. 34. THe Ualeriā groweth vp with a long and high stemme ioynted and hollowe bearing on the toppe a tuffe and flowers purple mixed with a whitenesse or white mixed with a rednesse after the forme of Organy the roote as bigge as the little finger and white with manye other small rootes braunching in the earthe and these yelowish of coloure sweete in sauoure and yeelding the force of the spike by a certaine strengthe of the sauoure And this doth Hieronimus booke reporte to be the true Ualerian and that rare to be founde which for the rarenesse is at this day sowen in many Gardens The Ualerian commeth
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
and as tender or rather tenderer although not so delectable and haue good regarde that the seeds be not to old for these then bring forth plaÌ„ts out of kinde of whiche the reporte goeth that seedes sowen become Rapes or Nauews Such seeds as you would to indure for sixe yeres ought to be carefullie preserued Marcus Varro willeth the Coleworte to be sowen in saltie places and when three leaues bee come vp to sifte Nyter or salte Earthe on them so fyne as the froste falling for on suche wise handled these are caused the tenderer delectabler the vertue notwithstanding preserued which like practise is confirmed in y e Greke Husbandrie of Praxamus There be some which vse Ashes in steade of Nyter or for the same cause y t eyther may kil and destroy the Canker wormes which gretly offend waste y e Coleworts in some Gardens The singular Columella reporteth that the Colewort doth come soner softe and tender in the seething and doth kepe the green color without Nyter if the roote lapped aboute with three small blades of the sea weede be againe set in the Earth The worthy Plinie willeth the Reyte or sea weede to be put vnder the stalke in setting againe and vnto the same ende the delicate and tender seething vsed so that the Colewort before y e seething be steeped a time in Oyle and salte but in the seething put in a little salte for the Nitrous and salty substance consisting in it The Coleworte may be caused both bigge and pleasaunte if thrust into a whole you set it vnto the leaues in Earthe that no parte of the stemme bee lefte bare for doubte of perishing and as the same groweth vp in heigth and the earth shrinking from it so continually raise the Earth high vp to the bodie and cut away the outwarde leaues so that no more than the top of the leaues may appeare aboue the Earth The Coleworte often weeded aboute and workemanly dunged waxeth the stronger and causeth the Coleworte to be of a greater increase and tender of leaâ—e Al the yeare through may the Coleworte be cutte seing at the yeare as aforesayde the same may be sowen yet growen to feede it ought not to be cutte The tender tops of y e yong Colewort is greatly coÌ„mended for Sallets so y t somewhat hot both oyle Salt be bestowed vpoÌ„ When raine after a drought in sommer time falleth y e owner may renew those Coleworts decaying by plucking away from theÌ„ the decayed leaues which eyther shall bâ—e drye or eaten in manye places through The Cabedge Cole or white Cabedge may be sowen thick in beds but after certaine leaues come vp remoued into wel dressed beds halfe a yarde asunder growen especially to a bigge stemme or stocke these wel ioy vnder a colde ayre in that they are caused the teÌ„derer and delectabler through sharpe frosâ—es and the heads couered with strawe are caused both rounder and whiter The wrinckled crysped and Romayne Cabedges which of nature are more tender and delicate ought to be soweÌ„ in the month of March and remoued at certaine tymes of the yeare being alwayes watered when nede requireth When the Gardener or owner at any tyme seeth that the leaues of the Coleworte either wythereth or waxeth yealowe the same then is a note of the default of water which like happening causeth the leaues to be yealowe and ful of holes or lythie and feeble or else drye through which of necessity they must feeble and die If the Husbandman or owner would haue Colewortes tender and pleasant as afore vttered let him breake off in the sâ—tting againe the outwarde leaues for the inwarde leaues in the growing will after become better of taste and pleasanter in sauoure than the outwarde leaues were The redde Colewortes naturally growe throughe the aboundaÌ„ce of hotte dung or through the watering or well moystenyng of them wyth y e Lyes of wine or else by the planting of theÌ„ in hot places where the sunne dayly shyneth a long time togither Neuer take the toppes of the Romayne crysped nor the other for your turne and vse but alwayes the thicke leaues downewarde from the heade or toppes All the sortes or kindes of Coleworts may be planted at al seasons so that the tymes and Earth be neyther to colde nor to hot When you mynde to set them againe in holes made with a Dybbel cut away the endes of the rootes least in the setting into the earth they folde or bende to the