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cut too deep, it yieldeth no milk at all; which maketh it to bear three or four times 
a year, new riling out ofthe places where the old grew. The root is folid, hard; and 
black, and will abide frefh long after it is felled. 
2. The other fycamore is called fycomorus altera, feu ficus Cypria, the fycamore of 
Cyprus. This groweth to be as big as a plumb-tree, or white poplar-tree, the arms 
and branches bearing broad and fomewhat round leaves, like unto the élm, but very 
like unto the former; this beareth fuch-like fruit as figs, but fmaller, which rife 
both from the body and the greaterarms, but not as the former ; but on certain ftalks 
in branches, which rife by themfelves without any leaves with them ; and:are as 
{weet as figs. They bear four times every year, but not unlefs they be flit, that ne 
milk in them may come forth, « 
Puace and Time. The firlt grows chiefly in > Bey pel Syria, and Pv et 
other places adjacent ; the other in Cyprus, Caria, basi and: the ndishinaiteaae 
parts, 
GovERNMENTAND Virtues. Thefe are under the’ particular influence of Venus. 
The fruit maketh the belly foluble, but by its overmuch moifture it troubles the’ 
ftomach, and giveth but little nourifhment. The milk that is taken from the tree 
by gently piercing the bark, and afterwards dried and made into troches, and kept 
in an earthen pot, hath a property to foften tumours, and diffolve them ; and to fol- 
der and clofe together the lips of ae wounds. The fruit itfelf, ee eee 
= — worketh the fame effect. sre 
es PIK EN AR 'D, “ign opp sit 
IT i is patutally an Indian plant, called Nard Fidleay: thevefores I fhall pro 
declare its virtues, not troubling you at all with its:defcription, ~’ : 
Virtuzs. Spikenard is of a heating drying faculty, as faith Diofcorides 
ii uae to provoke urine, and eafeth pains of the ftone in the reins and kid~ 
— Neys, bei ig drunk in cold water ; it helps loathings, fwelling, or gnawing, in the. 
iomach, the yellow Jaundice, and fuch as are liver-grown, It is a good ingre- 
jent in mithridate and other antidotes againft poifon: to women with child itis 
forbi RIESED £0. be taken inwardly. Theoil of fpikenard is good to warm cold  pla- 
ces, and todigent crude and raw humours ; it worketh’ powerfully on old cold griefs: 
of thehead and brain, ftomach, liver, fpleen, reins, and bladder. It purgeth the 
brain of rheum, being fnuffed up the noftrils; being infufed certain. days in wines 
and then diftilled in a hot bath, the water is good:inwardly and outwardly tobe ufed 
for any coldnels of the members. It comforts the brain, and helps cold puncte 
