T R I BE 
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The Theater of \Plants. 
Chap,4q. 1593 
Muatia. Mummc. 
bemg thole things the /Tmtmd others olid to embalms their dead bodies, nor yet with Pifalpahbum, as lt is 
likely other nations did) which was with Mia and Nnar, that did fo con W the moidureof the ca rkafc,and 
preferve it from putrefatdion, that it was thereby made to endure entire and unconfumed forever; lor thc£- 
atplianj in former times bemttwonderfull ingenious, andol a mod fnbtlc knowledge in all humane wifedome, 
(as it is recorded of cJMtyfr to be learned in all the wildome of the Egiptians, ASh. 7. a r.) midiking asitfliould 
feeme the tulfcme of the Latines, which was to burne their dead bodies to allies, and to preferve them in art 
° aS A ? , j. of Gree K es bury them u hole m the ground *. would to cxcell them take another way td 
Fn!- mf 'i h r‘ r , ° dles ’ C e xp«fling a reiurreftion as it is thought) from either fire (which as they were caught by 
their Phylofcphers was a mondrous bead, that devoured all things iintill it was full, and then perifhed ordyed 
with that which it had devoured) or wato.or earth that wormes fliould not confume them, and therefore with 
rT? k ! y P ‘ efcrv . ed ‘ be corrupting andftench, and with that Tarre.an d farre water, 
c, n C ’ was made from the dickes of both the Cedars burnt, as is uled to make ritch, andTarre, 
from Pine and Pitch tree lfickes with us) they belmeared oftentimes the body all over, and wrapping them irt 
ir wcrc > and con ^ b ^ ime * u tiie b °* 0* 
it had beene burned in the fire, and hard that it was 
not to be patted in funder without flrokes and bea¬ 
ting ; but chof e things that were put into the belly 
ofthedeadbodie, could not preferve the whole 
body,and make every parrblacke alike,as I thinkc. 
All the dead bodies of Egipt, and Syria likewife 
being thus embalmed were they never fo poorc.but 
with more fumptuoufneffe and coft peradvenrttre, 
of Aloes, Myrihe, Saffron, Ballamum, and other 
precious things, if they were rich, or the Princes or 
Kings & were carryed into a defart or barren place 
in and laid with (ome monument or hcape 
offtones on them, which is the place where the 
Pyiamides now Hand ( as .it was the cuifomc in all 
places to bury the dead in thofe places which were 
mod barren, and not fit for husbandry, tillage, or 
paflure) and is about foure miles from Cabo, the 
River Nihu, or fome branch thereof being bc- 
tweene, which they mud palfe over either by bridg 
orboate, before they come there, and this as it is 
mod likely, was the originall of the Gnckri fables 
of Lithe,Stix, Charontf-c The dore of Mumia, 
that hath, and is yearely (pent in all Countries,doth 
tedifie the innumerable dore of bodies buryed there 
fought for and brought from thence, which are 
all alike in fubdance, without any great or mani- 
feftdifference. There hath beene much concto- 
vetfie hereabouts, the Arabians taking Mnm'ia to 
be Pijfalpba/ium, and fo did CMatthiolut alfo, Bra- 
favolm to be Afphalttim Indaicum, and tobeufed —•> rm.r'ivin 
indead thereof, which Mattbwltu midiketh.and leemeth to allow better of the Pifallbaltum,or the Aloes Mvrrh- 
j e u Cwlt , h tbc Dodl “ were duffed, being altered in time bv the moidure of thecarkafe in the prave.’as is be ¬ 
fore (aid then of the body it felfc, which is called Adumia, and therefore would have bodies to befo embalmed 
and kept, that the embalmings might be uled, but adiirediy, neither the one nor the other can be called Mum 
rightly, nor are of that effeft, for although Seraph and AvL fay that , MZa 3 “XTZ 
wh re l° rC Wt ’n‘ rf0CVer Pr ° per ^ T° fC ° r]d! a PP° inteth u "‘° W'K the fame they attribute unto 
7 blhu^T t ,- tlr Cr t 0U n V •' r ” lnd , ? " ,lM b y fa y>ng that Fix liquid.,, is a fit fubditute for P.ffal- 
pb hunt doc intimate that it is ofanotherquahtyrhen is, and commeth farre (Tort thereof: Jtishotand 
minus l‘nr[f C M ndd r § p CC ’ andcidcth , tbc P aines in the head, commingof cold and moidure, the Megrome fwim- 
dialFfnr h nCS takCn 1!’ t de , c ° aiGn °J Marjerome,& helpeth a cough taken in ptifane drmke.ir is cor- 
fnfveih^ ®rt d preventeth the danger of poyfon, or the venomcof the Scorpion and other ferpents, di(. 
w a r^ h H^r n ? e b n‘n m thC ft ° m f l ^ e > ( P le 5 n c »na bowels,ftayeth the hickocke and blecdings.both inward and out- 
the ietendo^r" con ? ea!ed bbod ° f brulfa b y fals or otherwife, and helpeth the ulcers of the bladder, and 
the retention ofunne, being taken m Goates milke: it is alfo very profitably ufed againd palfies, cramoes and 
1 entions of the mouth the hardnes and fhrinking of the fmews, and lamencs in the feetc though cold ami wet 
Chap. XL* 
Myrrha, Myrrhe. 
m cf-a certaine tree growing in Arabia ^Ethiopia, and other places, as k is thought The. 
'■ ,hr fnrh / ,h / \* r T ! re P° rfS of the ««*° r rt'CW it bearVth, one contrary to ant 
‘t’/ , h , at1C m »y be doubted whether any of them be true,feeing they be but guefTcs at tl* likelvell 
faith that it is not unVikV t 0 n the h ,°7 t?’ th “ * ny no - w adlyes hjth feenc the trec that it. Diofcoridts 
aitn that it is not unlike to the Egtpttan Thorpe, meaning ^rsrwithout mention?nganyreport,andisgot- 
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