The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

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Title: The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome
Author: Pliny, the Elder.
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An Index pointing to the principall matters contained in the first Tome of Plinies Natural Historie,

A B

ABdace, a roe-bucke in Affricke. 331. d
Abdomen, what it is. 344. i
Abricots. 436. k. of two sorts. ibid. goodfor sicke folke. 436. f. must be soon spent. ibid.
Absides what they are. 10. k
Abstinence of Iulius Uiator. 166. g

A C

Acacia Aegyptian thorne. 390. l. m
Acacia, a gum. 391. g
Acapnon the best kinde of hony. 478. 7
Acarnania drowned. 40. l
Acca Laurentia, nource to Romulus, and his foster-mother 549. c.
Accord among beasts. 308. l. m
Acedon, a kinde of good hony. 317. b
Achaia the description thereof. 74. h. drowned in Corinth gulfe. 40. l
Achilles Island famous, and why. 83. c
Achilleum, a kinde of spunge. 262. b
Acilius Sthenelus a good husband. 411. c
Acontias a kinde of comets. 15. c
Acorne the best mast. 458. m. of diuerse sorts. 459. a
Acre what it was at Rome. 550. g
Actus what measure in Rome. 565. e
Acylon, what it is. 458. m

A D

Adarce what it is. 483. d
Adlipsos, the Aegyptian Date. 344. l. m
Ad-Gallinas, what place. 553. f
Adelphides, Dates, why so called. 387. e
Adorea, glory, why so called. 551. a
Adoreum. 562. m
Adrachne, a tree. 541. e. 399. c
Adulteries imagined among the gods. See gods.
Adonis, a fish. 247. b

A E

Aegilops, an oke. 459. e
Aegis what it is. 487. h
Aegle, free from the stroke of lightning. 27. e. her nature. 273. d. burneth her selfe. ibid. f. of six kindes. 271. d. quicker of sight than men. 305. f. how they build, breed, and hatch. 172. l. their manner of pr•…•…ying. 273. a. they die for famin ib. their feathers deuoure other birds fea∣thers. 273. b. they prey vpon deere. 273. c. they be at mor∣tall warre with dragons. 273. d. an Aegles loue vnto a virgin. ibid. e. f
Aegle, the chiefe standard of a Romane legion. 273. c
Aegle imagined to be Iupiters armour-bearer, & why. ib. b
Aegocephalus, a bird without a spleene. 343. c
Aegypt not subiect to earthquakes, and why. 38. h. brag of antiquitie, and wherein especially. 98. l. Aegypt a migh∣tie country. 545. l. free from lightning, and why. 25. d

Aemylius Paulus sacked in one day 702 cities in Macedo∣nie. 77. e
Aeolus how he is said to gouerne the windes. 63. a
Aequinox of spring. 581. c. of Autumne. ibid.
Aesalo a kinde of Hawke. 274. k
Aethiopians, why blacke. 26. m
Aethiopia the description. 96. their manners. ibid. g
Aeschylus the Poet killed with a Tortoise shell. 271. f
Aetites a precious stone. 272. k. medicinable. ibid. l
Aetna the hill alwaies burning. 47. b

A F

Affricke full of strange beasts. 200. k. plentifull in corne 430. k. description thereof. 93. d
Affricus wind. 22. l

A G

Age vnmeet for generation. 303. a
Agelastus, who so called, and why. 166. h
Agrophagae, what kinde of people. 147. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Agriculture. See Husbandry.
Agrion. 364. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Agrippae who so called. 159. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Agrippa his infortunitie. 160. g
Agrippinae, two vnhappie imps of his. ibid.
Agaricke, where it groweth. 461. b. how it is gathered. ib. for what it is good. ibid.
Ague of Antipater the Poet yeerely on his birth-day, wher∣upon he died. 184. g. C. Mecaenas neuer free of an ague. ib.

A I

Aire, element. 2. l. giueth life for all things. ib. by the power thereof the earth hangeth. ib. the properties thereof. 18. m
no Airie of aegles in Rhodes. 285. c
Aiax, the name of an Elephant. 194. k. he died for shame of a disgrace. ibid.

A L

Alauda, a legion of the Romanes. 331. a
Albanes, people eied like owles, alwaies gray headed, and see better by night than day. 154. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Alce, what kinde of beast. 200. d
Alcibiades, a stout wine-knight. 427. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Alcippe deliuered of an Elephant. 157. f
Alcman a Poet in Greece died of lice. 329. d
Alec, a kinde of dripping. 246. k
Alexandria the description therof. 99. b. who built it. 123 b. called Seleucia, and why. ibid.
K. Alexander the great his victory at Arbela. 35. a. his care to know the nature of liuing creatures. 200. l. how he honoured Homers books. 108. l. 171. c. he spared the family of Pindarus the Poet. 171. d. his commandement for his statue. 175. b
Alburnum in wood, what it is, 486. i
All-heale, what it is, 497. c
Alica of three sorts. 568. g
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Alica Exceptitia, Secundaria, Crebraria. ib. k. where and how it is maa•…•…. ibid. g
Almonds described. 446. h
Almond trees hauing no greene leaues. 473. f. when to be planted. 522. k. how sweet Almonds are made bit∣ter. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. c

〈◊〉〈◊〉

Am•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 259. f
Amphisbaena, a serpent. 208. g.
Amalchium, what it is. 85. c
Ambre, where ingendred. 86. l.
Ambracia the hauen, left dry land. 39. e
Amia a kinde of fish. 243. d
Ammoniacum a gum, why so called. 375. c. the kinds there∣of. 375. d. the best and the price, ibid. how it is sophisti∣cated. ibid.
Amomis. 365. d.
Amomum. 395. c. the price. ibid. d. sophisticated. ibid.
Amomum, why it entreth into aromatical ointments. 382. l.
Amomum, why it will not liue in Arabia. 478. l.
Amurca, what it is. 430. l
Amylum how it is made. 562. g. why so called. ibid. sundry sorts thereof. ibid. h

