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”"""”‘c1 The Nutmeg is good agaili freckles in the face, quickneth the light, firengthens thebell)’ :3“ _ feeble liuer,tal<;eth away the fwelling in the fpleenfiayeth the laske,breal<eth wind,and 15 S00 a gainft all cold difeafes in the body.

C Nutmegs bruifed and boiled in Aqua vitae vntill they haue waited and confumed the m°m“’°’

adding therennto hony o£Rofes,gent1y boiling them,being_flrained to the form of a fyrfl{Pa 95“: all pains proceeding of windy and cold caufespf three fpoonfulls be giuen falling for certain dale together. ’ '

D . The fame bruifed and boiled in firong white Wine vntill three parts he fodden away,with ‘he

roots of Motherwort added thereto in the boiling_,and {lrained,being drunke with fome fu5‘"’c"' reth all gripings in the belly proceeding ofwindinelfe.

E As touching the choice,there is not any {o fimple but knoweth that the heauiefhfatteft and ful-j

lei’: of juice are belhwhich may eafily be found out by pricking the fame.

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T Here he diuers forts of Pepper, thatiism fay,white, blacke, and long Pepper, one g longer than the other sand alfo a kinde of Ethiopian Pepper. -

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brambles,where it naturally groweth ; but where it is manured it is fowne 8 we

tom of the tree Faufel and the Date trees,whereon- it taketh hold and clY‘”bctb vpother vnto the top, as doth the Vine, ramping and taking hold with his claf ping tel1dfCl§ 9. 3”’ ‘hing

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2 The 1am thatbfin 5 white Pe pet is not tobe difirngutfbed from the other plant, but only by the C012.“ Ofthg fruigno more thlhna Vine that beareth blacke grapes,from that which brings lte ; and offome it is thotighgthat the felfe fame plant doth fomtimes change tliifelf from black ‘°White,asdiuers other plants doe. 3“. Neither Clfifiw s“0Y any other elle that Ihat_1€ Ye.‘ W?‘ W"hi

‘me deliuered vs any thing Qfcertaine, 05 the Plan‘ Whfimofl W hire PCP?“ gl°Wes»5 Clflfiw may ath given vs the maner how it growes vpon the Ftalks,as you may fee it here ¢XP"e&- 15 d P, , _. There is alfo another kind ofPepper,feldome brought. into thele parts ofEUY.°P.°> °d“"t°_ .h ‘fer.

tfimdrittm : it is hollow wit11in,light,and empty. but good coedraw ricame f‘°'“ ‘h°h€“ ° ° ° Pe 9 tooth-ache and cholericke affetits. - y . _ , , e a -

. 3 The tree that beareth long pepper hath no iimilitude at all with the P1?” ‘hilt b“{‘3g5 black

and White Pep er - fome haue deemed them to grow all on one 1166; which ‘5 not con Onam ‘° lmth : for the P row in countries far difiant one from another, and, alfo that cqufltréy whit” thew

‘3 blacke Pepyegr hath not an of the long P5PPe‘- And thgrefme .641” f°“‘.’W‘.“g DZ0fi°”"'“’were

mgether bothpoderfeene in this point. This t'ree,faith 2‘/’”’_"m'5””§ n'Otkgr%a}t1’y€;'it 0? Vgooddy fut?’

fanceidifperfing here and there his clafping ffindffilsa Whelewllh Ea e.t .01 _ Q‘ Qt e_r tree? T3 h

“C Other things as do grow neere vnto it. The branches are maflyand ‘W1%gY5Wh’~‘“?°” g’.°""“ .

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