Table-talke CHerryes take their name of the Latine Cerasa and Cerasa of Cerasunte a Towne in Pontus whence Lucullus first brought them to Rome after hee had conquered Mithridate in the sixe hundreth and eightieth yeare of the Citie Cantabrigian Achademicks may very fitly interpret Cerasunte Cherry-HintoÌ„ their neighbour Cherry-Towne Where many Athenian Squires are so ouercome by cherryes that they can very hardly conuey them cleanly home to Athens and afterward are constrained to implore the ayde of Mithridate and his Cosin Triacle in regaining to them the Castle of health Plums Choise KIndely and throughly ripe tender skinned swéete and toothsome gathered afore sunne Vse Purge choller abate heate refresh and moisten the body slake thirst excite appetite superexcellent in burning agues Hurt Losen and weaken the stomack engender watry humours in cold and weake stomacks yéeld litle or no nourishment hurt the aged stuft with fleame or such as haue the collicque Correction Eate them afore meate and eate after them Saccarum Rosatum aromaticum or salt meats Degree Cold in the beginning of the second moist in the end of the third Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For hot weather youth cholleticke and sanguine Pruna Story for Table-talke DAmascena or Damaske-prunes are so called of Damascus in Syria which yeeldeth your best and most commended Prune Next in Galens iudgement is the Spanish sweeter then the Damaske and not so astringent The French with vs is of much request for speciall vse Damascens of all other Plums are thought most wholesome in so much as many are of the minde that a good stomack can very hardly surfet of them Apples Choise OLd swéete faire ripe in any case Vse Comfort the hart quench thirst enlarge the brest dispatch distillations of rume cause to spit quiet the cough Hurt Annoy weake stomacks and diseased sinowes especially eaten raw or many PreparatioÌ„ CorrectioÌ„ Roast baked stewed powdered with sugar and aniséed comfits or else eate Saccarum Rosatum vpon them Degree Swéet are hot in the first temperately moist sower are cold and dry Season Age. Constitution In Autumne and spring for youth chollericke and good stomacks Mala. Story for Table-talke AN Apples is of euill report or at leastwise hath but an euil name amongst the Romaines for the very name Malum signifieth euill Hence some forbid both cheese an apples with this fallacian Caseus est nequam et mala sunt mala Howbeit not origination but fortune made theÌ„ Sophisters For Mâlum an apple deriueth his line of Ancestry froÌ„ the Greeke Melon of great antiquitie not vnknowne to Homer Yet the obuious Notation passing plausible and more passable because an apple was the cause or occasion of all euill but whether it were an apple or no fides sit penes Authores Peares Choise THroughly ripe swéete Please the taste Vse cause appetite comfort a weake stomacke by forcing the iawes to raise and spit out fleame proucke to the stoole Hurt Bréed cold and flatulent blood nought for the collicke Correction After meate powdered with much sugar drinke olde wine of good sauour vpon them or indeed prepare them thus PreparatioÌ„ First part them in halfes and cut out the Cores Then pare salt and cast them so out of doores Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second In Autumne and winter for all but the aged and rumaticke Pyra Story for Table-talke OVr English name Peare comes of the Latine Pyrum or Pyrus and Pyrus of Pyramis because both the Peare-tree and the Peare it selfe also somewhat resemble that figure or proportion yet inversim if they be compared For the Peare-tree aspireth and riseth with a kinde of Conus in the top the Peare Contrâ pointeth toward the stalke and his broad crowne reprefenteth the basis The Italians call their chiefe or best Peare Bergmot Mot is a Peare and Berkg signifies Lord or Master in the Turkish tongue whence they borrowed it As we say a Pome-roy from the French Aprecocks Choise THe greatest best coloured ripe whose inward kernels are passing swéet and comes easily from the shell pleasant in taste Vse Quench thirst whâ—t the stomack the kernel kils wormes Hurt Instale the stomacke soone corrupt possesse the blood with much water and make it soone putrifie Correction Eate