A N

Anataria. See Morphnos.
Andrachne an herbe. 399. e
Androcides his sage counsell to Alexand. the Great. 413. b
Androgini, who they be. 154. m
where ladie Andromeda was exposed to a monster. 110. l
Angeroha, a goddesse. 59. c
Anthus, a bird neighing like an horse. 293. a
Antigenes, a famous minstrell. 484. g
Anticht•…•…ones. 129. b
Anniball his falshood. 195. e
Antei, transformed into wolues. 207. c
Anthiae fishes how they be caught. 268. m. 269. c
C. Antonius nicknamed Hybrida. 231. c
Ants, their common weale. 338. k. their forecast. ibid. how they liue. ibid. their passage weareth pibble stones. 328. l they onely burie their dead. 328. a. they flie not in Sici∣lie. ibid. they cast vp gold in India. 329. a. where, as big as wolues. ibid. they deuoure men. 329. b. loue gold w•…•…ll. ibid. they will not touch some kind of liuer. 342. g. hurtfull to trees. 547. d. gather about fishes. ibid.
Anthropophagi, what they are. 154. h
Antipodes, whether there be any such. 31. b

A P

Apath•…•…s, who they be. 166. h
Apes most like to mankinde. 231. e. differ from monkies. ib. craftie to beguile themselues. ibid. play at chesse or ta∣bles. ibid. shee-apes fond ouer their little ones. 231. f
Apes store vp victuals within their cheekes. 207. c
Aphaerema what it is. 568. g
Apicius a famous glutton. 296. g
Apis, the Aegiptian boeufe. 226. g. honoured among them. ibid. serueth as an oracle. ibid. h
Apharce a tree. 399. d
Aplusiae, the worst spunges. 263. a
Apogaei, what winds. 21. c
Apolecti, what they be. 243. b
Apothecaries craft who first practised. 188. k
Apuae, a kinde of fish. 265. d
Apparition of fixed starres at set times. 587. d
Appluda what it is. 556. f
Apples beare names of countries. 438. k. Camerina, Graecu∣la. ibid. Gemella▪ 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 ib. Serica, why so called. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, why so called. ibid.
hastie Apples Mustea. 438. l. Melimela, Orbiculata, Epi∣rotica, Orthomastica, Spadonia, Melofolia, Pannucia, Pulmonea. ibid.
all Apples red on the Sun side. 438. m
Apples Dacian. 439. a. winter apples. ibid. f
Apples de guard. 440. l. how to be kept. ib. g. h
what Apples will last, and what will not. ibid.
Apple trees bearing fruit twice a yeare. 474. m
quince Apples. 438. i. Apples Appian, Matian, Sectian, Manlian, Claudian, Scantian, Sceptian, Quirian, Pe∣tisian, ibid. Apples what fruit properly. 437. f
Apples haue eternized the name of their first inuentors & graffers. 438. i. Apple trees dearely rented at Rome. 499. d. tendrest of all other trees. 540. k. diseased. ib. how they be made fruitfull. 545. d. apples how kept from rot∣ting. 574. d. apple trees when to be graffed. 518. l
Apyrinon, a hind of Pomegranat, 398. b

A Q

Aquiceti, pine nuts confected. 436. g
Aquifoliae. 458. l
Aquitania described. 87. d

A R

Arabia, why called Happy. 365. f. 371. d
Araneus, an imperfection in wines and oliues. 540. a
Aratrare, what point in husbandry. 580. h
Araxi, or Oraxi, springs medicinable. 568. i
Arbute tree described, and the fruit. 447. d
Archers & arrowes haue conquered halfe the world. 482. k Candiots excellent archers. ibid.
Arcturus the star cause of tempests. 19. e
Arethusa a strange lake. 137. b
Argatilis a bird. 288. l
Argo a ship, of what wood it was made. 399. b
Architecture, who excelled therein. 175. b
Arimaspians, with one eie in their fore-head. 154. h
Arinca, a graine all one with Olyra. 568. k. it makes sweet bread. ib. hard to be clensed. ib. what kind of corn. 559. c
Aristaeus mingled hony with wine. 412. h
Arion mounted vpon a dolphins backe. 239. f
Aristomenes the Messenian had a hary hart. 340. k. slew three hundred Lacedemonians alone. ibid.
Aristotle employed by K. Alexander the Great about the liuing creatures. 200. m
Armes of men not all of a iust measure. 549. d
Arnupheae, people, their life and strange manners. 121. a
Armeniaca. See Abricocts.
Armor heard rustling in heauen. 28. g
Artabitae, men wandring like foure-footed beasts. 147. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Artenon, a man like to Antiochus K. of Syria. 161. d
Arteries from the heart minister vitall bloud to all parts. 340. h. how to obserued in their pulse or beating. 345. b
Articulatio, a disease proper to vines. 540. h
Artisans excellent. 175. b
Artolaganus. 566. l
Artopta, what it is. 567. b
Artoptitius panis. 566. m
Aruncus, what it is. 229. e

