DIETS DRY DINNER: Consisting of eight several Courses: 

1. Fruits  
2. Herbs.  
3. Flesh.  
4. Fish.  
5. whitmeats.  
6. Spice.  
7. Sauce.  
8. Tobacco.   All served in after the order of Time universal. By Henry Buttes, Master of Arts, and Fellow of C. C. C. in C.  Qui miscuit utile Dulci. Cicero. Non nobis solùm nati sumus, sed Ortus nostri sibi vendicant 
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Partem Parents TO THE RIGHT Worshipful and virtuous Lady, the Lady Anne Bacon, sole heir to the Worship. Edward Butts Esquire, her Father, as also to her Uncles, the right worthy Sir William Buttes Knight, and Thomas Butts Esquire, deceased.  
The Name of this Book.  
A Painter (Right worshipful) fain would make a speech to great Alexander, and (for that being a mean man, and unknown to the King, small notice and less respect would be had of him) he procured Alexander's own cloak or princely rob, and therein presented himself before the King. The same devise myself am forced to put in practice, for being unworthy, or at least not known worthy to be known unto your Ladyship, I do partly cloak me with the large Mantle of common Homage: partly cloth me with the proper coat of my Ancestors: who as they were a little nearer than myself unto your blood, so were they much nearer to your thoughts, and better known unto you. Thus having put on my cloak with the Painter, I begin my speech.  
Madame, as the admired perfection of all excellent endowments, wherewith God hath enriched you, necessarily plucketh from the hearts of all that know you, due reverence; so the natural league of mutual love and friudship between your and my Ancestors, (while they all lived together in Norfolk) more nearly urgeth me particularly to devote myself unto you. And yet not only your ladyships proper name (now canceled and concealed in you, by participation of another) is thus powerful to command my thoughts; but infinite cause (me thinks) I have, highly to respect and honour you, even in, & by that name, which (but for my father's progeny still continuing in Norfolk) had put our name to silence. Yea, who most gladly honoureth not the glorious name of that thrice worthy and renowned wight of famous memory, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the great seal of England, while he lived: whose magnificent bounty to our University, and especially to Corpus Christi College (whereof himself sometime was, as I am now) hath purchased him a perpetuity of glory, to be celebrated for ever a principal Benefactor. The chief Offspring from this so excellent a root (into whom the whole acoomplishment of all that worth is transfused and derived) is your Ladyships rightly right Worshipful Knight, of the same name, now living. Who is well known to be the undoubted heir, not only of his father's wealth, but of his virtues and glory also. All these premised words (excellent Lady) infer thus much: I most willingly acknowledge, either of you both may justly claim interest in the fee-simple (or rather simple fee) of my best endeavours, studies and prayers, for the preservation of your health, and continuance of your life. The which least I should seem only idly to wish, I have not only been Votary to Aesculapius, Physics great Grandfather, but Servant also to Diet, healths kindest Nurse. To whose frugal Table, I invite your Ladyship.  
But afore you come, I think it my best course to tell you what kind a feast you shall find. In three words I describe it thus: Diets dry Dinner. That is, variety of Fare: provided, prepared and ordered, at Diets own prescription: whose servant and Attendant at this feast I profess myself. Thus far (perhaps) not disliked of any. A Dry Dinner, not only Camnum Prandium, without Wine, but Accipitrinum, without all drink except Tobacco, (which also is but Dry Drink): herein not like to be liked of many. What ere it be (as he saith in the Comedy) Habeas ut Nacta, take it as you find it, and welcome. More than which I cannot perform. And therefore most humbly I kiss your hand.  
Your ladyships most devoted. Henry Butts.   

Partem Amici TO MY Worshipful and especial friends, Richard Thekeston Esquire, and Elynor his Wife.  
The cotall Mehod.  
IT is a dignity in active Nature, (Right worshipful) that Agens agit, ut assimulet sibi Patiens: that is, to make the passive likewise active. It were an easy (though a tedious) task, to note in every one of Nature's actions, Re-action. But that great labour may be greatly lessened by arguing A Minoie: by instance of the less active Eliments. For who seethe not (but he that doth not see) that he seethe his own face in the water, no otherwise, then by reference of the offered shape or species of his object countenance? Nay the most (if not merely) passive Earth returneth notwithstanding, even to the middle air, those splendent beams which formerly the Sun conferred on it. If the senseless and lifeless Eliments can thus react it, then reasonable man, hath much more reason to be conformable unto those that work his good. We to whom your Worships exhibit your bounty, are those same waters on which the wise Solomon biddeth you cast your bread; in whom you see your faces, the shape and Image of yourselves: for we are also men as ye be. Then (according to your worship's wont affability) graciously embrace that conformable reaction, which your own most hounteous favours have begotten in me. I have been passing desirous some way to intimate unto your worships, that I am not senseless or unmindful, though unworthy of your kindnesses. And therefore finding myself unable to requite your greater favours. Quod quimui quando quod volumus, non. In Item of that great good cheer I have often bad with you, both at London and in Yorkshire, I do semblably invite you both to a scholars Dinner. But where, or whither, I may not (for I cannot) tell you. Your Worship Sir, well remembreth that solemn invitation at Cambridge, in Vesperijs Comitiorum; and therefore will easily let pass this fallacian without Elench or reprehension. Neither can I hope for, at either of your hands, any ungentle or discourteous censure. It is an other kind of guest, an unkind guest, unbiaden, and as bold as welcome, whom my mind presageth, some Gentleman, Sewer to some certain Gentlewoman Sempster, who more nice than wise, picketh a quarrel with the order, or disorder rather (as he weeneth) of my Dinner; stoutly averring him that screwed in the courses, to be both ignorant of fashions, and void of all good customs. What? (quoth he) Fruit in the first course? Then Flesh, Fish, White-meats, and at last come in salt and spoons, spice and sauce, when all the meat is eaten? Nay more? Tobacco after all, upon a full stomach. Fie, fie: Diets Dinner? a most gross absurd, and preposterous banquet. May it please your Worships, this challenge must of force be answered. Therefore in ushering these my services, I profess myself a very prevaricatour of this Age's fashion: and do follow the order of universal time, by consequence and succession.  

Fruits  Thus much all we know, our grand parents at first said on the fruits of Eden. and some merrily say, Adam rob God's Orch-yard.  

Herbs.  〈◊〉 After their exitement, they fell to Herbs and Roots, and (as secular 〈◊〉 witnesieth) we lived a long time (like Hogs) with Mast or Accornes, till age taught Tillage.  

Flesh.  But all either could not or would not be husbandmen, therefore some went forth on hunting, some at home kept sheep and cattle: so came we to find savour in Flesh Which (probably) we did long afore we tasted Fish, 
Fish.  since of the two, Flesh is more obvious & easy to be had. As also Fish by good reason prevented white-meats, for the simple is afore the Compound, and the Natural afore the Artificial.  

White-meats.  Therefore after Fish follow White-meats, requiring the help of art, and bumane invention in tract of time.  

Spice.  Neither did our infinite appetite here consist contented with things necessary, but something yet was wanting to add voluptuous delight. Wherefore wanton appetite growing weary of Nature's bare and simple Ordinary, 'gan glycurously to banquet with all sorts of Spices and Aromatic delicates.  

S●use.  But eating Honey with a Ladle, it was soon cloyed with the excess of sweetness: so that tart Condiments & sauces, seemed requisite to provoke and revoke loathing and lost appetite.  

Tobacco.  Thus proceeded we by degrees, from simplicity and necessity, to variety and plenty, ending in luxury and superfluity. So that at last our bodies by surfeeding, being overflown and drowned (as it were) in a surplurisie or deluge of a superfluous raw humour, (commonly called Rheum) we were to be anheled (like new dampish Ovens, or old dwelling houses that have stood long desolate). Hence is it that we perfume and air our bodies with Tobacco smoke (by drying) preserving them from putrifation.  
May your Worships be fully satisfied with this reason of my extraordinary Dry Dinner (to whom both it and myself are purposely devoted) the first dish of it (I mean a Fig) for the rest.  
Until I have in readiness some other matter more worthy your countenance and Patronage, I most humbly take my leave.  
Your Worship's Scholar, H. Buttes.   

Partem Patria. To my Countrymen Readers.  
The partial Method.  
WElcome courteous Countrymen. I mean especially Norfolkmen. For they are true Catholics in matter of Diet: no Recusants of any thing that is man's meat. I bid all in general, excepting only such as are afraid of roasted Pig, a breast or leg of Mutton, a Duck etc. To conclude, I forbidden no man, but him only that hath married a wife & cannot come. No man shall lose his labour. Here are Lettuses for every man's lips. For the Northeren-man, White-meats, Beef, Mutton, Venison: for the Southern man, Fruits, Herbs, Fowl, Fish, Spice, and Sauce. As for the Middlesex or Londoner, I smell his Diet. Vescitur aura aetheria. Here is a Pipe of right Trinidado for him. The Yorkers they will be content with bald Tabacodocko. What should I say? here is good Veal for the Essex-man: passing Leeks and excellent Cheese for the Welshman. Denique quid non? Marry, here are neither Eg-pies for the Lancashire-man, nor Wagtails for the Kentish-man. But that is all one here is other good cheer enough. And what is wanting in meat, shall be supplied in kind welcome and officious attendance.  
Lest any thing should be amiss, or missing to thee, I have myself (for fault of a better) taken upon me all such Offices as any way concern this Dinner.  

1 Choice.  First, I am Cator: and have provided the very choice of such dainties as Nature's Market affordeth.  

2 Use.  Secondly, I am Taster: commending each dish to thy Palate, according to his right use and virtue. 
3 Hurt.  And (since nothing is so perfectly good, as it partaketh no evil property) I have put into a by-dish (like Egshelles in an Saucer) what worthily may breed offence. Herein imitating a merry Greek, who espying an hair in a dish of Butter, called for another dish and dished it by itself.  

4 Preparatinon, or Correction.  Thirdly, I play the Cook: so preparing, seasoning, and saucing the harmful disposition of every meat, as it shall be either in whole abolished, or in part qualified.  
Lastly, I assume the carvers Office: and having noted the nature and operation of each particular dispense to every of my Guests according to the Season, 
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution.  his Age, and Constitution.  
Thus very rudely, I obtrude unto thee not a banquet, but a bit rather of each dish Scholler-likely, that is, badly carved. For Scholars are bad Carvers. Do thou, by thy kindly feeding on Diets dry Dinner, but cause thyself to thirst for Diets Drinking: and I shall with like alacrity, act thy Cupbearer. Wherefore until thou be'st Dry drunk, Farewell.  
Thy Countryman, H. Buttes.   

The Author's Method comprised in Verse, by Samuel Wallsall.  
COme welcome Guest: sh' deign not, whatever Wi●●  
Thou be, this shot-free entertainment:  
This Board with Fruit, Herbs, Flesh, Fish, Whit●●  
Spice, Sauce, Tobacco, and fair furniment.  
Fruit, suits thy Fish: Herbs relish Flesh aright  
Sauce sharpens both: Spice sweetens White-meats  
Fruit, Herbs, Flesh, Fish, Whit-meats, Spice,  
Concoct are by Tabaccoes cordial.  
First is here Friut (th' Author's first-fruits) dispred.  
Our Grandsire Adam base earths base stime,  
In Paradise earth's heaven enthronized,  
Slakd hungers rage on Fruitful Orchards prime.  
But soon as Man fro Man degendered,  
Tainted with blemishment of Ugly crime:  
Aimightie this a vengeful doom areeds,  
That beastly Man shall beast like graze on Weedi●  
Whose nicer appetite being olut of yore  
With niggard earths so bloodless caterie,  
'Gan murderous hand imbrue in guiltless gore,  
And range amid the Forests far, and nigh,  
And chase with winged foot the tuskie Boar,  
●d blood with blood's expense full dear abye.  
●or rests his thirsting soul aslackt with blood,  
●ut must be drenched in the foamy Flood.  
frets out whatever Fish's won  
●the Main, or in the Crystal Brooke:  
●sated yet, must Whit-meates feeden on,  
〈◊〉- meats addressed by Art Nature's Cook.  
●lis Arabia, still Lands outgon  
〈◊〉 or Esting Suns, or Westing's look;  
〈◊〉 Phenix-like t'embalme with Spicery.  
●d to perfume Arts queinter Cookery.  
●st thou keen thy blunted appetenes,  
●d with Spices loathsome surfiture?  
●omacks whetstones, tongue-tart Condimenes.  
〈◊〉 thy lungs have ta'en discomfiture  
●assault of Rheum, lo surest fence  
〈◊〉 Rumes incursion; powerful to recure  
●efeebled, and revive the deadened sprite,  
●eraine Nepenthes, which Tobacco hight.  
●co not to antic Sages known,  
●rizardi that Tobacco known not?  
●le aggrieved with care? is head o'reflowns  
●rinie de lug of defluxes hot,  
● by stealth the neighbour parts adown?  
whiff, and smoke Tabaccos antidote  
From out thy kindly traunced Chimny-head,  
With Indish air, like to Chameleon, fed.   

The same man in praise of this learnedly witty Book.  
●Ome, stead of Dieting, wont Eating die,  
Paunched with gormandise, and Surquedry:  
Lo Butts aright thy Legend aims I ween.  
agend, where Nature's art, Arts nature sheen:  
●here man. kinds meat, meats Diet, Diets Inn  
●here some Physic, yea sum of Physic been.  
'gainst common ills these writs came well me se▪  
●hat Well is come, Well may be Welcome deemed.  
These with Cates, Delices, Tobacco, Mell:  
●ew to Far well: bring welfare: thus farewell   

Eiusdem ad Libri nomen allusio.  
●S noctu convina? negant hoc Prandia. Vinies  
●gurges? Sicca negant. Lurco? Diaeta negat.  
Prandia vis? Prandebis apud me. abstemia 〈◊〉  
●andia? Sicca dabo. sana? Diaeta dabit.  
●●ndit olus Cyvicus patiens: qui hac Prandia te●n●  
●n'erit Cynicus? non, erit ille Canis.   

Grace before Diets dry Dinner served in by Time.  
Puer stans ad mensam.  
FIRST Give ye thanks unto the giver,  
And careful Cator of this Dinner:  
The sooner he will on you think,  
●d to your Dinner send you drink.  
Then lose no time: you see you● far,  
Eat: I beshrew you, if you spare.  
asoft and fair: oregreedy jaws  
● not their meat with decent pause.  
●ke on your right hand: there stands Time  
●ixt your Dinner and this rhyme:  
Meat, Drink, and Leisure, take together,  
●se (saith old Cronus) come not hither.  
mannered Time thou'rt over rude,  
●ixt Grace and Dinner to intrude.  
●at doth old Ribax Cronus here,  
●ere is not Wine, nor Ale, not Beer?  
Though here for Cronus be no Merum  
●et Time (you know) is Edax rerum.  
●is will not suffice your mind,  
●pther reason you shall find:  
〈◊〉 Time brought all these courses in,  
〈◊〉 they in order served been.  
〈◊〉 then think not much my gentle Guest,  
〈…〉  

OCCULTA VERITAS TEMPORE PATET  
R S   depiction of Time discovering Truth from her cave   
DIETS DRY Dinner.  

