Plihies Naturall Hiftorie, 



A falc or t)racki{li. The white is not fo well efteemed. It will foonc be mouldie when it is HaJe . The 

 relhfh thereof ought to refemble Nardus at the tongues end. The perfume or fmell that ^ Ma- * 

 lobathrumortheleafeyeeldeth when it is boiled in wine, paflethall others. Icisllraunge and 

 monftrous, which is oblerved in the price : for it hath rifen from one denier to three hundred a 

 poundjwhereas the Oile itfelfe doth coftthreefcorc. 



" > Ciiip. xxv'ji. 



^ of Oik Olive ^m^de of greette Olives Jikewife of GrafeVmuice^ 



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F Or the mixture and compofition of ointments^ the Oilc of unripe Olives and Verjuice is 

 very good. And verily jmade it is in two kinds^and after two ibrtSjto wit^of the Olive and the 

 Vine. Of the OliveSjif yee would have good^ they ought to be preflcdwhiles^ they bee yet 

 white.For if they turne colour once and beblackifhjthe worfe is the Oile or Verjuice thatcom- 

 meth thereof.And fuch kind of Olives bcccalled Drup^ej namely^before they be fully ripe and 

 good to eatjand yet have loft their colour. And herein is the difference/or that the Oile of this 

 latter fort is greene^the other is white.Now as touching grape Verjuice^it fhould be made of the 

 VinePiyrhiaor Ammineaj and before the canicular daies, whcnasthegrapesbebutnewknita 

 and no bigger than cich-peafe.The grapes(I fay)muftbe gathered for this purpofe^at the begin- 

 ning before they chaunge colourjand the juice thereof oughtthen to be takcn.Then fhould the 

 Veriuice that commeth from it^be funned : and heed muft be taken in any cdle^that no dcwes by 

 Q night doe catch it, and therefore it would ftand in convert. Now when this juice or Verjuice is 

 gathered, it is put up in earthen pots: and otherwhileskept alfo in veffels of copper. The beft 

 grape Verjuicejis red jfbarpe, and foure in taftjdtiewithall and fcypticke, A pound or a pint of 

 fuch Verjuice is worth fixe deniers . It may bee itiade in another (brt : namely^ by punning and 

 {lamping unripe grapes in moriers : drying it afterwards in the SunnCjandfo made up into cer- 

 taine rolls or trochisks, ' ' ' 



: . of Bryonand Oenanthe: ofjhe tree^EU^^ 



D >Tr*H[e mbfTe of the white Poplar or Afpcwhicliis feputedas the grape therof^is ufediik^wiie 

 I ill thefe odoriferous and fweet compofitions.The befl: groweth about Cnidos or Cariajin 

 thirftie3dric3and rough places. A fecond fort is that which is found upon the Cedar of Ly- 

 da.To this pertaineth Oenan th^e, which is no mOre but the grapes of the wild vine called La- 

 brufca.Gathered itiswhen it flourethjthat is tO fay^when it frnellcth beff. It is dried in tise fhade 

 upon a linnen fheet lying under it^and then put up into little barrels.The cheefe commeth from 

 Parapotamia.-the fecond from Antiochia and Laodicea in Syria: and a third fort from the 

 inountaines of Media rand this is beft for medicine. Someprcferre before ail ihcfe, that which 

 •groweth in the Ifland Gypros . As fot that which is made in Affricke, it is meet for PhVficians 

 Onely, and is called Maflaris . Now, the better ever isthat which they gather iiovn the white wild 



.£ vinejthan from the blacke. Moreover, there is another Tree which Isrveth for perfumes : fbme 

 cairit Elate^and we Abies.[/.the Firrejothers Palma or the DatCjand fome againe Spathe.That 

 which gfOweth aboiK the fands of AiTricke, where Iiipter Bammons temple ftarideth, is highly 

 comtTiended above the rei^ : and after it^that in ^gypt.Next tliereto is the Syrian. This tree is 

 odoriferous when it groweth in drie places onely : it hath in it a ccrtaine fat liqUOr or Rofia, and 

 cntrif th into compofitions of fwebt bintmentS5for to corre(9: and mitigatethe other oile.vIn Sy- 

 ria there is a dtugjivhich they eallGinnamum Caryopon. A juice or oile tliiH^jprefled out of a 

 certaiiie nut. ThiaCinnamondifceih much in forme from the ftickesof ttUe Cinnamon in- 

 deed>^boVe fj?ecifidd: although in fmell it coinmetbneereonto it/ 

 be bWgit ahd foM4b Afles^p^i}^^^^^ 



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