after them Anyse-séedes meates well salted or spiced and old cheeâ—e drinke old wine of good sauour vpon them Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and moist in the second About the end of May or beginning of Iune for youth such as abound with choller or blood and haue strong stomacks Mala Armeniaca Story for Table-talke SO cald in Latine of Armenia whence they were first transplanted in Greeke Bericoccia in Latine Praecocia or Praematura Id est Soone ripe or first ripe for they offer themselues about the end of the spring Hence we call a ripe-headed young boy a princock Horace saith Non amo puerum praecocis ingeni Id est I loue no Aprecocks And so on the contrary a Cockni is inuerted being as much as Incoct vnripe Other deriue Apricock of Apricum because it ripeneth best in Aprico Now as Aprecocks be soone ripe so according to the old rule soone rotten And though Galen saith Aprecocks be not so obnoxious to corruption as the Peach yet experience giues him the lye Peaches Choise OF a good colour fragrant smell and pleasant taste ripe such as come easily froÌ„ their stone Vse Mend the euill sauour of the breath arising from the stomacke their smell is wondrous good in cordiaque passions Hurt Being soft moist and flatulent they engender humours very subiect to corruption euil for old flegmaticke and weake stomackes Correction Eate them alwaies fasting and drinke a cup of the best wine most fragrant and well aromatized Degree Cold in the first moist in the second Season Age. Constitution For youth chollerists and sanguines Mala persica Story for Table-talke CAld Persica of Persia Persiques Therfore haue we notoriously impeached their name as we do all other deriuatiues indeed For in stead of Persiques we say Peaches But no great matter for the name that will neuer feed or fill our mawes As he said Voca panem lapidem et da mihi lapidem Those Peaches whose meate cleaueth fast to the stone are coÌ„mended of some as also such as seeme friezed ouer with a thinne downe like a Quince But questionlesse both these are of last and least request Orenges Choise VVAightie full ripe sad coloured twixt sweete and sower Vse The sweete open obstructions are good for melancholists and such as be subiect to distillations the middle sort are good in Agues and recall appetite Hurt The exquisitly swéet are too hot the sower coole and offend the stomack stuffe the belly constraine the brest and arteries CorrectioÌ„ Therefore eate but litle of them after them Orenge pils condite which are good for the stomacke Degree The sower are cold in the first moist in the second the sweet temperately hot the middle cold and temperately
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
In Aegypt it is red in Sicilia purple in Pathmos it is most bright and splendent In Cappadocia it is of a Saffron colour The Diuel loues no Salt with his meat saith Bodinus Vineger Choise MAde of the best wine a yearâ— old bettered by putting Roses in it Vse Best temperateth choller quencheth thirst closeth and strengtheneth weake gummes breakes fleame holesome in time of Pestilence Hurt Taken fasting hurts the sinows old leane and melancholicke folks gnaweth the stomack and entrals bad for the diseases of the belly CorrectioÌ„ Allay it with a good deale of water or take it with Raisons of the Sunne Degree Cold in the first moyst in the second Season Age. Constitution For hot weather youth chollerists Acetum Story for Table-talke THere be foure principall coÌ„tingates to Wine 1. To be kept vncorrupt 2. To be kept sweete 3. Beeing corrupt to be restored 4. To be chaunged into Vineger This last is effected many wayes most of which are commonly knowne The reason and effect of them all is only this to bereaue wine of his proper fatnesse Whence it followeth that vineger nourisheth nothing at all that it best quencheth fire for it is vtterly voyd of that same Pingue Humidum and by his exceeding Acrimony and rartnesse eateth and consumeth Mustard Choise VVHich taken pearceth the braine and prouoketh néesing Vse Good sauce for sundrie meates both flesh and fish besides medicinable to purge the braine Hurt Not so good for the sight hotte folkes or in hot weather Degree Much hotter then salt therefore called in Latine Mustarda quasi