ground which harme them greatly only those of a big growth are to be set againe which although they slowly take roote yet are they caused the stronger And y e rootes of these neiâ—her desâ—â—e any softe dung nor Riuer mud to be annoynted or layed about them nor to be set in a soft earth in that they ioy prosper in a ground meanly dry although the outward leaues wyther vntil the time a sweete rayne falling recouer their strength Some water the yonger Colewortes with salt water to cause them grow tender c. as afore vttered Plinie that incomparable searcher of the matter of nature reporteth that pottes or other vessels in whiche by water daylye seethyng â— crust or parget so fast cleaueth or is baked to the sides within that the same with no scouring can be gotten off yet by seething the Colewort in this potte the cruste immediatly and with ease falleth off Athenaeus wryteth that the Coleworte ought not in any case to bee planted or sowen neare to the vyne nor the vine in like maner nigh to it for such is the great enmitie betwene these two plants as Theophrastus witnesseth that being both in one plotte togither these so hinder one another that the vine in braunches growing further rather turneth or bendeth backe agayne from the Coleworte than stretching toward it it yeldeth lesse fruite there through And the same to be true Plinie affirmeth the wine in the Butte or Hoggâ—sheade to bee corrupted both in sauoure and taste throughe the Coleworte putte into it but the wyne agayne to be restored through the leaues of the Beete steped in it By which argumeÌ„t or profe Androcides singular in knowledge as the like Plinie writeth reported that the Coleworte grealye auayleth againste drunkennesse Of whiche it is nowe a common exercise among the Egiptians that greatly loue wyne to boile y e Coleworte w t their meates y t in eating of theÌ„ like prepared they may so anoyde y e annoyance of wine after drunke Paxamus a Greke writer of Husbandry reporteth y t if any poureth a little quantitie of wine by drops into y e licour of y e Coleworte boyling y e same after seetheth no more but quailed in streÌ„gth is corrupted changed in licor By a like man may contrarie gather y t the person which would drinke plenty of wyne withoute being ouercome with the same ought to eate afore a quantity of the rawe Coleworte with meate But for this matter heare the sentence of
or rather rosted vnder hotte imbers which after the Artly mixing with old Barrowes grease be in plaister forme applyed to the dayly griefes of the flanckes or sides doth in shorte time preuayle The iuyce of the Coleworte myxed wyth the oyle of Roses and applyed to the foreheade doth remoue the headache procured by heate of the Sun To this Coleworte boyled if you mixe the oyle of Almonds and Juyce of the sweete Pome Granate the same vsed doth in shorte time deliuer a drie coughe The Colewort after the opinion of certaine skilful Phisitions is founde to be harde in digestion swelleth the Bellie harmeth the flewmaticke in that the same increaseth humors and harmeth women hauing the redde course on them for so muche as the same increaseth such a fluxe If you would drie a moyst bellie then after the Colewortes be halfe sodden by pouring forth al the first in a manner poure in other warme water speedily which like boyle againe vntill the Coleworte in thys seething shal be tender and softe and in eating season it with a little pepper and salt but this may not be handled on such wise if you wold vse it for loosing of the bellie for then after the shifting of it out of the first hot licour into a panne standing fast by with oyle and a little salte prepared you must boyle againe vnto the tyme the same be readie The commended benefites of the distilled water of Colewortes THe leaues of the greene and common Coleworte are to bee distilled in a fayre and apte tyme aboute the beginnyng of June This water ministred or receiued vnto the quantitie of three ounces at a time morning and euening stayeth womeÌ„s reddes The distilled water of the Coleworte profiteth the byrth of chyld when the time of deliuerie is at hande if a Napkin wete in it be applyed often to the nose to smel vnto for by that meanes may shee happily be delyuered The like quantitie druncke healpeth the dropping of the vryne And druncke vnto the quantitie of three ounces at a time morning and euening stayeth a loose Bellie The Phisicke helpes of the water of the redde Coleworte THe leaues of the redde Coleworte gathered are to bee distilled in the ende of May. This water drunke in the morning fasting vnto the quantitie of sixe or seuen ounces at a time softneth a harde belly and three ounces at a time vsed for a moneth togither putteth awaye the gyddynesse of the heade thys water profiteth againste the Apoplexie and convulsion or Cramp in the members either drunck or annoynted on the greeued places This water helpeth the trembling and quiueryng of members if those bee