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: thereof do necelfarily become Lepers, and are much fubiedt to cankers, for thicke and dry nou- 
i rifhments are apt to breed melancholy. 
Therefore the Lentill is good food for them that through warerilh humours be apt to fall into G 
I the dropfie,and it isamoft dangerous food for dry and withered bodies; for which caufe it bring- 
l eth dimneffe of light, though the light be perfed, through his excefliuedrinelTe, whereby the fpi- 
i ritsofthe light be wafted; but it is good for them that are of a quitecontrarieconftitution. 
It is not good for thofe that want their termes ; for it breedeth thicke blond, and fucli as llowly H 
|j pa ffeth through thcveincs. 
But it is lingular good to ftay the menfes, as Galen in his booke of the faculties of notirilhments I 
i affirmeth. 
Itcaufcth troublefomedreames (isDiofcorides&oth moreoucr write) it hurteth the head, li- K 
| newes, and lungs. 
It is good to livallotv downe thirty graines of Lentils (lrelled or taken from their husks, againft L 
the ouercafting of the ftomacke. 
Being boyled with parched barly meale and laid to, it affivageth the paine and ach of the gout. 
With honey it lillethvp hollow fores, it breaketh afehares, clenfeth vlcers : being boyled in 
wine it wafteth away wens and hard fvvellings of the throat. 
With a Quince, and Melilot,and oyleof Rofes ithelpeth the inflammation ofthe eyes and fun- O 
damentLut in greater inflammations of the fundament, and greatdeep vlcers, it is boyled with the 
rinde ofa pomegranat, dry Rofeleaues, and honey. 
And after the la tie maner againft eating fores that are mortified, if fea water be addedjit is alfo P 
a remedie againft pufhes,the(hingles,and the hot inflammation called S. Anthonies fire, and for 
.kibes, in fuch manner as we haue written: being boyled in fea water and applied, it helps womens 
Tbrefts in which the milke is cluttered, and cannot fuffer too great aboundance of nrilke. 
Of Qicb or true Orobus , 
Chap. 514. 
Orobus receptees Hcrbariorum. 
The true Orobus. 
The Befcn ft ion. 
'T'Tlis Pulfe,vvhich ofmoft Herbarifts is takers 
A for the true Orobus, and called of fome, bit- 
ter Fitch, is one of the Pulfes whofe tender bran- 
ches traile vpon the ground, as T heophraftus faith, 
and whofe Jong tender branches fpredfar abroad, 
whereon doe grow leaues like thofe of the field 
Vetch : among which grow white floures • after 
which come long cods, rhijt appeare bunched on 
the outlide againft the place where the feeds do 
lie, which are fma 11, round, vufltt ofcolour,and of 
a bitter tafte : the root is fmall and Angle. 
«f]' The Place. 
It profpereth beft in a leane foile , according 
to Columella: itgroweth in woods and copfes in 
fundry places of S paine and Italy, bat here only 
in gardens. 
*jj The Time. 
Thisisfowne earlyand late,butifitbe fowne 
in the fpring it ealily commeth vp , and is plea- 
fant 5 and vnpleafantifit be fowne in the fall of 
the leafe. 
The Thames. 
This is called in Greeke .• the fliops of 
Germanie haue kept the name Orobm : the Itali- 
ans cal it Macho -the Spaniards, Ten:o,m<\Tcntos .- 
in Englilh it is called bitter Vetch, or bitter 
Fitch, and Orobus, after the Latine name. Of 
fome Ers, after the French name. 
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