Lib. 3 



OftheHiftorieofPIa 



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faall dufty things like floures, of the colour of the huskes 5 and ifyou fhall beate or throw fton 

 into this tree about the end of Februarys a good fpace afrer,there irfll proceed and fly f r0 m th ? 

 Houres an abundance of dufty (moke. Thefe dufty floures continue on the trees till about har ft 

 tad then fome and fome fall avvay,and fhortly after the round buds come vp as aforefaid 



f J he Place. 



Thefe trees are both very common in England :in Hampfhire there is good plenty of the 

 growing wilde on thechalkiehills,and in Church -yards where they haue been planted 



their defcriptions. T)ec.i9.i6iiJohnCeodjer. £ 



% The Names, 

 by Die fc or ides ^-^ ■ by Theopbraftus^ It** but Nicander in h 



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yfoaSjZpt**: Galen doth aifocalIitK« W :it is named in Latine Taxus .-in high Dutch d*« 



>fi 



3lbcnfa00in : In Italian,^/*, .- in Spanifh^o, and Taxo: in French rf 

 rce : in the vnlearned fliops of Germany, if any of them remainc it h rii 



in compound mcdicines,in (lead of the Tamariske barke. 



«d" The Temperature 



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writeth,and generally all that heretofore haue dealt in the facultie of Herbes,that the Yew tree 

 is very venomous to be taken inwardly, and that if any doe fleepe vnder the rtiadow thereof it cau 

 feth ficknefle and oftentimes death. M oreouer, they fay that the fruit thereof being eaten is nor 

 onely dangerousand deadly vnto man, butif birdsdoeeat. thereof it caufeth them to caft their fca 

 thers,and many times todie. All which I dare boldly affirme is altogether vntrue : for when I wa* 



fliadow 



likewifc my ft 



*ft 



mmdta % Gaza tranflates them hmenta, or labouring beafts die, if they doe eate of the leaues . hur 



fuchcattell as chew their cud receiue no hurt at allthereby. < '."" 



Kjcander in his booke of counterpoifons doth reckon the Yew tree among the venomous plants' 



fettintr downe a fo a remed v.and that in th*C* ..^-J. «, «~ u„t_ n ? • .. M * pwucs. 



bath 



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farce Venenata Taxo^uafurgit in Oct a 



Abietibta fimilisjetheque abfumit acerbo 



Hi pr Ater morem pleno cratere meraca 



F under e vina pares, cumprimumfentitt <eger 



K^drftari objlrutfas fauces animtque canaleml 



% Shun tfrpoys'nous Yew,the which on Oetagrowc 

 Like to the Firre,itcaufes bitter death, 

 VnleiTe befides they vfe pure wine that flowes 



From empty'dcups^thoudrinkejW hen as thy breath 

 Begins to faile,and paflage of thy life 

 Growes ftraight. 



ftjwandi^/alfbobferued that which our Author here affirmes, and dayly experience fliewes 

 ro oe true,that the Yew tree in England is not poyfonous : yet diuers affirme,that in Prouince in 

 f«Hc Cj and in rooft hot countrics,it hath fuch a maligne quajity,that it is not fafe to fleepe or lone 



fhadow 



C h a p • 4 8. Of the lumper tree. 



f The Kindes. 



Afe f? Iun fe r tr L eeS n 0De is Ieffer > another g reater » bein S * ftrao S e «d forreine tree : one of 

 Webnngcth forth a floure and no fruit; the : other fruit and no Houres. 



U The Description, 



*TPHe common Iuniper tree groweth in fome parts of Kent vnto the ftatureand Wgnesof 

 L 5 ta i re S reac "ee,but mod com inonly it growes very low like vnto ground furres : this 



