m The Place] 
Tbefe Pulfes do grow in my garden ; an d It is reported vntome by thole of good credit, that a- 
bout Watford in Middlefcx and other places of England the husbandmen do fow them for their 
cattell, euen as others do Tares. - clr 
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«[ The T,me. 
They both floure and wax ripe in Iuly and Auguft. 
The Names. 
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^ t he Names. 
They are called in Greeke<j™v, or »■'«.= in Latine, , and Lenticala : in hieh-Dutch, ftfafeit* 
French, UntiUe : in Italian, Lentich ia: in Span i\\LmeU . in Englifh, Lentils. 
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_ f The Temperature tmdr'eruies. < . 
Lentils, as Galen faith, are in a meane betvveene hot and cold, yet are they dry in thefecond de 
gree : their skin is aftnngent or binding and the mean- or fubfhnce within is of a thicke and eat 
deSiS l r d ^ ai0n rf ; L ? tiIS 5 0th J- 00 J fetbe J b cI, y shut if they be boyled againe,and thefirft 
laskef ft 7> ^ d ° C t lCy blnde ’ andare good againll the bloudy flixe or dangerous 
bcbHrfS “ ®°PP“>g°r binding,!! all orany ofthefe following 
stuict ber [es vnr ’ P “ pi,S ofp ™egranats, dried Rofes, Medlars, 
T hem ealetf I tn r M Pcares 3 CLr^ntres, P.antaine leases, Galls, or the berries of Sumach, 
foi finS rhenw VVU T 7 dptb mnnd ' fic and clenfe corrupt vlcers and rotten 
v£^mong & ourLondo\ ^ int0thec °™ di 8 cftilles 
accTdtnmhal’Sdnn fr" ff 0 *- as k Iofeth tbat ft ™g binding q ualitie,and thofe 
accidents that depend on the fame, fo doth it morenourifh than if it had the skin on. 
a n n rf U n ht ^ ; u - yce ’ and Aowly pafl'eth rhorow the belly, yet doth it not 
flay the loofneffe as that doth which hath his coat on * and therefore they that vfe to ea t too mHr fc 
thereof 