Fruits.  

Figs.  
Choice. WHite, best: red, second: black, basest: full ripe, tender-skinned.  
Use. Nourish very well, and much more than other fruits: take away the stone in the reins: resist venims: quench thirst: cleanse the breast.  
Hurt. Immoderately used, engender flative humours and crudities: therefore greatly annoy such as are subject to the Collicque.  
Preparation and correction. Mundified and pared: then eaten with Oranges, pomegranates, tart meats, or condite with Vinegar.  
Degree. Hot in the first degree, moist in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. Always in season, chiefiy in Autumn: convenient for all ages and constitutions: lest for old folks.   

Ficus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
A jove principium.  
SOme good Scholastic Divines, think the fruit forbidden to be bitten, 
Gen. 2. 17.  was not an Apple but a Fig: then surely as our first parents wilfully discovered their ambitious minds by eating of the fruit; so very witlessly thought & sought they to cover their shame with an aprens of the leaves, this was (as the latin proverb speaks) Ficulneum Auxilium, A Figs worth of help: therefore whensoever we fall to Figs, we have occasion to remember our fall from God. This plant in itself very bitter, yieldeth passing sweet fruit: transfusing indeed all his sweet juice into his fruit, leaveth itself exhausted of sweetness, and so by consequence bitter.   

Grapes.  
Choice. RIpe: white, sweet: thin-skinned.  
Use, Pass quickly: breed less wind, nourish very well: make fat (with an R. some say) cool inflammation of the Liver: provoke urine and Venus.  
Hurt. cause thirst and wind: trouble the belly: immoderately used, breed Colic passions: puff the spleen and make it sick: increase defluxions in old folks.  
Correction. Eat them moderately, and after them salt meats, Pomegranates, and such sharp things, or condit with Vinegar.  
Degree. Hot in the first, moist in the second, yet without excess.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In Autumn and the spring, for all but old folks.   

Vuae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THat Grapes are very nourishing, it is well seen by the Grape-gatherers in the time of Vintage, for they eat little or nothing else, yet grow they passing fat and corpulent.  
The superexcellency of this plant and fruit is inestimable, yet by the way to be noted, in that God calleth his, Church a Vine; the fruit or Vuae whereof, are good works: therefore in many places of the scripture, every vine is cursed with a Vae, whereon there are found no Vuae. ave blesseth a, Vae curseth.   

Mulberries.  
Choice. Black: fulsome: best ripe: not corrupt by touch of any thing: gathered afore sun.  
Use. Remedy hoarseness: quench thirst: supple the body: asswaye choler: cause appetite.  
Hurt. breed wind: disturb the stomach, especially fraught with bad humours.  
Correction. Kinse them first in Wine, and eat tart things after them.  
Degree. Ripe, are hot and moist in the second: unripe, cold and dry.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather, for youth, cholerists, and sanguines.   

Mora.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
MOros, is Greek for Fool: yet the Poets call this plant Prudent's Morus, the wise Mulberry: because it springeth last of Trees, not till the cold biting frosts and nipping blasts of black mouthed winter are all over  
All contradiction is reconciled, and the matter moderated by rutning Prudent's Morus, 
Morosophus.  a wise Foole. For this is the height and depth of fools wisdom: they have the wit to keep themselves out of the rain: Id est, Out of apparent danger. Which notwithstanding if one most wise Morus (minime moros) had been so wise as to have done the winter storms of angry jove had not nipped him on the head, or naped him rather in the neck, for speaking against the head.  
This fruit was at first white, till it was died red with the blood of Piramus and Thisbe,   

Strawberries.  
Choice. Read: ripe: fair: fragrant: Garden: set.  
Use. Assuage the boiling heat and acrimony of blood and choler. cool the liver: quench thirst: provoke urine and appetite: are passing grateful to the palate.  
Hurt. Nought for the Paisey, diseased sinows, and weak stomachs: those that grow of themselves or in woods, offend their stomachs with their sharpness.  
Correction. Rinse and mundify them with the best wine, then eat them with a good deal of sugar.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constition. Cold and dry in the first: the riper the temperater.  
For hot weather, youth, choleric, and sanguine.   

Fraga.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THey were utterly unknown to antic leeches, and are indeed yet more beholding to Poets than Physicians. They named them Fraga: neither have they any other name, as far as I know. The English name importeth their manner of setting in beds, not cast on heaps, but (as it were) strawed here and there with manifest distance.  
Conradus Gesner reporteth, he knew a woman that was cured of the pimples on her face, only by washing it with Strawberrie-water: and yet it was very homely and rudely distilled, betwixt two platters, and not in a limbeck.   

Cherries.  
Choice. RIpe: sharp: new-gashered: whose pulp is hard, and juice staineth blood-red.  
Use. Eaten fasting, or afore dinner, make soluble: pass quickly, slake thirst, cool moderately, provoke appetite, moisten the body.  
Hurt. Soon corrupt: much eaten inflate the stomach, hurt the aged or very phlegmatic: do the body little good.  
Correction. Eat presently after them meats of good juice, salt or tart.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the first, moist in the second.  
For hot weather, youth, choleric.   

Cerasa.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Cherries take their name of the Latin Cerasa, and Cerasa of Cerasunte, a Town in Pontus: whence Lucullus first brought them to Rome, after he had conquered Mithridate, in the six hundredth and eightieth year of the City.  
Cantabrigian Achademicks, may very fitly interpret Cerasunte Cherry-Hinton their neighbour Cherry-Towne. Where many Athenian Squires are so overcome by cherries, that they can very hardly convey them cleanly home to Athens: and afterward are constrained to implore the aid of Mithridate and his Cousin treacle, in regaining to them the Castle of health.   

Plums.  
Choice. Kindly and thoroughly ripe: tender skinned: sweet and toothsome: gathered afore sun.  
Use. Purge choler: abate heat: refresh and moisten the body: slake thirst: excite appetite: superexcellent in burning agues.  
Hurt. Losen and weaken the stomach: engender watery humours in cold and weak stomachs: yield little or no nourishment: hurt the aged, stuffed with phlegm, or such as have the collicque.  
Correction. Eat them afore meat, and eat after them Saccarum Rosatum aromaticum, or salt meats.  
Degree. Cold in the beginning of the second, moist in the end of the third.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For hot weather, youth, cholleticke, and sanguine.   

Pruna.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
DAmascena or Damaske-prunes, are so called of Damascus in Syria, which yieldeth your best and most commended Prune. Next in Galens judgement, is the Spanish, sweeter than the Damask, and not so astringent. The French with us is of much request, for special use.  
Damascens of all other Plums are thought most wholesome, in so much as many are of the mind, that a good stomach can very hardly surfeit of them.   

Apples.  
Choice. OLd, sweet, fair, ripe in any case.  
Use. Comfort the heart: quench thirst: enlarge the breast: dispatch distillations of rheum: cause to spit: quiet the cough.  
Hurt. Annoy weak stomachs, and diseased sinews: especially eaten raw, or many.  
Preparation. Correction. Roast, baked, stewed, powdered with sugar and aniséed comfits; or else eat Saccarum Rosatum upon them.  
Degree. Sweet, are hot in the first, temperately moist: sour, are cold and dry.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In Autumn and spring, for youth, choleric and good stomachs.   

Mala.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
AN Apples is of evil report, or at leastwise hath but an evil name amongst the Romans': for the very name (Malum) signifieth evil. Hence some forbidden both cheese an apples with this fallacian. Caseus est nequam, et mala sunt mala. Howbeit not origination but fortune made them Sophisters. For Mâlum (an apple) deriveth his line of Ancestry from the Greek Melon, of great antiquity, not unknown to Homer. Yet the obvious Notation passing plausible and more passable: because an apple was the cause or occasion of all evil: but whether it were an apple or no, fides sit penes Authores.   

Pears.  
Choice. thoroughly ripe: sweet. Please the taste;  
Use. cause appetite: comfort a weak stomach: by forcing the jaws to raise and spit out phlegm, proucke to the stool.  
Hurt. breed cold and flatulent blood: nought for the colic.  
Correction. After meat, powdered with much sugar, drink old wine of good savour upon them: or indeed, prepare them thus.  
Preparation. First part them in halves and cut out the Cores.  
Then pair, salt, and cast them so out of doors.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the first, dry in the second.  
In Autumn and winter, for all but the aged and rheumatic.   

Pyra.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Our English name Pear, comes of the Latin Pyrum or Pyrus, and Pyrus of Pyramid, because both the Peartree and the Pear itself also, somewhat resemble that figure or proportion: yet inversim, if they be compared. For the Peartree aspireth and riseth with a kind of Conus in the top: the Pear (Contrâ) pointeth toward the stalk; and his broad crown reprefenteth the basis.  
The Italians call their chief or best Pear Bergmot. Mot is a Pear, and Berkg signifies Lord or Master in the Turkish tongue, whence they borrowed it. As we say a Pome-roy from the French.   

Aprecocks.  
Choice. THe greatest: best coloured: ripe: whose inward kernels are passing sweet, and comes easily from the shell: pleasant in taste.  
Use. Quench thirst: whet the stomach: the kernel kills worms.  
Hurt. Instale the stomach: soon corrupt: possess the blood with much water, and make it soon putrefy.  
Correction. Eat after them Anyse-séedes, meats well salted or spiced, and old cheese: drink old wine of good savour upon them.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the second.  
About the end of May, or beginning of june, for youth, such as abound with choler or blood, and have strong stomachs.   

Mala Armeniaca.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
SO called in Latin of Armenia: whence they were first transplanted; in Greek Bericoccia, in Latin Praecocia, or Praematura. Id est. Soon ripe, or first ripe: for they offer themselves about the end of the spring. Hence we call a ripe-headed young boy, a princock. Horace saith; Non amo puerum praecocis ingeni. Id est. I love no Aprecocks. And so on the contrary, a Cockni is inverted, being as much, as Incoct, unripe. Other derive Apricock of Apricum, because it ripeneth best in Aprico.  
Now as Aprecocks be soon ripe, so (according to the old rule) soon rotten. And though Galen saith, Aprecocks be not so obnoxious to corruption as the Peach, yet experience gives him the lie.   

Peaches.  
Choice. OF a good colour; fragrant smell, and pleasant taste; ripe: such as come easily from their stone.  
Use. Mend the evil savour of the breath arising from the stomach: their smell is wondrous good in cordiaque passions.  
Hurt. Being soft, moist, and flatulent, they engender humours very subject to corruption: evil for old, phlegmatic and weak stomachs.  
Correction. Eat them always fasting, and drink a cup of the best wine, most fragrant, and well aromatized.  
Degree. Cold in the first, moist in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For youth, chollerists, and sanguines.   

Mala persica.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Called Persica of Persia. Persiques. Therefore have we notoriously impeached their name, as we do all other derivatives indeed. For in stead of Persiques, we say Peaches. But no great matter for the name: that will never feed or fill our maws. As he said, Voca panem lapidem et da mihi lapidem.  
Those Peaches, whose meat cleaveth fast to the stone, are commended of some, as also, such as seem friezed over with a thin down, like a Quince. But questionless both these, are of last and least request.   

Oranges.  
Choice. Weighty: full ripe: sad coloured: twixt sweet and sour.  
Use. The sweet open obstructions; are good for melancholists, and such as be subject to distillations: the middle sort are good in Agues, and recall appetite.  
Hurt. The exquisitely sweet are too hot; the sour cool, and offend the stomach: stuff the belly: constrain the breast, and arteries.  
Correction. Therefore eat but little of them: after them Orange pills condite, which are good for the stomach.  
Degree. The sour are cold in the first, moist in the second; the sweet temperately hot: the middle cold and temperately dry.  
Season. Age. Constitution. The sweet are good even for old folks: the sour in hot weather, for youth, chollerists and sanguine.   

Mala Aurantia.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe flowers of this plant are siluer-coloured; and from them is distilled a water surpassing all other in fragrancy and sweet smell. The leaves are in colour like an Emeraud: The fruit like Gold. Whence they are called Aurantia of Aurum, gold in Latin; and in Greek Chrysomêla, golden apples. In English properly and truly Aurange, but we have both them and their name by tradition from the French. So we both speak and write it Orange.   

Lemons.  
Choice. SMelling like a Citron: best ripe of good colour: a day or two gathered.  
Use. The juice is good sauce to provoke appetite: stayeth casting: breaketh gross humours: re●●steth pestilentical fevers: good for the stone: nourisheth not at all.  
Hurt. Excessively cooleth the stomach: causeth collicque-passions, leanness, and melancholious humours: hurteth the aged, phlegmatic, and cold stomachs.  
Correction. Used moderately and seldom without the rind: laid in water: condite with sugar.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and dry in the second.  
Only for hot weather, youth, and choleric.   

Malum Limonium.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Citron, Limon, and Orange, grow especially on the sea-coasts of Italy: and in the Adriatic and Tyrrhene Islands. They were brought first out of Media into these parts, and thence are they called, Mala Medica.  
They bear fruit all the year long, some at the same time ripe and falling off, other but now budding and sprouting forth.  
All say a Limon in Wine is good: some think a Leman and Wine better.   

Quinces.  
Choice. RIght Quinces: small: dimpled or dawked: mosie: most sweetly fragrant: best ripe.  
Use. Recreate the heart: comfort, strengthen, and close the mouth of the stomach: stay fluxes.  
Hurt. Eaten raw, or overgréedily afore meat, hurt the sinews: procure to many colic passions, but being exquisitely ripe.  
Correction. Boiled very well with honey: boiled, and then powdered with store of sugar, or a grain of musk: or made in Marmalat, and eaten in the last course.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the first, dry in the beginning of the second.  
In harvest, and winter, for any.   

Malum Cydonium.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Called in Latin Cydonium of Cydone, a Castle in Crete. Also Cotoneum, because clad in a suit of white thin Cotten. As for our English name, I find as little savour in it, as in an unripe raw Quince. In Galens time, Quince was brought out of Syria to Rome.  
Simeon Sethi, counseleth women with child to eat many quinces, if they desire to have wise children.   

Pomegranates.  
Choice. Sweet: ripe: big: with great kernels: whose rind comes easily off: the sharp full of juice  
Use. The sweet, excite Venus: go●● for the stomach, breast, cough: the sharp, for hot livers and agues.  
Hurt. The sweet breed wind and heat, nought in fevers: the sharp offend the teeth and gums; constrain the breast; nought for old folks.  
Correction. Eat the kernels of both together.  
Degree. The sweet are temperately hot and moist: the sour cold, and somewhat binding.  
Season. Age. Constitution. The sweet in winter, for all: she sharp in summer for youth, and chollerists.   

Malum punicum se granatum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
CAlled Punicum, because brought out of Africa, from Carthage. It may now be called Malum Tu●itū, for that which was Carthage, is now Tunis, Granatum, or Pomegranate, of his multitude of grains or kernels, not of Granata or Granado in Spain, as some fond conceit it: but rather Malum Grana●um was godfather to the realm of Grando: for they bear a Pomegrant in their Eschutcheon.  
If one eat three small Pomegranate flowers, (they say) for an whole year he shall be safe from all manner of eyesore.   

