236 . The five and sadibicds Booke : 
As for the ftems and ftalkes, many there be that doe eat it both greene and alfo boiled or ftewed «G 
between two platters, Light chefe items beas kexes,and full of joints like Reeds and Canesiofa 
darke gray or fullen colour, rifing up many times above two cubitss high: and toward the top 
they {pread and braunch. The leaves in fome fortrefemble Coriander,but that they be mofeten- 
der,and a {trong ftinking {mell they have with them. The feed is thicker and groffer than that of 
the Annife. The root likewife hollow,and of noufe at all in Phyficke. The leaves and feed both are 
exceeding refrigerative which if they have gotten rhe maiftrie and upperhand of any thar hath 
taken them,fo as there isno way but one without helpe,they thallfeele themfelves begin to wax . 
cold in their extreame or outward parts,& {fo to die inward, Howbeit thereis aremedy even then, . 
before the cold have taken to the vitall parts:nainely to take a good draught of wine,which may | ; 
fer the bodie in a heat,and chaufe it againe: mary if they drinke it with wine,thereareno means py 
in the world to fave theit lives. There is a juice prefled out of the leaves & flowers both together: 
for that is the right reafon,namely whiles itis in Aoure. Thatwhich is prefled out of the feedftam- 
ped,being afterwards dried in the Sunne and made into bals or trofches,killeth them thar takeit 
inwardly by congealing and cluttering their bloud: for this is a fecond venomous and deadly 
qualitie that it hath : which is the caufe, that whofoever die by thismeans,thereappeare certain. 
{pots or fpecks in their bodies after they bee dead, And yetthereis aufeof thisjuice,todiflolve — 
hot and biting medicines therein in ftead of water: moreover,there is made of ita very conveni- 
| entcataplafie to be applied unto the ftomacke.for to coole the extreame heat thereof.But the 
 #Epiphora ~—~P cipal] vertue thatit hath, is to repreffe and ftay the flux of hot humors into the eies*in Sum- 
(éfivaotras mer time,and to afluage their paines if they be annointed therewith. It entreth befides into col- 
merely \yries or medicines devifed toeafe paine: and verely thereisno rheurhaticke fuxin any part of 
. ’ the bodie butit ftoppeth it.The leaves alfo of Hemlocke doc keepe downeall tumours, appeafe 
paines,and cure watering eyes, Anaxilaws mine author faith, That if a pure maiden doe in her 
virginitie annoint her breafts with this juice, her dugs will never grow afterwards, but continue 
{till in the fame ftate. True it is indeed,that being kept unto the paps of women in child-bed, it 
drieth up their milke :as alfo extinguifheth naturall feed, if the cods and fhare bee anointed 
therewith. What remedies they fhould ufe tofave themfelves who are adjudged by law todtink 
it, for my part purpofe not to fet downe. The firongeft Hemlocke and of {peedieft operation is 
that which groweth about Sufa in the confines of Parthia. Next coit for fearefull working,isthat 
which commeth out of Laconica,Candie, and Natolia,In Greece the Hemlocke of Megara is 
counted the quickeft,and then that of Attica. ) 
Creftmarine or Sampier,called the wild Cuthmos,tiddeth the eyes ofthe gummie & vifcous 
water that fticketh in them, if icbe applied thereto: and if itbe made into a’cataplafme with fri- 
ed Barley meale,ic afluageth alfo their fwelling. r 
There groweth commonly an hearbe named in Greeke Molybdzna, thatisto fay in Latine,. 
Plumbago,even upon every corne land; in leafe refembling the Docke or Sorrell with a thicke 
ay root,and the famerough and prickie. Let one chew this hearbe fi:ft in his mouth, and then eft- 
"Some take it foones licke with his tongue the eye, it confumeth and taketh away the * Plumbum, which isa 
te an kind of difeafe or infirmitic incident to the eyes. ; * 
thinketh tobe | As touching the firft*Capnos,which in Latine is commonly called PedesGallinareiy.Hens 5 
Piftolochia or feet:it proweth about decaied walls and ruinat buildings among rubbifh,and in hedges:the bran- 
Coe tole chesbee very {mall, and {pread loofely or fcattering, the flower of a purple colour, the leaves 
der, greene,the juice wherof difcufleth the dimneffe and thickneffe about the eyes, and clarifieth the: 
eee te fight :and therefore itis ufually put into eyefalves. There is another hearbe of the fame *name, 
torie, calledin aNd like in effect, but different in forme from it, which dooth braunch thicke, andis of atender 
Greek Capnos fubftance : the leaves for fhape refembling Coriander, and thofe of awan or afhie colour, but, 
it beareth a purple flower : It groweth in Gardens, Hort-yards,and Barley lands.If the eyesbee 
therewith annointed, itcleanfech and cleareth them : but itcaufeth them to weepe and watery, 
like as {moke doth,whereupon it tooke the name Capnosin Greeke.lf the haire of the eye-lids. 
be once pulled forth,and then the edges or brimsbe annointed therewith,it will keepe them for, Mi 
ever comming up againe, | ae bea 9h iil ea eo i . 
*Galangae.  “Acormeshath leaveslike to the Flour de-lis,butthat they beonlynarrower,& growing unto. 
alonger ftele or taile : the roots be blacke & not fo full of veins nor grained,otherwife they agree | 
well with the Il¢os roor, hot & biting atthe tongues end. Tofinell unto they arenot unpleafant j , 
an 
