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fomniferumfir fleeping Nightfhade ; and Solatium Ut hale fix deadly Nightfhade 5 and Solatium ma- 
ni cum, raging Nightfhade : of fame, Afollinarti minor vlticana, and Herba Opfago : in Englifh,DwaIe 
or fleeping Nightfhade : the Venetians and Italians call it Bella dona : the Germanes,23olltDUtt?: 
the low Dutch, ©UllCbefiCn: in French, Morelle mortclle .- it commeth very neere vnto Theophra. 
ifus his Mandragoras, (which differeth from Diofcortdes his Mandragoras.) 
It is cold euen in the fourth degree. 
^ The Vert ties. 
This kinde of Nightfhade caufeth fleep,troubleth the minde, bringeth madnetfe ifa few of t he A 
berries be inwardly taken, but if moe be giuen they alfo kill and bring prefent death. Theophr alius 
in his 6. booke doth likcwife write ofMandrake in this manner ; Mandrake caufeth fleepe,ancl if 
alfo much of it be taken it bringeth death. 
The greene leaues of deadly Nightfhade may with great aduice be vfed in fuch cafes at Petti- r 
morteli : but if you will follow my counfell, deale not with the fame in any cafe, and banifh it 
from your gardens and the vfe of it alfo, being a plant fo furious and deadly : for it bringeth fuch 
as haue eaten thereof into a dead fleepe wherein many haue died, as hath been often feen and proo- 
ued by experience both in England and elfe where. But to giue you an example heereofit ihall 
inot be amiffe : It came to paife that three boyes of Wisbich in the lie of Elydideate of 
the pleafant & beautifull fruite hereof, two whereof died in lelfe than eight houres after that they 
had eaten of them. The third child had a quantitie ofhony and water mixed together o-iuen him 
to drinke, cauling him to vomitoften : God blefled this meanes and the child recouered. Banifh 
therefore thefe pernicious plants out of your gardens, and all places neere to your houfes, where 
children or women with child do refort, which do oftentimes long and lull after things moft vile 
and filthie ; and much more after a berry of a bright fliining blacke colour, and of fuchgreat beau- 
tie, as it were able to allure any fuch to eate thereof. 
The leaues heereoflaid vnto the temples caufe fleepe, efpecially ifthey be imbibed or moifle- r 
ned in wine vineger.lt eafeth the intollerable paines of the head-ache proceeding ofheate in furi- • 
ous agues, c-aullng reft being applied as aforefaid. 
The Nature, 
Chap. jy. Of writer f berries. 
5f The Defer iftion . 
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