Citron.  
Choice. Full ripe, a great fair one, that grew in an hot Country: some time gathered.  
Use. Best preserveth against poyso●● the rind mends concoction, and commends the breath.  
Hurt. Slow of concoction: annoyeth hot brains: eaten at night, causeth dizziness.  
Correction. Condite with sugar, and eaten not afore meat, or with meat, but alone, and fragrant violents, or new Saccarum Rosatum, presently after.  
Degree. The rind and seed are hot and dry in the second, the pulp or meat cold and moist: she sour is cold and dry in the third.  
Season. Age. Constitution. Condite with sugar, for all, at all times: raw, for none, at no time.   

Malum Citrium.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe bigger Citrons, though they be fairer to see too, yet those that grow in Italy about the Laque Benacus, surpass in taste.  
The decoction of Citron, held in the mouth, commendeth the breath.  
The rind laid amongst clothes, keepeth them from moth-eating: and smelled on, preserveth in time of pestilence, or corrupt air.  
The Citron is the Emblem of Love, & loves delightful pains or painful delights. A bitter sweet, an Oxymel or Glycypicron.   

citrul Cucumbers  
Choice. LOng: thick: best ripe: yellow, like a ripe Orange.  
Use. Exceedingly cooleth an hot stomach: quencheth thirst: appeaseth choler.  
Hurt. Is hard of digestion: engendereth flearue & clammy humours, which soon after prove virulent, but in a stomach hot above measure: p●●son to a cold stomach.  
Correction. Eat it with Onions, Oraggon wort, Mint, rue, Pepper, and such other very hot things.  
Degree. Cold in the end of the second; moist in the end of the third.  
Season. Age. Constitution. Bad nourishment, for any season, age, or constitution.   

Cucumis citrulus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe best use of citrul Cucumber is this. Pair off the rind, and cut the cucumber into thin broad sliees, & lay them in water. Then apply them to the tongue of one sick of a burning ague: it shall do him great case. If you seethe them first with sugar, all the better; for by this means they quench his thirst, mitigate the scalding heat of the fever: and in place of siccity or drought continually instil a very grateful liquor, with which the tongue, palate, throat, and dry soul of the patiented, is wondrously suppled and refreshed.   

Medlars.  
Choice. GReat: full and plump: with little kernels: rightly ripened or mellowed.  
Use. Good against drinkenesse, 〈◊〉, casting, pleasing to the stomach, especially to women with child.  
Hurt. Slowly concocted: hinder the concoction of other meats: ou●● much used ovetlay the stomach.  
Correction. Eat P●nid●●e, Sacra●um Volarum, Sugar Candid, ●iey●●s, or such other pectorals after them.  
Degree. Cold and dry in the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For winter, youth, thollerists, and strong stomachs.   

Mespila.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Meddle not with Meddlers.  
THis Fruit ripeneth very slowly: the flowers & leaves are of a binding nature.  
Such hurt as cometh by eating Medlars, the like also ensueth by dealing and meddling with meddlers or common smatterers: they are hard and dry meat, hardly digested: not soon brought to any reasonable order: beside, they hinder, disturb, and interrupt the course, and orderly proceeding of other men's matters: and if you deal much with them, they will extremely irck, & loathe you.   

Services.  
Choice. PLump: best ripe: not corrupt: hung up, or kept a while in straw.  
Use. Taken afore meat, stay fluxes and immoderate casting: taken after meat, strengthen the stomach, mend the breath.  
Hurt. Much hinder concoction: immoderately used, burden the stomach: breed little, cold, gross, and melancholious juice.  
Correction. Eaten after meat, moderately, and after them, an honeycomb.  
Degree. Cold in the first, dry in the second, very astringent.  
Season. Age. Constitution. An Autumn and Winter, for youth, and hot constitutions.   

Sorba.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Service and Medlar, are much alike in nature, taste, and operation.  
Pliny, li. 15. cap. 21. noteth four differences of them, arising from their form and fashion. None of them all fructify, until they be three years old.  
Cato willeth us to condite them in the decoction of new Wine.  
A Lotion of their decoction, straiteneth the matrice.  
Galen utterly forbiddeth them as meat, commends them for good astringent physic.   

Hasil Nuts.  
Choice. GReat ones: little covered with their husk: full of juice: not worm eaten: nor any way contaminate.  
Use. Nourish more than Walnuts: increase brain: sodden with honey, cure an old cough: touned and eaten with pepper, ripen the distillations of rheum.  
Hurt. Annoyed the stomach: hard of concoction: windy: engender much choler: cause headache, it much eaten.  
Correction. Eat them new, macerated a while in water: moderately, and after them, meats condite with sugar.  
Degree. The green or new, are temperate in the first quality: the old or dry, are hot and dry in the end of the first.  
Season. Age. Constiution. In winter for young, strong, and laborious persons.   

Avellanae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
AVellanae of Avellanun, a town in Campania: or else à Vellendo, because any may have them for the plucking or gathering. The Greeks' call them Ponticae, for that (as saith Pliny) they were first brought out of Pontus.  
Nut in English, of Nux the Latin: and Nux à Nocendo, because it annoyeth all other plants or herbs that are subject and obnoxious to his leaves-dropping.  
All hard or shell-fruite, are called Nuces: all soft or pulp-fruite, Poma.   

Melons, commonly called Pompions.  
Choice. OF most exquisite savour: pleasant to the palate: new: ripe.  
Use. Quench thirst: cause appetite: cool sensibly: cleanse the body: provoke urine: daily use of them, preserveth from the stone in the bladder and reins.  
Hurt. breed wind and belly-ache: nought for colic, splenticke, aged, phlegmatic, melancholic.  
Correction. Eaten with old Cheese, fault or tart meats, and a cup of brisk Wine.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the beginning of the second, moist in the third.  
For young and hot bloods.   

Melones seu Melopepones.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
ANguria, which Galen calleth Melopepon, of Melon and Pepon: because it is not distinguished with stems, as the single Melon or Pompion is; but round and smooth like an Apple. Also it's eaten together with the inwards of it, which the Pompion is not: yet retaineth it the smell and savour of the Pompion.  
This fruit is the greatest or biggest of all Herbs or Trees. That it hath a scouring and cleansing properly, its evident in that if you rub any part of the body with it, it becometh much the brighter and cleaner.   

Walnuts.  
Choice. BIg: long: ripe: easily shalled: especially new, not rotten.  
Use. Repair decayed teeth: eaten with Figs and rue, save from mortal venims, and kill worms in the belly.  
Hurt. Immoderately used, hurt the throat, palate, and tongue, stuff the breast; cause the cough and headache, especially if they be dry.  
Correction. Eat them new; steeped in wine, and then peeled: a small quantity, and with a little garlic: old, with raisins, or after fish, in stead of cheese.  
Degree. The dried are hot in the third, dry in the beginning of the second: the green are exceedingly moist, and partake little heat.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In winter for phlegmatic, melancolicque, & old, not strait breasted.   

Nuces juglandes'.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Ivglandes', quasi iovis glans. Ioues Acorns. For when our grand-forefathers had a long time lived with Acorns, at last finding Nuts, they called them Ioues Acorns, for their excellency. Therein appeared their thankful hearts for any benefit received at God's hands, by acknowledging God the author and bestower of it. Contrary to the base humour of many muck-borne Scarab-flyes, and earth-rooting hogs of this age; who are content to eat of Ioues Acorns, but like swine as they are, never lift up their eyes to the tree whence they fall.   

Pine-Nuts or pine Apples.  
Choice. OF Orchard pines; female: of best savour, very new.  
Use. Nourish much: fat: cleanse the breast, lights, reins, and bladden sodden with honey, provoke urine, restore the weak, consume all corrupt humours: good for the short wound, and paraliticke.  
Hurt. Concoct somewhat slowly: make but gross juice: much eaten, grow the stomach and belly.  
Correction. Macerated hot the space of an hour, give them with sugar to old and phlegmatic, with honey to youth and choleric.  
Degree. Hot in the beginning of the second: moist in the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In cold we ather, for the foresaid, as aforesaid.   

Pineae.  
Story for Tabletalk  
IF the tops of the pine-tree be once lopped off, it never bears fruit, nor prospereth after. Whence it was that Croesus threatened the Citizens of Lampsacum, that he would destroy them like a Pine-tree: meaning he would cut off all their heads, or else slay all their heads, Id est, their governors & magistrates, which done, the city like a lopped Pine should pine away and come to nought. Pine Nuts much augment seed, especially if three or four drops of their oil be put into a soft egg and so sooped off.   

Pistake Nuts.  
Choice. GReat: Smelling like Turpentine: of old trees: of a sad green colour: most new.  
Use. Purge the breast: strengthen the reins and stomach: open obstructions of the liver: stay disposition to vemit: heal the biting of serpents: prevoke Venus wondrously.  
Hurt. Though they fat, yet nourish little: unwholesome for boys, and hot constitutions: for they extenuate, inflame the blood, and bring dizziness.  
Correction. Eat them immediately afore meat, with Oranges, or Saccarum Rosatum.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the second order of the second degree.  
In cold weather, for flegmatists.   

Pistacia.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
MAthiolus holdeth this plant to be a kind of Terebinth, or Turpentine: it groweth in Egypt & Syria. Thence brought to Venice: a few year since they have fructified in Sicily. The Husbandmen say, it grows of an Almond-tree Imp, inserted to a Mastic stock.  
Lucius Vitellius Censor, first brought Pistakes into Italy, in the beginning of Tiberius Caesar's reign, when he was Ambassador into Syria.   

Dates.  
Choice. Sweet: ripe within: some and uncorrupt.  
Use. Make sat: good for the ●●er: cure the cough: lose the belly.  
Hurt. Hurt the teeth and mouth: 'cause gripings in the stomach, and scales to break out: gnaw the bottom of the belly: plague the head with ache: obstruct the liver, spleen and veins.  
Correction. Eaten sodden or condite with sugar: or raw with sewer and taxed in meats after them.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constiution. Hot in the second, moist in the first.  
For no season, age, or constitution, but well sugard.   

Dactyli.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Palm or Date-trees are most rife in AEgyt and judea. In Italy the fruit never ripeneth thoroughly: in the coasts of Spain they are sour and unsavoury. There are 49. sundry kinds of palm-trees numbered and noted by writers, so different, that they may scarce seem to be all Palms.  
This tree is of a most asspiring nature: it will bear no coals. It resisteth all burden, bearing it upward with his arms & boughs: Therefore is it an Hieroglyphic or Emblem of victory and conquest.   

Almonds.  
Choice. Sweet: new: not corrupt by unseasonable weather: that grew in an hot soil.  
Use. Yield store of nourishment: fat: help the sight: increase seed, and brain: fetch up phlegm: purge the breast: cause sleep: open obstructions of the liver.  
Hurt. Ouer-dry, they are hard of concoction; stick long in the stomach: cause headache.  
Correction. Wholesome, being tender and full of milk, blanched; with a good deal of sugar.  
Degree. The sweet are temperately hot and moist almost in the first: the bitter are dry in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For all seasons, ages, constitutions.   

Amygdalae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
AMygdala the Greek name, signifieth as much as the long Nut: some call it Nu●lica.  
It prospereth best in hot countries, and therefore better in Apulia and Sicily, then in Italy, Spain or France.  
The tree and fruit both much resemble the Peach: yet somewhat bigger.  
Phillis was turned into an Almond-tree, for telling tales out of school: ever sithence, it hath been a byword: an Almond for the Parrot: which lest it be applied to me, I will leave my prating.   

Chestnuts.  
Choice. Big: which by being kept, are grown more toothsome, and less unwholesome.  
Use. Being flatulent incite Ve●●● yield strong and very good nourishment, step flures taken with sugar, abate choler, with honey, phlegm, wrought with honey and sugar, cure the biting of mad dogs.  
Hurt. Eaten much cause headache and wind: bind: and raw are heart of digestion.  
Correction. Toast or roast them, than eat them moderately with a good deal of sugar.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the beginning of the second, dry in the second.  
In cold weather, for any.   

Castaneae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
CAstanea quast casta nux. Chestnut, Chastnut: say some. I know not upon what ground. I am sure not by a metonymy of the cause. For being flatulent, it provokes lust: yea further. this nut in his husk much resembleth Testes, the instruments of lust. So that some divide this Nut not as other Nuts. In Nucen et ●ucleuns. But In Testam et Testes. The enucleating of it, they call castrating or gelding. So then by this reason, it is not Casta nux, till it be Nux castrata. Id est. Testa si●e testibus, I'll be his witness, he is chaste with a witness.   

olives:  
Choice. green: best condite: such 〈◊〉 grew in sunshine: gre●● once: as are at Bonom● which being nought to make o●● of, are condite, becoming mo●● savoury and toothsome.  
Use. Cleanse the stomach of flea●● provoke appetite: stay casting.  
Hurt. 'Cause watchfulness and he●● ache: or much eaten, stuff the hea●● especially the salted.  
Correction. Eat them well condite, w●● vinegar, at the second course, w●● other meats.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. The salt are hot in the second the rest temperate, somewhat 〈◊〉 stringent and strengthening.  
In cold weather, for any.   

Olivae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
OLea is the tree. Oliva the fruit: Oleum the juice or oil. The Olive was an Emblem of peace, ever since the Dove brought an Olive leaf in her mouth into Noah's Ark.  
The Spanish Olives are bigger than the Italian. Yet the Italians, especially they of Bonony, condite them far better than the Spaniards. Besides that, the Spanish have an odd unsavoury smell, and look yellow, unpleasant to the eye.  
Wash the mouth with their pickle; it closeth the gums, and fasteneth the lose teeth.   

Cappars.  
Choice. COndite in vinegar, which art not so hot as the salted.  
Use. Very good for the short wound and splenaticke: provoke Venus, and monthly flure: cure the Haemorhoids: kill worms: passing good for a moist and phlegmatic stomach.  
Hurt. cause thirst, especially the salted, which also inflame the entrails.  
Correction. Use the salted rather for physic then meat, rinse them well in water first: the condite in Vinigar are to be eaten afore other meals like salads, with oil, raisins of the sun, or Opymell.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. The salted are hot in the second, dry in the third: the other hot in the first, dry in the second.  
For cold season, age, constitution.   

Cappares.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe plant itself is a prickly shrub, the branches falling to the ground, somewhat like a Bramble or Briar.  
Cappars' are (to say the truth) rather sauce or medicine, than nourishment or meat, especially the salted: or if they yield any nourishment, it is passing little, not passing good.  
The best Cappars are thought to be brought from Geneva. Cappars' in diet, and Capers in dancing, serve both for relish.   

Gourd.  
Choice. NEw: tender: green: light: sweet.  
Use. Helpeth the choleric, by quenching thirst: sodden with verjuice, cooleth the liver.  
Hurt. Hurteth the cold & phlegmatic: breeds wind, and wheyish humours: weakeneth the stomach: yields bad juice.  
Correction. Eat it with pepper, mustard, vinegar, or hot herbs, as onions, and parsley.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the second.  
For hot weather, youth, and hot temperatures.   

