Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

¶Of Pyro. chap. 124.

PIrus is the Peare trée, that beareth fruite, and hath that name, for the fruite thereof is shaped as the flame of the fire: for the fruite thereof is great & hard and broad at that one ende, and na∣row & straight at that other, as y^e flame of fire, as Isidore saith libro. 17. And the tree is called Pirus, and the fruite there∣of is called Pirum, a Peare, as he saith: and so few Peares weigh heauier than many apples, if they be on a beasts back, as he saith.

And Isa. in diet saith. Of peares is dou∣ble maner of kind, wilde and tame: and of either kinde, the boughes and braun∣ches be sower, stopping, and biting. But the fruite is full diuers, for the wilde peares be more sower and earthy, more colde and drye than the tame, & more vnsauourie and hard in the tast, for they be generally more vndigest, and accord∣eth not therefore to meate, but onely to medicine: for it bindeth & stoppeth strōg∣ly the fluxe of the wombe, and staunch∣eth cholaricke spewing, if they be sad in running water, and laid to the stomack. And tame Peares gréne and not ripe, be sower, great and harde, and vnsauou∣rie, and euill to meate, but in seething in fresh water with honny, or with some other swéete thing, the earthinesse and the roughnesse thereof may be somwhat tempered: But yet they be not accord∣ing to meate, but to medicines.

And tame Peares ripe be colde and drye, and the sower substaunce thereof,

is medled with watry swéetnesse, and therefore according both to meate & me∣dicine, but they be better according both to meate & medicine after meate then be∣fore: for after meate they laxe and beare downe the meate to the place of digesti∣on, and comforteth the sinewes of the mouth of y^e stomacke. And many peares eaten fasting, bréedeth wormes in the wombe, and Colliea ••a••sio incurable, & swéete peares be more temperate of cō∣plection, and lesse cold than other, and ac∣cordeth therefore, the better to them that be colde and drye.

And peares haue this propertie, that if they be sod with toad stooles, they take away from them all griefe and mallice, and namely wilde peares, for they be ful sower, as Isaac saith. Powder or ashes of wilde yeares dronke, helpeth against Fronges tead stooles, as he sayth. Alwaye after eating of peares. Wine shall bée dronke, for as one saith, without wine, peares be venime.

(* 1.1The drint and mellower that the peares be, the wholsomer they be: ill to & colde stomacke, but baked with, daye, & hot spices, they are indifferent.)

Notes

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  Additiō.