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20. Different kinds of zveeds. 



' Drake.' 

 [Fol. 17.] 



Darnel, 



Golds. 



Hawdod. 



Dog-fennel. 



Tares. 



[Fol. 17/5.] 



Dee-nettles. 

 Dodder. 



brode as a grote, and the sede is rounde and blacke, and 



16 maye well be suffred in a breade-corne, but not in sede, 

 for therin is moche floure. Drake is lyke vnto rye, till it 

 begynne to sede, and it hath many sedes lyke fenell-sedes, 

 and hangeth downewarde, and it maye wel be suffred in 



20 breade, for there is moche floure in the sede : and it is an 

 opinion that it commeth of rye, &c. Dernolde groweth 

 vp streyght lyke an hye grasse, and hath longe sedes on 

 eyther syde the sterte, and there is moche floure in that 



24 sede, and growethe moche amonge barley : and it is 

 sayde, that it cometh of small barley. Golds hath a shorte 

 iagged lefe, and groweth halfe a yarde hygh, and hath a 

 yelowe floure, as brode as a grote, and is an yll wede, and 



28 groweth commonlye in barleye and pees. Hawdod hath 

 a blewe floure, and a fewe lyttell leues, and hath .v. or syxe 

 braunches, floured in the toppe : and groweth comonly in 

 rye vpon leane grounde, and dothe lyttel hurte. Dogge- 



32 fenell and mathes is bothe one, and in the commynge vp 

 is lyke fenell and beareth many white floure&, with a 

 yelowe sede : and is the worste wede that is, excepte terre, 

 and it commeth moste commonly, whan great wete com- 



36 meth shortly after the corne is sowen. Terre is the 

 worste wede, and it neuer dothe appere tyll the moneth 

 of June, and specyallye whanne there is great wete in 

 that mone, or a lyttell before, and groweth mooste in rye, 



40 and it groweth lyke fytches, but it is moche smaller, and 

 it wyll growe as hyghe as the corne, and with the weyght 

 therof it pulleth the corne flatte to the erth, and freteth 

 the eares away ; wherfore I haue scene housbandes mowe 



44 downe the corne and it together : And also with sharp 

 hokes to repe it, as they doo pees, and made drye, and 

 than it wyll be good fodder. 



There be other wedes not spoken of, as dee-nettylles, 



48 dodder, and suche other, that doo moche harme. 



