«f The Nature '. 
The Blite (faith Galen in his fixth booke of the faculties of fi tuple medicines) is a pot-hearbe 
which ferueth for meate, being of a cold moi ft temperature, and that chiefely in the fecond de- 
gree. Ityeeldethtothebodyfmsllr.onrifhment,asinhisfecond bookeof the faculties of nou- 
rifhments he plainly fhewes ; for it is one of the pot-herbes that be vnfauoury orvvithout tafte, 
whofe fubftance is vvaterifh, 
f TheVertues. 
The Blite doth nourifh little, and yet is fit to make the belly foluble, though not vehemently, A 
feeing it hath no nitrous or fharpe qualitie whereby the belly fhould be prouoked. I haue heard’ 
many old wiues fay to their feruancs, Gather no Blites to put into my pottage , for thev are not 
good for the eve-fight: whence they had thofe words I know not, it may be of foue Doftor that 
neuer went to fchoole/or that I can finde no fuch thing vpon record other among the old or later 
Writers. 
4 
Chap. 4.4.. Of Floure^Cjentle. 
The Kindcs. 
r 9 'Herebe diuers forts of floure-Gentle, differing in many points very notab'y • as in greatriefle 
■7 and fmallnefle; fo tie purple, and others ofa starlet co our ; aad one a>6ue the reft where- 
with Nature hath Teemed to delight her felfe,efpecially in the leaues, which in variable colours 
do ftriue with the Parats feathers for beautie. 
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1 Amaranthus 
