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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57041	The third book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick containing the heroick deeds of Pantagruel the son of Gargantua / now faithfully translated into English by the unimitable pen of Sir Thomas Urwhart.; Pantagruel. English. 1693	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1693 (1693)	Wing R110; ESTC R26911	173,631	446

the very same which is told us of the recreation of the three fatal Sister Parques or of the nocturnal Exercise of the noble Circe or yet of the Excuse which Penelope made to her fond wooing Youngsters and effeminate Courtiers during the long Absence of her Husband Ulysses By these means is this Herb put into a way to display its inestimable Vertues whereof I will discover a part for to relate all is a thing impossible to do I have already interpreted and exposed before you the Denomination thereof I find that Plants have their Names given and bestowed upon them after several ways Some got the Name of him who first found them out knew them sowed them improved them by Culture qualified them to a tractability and appropriated them to the uses and subse●viences they were fit for As the Mercuriale from Mercury Panacee from Panace the Daughter of Esculapius in Armois from Artemis who is Diana Eupatorie from the King Eupator Telephion from Telephus Euphorbium from Euphorbus King Iuba's Physician Clymenos from Clymenus Alchibiadium from Alcibiades Gentiane from Gentius King of Sclavonia and so forth through a great many other Herbs or Plants Truly in ancient Times this Prerogative of imposing the Inventors Name upon an Herb found out by him was held in a so great account and estimation that as a Controversie arose betwixt Neptune and Pallas from which of them two that Land should receive its Denomination which had been equally found out by them both together though thereafter it was called and had the Apellation of Athens from Athene which is Minerva Just so would Lynceus King of Scythia have treacherously slain the young Triptolemus whom Ceres had sent to shew unto Mankind the Invention of Corn which until then had been utterly unknown to the end that after the murther of the Messenger whose Death he made account to have kept secret he might by imposing with the less suspicion of false dealing his own Name upon the said found out Seed acquire unto himself an immortal Honour and Glory for having been the Inventor of a Grain so profitable and necessary to and for the use of Humane Life For the wickedness of which Treasonable Attempt he was by Ceres transformed into that wild Beast which by some is called a Lynx and by others an Oince Such also was the Ambition of others upon the like occasion as appeareth by that very sharp Wars and of a long continuance have been made of old betwixt some Residentary Kings in Capadocia upon this only Debate of whose Name a certain Herb should have the Appellation by reason of which difference so troublesom and expensive to them all it was by them called Polemonion and by us for the same Cause termed Make-bate Other Herbs and Plants there are which retain the Names of the Countries from whence they were transported As the Median Apples from Media where they first grew Punick Apples from Punicia that is to say Carthage Ligusticum which we call Louage from Liguria the Coast of Genoua Rubarb from a Flood in Barbary as Ammianus attesteth called Ru Sautonica from a Region of that Name Fenugreek from Greece Gastanes from a Country so called Persicarie from Persia Sabine from a Territory of that Appellation Staechas from the Staechad Islands Spica Celtica from the Land of the Celtick Gauls and so throughout a great many other which were tedious to enumerate Some others again have obtained their Denominations by way of Antiphrasis or Contrariety as Absinth because it is contrary to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it is bitter to the taste in drinking Holosteon as if it were all Bones whilst on the contrary there is no frailer tenderer nor britler Herb in the whole Production of Nature than it There are some other sorts of Herbs which have got their Names from their Vertues and Operatious as Aristolochie because it helpeth Women in Child-birth Lichen for that it cureth the Disease of that name Mallow because it mollifieth Callithricum because it maketh the Hair of a bright Colour Alyssum Ephemerum Bechium Nasturtium Aneban and so forth through many more Other some there are which have obtained their Names from the admirable Qualities that are found to be in them as Heliotropium which is the Marigold because it followeth the Sun so that at the Sun rising it displayeth and spreads it self out at his ascending it mounteth at his declining it waineth and when he is set it is close shut Adianton because although it grow near unto watry places and albeit you should let it lie in Water a long time it will nevertheless retain no Moisture nor Humidity Hierachia Eringium and so throughout a great many more There are also a great many Herbs and Plants which have retained the very same Names of the Men and Women who have been metamorphosed and transformed in them as from Daphne the Lawrel is called also Daphne Myrrhe from Myrrha the Daughter of Cinarus Pythis from Pythis Cinara which is the Artichock from one of that name Narcissus with Saffran Similax and divers others Many Herbs likewise have got their Names of those things which they seem to have some Resemblance as Hippuris because it hath the likeness of a Horse's Tail Alopecuris because it representeth in similitude the Tail of a Fox Psyllion from a Flea which it resembleth Delphinium for that it is like a Dolphin Fish Buglosse is so called because it is an Herb like an Oxes Tongue Iris so called because in its Flowers it hath some resemblance of the Rain-bow Myosata because it is like the Ear of a Mouse Coronopus for that it is of the likeness of a Crows Foot A great many other such there are which here to recite were needless Furthermore as there are Herbs and Plants which have had their Names from those of Men so by a reciprocal Denomination have the Surnames of many Families taken their Origin from them as the Fabii à fabis Beans the Pisons à pisis Pease the Lentuli from Lentils the Cicerons à Ciceribus vel Ciceris a sort of Pulse called Cichepeason and so forth In some Plants and Herbs the resemblance or likeness hath been taken from a higher Mark or Object as when we say Venus Navil Venus Hair Venus Tub Iupiter's Beard Iupiter's Eye Mars's Blood the Hermodactyl or Mercury's Fingers which are all of them Names of Herbs as there are a great many more of the like Appellation Others again have received their Denomination from their Forms such as the Trefoil because it is three-leaved Pentaphylon for having five Leaves Serpolet because it creepeth along the ground Helixine Petast Myrobalon which the Arabians call Been as if you would say an Ackorne for it hath a kind of resemblance thereto and withal is very oily CHAP. LI. Why is it called Pantagruelion and of the admirable Vertues thereof BY such like means of attaining to a Denomination the fabulous ways being only from thence excepted for the Lord forbid that we