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CHAP. XXVIL ‘ 
of Tey. 
The Names, 
Eitheris Gtound-Ivy, only good forthe Ears, but other Ivy alfo, I 
thall cherefore handle it inthis place. Iriscalled in Greek xrais 
and a7, Ciffus and Cittus,as che Greeks report, from Ciffes, a littie 
Boy, whom Bacchus tired hereinto. The Athenians ca\ied Bacchus 
himfelfGittus, who by {ome is chonght to have bronghr it ont of India into 
Greece.and called it after his own name, and worea Crown thereof, becauie, As 
he is alwayes young, as the Poets feign; fo this is,continnally green. But 
Pena and Lobel chink it rather derived from #s , which word in Englith, fignifies 
gq Weavill, which is a littke Creacure, thatlives upon Corn and Male; eating up 
the Kernel thereof; for as chis eareth up the heart of rhe Corn; ‘o doth the Ivy 
rob the Tree it groweth upon of its nourifhment,or ftom. “7¢vels a Pumice 
fione, becaufe itis full of pores, asa Pumice ttone is, and being fo, what'¢ 
Wine is put into a Cup, made thereof, foaketh through, accordi: 
Varro, The Latines call ic Hedera vel rel 
ere vel quia id cui adbefer 
y 
times ic creepeth up walls, fending 
where growit great, they often crack them co their - 
nhold of either Tree or Wall, it will grow there 
the Tree is’ 
fos, E- Seinaredines 
