The Thistle is somewhat flatulent annoyeth the head burdneth the stomacke Artichoke is not so hurtfull Correction The Thistle sodden or raw is eaten in the last course with salt and pepper Artichokes are boyled in Pottage and eaten as the Thistle Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the first The sodden are preferred afore the raw for cold season age constitution Cardui seu Cinarae Story for Table-talke THe Thistle or prickly Artichoke differeth from the plaine or common Artichoke onely by certaine prickles vpon the stalke The Italian most esteemeth of the Thistle In former times they were to be had no where but in Sicily now euery where Theophrastus calleth them Pinei because they somewhat resemble Pine-apples consisting of many skales coÌ„pacted Globe-wise Lettuse Choise THick commonly called Cabbage Lettuse growing in a fat soyle afore it swell with milke not washt in water Vse Câ—â—sâ—â— of digestion the best of pot-heaâ—â—â—s increaseth milke procureth sleepe states the running of the reines all wageth heate in the stomacke especially eaten with vinegâ—â— Hurt Dimmeth the sight quencheth naturall heate corrupteth the seed causâ—â— barrâ—nnesse mortifieth venus makes the bodie sluggish weâ—keneth the stomacke Correction Eaten with Mint Rewe and 〈◊〉 heaâ—bes sodden rather thâ—â— rawe vnwasht good Wine drunke vpon it Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the second In hâ—t weather for youth verie choâ—â—â—ricke and hot stomackes Lactuca Storie for Table-talke GAlen commendeth Lettuse thus in a yong man it abateth the burning heat of his stomack vnto an old man it causeth sleepe In olde time they ate Lettuse after supper to represse vapors arising from the stomack to the braine and to dispose them selues to sleepe For they vsed to dine very spaâ—ingly but supped largely Aristoxenes Cyraenaeus watred his Lettuses with Mead to make them bigger and sweeter Lactuca a lacte quasi Lactoca because it breeds milk in women saith Martiall Endiue Choise GArden tender not yet milky sauouring most swéetly Vse Asswageth inflammation and thirst prouokes vrine appetite especially in hot weather Hurt Bad for the Palsie quiuering of the ioynts and cold stomacks somewhat sloweth concoction Correction Eaten with Nip the stalkes of Mint Rew and such hot hearbs Degree Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the end of the first Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youth chollericke sanguine and very hot stomacks Intubus Story for Table-talke ENdiue is much of the nature and operation of Lettuse The wilde Endife is not so cold or moist as the Garden or homegrowing and hath a more sharpe and vigorous taste The wilde Endife is curled and crisped somewhat like to Cabbage Lettuse but much bigger Borage Choise COmmonly vsed is that veriâ— Buglosse of old This therfore taken with the leaues Vse Wondrously cleanseth the blood recreateth exhilerateth the heart and spirits especially put in wine strengtheneth all the entrals very good for such as are in recouery Hurt Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Somewhat hard of digestion greatly annoyeth sore mouthes Séeth it in very good flesh broath Cold and moist in the first For any season age or temperature Borago Story for Table-talke APuleius writeth that they of Lucania calleth this Buglosse Corage because it hath an apparant sympathy and notable affinitie with the affects of the heart Whence in tract of time the name is depraued and B. put for C. Surely it is a most excellent hearbe and of speciall vse It hath this peculier vertue that laied in Wine it strengthneth and cheareth the heart putting merry conceits into the minde Succory Choise VVIth blew flowers following the sunne therefore called Heliotropium tender the tops of it Vse Very much helpes an inflamed stomacke without all measure openeth the obstructions of the liuer Hurt Hurteth a weake and cold stomacke makes litle and bad noâ—rishment Correction Eaten boiled in sallets with 〈◊〉 and vinegar or raw with Nip and such hot hearbs Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second Conuement alwaies best in sommer for youth and hot constitutions Cichorium Story for Table-talke IT hath bene and yet is a thing which superstition hath beleeued that the body anoynted with the iuyce of Cichory is very auaileable to obtaine the fauour of great