vryne and expelleth the stone The water speedily healeth woundes if they bee washed mornyng and euening with the same this also profiteth vnto the exulceration and fracture of womens places which is wonte to happen after the delyuery of childe if so be the places be washed with the water both morning and euening What skil and diligence required in the workmanly sowing and ordering of the Onyon Chap. 20. THat the Onyons haue a bodie compassed and compact with many cartilagies there is none I beleeue whiche knoweth not The auntient husbandmen as witnesseth Columella named these Onyons bycause they grewe in one rounde heade togither yet not ioyned togither with so manye heades round about as the Garlike which vnto this day is familiarly named the Onyon of the Husbandmen with vs. The Onions for the more parte oughte to be sowen in the moneths of Januarye February and Marche in a fatte Earthe well dunged moiste and diligently trimmed whiche shot vp to some heigth ought to be remoued in the moneth of Aprill a good distance the one from the other and these further growen oughte carefully to bee weeded aboute and often laboured to cause them growe the bigger and to defende thē in time of a blustering winde by helps set against The worthy Neapolitane Rutilius writeth that the seedes desire to be bestowed in a fatte earthe often tourned and raked moiste and dunged and red also as the Greke Sotion in his husbandry willeth which afore ought to be cast vp that it maye putrifye throughe the colde and frostes in the Winter tyme as the skilfull Columella vttereth after these the Earthe to bee dunged and wythin twoo dayes after the grounde leuelled forthe and caste or trodden into beddes all the rootes and vnprofitable hearbes afore clensed out These workmanly handled in the moneth of March being a calme and pleasante daye the South or Easte winde at that tyme blowing the seedes shall workmanly be committed to the earth wyth Sauerie intermedeled betweene them as Plinie wylleth for so the plantes prosper the better The woorthie Greeke Sotion admonisheth the Gardener which would set Onyons to cut away all the hearye rootes and toppes of the greene blades before the bestowing wherby they may growe to big heades Others there are whiche only pluck away the blades nigh to the root for on suche wyse they sende the iuyce to the neither partes to cause the head grow bigge But these after the mynd of Rutilius ought in this maner to be placed or set thinne in beddes and both raked and weeded if these not often yet foure tymes at the least as Plinie willeth who also taught that t the ground be digged cast vp three tymes before the bestowing of y e seedes in the earth If the Gardener commit seeds to the earth in the wane or decrease of the Moone he shal possesse smal and soure ones if the seeds in the increase of the Moone then strong or bigge and of a moyster taste wyth the sourenesse maystred But the same not to be vnremēbred nor ouerpassed that in al the kindes of Onyons the same somewhat long and sharpe is wonte to bee sourer than the rounde and the redde one more than the white to these the drye one more than the greene and the raw more than the boyled the freshe also more than that seasoned or poudered with salte or the sodden one The Gardener or owner shall possesse farre greater Onyons if whē there is a place or roome for the setting againe they bee layed in Earth well laboured for twentie dayes space and so long left drying agaynst the sunne vntill all the moysture be gone or drawen forth by heate of the sunne after the instruction of the worthy Greke Sotion which Ruellius out of Palladius semeth greatly to mistake in that he ascribeth the same to be done to the Dill and not the Onyons whose heades maye also be bared by plucking off the vpper skinne before the setting againe in the Earth to prosper the better and yeelde the bigger seedes if they be set in the Earth well a hande bredth asunder The heades to be eaten before the ful rypenesse that these maye bee the sweeter ought rather to bee sowen in a moyste grounde among the young Plantes of the Cucumbers Gourdes and Melones If the owner wil rightly possesse and gather the seeds in due season when the greene stemmes are shotte vp highe and yeelde bigge heads they are then to bee guyded wyth two smal forkes of wooded fixed on eyther side as Columella willeth that the stems though the stayes shoaring them vpright maye not in anye bygge wynde knocke the heades togither to the spilling and losse of the Seedes on the Earthe which are not asore to be gathered that they inioye a blacke colour as after the Greekes Columella and Rutillius like vttered The stemmes and knops in which the Seedes are contayned ought to be gathered in the decrease of the wane of the Moone in a fayre and warme time when the leaues or blades begin of themselues to wyther and drie and that the seedes beginne to appeare blacke of themselselues for then ought the stemmes to be plucked vp by the rootes which knit togither in forme of garlands or otherwyse bounde vp to be layd in the Sunne to drie and rypen The Onyons will continue long vncorrupted as the sayd Sotion hath noted if so the Onyons be put into hot water or as Plinie willeth into saltie and warme water and after layed in the hotte sunne vntill they be through dry which lette bee hidden or couered with Barly straw and in such manner bestowed y t nether touch other by any part In many places the Onyons be hanged in the smoke and in Chimnies nere the heate of the fire and on such wise preserue them a long time The auntiente and skilfull writers of Husbandrie vtter that if the Gardener would possesse Onyons of a wonderful bignesse in the heade the seedes of the Onyons put within the seedes of Gourdes whyche so handeled bestowe in moyste beddes well turned in with dung into a like bignesse wil the heades of the Onyons increase if the Earth digged rounde about the small heades of the Onyons in the heauing or lifting of the earth shal be lifted vp yet in such maner done that the heades not quyte raysed out of the erth or plucked vp quite by the rootes as I afore vttered to be wrought with the Lecke The like also shall the owner obtayne if boaring the heade of an Onyon with a woodden pricke in sundrye places and putting into the holes Gourde seedes he bestow thē togither in a wel laboured Earth But in this place I thought not to omit that if the Gardener shall commit the seedes of the Onyons in due tyme to the Earth they wyll after growe into a head but they shal yelde lesse stoare of Seede But if the Gardener shal bestow little heades in the ground the heades wil after whyther and ware drye and be shotte
