154 2 Chap, 97. 
T heatrum Botantcum . 
Tribe 16. 
ouc into drops,fo like unto Thus or Ohbanum, thac many did counterfeit it there with,as G^len faith lib t 2 , decomp, 
rued, fecund generic.?.. and/i£.3.c. 2. who callethit^wWpto^ Pice£ bulla, and this peradventuremay be 
that Roflin of the pitch tree, made in Aft*, and called there Sphagas as Pliny faith, who alfo in another place 
faith hereof,that the pitch tree giveth a greac dcale of Roflin fo like unto Thu, that being mingled together, they 
can fcarfe be dilcerned to be feverall: this Roflin alfo is ufed to be mixed with the pine tree Roflin before lpo- 
ken of, which is likely to be Galen his j, and with them the Refina firobilina mixed all together : cut of 
this tree like wife being wounded as in other trees for that purpofe, is drawne forth a liquid Roflin,like unto thac 
of the Firre tree, called by Pliny fix Brutiaps l take ic, which is redder then the ordinary Roflin, and perad- 
venture may be alfo the Colophony of the ancients, which was like Reftnafricla, and brought from Colophony , but 
more tenacions.as betvvtene Roflin and pitch, which 1 take to be that which is ulually called with us now adayes 
Hurgony pitch, which while it is frefh is fomewhat foft in working, and fharpe in lent, but afterward grow¬ 
ing as dry as a dry Roflin, thac wi'.l eafily be made into pouther. Of the wood and ftickes hereof as of ihe pine, 
either together or leparate is made pitch,as is before liiewed. 
6 . Refina osdbiegna, The Firre tree Roflin or Turpintine. 
Some doe fay that there is gathered from the Firre tree, a dry kinde of Roflin pafling ouc thereof voluntarily 
as is before laid of the pine and pitch trees, and put altogether to make cur common Francumfence, which how 
true or falfe it is, I cannot either maintains or difprove,the knowledge of many Inch things, although of daily u(e 
is not eafily a:tained,by them that dwell farre from the natural l places of their growing. From this firre tree be¬ 
ing bored co the heart,as is done in ocher the like, and lome lay out of the pitch tree as well, iflueth forth in the 
younger treesacleere yellow ifh Turpintine or thinne Roflin, but from the elder fomewhac thicker, which be¬ 
ing puc into great cau drons is boyied with a double quantity of water, but I thinkc twice double will not lerve, 
fo long even two or three dayes continually night and day, untill it become fo throughly boyied and dryed, that 
it will not yet Id to a thruft, when it is cold ; but will be hard and dry, and then is called yellow Roflin, and being 
molten a new is call into greac cakes, of an hundred weight a peece more or Idle, and according as the Turpin¬ 
tine is in clearenelfe and goodnefle lo will the Roflin be, and this is the fnrim fpcfcm 0 f the Grecians, and Refina 
fiitta of the Latines. 
7, Re(ina Cuprcffin a, The Roflin of the Cypreffc tree. 
There is fome imes found on this tree, a certaine kinde of dry Roflin, bntfolicde that we have little know¬ 
ledge thereof, and lefleule/Dio/wriVfe/ and Pliny doe both make mention of a liquid Roflin, to.be taken ouc of ic 
as cut of the Turpintine tice Larch tree and others. 
8. From the Savir.e trees likewife cf both forts, in the hot Countries is taken a dry Roflin. 
9. Fro n the Cedrut Lycia i the Cyprefic like Cedars of both forts,is taken fuch like dry Roflins 39 from the Oxy» 
cedrtu in fmall pceces falling to poucher in the chewing like unto it. 
1 o From the Arbor vitx lometimes is taken a dry Roflin in fmall pecccs and fmall quantity. 
11. From the Arbor Thurifera is gathered the Thw or Olibanum , but what the tree is from whence ic was ta¬ 
ken we know not, nor they that have made mention of it, for fomefay one thing and feme another, fothacl 
dare fay no more of it here,but in the next Claflis. 