Cucurbita.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Poet (as his chief pride resteth in hitting the nail on the head with a quaint Epithitae) called the Onion, Sapientissima cepa. That is, most wise. The Gourd, Voracissima Cucurbita: that is, most ravenous. His reason was, the Onion is all head, and the Gourd all belly. The Radish hearing this, steppeth in, and tells the Poet he was deceived.  
For (saith he) the Onion wanteth wit, and the Gourd wanteth teeth.   

Pease  
Choice. CRéene: new: tender: not corrupt.  
Use. Please the taste: mundify the breast: cure the cough: yield singular good nourishment.  
Hurt. Hurt evil teeth, and whom soever wind annoyeth.  
Preparation. Dress them well with salt, oil, pepper, and the juice of sour herbs. Oil of Almonds is good condiment for them.  
Degree. Cold in the first, temperately moist.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For hot seasons, youth, chollerists.   

Pisa.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
PEase are either wild or tame. The wild do differ in kind; but one kind of them is called everlasting pease, because their root never dieth: but being once sown or planted, so continueth for ever, yielding fruit in due season.  
Pease are much of the nature and operation of beans, but less windy, as saith Hypocrates: And our common proverb accordeth, speaking somewhat homely: Every pease will have a fease: but every bean, fifteen.   

beans.  
Choice. GReat: pure: bright: without spots: not worm-eaten: young and tender.  
Use. 'Cause sleep: restrain the Migram, fat the body.  
Hurt. breed much wind: dull the senses: cause terrible dreams.  
Preparation. husk them with salt and Maioram: and seeth them asunder.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the first, dry in the second.  
Best in cold weather, for gross and homely feeders.   

Fabae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
TOng-tying Pytagor, biddeth us tie up our chaps also from eating of beans. A Fabis abstineto. Wherein judicious Antiquaries say, there is much mystery, and therefore diversly interpret it. Simeon in his Diet Book saith Pythagor, forbade them, for that they cause turbulent & fearful dreams. Other refer it to their flatulency, whereby they provoke to lechery. Other expound it mystically, & not according to the grammaticke sense: therein showing much reading, if not wit. But to gather together their gatherings, were to send my wit a woolgathering, and indeed to contend de lana caprina.   

Rise.  
Choice. BRight and clear kernels, like Pearls Margarite: such as swell in seething.  
Use. Wonderfully assuage the burning heat of the stomach: increaseth séed: stops fluxes.  
Hurt. Bad for the Colic: for being of a clammy and glewish nature, it sticketh too long in the guts: and breeds some wind.  
Preparation. Seeth it in cows milk, or in the cream or oil of sweet Almonds.  
Degree. Hot in the first, dry in the second: temperately saith Auicens and Rhasis.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In winter, for youth and labourers.   

Oriza.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Rise is sown in a moist and low ground.  
frumenty made of Barley, is moister than Rice, & yieldeth singular good nourishment to the body, very wholesome for the sick. You may much meliorate your Rice, both for nourishment & toothsomenesse, by seething it in fat flesh-broath, or in passing good cows morning milk. Sodden with Oil or Butter, it relinquisheth his astringent quality.   

The Painter's Proverb.  
Manum de Tabula.  
THat is, (as present occasion interpreteth) no more Tabletalk. The reason hereof (as I guess) may be these.  
First and principally, except I speak wiselyer.  
Secondly, the consequent is like to prove barren, for Certs fruitless; for all the fruit is antecedent.  
Thirdly and lastly, it's Dinnertime, so that if more time be spent in prating, my Dry Dinner will not be ready in due time. Quod omnium rerum est primum.  
These reasons would bind any man, any reasonable man to the peace. Yet for all this, presuming upon your favourable estimates, who are wise, Et nostis os adolescentiae quàm sit impudens, I am purposed to proceed in my perpetual parallel of paraphrase. The which I desire, it may be served in amongst the rest of the dishes, and be tasted also, but yet of such only as are of eager appetite. If any be desirous to know what a man may call it, surely I can think of no fit name than an hasty pudding. For I protest, in so great haste I composed it, that when a friend of mine came into my chamber, and suddenly surprising me, asked what I was making, I as not minding what he asked, or what I answered, told him in my haste, that I made haste.    

Herbs  

Sage.  
Choice. GArden, or set, the lesser sort: the little leaves of it.  
Use. Good against the palsy and quivering of the joints, proceeding of a cold cause: comforteth the head, brain, senses, and memory.  
Hurt. Annoyeth melancholic persons by over-drying them: also the hot and choleric, by overheating and burning them.  
Correction. Eat it in salads with other cold and moist herbs: as lettuce: or with moist meats.  
Degree. Hot and dry in the beginning of the third, or in the very end of the second: somewhat astringent.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In winter and the spring, for old, cold, and phlegmatic.   

Saluia.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
MAny do much extol Sage, calling it an holy Herb, averring that it preventeth all abortument in women. They counsel a woman the fourth day of her going abroad after childbirth, to drink nine ounces of Sage juice with a little salt, and forthwith to use the company of her husbant.  
The holesomenesse of Sage-ale is notoriously famous.  
Heywoods' merry wit noted two kinds of Sage, not named in our Herbals: Sages wise: Sage fool.   

Foenill or Finckle.  
Choice. GArden: young (if you eat it green): full ripe (if you keep it) sodden with the roots and tender stalks.  
Use. Doth make store of milk: provoke urine and monthly flur, open obstructions, purge the reins wondronsly, help the sight.  
Hurt. Attenuate and inflame the blood, neither sodden nor raw, is easy of digestion, especially eaten much.  
Correction. A little: young: laid a while in cold water.  
Degree. Season Age. Constitution. Hot in the second (many say in the third) dry in the first: very opening.  
For any time, age, or constitution, lest for youth and chollerists.   

Foeniculus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Snake's & Serpent's by eating of Foenill renew their age, and repair their decayed sight by rubbing their eyes with it. Wherefore it is used of us to the like purposes. There is a bad property in the seed, to breed poisonous worms, whose poison is curable by no Antidote. Therefore afore they be eaten, they must be opened and carefully purged.   

Sparage.  
Choice. HOme: lately sown: the tep now bowing to the ground-ward.  
Use. Doth open obstructions of the reins and liver: make soluble: provoke urine and Venus.  
Hurt. Eaten cold, disposeth to domit: and through his bitterness, greatly increaseth choler in choleric stomachs.  
Correction. Is boiled, and (the first decoction cast out) condite with Oil, Vinegar, Pepper, and salt.  
Degree. Hot in the first: temperately moist.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For any age, or temperature: chief for old and cold.   

Asparagi.  
Story for Table-taske.  
DIoscorides saith, that Sparage causeth barrenness: but it is not probable, sithence it nourisheth very much, and manifestly provoketh Venus.  
It is very soon sodden: and therefore Caesar speaking of any thing, that was soon done, had this proverb usually in his mouth. Citiùs quàm Asparagi coquantur; Id est; Sooner than Sparage can be sodden. As much in effect, as, while you can say, what's this? in the turn of an hand: in the twinkling of an eye.   

Spinach.  
Choice. VEry young: growing in a well manured and fat soil, watered from above.  
Use. Doth enlarge the breast: cure the cough: moderately cool the lungs: make the belly soluble, & the wezand smooth.  
Hurt. Is very windy: annoyeth the stomach: engenders watery humours in a cold stomach.  
Correction. Fried with it own juice, without water: then condite with Oil, Sorrel-ivyce, and Raisins of the sun.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the first.  
For any age or constitution: especially youth and chollerists.   

Spinachia.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
SOme will needs have this herb, a bred & native Spaniard: and therefore miscall it, Spagnaeci. But they much abuse it, for the Arabians called it Sphinache: the reason of the name is obvious: because the seed thereof is Spinosum. That is, prickly. The juice of Spinach drunk, cureth any wound received of a Scorpion. Therefore it is of much request in Italy.   

Artichokes.  
Choice. THiffle or prickly. Artichokes, coming of Artichoke: tender.  
Use. Please the taste: provoke urine and Venus: remove flative humours: open obstructions: heat the entrails.  
Hurt. The Thistle is somewhat flatulent; annoyeth the head: burdneth the stomach: Artichoke is not so hurtful.  
Correction. The Thistle sodden, or raw, is eaten in the last course, with salt and pepper: Artichokes are boiled in Pottage, and eaten as the Thistle.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the second, dry in the first.  
The sodden are preferred afore the raw: for cold season, age, constitution.   

Cardui seu Cinarae.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Thistle or prickly Artichoke, differeth from the plain or common Artichoke, only by certain prickles upon the stalk. The Italian most esteemeth of the Thistle.  
In former times they were to be had no where but in Sicily; now every where.  
Theophrastus calleth them Pinei, because they somewhat resemble Pineapples, consisting of many scales, compacted Globe-wise.   

lettuce.  
Choice. THick, commonly called Cabbage lettuce: growing in a fat soil: afore it swell with milk: not washed in water.  
Use. C●●s●● of digestion: the best of pot-herbs, increaseth milk: procureth sleep: states the running of the reins: all wageth heat in the stomach, especially eaten with vinegar.  
Hurt. Dimmeth the sight: quencheth natural heat: corrupteth the seed: causes barrenness: mortifieth venus: makes the body sluggish: weakeneth the stomach.  
Correction. Eaten with Mint, rue, and 〈◊〉 herbs: sodden, rather then raw: unwashed: good Wine drunk upon it.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the second.  
In hot weather, for youth, very choleric, and hot stomachs.   

Lactuca.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
GAlen commendeth lettuce thus: in a young man, it abateth the burning heat of his stomach: unto an old man it causeth sleep. In old time they ate lettuce after supper, to repress vapours arising from the stomach to the brain, and to dispose themselves to sleep. For they used to dine very sparing, but supped largely.  
Aristoxenes Cyraenaeus, watered his Lettuses with Mead, to make them bigger and sweeter.  
Lactuca a lact quasi Lactoca, because it breeds milk in women, saith Martial.   

Endive.  
Choice. GArden: tender: not yet milky savouring most sweetly.  
Use. Assuageth inflammation and thirst: provokes urine & appetite; especially in hot weather.  
Hurt. Bad for the Palsy; quivering of the joints, and cold stomachs: somewhat sloweth concoction.  
Correction. Eaten with Nip, the stalks of Mint, Rew, and such hot herbs.  
Degree. Cold in the beginning of the second: moist in the end of the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather for youth, choleric, sanguine, and very hot stomachs.   

Intubus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Endive is much of the nature and operation of lettuce.  
The wild Endife is not so cold or moist as the Garden or homegrowing, and hath a more sharp and vigorous taste.  
The wild Endife is curled and crisped somewhat like to Cabbage lettuce, but much bigger.   

Borage.  
Choice. COmmonly used, is that very bugloss of old. This therefore taken with the leaves,  
Use. Wondrously cleanseth the blood: recreateth & exhilerateth the heart and spirits, especially put in wine: strengtheneth all the entrails: very good for such as are in recovery.  
Hurt. Correction. Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Somewhat hard of digestion: greatly annoyeth sore mouths.  
Seeth it in very good flesh broth.  
Cold and moist in the first.  
For any season, age, or temperature.   

Borago.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
APuleius writeth, that they of Lucania calleth this bugloss Corage, because it hath an apparent sympathy and notable affinity with the affects of the heart. Whence in tract of time the name is depraved: and B. put for C. Surely it is a most excellent herb, and of special use. It hath this peculiar virtue, that laid in Wine it strengtheneth and cheereth the heart, putting merry conceits into the mind.   

Succory.  
Choice. WIth blue flowers: following the sun: therefore called Heliotropium: tender: the tops of it.  
Use. Very much helps an inflamed stomach: without all measure openeth the obstructions of the liver.  
Hurt. Hurteth a weak and cold stomach: makes little and bad nourishment.  
Correction. Eaten boiled, in salads, with 〈◊〉 and vinegar: or raw, with Nip and such hot herbs.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the first; dry in the second.  
Conuement always, (best in summer for youth and hot constitutions.   

Cichorium.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IT hath been, and yet is, a thing which superstition hath believed; that the body anointed with the juice of Cichory, is very available to obtain the favour of great persons: howsoever, it is of a most opening nature, and maketh way or free passage in the body by taking away all obstructions and oppilations.  
The leaves of Succory bruised, are very good against inflammation of the eyes, being outwardly applied.   

Hoppe.  
Choice. THe first buds, or young branches shooting from the root, not yet lest, of a tender and slender stalk.  
Use. Not only engenders singular good humours, but also reduceth them into an equal and due temper: strengtheneth all the entrails: makes pure and refined blood.  
Hurt. Somewhat flatulent: stuffeth the bead.  
Correction. Boiled and eaten with Vinegar and Oil.  
Degree. Tempertately hot, moist in the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For any season, age, constitution.   

Lupulus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Our forefathers knew not Hoppe: howbeit it is a most excellent herb, & exceedeth all other for good juice: for cleansing the blood, and scouring all the entrails. Besides the necessity hereof in brewing of Beer, is sufficiently known to Germany and England, and all these Northern parts of the world: yet I know not how it happened (as he merrily saith) that heresy & beer came hopping into England both in a year.   

Mint.  
Choice. SMall: garden-spear-mint: the tops only.  
Use. Very exceedingly comforteth the stomach: especially cold and weak: consumeth phlegm, and provoketh appetite.  
Hurt. Annoyeth an hot stomach, or liver; for it in a manner scaldeth and burneth the blood.  
Correction. Eat it sparingly, with cold Herbs.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the end of the second, or beginning of the third.  
In cold weather, for old men, phlegmatic, and melancholic.   

Mentha.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Poets feign, that Mentha Proserpina's Nymph, was metamorphosed into this herb, being taken at her lechery with Pluto the black Prince.  
The Grecians liked the savour of it so well, that they called it Hedyosmus, that is sweete-smell. Perhaps their mint was of better savour than ours, for we have many other herbs which deserve that name rather than Mint: although it savoureth very well.   

Sorrell.  
Choice. GArden: of a deep green colour: the leaves no whit red.  
Use. Restraineth choler: quencheth thirst: exciteth appetite: cureth fluxes: is very wholesome in burning and pestilential fevers.  
Hurt. Exasperateth the stomach: bindeth the belly: hurteth melancholists.  
Correction. Eat it in Salads with other herbs, as lettuce which is moist, and Mint which is hot.  
Degree. Cold in the first, moist in the beginning of the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather for youths, chollerists, and sanguines.   

Oxalis seu Acetosa.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
BY reason of the tart taste, it is called in Latin Acetosa. That is, Vinegar herb. And in Lombardie they call it the sour herb. It was wholly unknown to the antic.  
There be two sorts of it, the greater sown in Gardens which is the better: the less growing in the fields having less leaves, and the stalk like a spear, the leaves very red and shining.   

Burnet.  
Choice. LOw: set in gardens for salads, with little leaves, notched like a Saw, and indented round about the Verge: the stalk red.  
Use. Doth purge the reins and bladder: very much provoke urine: void the stone and gravel: very good against the plague: put in wine, greatly comforts the heart.  
Hurt. Hard of digestion: stuffeth the belly: and in many, inflameth the liver and blood.  
Correction. Eaten raw in salads, with other cold herbs.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the second.   