this for the more parte be wonte to vaporate or breath foorth any noysome ayre that may both to men and the Plantes be harmefull For peculiar or proper is the same or rather such is the propertie of very many still waters and Motes So that it is the counsell of the skilfull if any lyke be knowen to refrayne from placing any Garden plotte or Orcharde if the owner may choose neare to the same The forme of the inclosures whiche the Husbandmen and Romaynes in time past inucâ—ted Chap. 7. FOr asmuche as the same may be thought a meere madnesse to haue chosen out a fitte plotte of grounde and to cast digge and dresse it seemely in all poyntes yet lying open day and night aswell to the incursious and coÌ„mon haunte as to the iniuries to be wrought done by robbers or theeues foules and beastes for that cause I here minde to intreate of the sundry maners of fensing coÌ„passing in of the Garden groundes in auncient time First the skilfull and warie husbande men in tyme paste being those of good abilitie buylte them walles about of Fâ—râ—stone artly layed and mortered togither some did with baked bricke like handled Others of lesser abilitie and of the meaner sorte framed them inclosures with stones handsomely layed one vpon an other without morter or Cley and some of them couched the broade Slate stones with other bigge and large stones in like order aboute where such dwelt by quarries of stone But very many of the baser and poorer sorte made them fenâ—es and walles aboute with mudde of the ditche dung chaffe and strawes cut short and wel mixed togither Others there were whiche with bigge Canes set vpright by small poles bound togither so fensed theyr Garden plot in handsome maner round about Some also with yong Willow trees set by certayne distances and the drie blacke thorne purchased from the woodde beyng bound in betweene the spaces so framed theyr inclosure but this maner of inclosing wrought or buylte by Arte the skilfuller named a dead and rough inclosure made especially for the keepyng and defending of Cattell out of the Garden ground Yet the hedge or inclosure erected after this maner required euery yeare to be newe repayred and bounde vp in the places needefull to the tediousnesse and great paynes of the husbande man The learned Columella in his husbandry reporteth that the Romaynes in time paste fenced and inclosed their Garden groundes with bigge quarters set vpright and Poles with lathes very thicke fastned to them by small roddes of the Osier tree walling them in Some boared large holes through bigge bodies or stockes of trees that quarters or great poles made for the purpose might passe thorough them eyther by twoo or three togither in reasonable distaunce with payle borde raysed and fastned along to them Some also through the tymber of trees set into the earth fastned bigge poles or long quarters round about much like to the vsuall Cattell poundes in our age But some attayning a more skill erected as Varro reporteth a natural inclosure set about with the blacke or White thorne trees and yong willowes whiche had besides the rootes of a quicke set hedge that in tyme growing vp withstoode tempestes windes landfloudes yea fire the consumer of all things put to it The Auncient husband men did besides these inuent the caâ—ting vp of banckes countermâ—res of earth round aboute the Garden plotte much lyke to the trenches in tyme of warre aboute Bulwarkes and Tentes and these they especially made neere to high wayes or by Riuers and in Marrishes or Fennes lying open or other Fieldes that the Garden plot might on such wise be defended from the damages and harmes both of Theeues Cattell and Landfloudes For a playner conceyuing of the abouesayde learne these folowing that the Auncient husbandmen did caste vp and made a deepe ditche about theyr Garden ground standing in the open fielde whiche might receyue al the rayne water falling and this they so digged with a slope passage whereby the water might runne the easier and freelier from the bottome The earth and Clay cast vp on the inside faste by the brincke they so wrought vp togither that hardly any person after the drying of the couÌ„termure could clyme ouer the same Some also made high banckes or countermures without a ditche digged about and the same so serued in the open fieldes in steade of a wall To be brief the inclosure whiche longest indured surest and of the least cost was the same that the Romaynes in auncient time made with Brambles and the white Thorne layed orderly in bankes for the better growing vp For this inclosure or hedge after yeeres sprung vp endured by reporte of the learned Cato an infinite time yea experience in our age doth likewise confirme the same For whiche cause this inclosure was very much commended of the Auncient Romaynes who well conceyued and knew that the Bramble decayed or died not at any season except it were digged and plucked quite vp by the rootes Yea they learned by practise that the Bramble swinged or scorched with straw flaming recouered grew euery yeare after both stiffer rougher and thicker togither The later inuentions of erecting a naturall and strong Hedge â–ª whiche in time growing may proue a most sure defence and sauegarde of the Garden Chap. 8. THe most commendable inclosure for euery Garden plot is a quick set Hedge made with the Brambles and white Thorne but the stronger and more defensiue Hedge is the same whiche the singular Democritus in his Greeke instructions of husbandry that wrote long before Columella and Palladius Rutilius cunningly vttereth and the same with ease and small coste after this maner Gather sayth he in a due season of the yeare the â—eedes founde in the redde berries of the biggest and highest Bryars whiche by a more common name with vs are called the wilde Eglantine Bryars the through rype seedes of the Brambles runnyng low by the grounde the rype seedes of the white Thorne and to these bothe the rype Berries of the Gooseberrie and Barberrie trees this done mixe and stiâ—pe for a tyme all the Berries and Seedes in the blended meale of Tarts vnto the the thickenesse of Honie the same mixture lay diligently into olde and vntwisted Shippe or Well roapes or other long worne roapes and fittered or broken into shorte peeces beyng in a manner starke rotten in such order that the Seedes bestowed or couched within the softe heares of them may be preserued and defended from the colde vnto the beginnyng of Spring At whiche tyme where you be minded that the inclosure or Hedge shall runne and spring vp there digge in handsome maner twoo small furrowes and these eyther two or three foote asunder and a mans foote and a halfe deepe into whiche lay your roapes with the Seedes couering them workemanly with light carth and if neede shall requyre water by sprinckling or moysten the Seedes in the same wise agayne The worthie
the singular man M. Cato who willeth the person purposed to drincke much wine at a feaste and to dine or suppe freely to eate afore supper as great a quantitie of the rawe Coleworte as he wil with good vineger and being also sette downe to supper to eate fiue leaues raw these then wil cause him to be as one that had neyther eaten nor drunke whereby he may drinke as much as he wil throughe the maruellous repugnancie of this Herbe with wine as afore vttered and like noted by Agrius in the worthy worke of M. Varro The Coleworte in like maner ought not to be planted nighe to the Organye Ruâ— nor Sowes breade for the drying qualitie consisting in theÌ„ so that these either sowen or planted nighe to the Coleworte and other very moyste Herbes doe greatly hinder and cause them to wyther A like matter worketh the Lauander set in beds neare to moyste Hearbes through the heale consisting in it as the Radish doth whyche through y e proper tartnesse or sharpnesse being in it burneth any moyst and tender plant growing neare to the same Thys also is worthye memorie whiche Athenaeus reporteth that in Athens in time past the Coleworte was wonte to be prepared with meate for women with childe in the steede of a certayn defensitiue against annoyances There is also made of the Ashes of the Coleworte infused in water a salte in that the same possesseth a Nytrous substance as afore vttered through whose benefite if this be meanly boyled and takeÌ„ in broth as we shall here after write doth loose the bellie The Physicke helpes and worthy secretes of the Coleworte THe Coleworte in the vse of Physike hath so many properties that peculiar Pamphiletes the auntient as Pythagoras M. Cato Chrisippus Dieuches and sundrye others wrote of the vertues of the same But of the monuments of these men none are extant sauing the same