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for increafe, but profpereth oncly, or more frequently, in loamie or clay 



grounds then in any other foyle. 



The Time. 



The fweete Marieromes beare their knots or fcaly heads in the end of lu- 

 ly, or in Auguit. Herbe Mafticke in lune many times, or in the beginning 

 of luly. 



The Names. 



The firlt of the two fweet Marieromes called Maiorana in Latine a maiore 

 cura, is taken of moft writers to be the Amaracus or Sampfuchum of Diofco- 

 rides, Theophraftus and Plinie, although Galen doth feem a little to diflent 

 therefrom. The other fweet Marierome hath his name in his title as much 

 as can be faid of it. The next is thought by the beft of the moderne Writers 

 to be the true Marum that Galen preferreth for the excellent fweetnefle, be- 

 fore the former Marierome in making the Oleum, or vnguentum Amaricinum, 

 and feemeth to incline to their opinion that thought Amaracus was deriued 

 from Marum. It is the fame alfo that Galen and others of the ancient Wri- 

 ters make mention of, to go into the compofition of the Trochifci Hedychroi, 

 as well as Amaracus among the ingredients of the Theriaca Andromachi. In 

 Englifh we call it Mafticke limply, or Herbe Maftick, both to diftinguifh it 

 from that Tyme that is called Mafticke Tyme, and from the Mafticke 

 Tree, or Gum, fo called. Some of later times, and Clufius with them, haue 

 thought this to be Diofcorides his T'ragoriganum, which doth fomewhat re- 

 ferable it : but there is another, plant that Matthiolus fetteth forth for Ma- 

 rum, that in Lobels opinion and mine is the trueft Tragoriganum, and this 

 the trueft Marum. 



The Vertues. 



The fweete Marieromes are not onely much vfed to pleafe the outward 

 fenfes in nofegayes, and in the windowes of houfes, as alfo in fweete pou- 

 ders, fweete bags, and fweete wafhing waters, but are alfo of much vfe in 

 Fhyficke, both to comfort the outward members, or parts of the body, and 

 the inward alfo : to prouoke vrine being flopped, and to eafe the paines 

 thereof, and to caufe the feminine courfes. Herbe Mafticke is of greater 

 force to helpe the Hopping of vrine, then the Marierome, and is put into 

 Antidotes, as a remedie againft the poyfon of venemous Beafts. 



CHAP. CXXXI. 

 Thymum. Tyme. 



THere are many kindes of Tyme, as they are vfually called with vs, fome are 

 called of the garden, and others wilde, which yet for their fweetnefle are 

 brought into gardens, as Muske Tyme, and Lemon Tyme ; and fome for their 

 beauty, as embroidered or gold yellow Tyme, and white Tyme. But the true Tyme 

 of the ancient Writers, called Capitatum, as a fpeciall note of diftinction from all o- 

 ther kindes of Tyme, is very rare to be feene with vs here in England, by reafon of the 

 tendernelTe, that it will not abide our Winters. And all the other forts that with vs 

 are called garden Tymes, are indeede but kindes of wilde Tyme, although in the de- 

 feel or want of the true Tyme, they are vfed in the ftead of it. With the Tymes I mult 

 doe as I did with the Marieromes in the Chapter before, that is, referue the moft com- 

 mon in vfe, for the common vfe of the Kitchen, and (hew you only thofe here, that are 

 not put to that vfe : and firft with the true Tyme, becaufe it is knowne but to a few. 



I. 'Thy mum 



