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The common Beane in ftalkes, Ieaues, floures. and cods 



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Ires » anc * c °ds is like the fo 

 Beane,but lefler in them all ; yet the Ieaues are more, and grow thicker and o t f^*" garden 



cods Jefi% and ro^^ 



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Jjvaui^uin IC1ICJ ill 111L1II au j j*. i. uiv n.»m.J «»1C lU'JIC, «*UU grOW thicker flTvl 



the Ieaues vpon little foot- ftalks grow the floureSjCOramonly fix in number v° UC ! 

 are fucceeded by fomaay cods, lefler and rounder than thofeof the former • the*! 

 are alio iefle, and not foflar, butrounder, and fomewhat Iongifh : their colour 



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The firft Beane is fowne in fields and gardens euery where about London 

 This blacke Beane is fowne in a few mens Gardens who bee delighted in variety an^ a i 

 herbes,whercof i haue great plenty in my garden. * variety and (tody of 



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in I^dTugi Pri " a ° d May '' nd thSt by para,S ' a " d ** * l0 "S iD flouri "8 ' «* "»* k* 



' ^ T/^« Names. 



The garden Beane is called in Latine Fda : in Englifb, the garden Beane : the field Beane h of 

 the lame kinde and name although the fertiiitieofthcfoile Eath amended and altered £ 

 into a greater forme. * The difference between the garden and the field Beane is a fpeci&fc <& 

 rcnce )S nd not an accidental one caufed by the foile, as euery one that knoweth them may * C JI^.* 



The blacke Beane,whofe figure we haue fet forth in the fecond placets called Fda fihu&tk of 

 fome thought tobe the true Phyficke Beaneof the Antients h whereupon they haue named it fil 

 Feteru^aad alio Fda Grtcommpx. the Greeke Beane. Some would haue the garden Beane to be the 

 true phAJc»lus, or Kidney Beane j of which number mdonaw is chiefe, who hath fo wrangled and ' 

 ruffled among his relatiues, thatall his antecedents muft be caft out of dores : for his Ions and te- 

 dious tale of a tub wee haue thought meet to commit to obliuion. It is called in Greeke Vm, 

 whereupon the Athenians feaftdaies dedicated to Apollo were named n<,„^, i n which Beanes and 

 Pulfes were fodden : in Latine it is called Faba frefi or/r^brokenor bruifed Beanes. 



t Dodontus knew well what he did, as any that are either iudicious or learned may fee, if they 

 Jooke into the firft chapter of the fecond booke of his fourth Pemptas. But our Authors woidsarc 

 too iniurious,ei pecially being without caufe^nd againft him, from whom he borrowed all tbatwas 

 good in this his booke, except the figures of Tabcrnamontanus. It may be D'.Pneff did not fit hi# 



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^J The Temperature and Vertues. 



The Beane before it be ripe is cold and moift : being dry it hath power to bind and reftraine,ac- 

 cording to fome Authors : further of the temperature and vertues of Galen. 



1 he Beane (as Galen faith in his booke of the Faculties of Nourifhments) is windie meate, al- 

 though it be neuer fo much fodden and drefTed any way. 



Beanes haue not a clofe and heauy fubftance, but a fpongie and light, and this fobftance hatha 

 fcouring and clenfing faculty ; for it is plainely feene, that the meale of Beanes clenfeth away the 

 filth of the skin . by reafon of which qualirie it paffeth not flowly through the belly. . 



A nd feeing the meale of t Beanes is windie, the Beanes themfelues if they be boy led whole ana 

 eaten are yet much more windie. 



if they be parched they iofe their windinefle, but they are harder of digeftion, and doe flow? 

 delcend ; and yecld vnto the body thicke or grofle nourifhing juyce ; but if they be eaten greene M- 

 tore they be ripe and dried, the fame thing hapneth to them which is incidental fruits that arc 

 eaten before they be fully ripe ; that is to fay, they giue vnto the body a moift kinde of noun n- 

 rnent,and therefore a nourifhment more full of excrements, not onely in, the inward P ar ^ but L v 

 in the outward,and whole body through : therefore thofe kindes of Beans do lefTe nouriftM 1 ^ 

 do more fpeedily paffe thorow the belly,as the faid Author in his booke of the Faculties of umpi 



medicines fauh.that the Beane is moderately cold and dry. 



i ne puipe or meate thereof doth fomewhat clenfe.tbe skin doth a little binde. Umtho { e 

 Therefore diuersPhyfitians bath giuen the whole Beaneboyledwithvinegerandfalttotn 



thatvvcretroubledw,ththebloudyflix,withlaskesandvometings. , . . , nilf w the 



H It raifeth flegmeout of the cheft and lungs : being outwardly Ipplied it dryetbwithom hurt 



watery humors of the gout. W e haue off«ir im« vf£ the fame being boiled in watered io aw 



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