Pimpinella.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IT is an Herb that the ancient were very little acquainted with. Yet the Nomenclators have referred it unto that sort of herbs which are good against the stone.  
The decoction of it made in pottage, is a present remedy against the plague. Also the water distilled, is passing good for that purpose. It is vulgarly thought to be put in wine as a cooler: but it hea●eth in the second degree, and joineth with wine in his operation for the strengthening of the heart.   

Persley.  
Choice. THe branches, afore either they flower or séed: the roots at half their growth.  
Use. Very much provoke urine and women's flux: cleanseth the liver and matrice: openeth the obstructions of those parts: is very pleasing to theistomacke: the decoction of it resists poison.  
Hurt. Is of no very good juice: inflameth the blood: stuffeth the head: is slowly digested.  
Correction. Eat it little, raw, with cold herbs: sodden, in flesh pottage: the root boiled thoroughly:  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the second, dry in the end of the first.  
Good sodden, for any season, age, or constitution.   

Petroselinum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe excellency of this herb, accordeth with the frequent use thereof. For there is almost no meat or sauce which may not have Persley either in it or about it. Our English word Persly, is a manifest contract of the Latin Petroselinum.  
The chiefest virtue lieth in the root: second in the seed: last and least in the leaves: and yet these are of most use in the kitchen.   

Taragon or biting Dragon.  
Choice. GArden: in a fat & moist soil: the tender branches & leaves not spread upon the ground.  
Use. Chief of herbs for acrimony and savourmes: Card●all: exciting appetite and Venus: comforting the stomach.  
Hurt. Attenuateth the blood, and burns the liver: nought for hot constitutions.  
Correction Eat it sparingly, with Borage flowers, or Endive, Lettule, and such cooling herbs.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot almost in the beginning of the third: dry in the second.  
For cold, old, phlegmatic.   

Dracunculus Hortensis.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THis is an Artificial herb: for it cometh of a linseed put into an Onion, or Leek, & so buried in the ground. Husbandmen have a strong conceit of it (and not without some cause) that it is a preservative against the plague, & all manner of poison inward or outward: experience and proof is no detractor of the credit and estimation thereof.   

Radish.  
Choice. TEnder: biting the tongue: most white.  
Use. Helpeth urine: voideth gravel and sand from the reins and bladder: healeth the stomach: clarifieth the voice.  
Hurt. Causeth leanness, beleching, headache, and lice: burns the blood: hurseth the teeth and eyes: is slowly conceded.  
Correction. Therefore is best eaten after meat.  
Degree. Hot in the second: dry in the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution, In cold weather, for youth, labourers, and hot stomachs.   

Raphanus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
WE English have greatly honoured this root, by calling it a Radish, that is, Radix, a root: as if this root were the only root, and all other roots no roots in comparison of this root: or at leastwise that the Radish is Radix radicum, the root of roots, a root indeed, a root Cath' Hexochen (as the Rhetoricians speak, a most excellent root. But I fear me, I have ouercloyed you with roots, may it please you to fall to somewhat else.   

Carot, or red Parsnip.  
Choice. Use. Read: great: sweet.  
Provoketh urine, Venus, and monthly slur: engenders milk: openeth obstructions: is preferred afore the Parsnip.  
Hurt. Of 〈◊〉 and bad nourishment: slowly digested: very windy.  
Preparation. Boil it thoroughly: then eat le with vinegar, oil, mustard, and coriander.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the second, moist in the first.  
In cold weather, for all but old, and phlegmatic.   

Carota seu pastinaca rubens.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
CArot, that is, red root: as some Antiquaries guess. Athenaeus, quoting Diphilus, saith the Grecians called the Carot Philtrum, for that it is thought to be a great furtherer of Venus her pleasure, and of loves delights: but although generally it furthereth Venus, yet it is especially to be understood of the wild Carot.   

Onions.  
Choice. THat grow in a moist soil: great: full of juice: round, as the Flemish.  
Use. Excite Venus: increase seed, and milk: restore appetitie: preserve in change of water.  
Hurt. Eaten raw, or much, cause headache: burn the blood: dull the understanding: hurts the eyes.  
Correction. Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Lay it sliced a while in cold water; then seethe it thoroughly.  
Hot in the third, dry in the second.  
For old and cold only.   

Cepa.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe word Onion, comes of the old Latin name Vnio. For so the old Latin Rustics termed that which the latter call Cepa. And the reason why they called it Vnio, was, because one herb or branch (as it were) groweth upon one root. Whereto accordeth that, that Columella saith in his 12. Book and 10. cha. of Husbandry: Cepa simplex quam Vnionem Rustici vocant.   

Garlic.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Choice. THat comes up about March: put in salads, or used dry: full of sprigs and knots.  
Use. green, qualifieth the coldness and moistness of salads: dry, it resists poisons, clears the voice, kills worms, provoketh urine, and Venus: consumes the salt rheum in the stomach.  
Hurt. Hurts the voiding faculty: brain: sight: head: very bad for women with child, youth and hot constitutions: reviveth old diseases: burns the blood.  
Correction. Bo●ls it thoroughly, then eat it with oil, vinegar or other meats.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the fourth, dry in the third.  
In cold weather, for the aged, and phlegmatic.   

Allium.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Garlic is of most special use for Seafaring men: a most excellent preservative against all infection proceeding from the nasty savour of the pump or sink, and of tainted meats which Mariners are feign to eat for fault of better. It also pacifieth the disposition to vomit, crused by the roughness of the sea, and greatly strengtheneth the rowers: therefore they eat it by break of day. It may be rightly termed the poor man's physic.   

Scallion or little Onion.  
Choice. SMall: like a Daffodil Root: red: hard: sweet.  
Use. Helpeth a sa●nt stomach, languishing through overmuch heat: causeth appetite: furthereth concoction.  
Hurt. Causeth wind, gross humours, headache, thirst, dreams.  
Correction. Prepared as the Onion: condite with strong vinegar, Oil, & Salt: eaten with bruised Sage & parsley, moderately.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the fourth, dry in the third.  
Unwholesome for hot season, age, com●tution.   

Cepa Ascalonia.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
A Scallion, is so called of Ascalon, a Town in judaea, where it is very plentiful, and was first found. Thence transplanted to Greece and Italy, and so to these paits.  
The Latins call the Scallion, Onion, Lecke, and Garlic, by one common name Bulbus.  
The Scallion infinitely furthereth Venus, as some say, that have used it to that purpose.   

Leeks.  
Choice. GArden: sown: in a moist soil, or often watered; very small and tender:  
Provoke urine, Venus, & monthly flux: break wind: 〈◊〉 with honey, ●●●difie the lungs & lights: applied in a plaster, cure the Hemorhoids.  
Hurt. breed melancholious humours: annoy the head: dim the sight: procure fearful dreams: overlay the stomach: make ulcers in the bladder.  
Correction. Sodden twice: then dressed with Oil of sweet Almonds, and eaten with lettuce, Endive, Purslane.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the third, dry in the second.  
Unfit nourishment for any but rustic swains.   

Porrum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Emperor Nero took great pleasure in this root: and therefore was nicknamed Porrophagus: which to English, is as much as Welshman.  
Garlic, Onion, and Leeks, are very wholesome, but their savour is passing loathsome and offensive. Wherefore some have thought of a medicament to take away the sent of them. But none like Sir Thomas Mores. To take away the smell of Onions, eat Leeks: and to convince your Leeks, eat a clowe or two of Garlic: and if then Garlic breath be strong. choke him with a piece of a T. with a u with an r. with a d.   

Colewort.  
Choice. ONly the tender buds, and long sprowtes, cropped off the herb, whose leaves are wide open, and not compacted.  
Use. Half sod●●n, make soluble; thoroughly boiled, bind.  
Hurt. Anns● 〈◊〉 lists: especially in som●●●, 〈◊〉 it is harder than at other times.  
Preparation. seeth them first in water, than (that decoction 〈◊〉 in fat flesh broth, with 〈◊〉 and Pepper.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and 〈◊〉 in the fist.  
In the prime of the spring.   

Brassica.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Master Gerard, in his new Herbal, reckoneth 18 sorts of Coleworts, differing either in colour or form.  
It is called by the Grecians Amethystus, because it repelleth drunkenness: or because it resembleth the precious stone called the Amethyst. The Apothicaries and common Herbarists, call it Caul●s, because it hath so goodly a stalk: so the right name is Cawl, not Cole.    

Flesh.  

Veal.  
Choice. Of a sucking Calf, let run abroad two or three days afore: from the Dame; fed in choice pasture.  
Use. Nourisheth excellently: makes 〈◊〉 good blood: wholesome for them that exercise much.  
Hurt. Though young and tender, yet being of gross substance, naturally hurteth the weak or in recovery.  
Correction. Boiled with young Pullet's, or fat Capons, and parsley.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Temperate in all qualities.  
For all seasons, ages, constitutions.   

Vitulina.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Italians should be calves by their name; for Italos in Greek is the same that Vitulus in Latin, and calf in English. Therefore they collaude it by terming it Vitella, id est, vitam illia dans: signifying the wholesomeness thereof to a good stomach. It is good for sound and ableconstitutions, not so good for the weak, sick, or languishing stomachs, for it is of a lash and yet gross substance, not very digestible. Essex calves the proverb praiseth, and some are of the mind that Waltome calf was also that country man.   

Beef.  
Choice. MOst young and tender: fat: wrought at plough, or other strong labour.  
Use. Nourisheth exceedingly: engendereth very much blood: stops chollerous fluxes.  
Hurt. Is of bad nourishment: slow of digestion: makes gross blood: yea clodders of blood in the veins, and other melancholic diseases.  
Correction. Is powdered with much shall, 24 hours, and sodden exquisitely.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold in the first, dry in the second.  
The tenderest, in cold weather, for youth, labourers, and great exercisers.   

Vaccina seu Bubula.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Beef, (quasi) Bove of Bos, an Ox, Cow, or steer.  
Sir Thomas More in his Utopia Li. 2. commendeth the Ox far above the Horse.  
Oxen, yield to horses in fierceness, but excel them in patience; neither are they subject to so many diseases, are kept with less charge, and lastly, worn out at plough and cart, yet are man's meat in fine.  
The Ox is the Countryman's fellow-labourer, and one of Ceres' 〈◊〉 household servants. Prometheus, first slew an Ox.   

Wethers Mutton.  
Choice. NOt yet of the first Shere: ● sheep Weather, not Goat.  
Use. Makes very much and very good nourishment: for the weak.  
Hurt. Old, is unwholesome being corrupted with age, and overmuch dried, for want of his stones.  
Degree. The younger, boiled, is eaten with opening and cardiall herbs.  
Season. Age. Constitution. Temperately hot, and moist.  
For any time, age, constitution, or region.   

Veruex.  
Story for Tabletalk  
THose things which are most necessary unto us, by God's great goodness are also most common: what more necessary to life then air, and what more obvious? insomuch as that only is the Eliment, elmeno Tyrant can deprive the meanest Vassal off, not taking away his life. Aqua & igni interdici potest, so the most wholesome and convenient meat for sustenante of our bodies, is mutton, and beef: of all other flesh most common. I dare say there are no four other sundry meats wherewith we may continue longer full fed, with less loathing.   

Goate-flesh.  
Choice. Read and black kids: scarce half year, lately caned, not yet weaned.  
Use. Is easily and soon digested: of best nourishment: good especially for such as are weak, or in recovery.  
Hurt. Unwholesome for the aged, cold, and moist stomachs, and such as exercise much.  
Preparation. Holesommer roast then sodde: the hinder quarters, than the fore: because they less abound with excrementitious moisture.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and moist temperately ● the first.  
For young and hot stomachs: not old, nor phlegmatic.   

Caprilla.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
CApra à Carpendo, because it carpeth and biteth off the young buds and sprowtes of plants and shrubs.  
That which we call a Kid, the Italians call Capretto, till it be half year old, and then they altar the name.  
An heard of Goats finding Eringium, gather together to it, and depart not thence, until they have eaten it all up quite and clean. They can best render the reason, who are goatish and love to eat Eringoes.   

Lamb.  
Choice. MAle, a year old, fit for seasoning: not in winter.  
Use. It is of exceeding good and plentiful nourishment: resisting melancholy; best for an hot constitution.  
Hurt. Sucking Lamb, is exceeding moist, therefore nought for phlegmatic stomachs.  
Preparation. A yéerling, roasted, and eaten with Rosemary, Garlic, Sage, cloves, and such hot things.  
Degree. Hot in the first, moist in the second, (the sucking is moist in the third order.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For hot weather, youth, and chollerists.   

Agnus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IF the southwind blow in seasoning time, the Shepherds may look for store of Ewe lambs; if the North wind, then for Males.  
So soon as the Lamb is eaned, it knoweth his dam, and presently 'gins to play and dally with her.  
All female mutton, or under a year old, breeds bad juice, for it is overmoyst, making thick and clammy humours.  
It is no meat for cold seasons.   

Swine's Flesh.  
Choice. NOr old, nor thin; but of a full groweth, and middle age; male: fed in the fields.  
Use. Doth yield very much and very good nourishment, for labourers especially: keep the paunch slippery: provoke urine.  
Hurt. Hurt old folk, and those that live delicately or at ease: hasten the Gout and Sciatica.  
Correction. The lean of a young fat Hog eaten moderately: with spices and such hot things.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the first, moist in the end of the second.  
In cold weather, for youth, hot stomachs and labourers.   

Porcus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IN old time they detested Swine's flesh, accounting it over moist; especially sucking pigs; or young shoots: and surely they were wiser than we: our appetite, captivates our reason in this matter.  
The most tolerable, is such as is at his full growth and natural perfection. Which flesh questionless cometh nearest to man's in taste and savour: especially being a little powdered. Bacon may be eaten with other flesh to provoke appetite, and to cut asunder phlegm cloddered in the stomach.   

wild Boar.  
Choice. Young: fat: tender: much chased: in winter.  
Use. Of much nourishment: is fit meat for great excercisers: easy of digestion.  
Hurt. Nought for old and idle folks, in making store of excrementitions and superfluous humours.  
Preparation. Carved into steaks, and spiced: or as the Italians make their Brolardieri; or else baked with store of spice.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and moist in the first, temperately.  
In cold weather, for hot and laborious.   

Aper seu Apcugna.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IN the beginning of winter the wild sane gender; and about the prime of the spring they pig, in desert, strait, craggy and devious places.  
If they be at any time sick, their physic is ivy. They are so so loaden with the weight of their urine, that Hunters surprise them at such time as it urgeth them, not giving them leisure to void it, and so not being able to escape by flight, take thm.  
P. Seruillius Rullus, first served in Wild Boar to the table, 'mongst the Romans'.   

Red Deer.  
Choice. Young; and (if it may be) such as yet sucketh: gelded so soon as it is calfed.  
Use. Is of exceeding good nourishment.  
Hurt. Old, breeds evil humours: hard of digestion: causeth a quartan fever.  
Preparation. Roast, or baked in pasties, larded with the fat of other beasts.  
Degree. Hot somewhat remisty in the first: dry in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. Neither for hot weather, nor for old folks, very bad for melancholists.   

