Tri b s 1 6 . 
'The Theater of Tlanis. 
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>s the bed Authours that I read make Hemeris to be if bur,gaza tranflateth it loon times PUctda, ar.d fometimes 
Querent. Theopbrafitu faith that the ^Macedonians in his time called it Etjmodrys, and by Gaea Veri 
quercus, and of fome Querent robur,vc\i Galta arbor: the Ita/ians Roverojke Spaniards Enzina, and fome 
PortugaUs Carvalla ,the French Roble ,and Roure ,in Dutch Sjckenboom. The third is called in Greeke Phagus 
in I.atine E[culns,ineti say-E, as the Latines doc ob efca vel efu : Casts in eradiating this unto Fagus 7 according 
as Pimp had fo done before him,hath bcene the csule why lo many have erred in taking this Phages of Theophra. 
Shts, to be the Fagus of the Latines, which is in Englijh the Beech tree, when as they might plainely fee that Then- 
f4raj?»/reckoncthitasaliindeofOke, and that beareth the fvvcecclt Ackones, but Fagus the Beech tree beareth 
no Ackornes,but a tbrec fquarenuc like achefnut: The Italians call it £fihia,s\is Romanes Efcvlo , the Spaniards 
Euadna ,and the Ackornes Dillotas. The fourth is called in Greeke Atyibb nr£gilopi, of the MacedoniansSncn’ 
Afpris,'m Lttinc ferrut,or Cerrisis (ome have it,yet fforymaketh mention both of eA-gilops and Cerrus, fome 
doe ciWitCerrHsmas ,dr Cerrtimajorc glar.de, in comparison cf the next, GcrWcalleth ic the Holme Oke, and 
hiaCorreftor letteth it fo parte, when as the Hex Cocctgera is more fitly to be fo called,becaufe the leaves there¬ 
of are much more like unto the Holme or Holly bufh.thenthisis ; the Italians call it cerro, they of Cyprus Sio, 
and other places in the bottome of the Straights,call the Ackornes hereof Cjalliones: the Word taEgilops doth al- 
fofignifie akinde of wilde Oates, as is declared before among the Grades The laflis called inGreeke'AMVo/Sy- 
it£ioras fome read it»v»x«©-, in Latinealfo Haliphleut, lutofmoft Cerrus famina, and of fome Cer- 
rie minors glands, Gaza tranflateth ic Saljicortex, thinking it tooke the name from <**© which is fat, and 
cortex, but the barke hereof is noc more fait, but more thicke then others, and therefore it is derived from &■« 
and t>oiCr y a corticu crajfitudine , the Italians cM ic Forma. 
The fruite of the Oke is called in Greeke £*'•“■©■ Balaam, in Latine Gians, t uiboth Greekesand Latinesrc- 
ferre the word ro divers other ftuites of trees, as AiO-fesr©-, Iovitglms ihe Walnut, and 
glans Sardinia the Chefnut, and *onu»£«t*.c«©-, Gians Pbcmcea ,or Palma the Date, and UnuQr Balanus 
Myrepfica,os Giant mguentana or Nux beny he oylic Nut Ben,in ItalianChiaioj, m Spanifh Bctlotxs, i n French un 
ghand, m Dutch Eckel, in Englijh Ackorne, and Made, which ) et is faid to be the fi nice of ih; Beech, and fome 
other trees. The cup or huske wherein the Ackorne llandeth is called in Greeke Sf/yaw, in Lat.ne Calyxglandis 
in the Apothecaries (hops Cupula glandis. 
TbcVcrtues. 
