Lib. i. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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hereafter followetfyanc exceeding good to be gi- C 



, nnlTand^ecd people that are coafumed and withered with age,and which want natural moi- 

 Z ° cv " c ■ ISfo So5 for other forts of people that haue nodelight or appetite to venery } nou- 

 Xgaod reftoring the aged,aad amending the defers of natute in the yonge*. 



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U Tfo ww*** r to condite Eringos 



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<Jm" d " , " kc ' (iith ""J 1 ""*'."'* Carrot feed againft very many infirmities, in the weight of a 



r^ef'the tefnV" " P ' C,rC<1 f °" h wi *» i «. i »«-«<'y f°t thofe that ate troubled with the 



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Refine fugar fit for the purpofc.and take a pound of it, the white of an eggc^nd a pinte of deer 

 frircr,boi!c them together and fcum it,thcn let it boile vntil it be come to good ftrong Tym^and 

 ••knit is boilcd^s it cooletb adde thereto a faucer full of rofewater,a fpoone-full of Cinnamon 

 watcr,and a grain of mnske.which haue been infufed together the night before, and now ftrained : 



: > which fyrrup being more than halfe cold, put in your roots to foke and infufevntil! the next 

 diy- your rots being ordered in manner hereafter follewing : 



Tbcfc your roots being wafhed and picked, rauft be boiled in faire water by the fpace of foure 

 bourcs,tiI they be loft \ then muft they be pilled clean as ye pil parfneps,& the pith muft be drawn 

 out at the end of the root : but if there be any whofe pith cannot be drawn out at the end,then you 

 mull (lit them and fo take it out : thefe you muft alfo keep from much handling, that they may be 

 clean : let rhem remain in the fyrrup till the next day, and then let them on the fire in a faire broad, 

 pan vntil I they be very hor,but let them not boile at all: let them remain ouer the fire an houre or 

 njorcrcmoouingthem cafily in the pan from one place to anotherwitha wooden (lice. This done, 

 haue in a readinede great cap or royall papers, whereupon ftrowfome fugar, vpon which lay your 

 roor$,hauing taken them outof the pan. Thefe papers you muft put intoa ftouveor hot-houfe to 

 baftlcn . but if you haue not fuch a place,Iay them before a good fire : in this maner if you condite 

 your roots, there is not any that can prefcribe you a better way. And thus you may condite any 

 otherrootwhatfoeuer,which will not only be exceeding delicat,but very wholfome,and effeaual 

 againft the difeafes aboue named. 



Atiim faith,a certain man affirmed, that by the continual vfeof fea Holly he neuer after voided E 

 any ttonc,whcn as before he was very often tormented with that difeafe 



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 foot long. 



not prickly^but lightly 



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 ie< mm- " he ftalke i$ ff nall and {lender, 



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