Plinies NaturallHiflorie, 



A which when 2diCraffus (houW cmbarkCj in that expedition againft the Parthians (wherein hce 

 was flainc) prefagcd ill fortunCjand warned him notto go forward rnamelyjwhcnat the very in- 

 ftantthachewasrcadictoletfooca fbipbourd, there was a fellow heard to criethofe figs for to 

 bcfoldj pronouncing alowdj CauneaSjGauneas 5 which word in iliort ipeaking was all one with 

 CAve m eas^ [/.Beware ofthis voiagCjand gocit not.] All the(e forts of figs^ LiVitellm brought 

 out of Syria^ unto his ferme or raanour that he had neare Alba,, having been k. ;governour or 

 Lieutenant generall in ihofeparts,nameIy,in the latter Z'cAoiTjher'm C^fir the Emperotir: 

 and thefame r^/f//^^ was afterward Cenfor at Rome* 



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C H A:Ei i X iXi't boOW 



B ^ Of MedlMrs t three kinds of th^^ 



MEdlars and Scrvifesj may well and truly be raungcd in the rankc of. Apples and Pearcs^' 

 Medlars beof three forts 5 namely, Anthedonj and Seiania, and the third which they' 

 call Gallicum, {k the French medlar] which is of a bated nature, yet it refemblcththe ' 

 Anthedon, rather than the other. As for the Setanian medlarj the fruit is greater and whiter 

 than the ref^j alfo the kernels or ftones within are of a morefoftfubflance^and not altogither fo 

 woodie and hard.The reft arc flnaller than thefcSetania or common Medlars , but they have a 

 better finell and more odoriferouSjand withall will laft longer.Thetrecit fdfe that beareth Med- 

 larsjis reckoned amongthe gteateflfort: the eaves before they fall^ wasred; the roots be many 

 Q in number, and run downe right deepc into the ground : by which means, unneth or very hard- 

 ly, they be quite rooted up. This tree was na known in Italie by Catoes daicsb 



^Of Srvifes'^foureklndsj, 



OF Servifes there be foute fundry frrts^differing one froiii the other J for fome of them arc 

 round like apples 5 others pointed at one end as Pearls ; a third kind are fafliioncd like 

 cgs, as fome long or tankard^pp^si and thefeareapt tobefoonefoure. For fweet fent 

 and pleafant tafl, the round excell all chcrs ; the reft have a rellifli of wine. The befl: kind of 

 D them are they thathavefofcandtendereavesabouttheirfleles whereby they hang. The fourth 

 fort they call Torminale, allowed one)' for the rcmedie thattheyaffourd to mitigate the tor-, 

 mentsand wringing of the cholique.Tiistrec is never without fruit, howbeitthefmaM of all 

 thereftj and ditfcrethfrom the otherjOrit beareth leaves very like to thePlane. There ate none 

 of them that bcare fruit before they b tliree yearcs old. Laftly, C&to would have Servifes to be 

 preferved and condite in Cuic, 



Chap. . xxil. 



of the Walnut, 



E npHe next place to thefefor b^neffe, the Walnuts do challenge,which they caniiot claime 

 I for theircredit and authorie , & yet they are in fome requeft among otiier Hcentious and 

 wanton Fefcennine ceremnies,at weddingsvfor kfle they be than Pme nutSjifa man con« 

 fider the grofTenefle of the bod outwardly ^ hue in proportion therto they have a much bigger 

 kernell within. Moreover, Narre hath much graced and honoured thefenuts with a peculiar 

 gift that file hath endued then^'ith, namely, a double robe wherewith they are clad : the firfl, is 

 atender and foft huske^ ther-xt, a hard and woodie fhells whichis the caufc, that at marriages 

 thcyferveforreligiouscereionies,refemblingthe manifold tunicles and membranes wherein 

 the infant is lapped and en^ded within the wombe : and this reafon foundeth more probable_j 

 than that they fhould bee ottered, becaufe in their fall they rebound and jnake a ratling [to 



F drowne (forfooth) all or^c noifes from the bride-bed or chamber.] That thefe Nuts alfo 

 were brought out of Pep M by comraaundement of the Kings, is evident by their Greekc 

 names 5 for the beflkind^ them^they callPerficQn,and Baiiheon 5 as one would fay, the Perfian 

 and Roiall nut: and theintleed were the firfl names . Afterwards^ the nut came to be named 

 Caryon;,(byalimcns(fl^efrion) for die heavinefle of head which it caufcth, by reafon of the 



^ Qj\ ' firong 



