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Of the Hi&orie of Plants* 



Mifiueruntque herbas, & mn i nmxH ver i a> 

 Auxilium vtnit,ac membrU agit atra venem* 

 Ma ingens arbos facte/que fwillima Lauro • * 



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folia haudvllti labemia vent is j 



Animas & 





Orafoum iffo t & fenibus medicantur anhelts. 



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The Councrey Media beareth juyces fad 

 And dulling taftes of happy Citron fruit! 



Than whicb,no helpe more prefent can be had 

 If any time ftepmothers worfc than brute ' 

 Haue poyfon'd pots, and mingled herbs of fute 

 with hurtfull charmes : this Citron fruit doth chafe 

 Blacke venome from the body in euery place. 



*^ The tree it fclfe in growth is large and big, 



And very like in (hew to th'Laurell tree . 



And would be thought a Laurell,leafe and twig 



But that the fraell it cafts doth difagree: 

 The floure it holds as faft as floure may be : 



Therewith the Medcs a remedy do finde 



For ftinking breaths and mouthes,a cure mod kinde,. 



And helpe old men which hardly fetch rheir winde. » 



, r f ThtTime. 



Thefe trees be alwaies greene,and do,as Pliny faith, beare fruit at all times of the y 



ling off 



^J The Names. 



i nc nnt is cauea in <jreeke,M»x.>#«A«f : m Latme^Malm Medica 

 tron tree,and Pomecitron tree. 



*&mihantts in ^Athenaus 



OHalum Medicum. and c&, 



the Citron,who faith that thiVAppIe is named among them, UUalum Heftericum : Galen denietb it 

 to be called any longer Malnm Medium, but Citrium , and faith that they who call it Medicmioc 



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Cttnn opfifciljCtttmatcn : m low Dutch,Ctttoewn 



ltron 



The fecond kinde of Citron is called in Latine, Limonium Malum ; in (hops^Ltmonet : in French, 

 Xiaww • in low Dutch, jUmotien : in Engli{h,Limon,and Lemon. 



The third is named in Latine, Malum anarantium or x^inerantium : and oftomcj^dnrMmm : of 

 Others, Aurengtum y of the yellow colour of Gold : fome would haue them called Ar«ntia,oi Arertti- 

 *r» 3 a towne in Achaia or Arania, of a country bearing that name in Perfia : it is termed in Miia, 

 branch: in high Dutch, ^Ottietanften tin low Dutch, Sfcaengfe 3ppeI«IJin French, Vmmts d' 

 Orenges : in SpinKb^Naranfas : in Englifli .Orcnges. 



The fourth is named of diuers, Pomum Ajfjrium, or the Citron of A ffyria,and may be Engliftied 

 Adams Apple.after the Italian name ; and among the vulgar fort of Italians, Lomiepf whom it is 

 alfo called Pomum ^idami, or Adams Apple • and that came by the opinion of the common rude 

 peopl e ,whothinke it to be the fame Apple which Adam did eateof in Paradife ; whenbetranfgrel- 

 led Gods commandement ; whereupon alfo the prints of the biting appeare therein,as tbey iay:t>u 

 others f ay that this is not the Apple,but that which the Arabians do call Mufa or Mtf*, where0 .^' 

 **cen t caf>. , 9 5 .maketh mention : for diuers of the Iewes take this for that.through which by e«i"8» 



Adam ofFended,as ^ind 



All thefe fruits 

 The rindes are 



Temperature 



parts. 



d,and containcth in it a grofle juyce, efpecially the Citron. . . DC fp c f 

 pap is fourc,as of the Citrons and Limons,cold and dry, wirn 



The feed becaufe it is bitter is hot and dry. 



r he rinde of the Pomecitron is good againll all poyfons, for which caufe 

 fuch like conf c clions. 



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