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late) not to be taken literally, becaufe 

 Pythagoras himfelf was an eater of 

 beans 5 but was fpoken rather in a 

 comparative and myftical fcnfe, forbid- 

 ding tliem the ufe of women, from the 

 limilitude which beans have to their tef- 

 ticular parts, that contribute fo largely 

 to veneral embraces. 

 Sorts. There are tiiree or four fpecies of 

 beans that our Englifh Herbals have ta- 

 ken notice of, 'uiz. the faba hortenfis 

 alba & rubra, beforc-mention'd j the 

 faba veterum five filvef. Grtecorum, Par- 

 kinfon, p. 1054. the bean 5 the fa- 



ba veterum ferratis foliiSy the Greek bean 

 w^th dented leaves j p, ibid, neither of 

 them of any ufe in the kitchen j and 

 the faba minor fylvef. the common wild 

 bean j of as little ufe as the former : 

 But later experience lias difcover'd ma- 

 ny more kinds, viz. the hotfpur, Gof 

 port or Spanijh, Sandwich, and broad 

 H^indfor beans 5 with feveral other kinds. 

 Proper- Thofe who have wrote of the virtues 

 nes. plants, allow very little to beans 



when they are young and green, being 

 cold and moift, affording a kind of 

 fpungy fubftance, which how much fo- 

 ever boil'd, are neverthelefs -^'mdy. 



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