Ceruus  
Story for Tabletalk.  
hearts flesh yieldeth but gross and melancholious nourishment. Eaten at breakfast, it is said to prolong one's life: at supper to abridge the same.  
The Hind goeth 8. months with her young, which so soon as she hath calved, she exerciseth them to the race: carrieth them to steep downfalls, and teacheth them to leap.  
It is a most simple and innocent Animal, howsoever nature in a mockery hath armed it most magnificently. It is the very Emblem of a Gull, girded to a sword, being as heartless as the Hartis.   

Fallow Deer.  
Choice. Young: fat: very well chased, hanged until it be tender.  
Use. Nourisheth better than any other Venison: especially resisteth the colic, & palsy: good for such as abound with humours.  
Hurt. Hurteth the lean and thin: for making dry blood, it annoys the sinews, especially being old.  
Correction. In roasting, basted thoroughly with oil, or larded very much.  
Degree. Season. Age Constitution. Hot and dry in the second.  
Bad for youth, and chollerists: good for them that have the palsy, and store of rheum.   

Dama.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IT is a rare thing to see a tame do: and yet it may hardly be termed wild: howsoever the Latins call it, Fera in special, and the flesh thereof Forina. For there are many brutes which are Neuters, neither wild nor tame, but in a mean: as the Swallow amongst Foules: amongst Flies the Bee: 'mongst Fishes the Dolphin.  
martial hath penned the Does lamentable women-tation in two verses: thus.  
The Boar is feared for his tosh,  
His horns defend the Hart:  
But we poor harmless heartless Does  
Are naked on every part.   

Hare.  
Choice. Young: well coursed.  
Use. It maketh slender: causeth good fresh colour in the face.  
Hurt. Slowly digested: engenders melancholic blood: much eaten, makes sleepy and drowsy.  
Preparation. farse with suet, or gobbets of lard, and spices.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the second.  
In winter, for youth & sanguine: not for melancholists or students.   

Lepus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Hare's flesh is good for those that would be lean & fair. It is a received opinion, that use of Hare's flesh procureth beauty, fresh colour, and cheerful countenance, for a seven-night space: in so much as the Italians have a byword, which speaketh thus of a fair man, He hath eaten an Hare.  
And Martial mocks a foul sow, telling her that she htah not eaten any Hare's flesh of a week. It runneth most swiftly, especially up the hill: because the fore feet be shorter than the hinder legs.   

Conny.  
Choice. Young, fat, in winter, hanged a night in the cool.  
Use. Affordeth store of very good nourishment: consumes all corrupt humours, and phlegm in the stomach.  
Hurt. Hurteth melancholists, and old folks.  
Preparation. parboiled: then roasted, with sweet herbs, cloves, and other spices.  
Degree. Cold in the beginning of the first: dry in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather, somewhat unwholesome for the foresaid.   

Cuniculus.  
Story for Tabletalk  
BEcause the Coney is somewhat like the Hare, it is called (parvus Lepus) the less Hare.  
It taught the soldier to undermine his enemy, by earthing: which the Latins term Cuniculum agere) to play the Coney. And yet (alas) of itself it is very Coney, a most simple Animal: whence are derived our usual phrases of Coney, and Coney-catching.  
There is so great store of Coneys in the Baleares Insulae, usually called Maiorica, and Minorica, that oft they waste their whole crop of corn, and cause extreme dearth in those islands.   

Capon.  
Choice. Young: fat: well crammed: set up a fatting in a wide Co●pe.  
Use. Yields to man's body better nourishment than any other meat: principally good for the brain: procureth an equal temperature of all the humours.  
Hurt. giveth such as take their ease, overmuch nourishment.  
Correction. Used moderately, and with extraordinary exercise.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Possesseth an equal temperature of all qualities.  
For any time, age, constitution.   

Capo.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
SO named, for his excellency, and chief worth amongst all fowls of that kind. It makes perfect blood. The Italians denue the name of two Hetrurian words, Quá pone: that is, huc appone: set it afore us: as much as our byword: It saith, Come eat me. So these two words, Eat it, are the unlettered man's latin for any good meat.  
The eleventh year afore the third Punic war, Caius Fannius Consul, made a decree, that no foul should be served to the table, but the Capon or Hen fatted abroad.   

Turkey-cock, or Ginny-Cocke.  
Choice. Young; fatted abroad; in winter; hanged all night.  
Use. Of very plentiful and very good nourishment: restoreth bodily forces: passing good for such as are in recovery: maketh store of seed: inflameth Venus.  
Hurt. Bad for those that line at ease: disposeth to the gout, and such like defluxions.  
Preparation. Eaten little and seldom; spiced thoroughly in roasting.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and moist in the second.  
At any time, for any but decrepit age.   

Gallus Indicus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IT may be, the vulgar for India Cock, miscall it Ginny-Cock, The Cock, Hen, and Chickens, are all of one nature: the Chicken is preferred for tender flesh.  
The Ginny-Cocke was first brought out of Numidia, into Italy, and not from India.  
The Grecians call these fowls Meleagrides: induced thereunto, by Poetical fiction. For (they say) Meleager's Sisters were transformed into Ginny-hens, while they mourned for their brother's death   

peacock.  
Choice. Young: said in a most clear and open place: tender.  
Use. Nourisheth exceedingly: fit for hot stomachs.  
Hurt. Hard of digestion: breeds melancholious blood; unfit for idle folks.  
Correction. The throat cut, and hanged with a wait tied at the heels, in some cold place, fifteen days.  
Drink good wine upon it.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the second, dry in the first.  
For cold weather, hot stomachs, and great exercisers.   

Pavo.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Peacock, is very hard meat, of bad temperature, & as evil juice. Wondrously increaseth melancholy, & casteth (as it were) a cloud upon the mind. It layeth at the third year, and liveth five and twenty. It is so spiteful & envious, that it eateth his own dung, lest any body should make any use of it.  
Great Alexander, imposed a great penalty on him that killed a Peacock.  
Quintus Hortensius, the Roman Orator, first set it upon the table, being himself a perfect glutton.   

Pigeons.  
Choice. THat first assay to go, and get their own meat: plump and fat.  
Use. Cure the palsy, proceeding of a cold cause: excite Venus: increase heat in the weak: purge the reins: are easily digested.  
Hurt. Inflame the blood: annoy hot constitutions, and their heads which which delight to eat Pigeons heads: therefore we always behead them.  
Correction. Boiled in fat flesh broth, with Verivyce, Plums, sour Cherries, or with Vinegar and Coriander.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and moist in the second.  
In cold weather, for old folks, and stomachs full of phlegm.   

Pipio.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Wild or would Doves, are but dry meat. They live 30. years.  
They are mute all winter long, in the spring they begin to mouth it. Some of them are called Vivariae, Stockdoves: other Torquatae, Ringdoves. The house or tame Pigeon is much the better: yet a atle too moist. Their flesh is very preservative in time of pestilence ●●ising of corruption. It is the Emblem of sincere and simple meaning, also of pure love, void of all malice. It was good Angel to Noah.   

Gosling.  
Choice. Young: fat: bred in the chempion, and free air.  
Use. Yéeldes very good nourishment: fatteth the macilent.  
Hurt. Fills the body with superfluous humours: is slowly concocted: (the flesh of an old Goose, causeth a fever.)  
Correction. Stifled with borage-smoake set in at the throat; then far●ed with sweet herbs, and spices, and for roast.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the first, moist in the second.  
In cold weather, for hot stomachs, and great exercisers.   

Pullus Anserinus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe jews are great Goose-eaters: therefore their complexion is passing melancholious, their colour swort, and their diseases very perilous.  
The liver and wings are best, especially of fat Geese.  
Sessius, first commended the goodness and pleasant taste of the Goose-liver: some ascribe it to Metellus: other to Scipio.  
A guard of Geese kept the Capitol at Rome, in times past.  
A Goose, is the Emblem of mere modesty.   

Duck or Mallard.  
Choice. Young: fat: tender.  
Use. doth nourish exceeding much: fat: cause very good colour: clear the voice: increase seed: dispearle wind.  
Hurt. Get them an heat that are cold, and them a fever that are hot: digest hardly: yields but bad nourishment.  
Correction. Is perfumed at the mouth with Borage, and so forth, as it is said of the Gosling.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and moist in the second.  
In cold weather only, for hot stomachs, and such as use great exercise.   

Anas.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
OF all fowls that use to flock, the Duck is the hottest and moistest. The liver and wings are most commended. martial willeth the whole Duck to be set afore him; but he chooseth only the neck and the breast, and sends the relics back to the Cook.  
They hatch their young near unto Lakes, and Fens; but so soon as they are out of the shell, they take the water, and afterward mount up into the air.   

Pheasant.  
Choice. FAt, gotten in hawking in winter.  
Use. Good in hectics fevers: restoreth their strength that are in recovery: of singular good nourishment: helpeth a weak stomach.  
Hurt. It only makes the Swain, short wound.  

Therefore good Peasant,  
Touch not the Pheasant,  
But save thy weasant:  
you're somewhat pleasant.   
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Temperate in all qualities.  
In Autumn, and winter, for any.   

Pheasianus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
PHeasant, in digestion and nourishing is very like Hen: yet more toothesome: in a mean betwixt Capon, and Partritch. Passing restorative for the thin and macilent.  
It taketh his name of Phasis, a river in Choichis. The Italian vulgars', call it Fasan, quasi faciens sanum: because it is so exceeding wholesome.  
It is much molested with louse, which it riddeth itself off, by tumbling in the dust.   

Pertritch.  
Choice. Young: female: like Chickens: fed in the house, if it may be.  
Use. Yields excellent nourishment: soon digests: fats: dries up superfluous humours in the stomach: very healthsome for such as are in recovery:  
Hurt. Young, hurts none but the rustics, the old be tougher and of bad savour.  
Correction. Eat the young, hang the old all night in the cool.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the first, dry in the second.  
For all, in cold weather, especially the young ones.   

Perdix.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Parti●ch never lives longer than 16. years.  
It is not good, if not young.  
The Hen is better than the Cock.  
They are so venereous, that the Cock opposed to the Hen on the windy fide, she conceiveth through the wind that blows from him.  
Cardan thinks the Hen is partly Cockish.  
If they feel themselves sick, they purge themselves with Laurel.  
In Paphlagonia they have two hearts.  
The Partritch is consecrated to jupiter and Latona.   

Turtle  
Choice. Young: fatted in the house a while, afore it be eaten.  
Use. It pleaseth the taste: affords very good nourishment: digesteth eastly: comforteth the stomach: sharpeneth the wit: exciteth Venus.  
Hurt. Being exceeding dry, hurts chollerists, and melancholists.  
Correction. Fed in the house with moist meats, then kill and hang it two nights in the cool.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the second.  
In cold weather, for old folks, and phlegmatic.   

Turtur.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
AT the beginning of the Spring they hide themselves, because they than cast their feathers, and are in a manner naked.  
It is a thing noted in the Turtle, that while it drinketh, it lifteth not up her head, as all other birds do.  
The time of her life, is eight years.  
It purgeth itself with an herb that groweth upon walls.   

Quail.  
Choice. NOt fed with Hellebore or Bear-foot: taken with the quail-pipe: fat and tender.  
Use. Doth help melancholists only, by moistening their dry constitution.  
Hurt. Easily corrupteth in the stomach: inviteth the Ague, Palsy, Cramp.  
Correction. Eaten with Vinegar and Corander.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the end of the first: moist in the end of the second.  
In cold weather: hurteth old folks, paralytic, and phlegmatic.   

Coturnix.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
I Am much in doubt whether Coturnix be our Quail. Cardan also doubteth: and his manner of doubting, maketh me doubt more: for setting down six degrees of delicates that please the taste, he maketh Quail the first dish of the first course. His words are these: Aves videntur primum locum vendicare, atque inter eas qualea: seu sit Coturnix, seu non, hand refert. I am sure all other writers give Coturnix their evil word, affirming that it is a breeder of the Cramp, Palsy, and Falling sickness: and in a word, passeth for badness.   

Thrush, Mavis, or Blackbird.  
Choice. IN cold weather, fat: fed with holly, juniper, and Myrtle berries.  
Use. Is of very good juice: easily digested: very wholesome for such as are in recovery.  
Hurt. nought for those that are subject to the migram, or frenzy.  
Preparation. Sod in good flesh broth, with parsley, and other opening herbs.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the very end of the first.  
In cold weather, for any, but old folks.   

Turdus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THis Lataine name, soundeth to English ears somewhat unsavoury: but much worse as I have heard it joined with other like Consonants. As for example. Edo Fartum, & Turdum pistum. But there is nothing evil spoken, but being evil taken.  
Now because it signifies diversly, a Thrush, a Black-birde, a Manis: some may be desirous to know if all these be much of a nature, yet Virum horum, which is best and holesomest. Therefore to his Virum horum. I answer, Mavis accipe. Pliny reporteth, Agrippa Claudius Caesar's wife, had a Mavis, that did speak very plainly.   

Eggs.  
Choice. OF young and fat Hens: Cock. trodden: new laid.  
Use. Nourish soon, and much: excite Venus: supplying matter for it: very much help them that are in a consumption: open the breast: stay spitting of blood: clarify the voice.  
Hurt. Hinder the concoction of meats eaten presently after them: make the face freckled.  
Correction. Eat them boiled: she yolk only: and pause betwixt Eggs and other meats.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Temperately hot and moist.  
New, for all seasons, ages, constitutions and diseases.   

Ouum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Eggs (some think) because they egg on backward husbands.  
Eggs have the possibility of being living creatures. The white is cold, the yolk hot. They nourish soon and much, by reason of the pliable softness of their substance and temperature: very proportionable to our flesh and nature.  
Not only Hens Eggs, but Partritch, Pheasant, and Turkeys, be very wholesome.    

Fish.  

carp.  
Choice. Whensoever you can get it, great or little.  
Use. Nourishith best: tasteth most excellently, and erquisirely: in all men's judgements a fish of chief note.  
Hurt. Only it is soonetainted, therefore dresie it presently.  
Preparation. Lay it sealed and gutted sire hours in salt: then fry it in oil, and besprinkle it with vinegar in which Spaces and Saffron have boiled.  
Degree. Temperately hot and moist, in the 〈◊〉 either first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For any season, age, or constitution.   

Cyprinus qui & Carpio.  
Story for Tabletalk  
NOne of the Greek or Latin writers, ever knew this fish.  
In Italy it is somewhat rare, and thought to be only in the lake Benacus, and the lake commonly called Della posta.  
It spawneth about the beginning of the summer.  
Many are of the mind, that it eateth gold, because in the guites are found no other excrements, but a bright san● glittering like gold: and beside, it lives always at the bottom of the lake.   

Trout.  
Choice. THick: caught in May: in a swift running River, full of deep downfalls and Rocks: and not out of standing pools.  
Use. Nourisheth well: soon digested: yields cool juice for an over hot Liver and blood: therefore good in hot Agues.  
Hurt. It soon putrefieth: scarce fit for old men, and weak stomachs.  
Correction. seeth it in just somuch Vinegar as water: ease it with sour sance assoon as you can.  
Degree. Cold in the beginning of the first, moist in the end.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather for all ages, but decrepit: every temperature but phlegmatic.   

