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OfT)ucfy me ate. 
Lenspalujlris . 
Ducks meace. 
oXtA'W l-vft- VI 
The Defcription. 
D Vckes meate is as it were a certaine greene 
mole, with very little round leaues of the 
bigneffe of Lentils : out of the midft vvhere- 
ofon the nether lide grow doivne very fine threds 
like haires, which are to them in head of roots : it 
hath neither flalke,floure, nor fruit. 
f The Place. 
It is found in pounds, lakes, city ditches , and 
in other {landing waters euery where. 
The Time. 
The time of Ducks meate is kncwne to all. 
•[[ The Names. 
Duckes meate is called in Latine Lens lacuHris, 
Lens aquatilis, and Lenspaluftris : of the Apotheca- 
ries it is named Aqua LenttcuU • in high-Dutch, 
fl^ecrlmren: m low- Dutch, usatetittifeti , and 
more vfually (JcitDCtl gtUftl, that is to fay, Analurn 
Aer&j, Ducks herbe, becaufe Ducks doe feed there- 
on ; whereupon alfo in Englifh it is called Ducks 
meate : fome terme it after the Greeke water Len- 
tils , and of others it is named Graines. The Itali- 
ans call it Lent di ndude in French ^Lentille d’ eaue: 
in Spanifh, Lenteiw de aqua. 
T he T emperature . 
Galen fheweth that it is. cold andnioift after a 
fort in thcfecond degree. 
#i The c'ertues. 
Diofcorides faith that it is a remedie agalnft all A 
manner of inflammations, Saint Anthonies fire, 
and hot Agues, if they be either applied alone, or elfevfedwith partched barley meale. It alfo 
knitteth ruptures in young children. 
Ducks meate mingled with finewheaten floure and applied, preuaileth much againft hot fwel- g 
lings, as Phlegmons, Erifipelas, and the paines of the ioynts. 
The fame doth helpe the fundament fallen downe in yong children. Q 
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