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A S

Asarum or Asara-bacca described. 365. b
Ascia, places where no shadowes be yeelded. 36. h
Ascitae, Arabians, why so called. 144. m
Asclepiades recouéred one that was carried forth as dead. 175. a
Ash-tree, where it is alwaies greene. 48. g. ash tree descri∣bed. 465. e. commended by Homer. ibid. the wood of the ash in Ida like to Citron. ibid. ash of two kindes. 465. f. the leanes hurtfull to what beasts. 466. g. the iuice of the leaues medicinable. ib. the shadow skareth serpents. ibid. the leaues driue away serpents. 466. h
Asia a kinde of Rie. 572. l
Asia, the description thereof. 96. a great part thereof vnha∣bitable by reason of cold. 120 m
Asiae. See Otys.
Aspalathus, a shrub. 376. g. the price. ibid. h
Asphaltites, lake of Sodome. 101. e. no liuing creature therein. ibid.
Aspe trees turne to be Poplar. 543. c
Aspis the serpent hath her affection, and is a iust reuenger. 309. a. dischargeth her poison by the teeth. 337. c. the nature of Aspis. 208. h
Assabinus, the god of Cinamon plants. 372. l
Ashes of fuell burnt, much set by beyond the Po. 507. a. serue to enrich ground. ibid. of •…•…he same nature that salt. 546. l.
Ashes of lime-kils encrease oliue trees. 507. e
Asses cannot away with cold. 223. b. when they shed teeth. 338. h their iealousie and leachery. 212. l. of great price. 223. a. their manner and time of generation. ib. b. the gaine that they bring by breeding. ibid. c. their foles good meat. ibid. e. their other properties. ibid. c
Asses of India with one horne. 351. b
Asses wild. 20. g
Assyrian tree. See Citron tree.
Astomes, people without a mouth. 156. i
Astronomers their commendation. 8. m. 9. a. who most ex∣cellent. 174. l. their three sects. 586. h
Astronomie necessarie for agriculture. ibid. a
Astrologie who first deuised. 189. d
Astrologers opinion touching the length of mans life. 181. f
Asturcones, what horses. 222. m
Asturius Celer, a prodigall spender. 246. k

A T

Atabulus, an vnluckie wind in Apulia.
Ateramum. 575. b
Atlas hill. 92. g. the strange trees thereon growing. 92. h
Atlantes people, their strange manners. 96. i. they dreame not in sleep. ibid.
Atlanticke sea sometime the continent. 40. l
Atomus, what it is. 367. e

A V

Augurie and Auspices by birds, who first inuented. 189. c honoured in Rome. 211. f
Augustus Caesar, whether he were happy. 179. c. his for∣tunes compared. ibid. he desired Proculeius to kill him. 179. e. fasted foure daies and foure nights. ibid. hee saw his lineall descent vnto the fourth degree. 162. l. his con∣duct discouered many seas. 32. k. superstitious in presa∣ging that his left foot shoo was put on before the right. 4 l
Augytae, people worshipping onely the diuels beneath. 96. i
Auiola burnt quicke. 184. h. he reuiued in the funerall fire. ibid.
Auleticus Calamus, a kind of reed. 483. b. e

A X

Axis, an Indian beast. 206. k

B A

BAbylon territory exceeding fruitfull. 576. i
Babylon the citie described. 136. h
Babylonicae vestes, what they are. 228. i
Baccharis. 364. l
Bacchi, a kind of codfish. 245. e
Bacchus, when borne, how. 128. l
Bacchus first wore a coronet or garland. 456. m
Backebiters haue venomous tongues. 548. m
Bactrian, a plentifull country for corne. 581. a
Bactrian corne exceeding big. 561.
Bagous what he is. 387. b
Bailiffes of husbandry. 555. a
Bakers when they began in Rome. 557. b
Balaustia. See Pomegranate floures.
Bald-rauens. See Plugeons.
Balena what fish. 235. f. 236. l
Balena and Pristis, greatest fishes in Indian ocean. 235. f
Balls of the cheeks forbidden by law to be scratched. 336. i the seat of bashfulnesse and modesty. ibid.
Balme trees of three sorts. 376. l
Balme tree groweth no where but in Iurie. 478. k
Balme trees brought to Rome. 376. i. how they are planted and ordered. ibid. k. their description. ibid.
Balme trees saued by the Romanes at the destruction of Ie∣rusalem. 376. k
Balme fruit or graine. 377. e
Balme graine how sophisticated. ibid.
Balme barke. ibid.
Balme liquor most pretious. 376. i. balme liquor how sophi∣sticated, and how discerned. 377. e. balme liquor how it is drawne. 376. m. balme liquor which is best. 377. c
Balsamodes Cassia. 373. e
Bands or bindings in husbandry, of what trees and plants they are to be made. 445. b
Barbatae, a kinde of hawke or aegle. 272. k
Barbers first entertained in Rome. 190. m
Barble fishes. 246. h. their description and nature. ibid. why called in Latine. Mulli. 246. i
Barke of trees is their hide. 486. h
the barke moisture of trees is their bloud. 486. g
Barke of trees how to be vsed. 541. e
Barking of trees. 487. d
Barks of sundry trees, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 emploied. 461. d
Barks of trees different. 477. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Barley a tender corne. 562. h. how to be cut downe, and at what time. ibid.
Barley how it is cared and iointed. 558. k
Barley where it groweth twise a yeare. 503. e
Barley doth degenerate into oats. 574. g
Barley a most ancient meat. 561. c. condemned. ibid. e
Barley vsed in Physicke, and to feed cattell. 562. h. i
Barley different in eare and otherwise. 562. i
Barnes, how and where to be built. 603. b
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Barraine beasts soone fat. 344. k
Barrainesse of earth, how it is found. 504. i
the Basiliske. 196. l. his properties. ibid. his venome. 207 a killed by the weazill. ibid.
Battaile first fought. 189. a. battaile at Sibaris. 197. d. in two battailes in one day, both on sea and land, Nume∣nus defeited the Persians. 140. h
a Bat or winged mouse only amongst the foules, hath teeth. 337. d. Bats bring forth young aliue. 301. f. the onely bird that giueth milke. 302. g
Bay trees: see Lawrell. Bay leaues purge the gorge of birds. 211. c.

B D

Bdellium. 362. m. sophisticated. 363. a. See Brochos. the triall. 363. b. the price. ibid.