persons howsoeuer it is of a most opening nature and maketh way or free passage in the body by taking away al obstructions and opilations The leaues of Succory brused are very good against inflamation of the eyes being outwardly appâ—ied Hoppe Choise THe first buds or yong braunches shooting from the roote not yet least of a tender and slender stalke Vse Not only engenders singular good humours but also reduceth them into an equall and due temper strengtheneth all the entrals makes pure and refined blood Hurt Somewhat flatulent stuffeth the bead Correction Boyled and eaten with Vineger and Oyle Degree Tempertately hot moist in the first Season Age. Constitution For any season age constitution Lupulus Storie for Table-talke OVr forefathers knewe not Hoppe howbeit it is a most excellent hearbe exceedeth all other for good iuyce for cleansing the blood and scouring all the entrals Besides the necessitie hereof in brewing of Beere is sufficiently knowne to Germany and England and all these Northerne parts of the worlde yet I know not how it happened as he merrily saith that herisie beere came hopping into England both in a yeere Mint Choise SMall garden-spear-mint the tops onely Vse Very exceedingly comforteth the stomacke especially cold and weake consumeth fleame and prouoketh appetite Hurt Annoyeth an hot stomacke or liuer for it in a manner scaldeth and burneth the blood CorrectioÌ„ Eate it sparingly with cold Hearbs Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the end of the second or beginning of the third In cold weather for old men flegmaticke and melancholicke Mentha Story for Table-talke THe Poets faigne that Mentha Proserpines Nymph was metamorphosed into this hearbe being taken at her lechery with Pluto the black Prince The Graecians liked the sauour of it so well that they called it Hedyosmus that is sweete-smell Perhaps their mint was of better sauour then ours for we hâ—ue many other hearbes which deserue that name rather then Mint although it sauoureth very well Sorrell Choise GArden of a déepe gréene colour the leaues no whit red Vse Restraineth choller quencheth thirst exciteth appetite cureth fluxes is very holsome in burning and pestilentiall feuers Hurt Exasperateth the stomacke bindeth the belly hurteth melancholists Correction Eate it in Sallets with other hearbs as Lettuse which is moist and Mint which is hot Degree Cold in the first moist in the beginning of the second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather for youths chollerists and sanguines Oxalis seu Acetosa Story for Table-talke BY reason of the tart taste it is called in Latin Acetosa That is Vineger hearbe And in Lombardie they call it the sowre hearbe It was wholly vnknowne to the Antique There be two sorts
kept a while in strawâ— Vse Taken afore meate stay fluxes and immoderate casting taken after meate strengthen the stomack mend the breath Hurt Much hinder concoction immoderatly vsed burthen the stomack bréed litle cold grosse and melancholious iuyce Correction Eaten after meate moderately and after them an hony-combe Degree Cold in the first drie in the second verie astringent Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ An Autumne and Winter 〈◊〉 youth and hot constitutions Sorba Storie for Table-talke THe Soruice and Medlar are much alike in nature taste and operation Plinie li. 15. cap. 21. noteth foure differences of them arising from their forme and fashion None of them all fructifie vntill they be three yeares old Cato willeth vs to condite them in the decoction of new Wine A Lotion of their decoction straiteneth the matrice Galen vtterly forbiddeth them as meate commendes them for good astringent phisicke Hasil Nuts Choise GReat ones little couered with their huske ful of iuyce not worme eaten nor any way contaminate Vse Nourish more then Walnuts encrease braine sodden with hony cure an olde cough touÌ„ed and eaten with pepper ripen the distillations of reume Hurt Annoy the stomacke hard of concoction windie engender much choller cause headach it much eaten Correction Eate them new macerated a while in water moderately and after them meates condite with sugar Degree The gréene or new are temperate in the first qualitie the old or drie are hot and drie in the ende of the first Season Age. Constiution In winter for yong strong and laborious persons Avellanae Story for Table-talke