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^n6 The third Bookc 



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»e fmall C0nto;l0 w satbereu in Hull? anD auguff, tuUf? 



"hfe flour^s ario foiJ 



5JL T^<f »<«»r/ 



1 2Cl)c great Ccntojie is caUeo in (IDreefec K«Ta^6««v «;«> tn Jla^ 



tin Centaurium magnum : Theophraftiis alfo callet!| it Cen- 



taurida : in ll^opis it t« to;tong namcD of fomc Rha Ponticum : 

 fo;j Rha Ponticum is tljat feinD ofiaijatoljic^groUieti] in tlje 



countrc? of Jaontus, ano it is a |Aant mac^ Diflftring from tljc 

 great Cent ojic . SL^erc be alfo otljer names afc ribeo tnto t^e 

 great Centojiejtotjicli are faineO ano counter fe iteO, as Apuleius 

 l)D;itetl),U)l)erof fome feeme to appertain to tlje lelTer Cento?r,as 



HtfXM, i^^i* » f<fi^'y">f> t^Atoy, >,/^ii<7To», Kl^n^t, wXfx^Ma i srXsxTf cn«, ^Hg^cyUc, ouftjc, 



i&xxi^^, tljat is in ilatine Herculis fanguis, Vnefcra, Fel terrse^ 

 Polyhydion *^e?'^»« 



a SDtje f mal Cento^ie is fallen in C^rabe 'Mn«o'e/» 7i fjun&f -. and of 



Theophraftus JWTw-e*? ^ in iUtine Centaurium paruum, f Cen- 

 taurium minus : of fome Febrifuga,Fel terrac, anO Multiradix : 



of tlje apotl)ecarie« Centauria minor ; in Italic ft^etruria Bi~ 

 endeltadn ^panif^ Ontoriadn ©erman^ 2Daufengatoenferaut:in 

 3©^abant J^to^ie,f c le?n ^antojie : in iFremlj Petite Centattre, 



^ The caufi oft he name, 



€mtom twsf railed in <!Drab Centanrton,! Cljironion, after 

 tlje name of Chiron t^e Centanre,tDf)o firft of all found out tlb^fe 

 ttoo Ijerbes, i taugl)t tljem to ^Efculapius as Apuleius to^itetii* 

 iXm as fome otljer innte t^e^ loere Co named^biraufe CbirS iuas 



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tnred iDtt0 t^e Ijerbs of a certam toouno tpl)icl) Ije take (be^ng 

 receined as a gljeH q% Granger in l^ercules boufe o; lodging) b^ 

 letting fall on W faite,onc of l^rrules l^afts o; arrotnes^, as l^e 

 iDBs ^ndling and bietoing of t^ ^id l^ercules Weapon ano 



armour 



aA The nAtme 



X nt great Cento^ac is ^ote and d;p tn tlje t^trd degra, and 

 <d(b alhingenf* 



2 SC ^e leOe o;^ fmall Cento;^ie is of tomplerion |ote and d^ie tn 



tf^e Crcond degree 



^ Tihe vertues. 



%^ rote Of great Cento^tie in qnantttie of ttoo d^ammes, 



talten 



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