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that it may be turned almoft into duff. It groweth in fields and diners vineyards or Hop gardens 
in moft places of England. 
The ftiiall Turnep groweth by Hackney, in a fandy ground; and thofe that are brought to 
Cheape-fide market from that Village are the bed that eucr I tafted. 
The Time. 
Turneps are fovvne in the fpring,as alfo in the end of Auguft. They floure and feed the fccond 
yeare after they are fowen : for thofe which floure the fame yeare that they are fowen are a degene- 
rate kinde, called in Chefhire about the Namptwitch, Mad ueeps, of their cuill qualitie in cau- 
fing frenfie and giddineffe of the braine for a feafon. 
The Thames. 
| 2 Rapim radice Monga. 
Longifh rooted Turnep. 
The Turnep is called in Latine, Rapum inGreeke, the name commonly vfed in (hops 
and euery where is Rapa. The Lacedemonians call it ■ the Boetians,ti»<in'<, as Athenam repor- 
teth : in high Dutch, Iftubctl t in low Dutch, liapctl 5 in French, Naueau road : in Spanifh, Naho : 
in Englifli, Turnep, and Rape. 
The T emperature andVertues . 
A The bulbous or knobbed root, which is properly called /Gy®® or Turnep, and hath giuen the 
name to the plant, is many times eaten raw, efpecially of the poore people in Wales, but mofl 
commonly boiled. The raw root is windy , and engendreth groffe and cold blond ; the boyled 
dothcoole leffe,andfo little, that it cannot be perceiued tocooleat all, yet it is moift and windy, 
g Itauaileth not a little after what manner it is prepared ; forbeing boyled in water, or in a cer- 
taine broth, it is more moift,and fooner defeendeth, and maketh the body more foluble ; but 
being rolled or baked it drieth, and ingendreth leffe winde, and yet it is not altogether without 
winde. But howfoeuer they bedreffed,they yeeld more plenty ofnourifliment than thofe thatare 
eaten raw : they do inerpafe milke in womens brefts, and naturall feed, and prouoke vrine. 
C The decoftion of Turneps is good againft the cough and hoarfenefl’e of the voice, being drunke 
in the euening with a little fugar,or a quantitie of clarified honey. 
D Dicfcond:sw ritetb. That the T urnep it fclfe being ftamped,is with good fucceffe applied vpon 
mouldie 
