Of the Orenge tree.
THe Orenge tree wherof Mantuā so much maketh mention of, in his Eglogs: is first reported to be brought from the Medes, wher∣of
A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- Maplet, John, d. 1592.
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"A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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is thought to arise this Latine worde Ma∣lus Medica. The Gréekes call it Kédromela, for that his fruite is in smell, not much vnlike to the Ceder. The Orenge sayth Diascorides, helpeth and remedieth all venome. And so the Poet meaneth, whereas he sayth: And hereof is the soules best nourishment. This trée is at all seasons of ye yeare fruit bearing or fruit∣full: insomuch that it is neuer found without fruit, but after a diuers sort in their ••ualitie & maner: for when the first of their fruit is mel∣low, and readie ripe: then the second you shall espie gréene and sower: and the thirde newe blosoming and in flower. So that as the first is plucked off: the residue one after another hasten to rypenesse, the first to the thirde hys poynt: the thirde to the seconde, and that, that is not (but in possibilitie and power is) then springing forth.