Mustum ardens In English Mustard that is much tart Season Age. Constitution In colde weather for old colde and rumaticke Sinapi Storie for Table-talke PLiny highly commendeth the hearb that yeeldeth this condiment But saith he the seed is as it were a Compendium of the hearbe And that sine vllo dispendio vertutis Yea the seed is all vigour and though least in quantitie yet most in power and vertue It is the most perfect Embleme of Ex minimis initijs Omnia ex nihilo that is creation to see of litle or nothing what a most ample and large Hearbe ariseth Greene Sauce Choise MAde of swéete hearbes as Betony Mint Basill also Rose vineger a Clowe or two and a little Garlicke Vse Eaten with flesh as mustard exciteth appetite commendeth meates to the Palate helpes concoction breaketh fleame in the stomack Hurt Naught for Feuers and hotte stomacks especially eaten largely Correction Mingle it with the iuyce of Sower Oranges and eate very good meates vpon it Degree According to the temperature of the herbs it is made of now more now lesse hot Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In hot weather for any especially for youth Condimentum viride Story for Table-talke THis kinde of Sauce I neuer tasted my selfe yet am bold to communicate and commend it to my friendes as I finde it described by the Italian Freitagio The Italian as all the world knowes is most exquisite in the composition of all sortes of Condiments they being indeede the better part of his Diet. All kinde of Greene-sauce is questionlesse best in season while herbs retaine their full strength and perfect vigour A Satyricall Epigram vpon the wanton and excessiue vse of Tabacco IT chaunc'd me gazing at the Theater To spie a Lock-Tabacco-Chevalier Clowding the loathing ayr with foggie fume Of Dock-Tabacco friendly foe to rume I wisht the Roman lawes seuerity Alex. seu Edict Who smoke felleth with smoke be donto dy Being well nigh smouldred with this smokie stir I gan this wize bespeak my gallant Sir Certes me thinketh Sir it ill beseems Thus hereto vapour out these reeking steams Like or to Maroes steeds whose nosthrils flam'd Or Plinies Nosemen mouthles men surnam'd Whose breathing nose supply'd Mouths absency He me regreets with this prophane reply Nay I resemble Sir Iehouah dread From out whose nosthrils a smoake issued Or the mid-ayrs tongealed region Whose stomach with crude humors frozenon Sucks vp Tabacco-like the vpmost ayr Enkindled by Fires neighbour candle fayr And hence it spits out watry reums amaine As phleamy snow and haile and sheerer raine Anon it smoakes beneath it flames anon Sooth then quoth I it's safest we be gon Lest there arise some Ignis Fatuus From out this smoaking flame and choken vs. On English foole wanton Italianly Go Frenchly Duchly drink breath Indiauly Tabacco Choise TRanslated out of India in the séed or roote Natiue or satun in our own fruitfullest soiles Dried in the shade and compiled very close of a tawny colour somwhat inclining to red most perspicuous and cleare which the Nose soonest taketh in snuffe Vse It cureth any griefe dolour opilation impostume or obstruction procéeding of cold or winde especially in the head or breast the leaues are good against the Migram cold stomackes sick kidnits tooth-ache fits of the moother naughty breath scaldings or burnings 4. ounces of the iuyce drunk purgeth vp and downe cleanseth the eyes being outwardly applied The water distilled and taken afore the fits cureth an Ague The sume taken in a Pipe is good against Rumes Catarrhs hoarsenesse ache in the head stomacke lungs breast also in want of meat drinke sléepe or rest Hurt Mortifieth and benummeth causeth drowsinesse troubleth dulleth the sences makes as it were drunke dangerous in meale time Correction The leaues be-ashed or warmed in imbers and ashes taken once a day at most in y e morning fasting Degree Hot and dry in the second of a stiffening and soddering nature Also disensing and dissoluing filthy humours consisting of contrary qualities Season Age. Constitution In Winter and the Spring for hot strong youthful and fat bodies only as some thinke Tabacus Pilciet Storie for Table-talke THis Hearbe is of great antiquitie high respect among the Indians and especially thoâ—â— of America or