AVellanae of AvellanuÌ„ a towne in Campania or else à Vellendo because any may haue them for the plucking or gathering The Greekes call them Ponticae for that as saith Pliny they were first brought out of Pontus Nut in English of Nux the Latine and Nux à Nocendo because it annoyeth all other plantes or hearbes that are subiect and obnoxious to his leaues-dropping All hard or shell-fruite are called Nuces all soft or pulp-fruite Poma Melons commonly called Pompions Choise OF most exquisit sauour pleasant to the palate new ripe Vse Quench thirst cause appetite coole sensibly cleanse the bodie prouoke vrine daily vse of them preserueth from the stone in the bladder and reines Hurt Bréede winde and belly-ache naught for collick splenticke aged phlegmaticke melancholicke Correction Eaten with old Chéese falt or tart meates and a cup of briske Wine Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the third For yong and hot bloods Melones seu Melopepones Story for Table-talke ANguria which Galen calleth Melopepon of Melon and Pepon because it is not distinguished with stemmes as the single Melon or Pumpion is but round and smooth like an Apple Also its eaten together with the inwards of it which the Pumpion is not yet retaineth it the smell and sauour of the Pumpion This fruite is the greatest or biggest of all Hearbes or Trees That it hath a scouring and clensing properly its euident in that if you rub any part of the body with it it becommeth much the brighter and cleaner VValnuts Choise BIg long ripe easily shaled especially new not rotten Vse Repaire decaied téeth eaten with Figges and rewe saue from mortall venims and kill wormes in the belly Hurt Immoderately vsed hurt the throate pallate and tongue stuffe the breast cause the cough and headach especially if they be dry CorrectioÌ„ Eate them new stéeped in wine and then pilled a small quantitie and with a litle garlicke old with raysons or after fish in stead of chéese Degree The dried are hot in the third dry in the beginning of the second the gréene are excéedingly moist and partake litle heate Season Age. Constitution In winter for phlegmatick melancolicque old not straight brested Nuces Iuglandes Story for Table-talke IVglandes quasi Iouis glandes Ioues Acornes For when our grand-forefathers had a long time liued with Acornes at last finding Nuts they called them Ioues Acornes for their excelleÌ„cie Therein apppeared their thankfull hearts for any benifit receiued at Gods hands by acknowledging God the author and bestower of it Contrary to the base humour of many muck-borne Scarab-flyes and earth-rooting hogges of this age who are content to eate of Ioues Acornes but like swine as they are neuer lift vp their eyes to the tree whence they fall Pine-Nuts or pine Apples Choise OF Orchard pines femall of best sauour very new Vse Nourish much fat cleanse the brest lights reynes and bladden sodden with honey prouoke vriâ—â— restore the weake consume all corrupt humours good for the shoâ—t winded and paraliticke Hurt Concoct somewhat slowly 〈◊〉 but grosse iuyce much eaten grow the stomack and belly Correction Macerated hot the space of 〈◊〉 houre giue them with sugar to 〈◊〉 and phlegmaticke with honey to youth and chollericke Degree Hot in the beginning of the second moist in the first Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In cold we ather for the foresaid as aforesaid Pineae Story for Table-talke IF the tops of the pinetree be once lopped off it neuer bears fruite nor prospereth after WheÌ„ce it was that Croesus threatned the Citizens of Lampsacum that he would destroy them like a Pine-tree meaning he would cut off all their heads or else slay all their heads Id est their gouernors magistrates which done the citie like a lopped Pine shuld pine away and come to nought Pine Nuts much augment seed especially if three or foure drops of their oile be put into a soft egge and so sooped off Pistake Nuts Choise GReat Smelling like Turpeâ—tine of old trees of a sadde gréene colour most new Vse Purge the brest strengthen the reynes and stomacke open obstructions of the liuer stay disposition to vemit heale the biting of serpents preuoke Venus wondrously Hurt Though they fat yet nourish litle vnholsome for boyes and hot constitutions for they extenuate inflame the blood and bring dizinesse Correction Eate them immediatly afore meate with Orenges