often rubbed and suppled with it and the water suffered to drye these into partes by it selfe The linnen clothes wet in it applyed on inflame 〈◊〉 putteth away the heate and ceasseth or â—â—ageth the swâ—llingâ— and orderly drunke healeth vlcers both within and without the body so that the vlcers without be applyed with linnen cloâ—â—â—s both morning and euening What worthy instructions to be conceyâ—ed in the sowing and ordering of the Beete for the Poâ—te Chapter 2. THe Beete more often eaten at poore mens tables ought to be bestowed in a most fatte Earthe and sowen at any season but rather the Seedes to be committed to the Earth abouâ— the middle of December and vnto Marche and like in August to possesse Seedes which may indure for three yeares The Seedes ought rather to be thicke than thinne sowen in beâ—dde and shot vp to some growth as that four or fyue leaues be sprung aboue the Earth then in the Summer time the plantes are to be remoued if the beddes afore were moystned or wet with floures as the singular Columella writeth but if the grounde bee drie in the Haruest time then to remoue them where shoures lately fell and softned the Earth The Beete loueth or ioyeth to be often digged about and to be fedde with much dung for which cause the yong plantes to be sette againe ought after the endes of the rootes cut off and the toppes of the leaues clipped to be striked or annoynted about with newe Cow Dung and then bestowed in beddes a good distance asunder which after the plants be more growen vp to be diligeÌ„tly weeded about and the vnprofitable weedes throwen away for by that meanes they growe the fayrer and bigger being as I said bestowed in fatte Earthe and well dunged The Beete may be caused to growe bigge and brode as â—ostion in his Greeke instructions of Husbandrâ—e affirmeth if before the Beete shall be growen vp into a stemme and shot forth in stalkes the owner lay vpon y e head a brode Tile Posthard or some other thing of waight to presse the toppe gently downe for by that practise or meanes in the waightie bearing downe the Beete is caused to spreade into a breadth with the leaues The Beete becommeth the whiter and farre greater if the Husbandly Gardener annoynte or couer the roote with newe Oxe or Cowe dung and that hee cutte the roote and toppe of the yong Bete â–ª as the Leeke handled before the setting and after a bigger growth to pâ—asse it downe as afore vttered To haue the Beete growe redde water the plant with redde Wyne Lyes or set the same in a hote place where the Sunne dayly shineth long The Beete rosted in Imbers taketh away the stincking smell and sauoure of Garlike eaten if the same be eaten vpon or after the Garlike as the Greeke Menander hath noted Thys is maruellous to heare by the Seede of the Beete that it yeeldeth not the whole perfection or perfite Seedes in the first yeare but an increase in Seedes somewhat more the seconde yeare and in the third yeare a full perfection from the first sowing And Plinie reporteth that the Beete speedieâ— commâ—th forwarde with the olde Seede than with newe for whiche cause the matter demanded of a skilfull Gardener reported of experience that the Seedes of the Beete to sowe ought not to be gathered before the Beete had borne a thirde yeare after the first sowing of which Seedes sowen in due time of the Mone the best Beetes come and this not to be forgotten that when the tast of Wine through the Colewort as afore vttered is corrupted in the vessell the same againe by the sauoure of the Beete as through the leaues put into it is recouered These hitherto of the Beete The Phisicke benefytes of the Beete FIrst all the kindes of the Beete haue a cold moyst qualitie and the white Beete as Diphilus the Husbandly Phisition reporteth looseth the bellie and the redde Beete moueth or prouoketh vryne Galen affirmeth this Beete to be endued with a nytrous qualitie through which it both purgeth and clenseth filth whiche vertue is more effectuous in the white in so muche that it causeth the bellie laxatiue and purgeth the body of euill humors yet the fame passed to the stomacke byteth and plucketh it The iuice of the common Beete drunke
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
