: Adam in Eden, Or, 
CHAP. Cll. 
- Of Lentalls... 
The Names, 
pegged Here is another Sort of Pxi/e, which may be appropriated to the fame 
purpofe, which the Grecians Called; gaxds, anc gaxt Phzcos, and in La- 
_ tine Lens & Lenticula, Pliny faith, Lib,18. Chap, 12, that the Etymon 
thereof feemeth to be taken, quafilenis dicta fhe, lenitat [que fign'fication 
nem habet & equanim:tarem fieri vefcent.bus ea, Ic iste.dom wed ior Mans meat 
herein England, and therefore I cannot jufiifie any fuch operation it hath, uniefs 
he meant it of Cattle,who are much plealed with it-and for their Food it is {owed 
in divers Countries.In Hamp(hire they leave out the firit fyllabie, and call ix Tidls, 
and in Oxfordbire, Dills, = 
The Kinds, 
Be Of thefe Lentills I find but three Sorts, 1. The greacer Lentills, 2, Spotted 
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The Ferme, 
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fomewhat flat Cods, wirhin 
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plese 
rity 
The Temperature, 
__ Galen {aith, that Lentills hold amean betw Id, yet do they de 
in the fecond degree, thé ourer Skin belligtandiog, saat ee 
which is a litle narfh, and bindeth the 1 , yet the ourer Skin much more: it 
er nt, qualities ; for the firt decoStion thereof deth not bind) — 
dfeh the'body, and therefore they that would have it to bind.caft away the © 
__-Beftwarer, and ufe the fecond, which Aayeth Lasks, and ftrengtheneth the flo- 
= &% and all the inward parts, Lentils husked, faith he, lofe with chests tel : 