or Saccarum Rosatum Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the second order of the second degree In cold weather for flegmatists Pistacia Story for Table-talke MAthiolus holdeth this plant to be a kind of Terebinth or Turpentine it groweth in Aegypt Syria Thence brought to Venice a few yeare since they haue fructified in Sicily The Husbandmen say it growes of an Almond-tree Imp inserted to a Mastick stock Lucius Vitellius Censor first brought Pistakes into Italy in the beginning of Tiberius Caesars raigne when he was Embassadour into Syria Dates Choise SWéete ripe within some and vncorrupt Vse Make sat good for the â—â—er cure the cough loose the belly Hurt Hurt the téeth and mouth cause gripings in the stomacke and scalles to breake out gnaw the bottome of the belly plague the head with ache obstruct the liâ—â— splene and veynes Correction Eaten sodden or condite wâ—â— sugar or rawe with sewer and taxt in meates after them Degree Season Age. Constiution Hot in
comforteth the stomacke sharpeneth y e wit exciteth Venus Hurt Being exceeding dry hurts chollerists and melancholists Correction Fedde in the house with moyst meates then kill and hang it two nights in the coole Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and dry in the second In colde weather for old folkes and phlegmatike Turtur Storie for Table-talke AT the beginning of the Springe they hide themselues because they then â—ast their feathers and are in a maner naked It is a thing noted in the Turtle that while it drinketh it lifteth not vp her head as all other birdes doe The time of her life is eight yeares It purgeth it self with an herbe that groweth vpon walles Quaile Choise NOt fed with Hellebore or Beare-foote taken with the Quaile-pipeâ— fat and tender Vse Doth helpe melancholists onely by moistning their dry constitutioÌ„ Hurt Easily corrupteth in the stomack inuiteth the Ague Palsie Cramp Correction Eaten with Vinegar and Corander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the end of the first moist in the end of the second In cold weather hurteth olde folkes paralytick and flegmatick Coturnix Storie for Table-talke I Am much in doubt whether Coturnix be our Quaile Cardan also doubteth and his maner of doubting maketh me dout more for setting downe sixe degrees of delicates that please the taste he maketh Quaile the first dish of the first courâ—e His words are these Aues videntur primum locuÌ„ vendicare atque inter eas qualea seu sit Coturnix seu non hand refert I am sure all other writers giue Coturnix their euil word affirming that it is a breeder of the Crampe Palsie and Falling sicknesse and in a word passeth for badnesse Thrush Mauis or Blacke-bird Choise IN cold weather fat fed with holly Iuniper and Mertle berryes Vse Is of very good iuyce easily digested very holesome for such as are in recouery Hurt Naught for those that are subiect to the migram or frensie PreparatioÌ„ Sod in good flesh broath with parsly and other opening herbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the very ende of the first In colde weather for any but olde folkes Turdus Story for Table-talke THis Lataine name soundeth to English eares somewhat vnsauoury but much worse as I haue heard it ioyned with other like Consonants As for example Edo Fartum Turdum pistum But there is nothing euill spoken but being euill taken Now because it signifies diuersly a Thrush a Black-birde a Manis some may bee desirous to know if all these bee much of a nature yet Virum horum which is best and holesomest Therefore to his Virum horuÌ„ I answere Mauis accipe Pliny reporteth Agrippa Claudius Caesars wife had a Mâ—uis that did speake very plainly Egges Choise OF yong and fat Hens Cock trodden new laied Vse Nourish soone and much excite Venus supplying matter for it very much helpe them that are in a consumption open the breast stay spitting of blood clarifie the voyce Hurt Hinder the concoction of meates eaten presently after them make the face freckled Correction Eate them boyled she yolke only and pawse betwixt Egges and other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperately hot and moyst New for all seasons ages constitutions and diseases Ovum Storie for Table-talke EGges some thinke because theâ— egge on backward husbands Egges haue the possibilitie of being liuing creatures The white is cold the yolke hot