in the spring tyme. The water tempered with Tâ—iacle preuaileth agaynst the plague The water drunke remoueth al maner of inward heates ceasseth thirst helpeth the Liuer and Mylte by the drincking and imploying of the same with linnen clothes wet in it It remoueth the shingles being applied and drunk it helpeth scalding or burning putteth away the kings euil It anayleth in Agues to coole the burning heate c. The roote and Herbe with the whole substance shred and brused togither ought to be distilled in the ende of May. The water of the Pimpernel drunke morning euening vnto the quantitie of three or foure ounces at a time doth helpe the stone of the kydneys and Bladder and purgeth the Reynes This helpeth the plague drunke within sixe daies once It profiteth women whose Matrice is euer colde and sendeth down y e reddes This drunk with a little quantitie of Castorie in fine pouder putteth away the shaking of the members This drunke vnto the quantitie of foure ounces fasting preserueth the person that day froÌ„ any natural sicknesse in that it remoueth all manner of griefe from the hearte expelleth euil humors and procureth vrine This drunke lyke profiteth against poyson it causeth also a cleare skinne and faire both in face and handes if the partye for a tyme washeth daylie those partes with it What skil and diligence required in the workmanly sowing and ordering of the Borrage and Buglosse Chap. 8. THe Borage Buglosse or Longdebeefe seruing for the Potte when the leaues are yet tender and theyr floures for Sallettes requyre to bee sowen in the moneth of Auguste and in September to serue the wynter time and in the moneth of Aprill the Moone increasing for the Sommer tyme in that the seedes especiallye of the Buglosse prosper not so well to be sowen at any other tyme for so muche as it ioyeth to be placed in a warme SuÌ„ny place the Earth afore diligently laboured and dressed These may the owner or Gardner remoue after certain leaues sprung vp at any time of the yeare and to bee placed in Beddes either alone or in Bordures rounde aboute the newe Beddes of other Hearbes The seedes both of the Borage and Buglosse require to be gathered in a maner halfe ripe to the ende they fal not out of their Huske And the whole Hearbe wyth the seedes of eyther ought to be layed in some high place open to the warme Sunne that they may rypen the speedier which full rype rub tenderly betwene the handes the seedes forth on a linnen cloth or sheet and these may you kepe for two yeares The Phisicke benefites and singular helpes both of the Borage and Buglosse or Longdebeefe THe Borage whiche otherwyse of Galen and Dioscorides is named the Buglosse or Longedbeefe is by the agreement of the skylful affirmed to be moyste and hotte in the firste degree which the selfe same Galen witnesseth saying that the Buglosse is of a moyst and temperate hotnes for which cause steeped in wine it is thought to procure a gladsomnesse and ioy to the drincker of it The Borage boyled in wine and the same drunke procureth good bloud in the creature The iuyce of this Hearbe mixed artely with Sugar and drunke fasting maruellously helpeth the gyddinesse or swimming of the heade The Sirupe made of the iuyce of Borage to which a like weight of Suger and a little quantitie of the pouder of the bones of the Harte these after the workmanlye boyling drunke fasting for a tyme togither maruellously recouereth the trembling and beating of the hearte If the iuyce with the simple Sirupe of Borage and Senee equallie myxed shall bee drunke morning and euening doth not only increase memorie but remoue Melancholie The floures raw eaten with distilled vineger and Sugar do not onlye procure good bloud but stay the tremblyng of the hearte whiche like they in wine and drunke preuaile The floures dryed and preserued for a yeare doe like profite in all the abouesayd griefes as the Hearbe doeth The Syrupe of Borage vsed for a time preuaileth against the Kings euil The floures steeped for a tyme in the oyle of sweete Almondes and after the wringing forth of this tenderly applyed to the stomacke and region of the heart doe maruellously comfort the weake patient The Syrupes both of the Borage and Buglosse are applyed in Phisicke for the only purpose of comforting To such hauing weake Lungs and a drie cough the Buglosse stieped in Wine and drunke greately preuayleth for the roughnesse of the throte and cough only applye or drinke as Galen instructeth the Buglosse boyled in Mulse or water and Hony The Buglosse stieped in Wyne and tempered with Mellicrate procureth after the drinking gladsomnes to the creature It purgeth the redde Choller proceeding of ouermuch heate being often drunke with sweete Wine This drunke in the like manner recouereth the Cardiacke passion yea it expelleth the noysome humors of the Lungs The iuice of the Buglosse remoueth the swelling of the feete beyng drunke with warme water The Wyne for a time drunke in which the Buglosse shall be stieped doth preserue a good memorie The same wine of the floures stieped and drunke for a time not only comforteth greatly the heart but engendreth good bloud in the creature The figure of the fornace named Balneum Mariae The singular healpes and Phisicke benefytes of the distilled waters both of the Borage and Buglosse THe commended time for distilling of the Borage is for the more parte aboute the ende of the Moneth of May when as it beareth floure whiche wholly with the roote shredde and brused ought then to be distilled in such a like furnace vessel as here before is placed named of the worthy Phisitions Balneo Mariae for that the same more naturally distilleth all maner of delectable