new Spain Of whoÌ„ the Spaniards tooke it after they had subdued those Countrieâ— first vpon a liking of the hearde veâ—â—e faire and glorious to the eye afterward vpon triall of his vertues worthie admiration The Name in India is Pilciet surnamed Tabacco by the Spaniards of the Ile Tabaco By their meanes it spred farre and neare but yet wee are not beholden to their tradition Our English Vlisses renomed Syr Walter Rawleigh a man admirably excellent in Nauigation of Natures priuy counsell and infinitely reade in the wide booke of the worlde hath both farre fetcht it and deare bought it the estimate of the treasure I leaue to other yet this all know since it came in request there hath bene Magnus fumi questue and Fumi-vendulus is the best Epithite for an Apothecary Thus much late Histories tell vs among the Indians it is so highly honoured that when the Priests are consulting in matter of importance they presently cast Tabacco into the fire and receiue at their nose mouth the smoak through a Cane till they fall downe dead-drunke Afterward reuiuing againe they giue answeres according to the phantasmes and visions which appeared to them in their sleepe FINIS Epiposion Grace after Diets dry Dinner wherein Diets Drinking is promised NOw that your barking stomackes mouth is shut And hungers rage apppeas'd with choycer fare And murmuring bowels be to silence put Now that the boordes with voyder purged are Both thank you God and thanke Simposiarch's pains That for your thankes he may thanke you againe For if you hunger yet or if you thirst Both which I weet may Diets Drinesse make A second course may hap to swage the first And Diets Drinking shall the latter slake Accept meane while these Cates of D. D. D. Drest by Arts Cookerâ— in C. C. C. Proficiat Proface Mytchgoodditchye IOa VVeeueri Epicrisis ad Henricum Butsum DIETS dry Diner change thy Dinners name For wittie Buttes thou doest thy Dinner wro â—f fish fruite flesh and white-meat doest thou fra◠〈◊〉 dyet with Tabacco leaues among â—nd can'st thou say thy Dinner then is dry â—hen both of Spices and of Sauces store â—nd of Tabaccos moysture fresh supply â—hy Dinner is replenish't euermore With salt of wit so sweet thy Dinner seasond â—nd relisht with the sharpenesse of thine Art â—he Historie of this thy Dyet reasond â—he table furnisht rich in euery part Change change thy name I see no reason why â—Buttes thou shouldest call thy Dyets Dinner dry Eiusdem ad eundem de eodem Palinodoia CHange not the Name for Dinners should be dry Tis now the fashion on a Cupboord by The drinke must pauling stand For once I sate Pontus Table and withall forgate â—r else it was my blushing modestie â—amde to shoute for drinke so openly 〈◊〉 call for beere From Diuner I rose vp 〈◊〉 neuer toucht of Pontus fomy Cup 〈◊〉 With Pontus then ere any more I dine â—tes by thy leaue Ile be a Guest of thine FINIS Fruites Hearbes Flesh Fish White-meates Spice Sâ—use Tabacco 1 Choise 2 Vse 3 Hurt 4 PreparatiÌ„on or Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Gen. 2. 17. Morosophus
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
and séeth them asunder Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first drie in the second Best in cold weather for grosse and homely feeders Fabae Storie for Table-talke TOng-tying Pytagor biddeth vs tie vp our chaps also from eating of Beanes A Fabis abstineto Wherein Iudicious Antiquaries say there is much mysterie and therefore diuersly interpret it Simeon in his Dyet Booke saith Pythagor forbad them for that they cause turbulent fearfull dreames Other referre it to their flatulencie whereby they prouoke to lechery Other expound it mystically not according to the grammaticke sense therein shewing much reading if not wit But to gather togither their gatherings were to send my wit a wooll-gathering and indeed to contend de lana caprina Rize Choise BRight and cleare kernels like Pearles Margarite such as swell in seething Vse Wonderfully asswage the bâ—rning heate of the stomacke encreaseth séed stops fluxes Hurt Bad for the Collicke for being of a clammy and glewish nature it sticketh too long in the guts and breeds some winde Preparation Séeth it in Cowes milke or in the creame or oyle of swéete Almonds Degree Hot in the first