The leaves and barke of the Okes.and the Ackorne cups doe binde and dry very,much, and are fomewhat cold 
withalfbut the Ackornes themfelves are neither fo cold nor fo much binding,yea wc lave a generall received o- 
pimonthit Ackornes in pouchcr drunke in wine are good tohelpc Hitches and paines in the (ides, but they usu¬ 
ally put a few bay berries unto them in the taking : the inner barke of the tree,and the chinne skinne chat covereth 
the Ackorne, are mod ufed in PhyfickctoClay the fpitting of blood, and the bloody fix: the decortion of that 
barke and the pouther of the cups doe lfay vomitings or cartings, fpitting of blood, or blcediw at the mouth or 
otherfluxe of blood in man or woman, laskes alfo,and the involuntary fluxe of naturall feede: the Ackornes in 
pouther taken in wine, provokeih urine, and rcfifttththepoyfonof venemous creatures, and the decoftionof 
them and the barke made in milke and taken rcfirteth the force of poyfonous herbes, and medicines as alfo the 
virulency of Camharides, when as by eating them, the bladder is cxulcerated, and they piffc blood. ’ Hipocrates 
faith he tiled the fumes of theOkenleaves to women that were troubled with the rtrangling of the mother: and 
galen faith he appiyed them being bruifed to one that had a wound with an axe or hatchet, not having any "thing 
elfe neere at hand, and thereby fodered up the wound, and kept it from inflammation. The cup, of the Ack ornes 
are more binding then the Ackornes by much in any thing. Thcdiltilled water of the Okcn budds before they 
breakeotit into kaves.isgoodto beulrd cither inwardly or outwardly,to affwage inflammations, and to (fay all 
manner of flexes in min or woman, The fame water is lingular good in peltilcntialland hot burning fevers, for 
it rcfirteth the force of ihe infection andalayerhthe extreame heace : die fame water alfo drunke as'cJVs tthiolus 
faith,cooleih ihe hea e of the Liver,hreaketh the (lone in the kidneyes, and rtaycth womens courles: tl edecoirti- 
onof the leaves worketh the feme effects. The u arcs thu is found in the hollow places of old Okes is very effe- 
duall againff anv foule or I'preadmg Icabfce: ti e Ackornes faith Galen being eaten arc hrrd of di»cftion, breedc 
windinefle, car, C: headache and a ki de of giddinefle, ro avoid (uch inconveniences they arcboyled or roarted 
before they be eaten, and thereby they become leffe windy and more pleafant, yet it is extant by the teftimony 
-of Hiftoiiansand Port(,that the elder age before it knew the ufe of cornc and bread thereof, lived upon Ackornes 
and were Curtained thereby, yea they had the Oke in that honour that they dedicated it to Iupiter, efpecially that 
kin le called gfculus, bccauiethat Iupiter himlelfe fed thereon and wasnourifhedby them, and the ufe of them is 
not every where yet utterly extinguifhed, for that as I laid before, the poore people in Spame in fome places, 
make thefe Ackones a part of their feeding, and the rich have them lerved to their Tables for an after courfe.as 
with us is ufed wihAppes,Nuts,and fuch like fruites as the feafons require. Thereis (aid to bea greatAnti- 
pathy,betiveer,e the Oke and the Olive, as alfoberwecne the Okeand theWalnut, the one not to grow neere 
where the other is planted : theenppes of thefwecteOkeor Acornc, as Bclloniui faith in his Booke of Obfcrva- 
tions, are ufed in greece and eMfui the ldfe, and Natalia to tanne or thicken their raw hides,as our Tanners ufe to 
doe with Oken barke, and 1 doe not thinkc but the cuppes of our Ackornes would doe as much, if any would 
make the tryall. He alfo faith that the Turkes in Macedonia and other places inTurkie, ufe the leaves of Sumach 
for the fame purpofe, and they of -yEgppt and Arab : a. ufe thecods of Acacia, the prickly bindin» tree, they of 
Phrygia mdLejbbos,' the barkeofths pitch tree, and they of Illyria, the leaves of the Mirtle tree, that beareth 
hlacke berries: fo that it feemeth m iny things may wotke that effort,feeing every Country taketh that which is 
familiar to it. 
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