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The beft time of {owing them is in the Spring, prefently after the witteer ia a spt. 
yet they may be fowed all the Summer long. The Ponke Lettice RIE | 
rally inmany Corn Fields, and hath thence been brought into the Gardens of 
tho.e that know it, and its ufe. Ir is found green almoft Winter and Summer,and 
is eaten in Sallers, in Febrwery and Mareb, before the Garden Lettice can be 
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The Temperature, 
Although thefe forts of Lettice do differ in form, one from another, 
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temperature is the fame; which is cold atid moytt, in the fecond or thitd yeu} heir 
The Signature and Verpues, 
| “The Milky juyce which ifueth forth trom the wounded ftalkes and Leaves is a 
fufficienc Signature, that chis Herb, if it be earen boyled or sahaeontie guineas 
Dilea.. It procureth reft and fleep ; being taken raw or'boyled i 
loofen the belly, and the boyled more then de raw, sithich patil a 
eth it the better: and was generally fo ufed by the Ancients, Ic helpeth digeition 
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