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IB.1. 



fpotted with very many fuch marks as are on the backe of the Hearts, toneue leafT~TiT~ — * 

 meatisnotfopleafingintafteastheother. & wc * "epuj^ 



or 



% The Place. 



firft fort ripe,thr 



witnitandxng X haue feen at the Queens houfe at S w m 

 ihgent and curious nourifhingof them by a skilful! g^ 2 



M r FotPle : and in Other nar^c n^r« *1,~ * i_ i. . b ulc iem» 



of Suflex bis houfe of Bermondfey by London,where yearely there is very great olenrv tr • , 

 if the weather be any thing temperat. \ ? & * cm /> cl pecia. 



^f The Time. 



They are fez or fovvne in AprilUs I haue already (hewne in the chapter of Cucumbers n,. f 

 fruit is ripe m the end of Auguft,and foratiraes fooner. incu 



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% The Names. 



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Leion is caned m Latwe, Mel* : in Italian, Mellone : in Spuria, Melm : in Frcrvh 

 Durch^daun : in low-Dutch,3Betoenet1 t in Greeke, ** . which fienifi.Z 



vereof Muske j and forthat caufe are alfo named CHelcncs Mufdatt 



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^ The Nature. 



The meat of the Muske Melon is very cold and moift. 



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A It is harder of digeftion than is any of the Cucumbers, and if it reraainc long io the ftomack it 



putrifleth,and is occafion of peftilent feuers. Which thing alfo U^'w witneiTeth , id his fit! 

 booke of Tetrahibles • writing,That the vfe of Gtcumres or Cucumbers breedeth peftilent feuers : 

 for hee alfo taketh Cucum'ts to be that which is commonly called a Melon ; which is vfually eaten 



B The feed is of like operation 



any 



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4 ** 



mi 



C h a p . J4.5 . Of Melons or Vomfions. 



W • I * - • 



^ TheKindes. 



Here be found diuers 

 therefore fufficient to 



kindes of Pompions which differ either in bignefle or forme, it (W J? 

 > defcribe fome one or two of them,and refer the reft to the view of <w ' 



gures, which moft liuely doe exprefle their differences 5 efpecially becaufe this Volume waxe 

 great ^the defcription of no tnoment^and I haften to an end . 



«[[ The Vefiripion. 



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THe great Pompion bringeth forth thicke and rough prickely ftalkes,which wi .^ 

 clafping tendrels take hold vpon fuch things as are neere vnto them, as J**—*,, fr 

 pa les,and ledges, which vnleffc they were neere vnto them would creep along ; pj^ 

 ground : the leaues be wiide and great,very rough,and cut with certain deep ga(hes,nicK ^ 

 the edges likea faw : the floures be very great like vnto a bell cup,of a yellow c° lo " r . ll S bs iike 

 oing fiuc corners ftanding out like teeth : the fruit is great,thicke,round,fet with tnici ' bir i- 

 edges (licking forth ; the pulpe or meat whereof next vnder the rinde is white,and or a i -^ 

 nelTc : the pith or fubftance in the middle is fpongie and (limy $ the feed is great^Droau, ^ 



otherwife 



colour ofthe barke or rinde is oftentimes of an obfeure green, fometiraes gray, i nc ^ 



green Pompion is harder,and as it were of a wooddy fubftance : the rinde o* the gray 

 renderer. ,,...,« ioi 



nd kindeof Melons or Pompions is like vnto the former 

 tendrels ; but the gafhes of the leaues are not Co deepe, 



n d ieaue? 



rer : the floures are in like manner yellow, gapin<* 



fomewhat rounder 