B E

Beans principall of all pulse. 568. l. beane meale. ibid. beane stalkes in Aegypt full of pricks. 569. d. beanes how to be prepared before they are set or sowne. 575. d. beanes and vetches sowne vnder furrow. 580. g. beanes yeelding great encrease. 565. b. beanes forbidden by Pythagoras to be eaten. 569. a. the arch Flamin abstaineth from beanes, wherefore. 569. b. beanes vsed in portsales. 569. b when they are to be set or sowne. ibid. b. kidnie beanes. 570. l. beanes sowing doth enrich a ground. 569. c. beans growing of their owne accord, ibid. d
Beares onely haue no marrow at all. 344. m. how they en∣gender. 302. l. beares haue the tenderest sculls. 332. l. beares cure themselues with pismires. 211. c. bears, their manner of generation. 215. f. their young imperfect. 216. g. they grow exceeding fat. ibid. h. their fat medi∣cinable. ibid. they seeke to the herbe Wake-robin. ibid. i they are subiect to dimnesse of sight. ibid. i. weake in the head. ibid. k their braine venomous. ibid. hunted in the shew-place at Rome. ibid. l
Beasts accounted for gods. 3. e. beasts of India very bigge. 155. b. beasts engendred in the vnhabitable places of the earth, and the reason. 11. b. beasts that dranke lastly, bleed most at their death. 346. h. beasts bring forth yong according as they are whole hoofed or clouen. 303. a. beasts, which bring their young perfect, which imper∣fect. ibid. beasts will not touch where beares haue brea∣thed. 356. a. beasts foure-footed commonly rest on their right side. 350. k. beasts by whom first killed. 190. k.
Beech wood highly esteemed. 486. m. a beech groue finely kept and consecrate to Diana, 496. g
Bees, their order and nature. 312. i. when they goe abroad. ibid. l. their first worke. ibid. their care of their kinde. ibid. their regard of their worke. 313. a. their muni∣tion. ibid. b. their greatest swarmes among oliue trees. ibid. d. they hurt no fruit. ibid they wander not from their hi•…•…e aboue sixtie paces. ibid. they send out spies. ibid. e. how they watch. ibid. their foresight. 314. g. how they lade themselues. ibid. h. their seuerall offices. ibid. bees of two sorts in one hiue. ibid. k. they goe with the wind. ibid. l. their pollicie against the wind. ibid. they punish slothfulnesse. ibid. their cleanelinesse. ibid. their silence towards night. their hatred to the drones. 315. b. their buildings for their captaines. ibid. c. how they are driuen away. 316. k. bees, when they are nourished with sleepe onely. 317. e. they abhor a theefe. ibid. their fidelitie to their king. 319. c. bees setled on Plato his mouth. ibid. d. bees in the campe of Generall Drusus. ibid. why sometimes they fight. 320. g. bees after they haue stung, be no better than drones. ibid. k. drone bees are biggest. 315. a. they take vp least lod∣gings. ibid. Of bees worke, three foundations. 313. b. whom they will sting. 320. k. bees are often sicke. 320. m. bees sorrow for their dead king. 321. a. bees performe a solemnitie of exercise. ibid. e. they liue not aboue seuen yeares. ibid. how they ere repaired. 322. g. bees will not touch a dead carkasse. ibid. i. bees onely make their owne meat. 328. i
Beetles haue no sting. 326. k. they are remedies for children. ibid. they are delighted in roses.. 355. e
Bellerophon his letters in tables. 394. l
of the Belly. 342. k
Bellies that be fattest, cause grossenesse of capacitie. ibid. l
Belus, inuentor of Astronomie. 136, h
Ben, or Behen. 374. f. a nut onely for sweet ointments. ib.
Benacus a lake in Italy. 248. g
Beotia riuer. 51. f
Berenice haire, a starre. 34. l
Berries different. 447. f
Besbicus Island sometimes ioined to Bithinia. 40. i

B I

Bills giuen to birds in stead of mouthes, and their vse. 336. l. m.
Biaeon, a kinde of wine medicinable. 416. i
Bieuers gueld themselues. 212. m. where they breed, their nature. 213, a
Birch tree described, and how it is emploied. 468. i
Bird-ga•…•…ders. 281. b
Bird•…•…me how it was made. 497. a
Birds singing when they ordinarily doe breed. 287. c. birds very few haue gawles in the liuers. 341. f. birds hatched with their ta•…•…les forward. 272. e. birds hauing neither ve•…•…es nor ar•…•…es. 345. c. birds with hooked talons prey all. 278. k. birds how they translate their egges from place to place hauing no hooked tallons. 289. a. birds differ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 from another in flight and gate. 291. f. birds how they drinke. 295. c. birds of diuers feedings. ibid. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. birds singing, alter their notes. 285. e. new birds. 296. k. birds there be none without feet. 351. d. birds language how to be vnderstood. 296. l. birds of prey least fruitfull. 297. f. birds that lay most. ibid. birds how they engender. 298. g. birds how they differ in laying and couving. ibid. i. 300. k. birds small be fruitfull. 301. d. blackbirds counterfeiting mans speech. 293. d. blackebirds are gone for a time. 284. g. blacke∣birds change both hew and tune. ibid.
Births strange for number, for defects and superfluitie. 164. h. i.
Births of children vncertaine. 158. k
Birth at seuen months liue: also at the eleuenth. ib. A child legitimat borne within thirteene months, after the sup∣posed father deceased. 159. a
Bisontus or Boeufos of Germanie. 199. f
Bissextile yeare. 585. b
Bitches differ in their litters. 303. c. bitches engender with Tigres. 219. e. with wolues. ib. how long they goe with young. 220. h. their whelpes blind. ibid. h. i
Bithyae, Women witches, who haue a double sight in their eie. 155. a
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Biting if a mad dog cured by Eglantine. 220. k
Bitumen comparable to the water of Styx. 47. d
Bitumen a strange slime. 163. e