floures and comfortable Hearbes than any other drie Fornace by Ashes doth The water destilled in this Fornace drunke vnto the quantitie of two or three ounces at a time both morning and euening dothe maruellously remoue and asswage both the gripings and swellings of the bellie yea this cureth Dissenteria and the hardnes of fetching breath This water drunke fasting vnto the quantitie of two ounces dothe not only coÌ„fort the heart and brayne but rendreth a healp to memorie and witte yea purgeth the euill bloud and remoueth phrensinesse This water easeth the griefe and paine caused by the sting and venoming of a Spider or Bee by laying linnen clothes wet in it on the place This with the redde Sarcenet layde on the eyes dothe not only aswage the payne of them but procureth a cleerenes of sighte yea the water applyed on the eares and necke dothe remoue the ringing and paine of the eares The water of the Borage floures drunke preuayleth by a like manner in all those griefes as the water of the proper Hearbe dothe yet the water of the floures accompted the worthier for that the same purgeth the bloud expelleth Melancholie and maruellously comforteth the heart
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
eyes stayeth the perillous flixe Disenteria and strengthneth bothe the kidneyes and Bladder The iuyce gyuen in drinke helpeth burning Feuers kylleth the wormes in the Bellie and stayeth the spitting forth of bloud The iuyce bestowed in glister wise helpeth the excoriations in the bowels of women and the rawnesse of the priuie places within procured by distillations from the heade The iuyce of the Herbe is profitably annoynted on the heade wyth the oyle of Roses or oyle Olyue againste the headache caused by the heat of the sun and wounds dangered by blasting or in a furious heat this mightily mytigateth with barly meale anoynted The Hearbe to greate purpose is applyed on the Nauyll of infantes fallyng forth by crying and the Hearbe chewed or rather the iuyce boyled stayeth the griefe and loose teeth of the heade yea the iuyce eaten rawe aswageth the kernels and vlcers in the monthe and swelling of the gummes Leontinus a Greeke writer of husbandrye wryteth that the leafe of the Purselane holden vnder the tong of the person molested wyth thirst to mitygate the desire of often drinking and Plinie writeth that the iuyce to remoue wartes by annoynting the places many dayes togither and hee also wryteth that the inflamations of the pappes and Goute maye bee aswaged and healed by the iuyce of Purselane with Hony The sayde Plinie reporteth that the roote of the Herbe hanged with a threede about the necke remoueth the griefe of fall of y e Vuula which like hapned to a Judge in Italie as he writeth The Herbe Rocket heateth and moysteneth in the seconde degree the seedes and leaues are only vsed in Medicine The Herbe boyled and eaten increaseth the Sperme in the man whiche Aegineta lib. â— like witnesseth saying that the Rocket obtayneth a great vertue in heating and supposed to increase Sperme and for the same to stirre vppe a desire to the Uenereall acte besides to cause through the often eating alone a gyddinesse and payne of the heade The Rocket â—â—creaseth a strong heate for which cause the same is hurtfull to the heade but the Garden Rocket boyled with the Lettuce Beetes worketh or causeth no harme and in such maner 〈◊〉 the same encreaseth the milke in women giuing sâ—cke and Nurses The Rocket eaten and applyed in playster wise on the peâ—ten causeth vrine softneth the bellie coÌ„forteth the stomacke and helpeth digestion the iuce of Rocket myxed with an Oxe gauâ—e recouereth blacke scarres vnto a whitâ—â—sse the pymples or pushes on the face the iuyce with Hony annoynted amendeth in short time The iuyce or seede myxed wyth Hony and annoynted on the head and often vsed with meate doth kyll the Nyttes and wormes of the heade but the often vse of Rocket procureth gripings of the bellie The roote after the tender boyling brused and applyed in playster fourme on broken and brused bones doth put awaye the payne the Seede brused and drunke in wine recouereth the bytte of venemous beastes A skilful practicioner reporteth that if three leaues of the Rocket bee gathered wyth the lefte hande and after the boyling in water and Hony mixed togither takeÌ„ in drink the same sayth he maruelously auayleth against the Jaundise and hard swelling of the mylte The commended Vertues of the distilled waters of Purselane THe Herbe steÌ„me and leaues of the Purselane shred togither ought to be distilled in Balneo Mariae about the ende of May The water of Purselane drunke vnto the quaâ—tine of three ounces at a tyme both morning and euening for three or foure dayes togither amendeth the spitting vppe of bloude and the perillous flyxe Dysenteria The water drunke in like quantitie at a tyme stayeth any fluxe of the belly yea putteth away a hot and drye coughâ— â–ª thys lyke profiteth