Xkibe Z. 
The Theater of 'T [antes. 
Chap. iz. 
Lupulus JalUtarius. Hoppes. 
The Place . 
Thefe plants are more frequent in thefe colder, than in the 
hotter countries, which fheweth the goodnefle of God unto 
us, to provide for every Country, iuch things as are fit for the 
fuftentation of life; for where Vines grow not, and the water 
too cold and raw, to drinkc limply of it felfc, there are thefe 
Hoppes chiefely bred to make drinke to ferve infteadof wine 
or water: They delight chiefly, or rather onely to grow well,in 
low moift grounds,where they may have moyfture enough,and 
yet not too much; for therefore where they are planted on hil- 
lockes, as it were, there are trenches made to receive any great 
quantity of water, and bee conveyed away, that the plants 
ftand not drowned therein. 
* The Time. 
Thefe fpring not up untill April/, and Bower not untill the 
latter end of tune, the heads are not gathered, untill the middle 
or end of September. 
The Names. 
It isobferved and much marveiled at, by our ordinary wri¬ 
ters, that this plant fhould not be remembred by Diofcorides, 
Galen , or any other of the ancient Grceke or Latine writers 
except Pliny , who doth but onely name it and,number it among 
fholeherbes that grow of themfelvcs, and that are ufed for 
meate with diverfe nations, calling it Lupulus fahttarius. The 
Arabians have not onely remembred it, but commended the ufe 
of it highly for many difeafes, as you fhall hearc by and by. 
ATefues maketh it his third kind of Volubilis with rough 
leaves, among his purging plants: the Greekes at this day call 
it & fyvwia, Bryon and Bryonia it is likely for the forme of 
the leaves and running of the branches. It is called Lupulus 
& Lupus falibi arias, (Sr reptitius (quia falit & reptatper arboreSj 
velquia fcandit falices ) of all our moderne writers, onely Lobel 
calleth it Vitisjeptentrionalium, the Vine of the Northerne re¬ 
gions, and Tragus as I fayd before thinking it to be S milax afpe- 
ra ; the Italians call it Lupolo • the Spaniards Hombrazillos, the French Houblon, the (Jermaines Hop fen, the 
Dutch Hoppe , and we in Englijh Hoppes , 
The Venues „ 
The firft buds of the Hoppes, being layd a while in (and, maketh them the tenderer, and being boyled are ufed 
to be eaten, after the fame manner that the buds of Afparagus are, and with as great delight for the tafle, yet 
they have little nourifhment in them: their Phyficail operation therefore is to open, the obftruftions of the Liver 
and lplecne, to clenfe the blood, to ioefen the belly, and to clenfe the Raines from gravell, and to caufe them to 
r 111 flayed: the decoft ion of the toppes ot the Hoppes, of the came as well as of the wilde, 
and loalfotherootesdoe workethe fame cffe&s, but that they arefomewhat hotter than the young buds, which 
have more moyltute in them : in clenfing the blood, they helpe to cure the french difeafe, and all manner of 
Icabbcs, itch, and other breakings out in the body, as allb all tetters, ringwormes and fpreading fores, themor- 
phew hkewile and all difcolourings of the skin, and are ufed in Agues: the decocTion of the flowers and tops, are 
u.edto be drunk,to helpe and expellpoyfon that any one hathdrunk:halfa dram of the feede in powder taken in 
dnnKjkilleth the worms m the body,it likewife bringeth down womens couries,& expelleth Vrine. The flowers 
and heads,being put into bathes for women to fit in,take a way the] fwellings and hardnefle of the Mother, and 
is good ror the ltrangurie,or thofe that very hardly make their water ; the juyee of the leaves dropped into the 
cares, clcnleth the corrupt fores, and flench ari'fing from the corruption in them; Mefues faith they purgecho- 
cr, bj.it worke more cffeftually, being fteeped in whey of goates milke : A Syrupe made of the niyce and fugar, 
cureth thofe that have the yellow jaundife, eafeth the headach that cometh ofheate, and tempereththe heate 
otn or the liver and flomack.and is veryprofitably given in long A: hot agues,that rife ofcholer and blood ;Thofe 
3 r £ “ c c ’ ec0( fl' 0n of Hoppes,to mould up their bread,lhal make thereby their bread to rife better, 
and be baked the fooner: Cltfms reciteth the manner of amedecine ufed in Spaine,by women leeches,to cure the 
ailing or the haire ,cauled by the french difeafe,in this fort. A pound of fhccoors of Hopps,wel washed Sc boyled 
hi b pints of fairs water,to the confumption of the third part,or a halfe if they fee caufc; whereof they give half a 
pint to drink in a mojning,cauling them to fweate well after- into the decoffion they put foindtrmes,-two or three 
roots of partly,and as many of couch grafle,with a few Rayfins of the funne.The Ale which our forefarhers.werc 
acculromed onely to drinke, being a kindc of thicker drinke than beere (cauled a llranger to fay ofit, Nil fpijjius 
um 'bitur^ nilclarius dummingitur^ unde conjlat muitas faces in ventre relinqujt , that is,there is no drinke thicker 
that is drunke, there is no Vfine clcerer that is made from it, it mult needes be therefore that it lcaveth much 
emndeitinthebelly) is now almoft quite left offtobemade,theufe of Hoppes to be put therein, altering the 
quality thereof, to be much more healthfull, or rather phyficail, to preferve the body from the repletion ofgroffe 
humors, whKhthe Ale e»g enc l r ed. The Wilde Hoppes are generally ufed Phyfically more than the manured, 
eitner became the Wilde is thought to be the more opening, and effc&ualf, or more eafily to come by, or that the 
owners of the manured, will not fpare, or lofe fo much profit, as that which would be taken away might yeeld: 
yec afluredly they are both of one property, take which you will, or can get. 
Chap,; 
l 77 