B L

Bladder where it is placed. 343. f. bladder nut tree. 467. c. bladder onely there found, where is lungs and bloud. 343. f. of the bladder in man and beast. 343. f. bladder being wounded cannot be cured. 344. g
Blasted corne, 574. i
Blasts how they be occasioned. 574. l m. blasts suddaine their names and nature. 24. k
Blattae, flies are nourished in darkenesse. 326. m
Blazing starres. See comets. Volusius Saturnius how hee vsed to bleed. 346. h
Blossoming time of trees how long it lasteth. 473. b
Bloud apples. 438. l. bloud ained. See Raine. bloud fat and grosse breedeth anger and choller. 345. f. of bloud a dis∣course. ibid. bloud of males blacker than of females. ib. bloud containeth a great portion and treasure of life. 346. g. it is without sence and feeling. ibid. bloud that is thinnest, causeth strength in creatures. ibid. bloud that is thinnest maketh men wise. ibid where it is but little maketh men fearefull. ib. bloud of bulls soonest congea∣leth. ib. it is poison to be drunke. ibid. bloud of Asses most fattie and grosse. ib. bloud of man thinnest and best. ibid. bloud is but little in those that be fat. ib. bloud cast vp by many at the mouth. ib. h. bloud quicliest encreaseth of all parts of the body. ib. bloud changeth with anger and furie. ibid.
in Blouming time raine hurtfull to corne. 574. k

B O

Boae, mightie great serpents. 199. e. why so called. ib.
Bodies of men and women different beside the distinct parts of sex. 165. e
Boats of one entire piece of wood. 490. g
Boetica, so called of Boetis. 51. c
Boeufes of India. 224. k. bred by king Pyrrhus. ibid. l. their manner of engendring and breeding. ibid. of fee∣ding. 224. a. when they are to bee drawne and yoked. ibid. b. sufficient for sacrifice. ibid. e. knowne to speake. ibid.
Bolides, flaming launces in the skie. 17. b
Bombyceae, reeds or canes. 484. g
Bombycina, garments of silke. 322. m
Bombyly, the greater kinde of Bombyces. 322. l
Bombyx, a flie breeding in Assyria. ibid their hard neasts. ibid. how they engender. ibid.
of Bones. 345. a
Bonasus, what manner of beast, and his properties. 200. h
Bondwoman brought forth a serpent. 157. f
Bones of Asses legs sound shrill. 345 a. bones in some men without marrow. 165. f. bones sometime found in the hearts of beasts. 340. i
Bore, his owne Physitian. 210. m. bore serued whole vnto the bourd. 230. l
Bore as wind. 23. a
Borystenes riuer. 154. i
Bosphori the streights (Thracius and Cimmerius.) 117. f. why so called. 115. a. Bosphori, sometime land. 40. l
Botanismos, what it is. 577. a
Boulters and Raungers. 567. c
Box tree wood commended in the root most. 467. c. box tree serueth for arbours. ibid. of box tree three kindes. ibid. c. where it delighteth to grow. ibid. d. the nature of the floure and wood. ibid. box tree beareth varietie of fruits. 476. g

B R

Brake, see Ferne.
Braine of a Date tree. 386. m
Brambles of three sorts. 485. e. with a blacke berry, with a rose, and a red berry. ibid. f. the bramble Idaea, which is Raspis. ibid.
Brance, what corne. 559. d
people Branded with hot yrons. 116. h
Brasse, where first found. 80. m. brasse-founders the first. 188. k. brasse forges and furnaces, who deuised. ibid. k.
Brawne of wilde bores in great request. 230. l
Braines the coldest part of mans body. 332. m. they are without bloud or veines. ibid. by seething they waxe hard. 333. a. without flesh, bloud, filth or ordure. ibid. braines, the fort and castle of the sences. ibid. braines and eies die first. 340. g. of braines and the braine-pan. 332. l. m.
Bread of sundry sorts, according to the meat eaten there∣with. 566. l. bread Parthicke or water-bread. 567. a
Breadth of the earth. 48. i
Breath of Lions stinketh. 255. a. breath of beares pestilen 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and deadly. ibid. breath of men by what meanes it is in∣sected. ibid. b. breath of man shall returne into the aire. ibid. it is corrupted by much drinking of wine. ib. breath of Elephants, what vertue it hath. 355. c
Breeding time in plants. 471. e
of the Brest in man and beast. 343. e. f
Breast apples. 438. l
Bricke and tile who deuised. 188. k
Brickes and tiles raigned. See Raine
Brimstone mine. 568. i
Brim of the eie-lids being wounded, cannot be drawne toge∣ther. 336. i
Brittaine, an Island renowmed 86. k
Brocci, who they were. 336. l
Brochos what it is. 363. a
Brood-hen starre, Uirgiliae. 588. h
setting of brood-hens. 589. f
Broome, where and when to be set. 523. c
Bruscum in maple. 467. a
Bruta, what tree. 371. a
Brutium a promontory. 51. b
Bryon (Aromaticum) what it is. 375. d
Bryon a weed in the sea. 401. c

B V

Bubetij, what plaies they are. 550. k
Bubulcus, surname to the house of Iunij, whereupon. ib. h
Bucephalia the citie. 221. a
Bucephalus King Alexanders horse. 220. l. his description and rare qualities. ib. m
Bucklers of what wood they be made. 590. k
Buffles horne of eight gallons. 331. f. buffles horne how it is vsed. 332. g
Building vpon land in the country. 554. g. h
Bull baiting. 225. e
Buying and selling who deuised, 187. e
Bulls wild vntameable. 206. i
Bullais. 437. a
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Bumasti grapes. 405. a
Bumelia, a kinde of Ash-tree. 465 f
Bunches in wood. 487. l
Bura citie. 41. a
Burning and burying of dead-bodies after diuerse sorts. 186. l. m.
Butter hath the vertue and properties of oyle. 340. k
Butterfly how it is bred. 329. e
Butterflies no good signe of the Spring. 586. g
Buteo. See Triorches.
Buteo gaue the name to the house of Fabij in Rome. 274. k
Buzzards good meat. 296. k
Buzzard. See Buteo.