against the heate of Liuer ceasseth thyrst helpeth the plague remoueth the shortnesse of fetching breath This water also profitable to infants against heate and the wormes gyuen in drinke both morning and euening vnto the quantitie of two ounces at a time If in two ounces of water of Purselane 〈…〉 of the Seede of Psilium or fleaworte be steeped for a night and after a Spâ—nge deeped in thys y e tongue bee washed three or foure tymes a daye whyche through greate heate in a Feuer or other sicknesse is adusted and draweth to a blackenesse thys in shorte time recouereth It helpeth vnto a cooling of the inflamed bloude either drunke alone or taken in drinke and repelleth the griefes of the Bladder What skil and diligence required in the sowing and ordering of the Cheruil Smallage Taragon and Cresses Chap. 7. THe Hearbe Cheruell ioyeth to be sowen in a well dunged Earthe in the monethes of Februarie March and April sometimes in August and September to possesse the Herbe in the winter tyme and this the better prospereth thorough the often watering vntill it bee well come vp The Smalledge seedes ought to be sowen in a wel labored Earth and neare to a stone wal or thicke Hedge thys Hearbe wel ioyeth in the shadow and commeth wel vp in any ground And after this Herbe bee once bestowed in the Garden a man shall hardely weede it forth quyte and the Gardener may leaue a stemme or two to shoote vp into Seede froÌ„ yeare to yeare for this Herbe wyll indure for euer without any weeding at al. The owner may committe the seedes to the Earth after the myddle or ende of Februarie vnto the beginning of September Thys Herbe hath the like vertue and properties which the Parsely possesseth The Taragon of the Garden bearing Seede like to the Flaxe ought to bee bestowed in a wel dunged Earth and after the plants bee shotte vp neare a foote high the Gardener ought then to take vp the hole bodies and set them agayne in the selfe same Earth whych often water vntill they haue taken strong roote in the Earth The Taragon enioyeth the like properties as the Rocket and maye not be eaten a part or alone but rather with the Lettuce Purselane and such lyke Herbes The Garden Cresses is a soure Herbe in taste like to the Onyon which the Germaynes in many places do often vse in Sallets but it seemeth that the Herbe is not eaten withoute other cooling Hearbes matched with it as the Lettuce Sorrel Purselane and such like which temper the fire or burning force of the Hearbe euen as the worthye Phisition Galen hath willed it who forbad the rocket to be eaten without the Lettuce that the contrary vertue might be tempered This Herbe ioyeth to bee sowen in moyste places as by small ryuers or running courses of water Wels and springs for no other labour after the Seedes bestowed doe they require sauing a dayly watering for the plantes in the comming vppe desire oftentimes a day to be watered by little and little The Seedes of the Cresses after the minde of Rutilius bestowed in Beddes wyth the Lettuce increaseth verye well for they ioye in moysture and hate the dung And sowen in a shadowie place
the pushes and rednesse proceeding of heate hapning commonly from the knee downwarde by applyng linnen clothes wet in it that ceaseth the heate and cureth the pushes This cureth the Canker of the mouth if it be often washed with the same and that at eche time the pouder of the Barberie roote be sprinkled vpon This also cureth the griefe and exulceration of womens places if these be washed therwith for three or foure times a day the same doeth the sayde water perfourme if linnen clothes wet in it be sundrie tymes applyed vpon What care and skil is required in the bestowing of the Herbe Elecampane Chap. 37. THe Herbe Elecampane groweth vp w t a long stem big and Mossie the leaues with mossie bears on the one side on the toppe of the stem being many times a mans heigth is a bigge yealowe floure growing in which the seedes are contained and those by feeling procure ytche The roote within the erth reddish without and white within bigge sharpe in tast and sweete smelling The roote is digged vp at the beeginning of sommer and slyced dryed in the sunne This especially flourisheth in the moneth of July The Elecampane may not be sowen in that the seedes bestowed in beds prosper not but rather set the yong buds broken tenderly from the roote in Earth wel dunged and laboured afore And those begynne to set in the moneth of Februarye wel three foote asunder one from the other in that those sende forth bigge leaues and long rootes spreading in the Earth The Phisicke commodities of the Elecampane THe Elecampane of qualitie heateth in the ende of the thirde degree and moystneth in the first The pouder of the drye roote mixed with pure Honye and vsed in forme of an Eclegma amēdeth the cough y e root also of the Elecampane artelye prepared defendeth the Lungs of euyll humoures remoueth the ache of the Hyppes and ioyntes and sickenesses