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if they be mixed with lbme kinde oflooch or medicine to licke on • with fll? i?? nniie hutn ors • 

 tingofbloud. * u uarcntlle yftaythefpj t _* 



1 " is reported that fi ue or fix being taken fading do kcepe a man from U • _. 

 ilfoclenfeand takeaway fpotsand blemifWin riu. <£. SS L™ bein g dninke. 



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Thcfe alfoclenfeand takeaway fpotsand blemifhesin the face and £,«? 8 *"■*<• 

 they mundifie and make cleane foule eating vlcers. ' ther P arts of 'he body . 



With hony they are laid vpon the biting of mad dogs ; beinc applied to th* - , 

 ger or oile of Rofe Sj they take away the head-ache.as DioLriJ^l X* t0 thc tem P ! « with vine. 



20 od 



Dio (cor ides 



they be taken with tfy 



There is ;al fo preiTed on t of thefe an oiti "which ^S^^^^^^ r ^»^ 

 be drowned and fteeped therein. ' uuc ; e, P ecial] y « a few fcorpions 



With oile it is lingular good for thofe that haue thc (tone. anA n.™ ^r.u. 



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therewith. 



,nd 



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f wides faith, That the gum doth heate and binde, which dual 



perceiued in it. 





them that 



fuMhnce, and that is by clofing v P of the parages S^^ ^ jESTM 

 and mitigate extreme paines that proceed of the ftone, and efpecally take away the fluSSfc 

 of vrine,.f it be drunke with Baftard or with any other fweet potion, as with thc decoftion E 



nce,orofRaifonsofthefunne.Thefamedothlikewifekilltettersinthf- "~ * " 



(as Diofiori des addeth) if it bediffoiued in vineger. 



outward 









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Chap. 04. Of the Teach tree. 





% The Kindts, 



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nrHere are diuers forrs of Peaches befides the foure here fct forth by our Author, but ri 

 A trees do riot much differ in fliape,but the difference chiefely confifts in the fruit, where 



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Peach ; The grand Carnation PeachjThe Carnation Pe 

 The White; The Romane; The Albcrza ; The Ifland P 

 ones. He hath alfo of that kinde of Peach which fome < 

 ing k indes ; the Roman red,rhe bell of fruitsjthe baftard 



the Whiteithe Ruffet.whiCh is not fo j?ood as rhr red . 



Of 



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Thefe arc 



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[OOd 



ifi: 



largely hand Iedjand therefore not neceffary for me in this place to infill vpon them.t 





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«j[ The Defcripiev. 



THe Peach tree is a tree of no great bigncfle: it fendeth forth diuers boughes, which be 

 fobrirtle,as oftentimes they are broken with the weight of the fruit or with thewmde. 

 The leaues be long, nicked in the edges, like almoft to thofe of the Walnut tree, an 



It 



light 



foftand 



ton^eing white without,and of a pleafant tafte j in the middle whereof is a rough or rugged ftone 

 wherein is contained a kernelllike vnto the Almondrthe meate about the ftoqeis of a white coior, 



Thero 



2 



or 



1 grea t b 

 belong 

 he fruit 



bougb 



the Outfide . the meate likewife about the ftone is of a gallant red colour. Thefe kmdes of 

 are very like to wine in tafte,and therefore maruellous pleafant. , ater an d 



3 Perftcapr*c*ciA,ot thed'auant Peach tree is like vnto the former,but his leaues are, p nt0 



larger. Thc fruit or Peaches be ofa rufTct colour on the one fide, and on the other tw ^ ^ 

 tbe Sun ofa red colour.but much greater than the red Peach : the ftones whereof arc 



former : the puJ pe or meate within is ofa golden vellow coloured ofa pleafant taitc. 





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