B Y

Byzacium territory of Affricke. 505. e. most fruitfull ground. ibid.
Byzia a castle of Thracian kings, hated of Swallowes, and why. 278. l

C A

CAchrys in an Oke, what it is. 400. l. the vse and man∣ner thereof. ibid.
Cadytas, what it is. 496. i
Cadmus, whore borne. 108. g. first found out for to write prose. ibid.
Casias wind. 23. a
Caecina his practise by Swallowes. 283. a
Caesares and Caesones, why so called. 160. i. such commonly fortunate. ibid.
Caesar his breast-plate made of English pearle. 256. k
Caesar Dictator his liberalitie in wines. 420. h
Caesar ript out of his mothers belly. 160. i
C. Caesar his quickenesse of spirit. 168. k
Caesar repented him of his clemencie. ibid. l
Caesar his fidelitie concerning writing. 168. m
Caesaris Thronos, a starre. 34. l
Caesaria, a citie in Mauritania. 53. d
Caius Hirtius inuented stewes for Lampries in Asia. 267. c.
Caius Marius first aduanced the Aegle in the Romane ensigne. 273. c
Caius Caligula the Emperour his saying of Surrentine wines. 414. h
Caia Cecilia. Leoke Tanaquill.
Calpe, a Promontory. 51. b
Calpe, a mountaine. ibid. e
Calculosae, a kinde of Purples. 259. b
Calydna Island. 316. b
Calamus Aromaticus. 375. a
Calculation of the yeare by Caesar the Author followeth, 586. l.
Calamaries, fishes. 244. b
Calaminth first vsed by Lizards. 210. l
sea-Calfe his qualities. 213. b
Calues chosen for sacrifice. 235. e
Callithriches, a kind of Apes. 225. b
Camalodunum, a towne in Brittaine. 36. k
Cammell hath no fore-teeth in the vpper iaw. 337. b
Cammels how they engender. 302. l
Cammels their diuerse kinds. 205. b
Camelopardalis, what kinde of beasts. 205. d
Campaine in Italy a most fruitfull country. 567. e. f
Canell. See Casia.
Canes. See Reeds.
Canes of India serue betweene ioints, for boats 482. m
Canes of diuerse sorts. 483. b
Canes and reeds how they grow. ibid. a
Canarium what sacrifice. 551. b
Caucamum. 374. b
Canetias, the workemen that made the stature of Diana at Ephesus. 491. c
Canopus the name of a starre, where and in what manner it appeareth, and where not. 34. l
Canopus, a goodly starre seen in Taprobane about the pole Antarticke. 130. i
Canterius in a Vineyard, what it is. 528. i. k
Cantharolethus in Thrace. 327. a. why so called. ibid.
Capnumargos, a kinde of red marle. 506. b
Capparis, the plant of the fruit capres. 400. i
Caprification to be practised after raine. 546. b
Caprification what it is. 444. k
Caprificus what it is. ibid. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Cappadocians how they tooke their names. 116. h
Caprimulgi, what birds. 292. i
Carambis promontory. 49. a
Carbunculus, burning earth. 503. b
Carbunculus in corne, what it is. 598. i
Cardamomum, foure kinds. 365. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Cardiaca, disease of the heart. 341. a
Cardo, what it is. 598. i
Carpinus, what manner of trees. 466. m
Carginon, what it is. 476. g
Carpheotum. 367. d
Caryo•…•…a dates, why so called, and the wine thereof. 387. d
Caryopon. what drug. 397. e. the worth. ibid.
Carob-tree, 390. g
Carobs or caracts, what kinde of fruit, 447. b
Carpentry and the tooles, whose inuention. 188. l
Carpophilon. 452. m
Carseoly territory. 537. f
Carthegon, what it is. 476. g
Casia. 372. i
Casia, the sweet spice where it groweth. 373. e, the plant de∣scribed. ibid. Casia the best. ibid.
Casius a mount of admirable height. 102. g
Caspiae, gates so called. 122. g
Caspia part not the streights of Caucasus: they be described 455. a. b.
Castor and Pollux star, what is to be thought of them. 18. k wherefore men invocate them at sea. ibid. l
Castoreum what it is. 212. m
Cat of gold worshipped as a god. 546. b
Cats how they ingender. 302. l. Cats how subtill in hunting. 308. g.
Catacecaumene, a region. 415. f. why so called. 416. g
Caligula his eies stiffe in his head. 334. k
Cataractae. See Diomedian birds.
Cato Censorius commended. 410. l. his precepts touching Uines. 411. a
Cato perswaded the Senate of Rome to destroy Carthage, by occasion of a figge. 443. a. b. c
Cato his praise and commendation. 169. f
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Catorchites, what kinde of Dates. 421. a
Catoblephas, what kinde of beasts. 206. l
Cati and Corculi, why so called. 173. b
Cause of vomit. 342. l
Caunians naturally subiect to the swelling of the spleene. 331. k.
Cauneas presaged ill fortune to M. Crassus. 445. a
Cauchi, a people without trees, their habitation and coun∣try described. 455. a. b
Cauaticae, a kinde of Snailes. 218. i

C E

Cea Island. 41. a
Cedar gum. 424. g
Cedars, which be best. 489. a
Cedar oyle. ibid.
Cedar for Masts. 490. g
Cedars of dwarfe kinde. 388. l. m
Cedrelate. 389. a. the timber thereof euerlasting. ibid.
Cedrelaeon. 434. h. i
Cedrium, what it is. 46. h
Celendine reuealed by Swallowes. 210. l
Celtium, a kinde of Tortoise. 241. e
Celtie. See Lote-tree.
Centigranum wheat. 565. b
Cepphus a beast. 205. e
Cephenes or Serenes, young dron•…•… Boes, and how they be fed. 318. i
Ceratias, a kinde of Comet. 15. e
Cervus a Mast-tree. 458. m. the mast thereof. ibid.
Cerastes what worme. 492. g. wormes in figge-trees. 539. c
Cerastae serpents. 208. g. Cerastae serpents haue hornes of flesh. 331