whiche M. Cato and Plinie haue lefte to memorie written Therefore a fewe vertues of this Herbe and of the worthiest shall after be vttered First M. Cato writeth that this Herbe cooleth and moystneth in the seconde degree and for the hardnesse of makyng water whâ—ch coâ—â—th for the by droppes or very straightly hee willeth to prepare the Herbe after this manner in taking the Coleworte leaues cleane picked and after the bestowing of them in scalding water to lette them seeth a whyle which as yet halfe rawe poure the lycoure almoste from them to these then adde a reasonable quantitie both of Oyle and Salte but of cummyne a little which done let the whole seeth a whyle then taking it from y e fire and cooled to sup a mease or draught of the broth â–ª the Colewort leaues to eate as soone as they be thus sodden tenderer which in like maner dayly vse vnto the tyme the patient be â—ased For all manner of vlcers and swellings vse and applye the Coleworte workmanly brused especially the smal stalkes and tender leaues of the same that the Grekes name Crambe and with vs the common Coleworte which like ordered purgeth the Canker sores and in shorte tyme healeth them y e like of which no other medycine properly can do But before the patiente laye them on he must diligentlye with muche warme water souple and washe the sores after applie or lay on twise a day the sayd Crambe or common Coleworte brused with which remedie also both loose ioyntes and bruses yea Canker sores and vlcers in the Pappes of women may meruailously be cured If the vlcer be so tender that it can not suffer the sharpe working of the Coleworte then mixing the Barlie meale with it applie on suche wise and the reporte goeth that there is one simple which like preuaileth against the ioynt sicknesse or Ach of ioyntes as the raw Colewort diligently applied doth if the same finely shredde be eate with Rue and the Coriander or else with a Corne or two of salte and Barlie meale aâ—tly mixed with Oximel the same be noynted morning and euening That if a person hardly heateth or but little bruse saith M. Cato the Colewort with wine which after the harde wringing forth and warmed in a saucer drop gentlye into the Eare and in shorte time the patient shal feele y e benefit of the same These hetherto M. Cato whiâ—h accustomed to proue the crypsed Coleworte especially nexte the thynne with great leaues and big stalke Leauing further to wâ—â—te of the vertues which Cato in hâ—s Husbandrie and the singular Plinie vtter I here minde to declare certayne worthy practises of the Greekes as 〈◊〉 the Coleworte and firste they report that the decoction of the Coleworte drunke with pleasaunt wyne to procure the monethly couâ—se in women to these the iuyce of the same mixed diligently with fine Hony to cure the eyes it 〈◊〉 wittily be dropped into the â—ornâ—â—s of them That if any hath eaten venomous Mushromes he shal maruellously be holpen by drincking the iuyce of the Coleworte Nor they omyt that the same doth yeeld a mightie nourishment to the body in suche manner that children eating of the Coleworte for a time do the speedilyer goe alone The iuyce as they reporte drunke with white wine for â—l days togither cureth both the disease of the Splene and Jaundise as the worthy Paxamus in his husbandly instructions confirmeth In which he reporteth that three partes of the Coleworte with two partes of the rounde Alume steeped in vineger clenseth the foule fourâ—â— and leaprie the same boyled and drunke amendeth the voyce and griefe of the Arteries For whyche cause manye studentes vse desirouslye thys Herbe To vse also the seede and leaues with Sylphium and vineger brused and applyed on the greeued place doth perfitlie cure the byt both of a dog mad and not madde And if it shal happen through a distillation or Reume froÌ„ the head that the Vuula or roufe to bee fallen into the throte the iuyce then of the rawe Coleworte applyed to the head wyll in shorte tyme recouer and staye the same in the proper place a secrete in verye deede worthy to be noted The rawe iuyce of the Coleworte drunke with wine helpeth the bit of a serpent or adder the iuyce with y e meale of Fenigreke and vyneger artely mixed and either annointed or applyed in playster forme doeth effectuously cure the Goute Joynte sicknesses yea filthy and olde vlcers as the worthy Dioscorides writeth The iuyce also snuffed or drawen vp into the nosethrils purgeth verie well the head and conueyed into the secrete place wyth the meale of darnell draweth the reddes or termes downe The iuyce of the leaues annoynted alone or wyth barly meale beaten and myxed doth in shorte time qualifye inflamations and asswage great swellings with salte both breaketh Botches and stayeth the sheading of heare The diseased of the Splene this rawe eaten with vineger doth profite after the boyling mixed with Hony the same greatly preuayleth agaynst eating vlcers and Canker sores The greene stalkes with the rootes burned
of each a like waight to which the oyle of Camomil and Hony in like proportioÌ„ added the same applyed warme to the womans priuie place doth on such wise purge the Matrice y t she may after conceiue with child And in the proper purgings of the women as Plinie reporteth the decoction of the Hearbe in water somuche preuayleth that it draweth forthe the dead yongling The iuyce of the Herbe boyled and ministred looseth the bellye helpeth the Liuer kydneys and stomacke boyled in vineger remoueth the vexing payne of the vryne yea the kings euill applyed with Milke or water and Hony if it be without a Feuer The Cychorie taken with vineger as Discorides reporteth is profitable to the stomacke for that the same in meate aswageth y e heate and infirmities of the same And by it selfe applyed and with barlye meale layed playster wise on the regyon of the heart greatly helpeth in the plague and burning Agues the same is to be vsed to great purpose It also qualifieth Pestilent pushes if the water of y e decoction of y e same be applyed on the places with linnen clothes The floure throwen into a pismyers hyl soone after becommeth as red as bloud Thys Herbe boyled in wine and taken with meate is verye profitable to the stomack in that the same helpeth digestioÌ„ the floures brused with the rootes and applyed in plaister fourme on the Goute doe incoÌ„tynente aswage the paine of the same proceeding of heate This playster applyed on the Shingles doth maruellously â–ª remoue the mightye heate The commended vertues of the distilled water both of the Endyue and Cychorie THe time aptest for the distilling of Endiue is in the end of May the leaues before the distilling plucked from the stemmes and finely shredde The Endiue water drunk vnto y e quantite of two ounces at a time both morning and euening profiteth the straightnes and stopping of the breast in the same maner drunk is auailable to women with childe in that thys both strengthneth them and amendeth senses The Endyue water mixed with the water of Plantein Rose water and the white Sief without Opium of which an oyntement made after arte doth in short time recouer vlcers distempered of a hot matter and especially those hapning on the priuities The sayd water with the iuyce of the Marche Mallowe rootes oyle of Roses and Camomil Saffron barlie meale the yolkes of Egges mixed altogither ouer the fire and applyed in plaister forme is a preseÌ„t remedy both for the Goute of the handes and feete The Endiue water drunke vnto the quantity of foure or fiue ounces at a tyme both morning and euening recouereth the plague repelleth or putteth away the kings euil ceasseth thirst in good quantity drunke aswageth the heate of the Liuer This helpeth