Of Libardbaine.
LIbardbaine of the Gréekes is called Ak••∣niton, it hath leaues like the Cucumber, but
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 16, 2024.
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somewhat more lesse and rough. His roote is like ye Scorpions taile. In colour it is as white as the Alabaster. They say that if the roote her∣of be shewed or offered to the Scorpion, that it enféebleth him, and bereaueth him for a while of his liuely powers, & of both his inward and outward senses. But contrariwise if you shew him Barefoote or Terworte, he by and by lea∣peth, and is aloft. Diascorides sayth, that this roote being stamped to poulder, and being be∣spiced or bestrewed vpon their meate, as flesh, and such other things wherwith they liue, de∣stroyeth and killeth the Panther, the Libard, the Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especi∣ally which liue by rauening, and that whilst their meate so ordred is in their mouth. There is another of this name, englished Wolfbane: whose lea••e is like the Plane tree, which hath iij. kindes. The one which the Huntesman v∣seth: which groweth for the most part in Ita∣lie, with the which after their addighting they destroy Wolues, as Diascorides sayth: the o∣ther which serue the Phisition to good vse and purpose.