dry in the second temperatly saith Auicens and Rhasis Season Age. Constitution In winter for youth and labourers Oriza Storie for Table-talke RIze is sowne in a moyst and lowe ground Frumentie made of Barley is moister then Rice yeeldeth singular good nourishment to the bodie verie holesome for the sicke You may much meliorate your Rice both for nourishment toothsomenesse by seething it in fat flesh-broath or in passing good Cowes morning milke Sodden with Oyle or Butter it relinquisheth his astringent qualitie The Painters Prouerbe Manum de Tabula THat is as present occasion interpreteth no more Table-talke The reason hereof as I gesse may be these First and principally except I speake wiselyer Secondly the consequent is like to proue barren for Certs fruitles for all the fruite is antecedent Thirdly and lastly it's Dinner-time so that if more time be spent in prating my Dry Dinner will not be ready in due time Quod omnium rerum est primum These reasons would binde any man any reasonable man to the peace Yet for all this presuming vpon your fauourable estimates who are wise Et nostis os adolescentiae quà m sit impudens I am purposed to proceed in my perpetuall paralell of paraphrase The which I desire it may be serued in amongst the rest of the dishes and be tasted also but yet of such onely as are of eager appetite If any be desirous to know what a maÌ„ may call it surely I can thinke of no fitter name then an hasty pudding For I protest in so great haste I composed it that when a friend of mine came into my chamber and suddenly surprising me asked what I was making I as not minding what he ask't or what I answerd tolde him in my haste that I made haste Hearbs Sage Choise GArden or set the lesser sort the litle leaues of it Vse Good against the paulsie and quiuering of the ioynts procéeding of a cold cause coÌ„forteth the head braine senses and memorie Hurt Annoyeth melancholicke persons by ouer-drying them also the hot and chollericke by ouer-heating and burning them Correction Eate it in sallets with other cold and moist hearbes as Lettuse or with moist meates Degree Hot and drie in the beginning of the third or in the verie end of the second somewhat astringent Season Age. Constitution In winter and the spring for old cold and phlegmaticke Saluia Storie for Table-talke MAny do much extoll Sage calling it an holy Hearbe auerring that it preuenteth all abortument in women They counsell a woman the fourth day of her going abroad after childe-birth to drinke nine ounces of Sage iuyce with a little salt and forthwith to vse the company of her husbant The holesomenesse of Sage-ale is notoriously famous Heywoods merry wit noted two kindes of Sage not named in our Herbals Sages wise Sage foole Foenill or Finckle Choise GArden young if you eate it gréene full ripe if you keepe it sodden with the rootes and tender stalkes Vse Doth make store of milke prouoke vrine and monthly flur open obstructions purge y e reines wondronsly helpe the sight Hurt Attenuate and inflame the blood neither sodden nor rawe is easie of digestion especially eaten much Correction A litle yong laied a while in cold water Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second many say in the third dry in the first very opening For any time age or constitution least for youth and chollerists Foeniculus Story for Table-talke SNakes Serpents by eating of Foenill renew their age and repaire their decaied sight by rubbing their eyes with it Wherfore it is vsed of vs to the like purposes There is a bad propertie in the seede to breede poysonous wormes whose poyson is curable by no Antidot Therefore afore they be eaten they must be opened and carefully purged Sparage Choise HOme lately sowne the â—ep now bowing to the ground-ward Vse Doth open obstructions of the reines and liuer make soluble prouoke vrine and Venus Hurt Eaten cold disposeth to domit and through his bitternesse greatly increaseth choller in collerickâ— stomackes Correction Is boyled and the first decoction cast out condite with Oyle Vineger Pepper and salt Degree Hotte in the first temperately moist Season Age. Constitution For any age or temperature chiefly for old and cold Asparagi Story for Table-taske DIoscorides saith that Sparage causeth barrennesse