the stitch in the side and pricking felte about the heart drunke vnto the quantitie of three or foure ounces at a time both morning euening a lynneÌ„ cloth or bolster of hempe applyed on a hot Liuer qualifieth the heate or in what part of y e body the like hapneth but as the linnen clothes waxe drye euermore to wet them in this water The best time for distilling the Cichorie is in the middle of Maye the herbe roote to be finely shred before the distilling in a tin Limberâ—â— The water of Cychory drunke vnto the quantitie of two ounces at a time both morning and euening and at Noone or taken with drinck in this manner remoueth the heate of the stomacke This drunke in the like maner or applyed with linnen clothes on the region of the Hearte both comforteth and strengthneth the heart and stomacke And as this applied w t linneÌ„ clothes on the Liuer aswageth the heate of it so it openeth the stopping of the same This drunk in the sayd maner preserueth the creature from the plague This like auayleth for carbuncles eyther drunke or applyed with linnen clothes on the places this also often drunke stayeth the rysing of the lungs vnto the throte and stoppeth the perillous flixe Disenteria The water in like quantitie drunke openeth the stopping of the Liuer Mylte this gargelled in the mouth and drunke helpeth the swelling of the Vuula and throte it helpeth also wasted members if those be often bathed with the same and drunk in like condition or applyed with linnen clothes helpeth the bit of a venemous beast The floures after y e gathering in y e morning distilled in Balneo Mariae and orderly applyed serueth vnto dyuerse impediments of the eyes as vnto the vlcers of them the mistynes or dymnesse of sight the Pynne web and spottes in the eyes and vnto many other like griefes What care skil and secretes to be learned in the sowing and workmanly ordering of the Lettuce Chap. 15. THe Garden Lettuce desireth a wel laboured ground fat moyst and dunged appearing for the more part by the fourth daye aboue the Earth so that the Seede in the Earth be not burned of the sun or the ground vnfruiteful The seed may be committed to the earth al the yere through if the place for the growing shal be battle dunged and moyst The seedes may be sowen in beds thicke togither and in the moneth of March or beginning of April in that the tender plantes can not indure the nipping frostes nor colde ayre Those seedes whych the owner bestoweth in beddes in the moneth of September will so be hardned for the winter time that the plantes may well endure to bee remoued and set at any tyme and watred for two or three days togither vnlesse these be otherwise moystned with the dayly and sweete shoures of the ayre And in committing of the seedes to the Earth the owner oughte to haue a care for watering of the beddes leaste the heate consisting in the dung breatheth or casteth the seedes forth of the earth The plantes râ—sen or sprong vppe well foure or fiue leaues aboue the Earth ought then to bee remoued and sette agayne into a fatte grounde a good distaunce one from the other and to water them well at the rootes so that it freese not nor the season bee veryâ— hotte The owner or Gardener maye not remoue to sette agayne the small or common Lettuces but the greate whyche wyll become crisped and thicke named of diuerse the Romayne Lettuce that yeeldeth whyte and farre bigger seedes these if the Gardener bestoweth agayne in Beddes wyll shoote vppe farre fayrer and greater in Touffâ— and in taste pleasaunter if hee especially breake awaye the firste leaues before the setting of them in Beds for as much as the first or outward stalks haue much milke in theÌ„ which wil lightly become bitter through the heate of the Sunne If the owner would possesse fayre and whit Leettuces he ought to bynde the leaues vp togither with a threede well two dayes before the plucking vppe â–ª and setting againe in other Beddes whych so done he must straw thicke ouer with riuer or sea saÌ„d which the worthy Plinie
the coÌ„modities therof Ch. 3. The order in sovving or setting of Arage vvith the phisike helps therof Chap. 4. The sovvyng and remouing of Sperage vvith the phisike helps therof Chap. 5. The ordring sovving of Spinage vvith the phisicke helpes thereof Chap. 6. The ordering and sovving of the Garden Sorrell vvith the phisike helpes of the Sorrell and Pympernell and the vâ—ater distilled therof Chap 7. The ordering and sovving of Louage Buglosse vvith the phisik helps of them both and the vvater therof Chap. 8. The figure of the Fornace named â—alneum Mariae fo 26. The order of sovving remouing setting the Marigold vvith the phisike helps of Marigolds and vvater therof Chap. 9. The ordering and sovving Parsely vvith the phisicke healpes of Parseley and the vvater distilled thereof Chap. 10. The ordering and sovving of Garden and vvilde running Time vvith the phisicke healpes of Time and vvater therof Chap. 11. The ordering and sovving of Mintes and Holihoke vvith the phisicke healpes of the Mintes and Mallovves and vvater thereof Chap. 12. The ordering and sovving of the Artochoke vvith the phisicke healpes thereof Chap 13. The ordering and sovving of Endiue and Succory vvith the phisicke helpes both of them and the vvater thereof Chap. 14. The ordering sovving of Lettuce vvith the phisicke healpes of Lettuce and the vvater therof distilled Chap. 15. The ordering and sovving of Purselane and Rocket vvith the phisicke healpes of them both and of the vvater of Purslaine Chap. 16 The ordering and sovving of Cheruill Smallage Taragon and Cresses vvyth the phisicke helpes of Cheruill and Garden Cresses and the distilled vvaters thereof Chap. 17. The ordring and sovving of Bucks horn Stravvbery and Mustard seede vvith the phisicke helpes of them all and vvater distilled from them Chap. 18. The ordering and sovving of Leekes and Câ—ues vvith the phisicke healpes of the Garden Leeke and vvater thereof Chap. 19. The ordering and sovving of the Onion vvith the phisicke commodities of the Onion and vvater therof Chap. 20. The ordering and sovving of Garlike vvith the phisicke healpes of Garlike and the vvater thereof Chap 21 The inconueniences of Garlike oute of Plinie fo 103 The ordering and sovving of the Scalion and Squill Onion vvith the phisicke healpes thereof Chap. 22. The ordering of Garden Saffron vvith the phisicke healpes thereof Chap. 23. The ordering and sovving of Nauevves vvith the phisicke benefites thereof Chap. 24. The ordering and sovving of the Rape and Turnupe vvith the phisicke helps of the Rape and vvater thereof Ch. 25. The ordering and sovvyng of Radyshe vvith the phisicke benefits of Radishe and the vvater thereof Chap. 26. The ordering and sovving of Parsneps and Carots vvith the phisicke heâ—lpes of them the vvater of Parsnep Ch. 27 The ordering and sovving of the Garden Poppy vvith the phisicke helps of Poppye and the vvater thereof Chap. 28. The ordering and sovving of Cucumber vvith the phisicke commodities thereof Chap. 29. The ordering and sovving of the Gourde vvith the phisicke helpes of the same the vvater thereof Chap. 30. The healpes and secretes of the Pompons Mellons and muske Mellons vvith the phisicke commodities of the Pompones and Mellons and the distilled vvater of Mellons Chap. 31. VVorthy instructions aboute the setting and sovving of sundry phisicke hearbes fragrant hearbes and floures and of the Blessed Thistle vvith the phisicke helps of the Thistle and the vvater thereof Chap. 32. The setting and sovving of the herbe Angelica vvith the phisicke healpes therof Chap. 33. The sovving of the herbe Valerian vvith the phisicke helps of the same and the vvater of the herbe