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good and wholefome herbes appropriate vnto thofe difeafes and griefes,as HmricL r C ° atl ' with 

 Dill,Lillies,Rofes,and many others,which do fortific and increafe his vermes. , ^ ammorn »l! J 



tu±~u-~i -*,;** rrtiiv>**>aUe<i Omphacinum leum^oth ftay,reprefTe,andd'riuea th 



pooling the heate of burning vlcers and exulceratlons * 



M TheoileofvnripeOIiues,called 







h a p . 57. Of Triuet or Trim Trim. 



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Priuct,or Prim Print. 





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Riueti 





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is a ftrub growing like a hedge tree 

 the branches and twigs hereof be ftraighL 

 and couered with foft gliftring leaues of a 

 deepe green colour^like thofe of Peruinclc,but 

 yet longer, greater alfo than the leaues of the 

 OJitie treejthe floures be white, fweetof fmdl, 

 very little, growing in clutters • which being 

 vaded there fucceed clutters of berries, at the 

 fir ft greene,and when they be ripe blacke like a 

 little clufter of grapes, which yeeld a purple 

 juyce : the root groweth euery way aflope. 



If 7 he Place. 



The common Priuet groweth naturally in 

 euery woodland in the hedge rowes of our Lon- 

 don gardens : it is not found in the countrey of 



other 



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It flourcth in the end of May,or in Iunathc 

 berries are ripe in Autumne or about Winter, 

 which now and then continue all the Winter 

 long . but in the meane time the leaues fail a- 

 way,and in the Spring new come vp in their 



places. 



y£j ^r The Names, 

 It is called in Latine, Ligujtrm -' in Italian 

 at this day y Guiftric» 9 by a corrupt word dratvne 

 from Ligupum : it is the Grecians »»*MiKl in 

 no wife »••©»: for Cypres is a (h rub thatgrow- 

 , eth naturally in the Eaft, and Priuet in the 

 Weft. They be very like one vnto another, as the defcriptions doe declare j but yet in this they 

 differs witnelTcth *eto»,becaufe the leaues of Priuet do fall away in Winter, and the : leaues or 

 Cyprus are alwaies greene : Moreouer, the leaues of Cyprus doe make the haire red,as W W' 

 faith, and (as Bellemus reporteth) doe giue a yellow colour : but the leaues of Pnuet Mue no 

 all in dying . And therefore Pliny Jik 24 -cq. 1 o. was deceiued, in that hee Hg e <?/ r1 "" to 

 felfe fame tree which Cyprus is in the Eaft : wtifch thing notwith (landing he did 1 not w g 

 himfelfe thought, but as other men fuppofc;for/^.i2.^;.i4.hewriteth thus ,: *W' or 

 affirme this,ws. Cyprus, to be that tree which is called inluly, Ligupum ; and tnat^«y 

 Priuet is that plant which the Grecians call *».>.«. thedefcription doth declare. ^ 



i PAjBirU, faith Dufctrides, is a tree like in bigneffeto Cyprus, with leaues blwket" 

 than thofe of the Oliue tree : it hath fruit like to that of the Maftick tree, blacke f ™™ 10 * 

 landing in clufters,and fuch a tree for all the world is Priuet,as we haue before ««»». . $ a 

 Serapio the Arabian, ™>. 44. doth call Priuet OKa&M. There is alfo another M4»a«> f(jrta . 



graine or feed of which ^*/«»makethmention/^.478.that it doth by n" w u arm J *" rta inedi- 

 *•• - " thtointreate of them both,and to co». 



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Scrapie- feem 



faoltjUto, 



tjne : in Englifli,Priuet,Priroprint,and Pri 



er : it is named in ci*>u i/«'»^ -r v r£ : nc Kfre 



Dutch, Ktmuvt, &wW* • jn Fre 5 



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