A 



B 



D 



1114. 



Of the Hiftoric of p] 



ants. 



I Lens major. 



Great Lentils. 



L 



1B*1, 



2 Lens minor. 



Little Lentils 







■ 



f- The Place. 



xkt .r a- m~jj, r • o ardcn 5 an d " is reported vnto me by thofe of good credit, than- 

 Watford in Middlefex and other places of England the husbandmen doe fotv them for their 



cattell,euen as others do Tares. 



wax 



They are called 



nc ,_„ 



V The Karnes. 



They are called in G^eeke, *«»v, or 9 ««f , in Larine, £w;, and LenticuU . in high Dutch, Jliflffll 

 m Frcncb > £««/&: inItalian,J>»f/<^4 .- in Spani(h,Z«»f«j .- in Engl ifh, Lentils. 



H 



Lentils as GW«* faith, are in a meane betweene hot and cold, yet are they dry in the fecond de- 

 gree: their skin is aftringent or binding, and themeateor fubftance within is of a thicke and ear- 

 thy juyce.hauing a quality that is a little auftere or fomething harfh,much more the skin thereof: 

 put the juyce of them is quite contrary to the binding quality-wherefore if a man fball boile them 



ipf 



take it,the fame drunke doth loofe the belly. 



The firft decoftion of Lentils doth loofe the belly j but if they beeboyled againe, and the firft 



rh a c i ft away ' then doe the y binde > and arc ^ ood a s ainft the bloud y flix o rdan s erous l3skes ' 



iney do their operation more effeaually in (lopping or binding, if all or any ofthefe following 

 be boy led therewith, that is to fay, red Beets, Myrtles, pils of Pomegranats, dried Rofes, Medlars, 



Quinces,P]antaine!eaues,Galls,or 



fores, 

 fed 



E 



F 



1 fle meale of Lentils mixed with hony doth mundifie and clenfe corrupt vlcers and rotten lo 

 filling them with flefh againe 5 and is moft lingular to be put into the common digeftiues v 



among our London Surgeons for greene wound!. F ,. . thofc 



7 he Lentil hauing the skin or coat taken off, as it lofeth that ftrong binding quahty,and tnoic 



accidents that depend on the fame,fodoth it morcnourirt, than if it had the skin pp. 

 It mgendreth thicke and naughty juyce, and flow ly pafTeth through the belly, yet doth it 



flay the loofencfTe as thatdoth which hath his coat on . and therefore they that vie to eat too ^ 



