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assuage inflammations arising from wounds, 
and the swelling of women’s breasts caused 
by the curdling of their milk, and repres- 
seth their milk; Flour of beans and fenu- 
greek mixed with honey, and applied to fel- 
ons, boils, bruises, or blue marks by blows, 
or the imposthumes in the kernels of the 
ears, helpeth them all, and with rose leaves, 
frankincense and the white of an egg, being 
applied to the eyes, helpeth them that are 
swollen or do water, or have received any 
blow upon them, if used with wine. If a 
bean be parted in two, the skin being taken 
away, and laid on the place where the leech 
hath been set that bleedeth too much, stay- 
eth the bleeding. Bean flour boiled to a 
poultice with wine and vinegar, and some 
oil put thereto, eases both pains and swell- 
ing of the cods. The husks boiled in water 
to the consumption of a third part thereof, 
stayeth a lask; and the ashes of the husks, 
made up with old hog’s grease, helps the 
old pains, contusions, and wounds of the 
_ sinews, the sciatica and gout. The field 
_ beans have all the aforementioned virtues 
_ as the garden beans. 
_ Beans eaten are extremely windy meat; 
but if after the Dutch fashion, when they 
| are half boiled you husk them and then 
_ stew them, (I cannot tell you how, for I 
_ hhever was cook in all my life) they are 
_ wholesome food. 
FRENCH BEANS. 
Descript.] Tuts French or Kidney Bean 
_ariseth at first but with one stalk, which 
_ afterwards divides itself into many arms or 
branches, but all so weak that if they be 
Rot sustained with sticks or poles, they will 
be fruitless upon the ground. At several 
places of these branches grow foot stalks, 
each with three broad round and pointed 
green leaves at the end of them; towards 
the top comes forth divers flowers made like 
_to pease blossoms, of the same colour for 
the most part that the fruit will be of; that 
is to say, white, yellow, red, blackish, or of 
a deeper purple, but white is the most 
usual; after which come long and slender 
flat cods, some crooked, some strait, with a 
string running down the back thereof, 
wherein is flattish round fruit made like a 
kidney; the root long, spreads with many 
strings annexed to it, and perishes every 
year. 
There is another sort of French beans 
commonly growing with us in this land, 
which is called the Scarlet flower Bean. 
This rises with sundry branches as the 
other, but runs higher, to the length of hop- 
poles, about which they grow twining, but 
turning contrary to the sun, having foot- 
stalks with three leaves on each, as on the 
other; the flowers also are like the other, 
and of a most orient scarlet colour. The 
Beans are larger than the ordinary kind, 
of a dead purple colour turning black when 
ripe and dry; the root perishes in Winter. 
Government and virtues.| These also be- 
long to Dame Venus, and being dried and 
beat to powder, are as great strengtheners 
of the kidneys as any are; neither is there 
a better remedy than it; a dram at a time 
taken in white wine to prevent the stone, or 
to cleanse the kidneys of gravel or stop- 
page. The ordinary French Beans are of 
an easy digestion; they move the belly, pro- 
voke urine, enlarge the breast that that is 
straightened with shortness of breath, en- 
gender sperm, and incite to venery. And 
the scarlet coloured Beans, in regard of the 
glorious beauty of their colour, being set 
near a quickset hedge, will bravely adorn 
the same, by climbing up thereon, so that 
they may be discerned a great way, not 
without admiration of the beholders at a 
Gistance. But they will go near to kill the 
quicksets by cloathing them in scarlet. 
LADIES BED-STRAW. . 
Busipes the common name above writ- 
ten, it is called Cheese-Rennet, because it 
