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Some forts are tittell to fcald for Cod 1 ins, and are taken to coolc the llo- 

 inacke, as well as to pleafe the talte, hauing Rofewater and Sugar put to 

 them. 



Sonic forts are belt to make Cider of, as in the Welt Countrcy of Eng- 

 land great quantities, yea many Hoglheads and Tunnes full arc made, efpe- 

 cially to bee carried to the Sea in long voyages, and is found by experience 

 to bee of excellent vfe, to mixe with water for beuerage. It is vfually feene 

 that thole fruits that are neither tit to eate raw, roalted, nor baked, are fittcft 

 for Cider, and make the belt. 



The iuice of Apples likewife, as of pippins, and pearemaines, is of very 

 good vfe in Melancholicke difeafes, helping to procure mirth, and to expell 

 heauinefle. 



The diltilled water of the fame Apples is of the like effe<5t. 



There is a fine fweet oyntment made of Apples called Pomatum, which is 

 much vfed to helpe chapt lips, or hands, or for the face, or any other part of 

 the skinne that is rough with winde, or any other accident, to fupple them, 

 and make them fmooth. 



CHAP. XX. 

 Cydonia. Quinces. 



WEe haue fpme diuerfities of Quinces, although not many, yet more then 

 our elder times were acquainted with, which (hall be here exprefled. 

 The Quince tree groweth oftentimes to the height and bignefle of a 

 good Apple tree, but more vfually lower, with crooked and fpreading armes and 

 branches farre abroad, the leaues are fomewhat round, and like the leaues of the Ap- 

 ple tree, but thicker, harder, fuller of veines, and white on the vnderfide : the blof- 

 fomes or flowers are white, now and then dalht ouer with blufh, being large and open, 

 like vnto a fingle Role : the fruit followeth, which when it is ripe is yellow, and co- 

 uered with a white cotton or freeze, which in the younger is thicker and more plenti- 

 full, but waxeth lefle and lefle, as the fruit ripeneth, being bunched out many times in 

 feuerall places, and round, efpecially about the head, fome greater, others fmaller, 

 fome round like an Apple, others long like a Peare, of a ftrong heady fent, accounted 

 not wholfome or long to be endured, and of no durabilitie to keepe, in the middle 

 whereof is a core, with many blackifh feedes or kernels therein, lying clofe together 

 in eels, and compared with a kinde of cleare gelly, which is caller feene in the fcalded 

 truit, then in the raw. 



The Englilh Quince is the ordinarie Apple Quince, fet downe before, and is of fo 

 harm a talte being greene, that no man can endure to eate it rawe, but eyther boyled, 

 Itewed, roafted or baked ; all which waies it is very good. 



The Portingall Apple Quince is a great yellow Quince, feldome comming to bee 

 whole and faire without chapping ; this is fo pleafant being frelh gathered, that it may 

 be eaten like vnto an Apple without offence. 



The Portingall Peare Quince is not fit to be eaten rawe like the former, but mull be 

 vfed after fome of the waies the Engliih Quince is appointed, and fo it will make more 

 dainty diihes then the Englilh, becaufe it is lefle hadh, will bee more tender, and take 

 lefle i'ugar for the ordering then the Englilh kinde. 



The Barbary Quince is like in goodnefle vnto the Portingall Quince lall fpoken of, 

 but lefler in bignefle. 



The Lyons Quince. 



The Brunfwicke Quince. 



The Vfe of Quinces. 



There is no fruit growing in this Land that is of fo many excellent vfes 

 as this, feruing as well to make many dillies of meate for the table, as tor 



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