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. c i be Orchard. 
banquets, and much more for the Phyficall vertucs , whereof to write at 
large is neither connenient for mee, nor for this worke : I will onely briefly 
recite fomc, as it weretogiueyouatafteof thatplenry remaineth therein 
to bee conuerted into fundry formes : as fir ft for the table , whilethey are 
fre(b(and all the yeare long after being pickled vp) to be baked, as a dainty 
difli, being well and orderly cookt. And being preferued whole in Sugar 
either white or red, feme likcwifc,not onely as an after dilh to clofe vp the 
ftomacke, but is placed among other Prderues by Ladies and Gentlewo- 
men, and bellowed on their friends to entertainethem, and among other 
forts ofPreferues at Banquets. Codiniacke alfo and Matmilade, Icily and 
Pafte,areallmadeof Quinces, chiefly for delight and plcafure, although 
they haue alfo with them fome phyficall properties. 
We haue for the vfc of phyficke,both Iuyceand Syrupe,both Conferue 
and Condite, both binding and loofening medicines, both inward and out- 
ward, and all made of Quinces. 
The Ielly or Muccilage ofthe feedes , is often vfed to be laid vpon wo- 
mens breafts, to heale them being fore or rawe, by their childrens detaulc 
giuing them fucke. 
Athenxus reciteth in his third booke, that one Philarchus found , that 
the fmell of Quinces tooke away the ftrength of a certaine poifon, called 
phtrUcum. And the Spaniards haue alfo found, that the ftrength ofthe 
iuyceof white Ellebor (which the Hunters vfe as a poyfon to dippe their 
arrowheads in, that they ihoote at wilde bcafts to kill them) is quire 
taken away , if it Hand within the compafTe of the fmell of Quinces. • 
And alfo that Grapes, being hung vpto bee kept, and fpent in Win- 
ter , doe quickly rot with the fmell of a Quince. 
T He variety ofpeares is as much or more then of apples, andlthinke it is as 
hard in this, as beforein apples, for any to be foexquifite, as thatheecould 
. number vp all the forts that are to be had: for wee haue in our country fo ma- 
nie, as Ifhall giucyou thenamesof byand by, and are hitherto come to our know- 
ledge : but I verily beleeuethat there be many, both in our country, and in others, that 
we haue not yet knowneor heard of j for euery yeare almoft weeattaine to the know- 
ledge of fome, we knew not of before. Take therefore, according to the manner be- 
fore heid, the defcription of one, with the feuerall names ofthe reft, vntill a more ex- 
act dilcaurle be had of them, cuery one apart. 
The Peare tree groweth more (lowly, but higher , and more vpright then the apnlc 
tree, and not leiTe in the bulkc of the body this branches fpreadnot fofarre or wide 
but growe vprighter and clofer : the Ieaues are fomewhat broaderand rounder ereene 
aboue, and whiter vnderneath then thofe of the apple tree : the flowers are whiter and 
greater: the fruit is longer then round for the moft part, fmaller at the ftalke, and grea- 
( 0lnan y differing formes, colours, and taftes, that hardly canone 
diltinguilh rightly between them, the times alfo being as variable in the gathering and 
fpending of them, as in apples: the rootc groweth deeper then the apple tree, and 
therefore abideth longer, and giueth a fafter, clofer, & fmoother gentle wood, eafie to 
be wrought vpon. 5 
Chap. XXI. 
P?ra. Peares. 
The kindes ofPeares. 
TheSummerbon Chretien is fomewhat a long peare, with a greene and yellow 
liCtlfh emtr «rill ,„A IZ A ' 
The 