They nourish soone and much by reason of the pliable softnesse of their substance and temperature very proportionable to our flesh and nature Not only Hens Egs but Partritch Phesant and Turkies be verie holesome Fish Carpe Choise VVHensoeuer you can get it great or litle Vse Nourishith best tasteth most excellently and erquisirely in all mens iudgementes a fish of chiefe note Hurt Onely it is soonetainted therefore dresie it presently Preparation Lay it sealed and gutted sire houres in salt then fry it in oyle and besprinkle it with vinegar in which Spaces and Saffâ—on haue boyled Degree Temperately hot and moyst in the 〈◊〉 either first Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For any season age or constitution Cyprinus qui Carpio Story for Table-talke NOne of the Greeke or Latine writers euer knewe this fish In Italy it is somewhat rare and thought to bee onely in the lake Benacus and the lake commonly called Della posta It spawneth about the beginning of the summer Many are of the minde that it eateth gold because in the guites are found no other excrementes but a bright sanâ— glittering like golde and besides it liueâ—h alway at the bottome of the lake Trout Choise THick caught in May in a 〈◊〉 running Riuer full of deepe down-fals and Rocks and not out of standing pooles Vse Nourisheth well soone digested yeelds coole iuyce for an ouer hottâ— Liuer and blood therefore good in hot Agues Hurt It soone putrifieth scarse fit for old men and weake stomackes Correction Seethe it in iust somuch Vineger as water ease it with sower sance assoone as you can Degree Cold in the beginning of the first moist in the ende Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ In hot weather for all ages but decrepit euery temperature but phlegmaticke Trocta seu Turtur Story for Table-talke IT is very much commended for good nourishment Insomuch as it is permitted vnto one sicke of an hot ague That it is passing holesome our vulgar prouerbe accordeth As sound as a Trout And another phrase Fish-whole I think is most ment of the Trout It is a fish that loueth to be flattered and clawed in the water by which meanes it is often taken Sturgion Choise RIuer for it is fatter and therfore more gratefull to the palate then sea Sturgion in sommer the belly of it Vse A friendly dish on the table very daintie and of chiefe account nourisheth very well inciteth Venus cooleth the blood moderately Hurt Naught for the sicke or in recouery for it is somewhat too fatte makes thicke and clammy iuyce slowly digested Correction Séeth it in water and vineger let the sauce be white vineger with a litle Cynamon or Fennel in it Degree Hot in the beginning of the first moyst in the second Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In hot weather for all but those that are plagued with distillations and diseased ioynts Sturio seu Acipenser Story for Table-talke PLiny in his 9. booke of Naturall story and 17. Chapter writeth thus In former times Sturgion was counted a most noble Fish now it is of no reckoning the which I much maruell at sithens it is so rare We may now a dayes vse Plinies wordes with an inuersioÌ„ of the sense For what fish is there almost now of greater esteeme It hath his skales turning toward his mouth and swimmeth against the streame Lamprey Choise RIuer in March or Aprill for then it is notably fat and the backe bone marrow tenderest Vse It hath a most excellent fine relish nourisheth passing well increaseth seed a Lordly dish Hurt Somewhat slowe of digestion especially not boiled inogh naught for the Gout and
drie Season Age. Constitution The sweete are good euen for old folkes the sower in hot weather for youth chollerists and sanguine Mala Aurantia Story for Table-talke THe flowers of this plant are siluer-coloured and from them is distilled a water surpassing all other in fragrancy and sweete smell The leaues are in colour like an Emeraud The fruite like Golde Whence they are called Aurantia of Aurum gold in Latine and in Greek Chrysomêla golden apples In English properly and truly Aurange but we haue both them and their name by tradition from the French So wee both speake and write it Orenge Limons Choise SMelling like a Citron best ripe of good colour a day or two gathered Vse The iuyce is good sauce to prouoke appetite stayeth casting breaketh grosse humours reâ—â—steth pestilenticall feuers