C H

Cheapenesse of all victuals in Rome. 551. d. the cause thereof. ibid. f
Chalcedon, why called the citie of the blind. 114. g
Chamaedaphne. 452. m
Chamecerasti. 448. h
Chameleons lights are very big. 341. a
Chameleons roll their whole eies. 331. f
Chamelaea. 398. k
Chamaeropes, what they be. 387. a
Chamaemyrsine. 434. h
Chani fishes without males. 244. m
Characias, a kinde of reed or cane. 483. e
Charit oblepharon, a shrub within the sea. 402. k
Charcoale of Oke-wood. 459. c
Charcoale of young tree best. ibid.
Charcoale how it is made. 459. d
Charcoale worst, made of the Oke Hatiphleos. ibid.
Charme to driue away haile. 547. f
Charmidas his memory. 168. g
Chasma what it is. 17. h
of Chastitie rare examples. 173. f
Chats or Catkins vpon diuers trees. 459. d
Chaus a beast. 205. e
Chalenophagi hairie all but head. 134. i
Cheiidoniae, Islands in Asia. 368. l
Chelidony, stones in mawes of young birds. 343. b
Chenelopes. See Birganders.
Chenerotes. 281. b
Cheese vnknowne to barbarous nations. 348. k
Cheese of the best sort made in Dalmatia. ibid. l
Cheese excellent at Vatusium. ibid. m
Cheese of diuers sorts. 349. a
of Cheese a discourse. 348. l
a Cherrie tree bearing armes of a mighty bignesse. 476. m
Cherrie trees when to be grafted. 523. b
Cherries of a middle kind between berries & grains. 448. g
Cherrie trees brought into Italy. ibid. h. they will not grow in Aegypt. ibid.
Cherries, Apronian, Actian, Caecilian, Iulian, Duracin, Pli∣nian, of Portugall, Laurean, Macedonian. 448. h
Cherries how they be kept. ibid. i
Chestnuts rather no be called Mast than nuts. 446. l
Chestnuts described, ibid. their kernils ground into meale for bread, ibid. how to be eaten. ibid.
Chestnuts called Sardinian nuts, and why. ibid. named 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. ibid. u•…•…
Chestnuts, Tarentine, Balanitis. ibid.
Chestnuts, Salarian, Corellian, Meteran, Coctiua. 447 a
Chestnuts which be best. ibid.
Choughs filch mony. 285. c
Chine-bone. 339. e. the vse of it. ibid.
Chin, man onely hath. 337. a
Chickins how they be hatched. 298. l
Children begotten and borne, at what age of the parents. 163. a. b.
Children not alwaies answerable to their parents in euery respect. 160. l
Children twelue distinct cast away at one slip from a wo∣man. 160. k
Children of the Dakes carry the marke of their parents to the fourth generation. 161. a childrē changelings. 158 h
Children breed their teeth in the seuenth moneth of their age. 164. b
Children aboue three at a birth, is monstrous. 157. d
a Child returned into the mothers wombe. 158. g
Chimaera, a hill in Phoselis, burning both night and day. 47. b.
blacke Choller cause of fury. 341. e. cast vp by vomit deadly. ibid.
Choromandae, what people. 156. h
Chilo his sayings counted Oracles. 173. c. how he died and was honoured. ibid. d
Chronicles who first deuised. 189. f
Chrysomela, a kinde of Quince. 436. h
Chydaei, certaine Dates. 388. g

C I

Cich-pease and the nature thereof, how to be sowne. 569. f 570. g. sundry kinds of ciches. 370. g
Cich-pease how codded. ibid.
M. T. Cicero the elder his praise. 172. m
M. Cicero the younger challenged for a drunkard. 428. g
Cicercuta. 370. g
Cicero his commendation, 272. m
Cici. Looke Ricinus.
Cichorie, medicinable to diuerse birds. 211. d
Cilicia, the description thereof. 104. m
Cinnamologus a bird. 288. m
Cinnamon. 372. f. g
Cinnamon groweth in Aethyopia. 372. i. exchanged for what commoditie. 372. k
Cinnamon plant described. ibid.
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Cinnamon the best. 373. a. b.
Cinnamon of two kinds. ibid. b
Cinnamon the price. ibid.
Cinnamon root set into the ground in the temple of Augu∣stus. ibid. c
Cinnamon garland dedicated by Uespasian. 373. d
Cinnamon shrub will not prosper in Syria. 478. l
Circos, a kind of Hawke. 274. k
Circei, Islands (by the retiring of the sea) ioyned to the con∣tinent. 39. e
Circeus, the name of a wind. 23. b
Circumference of the world. 49. e
Citron tree. 359. c. the fruit a counterpoison. ibid.
Citron tree fruitfull. 359. d. it liketh not to be in strange countries. ibid.
pome-Citron kernils good against a stinking breath. ibid. e
Citron tree. 395. c
Citron tables. ibid.
Citron tree beareth not but in Assyria. 478. k
Ciuicke coronets six, giuen to Manlius Capitolinus. ibid.
Ciuicke coronets. 456. h. compared with all others. ibid.
Ciuicke coronets fourteen giuen to Siccius Dentalus. 454. e
Ciuicke coronet or garland, wherof it was first made. 457. b lawes appertaining to Ciuicke coronets. ibid. d
Ciuicke coronet at Rome comparable to the best among the Greekes. ibid. c

C L

Clamato ria, a bird. 277. c
Clapping of hands reioice Bees. 231. e
of Clawes a discourse. 351. c
Cleopatraher lauish expence. 257. a
Q. Cleopatra her rich pearles. ibid.
Cleostratus found out the signes in the Zodiake. 5. e
Clerus a bitter thing found in hony combes. 318. l
Climastericke yeares. 182. h
Clodding of lands. 579. e
Clodeus the son of Aesope, his expence and riot in pearles. 257. d.
Clogs hanging from Rosin trees all but the Larch. 463.
Cloth of gold when it was inuented. 226. i
Clothes of diuers colours wouen. 228. i
Clouds, their shapes. 29. c
Cloues, a spice. 362. h
Cluina or Cliuina, a bird. 277. c
Clupea, a fish, killeth another called Attilus. 243. a

