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e clan)’ may would haue thicke and tough humours which are gathered in the chef? and lungs to ii is titnfed aigd voided out by coughing,then that C uckow-pint is bell: that biteth molt;

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ng fodden in two or three-waters,and frefh put to, whereby it may loofe his acri- B purpofe being fo eaten, they cut thicke humours meanely, but Dragcins is better for the fame % M Diofcarides J i elflley be drifhew “ﬁg laied 13 they ucL

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eares after they haue lien in their dens forty daies without any manner of fuﬂenan.ce,but what D recelue

eth,that the leaues alfo are ‘re ferued to be eatemand that they mult be eaten all ed and boiled ; and writeth alfo,that the root hath a peculiar vertue againit the gout, On ﬁamped with Cowes dung.

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get with licking and fucking their owne feet, doe as foone as they come forth ear the hgrbg Ii °l0_fe tog

E int, through the windie nature thereof the hungry gut is opened and made ﬁt againe to 11 enance : for by ab liaining from food {'0 long a time, the ut is fhrunke or drawne {o The mag

g . ethefstliat in a manner it is quite {hut vp,as Arifio/e,./ﬁlianus,Plutaro/a,Plmy,and others do hands 0? th

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gh and rugged, and withall fmarting.

pure and white French is made of the roots of Cuckow-pint -, but molt hurtfull to the E €Laundte{le that hath the handling of it, for it choppeth, bliltereth, and maketh the \

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, 4 \' C H A p. 305; Ofﬁrierr Cowley or bonded Caclqiwpint.

I flfi/2zrum,larzﬁ2lium. V 2 airzﬂzmm arrgaﬂiﬁaliam. Bmadleaued Friers Cowle.- Narrow leafed Fricrs Cowle. , qr The glare? _ [hadowic 9 Cockow pint groweth in woods neere vnto ditches vnder hedges , euery where III ’

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_ tli » h i A _ _ tenthe peﬂell fheweth it felfe out of his huske 0‘ me’- in Iune,whilePt the leaues are in withering: and when they are gone,the bunch or clullcr ecommeth ripe,which is in luly and Augull.

ofbcrfle‘ qr ‘Tbe Names. . 3 and Thercgroweth in /Egypta kinde of Aron or Cuckow pint which is found alfo in Afﬂcghofe lilcew‘il‘e'iii‘certair‘_i'e"places of Portingale neere vnto riuers and llreames, that differeth from OHM ’ofou"f qéiilntties “ (owing, which the people Of Caliile call (J1/{mm dc mzeﬂm [rfmnra : moi’! “gr the have hit IO 56 called Calm:/i4»,but Diofcarides faith that Colocafia is the root of F454 -/53 71” ’ ‘."b C the Beane of Egypt; j 1, _ Faéim Column» (in the place‘ formerly alledged) prooues this not P0. true Calabhﬁagand ye_t‘l?nof]:er Valpirzw line: in his fecond booke a’epi?mzz's exaticigcap. r 7.811 hours to prooue Eh'e‘.cTo_ntrary : let the curious haue recoutfe to thefe, for it is to tedious .0 this place to in.ﬁff.iflvp[on it,‘be'i;_;g all the late VV1'1f€T5- 15 ' id

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d I3-1?‘ f rm‘?! fo large a point of controuerlie, which hath fo_ much .“°_‘lb V V .. .. _ - a— The common Cuclcow pint is called in Latine, Arum : in Greeke,-ism in ﬂlOpS'Id7'Ido',a[ld Bgfdc L/1,0,’, _. ofothers, RE: wtuli of.the_Syrians, Lupba .- of the men of Cyprus, Colaci-z]iA,.35 Wee dilfg. among the ballard names. Plzay in his 24. bool<e,r 6.chapter,doth witnelfe, that there is gmgg fame rence betweene t/1 fan and Drac_ammm,although there hath been forne t:o‘ntrol1er lie about t wt 3 in among the old Writers, alhrming them to be all one :in high I_f)utch it 15 called, affengngmh, Italian, Gzgora : in Sllamﬂla 15179 91“ 10W I?l;)t_Ch. <Il_2alf51l0tt:1uFrencb, Piedd’rueo1tl -' gum?-‘C ,r,r:.. Cuckow pint, and Cuckow pintle, wake 0 in,Prie{is pintle,Aron,Calfes foot,and a . _ g V qr Th Dej,m,1m.m° of fame Starcliwort. I . V a ‘ t - 113' I5: Temperature. r _ Blioad leaned 121-[as The faculties ofhcuckow pint doe differ according to the varietie of COl1'n_t'rle‘$ : d .h - ‘V by h hereof‘, as Gate» in his booke of the faculties of nourifhments doth aflirme, is_,fl_’1=jE‘P‘‘~‘‘_ 3“ ' ting in fome countries than in others, almolt as much as Dragons, contrariwile in CY‘ V_A»fricl:e,it is generally in all places hot grid dry,at the lealt in the third glegﬁi‘?-_

_ hood hatha leafe like Ivie,broad and fhatpc pointedibunp fa‘? léfre ape’ PFOC mg neere to the forme of thofe of Cuckow int‘: the liallte thereof is {mall and

the chm“ ‘sign er :‘ the huske or hole is little 3 the peﬁell f mall, and Of 3 biacke putplifh‘ colour ’;

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en it is ripe is redde 5 the kernels fmall ; the root white, hauingthe forrne of Aron 01' hut leffer, whereof doubtlelfe it is a kinde.— V 9 t. _ _. , __ _ Aaaa 2

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