and roote thereof Chap. 34. The bestovving of Bittoâ—â—â— vvith thâ— phisicke commodities of the same anâ— the vertues of the VVater thereof Chaptrer 35. The bestovving of Loâ—age vvith the phisicke helpes and vertues of the vvater thereof Chap. 36. The bestovving of Elecampane vvith the Physicke healpes of the same and the vvater distilled of the hearbe and root thereof Chap. 37. Finis Tabulae ¶ Authours from whome this vvorke is selected PLinie Cicero Columella M. Cato Varronianus Tremelius Varro Florentinus Palladius Rutilius Vergile Didymus Auicen Democritus Dyophanes Hesiodus Affricanus Apuleius D. Niger Theophrastus Anatolius Pamphilus Ruellius Paxanius Beritius Marcus Gatinaria Albertus Philostratus Archibius Galene The Gardeners Labyrinth Contayning the manifolde trauayles great cares and diligence to be yearly bestowed in euery earth for the vse of a Garden with the later inuentions and rare secretes therevnto added as the like not heretofore published The inuention of Gâ—rden plottes by whom first deuised and what commoditie founde by them in time past Chap. 1. THe worthie Plinie in his xix booke reporteth that a Garden plotte in the Auncient time at Rome was none other than a smal simple inclosure of ground whiche through the labour and diligence of the husbandmaÌ„ yeelded a commoditie and yearely reuenew vnto him But after yeares that man more esteemed of himselfe sought an easier life deuised and framed this ground plotte for the minde as for pleasure and delight as may well appeare by that Epicure of whome Cicero maketh mention in his booke intituled De natura Deorum who liuing at ease and conceyuing a felicitie in the Garden indeuoured first to place and frame the same within the walles of Athens whiche before as it should seeme lay open and vndefended in the wyde fielde and the culture of it not had in so much estimation as to place them nighe to theyr townes or houses For whiche cause doth Plinie by good reason rightly attribute the inuention of the delectable Garden to him The Garden plottes whiche the Auncient Romaynes possessed as Plinie reporteth were onely set aboute with trees hauing a dead inclosure made onely of busshesâ— that needed repayring euery yeare in whiche especially were sowen the red Onyons Colewortes great Leekes Cresses great Mallowes or holy Okes Endiue Rocket and sundry sallate Herbes In these they found such a commoditie as maruelously pleased them â–ª seyng they by enioying the hearbes needed no fire about the dressing preparing of them and spared a charge of fleshe besides a dayly profite that they gotte by the herbes and woodde brought to the Citie to be solde The meaner sorte of that tyme so litle cared and esteemed the eating of fleshe who in generall accompted it a kinde of reproche to be knowen to haue eaten fleshe that they refusing this taunt did as to a shambles or fleshe market haunt dayly to the Garden Columella reporteth lib. 10. that the Auncient husbandmeÌ„ so slenderly looked vnto or rather forced of Gardens that they in furthering the groweth and yeelde of theyr fruytes and hearbes bestowed a small trauayle and diligence And as they appeared negligent in their labours of the Garden so were they well pleased with a meane liuing in somuch that the common sorte fedde and liued willingly on grosse and simple herbes But after the age and people were refourmed and brought by the
only made of the lettuce and applied on hot impostumes and the Shingles â–ª doth mightily coole The lettuce sodden and mixed with the oyle Oliue receiued inward by potion doth helpe in shorte tyme the dropsie The iuyce of the Lettuce annoynted on the forhead of him that hath the feuer can not slepe procureth rest slepe to the pacient as y e skilful Florentinus writeth which also affirmeth that a man shal not be ouercome w t drink if he afore eat with a fasting stomack grene lettuce To these he addeth that seedes of the Lettuce brused and drunke â–ª to stay the sheding of Sperm for which cause this is profitably taken or drunk against the night pollutioÌ„s hapning to many yong persons Thys author besides vttereth that the Lettuce layde vnder the couerlet the sick person not knowing therof and gathered after this maner as with the left hande pulled vp by the roote before the Sun rising dothe soone after cause sleepe A lyke to this hee reporteth if fyue three or one leafe be layde priuily vnder the bolster of the sicke but in such maner that the bigger ende of the stalke and leafe lye to the feeteward and the toppe or smaller ende to the head Here learne that the plentifull and dayly eating of the Lettuce of marryed persons is verye incommodious and noysome to them as the Greeke wryters of Husbandrye haue noted in that the same as they write not only doth diminish the fruitfulnesse of childreÌ„ but the children after borne to become idle foolish and peuish persons But the physitions in our time write contrary for they say that Lettuce neither doth increase euil bloud nor the same throughly perfect yet is the Lettuce by their agreemeÌ„t worthier than the other potherbs For the Lettuce is preferred as Galen writeth not without good reson to other herâ—es in y t there is none known or found to be of better norishment This also in the Sommer time as the saide Authour writeth is a gratefull and profitable meate forasmuch as by nature it cooleth This ministred too hotte and Cholericke stomackes is maruelously auailable yet the often vse dulleth the sight of the eies procureth a moistnes yea and abateth the desire of the venereall act This also through the often eating greatly harmeth such fetching the winde short spitting vp of bloud and the fleumatike This herbe besides too ofteÌ„ and much vsed as wel sodden as raw is no lesse perillous than the eating of the Hemlock The Lettuce in the sommer time is vsed rather for Physik sake than for the proper nourishment which it yeldeth as vnto the moystening and cooling yet this seing it may be discerned colde who needeth to doubt that it can ingender in any manner sounde and pure bloud in vs for the substance of it common to vs whiche is both mylkie and sweete and to these meanly digested is for the same readily and lightly chaunged into bloud The Lettuce therfore eaten moderately doth procure in vs good bloud and helpeth many tymes the tertian agewe and the herbe is sayd to loose the belly in that this thorough the proper moysture and coldnes both colleth and tempreth the immoderate heat of the lyuer whiche notwithstanding for the speedy and vehement distribution and carying away of the meate and drinke is many tymes wont to bynde the belly The herbe eaten either rawe or boyled with vineger and Suger doth dissolue the stopping of the milte and lyuer yet eaten rawe in much quantitie is sayd to trouble the sight and both harme the eyes and cause a mistinesse that thickneth and dulleth the visiue spirites and causeth the christalline humor troubled and offendeth the animal spirite through the proper coldnesse consisting in it Many vse the Lettuce before it bee risen into a stalke boyling it in water or broath which likewise the worthy Galen reporteth that he did in his olde age yet not eating the â—ame before the boyling for the hardnesse which he founde to ensue by the eating of it rawe notwithstanding the sayd Galene in yong age vsed the rawe Lettuce to represse the heate of choler in the stomacke but when he came to olde age he vsed to eate the lettuce boyled at supper to procure the sweeter and longer sleepe in the night so that the lettuce boyled and eaten at supper or at the houre of going to bed was to him a singular remedie to cause a quiete sleepe The auncient vsed not