Plinies Natural! Hirtdrie, 435 



wherein the faid Pitch is fodden : which fleeces are afterwards well wrung, and the bile is prelTed 

 out therof. The beft oile is that which commcth from the Brutian or Caiabrian Pitch : the fame 

 ismoftfatof allothersjandfullcft of Rofin. The colour of the oile is reddilh. 



Vpon thecoafts and maritime parts of Syria^ there is an oile engendreth of it felfcjWhich the 

 Grcekes call El^eomeli : a fattie and greafie fubftance it is, thicker than honey, and thinner than 

 Rofin, of a fweet taft^ifluing out of trees ; and is onelymedicinable and good in Phyficke. 



As touching old oile, it fetveth in right good ftead for fundrie forts of maladies. It is thought 

 alfo very fingular for, to prefervelvorie from putrefaction : for this is certein^that the image of 

 Saturnc at Rome is full of oile-olive all within , 



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Chap, viii* ' 

 ^ of the lees or dregs of Oile-olhe^ called Amarca. 



Ato hath highly commended above all ^ the lees of Oile-olive ; for he would have the bar^ 

 rels, hogiheads, and other velTels which hold oile^to bee therewith befineared, that they 

 fhould not drink up the oile. He devifed alfo, that the threfhing floors fhould be wrought 

 and tempered with oile lees, that they might not chawn and gape,nor no Ants breed within the 

 chinkes and crahies thereof. Moreover, he thinkcth it very good that the mortar, plaflre, and 

 parget ufed about the walls of cornc-barnes^as alfo their floores^ fhould be well fprinckled and 

 tempered with the faid lees: yea and the prelfesand wardrobes where apparelliskept, ought to 

 C be rubbed therewith to keepe out mothes, wormes, fpiders, and filch vermine that doe hurt to 

 clothes. He affirmethbefides, that it is good againftcertaine difeafesoffoure-footedbeails^as 

 alfo to preferve trees, yea and excellent lor inward ulcers of a mans bodie, but efpecially thofe 

 of the mouth. Being fodden, it is fingular good (as he faith) for to annoint and make gentle and 

 fupple all bridle reines, leather thongs, Ihoes, and axeltrees of carts and wagons :likewife to 

 keepe all velTels of braffe from ruft, and alfo to give them a bright and pleafant colour : more- 

 over, all the wooden implements of an houfe generally throughout, and veffels made of earth 

 and clay, wherein one would keepe drie figges in their verdure, would bee annointed therewith : 

 orifoneweredefiroustopreferve the Myrtle, leaves, fruit, and all, upon the braunches, or any 

 fuch thing, there is nothing better than the faid Amurca.L ait of all, he faith^that what wood fo- 

 D ever for fcwell is dipped in theielees,it will burnecleare without any fmoke. 



Af . r^rr^^afiirmeth, that if a Goat chaunce to licke with his tongue, or tobroiife an Olive 

 when it buddeth the firfifpringj the fame tree will furcjy be barrain and lie in great daungerto 

 mifcarrie and die. Thus much of the Olive tree,and of the cile of Olives. 



Chap. iX. 

 '^'^ ylllh'mds of Fruit good to eat^dnd their ffature* 



AS for all other fruits of trees , they are hardly to be numbred and reckoned by their forme 

 and figure 5 much lefTe by their fundrie talb and divers juices that they yeeld, fo intermin- 

 fc. ' gled they are togither by varietie of graffing one into another. 



Chap. X. 

 p§j of Pine- nuts or Firjc-a^ples^finre forts ^ 



THePine nuts (which are the biggefl of that kind and hanging higheft upon the tree) doe 

 contain and nourifli flender kernels enclofed within certain hollow beds full of holes, and 

 befides clothed and clad with anotlier coat or huskeofa dark murrey colour : wherein may 

 befeenethewonderfullcareand providence of Nature, to beflowthe feeds fo fbft. Afecond 

 kind there be of thefe nuts called Tcrentines, having a ihell or huske very brittle and eafie to be 

 F crullied bctweenc ones fingers ; and as foone are they pecked through with birds bills,who after 

 that manner filch and fleale them from off the tree* A third fort yet there is of them,which come 

 of the gentle Pitch trees, having their kernels couched within athin huske or skin more like than 

 a Ihell, and the fame fo lofr, that it may bee chewed and eaten togither with the kernell. Now 

 there is a fou rih fruit growing of the wild Pine, and called thofe Nuts are of the Grecians, Pity- 



Ppij , diaj 