but it is not probable sithence it nourisheth very much and manifestly prouoketh Venus It is very soone sodden and therefore Caesar speaking of any thing that was soone done had this prouerbe vsually in his mouth Citiùs quà m Asparagi coquantur Id est Sooner then Sparage can be sodden As much in effect as while you caÌ„ say what's this in the turne of an hand in the twinckling of an eye Spinache Choise VEry yong growing in a wel manured and fat soyle watred from aboue Vse Doth enlarge the breast cure the cough moderately coole the lungs make the belly soluble the weasand smooth Hurt Is verie windie annoyeth the stomacke engenders watry humours in a cold stomacke Correction Fried with it owne iuyce without water then condite with Oile Sorrel-iuyce and Raysons of the sun Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the first For any age or constitution especially youth and chollerists Spinachia Storie for Table-talke SOme will needes haue this hearbe a bred natiue Spaniard and therefore miscall it Spagnaeci But they much abuse it for the Arabians called it Sphinache the reason of the name is obuious because the seed thereof is Spinosum That is prickly The iuyce of Spinache drunke cureth any wound receiued of a Scorpion Therefore it is of much request in Italy Artichokes Choise THiffle or prickly Artichokes coÌ„ming of Artichoke tender Vse Please the taste prouoke vrine and Venus remoue flatiue humours open obstructions heate the entralls Hurt
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
of it the greater sowne in Gardens which is the better the lesse growing in the fields hauing lesse leaues and the stalke like a speare the leaues very red and shining Burnet Choise LOw set in gardens for sallets with litle leaues notcht like a Saw and indented rounde about the Verge the stalke red Vse Doth purge the reines and bladder verie much prouoke vrine voyd the stone and grauell verie good against the plague put in wine greatly comforts the hart Hurt Hard of digestion stuffeth the belly and in many inflameth the liuer and blood Correction Eaten raw in sallets with other cold hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and drie in the second Pimpinella Storie for Table-talke IT is an Hearbe that the auncient were verie litle acquâ—â—nted with Yet the Nomenclators haue referred it vnto that sort of hearbes which are good against the stone The decoction of it made in pottage is a present remedie against the plague Also the water distilled is pâ—ssing good for that purpose It is vulgarly thought to be put in wine as a cooler but it heaâ—eth in the second degree and ioyneth with wine in his operation for the strengthening of the heart Persley Choise THe braunches afore either they flower or séed the rootes at halfe their growth Vse Very much prouoke vrine and womens fluxe clenseth the liuer and matrice openeth the obstructions of those parts is verie pleasing to theistomacke the decoction of it resists poyson Hurt Is of no verie good iuyce enflameth the blood sâ—uffeth the head is slowly digested Correction Eate it little rawe with colde hearbes sodden in flesh pottage the roote boyled throughly Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the end of the first Good sodden for any season age or constitution Petroselinum Storie for Table-talke THe excellency of this hearb accordeth with the frequent vse thereof For there is almost no meate or sauce which may not haue Persley either in it or about it Our English word Persly is a manifest contract of the Latin Petroselinum The chiefest vertue lieth in the roote second in the seed last and least in the leaues and yet these are of most vse in the kitching Taragon or byting Dragon Choise GArden in a fat moist soile the tender branches leaues not spread vpon the ground Vse Chiefe of hearbes for acâ—â—ony and sauourmes Cardâ—all exciting appetite and Venus comforting the stomacke Hurt Atteâ—uateth the blood and burns 〈◊〉 liuer naught for hot constitutions Correction Eate it sparingly with Borage flowers or Endiue Lettule and such cooling hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot almost in the beginning of the third drie in the second For cold old phlegmaticke Dracunculus Hortensis Story for Table-talke THis