134 THE SALERNE SCHOOLE. 
Of Fennell vertues foure they do recite, 
First, it hath power some poysons to expell, 
Next burning Agues it will put to flight, 
The stomacke it doth cleanse, and comfort well: 
And fourthly it doth keepe, and cleanse the sight, 
And thus the seed and herbe doth both excell. 
Yet for the two last told; if any seede 
With Fennell may compare, tis Annis-seed : 
Some Anny seeds be sweet, and some more bitter, 
For pleasure these, for medicine those more fitter. 
Dame Nature’s reason, far surmounts our reading, 
We feele effects, the causes oft vnknowne, 
Who knows ye cause why Spodiwm stancheth bleeding, 
(Spodium, but ashes of an ox’s bone ). 
We learne herein to praise His power exceeding, 
That vertue gave to wood, to herbes, to stone. 
The Liuer Spodium, Mace the heart delightes, 
The braine likes Muske, and Lycoras the Lites, 
The spleen is thought much comforted with Capers. 
In stomacke, Gallingale allayes ill vapors. 
Sawce would be set with meat vpon the table, 
Salt is good sawce, and had with great facility : 
Salt makes vnsauoury vyands, manducable, 
To driue some poysons out, Salt hath ability, 
Yet things too salt are nere commendable: 
They hurt the sight, in nature cause debility, 
The scab and itch on them are euer breeding, 
The which on meats too salt are often feeding : 
Salt should be first remou’d, and first set downe, 
At table of the knight, and of the clowne. 