good for the stone nourisheth not at all Hurt Excessiuely cooleth the stomack causeth collicque-passions leanenesse and melancholious humours hurteth the aged phlegmaticke and cold stomacks Correction Used moderately and seldome without the rinde laide in water condite with sugar Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Cold and drie in the second Onely for hot weather youth and chollericke Malum Limonium Storie for Table-talke THe Citron Limon and Orenge growe especially on the sea-coasts of Italy and in the Adriatique and Tyrrhene Ilandes They were brought first out of Media into these parts and thence are they called Mala Medica They beare fruite all the yeare long some at the same time ripe and falling off other but now budding and sprouting forth All say a Limon in Wine is good some thinke a Leman and Wine better Quinces Choise RIght Quinces small dimpled or dawked mosie most swéetly fragrant best ripe Vse Recreate the heart comfort strengthen and close the mouth of the stomacke staie â—luxes Hurt Eaten rawe or ouergréedily afore meate hurt the sinowes procure to many collicke passions but being exquisitly ripe Correction Boyled verie well with hony boyled and then powdered with store of sugar or a grain of muske or made in Marmalat and eaten in the last course Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first drie in the beginning of the second In haruest and winter for any Malum Cydonium Storie for Table-talke CAld in Latine Cydonium of Cydone a Castle in Crete Also Cotoneum because clad in a sute of white thin Cotten As for our English name I finde as litle sauour in it as in an vnripe raw Quince In Galens time Quince was brought out of Syria to Rome Simeon Sethi counselleth women with child to eat many quinces if they desire to haue wise children Pomegranats Choise SWéete ripe big with great kernels whose rinde comes easily off the sharpe full of iuycâ— Vse The swéete excite Venus goâ—â— for the stomacke brest cough the sharpe for hot liuers and agues Hurt The swéet bréed wind and heat naught in feuers the sharp offeâ—â— the teeth and gummes constrainâ— the brest naught for old folkes Correction Eate the kernelles of both together Degree The swéete are temperatly hot and moyst the sower colde and somewhat binding Season Age. Constitution The swéet in winter for all she sharpe in sommer for youth and chollerists Malum punicuÌ„ se granatuÌ„ Storie for Table-talke CAlled PunicuÌ„ because brought out of Affricke from Carthage â—t may now be called MaluÌ„ Tuâ—ituÌ„ for that which was Carthage 〈◊〉 now Tunis Granatum or Pomeâ—ranate of his multitude of grains â—r kernels not of Granata or Graâ—ado in Spaine as some fondly coÌ„â—eit it but rather Malum Granaâ—um was god-father to the realme of Grando for they beare a Pomegrant in their Eschutcheon If one eate three small Pomegranate flowers they say for an whole yeare he shall be safe from all maner of eye-sore Citron Choise FVll ripe a great faire one thâ—â— grew in an hot Country soâ—â— time gathered Vse Best preserueth against poysoâ—â— the rinde mendes concoction 〈◊〉 commends the breath Hurt Slowe of concoction annoyeâ—â— hot braines eaten at night causeth dizinesse Correction Condite with sugar and eaten not afore meate or with meate but alone and fragrant violents or new Saccarum Rosatum presently after Degree The rinde and séed are hote and dry in the second the pulpe or meat cold and moyst she sower is colde and drie in the third Season Age. Constitution Condite with sugar for all at al times raw for none at no time Malum Citrium Story for Table-talke THe bigger Citrons though they be fairer to see too yet those that growe in Italy about the Laque Benacus surpasse in taste The decoction of Citron held in the mouth commendeth the breath The rind laid amongst cloaths keepeth them from moth-eating and smelt on preserueth in time of pestilence or corrupt aire The Citron is the Embleme of Loue Loues delightfull paines or painefull delightes A bitter sweete an Oxymel or Glycypicron Citrull Cucumbers Choice LOng thicke best ripe yellow like a ripe Orenge Vse Excéedingly cooleth an hote stomacke quencheth thirst appeaseth choller Hurt Is hard of digestion engendreth flearue clammy humours which soone after proue virulent but in a stomacke hote aboue measure pâ—â—son to a cold stomacke Correction Eate it with Onions Oraggon wort