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little or nothing to do but eate and drinke, haue bellowed fome of their time in carmnVrhl ^ 

 of Briome/ormmg them to the (hape of men and women:which falfifyine pradife hath ™ c s 

 the errour amongft the Ample and vnlearned people, who haue taken them vpon their l2^ 

 the true Mandrakes. r re P ort to be 



ThefemaIeMandrakeisiikevntothemale,fauingthatthe leaues hereof be of a morr r 

 darke greene colour , and the fruit is long like a pear?,and the other like an apple ° fwart 0r 



The male and female Mandrake. 





% The Place. 



Mandrake 



woods and mountaines a as in mount Gar?a 



fill* in A millt *n J /",.^1, 111 1 . . O*" 



ftich 



them oneiy planted in gardens, and are not 



eifewher 



5f The Time. 



March 



They fpring vp with their leaues ■ 



fruitisripeinAuguft. 



Mandrake 



^ The Names. 

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the m tch, who by art could procure loue: 

 for it hath beene thought that the Root 

 hereof ferueth to win loue : of fome, *»>„ 



i^tntbropomorphos, and Morion : fome of the 

 Latines haue called it Terr* mdtmM Tcr- 

 nfiremalum y and Carina malm : Shops, and 

 alfo other Nations doe receiue the Grecke 

 name. Diofcorides faith, That the male is 

 called of diuers Moriott.-und defcribeth alfo 

 another Mandrake by the name of UKtrut, 

 wheh, as much as can be gathered by the 

 defcription, is like the male, b u t le fle in all 

 parts:in Englifh we call it Mandrake, Man- 



drage,and Mandragon. 





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Diofiorides doth particularly fet downe many faculties hereof, of which notwithstanding there 

 be none proper vnto it,fauing thofe that depend vpon the drowfie and fleepie power thereofivbico 

 qualitie confifteth more in the root than in any other part. 



The Apples are milde^an^are reported that they may be eaten, being bovled with pepped 

 other hot fpices . ' 



C Galen faith that the Annies are fomething cold and moift, and that the barke of the root is of 

 _ — , — -..elycoole, but alfo dry. 



D The juice of the leaues is-very profitably put into the ointment called Popuhon, and all coding 

 ointments. ' 



• T ^ C | UyCe drawne forth of, ^e roots dried,and taken in fmall quantitie, purgeth the belly #& 



niricraro thr n9 .V «f rlw-eieS:*^ P° : 



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dingly from flegme and melancholike humors. 

 It is good to be put intomedicincs and collyries that doe 



vpasapciTarieitdrawethforththedeadchildeandfecondine. ° r , 



m Hie greene leaues ftamped with barrowes greafe and barley meale, coole all hot fweliing' 800 

 inflammations . and they haue vertue toconfume apoftumes and hot vlcers, being brui fed and ap' 



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plied thereon. 

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The wme wherein the root hath been boyled or infufed prouoketh fleepe and affwagerh p 

 Thefmellofthc A pplesmoueth to fleepe like wife: but the juice workcth more efrcrtua 





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