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to plant carefully in their gardins 5 but now they regard 

 knot- foasitgrowes onely about their poolesand 

 ponds, 



Of Balme. CHAP. 2g. 



THe Soveraigne Creator hath not onely fafhioned 

 Plants to ferve as meat, 'but alfb for recreation, for 

 phi(icke,and for the cure of man . I have fpoken fbme- 

 what of thofe that ferve for nourifhment 3 which is the 

 chiefe 3 and a little of thofe that ferve for recreation, and 

 nowweareto intrcate of thofe which are proper for 

 phificke , wherein I will fpeake fomething. And al 

 though all plants are medicinall when they are well 

 knowne and applied, yet there are fome things efpeci- 

 ally, which wee fee direftly ordained by the Creator l 

 for phificke-and for the health of man :as liquors,oiles, 

 gummes, androzines, which come from divers plants; 

 and hearbes , and which eafily fliew by experience 

 whereto they are proper. Above all, Baulrneiswith 

 reafon efteemed for the excellent fmell , but much 

 more for the exquifiteeffe&it hath to cure woundes, 

 and divers other remedies, as experience hath taught 

 in the cure of difeafes. The Balme which comes from 

 the Weft Indies js not of the fame kind of right Balcne 

 which they bring from Alexandria or Caire> and in old 

 time was in Iitdea^ which ludeafa Plime writeth) did of 

 all the world poileffe this greatneife , vntifl the Empe- p/^.,^. 

 ror VefiApan broght it to Koms & into /to&.The reafon 

 why 1 fty the liquor of the one and the other are not of 

 one kinde , is for that the trees from whence it comes 

 arb very different : for the balme tree of Palestine was 

 finall, and fafhioned like to a Vine (as Plinic reporteth) 



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