Mint Rewe Pepper and such other very hot things Degree Colde in the ende of the second moist in the end of the third Season Age. Constitution Bad nourishment for any season age or constitution Cucumis citrulus Storie for Table-talke THe best vse of Citrull Cucumber is this Pare off the rinde and cut the Cucumer into thiâ— broad sliees lay them in waâ—â—r Then apply them to the tongue of one sicke of a burning ague it shall do him great case If you seeth them first with sugar all the better for by this means they quench his thirst mitigaâ—e the scalding heate of the feauâ—r and in place of siccitie or 〈◊〉 coÌ„tinually instilla verie gratefull liquor with which the tongue palate throate and drie soule of the patient is wondrously suppled and refreshed Medlars Choise GReat full and plumpe with litle kernels rightly ripened or mellowed Vse Good against drinkenesse 〈◊〉 casting pleasing to the stomack especially to women with childe Hurt Slowly concocted hinder the concoction of other meates ouâ—â— much vsed ouetlay the stomack Correction Eate Pâ—nidâ—â—e Sacraâ—um Volarum Sugar Candid â—ieyâ—â—s or such other pectorals after them Degree Cold and drie in the first Season Age. Constitution For winter youth thollerists and strong stomackes Mespila Storie for Table-talke Meddle not with Medlers THis Fruite ripeneth verie slowly the flowers leaues are of a binding nature Such hurt as commeth by eating Medlars the like also ensueth by dealing and medling with medlers or common smatterers they are hard and dry meat hardly digested not soone brought to any reasonable order besides they hinder disturbe and interrupt the course and orderly proceeding of other mens matters and if you deale much with them they wil extremely irck loath you Seruices Choise PLump best ripe not corrupt hung vp or
féeble sinowes Correction Choake it with white Wine stop the mouth with a Nut-meg and the other holes with Cloues then fry it with Nuttes Bread Oyle Spices and white Wine Degree Temperately hot moyst in the first Season Age. Constitution For any season age constitution but decrepit gowtie and diseased sinowes Lampreta Storie for Table-talke TEarmed so a Lambendis Petris a Suck-stone About the beginning of the Spring it enters the fresh waters and in Summer departeth againe into the sea Whereas all other fishes haue finnes to swim withal some more some lesse the Lamprey hath none at all but moueth in the waters as Snakes and Serpents creepe glide vpon the earth Many in England haue surfetted of Lampry pies as our Chronicles will tell vs if we looke into them Mullet or Barbell Choise OF the lesser size not taken in muddie places or standing lakes but grauelly cleare Vse Pleasing to the palate the flesh applied cures the biting of venemous things or any harme done by womens menstruous flure Hurt The wine wherein a Mullet is stifled drunke depriueth men of all genital vertue makes women barren the meate is hard and slow of digestion Correction Roast vpoÌ„ a gridiron sprinckled with Oyle and the iuyce of Orenges or boyled condite with Vineger swéete hearbes and Saffron Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot in the first dry in the beginning of the second In hot weather for youth chollericke strong stomackes Mullus seu Barbo Story for Table-talke BArbo bicause it hath a double beard vpon the neather lip And therfore Tully in his Paradox calleth those that are well barbed Mulli Fenestella thinkes they were called Mulli because they are in colour like the shoes of the Almane Kings and the Patricij amongst the Romans which Shoes were tearmed Mullei of Millo an obsolet word signifying the same that suo to sowe as Sowters do The Romanes prized this fish at a wonderfull high rate It is incredible to tell what Asinius Celer and Crispinus gaue for a Mullet Tench Choise FEmall Riuer in Autumne or Winter Vse It litle benefiteth the bodie but only as some think cut length-wayes in halfes and applied to the soles of the féete stancheth the heat of Agues Hurt Is sllowly digested heauy on the stomacke bad nourishment especially in the Dogge dayes Correction Bake it with Garlicke swéete hearbes and spices or boyle it with Oyle Onyons and Raysons farsed with Garlicke Parsly and Vineger Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and moyst in the second In Autumne and Winter for youth collericke and very laborious Tinca