The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes (1597)
Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Bollifant, Edmund, -1602, printer, Norton, John, -1612, bookseller, Norton, Bonham, 1565-1635, bookseller, Rogers, William, approximately 1545- illustrator, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585. Cruydenboeck · Imprinted at London : By [Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton and] Iohn Norton · leaf 1284
1252 THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE they be yet but tender ,hauc a fweete imel,and be couercd with a grcene huskejvnder that is a woo- die fhcll,in which the kcrnell is contained, being couered with a thin skin,parted almoft into fower parts, with a woodic skin as it were 5 the inner pulpe whereof is… … are pleafant to the tafte : they are a little eolde, and haue no fmall moyfture which is not perfectly concocted ; they be hard of digeftion,they nourifh Iittle3thcy flowly defcend. B The drie nuts are hot and drie,and thole more which become oylie and ranke,thefe be very hurt- full to the ftomacke…
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