proceeding of a colde cause Thys expelleth the grosse humours in man and aswageth the ache of the Hucklebones boyled also in wine and mixed with Suger in the drinking amendeth that harde fetching of breath by the necke especially holden vpright and procureth vrine The pouder of the roote druncke in like manner sendeth downe the Termes and this is profitably ministred agaynst poyson and the bit of venemous wormes and beastes The roote canded with hony or Sugar is saide very muche to preuaile against the daunger of a pestilent ayre being afore eaten for whiche cause the rawe roote of manye is eaten in the plague time The roote of the Elecampane is canded after this maner by plucking the roote out of the Earth in the moneth of October at what time the same is growen to a ful ripenesse whiche then is to bee rubbed and clensed with a course hearie cloth after this scraped faire wyth a sharpe knife and those rootes whiche are bigge to bee sliced into three or foure peeces so long as a finger which after the puttyng into a brasse chafer to be tēderly boyled with vineger but in such maner as the peeces burn not to the sides or bottome of the chafer Wythin three dayes after the boyling they are to be dried in the Sun and then bestowed into a newe earthen potte well pitched about on whiche a pleasaunt Cuite poured to soke them in and store of the herbe Sauerie pressed down vpon them whiche done the mouthe of the pot to be diligently stopped with a skin or thicke partchement The rootes may otherwise be ordered in scrappyng them cleane and after the cutting of them into twoo or three peeces well a finger long to set those stiepe in water a whole day ouer hotte embers whiche done to boyle the peeces twoo or three times ouer in asmuche waight of honey or sugar The confirme of the Elacampane roote maye bee made by clensing and scraping the roote in the maner aboue taught Whiche done to cut them into thinne round slices letting them soke in water ouer the hotte embers for a long space and to boile them vntill the licoure be all wasted then to beate those in a stone morter lettyng them after to passe throughe a strainer or linnen clothe this done to boyle the whole with a like waighte of hony or sugar twoo or three times ouer All other rootes may in like manner bee canded and made into conserue but far pleasaunter in the eating if to the confection a quantitie of Sinamom bee added The same also they name to be canded when the roote or the thing canded remaineth whole after the canding but the conserue in a contrary manner remayneth not whole in that the same is beaten small to the making of it The leaues of the Elecampane boyled in wine and a playster made of the same applied to weake and loose members doth so muche heate them that in shorte time they recouer strength and healthe The Elecampane putteth away yre and heauinesse comforteth the hearte and sendeth foorth the superfluous humoures by vrine this also after the minde of Hippocrates causeth mirth The hearbe defendeth and preserueth the skinne of the face and like garnisheth the whole body with a continuall seemelinesse the wine also of the Elecampane made heateth colde members the same drunke orderly helpeth all the diseases which are afore vttered Here note that all wines boyled or made of the Hearbes doe more preuayle in the morning than at euening The Elecampane boiled with Pellitory and mixed with oyle applied hot to the belly ceaseth the gripings of the bowels and the same applied vnder the Nauel remoueth and helpeth the strangury The worthy vertues of the distilled water of the leaues of the Elecampane THe time answerable to the distillation is that the Herbe and roote shred togither be distilled in the ende of May. This water druncke morning and euening for fiue or sixe dayes togither to the quantitie of an eggeshell full at a tyme expelleth the griefe of the stone The distilled water druncke in the saide manner or a quantitie bestowed in drincke helpeth the person broken the same also drunke and the heade annointed therewith in suche manner as the same may drye in greatly comforteth the heade The distilled water drunke morning and euening for certaine days togither comforteth and strengthneth the stomacke amendeth the hard fetching of breath the coughe pleurisse poyson the stone and termes in women The distilled water strengthneth the members annointed therwith and the more by dayly drinking thereof This also expelleth the stone of the kidneys and bladder and the same clereth y e parts of the body and causeth vrine by drinking of it morning and euening for certaine days togither The commended vertues of the distilled water of the roote THe root of the Elecampane is to be distilled about the end of May or from the moneth of July vnto September The distilled water of the same drunke many dayes togither vnto the quātitie of two or three ounces at a time healeth an inner rupture The distilled water drunke