The fifteenth Booke ol 



difoefhfromtheLcmiskcinthcveryberrie.Asfor-thehiilveror holly berries, and the hawes 

 of iliii vvhite-thornc , they are without any juice or liquor : whereas Cherries bee of a middle 

 kindj betweene berries and graincs. This fruit is white at the firft^as lightly all berries be whatfo- 

 cvcr rbut afterwards, feme wax greenjas Olives and Baies j others turn red^as MulberrieSjCher-v 

 ries^and Cornoilcs ;but in the end they^il become blacke^as MulberrieSjCherries^and Olives, 



Chap. xxv. 

 ^^OfCkemes^aghtkmM,^ 



BEforc the time that L.LucuUm defeated K. MithridateSy there were no Cherrie-trees in Ita* 

 lie : but after that vidorie (which was about the ^8 o yeare from the foundation of the city 

 ' of Rome) he was the man that firft brought them out of Pontus, and fyfftQifbed Italic fo 

 well with them^ that within fix and twentie yearcs^other lands had part thereof jCven as far as Bri- 

 taine beyond the ocean, Howbeit (as we have before faid) they could never be brought to grovt 

 in ^gyptjfor all the cafe and induftrie emploied about them. Of GhcrrieSj cljc reddeft fortbe 

 called Apronia ; the blackeftj Adia : the Csecilian be round wiihklt The lulian; Cherries have 

 a pleafant taft, but they muft bee taken new from thetree and prefently eaten 5 for fo tender they 

 be otherwifejthat they will not abide the carriage. Of all othcrjthe Duracine Cherries be the foi 

 veraign_,which in Campaine are called Pliniana. ButinPicardie^and tliplelowcounrriesof Bel^ 

 gic3j they make mofl account of thcPortugallCheMes : as they do like wife who inhabit upon 

 the river Rhene. They have a hew with them compdfed of three colours^between rediblackjaneJ 

 greenj & alwaies looke asif they were in ripening iUlklt is not yfct full five years fince the Cher^ 

 ries which they call Laureajwere known : fo called they be^becaufe they were grk^ed upon a Bay* 

 tree llockCjand thereof they take a kind of bittcrneflcjbutyetno!: uripleafaht to the taft. There 

 be moreover Macedonian Cherries^growing upon a fmall tree feldom above three cubits high: 

 and yet there be certain dwarfe Cherries not full lb tall, called Chama2cerafti3 p.':ground cherry4 

 fhrubs.]The Cherrie-tree is one of the fidt that yecldeth fruit unto his maficrain token of thank- 

 fulneflc& recognifance of his painesallthe yearelong.ltdelighteth to grow in-cold places and 

 expofed to the North. The Cherrie will drie in the funne, and tiray be kept in barrels like Olives. 



Chap/^xxvi. 



}^ of theCormiltand%enti$keirf^^^ 



THe fame care is had in conditing the berries of the Cornell and the Lentiske^as in prefer- 

 vingOlives: fo curious are men to content their tooth, as if all things vwre made to ferve 

 the belly. Thus we fee,how things of divers rellilbes are mingled togithefj and one giveth 

 a taft unto anotherjand caufeth it to be pleafant at the tongues end. Nay we cntermingle all cli- 

 matsandcoaftsof heaven and earth to fatisfie our appetite :for to one kind ofmeat wee muft 

 have drugs & fpicesfetcht as far as from India: to anotherjout of ^gyptjCandie^and Cyrene : 

 and in one word, for every difh wee have a feverali land to findusfawce. To conclude, wee ale 

 growne to this paffe, that wee ceafe not to fophifticatc our viands, even with hurtfull things, fd 

 ihcy taft well: yea and to make difhes of very* poiforis^becaufe we would devoureand fend ail 

 downc the throat. But more plaincly hisreof, in our profelled difcourfe of the nature and vertue 

 ofHcarbs. 



Cha?. XXVII, 



The drjer(itie of uBs and favors, 



IN the mean timCjas touching thofe^hings which are common as wel to all fruits,as juices and 

 liquors : firft and foremoft we find of tafts thirteen feverali kinds 5 to wit, fweet, pleafant, fattic,- 

 bitter, harlTi and unpleafant,hot'atidburning at the tongues end, (harpc and biting, tart or 

 aftritigent,fowre,andfalt.Over and'befides all thefe, there be three others of a moft fttange and 

 wonderfull nature : The firft is that,wherein a man may have a fmacke of many tafts togithcr, as 

 in wines : for in them a man (hall find an harCh^fharpe/wcetjand pleafant rellilli all at once^ and 

 yet thefe all differ from the native verdure of wine. A fecond fort there is befides,whichcarieth a 

 teiinge and different taft verily from the t,hing it fclfe^ and yet it hath befides the proper and-pe- 



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