to eate the Lettuce at the beginning of supper but at the latter ende the reason of which was that seing the Lettuce as we haue aforesayd is of a cold and moyst nature therefore the eating of the same at the ende of supper and mixed with the other dainties in the stomack it causeth the sooner and sounder sleep in the night and this the readyer represseth the vaporous fumes of heady wine and drunkennesse also it is the sooner maistre and stayed thorough the mightie moistening of the braine The Lettuce seedes brused and mixed wyth the white of an egge and womans â—â—lke applyed in playster forme on the temples of foreheade warme at the going to reste doth maruellouslie procure sleepe A lyke to this dothe the iuice of the Lettuce and womans milke of eche a like quantitie to whyche halfe an ounce of white Popie seede brused and applied warme on the forehead The Seede brused and druncke ceasseth the often imaginations of the venereall acte in sleepe and represseth the desire of the naturall acte The worthy Phisitions in oure time haue deuised a more healthfull way for the eating of rawe Lettuce at Dynners and Suppers in the Sommer tyme by mixing with it vineger oyle Olyue and salte which so prepared ioyning with other meates on the table that the same may stirre vp the feeble appetite caused by great heate and bothe temper the burnyng of bloud and mitigate the heate of the lyuer and hearte notwithstanding the herbe in this maner prepared ought waryly to be vsed seâ—ng the immoderate vse of the herbe as afore vttered doth extinguishe the earneste will to the venereall acte The married persons desiring the procreation of children oughte soberly and measurably feede on the Lettuce but to the Cholericke persons this hearbe is not denyed so that the coldnesse of it with Rocket Cresses â–ª Mintes Maioram and suche like be afore tempered to the apter cooling of their stomackes The commended vertues of the distilled water of Lettuce THe Garden Lettuce gathered aboute the middle of Maye oughte after the finely shredding to be distilled wyth a softe fyre in eyther Balneo Mariae or Tynne Lymbecke This water of the crisped or Garden Lettuce druncke to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time bothe morning and euening profiteth the Lyuer in that by nature it cooleth and comforteth the same and cooleth the bloud inflamed The water in like manner drunke stayeth the perillous Flixe Disenteria and other vehemente Flixes of the bellie this amendeth the trembling of mâ—mbers and healpeth those
vp into a round stemme To these I adde that the Onions plucked out of the ground and lying vpon the Earth or hanged vp in ropes do continue longer sounde in the ayre but if we may creedit Aristotle in the sōmer Solstice these as the Penny royal many other Herbes do at the same time flourish which may be as if they were of a doubtful life that one whyle takyng nourishment out of the Earth and an other whyles from the ayre But the Onyons lightly budde and shoote out not being in the earth and sende forth fayre greene blades by occasion of the moysture in the hrades but after the stemme shall bee full shotte out the heades wyther To whiche Plinie wrote that the Nuttes bee contrarie in that these do abate the strong sauour of the Onyon I read that many skilfull Gardeners vsed to sowe the Onyons and Garlike neare to Garlande floures but especially the Rose to procure them to yeelde a sweter sauoure and the same done by the counsel of the Auntient and the worthy Plinie which in my opinion deserueth to be followed Truely this one thing is gretly to be maruelled at that the Onyon alone of all other Hearbes as Plutarch writeth receyueth no damage of the Moone and hath contrary vertues of encreasing and diminishing to hir for the Oniō becommeth grene and buddeth forthe in the wane or laste quarter of the Moone contrariwise she encreasing of Light the Onion then withereth and rotteth For which cause y e Egiptian Priestes in time past refused the Onion in their Religious meates where otherwyse fruites Hearbes Trees and Beastes receyue a domage or diminishing and increasing through the occasion of thys starre so that the Onyon onlye obeyeth vnto the contrarie turnes of the Moone whose preseruing vnto wynter tyme Columella prepared after thys manner hee chose the Onyon or Sealiones that are all alyke whyche be not budded forth or that greene blades appeared and these dryed afore in the hotte sunne after which cooled agayne in the shadowe by strewing vpon Tyme or Sauorie he thē laied thē by courses w t either of these strawed betwene in an Earthen potte and by pouring the Licoure vpon which was iii. parts of vineger and one of Bryne he strewed then a good handfull of Sauery in such maner that the Onions were couched or pressed vnder the Licoure which when they had drunke vppe the Licour and seemed to lye drye hee poured vppon and fylled the vessell wyth the like mixture and in an apte place set the pot to preserue them to vse This one thing I will not omitte althoughe the same maye seeme childish in that it is noted by the learned man Cato who writeth that the letters drawen and written with the Iuice of the Onion are inuisible whyche then shewe and appeare euidentlye when the paper shall be heated at the fire To conclude the Onions set in the middle of Auguste in a red earth doe yeelde the yeare following their high stemmes and seede but the worser will those be which are bestowed in the earth to serue greene in the Lent time The phisicke commodities of the Onion ALthoughe the worthye Greeke Hippocrates more commended the sighte than the eating of the Onion saying that the same in sighte to be good and in body euill forasmuche as it is hotte and burning yet I purpose here to entreate somwhat of the phisicke benefits of the Onion and of these parte faithfully gathered out of the Greeke and parte out of the Latin writers aswell phisitions as cunning and moste diligent searchers of husbandly secrets The onion hath the propertie of heating in the fourth degree and of a grosser substance as Galen witnesseth The Greeke Sotion both husbandman and phisition is Authoure that if any shal daily eat the tender Onion fasting with Hony it shal maintaine the continuaunce of health The saide authoure reporteth besides that the same recouereth and cureth vlcers to these that it remoueth the foule spots on the body beeing diligently rubbed with it in the Sunne and to profit the eares running by dropping the Juice into them The same annointed helpeth the swellings in the throat and these rosted vnder hot embers eaten with Oyle doe healpe the cough The Onion after the rosting eaten wyth honye dothe remoue the griefe of an euill stomacke the Onyon eaten rawe harmeth the members in that it too muche drieth the moisture of the bodye the Onion also eaten rawe procureth a rough throate and swelleth the stomacke the Onion notwithstanding applyed with vineger on Piles dothe in shorte time open them the Juice of the Onion is profitably annointed with hony for the clearing of the eyes and bothe remoueth the Pinne and Webbes and amendeth the bloude shotten eyes the Juice annointed on a balde place recouereth the heates shed away There be which affirme that the greene Onion applyed with Uineger doth helpe the bitte of a madde dog within three days but I rather suppose that the Juice added with Rue Salte and Honye and after the beating togither workemanly applyed to performe the same The often eating of the Onion harmeth the Cholericke by procuring them hotter and dryer in stomacke but thys is to great purpose vnto the flewmaticke in that it cutteth asunder and consumeth the superfluous humoures in