Storie for Table-talke THe Anticke make no mention of this fish not respecting it in deede because it was so common and the poore mans prouin Onely Tully in his Booke de claris Oratoribus mentioneth one Placentinus an Oratour who was called Tinca for his merry conceited wit It is onely to be found in fresh waters riuers lakes and ponds and is fittest meate for labouring men Pike or Pickerell Choise RIuer rather then Pond and Pond not muddy great fresh new and fat Vse It nourisheth much the iawe-bones burnt to power and giuen the weight of French crowne in wine will breake the stone Hurt Hard of concoction badde nutriment burdeneth the belly increaseth fleame naught for the sicke Correction Seeth it with sweete hearbes and oyle eate it with white vineger or broyled with wild marioram and vineger Degree Season Age. Constitution Colde and moyst in the second Being hard meate it is fittest for winter youth and chollericke Lucius Storie for Table-talke NOr yet of the pickerill haue old writters recorded any thing which is companion and an associate of the Tench by rubbing vpon whom the Pickerill cureth himselfe of any wound or hurt receiued It is a very rauenous Fish deuoring any thing be it fish or flesh that lyeth in his way It is no meate for those that be sicke or weake whatsoeuer triuiall Leeches prate Eele Choise TAken in a sandy sea not muddy in March dressed presently Vse Tasteth very pleasantly nourisheth marueilous well may bée kept long salt good for the stomack against fleame Hurt Somewhat windie especially the backe of it also ouer moyst Preparation Roast in a leafe of paper with oyle parsly coriander or kéepe it condite a day or two with salt and origan Degree Cold in the beginning moyst in the end of the first Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ In the spring for any age or temperature taken moderately Anguilla Storie for Table-talke THe generation of Eeles is in nature very easie but to our vnderstanding passing difficult For they breed euen in dryed lakes presently after a sudden raine of the very corruption and slime of the soyle Athenaeus sayeth he himselfe sawe in Arethusa of Eubaea Eeles with siluer and golden earings so tame that they would eate meate out of ones hands The Ile of Ely may be called the Ile of Eeles for the aboundance of Eeles which it yeeldeth Rotchet Choise NEw sodden and eaten colde Vse Tender meate and gratefull to the palate easlie digested nourisheth very well excéedingly holesome if continually vsed Hurt Whatsoeuer fault if hath prepare it as followeth PreparatioÌ„ Fry and condite it with Orange iuyce and peper or eate it hot with veneger Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperate in the actiue qualities moyst in the first Best in winter for any age or temperature moderately taken Erythrinos Story for Table-talke THe Graecians so tearme it because it is red of colour The Venetians call it Arbor the Latines in imitation of the Graekes Rubellus It is a Sea fish neither comes at any time into the fâ—esh waters It harbowreth some time about the shore So soone as they are spawned they are presently full of egges And therefore it is thought they be all faemall They vse to rout together and roue about the sea in troopes Oyster Choise THat that growes vpon great ships bottomes or in places not muddy Vse in those Moneths that haue the letter R. in their names Hurt It hath a kinde of salt iuyce in it that affecteth the palate more then other shell fishes exciteth appetite and Venus nourisheth litle Preparation Somewhat hard of degistion greatly increaseth fleame in a cold stomacke causeth obstructions Degree Dresse it with pepper oyle the iuyce of sowre Orenges after it be roasted on the imbers Season Hot in the first moyst in the second Age. Constitution For cold weather youth chollerists and hot stomackes Ostreum Story for Table-talke THe Oyster is an headlesse fish yet passing toothesome it is engendred of meere myre or mudde inclining to corruption or of the sea froth and spume which cleaueth vpon ships It liueth not out of the water yet breatheth not ayre nor taketh in any external moysture It hath not locall motion and plucked from his proper place is deuoyd of sense increasing and decreasing with the Moone It is vnseasonable and vnholesome in all monethes that haue not the letter R. in their name because it is then venerious Crab