ofthe HearbeEfcuerconera. Folazz. 
which they fooke out a good quantitis, becauſe there was 
much there in that plate, and they went there with to the 
L owne, and fo to the houſe ol the ooꝛe, where they found 
him taking out the herbe of a Bagge that he bꝛaught it in: 
andthe ons hear be and the other being (iene, they ſaw that 
it was all one: whereby the Mooꝛe coulde nat denie but the 
thing which had beene by himſelfe long time hidden, was 
now diſcouered, and the hearb that be had gathered and gir 
uen, and that which the other bꝛought were all one. And 
fromthat time foꝛ ward al the people began to know it, and 
fuch as had nerde of it went to gather it, and died it fox the 
bytinges of thefe venomous beaſtes, as 3 haue ſaide. Cheꝝ 
tal this hearbe Ejcuercovera hecauſe it dageth heale and te/ cal 
medie the bitinges of this beaſt, called Efarta in the C. I Eſcuer- 
talan tongue, and the fame roote is like to the ſaide beaſte, era 
and the beaſt like to ths reote in figure. T his beaſte o2 
vermin commonlp is a Spanne and a halfe long, hee is 
ſmall in the tayle, and is greater and greater tawar des the 
heade: his headis greate and ſquare with a greate mouth. 
bis tonau- blattze and ſharpe, his text) ſmall lyke toa thee 
Adder, with the which hee doseth byte, and with bis 
tongue hee daeth pꝛicke like to a Scozpian , his colour is 
full ot blacke ſpattes, with diuers colours, hee och e+ 
uill fauouredly, and is continually among Plantes, and 
Uines, and byteth other beaſtes, as hee Dooeth men. 
bee goeth continually by the grounde , and therefoze all 
men looke warily too their feete, where they are. Pee 
is a fierce beaſte and valy too beholds, and full of mpl 
thiefe , bisbyting is woszler and moze Dangerous than 
. hee dyeth. Ir ang “a 
