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inflammations arising from wounds, and : is to say, white, yellow, red, blackish, or of 

 the swelling of women's breasts caused by \ a deeper purple, but white is the most usual ; 

 die curdling of their milk, and represses j after which come long and slender flat pods, 

 their milk ; Flour of beans and Fenugreek I some crooked, some straight, with a string 

 mixed with honey, and applied to felons, j running down the back thereof, wherein is 

 boils, bruises, or blue marks by blows, or * flattish round fruit made like a kidney ; the 

 the imposthumes in the kernels of the ears, * root long, spreads with many strings an- 

 helps them all, and with Rose leaves, ! nexed to it, and perishes every year. 

 Frankincense and the white of an egg, being! There is another sort of French beans 

 applied to the eyes, helps them that are j commonly growing with us in this land, 

 swollen or do water, or have received any j which is called the Scarlet flower Bean, 

 blow upon them, if used with wine. If a j This rises with sundry branches as the 

 bean be parted in two, the skin being taken j other, but runs higher, to the length of hop- 

 away, and laid on the place where the leech j poles, about which they grow twining, but 

 hath been set that bleeds too much, stays j turning contrary to the sun, haviug foot- 

 ihe bleeding. Bean flour boiled to a poul- 1 stalks with three leaves on each, as on the 

 tice with wine and vinegar, and some oil 1 other ; the flowers also are like the other, 

 put thereto, eases both pains and swelling and of a most orient scarlet colour. The 

 of the privities. The husks boiled in water to j Beans are larger than the ordinary kind, 

 the consumption of a third part thereof, j of a dead purple colour turning black when 

 stays a lask ; and the ashes of the husks, j ripe and dry ; the root perishes in Winter. 



made up with old hog's grease, helps the 

 old pains, contusions, and wounds of the 

 sinews, the sciatica and gout. The field 



Government and virtues.'] These also be- 

 long to Dame Venus, and being dried and 

 beat to powder, are as great strengtheners 



beans have all the aforementioned virtues asiof the kidneys as any are; neither is there 

 the garden beans. j a better remedy than it ; a dram at a time 



Beans eaten are extremely windy meat ; 

 but if after the Dutch fashion, when they 

 are half boiled you husk them and then 



taken in white wine to prevent the stone, or 

 to cleanse the kidneys of gravel or stoppage. 

 The ordinary French Beans are of an easy 



stew them, (I cannot tell you how, for I digestion ; they move the belly, provoke 

 never was a cook in all my life) they are j urine, enlarge the breast that is straight- 

 wholesome food. 1 ened with shortness of breath, engender 



sperm, and incite to venery. And the scar- 

 let coloured Beans, in regard of the glori- 



Descnpt.'] THIS French or Kidney Beaiious beauty of their colour, being set near 

 arises at first but with one stalk, which;: a quickset hedge, will much adorn the 



afterwards divides itself into many arms or 



same, by climbing up thereon, so that they 



branches, but all so weak that if they be may be discerned a great way, not without 

 not sustained with sticks or poles, they will j admiration of the beholders at a distance, 

 be fruitless upon the ground. At several { But they will go near to kill the quicksets 

 places of these branches grow foot stalks, j by cloathing them in scarlet, 

 each with three broad round and pointed | TATITFS u STRAW 



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green leaves at the end or them ; towards ? 



the top comes forth divers flowers made like \ BESIDES the common name above writ- 

 to pease blossoms, of the same colour for! ten, it is called Cheese-Rennet, because it 

 the 'most part that the fruit will be of; that j performs the same office, as also Gailion, 



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