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great IOOQCLICD as Nature hi’: to beﬁow vpon it,as to other plants. But the idle drones that ball“ little or nothing to do but eate and drinke, haue bellowed fome of their time in caruing the F00“ of Brionie,forming them to the (hape of men and wotnenzwhich falfifying praélife hath conﬁrm‘ the errour amongli the {imple and vnlearned people, who haue taken them vpon their report I0 5 the true Mandrakes.

The female Mandrake is like vnto the inale,fauin g that the leaues hereof be of a more Graft“

darke greene colour: and the fruit is long like a peare,and the other like an apple.

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The male and female Mandrake. Mandrake growth in hot Regions, in

woods and mounta}nes,as in mount G235: nus in Apulia,and« uch like places;w€ 5“ them onely planted in gardens,and are “O elfewhere to be found in England. 17 The Time. .n They f ring vp with their leau€5‘ March, an ﬂoure in the end of Aprill 1‘ C fruit isripe in Augulic. X , . Q} Tlze Names. ‘ _ HS V Mandrake is called of the Grecl? . :g1z/§Z—£_/7’’ar,Iei-= * , e . - . at .72’ 1 ‘ r p MuJ‘6"}°.Pr-‘s = of diuers, twin. and Czrcadaoflgtfe: ' / r I 3 ; Ehe wiktlchflugho by aﬁt COLII1ld proculre R00‘ ’ ' ‘ or it at eene t oug t t at t re hereof ferueth to win loue : of fome, -'}"P"“"' ulntbrapomorplior and Marion : fome 0, ‘ Latines haue calle,d it T crm malzmz,and 77” rr_/ire malum, and Ctmimz malw .- ShOP5)a‘I1(e alfo other Nations doe receiue the GI“ . name. Diofcar‘i'a'cr- faith, That the mall‘? called ofdiuers Marion.-and defcribeth 9? another Mandrake by the name of M107’? g which, as much as can be gathered b)_' ‘ ll de1"c_ription,is like the male, but leﬂ'e 10 “W partsun Englifh we call it Mandrake, M“ drage,and Maridragori.

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11 The T cmperature. V , Mandrakehath a predominate cold facultie,as Galen {aith,that is to fay,cold in the third deg"" but the root is cold in the fourth degree. , . I by at The Vertuer. . 6 Diafrorider doth particularly fer downe many faculties hereof ; of which notwithlianding that be none proper vnto it,fauing«thofe that depend Vpou the drowﬁc and ﬂecpie power thcreofw qualitie corifiﬁeth more in the root than in any other part. d 13 The Apples are milder,and are reported that they may be eaten, being boyled with peppeﬁn other hot efpices. _ of C Galen faith that the Apples are fomething cold and moiﬁ, and that the barke of the root” greater‘: ﬁzrength, and doth not onely coole,but alfo dry.

D The juice of the leaues is very proﬁtably put into the ointment called Popalron, and all 600mg V

ointments. we _ E The j uyce drawne forth of the roots dried,and taken in (‘mall quantitie, purrreth the belly 53556 dingly from ﬂegme and melaricholike humors.. 0 ll‘ 13 “ It is good to be put into medicines and collyries that doe mitigate the paine of the eiesgandp vp as a peffarie it draweth forth the dead childe and fecondine. “C; G The greene leaues ftamped with b31‘1'0W€5 8”"-‘are and barley meale, coole all hot ﬁirelliﬂggzp. ‘ jnﬂammationss and they haue vertue to confume apoliumes and hot vlcers, being brui fed an plied thereon. _ A _ H A fuppoﬁtorie made with the fame ;uyce,and put into the fundament caufeth ﬂee pe. me,‘ The wine wherein the root hath been boyled or infufed prouoketh fleepe and affwagerll Y’? Y if T The {men or the Apples rnoueth to ﬂeepe likewife 5 but the juice worketh more erfeﬂtiﬂ‘

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_W_»_M . Ftrange eff-':€ts are fuppofed tobee in Mandiakes, to caufe women to be fruitfiill and l—dT€}l}lt.f they {hall but carry the fame neere to their bodies. Some do from hence groiind Ema vb 1:-I_R;i . 5. dehred to haue her ﬁﬁers M-andrakes (as the text is tratiﬂated) but if we look well IOu~U§\LEC1lrt:L1n3ﬁC3ll(ECS which there we {hall ﬁnde, we may rather deem it otherwife. Yong mm W‘ s», Q iome amiable and lweenfmellirig ﬂoures, (for fo ﬁgniﬁeth the Hebrew word, vied Cairn ﬂO‘u7r:cSI3E.[1\I/i the famefence) rather for their beauty and fmell, than for their vertue. ‘Now in the ? I” apurake tnereis no fuch deleétable or amiable fmell as was in thefe amiable ﬂoures W1 {E h a1;{l¢ff'é7’1".,rOll-gilt home. Befides,we reade not that Ra/Jel coriceiued hereupon for Leala Iacaés an Cwhtidmf-C Children before God granted that bleﬂing of fflJltflllﬂClrC.VI'lCO.Rt15€[. And laﬂ: of 91:1 die . 7 lfimyhcliiereli reafon) Iacoé was angry with Ra/ml when fhee faid,Giue me_e children or er the fguain plerrianded of her,u/‘hether he were in the {lead ofGod_or no,who had withheld from are the hi] t 9 her body. And we know the Prophet Daaza’ faith,Children 8: the fruit of the womb Se;_mi Cllfance that cornmeth ofthe Lord, Pf;/.1 2 7. A A _ _ do CIe;l]’E:3fl<:’CCfl,al:ld Pair/ud ./Egzaera write,Tliat the feed and fruit of Mandragoras taken in drinke, Hp it tie matrix or mother : and Dzofcorrdes wrot the fame long before them. _ ~ e t rat would know more heteof,may reade that chapter ofDr Tamer: booke concerning this N

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