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The Place and Tune 

 The place of its first Nativity was in Perfia, whence either the 

 whole Tree hath been brought into divers other parts, or else the 

 Nuts, which being put into the ground, do produce the Tree: for 

 there is no other way of propagating it, unless it be of the Virginian 

 kinds. It groweth commonly in England and some other places, in 

 Orchards, Gardens, and fometimes in the ftreets and by the way fides 

 where the Boys be continually pelting at them. There is a Fable in 

 Mjop of a woman which asked the Wall-nut-Tree growing by the 

 way fide, which was pelted at with ftones and fticks, by them that 

 paffed by, why it was fo foolifh to bring forth fruit, feeing that it 

 was fo beaten for its pains, to which the Tree rehearfed thefe two 

 Proverbial Verfes: * * * The Englifh whereof I could tell you but 

 that I fear the women of this prepofterous age would be angry.* 

 True it is, that this Tree, the more it is beaten, the more Nuts it 

 bears; and therefore good Husbands, after they have beaten down 

 the Nuts, do with long Poles, beat the empty boughs of the Tree; 

 and I have obferved, that thofe Trees which have grown in the 

 ftreets, have been full, when thofe which have growen in the back 

 have had fcarce any, which I could impute to nothing else, * * ^ 



The Signatures and Vertues. 

 Wall-nuts have the perfect Signature of the Head: The outer 

 husk or green Covering, represent the * * * outward skin of the 

 skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore fait made of thofe 

 hufks or barks, are exceeding good for wounds in the head. ^ * '* 

 The Kernel hath the very figure of the Brain, and therefore it is very 

 profitable for the Brain, and resists Poyfons; For if the kernel be 

 bruifed, * * * and laid upon the Crown of the Head, it comforts 

 the brain and head mightily, f * * * And true it is, that two dry 

 Wall-nuts, and as many Figs, and twenty leaves of Rue, bruifed and 

 beaten together, with two or three Corns of fait were King Mithi-i- 

 dates Medicine againft poyfon, which after he had long ufed daily, at 

 last he fought to poyfon himself, but could not. And no marvel for 

 the water of green Wall-nuts, taken about Midfummer, being drunk 

 two or three ounces, cooleth and refisteth the Peftilence. * * * A 

 peece of the green hufk, put into an hollow Tooth, eafeth the pains 

 thereof. Some ufe the green husks * * * to seafon their meat; but 

 if fome dryed Sage in Pouder be put into it, it will give a feasoning 

 and relifh not to be defpifed of poor folks. The Oyl of Wall-nuts 

 * * * maketh fmooth the hands and face, and taketh away * * * 

 black and blew marks that come of blows and bruifes, * * * . It is 

 averred by fome that if a Wallnut be * * * put into a chicken, it 

 will caufs it to be roafted a great deal the fooner. 

 * Translated popularly they are: 



A woman, a donkey, and a walnut tree, 

 The more they're beaten, the better they be. 



t " Very good " was written in pencil on the margin opposite this sentence. 