them The Onion rosted in embers applied with barly meale doth stay the dropping of the eyes and helpe the vlcers of the Priuities the Juice besides dropped with womans milke into the eares is saide to amende the pain noise of the eares Whiche also many haue giuen to persons sodainly swollen by the drinking of water and they haue prosperously gyuen the Onion to suche as are molested wyth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria and these applied haue maruellouslye profited the griefes of the Loynes and the Juice of them with the Juice of Fennell expelleth and helpeth the water beginning betweene the fleshe and skinne which togither with the Rue and Hony recouereth the downe righte slumbering and sleeping and with reasyns or figs applied on impostums both ripeneth and speedely openeth them The Onions after the rosting vnder hotte embers eaten both morning and euening not only helpe the paines of the breaste but cause an easy spitting vp of grosse humoures and purge the stomacke the Onion after the mixing with hony and salte applied on wartes doth make them speedely fall off euen by the rootes If the Onions be often vsed through theyr sharpenesse they ingender in the stomacke euill humoures procure thyrste swellyngs and windinesse ▪ yea cause headache and to become foolishe throughe the fumositie of them ascending to the heade and harme the Braine for whyche cause the daily and too often vsing hinder reason and procure terrible dreames if so be a weake person newly crepte out of sickenesse shall much eate of them but especially rawe in that these giue no nourishement to the body I adde out of Galen that if the Onyons shal be twice sodden eache water separated and in
of greene Parsely blades The commodiouser apter time for gathering of the Garlike heads is in the decrease or wane of the Moone the daye beyng drye and faire when the blades be withered that they leaue or hang downe Many of the aunciente writers of husbandry vtter that the Garlike heades will endure a long time and be to better purpose afterwâ—â—des if they bee eyther hidde in chaffe or after the tying togither hanged vp in thesmoke There bee others whiche after the infusion of the heades a while in warme salte water and letting them drye doe likewise hide them in the chaffe But the heads handled after either manner doe for the more part remaine barraine or prosper not after the bestowyng in the earth To others it was sufficient to haue dried them ouer the heate of the fyre that they mighte after growe The learned Plinie vttereth that those heades of Garlike bee of a sowrer tast whiche possesse the more cloues round aboute and he addeth that no more loathsomnesse or strongnesse of sauour doth consist in them after the seething than in the Onion like ordered Nor hee omitteth not that the Garlike heades afore eaten to be in steed of the white Neeswort for the Pioners if they minde to auoide escape the hazard of deathe There is another wild Garlike which the Greekes name Ophioscoridon in english Ramsies growing of the own accorde in the fallowe fieldes through whiche the Kines milke by feeding on the greene blades is caused to sauoure of the Garlike yea the chese made of the same milke doeth sender in the eating the like rancknesse of sauour The husbandmen name this both the wild and serpentine Garlyke This Garlike on suche wise boyled that it may not growe againe and bestowed on beddes doth greatly auaile against the harme of birds to Seedes as afore is uttered in my first part there writing that the same of Plinie is named Alum But here commeth to minde a maruellous matter not to be ouerpassed whiche is that neither the Weasell nor Squirrell will after the tastyng Garlike presume to bite anye fowles by whiche practise Pullets and other soules in the night bryng sprinkled ouer wyth the lycoure of the Garlike maye bee defended from harme of eyther of these There is yet a matter more worthy the remembrance and the same farre maruelouser which Volateranus vttereth that in his tyme hapned a husbandeman to sleepe open mouthed in the field by a hey cocke caste vp in the Haruest tyme which when he had unwittily suffered an Adder to creepe into his body wyth the eating incontinente of Garlike heads was as by a certain preparation against poison deliuered yet the venome death of y e adder consisting or remaining within the body distilled shed forth in the coeating a matter to be marueled at of y e wise But this also is maruellous in the Garlike that if it be boiled wyth a salte lycoure the same dothe effectuouslye destroye the mites or little wormes in either peason or beanes so that the walles and floores of the barnes be wet with this mixture Here also I thought not to ouerpasse the maruellous discorde of the Adamant stone and Garlike whiche the Greekes name to bee an Antipathia or naturall contrarietie betweene them for suche is the hatred or contrarietie betweene these twoo bodies lacking bothe hearyng and feeling that the Adamante rather putteth awaye than draweth to it Iron if the same afore be rubbed with Garlike as Plutarchus hathe noted and after hym Claudius Ptolemaeus Whiche matter examined by dyuerse learned and founde the contrary caused them to iudge that those skilfull men especially Ptâ—lomie mente the same to be done with the Egiptian Garlike Which Dioscorides wrote to be small Garlike and the same sweete in taste possessing a bewtiful head tending vnto a purple colour Ther be which attribute the same to Ophioscerido whiche Antonius Microphonius Biturix a singular lerned man and wel practised in sundry skils vttered this approued secrete to a friend whom he loued And the same as last shal here be placed that diuerse Garlike heades hanged on the braunches of trees do driue far off birdes from the spoyling of fruites as the like Democritus noted in the Greeke instructions of husbandry That bigge Garlike named of certaine skilful Authours the Affrica Garlike is of far bigger increase than the Garden Garlike with vs. Whiche the worthye Greeke Sotion Columella and Rutilius instructe that the cloues to bee broken from the heade and bestowed in a white ground well laboured and dressed without any dung and set in high ridges of beds to the ende y â— natural moisture of the earth nor shoures falling may offende The tyme commended for setting of the cloues is in the moneths of January Februarye and Marche but some will to bestowe them in the Earthe from the beginnyng of October vnto the ende of Nouember well a hande breadth asunder and vnto the middle ioyntes or rather a finger deepe in the Earth whyche growen vppe to some heigth to be often weeded aboute and the Earth diligently raked wherby the plantes may the better prosper These further growen vp the skilfull teache to tye the toppes of the blades by two and two togither which done to treade the blades down with the foote that the iuyce by the same meanes may run to the roote to increase the heades bigger The other instructions neede fully to be learned may the owner coÌ„ceyue by the former taught of the garden Garlike which for the Physik benefits deserueth a place in euery grounde especially in the husbandmans Garden The Phisicke helpes and commodities of the Garlike THe learned Plinie seemeth to me not to haue vnaduisedly written that the Garlike doth serue vnto many vses in Phisik to the husbandman especially is profitable for which cause of sundry it is rightly named the husbandmans Triacle This according to the agreement of the skilfull heateth and drieth in the fourthe degree the Onion Garlike and Leeke as the skilfull Argineta witnesseth in his first booke indued with a soure vertue doth heate the body extenuate and cutte the groste humoures in the same yet the Cholerik ought to beware that they do not too often eate the Garlike especiallye in the Sommer tyme and hotte seasons for at suche tymes the Garlike inflameth and dryeth the body and encreaseth bothe the red and aduste Choller The worthy Greeke Sotion principall of the writers of husbandry vttereth that the Garlik eaten with meat or hanged against the region of the stomacke doth expel worms in y e bodye applied in plaster forme preuaileth against the bit of either snake or adder The heads burned mixed with hony and the same applied doth remoue the black and blewe spottes and cause a faire colour The Garlike eaten putteth away the inward swelling of the body softneth and openeth impostumes and draweth forth matter being afore sodden and applyed thereon If the heade be annoynted with the iuyce of Garlike it
