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Theoileofripe Oliues mollifiethand affwageth paine, diflolueth tumors or levellings, is good 
for the ftiffenefTe of the ioints, and againft cramps, especially being mingled according to art,vvith 
good and vvhold'ome herbes appropriate vnto thofe difeafes and griefes, as Hypericon , Cammomill 
Dill, Lillies, Rofes, and many others, which do fortifie and increafc his vertues. 
Theoileofvnripe Oliues, called Omphacinum oleum, doth (lay, reprefle, and driue away the be- 
ginning of tumors and inflammations, cooling the heate of burning vlcers and expectations. 
C h a p . 57. Of Triuet or Trim Trinl. 
Liguftrum. 
Priuet, or Prim Princ. 
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^ The Defcription. 
P Riuet is a fhrub growing like a hedge tree, 
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the branches and twigs wherof be (Iraight, 
and couered with foftgliftring leaues of a 
deepe green colour, like thofe of Peruincle,but 
yet longer, greater alfo than the leaues of the 
Oliue tree : the floures be white, fweet of fmeil, 
very little, growing in clutters ; which being 
vaded there fucceed clutters of berries, at the 
firft greene, and when they be-ripe blacl.e like a 
little clutter of grapes, which yeeld a purplo 
iuice : the ro’ot groweth euejy way aflope. 
■.! qj The Place. 
The common Priuet gioweth naturally in ■ 
enery wood,and in the hedge rowes of our Lon- 
don gardens : it is not found in thecountrey of 
Polonia and other parts adiacent. 
The Time. 
It floureth in the end of May, or in Iune : the 
berries are ripe in Autumneor about Winter, 
which now and then continue all the Winter 
long ; but in the meane time the leaues fall a- 
way,and in the Spring new come vp in their 
places. 
The Names. 
It is called in Latine, Liguftrum : in Italian 
at this day, Guiflnco , by a corrupt word drawne 
from Liguftrum - it is the Grecians Qifoop ta, and in 
no wife *>««« .• lor Cyprus is a fhrub that grow- 
eth naturally in the Eatt, and Priuet in the 
Weft. They be very like one vnto another, as the deferiptions doe declare , but yet in this they 
differ, as witnefleth Bellontus, beezute the leaues of Priuet do fall away in winter, and the leaues of 
Cyprus are alwaies greene .-moreouer, the leaues of Cyprus dp make the haire red, as Diofcorides 
faith, and (as Bellomus reporteth) do giue a yellow colour: but the leaues of Priuet haue no vfe at 
all in dying. And therefore Pliny, lii.24.cap. 10. was deceiued,in that he iudged Priuet to be the 
felfe fame tree which Cyprus is in the Eatt : which thing notwithftanding he did not write as hee 
himfelfe thought, but as other men fuppofe ; for,/:£.i2. cap. 14. he writeth thus : Some (faitbhe) 
affirme this,w^. Cyprus, to be that tree which is called in Italy, Liguftrum ; and that Liguftrum or 
Priuet is that plant which the Grecians call »»<*«, the defcription doth declare. 
Phillyna, faith Diofcorides, is a tree like in bignefle to Cyprus, with leaues blacker and broader 
than thofe of the Oliue tree : it hath fruit like to that of the Maftick tree,blacke,fomething ttveet. 
Handing in cl u fters, and fuch a tree for all the world is Priuet, as we haue before declared. 
Serapio the Arabian,^. 44.. doth call Priuet Mahaleb. There is alfo another which is a 
graine or feed ofwbich Auicen maketh mention, cap. 478. that it doth by his warme and comforta- 
ble heate diffolue and aflvvage paine. Serapio feemeth to intreat of them both, and tocontaine di- 
ners of the rjMahaieb vnder.the tirle of one chapter : it is named in hig;h-Dutch, 2 Sftfll) 05 tj!ctn, 
SlptinDtbOlty.l'Ulfmotiet ^rtjUltoetDetl :inlQw-Dutch,&^ctUpt,$|)OtWl)OUt'' in french, Tro- 
(Jne : in Englifh; Priuet, Primprint, and Princ. 
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