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Show and beareth many more flowers than our Englifh themfelues more backward like the Turkes cap, white Lillie doth. Of white Lillies. Chap.9%. % Theplace. OurEnglith white Lillie groweth in moft gardens of England, T se The kindles. 6 ofthe| Fame. or sere tame, field:5 thers se field lies whereof forne be wilde , or ofthe d, beyon from evra (oresofLilili ythers ing5 grow ol Owne Countries gatdensfome white; othersred fome'of ning with begin we will deutide them into Chaptets, the feas and bicaufe ofthe variable forts ing. grow of in the natiue place the two white Lillies,whichdiffer little but 2 . I Lilésim albyn. —~ Thewhite Lillie. . ‘ * " ee 147 HISTORTEOOR PAINT Si THE THE FIRST BOOKE OF a 2 Lilium albwn Bizantinum The white Lilli f . plantsfor our Englith gatdensjwhere Conftantinople andthe parts adiacent, from whence wehad ; y. countre owne they flourith as in their % Thetime The Lillies do flowerfrom Mayto the enid of lune, % The names. H Rofa iutronisot Lunos rofe, bicaufe The Lillie is called in. Greekexprrdye :in Latine Liljwm,and fo For the Poets fain asitis reported, it came vp of hir milke that fell vpon th vas afleepe; &after whom Jupiter hadby Alcumena,was put to Lunos brefts Z in the heauens,and the other on the there fell away abundance ofmilke, andthat one part led Ladtews Circulus , 0 circle earth,andthat ofthis fprangthe Lillie, andthe 1¢ explication of the 44. i milkie way,or otherwife in Englifh Watlingftreete.D. It is called 1 faith,that no hearbe dothfo liuelyfet foorth the frailtie of mans life as the Lillie. Sp anith Lirio blanc Dutch eajetls Gilgen: inlow I Jutch Uotitte Lflier + in Italian Gig/zo : in French Lys b/anc :in Englifhthe white Lillie. The other is called LiliumalbumBizantinum, and alfo Martagon album Bizart ues Sultan Zambach, thewhite Lillieof Conftantinople : of the Turkesth that itmight be the better knowen which kinde of Lillie they ment, when the into thefe countties Fafiori grandi Bianchi, {othat Sultan Zambach, Fafio muchto fay,Sultans great Lillie with white flowers. se The nature. The white Lillie is hot andpartly of a fubtile fubftance. But if youregard the roote, 4t the firft degree,and hot in the fecond. x The vertues. Theroote ofthe gardenLillie ftampedwith honie , gleweth rogitherfinewes that be c der, Itconfumeth or feourethawaythe vicers of theheadcalled “Achores , and likewife all {cu nefle of the beard and face. The rooteftamped with vineger,the leaues of Henbane,or the m and apoftémes of the priuiemembers. Itbringeth the haire againe vp burned or fcalded,ifitbemingled withoile or¢ 3 1¢ place The fame rofted in the embers and {tamped w i : therewith an read andh kethpeftilentiall botches, It ripeneth apoftem The flowers fteepedin oile oliue and fhiftedty funne in a {trong glafle,is good to foften the hardnefle of fi Florentinus feriptor rei rustice {aith,that if the roote be curioufly ope red,blewor yellowcolour that hath no cauftické ok buithifag qualitie, Ww S the fame colour. lili Alexandpinus faith ; that thewatet therdofdiftilled@anddinke,cauteth eafie andfpedic % The defeription, et He white Lillywhich in beauty and brauerie excelled Salomoninhis greatelt roialtie)bat ee leaues,ofa graffie ot light greene colour, The ftalkes bet? withthe like leaues, but gr wing and Ginaller eben diaeae+ aeae garnifhed ward the foote ofthe ftalke whet h cm do grow faire white flowers, ftrong offmell,nat heii like a bell. In the " ll i ey do gtow.wide or open'in the mouth of themdo grow{ma dle partthe ee tender pointels tipped with a duftic yellow colour,tibbed ot chat i sediohi backe fae a bulbe pnade ol! hs ifting offixe finall leanes thicke AridPit. “The roote is full ofofttough and clammieinice wherewith ly y cloues #ull the whole plant.doth great lyJ abound. ole ; 2° The white Lillie of the formerbut nate Alla and leffery The fale:MeV hath verylarge'and fat leauies liké GW aaa ena with ed arnifh fétandg : ( cubits» 2 ne Wi $ leffer F f buembch ic e the precedent,< m alke oftentimesr dott “alter and\degdenerate fro east rallroundneffe to a flat form yas 9 itwer ¢alath of woodfurrowedor chanele alongft the fame wereribbes: or welts. - TIThe flowers groweatth : Be ue doe ttt € top P lik ethe former, f auing that the= lea’leauesth aoe hemfelitt delinérancesand expelleth the {eeordine orafter burthen in mokfpeedie maner: Céfavins Archiater faithy the leaues boiled ivfower wine ,'and-deepe andperillous wounds fo- G mented ot bathed -therewithydoe greatly helpe the workingof the other medicines that are applied booke de Simipli-meidi. Jal the partsiadioiling,as Ga/ewlikewiledorhireportinhis 7. / ACUEAEE ? ‘ The roote of the white Lillie ftamped andftrained withvine j/and given to drinke for two or F{ thresddies:tdgither) expelleth poifon ofthe peltitence,and-cuufethit tobreéake forth in blifters in theoutward partofithe skin’; according totheexpétience of alearned-gentleman matter PViléan Godorus, SergeantChirurgion to the Queenes Maieftie » who alfo hathcured manyof thedropfie withthe iuice thereof. , tempered with barly mealeand baked incakes and fo eaten ordinarilyfor ome month orfixe weekes rogither with meates butnolother bread:during the time, |