¶ The Temperature and Vertues.
All the Melons are of a cold nature, with plenty of moisture: they haue a certaine clensing qua∣litie, [ A] by meanes whereof they prouoke vrine, and do more speedily passe through the bodie than do either the Gourd, Citrull, or Cucumber, as Galen hath written
The pulpe of the Pompion is neuer 〈◊〉〈◊〉 raw, but boiled. For so it doth more easily descend, [ B] making the belly soluble. The nourishment which commeth hereof is little, thin, moist and cold, (bad, saith Galen) and that especially when it is not well digested: by reason whereof it maketh a man apt and readie to fall into the disease called the Cholericke Passion, and of some the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The seed clenseth more than the meat, it prouoketh vrine, and is good for those that are troubled [ C] with the stone of the kidnies.
The fruit boiled in milke and buttered, is not onely a good wholesome meat for mans body, but [ D] being so prepared, is also a most physicall medicine for such as haue an hot stomacke, and the in∣ward parts inflamed.
The flesh or pulpe of the same sliced and fried in a pan with butter, is also a good and wholsome [ E] meat: but baked with apples in an ouen, it doth fil the body with flatuous or windie belchings, and is food vtterly vnwholesome for such as liue idlely; but vnto robustious and rustick people nothing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that filleth the belly.