124 THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE 



* the defer iption. 



Although I hauc exprefled two pidures of Saffrons as you feeder are you to vnderftand that 

 thefe two do but fet foort I ;• be conceiued by one 



picture as by two, bicaufe his flower doth fir! ily in September, 



s fliordy after the flower, neuer bearing flower & leafe 

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I his flowring. 

 Commoner the beft knowne Saffron growetb plentifully in Cambridge {hire, Saffron Walden 



:r places thereabout, as c< 



i rhetime. 

 o flower in September,and prefently after fpring vp tf. 



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-,d to make them 



* The temperature. 



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eficixcii i thcii..nibci" thole Lobe 1, t , hot m the fecond degree, 

 therfore it alfo hath a certaine force to concocfyvhich is furthered by the final a 



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B Alt) Saffron fhrengtheneth the hart,conco£teth crude or rawe humors of the chefhppeneth the 



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ie for old fvvellings and aches ,and hkewife for 1: 

 with good fuccefTeput in 



lefarnediflbluedin milkeorfenell, or role water, are prefertied 

 from being hurtby the fmall poxe and meafels,and are defended the t c 

 I The Chiues ftceped in water . I > in d imagerie, as 



