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THe Frankinsence tree is verie plentifull in boughes giuing. In leafe it is like to our Peare. Sauing yt it is much more small. It is in colour as gréene as Rue, in rinde & barke as soft as Laurell. The trée it selfe hath ere nowe bene called Libanos, & in Gréeke Dendrilibanos his Gum or teare. Libanotos of Galen. Euri∣pedes again cōtrariwise vsed Libanon for the teare: and Libanotos for the tree. It is so fabled
with ye Gréekes that it had his name of a yong man, and the same an Assirian, whose name was Libanos, who afterward was turned in∣to this kinde of trée, whome certaine enuious persons slue perceiuing him so serious in wor∣shipping the Gods. (For the which their ma∣lice being not long after acquited and reuen∣ged) it was afterwards and hitherto is holden in opinion that there was no better nor more acceptable sacrifice to the Gods than Frankin∣sence offered vp. There is a certaine Manna of this Frankinsence, which Plinie will haue to be ye purest of this his humors drops wrung forth by great pressing. There is also a certain smoke in this, swéete and pleasant, after that it be burned, as there is also of Mirrhe.