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Tripolinm, and 
not of Polium: 
wherby it {ee- 
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eis inafaule, 
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handling itraiferh pimples and bliftersin manner of a burne; upon their hands who gatheri. G 
Anotherceremonie allo they have in the gathering thereof, for nonemuft come abourthis - 
worke, burfich as have lived chaft,and not touched a woman? this (fay) aboveiall, is obferved 
moft precifely. This'toot of allothers is moft fubjeGt tothe worme,fer notonely when itis driey - 
but alfo whiles it is within the earth, it quickly commeth to beworme.eaten.In-oldtime,thebelt 
Irinvm,or oile of Iteos, was brought from the cape of Leucas,and the citticof Elisin Boebrias 
for planted it hath been in thofe parts many a yeare. But nowthereis excellent good cominerli 
out of Painphylia :howbeitthat of Cilicia, and namely from the Septentrionall parts, is moft 
higliycommended, 
jAGsfor the plant Saliunca, or Nard-Celticke, full of Icaves verely itis, yer they bee fo (hore, 
thritHandfomly they cannot be knit &twifted for guirlands:a number of roots it putteth forth, 
unto which the flotire or hearbe groweth clofe :for furely aman wouldjudgeirall hearberather —_ 
than floure, as if itwere platted and preffed flatto theroot with ones hand: andin a word, re- ~ 
femblinga very thick tuft of graffe by it felfe, Thishearbe groweth in Aufttiaand Hungarie als 
fo amiong the Morici, andthe Alps on the Sun fide, As forthatwhich commethupaboutthe ~ ” 
cittie Eporrhedia,it is fo pleafant and odoriferous, thatthere isas much feeking after tas if it 
werefome precious mettall;andit yeeldeth arevenew tothecittic, nolefle than fome mertall 
mine. And in very truth,a fingular hearbe itis ima wardrobe colye among good cloaths, forta’- 
get them amoft pleafant andcommendable fmell. 
Another plant there is which the Greeks ufe likewife in their wardrobes called Polium, This : 
hearbe Mu/evs and Hefiodus the Poets,extoll and fet out tothe higheft degree ; for they report 
that it is good for all chingstharit {hall be emploied aboussbut principally, thatitavaileth much | 
to win men fame,tenowme, promotions, and dignities, Over and above which vertues, mitacu- 
lous it is (if it be truewhich they fay) * thatthe leaves thereofin the morning feeme whitejabout 
noone purple, and at the Sun-fetting blew. Twokinds there be of it: one groweth inthe plains 
and champion grounds, and is the greater: anotherin the woods, andis the lefle. Some call it 
Teuthrion. The leaves refemble the gray hairs of an old man, fpringing direétly from the root, 
and never pafle in heigth a hand bredth. Thus much may fuffice concerning odoriferous flours, 
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e& The colours of cloth refembling thofe of floures, and firiving with them for the better, fi ite 
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Of Amarantus or Paffe-velotrs : of Chryfocomor Chryfitis. 
He exceffive ryot and prodigall fuperfluitieof men is growne to thispaffe, that havingta- 
ken no farail pleafurein furmounting the natural) favour of fimple floures, by theirartifie 
ciall odours and compound perfumes 5 they cannot reftfo, but muft proceed alfo inthe 
ctaftand myfterie of dying cloth, to challenge the faireft floures in the gardenanid to matchyif 
not to furpafle,the lively colours of Natures fecting. Ofthefe tin€tures, I find thacthere be three - 
rincipall: The one in graine,which ftriverh with that bright orient colour in‘Rofes sand there is 
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not ainote pleafant thing to the eye, than tofee the Scarlet orpurple of Tyrosjorto behold the 
double died Dibapha, or the Laconian purple. The fecond rich die, ftandeth uponthe Ame: * 
thyft colour,and refembleth the March violet: this alfo beareth much upon that purple, whieh 
of the faid violet is called lanthinus : for now! handle dies and colours in generall rearms,which 
neverthelefle may be {ubdividedinto many other fpeciallforts. The third, is ordinarilyimade of 
the purple and porcellane thell-fithes,and that in divers and fundrie manerss for of thistingture 
there are cloaths which encline much tothe colour of Tornfoll sand of thefe} fome bee’ many 
times of a deeper and fuller die than others. Alfo there is another fort that ftandeth mich upon ~ 
the Mallow floure,enclining to apurple:and a third fore which refemble the violet thatcommeth, 
late in the yeere [ealled the purple Stocke-gillofre]}and indeed thisis the frefheft and richeftco= ~ 
Jour thatcan be died out of thole fithes aforelaid. Certes, the tinGtures and dies now adaies ate 
fo lively,as well for fimple colours as mix: and compound: (fuch artificiall means are dewifed by M 
our fmptuous gallants) that in this ftrife of Nature and Art rogither, aman fhall hardly judge 
whether of them have the betterhand, As touching Yellow, I find thatit is amoft auncient <o- 
lour, and highly reputed of in old time :for the wedding Vaile which the bride ware on ‘her mar- _ 
ryin g day,was all of Yellow,and women onely were permitted to-ufe them: which might well be 
the. 
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