1 2. Of the dry or liquid Roflins taken from the Lentiske or Mafticke tree, from the Balfamum or Balmc tree, 
from the Sty rax or Scorax tree,and from the Turpintine tree, 1 have ipoken fnfficiently before, faving onely rhac 
J would give you furcher to underftand that in Syria, and the parts neere thereunto they make pitch of the Tur¬ 
pintine in the fame manner as they doc of the Cedar, befidcs the deerc true Turpintine that is drawne forth by 
p ierling the tree,as in other Roflin bearing trees. 
The Vertues of Rojfin and Fitch, 
Roflin in generall as Galen faith, that is of all forts, is hot and dry, but they differ much one from another, 
in being more or lefle fliarpe and hot, and of thin parts: the S trobohna,thitisi the Roflin taken from the nuts 
of the pines is the hotteft, and thac from the Turpintine tree the tnoft temperate, the dry white Roflin of the 
pirch tree is hot and dry, but yet is not fo drying as the Strobolina , although more heating: that of the Firre 
tree is as a meane betweene them both, even as chat Colophony, which fmclleth and is like Thus or Olibanum is 
temperate likewife, themoifteftof them dl is that other lore of the Larch tree Roflin, which is the {harper, of 
the ftronger fenr,and more bitter tafte : The huile deCade or (linking Tarre, comnr.ing from the Oxyccdrtu or 
prickely Cedar when ic is burned, healeth all lcabbes and itchinmanorbeaft, and other deformityes m the skin, 
as the Lepry morphew and the like,and pei formeth in a manner whatfoever the Cedria it fclfe can d<pe. The Ve¬ 
nice Turpintine boyied to a dry Roflin, is farre betrer then any other ordinary boyied Roflin to flay the flux of 
Gonorrhea. The common Francumfence, ParroJfm,ox Roflin of the pine tree befides the ufes to burne and per¬ 
fume a home as is before faid, iefervethin falves ns a principall ingredient, to heale and fill up with flefh hollow 
ulcers, and to warmeand comfort any cold griefe or part of the body : The Roflin of the pitch tree, called Bur- 
gony pitch, in being fharper and more hot, is much ufed for fearcloathes againft: cold aches, and all fores of paines 
and griefes proceeding cT cold, and by reafon of the fharpe and quicke lent, is the mote piercing: The pirch ic 
fclfe is hot and dry in the fecond dcgree ; yet mollcfyeth hard knots tumours and fwellings, ic bringeth boiles and 
fores to fupparation, ar.d breaketh carbunckles, and blanes, difperfeth and fcattcreth botches and cmpoflhnmes, 
draweth forth corruption in fores, and healeth them by caufing flefh to grow up in them, and is ufed in many 
falves, bnh oyntments arid plaifters that ierve to draw and toheale: The Tarre water that commeth firft out 
and with the farre* doth kill any Tetter or Ringworme being ufed thereon, and likewife any itch, and healeth 
up fcabbes or fcalles; in thebead, the Tarre it fclfe is hotter then the pitch, andisuled faith Diofcorides, againft 
poyfons,as alfo is good forthofe that have the Tiflick or cough,or rotten flegmc fluffing the lungs,and for hoarlc- 
neffc an 1 tough flegme, thac w ill not eafily be expectorated : being rubbed with fait on a place that is bitten by a 
Serpent helpeth it,and being mixed with as much waxe’it taketh away the ruggednefle of the nailes,i: helpeth the 
hardnefle of the mother, the rifts in the fundament, the chaps on the hands or feete, itftayeth alfo fpreading 
ulcers, it breaketh or diflolveth the kernels under the eares and throatc, called the Kings evill, being made up 
into a pulcis with Barley mealc, and aboyes urine, and applyed warme: it is likewife dropped into the cares 
with a little oyle of Rofes to cleanle the mattering of them: ic ftayeth creeping ulcers applyed with Brimftone 
