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Soveraigne Cordiall to ftrcngtben and revive the fainting fpirirs of the heart, and to drive away melancholiy. 
This confe&ion alio is day ly commended and afed with goo i efFcft,againft the trembling and fhaking of the heart 
and againfl fwounings, it is often ufed likewife againft Melancholiy pafllons and forrow proceeding 
of no evident caufe, and to procure mirth as much as Phyficall meanes may effett, but there hath 
bccne formerly many errours committed in the competition of this confettion, firft in the Lapis Lazuli 
(firft put in by Me fuss the ^Arabian againft Melancholiy) fome condemning the ufeofit, and fomc fearing the 
operation thcreofby forcibly purging Melancholiy, have wholly left it out,and others have put it in, but without 
that due preparation it ought to have : a fecond errour is concerning the hike that is appointed to be put into it, 
fome taking crimfon hike dyed as our Dyes ule it,which may be dangerous in that they life divers things toftrike 
that Dye that is not fafe to be ufed inwardly,and therefore fome ufed to draw a tinflure out of the dry ed berries: 
blit our later age hath appointed a fafer courfe, namely to fteepe the raw cods of hike that hath felt no art paffc 
upon them in the true juice of the Chermes berries, wherewith being imbibed and fufficiently tinfted, the jayce 
after boyling and draining,is then fit to be ufed to make this confe&ion: a third errour role from DodontWy that 
miftooke Sericam y twd made it Seta, whofe errour Doftor 7 riefi, that tranflatcd him into Snghjh did follow,and 
gave occafiontoGVnWfoto publifh it foin his Herball.in that Gerard received that tranflation from Mr. Norton 
tofinifh: a fourth errour hath rilen from the Monckes that wrote Comcntaries upon CMrfvcs, who affirmed 
that that kinde of Crimfon graine that is gathered from the rootes of Burnet is this Kcrmes of the Arabians, but 
Afatthiolus hath confuted their opinion fufficiently : a fifth errour is in many mens millaking Cocbenille ( accr- 
taine graine or rather flyc knowne but oflatedayes,and brought from America ,) for Kcrmes, of ancient and fpe® 
ciall ufc with the old Arabian and Greeke Writers: but now all thefe errours being taken away, men may fafely 
tepofe confidence in the goodneffe of this ccnfedion,the faichfull preparations of the ingredients hereof, as well 
as of other compofitions,b>ing fo carefully overfeeneby the guardians of the Apothecaries,fince they were Joyned 
into a corporation,that it may juftly now compare (who were farrcbchinde before ) with the moft famous and 
expedt in the arc wherefoevtr s the berries chat are found on the great Holme Oke laich Matthioltu, being bruifed 
with vinegar, are good to be applycd to greene wounds and pm alfo into thofe eyes that arc blood-fhotten doe 
much good .* the other cxcrcffcnces are not put to any ufe that I know. 
Chap. VI. 
Saber, The Corkc tree. 
F the Corkc tree there are three forts obferved by divers, which yet may well be reduced into twoj 
in that the difference is not fit in my mindc to make a fpeciall fort as you (hall here. 
1. Stiber latifolinm. The broad leafed Corke tree. 
The broad leafed Corke tree,groweth to be a great tree in many places, but not fo high 39 the Ilex 
or Holme Oke,nor fo farre fpread.but with a thicker body, and fewer boughes, yet in fomc places it 
groweth much lower,for Pliny faid it was a fmall tree : the leaves hereof are very like Unto the leaves of the l* 
lex, but ufually greater, broader and more prickely then 
thofe of the elder Holme Okes, and in moft places abide 
alwayes greene on the trees, but in fome few doc fall a- 
way,as the ordinary Okes doc, which therefore being but 
peculiar to few, cannot I thinke conftitute another fpecies . 
The flowers are like the other Okes, and the Ackomes 
Smaller then thofe of the //«w,fofcer alio as it were lpongy 
and more unpleafant, (landing in very rough prickly cups : 
the barke hereof is very thicke, i ugged and full of clif cs if 
it grow too long upon the tree, and will cleave and fall 
off of i: fdfc by peecemeale : but being taken in due 
time, that is every rhirdyeare, the new barke will ap- 
peare very red, as if it were painted, and if any 
raine fhould happen in the barcking time, they would 
all wither and dye, but the Country men doe carcfally ob¬ 
serve a fit time for that purpofe, and when they have taken 
it away they bring ic to the fire to make plaine and flar.and 
let it lye thereon untill it be thorow hot, which then with 
weights they prefle until! it be cold which fo ibideth af¬ 
terwards : the timber or woo i hereof is ftrong and fit to 
build withall, for Pliny faith, it doth tardifjlme cariem ve- 
tnJlatcmqHefentire y abide iongeft without rotting, 
a. Sfiberansuflifolium,. 
The narrow leafed Corkc tree. 
This other Corke tree is like unto the former, growing 
to be a great tree,fpread abroad with many armes and bran¬ 
ches which are more plyant and eafie to be bowed, where¬ 
on grow longer,narrower and (harper pointed leaves then 
the former out not endented or prickly on the edges at all: 
m all other things it is like unto the former. 
The Place andTtme. 
The firft groweth in miny places of Grttcejpme, For- 
(where in (ome place, it groweth low) in ltd) alfo 