is an Artificiall herbe for it commeth of a Lineseede put into an Onyon or Leek so buried in the ground Husbandmen haue a stronge conceit of it and not without some cause that it is a preseruatiue against the plague all maner of poysoÌ„ inward or outward experience and proofe is no detracter of the credit and estimation thereof Radish Choise TEnder byting the tongue most whiâ—e Vse Helpeth vrin voydeth grauel and sand from the reines and bladder healeth the stomackâ— clarifieth the voyce Hurt Causeth lâ—annesse belechings headache and lice bâ—â—nes the blood hurseth the teeth and eyes is slowly conceâ—ed Correction Therefore is best eaten after meate Degree Hot in the second dry in the first Season Age. Constitution In colde weather for youth labourers and hot stomackes Raphanus Story for Table-talke WE English haue greatly honour'd this roote by calling it a Radish that is Radix a roote as if this roote were the only roote and all other rootes no rootes in coÌ„parison of this roote or at leastwise that the Radish is Radix radicum the roote of rootes a roote indeede a roote Cath ' Hexochen as the Rhetoricians speake a most excellent roote But I feare mee I haue ouercloy'd you with rootes may it please you to fall to somewhat else Carot or red Parsnip Choise Vse REd great sweet Prouoketh vrin Venus and monthly slure engenders milke opeâ—â—th obstructions is preferred afore the Parsnip Hurt Of 〈◊〉 and bad nourishment slowly digested very windie Preparation Boyle it thâ—oughly then eate le with 〈◊〉 oyle mustard and coriander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second moyst in the first In colde weather for all but olde and phlegmatique Carota seu pastinaca rubens Storie for Table-talke CArot that is redde roote as some Antiquaries gesse Athenaeus quoting Diphilus saith the Grecians called the Carot Philtrum for that it is thought to be agreat furtherer of Venus her pleasure and of loues delights but although generally it furdereth Venus yet it is especially to bee vnderstood of the wilde Carot Onyons Choise THat grow in a moyst soyle great full of iuyce round as the Flemish Vse Excite Venus increase séede and milke restore appetitie preserue in change of water Hurt Eaten raw or much cause headache burne the blood dull the vnderstanding hurtes the eyes Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Lay it sliced a while in cold water then séethe it throughly Hot in the third dry in the second For old and colde onely Cepa Story for Table-talke THe word Onyon comes of the olde Latine name Vnio For so the olde Latine Rusticks tearmed that which the latter call Cepa And the reason why they called it Vnio was because one herbe or branche as it were groweth vpon one roote Whereto accordeth that that Columella saith in his 12. Booke and 10. cha of Husbandry Cepa simplex quam Vnionem Rustici vocant Garlicke Storie for Table-talke Choise THat comes vp about March put in sallets or vsed dry full of sprigs and knots Vse Greene qualifieth the coldnes and moystnes of sallets dry it resists poysons cleares the voyce kils wormes prouoketh vrin and Venus consumes the salt rume in the stomacke Hurt Hurtes the voyding facultie braine sight head very bad for women with childe youth and hot constitutions reuiueth old diseasâ—s 〈◊〉 the blood CorrectioÌ„ Boâ—ls 〈◊〉 throughly then eate it wâ—th oile vinegâ—r or other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the fourth dry in the third In colde weather for the aged and phlegmatique Allium Story for Table-talke GArlicke is of most speciall vse for Sea-faring men a most excellent preseruaâ—iue against all infection proceeding from the nastie sauor of the pump or sincke and of tainted meates which Mariners are faine to eate for fault of better It also pacifieth the disposition to vomit crused by the roughnesse of the sea and greatly strengthneth the rowers therefore they eate it by break of day It may be rightly termed the poore mans phisicke Scallion or litle Onyon Choise SMall like a Daffodill Roote red hard sweete Vse Helpeth a saâ—nt stomack languishing through ouermuch heate causeth appetite furthereth concoction Hurt Causeth winde grosse humors headache thirst dreames Correction Prepared as the Onyon condite with strong Viâ—