dissipating consumyng and attracting and is of qualitye drying by substance The heade bounde aboute with the powder of this herbe made sufficiently hot amendeth a colde reume the hearbe after the boyling in wine drunke and a good quantitie of it after the stieping in wine and oile for ten days boyled so long vntill the wine bee wasted and after the harde wringing forth of the herbe the whole sette ouer the fire and a little waxe put to it in making therof a plaister which applied amendeth the paine of the stomacke proceeding of winde or throughe colde the strangurye and stoppyng of the vrine and bothe the Collike and Iliacke passion This Carote boyled in wine wyth a quantitie of figs to discretion and the same drunke fasting remoueth a dry cough the decoctiō drunke dothe likewise helpe the harde fetching of breath If the head be washed with the water or lye in which the hearbe afore is sodden doth remoue the fluxe of the heade proceeding of a colde cause If three handfulls of this hearbe be boyled in wine to whiche oyle added in the boyling and applied to the bellye doth remoue winde and beate the stomacke if a Sirrope be made of the hearbe and floures and the Juice of Fennell and the same drunke morning and euenyng amendeth without doubt the stopping of the liuer and milte The hearbe boyled with Mallowes and hearbe Mercurye bothe in wine and water and the same after the boyling applied on the nauell amendeth the vexings and gripings of the belly The vertues and helpes of the distilled water of the Parsenep THe herbe with the roote finely shred oughte to be distilled about the ende of Marche in a Tin Limbecke with a softe fyre This distilled water drunke morning and euening vnto the quantitie of three ounces at a time and the trembling members bathed wyth the same doth in shorte time amende the shakyng of them If the water euery euening at the going to bed be drunke vnto the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time doth not only moue forwarde the veneriall acte but encreaseth Sperme This water drunk vnto the quantitie of foure ounces at a time both Mornyng and Euening recouereth in shorte time the straightnesse or painfulnesse in the making of water The diligence and skill to be vsed both in sowing and ordering of the Garden Poppie Chap. 28. THe Garden Poppy after the minde of the Neapolitane Rutilius oughte to be committed to the earthe ' in the moneth of September if it bee in a hotte and drye place but the Seedes in colder and more temperate places may be bestowed after the middle of February vnto the ende of Aprill and sowen in beddes among the Colewortes The plantes come the better forwarde if so be vine braunches or other boughes of trees be burned in the places where you after mind to bestowe the Seedes To be briefe the seedes of the Poppy and Dyll require the like order and diligence in the bestowing in the earth as afore vttered of the herbe Cheruill and Arache The phisicke benefits of the Garden Poppie THe white Poppy as al y e other kindes cooleth in the fourth degree and the seedes full ripe before the gathering in the Sommer tyme may be preserued for fiue yeares The grene heads of the garden Poppy boyled vnto the thicknesse of Hony profit vnto many griefes thys receyued procureth sounde sleepe remoueth the cough it also stayeth the fluxe of the bellye if any annointeth the belly with it The Poppie Seede after the bringing to pouder mixed with newe milke or brothe and giuen to children to drinke warme procureth them to sleepe The seedes brused and spred on a toste of Butter doe cause children to sleepe the seedes confected with Suger and eaten doe maruellously preuaile in procuryng the weake patiente to sleepe soundly The Sirrupe of Poppy helpeth the reume cough and lacke of sleepe by preparing it after this maner Take of the newe heades both of the white black Poppy one pounde of raine water foure pints boyle these so long togither vntil a pinte and a halfe remaine to whiche after the straining adde of Suger and y e Pennites of eche six ounces these boile vnto a heigth according to art and this they name the simple Sirrope The compound is made after this manner take of the freshe heads both of the white and blacke poppy twelue ounces of maiden hear two ounces of licourice fine drammes of tuiubae thirty in number of lettuce seedes fiue ounces of the Mallowes and Ouince seedes an ounce and a halfe these after the boyling in foure pintes of water vnto two straine throughe a cloth to which adde of Sugar and the Prunits one pounde making thereof a Sirrope according to arte for this recouereth a drye coughe the consumption of the Lungs the Reume and debilitie of sleeping A plaister made of either seede to whyche womans milke and the white of an egge added this applied on the Temples procureth sleepe The Seede or Herbe of the white Poppy after the tempering with the oyle of Roses applyed on an vlcer caused throughe a bruse draweth foorthe the heate in it and the same applyed on a hotte Liuer greatly profiteth The pouder of the white Poppy Seedes mixed with oyle oliue and annointed on the chine of the backe remoueth the griefe of the Joyntes and strengthneth them the seedes after the brusing with oyle Oliue applyed in plaister forme aboute the heade not only procureth reste but sounde sleepe The patiente which cannot sleepe may bruse certaine beades and after the heating presse forth the Juice with whiche washing the face like auaileth The heades of the greeue Poppy boyled vnto a thicknesse of bony profite vnto many causes for this taken procureth sleepe remoueth the cough stayeth the fluxe of the belly if any annointe hym with the same The Juice of Poppy mixed with the oile of Roses and annointyng the feete therewyth remoueth the rage of the Goute the seedes of the white Poppy brought to ponder and mixed with the oyle of Violets and the chine of the backe annoynted with the same profiteth againste the Ague and heate of the Liuer The commended vertues of the distilled water of the white Poppy THe aptest time for the distilling of the white Poppye is in the beginning of June and that the hearbe finely shred bee distilled in a Tinne Limbecke with a softe fyre This water profiteth againste the red spottes of the face if the same be washed with it twice a day this procureth white handes if they be washed with it The distilled water druncke vnto the quantitie of foure ounces at a time before the going to bed and anointing the Temples or beating veyns of the Wrests doth not only procure quiet rest but sound slepe this also vsed mitigateth the paine of the heade proceding of heate This water applied with linnen clothes wet in it extinguisheth any heate and profiteth a burnt skinne through the Sun in remouing the heate by the often applying of linnen clothes wette