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FUxe is fo»vnc in the fpring , it fioureth in Iunc and I 



into be (tecped therein- the loofenes of the rindeis a fignc when it is well I 

 vp and dried in the Sun,and after vfed as moft hufwiues can tell better than 



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'eJ both in GreckeandLatine »/«». £»«»: in high Dutch, J*Ifttyf;:in Italian and Spa- 

 .• in rrcncb,D«//» .• in low Dutch,fHagJm Englifli,FIax,and Lyne. 



^J The Temperature and Vertues. 



his firft bookeof the faculties ofnourifliments faith, thatdiuers vfe the feed hereof par- A 



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They alio vie it mixed with nony,iomc nicewiie put it among bread. but ic is hurtful 1 to th 

 *ck,and lurd ofdige(Hon,and yeelds to the body but little nourishment :but touching tht uu«. 

 htvwbich roakein the belly folubIe,neither will I praife or difpraifc it-yet that it hath fomc force 

 K>proi: ; >kc vri ne,is more apparent when it is parched : but then it alio ftaieth the belly more. 



Tbe fiirjc author in his books of faculties of fimple medicines faith, that Linefeed being eaten 

 jswiod . although it be parched,fo full it is of fuperfluous moifture: & it is alfo after a fort hoc in 

 the foftdc°ree,and in a meane between hot and dry.Buthow windy the feed is 3 and how full of fu- 

 petduoustnoilhire it is in euery part, might very well haue beene perceiued a few yeares fince as at 

 MnJdleborough in Zeland,wherc for wantof grain and other corne,moft of the Citizens were fam 

 toeatbrcad and cakes made hereof with hony and oile, who were in fliort time after fwolne in the 

 belly below the fhort ribs, faces, and other parts of their bodies in fuch fort, thata great number 

 wetebrooght to their graues therby:for thefe fymptomes or accidents came no otherwife th an bv 

 the fuperfluous moifture of the feed which caufeth windineffe. 



Linefeed, as Diofcoridcs hath written,hath the fame properties that Fenugreek hath : it wafteth 

 way fcrnollifieth al inflammations or hot fwellings,as wel inward as outward,if it be boiled with 

 tajr,o.le and a little fair water, and made vp with clarified hony ; it taketh away blem idies of the 



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trraod figsrit caufeth rugged and ill fauored nails to fall oft>ixed with hony and water-Cretes" 



kivte % f r , Cft C ° r T C ? ? e S me and other filth y humours > & compofition with E 

 *»ybc made thereof to hckeon,andcafeth the cough. P "°»wicu 



Being taken largely with pepper and hony made into a cake, it ftirreth vp luft. F 



■touch hcareth ' ' ld an<1 ranke ' lt c,ufi:th »P'nefle to vomit,and withall i t o- 



^^.w&h «, hi„"l. l d J' toft ' m ' fe . boil « 1 '" vineg«,vpon the difeafes called c„/«„,„^ L 



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