Trocta seu Turtur.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
IT is very much commended for good nourishment. Insomuch as it is permitted unto one sick of an hot ague. That it is passing wholesome, our vulgar proverb accordeth: As sound as a Trout. And another phrase, Fish-whole, I think is most meant of the Trout.  
It is a fish that loveth to be flattered and clawed in the water: by which means it is often taken.   

Sturgeon.  
Choice. River: for it is fatter, and therefore more grateful to the palate, than sea Sturgeon: in summer: the belly of it.  
Use. A friendly dish on the table: very dainty, and of chief account: nourisheth very well: inciteth Venus: cooleth the blood moderately.  
Hurt. nought for the sick, or in recovery: for it is somewhat too fat: makes thick and clammy juice: slowly digested.  
Correction. Seeth it in water and vinegar: let the sauce be white vinegar, with a little Cinnamon or Fennel in it.  
Degree. Hot in the beginning of the first, moist in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution In hot weather: for all, but those that are plagued with distillations and diseased joints.   

Sturio seu Acipenser.  
Story for Tabletalk  
PLiny in his 9 book of Natural story, and 17. Chapter, writeth thus. In former times Sturgeon was counted a most noble Fish: now it is of no reckoning: the which I much marvel at, sithence it is so rare. We may now a days use Pliny's words, with an inversion of the sense. For what fish is there almost now of greater esteem?  
It hath his scales turning toward his mouth, and swimmeth against the stream.   

Lamprey.  
Choice. River: in March or April, for than it is notably fat, and the back bone marrow tenderest.  
Use. It hath a most excellent fine relish: nourisheth passing well: increaseth seed: a Lordly dish.  
Hurt. Somewhat slow of digestion: especially not boiled inogh: nought for the Gout and feeble sinews.  
Correction. Choke it with white Wine, stop the mouth with a Nutmeg, and the other holes with Cloves: then fry it with Nuts, Bread, Oil, Spices, and white Wine.  
Degree. Temperately hot, moist in the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For any season, age, constitution, but decrepit, gouty, and diseased sinews.   

Lampreta.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Termed so, a Lambendis Petris: a Suck-stone.  
About the beginning of the Spring, it enters the fresh waters, and in Summer departeth again into the sea. Whereas all other fishes have fins to swim withal, some more some less; the Lamprey hath none at all: but moveth in the waters, as Snakes and Serpents creep & glide upon the earth.  
Many in England have surfeited of Lampry pies, as our Chronicles will tell us if we look into them.   

Mullet or Barbell.  
Choice. OF the lesser size: not taken in muddy places, or standing lakes, but gravelly & clear.  
Use. Pleasing to the palate: the flesh applied, cures the biting of venomous things: or any harm done by women's menstruous flure.  
Hurt. The wine wherein a Mullet is stifled drunk, depriveth men of all genital virtue: makes women barren: the meat is hard and slow of digestion.  
Correction. Roast upon a gridiron, sprinkled with Oil, and the juice of Oranges: or boiled & condite with Vinegar, sweet herbs, and Saffron.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the first, dry in the beginning of the second.  
In hot weather, for youth, choleric, strong stomachs.   

Mullus seu Barbo.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
BArbo, because it hath a double beard upon the neither lip.  
And therefore Tully in his Paradox, calleth those that are well barbed, Mulli. Fenestella thinks they were called Mulli, because they are in colour like the shoes of the Almane Kings, and the Patricij amongst the Romans: which Shoes were termed Mullei, of Millo, an obsolet word, signifying the same that suo, to sow as souter's do.  
The Romans prized this fish at a wonderful high rate. It is incredible to tell what Asinius Celer and Crispinus, gave for a Mullet.   

Tench.  
Choice. Female: River: in Autumn or Winter.  
Use. It little benefiteth the body: but only as some think, cut length-wayes in halves, and applied to the soles of the feet, stauncheth the heat of Agues.  
Hurt. Is sllowly digested: heavy on the stomach: bad nourishment, especially in the Dog days.  
Correction. Bake it with Garlic, sweet herbs, and spices: or boil it with Oil, Onions, and Raisins: farse with Garlic, Parsley, and Vinegar.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the second.  
In Autumn and Winter, for youth, choleric, and very laborious.   

Tinca.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Antic make no mention of this fish: not respecting it in deed, because it was so common, and the poor man's provin.  
Only Tully, in his Book de claris Oratoribus, mentioneth one Placentinus an Orator, who was called Tinca, for his merry conceited wit.  
It is only to be found in fresh waters, rivers, lakes, and ponds: and is fittest meat for labouring men.   

Pike or Pickerel.  
Choice. River, rather than Pond, and Pond not muddy: great: fresh: new, and fat.  
Use. It nourisheth much, the iawe-bones burnt to power, and given the weight of French crown in wine, will break the stone.  
Hurt. Hard of concoction: bad nutriment: burdeneth the belly: increaseth phlegm: nought for the sick.  
Correction. Seethe it with sweet herbs, and oil, eat it with white vinegar: or broiled, with wild marjoram and vinegar.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the second.  
Being hard meat, it is fittest for winter, youth, and choleric.   

Lucius.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
NOr yet of the pickerill have old writers recorded any thing, which is companion and an associate of the Tench: by rubbing upon whom, the Pickerill cureth himself of any wound or hurt received.  
It is a very ravenous Fish, devoring any thing be it fish or flesh that lieth in his way.  
It is no meat for those that be sick or weak, whatsoever trivial Leeches prate.   

Eel.  
Choice. TAken in a sandy sea, not muddy: in March: dressed presently.  
Use. Tasteth very pleasantly: nourisheth marvelous well: may be kept long salt: good for the stomach against phlegm.  
Hurt. Somewhat windy, especially the back of it: also over moist.  
Preparation. Roast in a leaf of paper, with oil, parsley, coriander: or keep it condite a day or two with salt and origan.  
Degree. Cold in the beginning, moist in the end of the first.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In the spring, for any age, or temperature, taken moderately.   

Anguilla.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe generation of eels is in nature very easy: but to our understanding passing difficult. For they breed even in dried lakes, presently after a sudden rain, of the very corruption and slime of the soil.  
Athenaeus sayeth, he himself saw in Arethusa of Eubaea, eels with silver and golden earrings, so tame that they would eat meat out of ones hands.  
The I'll of Ely, may be called the isle of Eels: for the abundance of Eels which it yieldeth.   

Rotchet.  
Choice. NEw sodden: and eaten cold.  
Use. Tender meat, and grateful to the palate: easily digested: nourisheth very well: exceedingly wholesome, if continually used.  
Hurt. Whatsoever fault if hath, prepare it as followeth.  
Preparation. Fry and condite it with Orange juice, and pepper: or eat it hot with vinegar.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Temperate in the active qualities, moist in the first.  
Best in winter, for any age, or temperature: moderately taken.   

Erythrinos'.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Grecians so term it because it is red of colour. The Venetians call it Arbour: the Latins in imitation of the Graekes, Rubellus.  
It is a Sea fish, neither comes at any time into the fresh waters: It harbowreth some time about the shore.  
So soon as they are spawned, they are presently full of eggs. And therefore (it is thought) they be all faemall.  
They use to rout together, and rove about the sea in troops.   

Oyster.  
Choice. THat that grows upon great ships bottoms, or in places not muddy;  
Use. in those Months that have the letter R. in their names.  
Hurt. It hath a kind of salt juice in it, that affecteth the palate more than other shell fishes: exciteth appetite, and Venus: nourisheth little.  
Preparation. Somewhat hard of degistion: greatly increaseth phlegm in a cold stomach: causeth obstructions.  
Degree. Dress it with pepper, oil, the juice of sour Oranges: after it be roasted on the embers.  
Season. Hot in the first, moist in the second.  
Age. Constitution. For cold weather, youth, chollerists, and hot stomachs.   

Ostreum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Oyster is an headless fish, yet passing toothesome: it is engendered of mere mire, or mud inclining to corruption: or of the sea froth and spume, which cleaveth upon ships. It liveth not out of the water, yet breatheth not air, nor taketh in any external moisture. It hath not local motion: and plucked from his proper place is devoid of sense, increasing and decreasing with the Moon.  
It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months, that have not the letter R. in their name, because it is then venereous.   

Crab or Crayfish.  
Choice. River, or fresh water, rather than sea Crab: at the prime of the spring, or in harvest: when the Moon is at the full.  
Use. Good for the corsumption, and biting of a mad dog: provoketh urine, & Venus: purgeth the reins: nourisheth very much.  
Hurt. The meat is hard of conection, breedeth gross and phlegmatic humours.  
Preparation. Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Roast it quick, on the timbers: eat it with vinegar and pepper.  
Cold in the second, moist in the first.   

Cancer.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THe Crab also wants a head, and therefore hath all the Organs of sense placed in his breast.  
It engendereth at the mouth: goeth as readily backward: It turneth red in seething.  
In the Coasts and river banks of Phoenicia, there be Crabs so swift in running, that it is a great mastery to overtake them on foot.    

white-meats  

Milk.  
Choice. OF young beasts fed in the choice pasture: 1. Woman's, 2. Cows, 3. sheeps, 4. Goats.  
Use. Milk increaseth brain, fats the body: good for hectic, assuageth scalding heat of the urine: nourisheth plentifully: procureth good colour: furthereth Venus.  
Hurt. nought for fevers, headaches, sore eyes, distillations of rheum, diseased reins, obstructions, the teeth, the gums, old folks.  
Correction. A little afore you take it, put into it some salt, sugar, or honey, lest it curdle in the stomach: drink it fasting.  
Degree. Moist in the second, temperately hot.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For hot weather, youth, chollerists, and strong stomachs.   

Lac.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Milk consisteth of a threefold substance. The first is whitish, cold, and moist: Nitrous and powerful to make the belly soluble. The second fat and oily, of temperate quality, of which butter is made. The third is gross, clammy, and phlegmatic, whereof cheese is made.  
Eat no more Milk, than you can well digest: though it seemeth to be soft and easy meat, fit for children and milkesops, yet it is not so. Use no vilolence after it, nor drink wine, afore you feel it thoroughly decocted.   

Butter.  
Choice. THe newest and sweetest, shéeps. Cleanseth and mightily fetcheth up phlegm cloddered about the breast and longs, especially proceeding of a cold cause: quieteth the cough.  
Use. Too often used, makes the stomach lose and weak: and causeth loathing.  
Hurt. Eat strengthening and astringent meats upon it, or old Saccarum Rosatum.  
Correction. Hot and moist in the beginning of the second.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. At any time, for old folks rather than youth: because it much purgeth distillations.   

Butyrum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
NEw Butter and new Oil are of like nature and operation. The benefit and use of salt Butter is very notable. For only that way it may be preserved, neither thereby doth it lose his proper virtue, to open and enlarge the breast: the older it is the hotter also it waxeth.  
The Fleming or Hollander, is thought to live so long as he doth, only for his excessive eating of Butter.  
Some eat it first, and last.   

Cream.  
Choice. NEw: boiled with a soft fire, so soon as it is flette of the milk.  
Use. As good as butter for the diseases of the breast: pleasant to the taste: cureth the sharpness and drought of the stomach.  
Hurt. Slowly concocted: swimmeth above other meats: of gross juice: easily turns to fumes.  
Preparation. Use it sparingly, put store of sugar, and honey into it.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and moist in the first.  
Fit for youth, choleric and strong stomachs, than the old and rheumatic.   

Flos lactis.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
RIghtly so termed by the Latins, for it is the very flower of milk, as also butter is the flower of Cream.  
Although it be not altogether so fat and oily as butter: yet shall one be glutted and even loathed with it, far sooner than with butter: neither is it so lasting as butter, but changeth in a moment many times, as Dairy maids can better inform you.   

Curds.  
Choice. MAde of the most choice morning milk: fire-newe: for these be most digestable.  
Use. Wholesome for hot constitutions, and such as are troubled with the distillations of chollerous humours: quench thirst: and restrain choler.  
Hurt. Annoy cold stomachs and the smowes, make drowsy, slowly digested.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and dry in the first.  
At any time, for youth, chollerists, and such as exercise much.   

Lac coagulatum Recocta vulgo.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
PLatina miss his cushion, where he saith that Curds are hot of temperature: for experience thereof, we may note the use of them. For let a sound, hot and strong stomach eat them, and they do him more good than hurt: but if a cold stomach eat them, they will never be concocted enough.  
The reason is plain: their cold and gross temprature.   

Cheese.  
Choice. NEw made: of well tempered milk, of beasts fed in choice pasture.  
Use. Mollifieth: fatteth: grateful to the palate.  
Hurt. Too often use of it, breeds obstructions, especially in a weak stomach.  
Correction. Eat it with Nuts, Almonds, Pears, and Apples, and never but when you have need.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Cold and moist in the second.  
For youth, and great exercisers, for it requireth a strong stomach.   

Caseus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
GReene or new cheese, newly made, nourisheth and moisteneth more than salt and old. That which is neither new nor old but in a mean, best agreeth with the stomach: especially eaten moderately.  
They that have best leisure & love cheese best, I would wish them to write an Apology in defence of the common dislike thereof, why so many love it not.    

Spice.  

Pepper.  
Choice. THe corns new: full; not full of withered wrinkles.  
Use. Helps concoction: recalls appetite: breaks wind: strengtheneth the stomach: very much heateth the sinews, and muscles: provokes urine: wastes phlegm.  
Hurt. Hurtful to hot constitutions, especially in hot weather, and hot countries: consumeth seed: immoderately used burneth the blood.  
Correction Used moderately in cold weather and in moist meats: not overmuch beaten.  
Degree. Hot and dry in the third, and almost in the beginning of the fourth.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For cold weather, old folks, rheumatic, and such as are subject to distillations.   

Piper.  
Story for Table-tacke.  
IN India, Pepper is gathered in October, and dried in the Sun: the Corns strewed in beds of palme-leaves, until they be wrinkled.  
Isidorus telleth a mad tale of Pepper: that it groweth in certain woods on the South side of Caucase mount, which woods are full of serpents: therefore the inhabitants of those parts set the woods on fire to scar away the serpents, and so the Pepper comes to be black.   

Cinnamon.  
Choice. THe finest or thinnest: of an exquisite sweet smell, biting taste, and colour red: new.  
Use. Provokes urine, resists poisons: strengthens the brain, and all the entrails: comforteth the sight: preserves from putrefaction.  
Hurt. Hurts the choleric, in hots weather and hot countries: also hot constitutions, by inflaming the inward parts, and blood.  
Correction. Used moderately, with cold or moist meats, not beaten over much.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Very hot in the third.  
In cold weather, for old, and cold, and weak stomachs.   

Cinnamomum.  
Story for Tabletalk:  
Our usually received Cinnamon is not the right and true Spice, but this is passing rare, and scarce: very little or none of it is brought to us.  
The use thereof, is great and manifold to the body, and all the parts of it.  
Only we must moderate ourselves, lest overmuch inflame us. The more substantial and gross in quantity it seemeth, the less virtue and power it possesseth.   

Clowes.  
Choice. Plain, or smooth, which nipped with the nail, yield some moisture: of a most absolute fine smell: new.  
Use. Strengththen the principal parts of the body: and principally the stomach: stay fluxes: and casting: ameud stinking breath.  
Hurt. Annoy, chollerists: especially in summer: much put in meats, cause an unpleasant and bitter taste in them.  
Correction. Taken moderately, when the stomach is full of phlegm, in cold weather, and with moist meats.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the third.  
In winter, for old men, phlegmatic, and such are troubled with distillations.   

Garyophylli.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
CLowes quasi Glows, because through their vehement and ardent heat, they cause a glowing in the mouth.  
Thy grow in certain Islands of the Oriental Indian sea. And thence we have them transported to us, for their fragrancy and sweet virtue: whereof they whose breath is tainted, make very good use.  
For they most excellently relish the mouth, mend and commend the breath.   

Ginger.  
Choice. NEw: not rotten: of the best smell: which biteth the tongue most: cut in pieces, turns not to dust.  
Use. Breaketh wind, yet heateth slowlier than pepper: good for cold stomachs: provoketh sluggish husbands: wosteth phlegm: sharpeneth the sight.  
Hurt. Inflameth hot constitutions, in hot weather, or in hot countries.  
Correction. Green Ginger, condite with honey, warms old men's bellies, or dry, moderately used.  
Degree. The green is hot in the third, moist in the first: the dry, drieth in she second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather, for old, phlegmatic, or troubled with wind.   

Zinziber.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
GInger new or green, is passing moist: which may be gathered, in that it most soon rotteth and corrupteth. Hence also, it heateth slowlier than pepper unto which notwithstanding in all other qualities it is very like.  
It is first fetched from calicut, the most famous Indian Mart: where being condite green with sugar or honey, it is very restorative.   

Nutmegs.  
Choice. NEw: not rotten: weighty. Full of juice and oil: the colonr inclining to red.  
Use. Mendeth a strong breath: taketh away pimpels: comforteth the sight: stomach: spleen, and belly: provokes urine.  
Hurt. Bindeth: and therefore hurteth such as have the Haemorhoids, are costive, or melancholic.  
Correction. Use it seldom, moderately, and with a little Ginger.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry, in the end of second.  
In winter, for very old folks full of phlegm.   

Nux Myristica.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
SO called in Greek, for his most sweet and pleasant savour. As therefore the common Essay, As weak as water, is very badly applied to Aqua fortis: so contrariwise, that other Adage, As sweet, as a Nut, may most properly and kindly be understood, of the Nut Myricstick, or sweet Nut. Even as he that saith, he is Dog-sicke, as sick as a Dog: meaneth a sick Dog, doubtless.   

Saffron.  
Choice. NEw: well coloured: the tops of it a little white in the very end: long: tough: not soon brayed: of most fragrant smell: which moistened, dieth the hand.  
Use. Preserveth all the entrails: causeth good colour: wonderfully recreateth the heart: provokes urine, and Venus: drunk, hasteneth childbirth: driveth away drunkenness.  
Hurt. Stuffeth and paineth the head: makes drowste: takes away appetite.  
Correction. Use it moderately, and in cold weather.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in the second, dry in the first.  
In winter, for the old, phlegmatic, and melancholic.   

Crocus.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
SAffron (as it groweth in the ground) much resembleth the Onion, as Aristotle noteth: but they differ, in that the Saffron head is continuous and solid, not divided into tunicles or skins, as the Onyonis, neither yieldeth seed as doth the Onion. But the Sementive virtue of Saffron, resteth in the head or root.  
It is so good a preparative, that Pliny saith, he that drinks Saffron in some liquor, shall neither surfeit nòr be drunk.   

Sugar.  
Choice. CAndid: heavy: solid: hard: not going soon to powder.  
Use. It keeps the body clean and neat: wholesome for the reins: nourisheth more than honey: cleanseth the breast.  
Hurt. Causeth thirst: soon turns to choler: nought for hot constitutions.  
Correction. Eat it with Pome-Granates and sour Oranges.  
Degree. Hot and moist in the first, or as some think, possessing an equal temperature of all qualities.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In winter, for old, cold, and such as be troubled with distillations.   

Saccarum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
Sugar by some writers is termed Cane or Reede-Honny: because it is excocted forth a Cane or Reed.  
No kind of meat refuseth Sugar for his condiment, but only the inwards of beasts, as tripes: which if you condite with it, they grow most unsavourly. If I were not very reverently sparing of your reverent modesty, especially at the table, I would tell you it makes them smell and stink like new Oxe-dung.   

Honey.  
Choice. PVre: clear: most splendent: whitest: curdled and thick.  
Use. It heateth the stomach: therefore wholesome for old folks: disposeth to the stool: resisteth putrefaction: makes good blood.  
Hurt. Worst for hot stomachs, inflaming the blood, and through his accrimony, increaseth choler.  
Correction. Eat it with fruit, sour meats: or with Saccarum Rosatum.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot and dry in the second.  
In winter, for old, cold, and reumaticke.   

Mel.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
ALl Honey is made of Dew. For out of flowers the Bees gather that of which they make their Combs: of the gum which droppeth from trees, they make Wax: of Dew they make Honey. So that Dew is congealed together or crassified, either by living creatures, and is made Honey: or of it own accord, which also is Honey, usually termed Dry Manna: or is not thickened at all, which they call liquid Manna: Whereof there is great store about Hormus, a City in Arabia Faelix.    

Sauce.  

Salt.  
Choice. WHite: dry and hard for preserving, but moist for every bit.  
Use. The first thing that is set on the Table, and the last taken away: used almost in all meats, to season or preserve: by drying, resists poison: consumeth all corrupt humours.  
Hurt. Makes soon look old: dries the body: wasteth seed: engenders sharp and biting humours: causeth itch and scabs.  
Correction. Eat little of it, and that in or with moist meats.  
Degree. Season. Age. Constitution. Hot in dry.  
In cold weather for phlegmatic and cold stomachs: bad for choleric.   

Sal.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
WE have only added a letter to the latin name: which takes his original as Salt itself doth, a Sole, Salo, & Solo. For the Sun naturally oft times makes Salt, of the foam which the sea waves leave upon the shore. Howbeit, art is a much perfecter Salt-maker.  
There is Salt of diverse colours. In Egypt it is red: in Sicilia purple: in Pathmos, it is most bright and splendent. In Cappadocia, it is of a Saffron colour. The Devil loves no Salt with his meat saith Bodinus.   

Vinegar.  
Choice. MAde of the best wine, a year old: bettered by putting Roses in it.  
Use. Best temperateth choler: quencheth thirst: closeth and strengtheneth weak gums: breaks phlegm: wholesome in time of Pestilence.  
Hurt. Taken fasting hurts the sinows, old, lean, and melancholic folks: gnaweth the stomach and entrails: bad for the diseases of the belly.  
Correction. Alloy it with a good deal of water, or take it with Raisins of the Sun.  
Degree. Cold in the first, moist in the second.  
Season. Age. Constitution. For hot weather, youth, chollerists.   

Acetum.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THere be four principal contingates to Wine. 1. To be kept uncorrupt: 2. To be kept sweet: 3. Being corrupt, to be restored: 4. To be changed into Vinegar. This last is effected many ways: most of which are commonly known. The reason and effect of them all, is only this: to bereave wine of his proper fatness. Whence it followeth, that vinegar nourisheth nothing at all: & that it best quencheth fire: for it is utterly void of that same Pingue Humidum, and by his exceeding Acrimony and rartnesse, eateth and consumeth.   

Mustard.  
Choice. WHich taken, pierceth the brain and provoketh neezing.  
Use. Good sauce for sundry meats, both flesh and fish: besides medicinable to purge the brain.  
Hurt. Not so good for the sight, hot folks, or in hot weather.  
Degree. Much hotter than salt, therefore called in Latin Mustarda (quasi) Mustum arden's: In English Mustard: that is, much tart.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In cold weather, for old, cold, and rheumatic.   

Sinapi.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
PLiny highly commendeth the herb that yieldeth this condiment. But (saith he) the seed is (as it were) a Compendium of the herb. And that, sine ullo dispendio vertutis. Yea the seed is all vigour; and though least in quantity, yet most in power and virtue.  
It is the most perfect Emblem of Ex minimis initijs, Omnia ex nihilo, that is, creation: to see of little or nothing, what a most ample and large Herb ariseth.   

green Sauce.  
Choice. MAde of sweet herbs, as Betony, Mint, Basill: also Rose vinegar, a Clowe or two, and a little Garlic.  
Use. Eaten with flesh (as mustard) exciteth appetite: commendeth meats to the Palate: helps concoction: breaketh phlegm in the stomach.  
Hurt. nought for Fevers and hot stomachs, especially eaten largely.  
Correction. Mingle it with the juice of Sour Oranges, and eat very good meats upon it.  
Degree. According to the temperature of the herbs it is made of, now more, now less hot.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In hot weather, for any, especially for youth.   

Condimentum viride.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THis kind of Sauce, I never tasted myself: yet am bold to communicate and commend it to my friends, as I find it described by the Italian Freitagio. The Italian (as all the world knows) is most exquisite in the composition of all sorts of Condiments, they being indeed the better part of his Diet. All kind of Greensauce, is questionless best in season, while herbs retain their full strength and perfect vigour.    


A Satirical Epigram, upon the wanton, and excessive use of Tobacco.  
IT chanced me gazing at the Theatre,  
To spy a Lock-Tabacco-Chevalier,  
Clouding the loathing air with foggy fume  
Of Dock-Tabacco, friendly foe to rheum.  
I wished the Roman laws severity: Alex. seu. Edict.  
Who smoke felleth, with smoke be donto die  
Being well nigh smouldred with this smoky stir,  
I 'gan this wize bespeak my gallant Sir:  
Certes, me thinketh (Sir.) it ill beseems,  
Thus hereto vapour out these reeking steams:  
Like or to Maro's steeds, whose nostrils flamed;  
Or Pliny's Nosemen (mouthles men) surnamed,  
Whose breathing nose supplied Mouths absency.  
He me regreets with this profane reply:  
Nay; I resemble (Sir) jehovah dread,  
From out whose nostrils a smoke issued:  
Or the mid-ayrs tongealed region,  
Whose stomach with crude humours frozenon  
Sucks up Tabacco-like the upmost air,  
Enkindled by Fires neighbour candle fair:  
And hence it spits out watery reums amain,  
As phleamy snow, and hail, and sheerer rain:  
Anon it smokes beneath, it flames anon.  
Sooth then, quoth I, it's safest we be gone,  
Lest there arise some Ignis Fatuus  
From out this smoking flame, and choken us.  
On English fool: wanton Italianly;  
Go Frenchly: Duchly drink: breath Indiauly.   

Tobacco.  
Choice. TRanslated out of India in the seed or root; Native or satun in our own fruitfullest soils: Dried in the shade, and compiled very close: of a tawny colour, somewhat inclining to red: most perspicuous and clear: which the Nose soon taketh in snuff.  
Use. It cureth any grief, dolour, oppilation, impostume, or obstruction, proceeding of cold or wind: especially in the head or breast: the leaves are good against the Migram, cold stomachs, sick kidnits, toothache, fits of the mother, naughty breath, scaldings or burnings: 4. ounces of the juice drunk, purgeth up and down: cleanseth the eyes, being outwardly applied. The water distilled and taken afore the fits, cureth an Ague.  
The sum taken in a Pipe, is good against Rumes, Catarrhs, hoarseness, ache in the head, stomach, lungs, breast: also in want of meat, drink, sleep, or rest.  
Hurt. Mortifieth and benumbeth: causeth drowsiness: troubleth & dulleth the senses: makes (as it were) drunk: dangerous in meal time.  
Correction. The leaves be-ashed or warmed in embers and ashes: taken once a day at most, in the morning, fasting.  
Degree. Hot and dry in the second: of a stiffening and soddering nature. Also disensing and dissolving filthy humours, consisting of contrary qualities.  
Season. Age. Constitution. In Winter and the Spring, for hot, strong, youthful and fat bodies only, as some think.   

Tabacus Pilciet.  
Story for Tabletalk.  
THis Herb is of great antiquity & high respect among the Indians, and especially those of America or new Spain. Of whom the Spaniards took it, after they had subdued those Countries first upon a liking of the heard very fair and glorious to the eye; afterward upon trial of his virtues worthy admiration.  
The Name in India is Pilciet, surnamed Tobacco by the Spaniards, of the isle Tabaco. By their means it spread far and near: but yet we are not beholden to their tradition. Our English Ulysses, renowned Sir Walter Raleigh, a man admirably excellent in Navigation, of Nature's privy counsel, and infinitely read in the wide book of the world, hath both far fetched it, and dear bought it: the estimate of the treasure I leave to other: yet this all know, since it came in request, there hath been Magnus fumi questue, and Fumi-vendulus is the best Epithet for an Apothecary.  
Thus much late Histories tell us: among the Indians it is so highly honoured, that when the Priests are consulting in matter of importance, they presently cast Tobacco into the fire, and receive at their nose & mouth, the smoke through a Cane, till they fall down dead-drunk. Afterward reviving again, they give answers according to the phantasms and visions, which appeared to them in their sleep.  
FINIS.    

Epiposion.  
Grace after Diets dry Dinner, wherein Diets Drinking is promised.  
NOw that your barking stomachs mouth is shut,  
And hungers rage's apppeased with choicer fare,  
And murmuring bowels be to silence put,  
Now that the boards with voider purged are:  
Both thank you God, and thank Simposiarch's pains,  
That for your thanks, he may thank you again.  
For if you hunger yet, or if you thirst.  
Both which (I weet) may Diets Dryness make,  
A second course may hap to suage the first,  
And Diets Drinking shall the latter slake:  
Accept mean while, these Cates of D. D. D.  
Dressed by Arts Cookery, in C. C. C.  
Proficiat. Proface. Mytchgoodditchye.   

IOa: Weeveri Epicrisis ad Henricum Butsum.  
DIETS dry Dinner? change thy Dinners name,  
For (witty Butts) thou dost thy Dinner wro  
Of fish, fruit, flesh, and white-meat dost thou fra●  
〈◊〉 diet with Tobacco leaves among:  
●nd canst thou say thy Dinner then is dry  
Then both of Spices and of Sauces store  
●nd of Tabaccos moisture fresh supply  
●hy Dinner is replenished evermore?  
With salt of wit so sweet thy Dinner seasoned,  
And relished with the sharpness of thine Art:  
The History of this thy Diet reasoned.  
The table furnished rich in every part.  
Change, change, thy name: I see no reason why  
●Buttes) thou shouldest call thy Diets Dinner dry   

Eiusdem ad eundem de eodem Palinodoia.  
CHange not the Name: for Dinners should be dry.  
'tis now the fashion: on a Cupboard by  
The drink must pauling stand: For once I sat  
Pontus' Table, and withal forgot,  
●r else it was my blushing modesty,  
●amde to shout for drink so openly)  
〈◊〉 call for beer. From Diuner I rose up,  
〈◊〉 never touched of Pontus' foamy Cup:  
〈◊〉 With Pontus then ere any more I dine,  
●tes (by thy leave) I'll be a Guest of thine.  
FINIS.