C N

Cneston, Cneros. 398. k

C O

Cocks go about with chickens when the hen is dead. 299. e
Cocks watchfull and desirous of glory, 279. c. Astronomers. ibid. Sentinels. ibid. they loue soueraignty and win it by fight. ibid. c. d
Cockes dreadfull to the Lion. ibid. e
Cockes of kinde fighters. ibid.
Cockes beare great sway in Auspices. 279. f
Cockes carued and made capons. 280. h
Cocke fighting. ibid.
a Cocke spake. ibid.
Cocolobis. See Vine Basilica.
Coctura, what it was. 412. k
Coclites, who they were. 335. b
Cod-fish. 245. b
Coggygria a tree, the proprieties of it. 399. c
Coine stamped with the image of sheepe, kine, and oxen. 550. l.
Colariae, a sort of cod-fish. 245. e
Colon, a gut so called. 343. a. in it is the paine of the col∣licke. ibid.
Colostratia, a disease that commeth of Bee-stings. 348. h
Columbinum Cicer. 570. g
Colour of the king of Bees. 318. i
Colours in the eie, why they are. 335. b
Colymbades, what Oliues. 432. g
Comagenum, a precious composition. 381
Comata, part of France. 332. i
Comarum, what it is. 447. e
Comets white with siluer haires. 15. f. shaggie and like a mane: when such a one appeared, and the continuance of such when they doe appeare. 16. g
Comets what they doe fore-token. ibid. g
Comets neuer lightly seene in the West part of the heauen. 16. h. were worshipped for gods. ibid. i
Combat betweene Buls and Elephants. 195. f
Cambat betweene an Elephant and a Roman. ibid. d. e
Commodities in a farme, which be most gainefull. 553. e. f
Commosis, first foundation of Bees worke. 313. g
Conception, at what time. 164. h
signes of Conception. 159. a. of a boy and a girle distinst. ihid. d.
Conception double. 160. l
Conchylium, a shell-fish. 246. i
Conchylia, what fishes. 258. i
Conger, a fish. 246. b
Conferration what it was. 550. i
Connies kinnle euery moneth. 303. d. they admit superfoeta∣tion. ibid.
Connies exceeding fruitfull. 232. h. why they be called in Latine Cuniculi. ibid. i
Connies haire employed for cloth. ibid. k
Connies admit superfoetation. ibid.
Connies vndermine a towne. 212. g
Connies with double liuers at Grenada in Spaine. 342. g
Cookes in price. 246. l
Conopas, a dwarfe. 165. c
Conuolvulus, a worme that breedeth in a Vine. 547. b how it is remedied. ibid.
Cophantus, a hill in Bactriana, burning by night. 47. c
Coracinus, the best fish in Aegypt. 246. m
Coracini, fishes. 245. b
Corellius his graffing. 520. l
Cordi, what they be. 226. l
Corfideus his recouery from death. 184. l
Cordylae sishes, a kinde of Tunies. 243. c
Cordum, what kinde of hey. 596. g
Corke tree. 461. e. the barke thereof. ibid. the vse it is put vnto. ibid.
Cornei, who they be. 166. i
Corneill tree, how it beareth. 473. c. the wood how to be employed. 490. h
Corneill berries preserued. 449. k
Corne offered to the gods in Numa his time. 546. d
Corne parched for sacrifice. ibid. e
Corne sowing, grinding, and kneading who deuised. 187. e
Corne gaue names to families in Rome. 550. h
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Corne giuen as a reward to worthy warriorrs. ibid.
Corne cheape at Rome. 551. b
Corne diuided into two generall heads, Fourment and Pulse. 557. c
Corne of all sorts when it commeth after it is sowne. ibid. e
Corne how it beareth head and carieth seed. 558. g
Corne spiked what leafe it beareth. ibid. m
Corne spiked bloweth at once. 559. a
Corne differing in ripening. ibid. a. b
Corne differing in stalke and eare. ibid.
Corne how to he threshed and cleansed. ibid b. c
Corne how it differeth in weight. ibid. c. d
bread-Corne doth degenerate into Oats. 574. g
Corne in the field how to be preserued and kept from field∣mice. 576. g
Corne how to be sowne respectiue to the soile. ibid. k
Corne growing vpon trees. 577. b
Corne how to be laid vp for store. 603. a. b. what corne will keepe best. ibid. d. c. how corne may be kept sweet and good long. ibid. e. cutting of corne after diuerse sorts. 602. h
Coronets Murall. 456. i. Uallare. ibid. Nauale. ibid. Rostrate. ibid. k
Coronets how they came first. 456. l
Coromandae, a sauage sort of people. 156. g. without speech. ibid. toothed like dogs. ibid.
Corus wind. 22. l
Coos Island. 323. a
Cosei, wormes bred in okes. 539. c. they be daintie meat. ibid.
Costus a spice. 384. h. the kindes and price thereof. ibid.
Cotinus, what tree. 468. h
Cotton trees. See Gosampine.
Cotton trees in Aethyopia. 395. a

C R

Crab-fishes their nature. 252. k. l
Crab-apples. 438. m
Crab-trees bearing twice a yeare. 474. m
Crabs onely foure-footed among fishes. 351. l
Croesus his sonnes vntimely speech. 353. e. it was prodigi∣ous. ibid.
Cranes how they flie. 281. c
Cranes tamed, very plaifull. ibid. f
Cranes a daintie dish. 282. g
Crapula what it is. 464. k
Crapula, what mixture it is, and what effects it worketh. 424. h.
Crassus Agelastus was neuer knowne to laugh all his life time. 166. h
Crassiuenium, a kinde of Maple. 466. m
Crater Nymphaei, a hollow burning furnace, and vnfortu∣nate to the Apolloniates. 47. d
Craterus Monoceros, a most excellent Hunter, or Hawker. 294. k.
Creatures that lie hidden in the earth, at times haue no bloud at all. 346. h
Creatures are not all hairie that bring forth quicke young. ibid. m.
Creatures none of them haue an odde foot. 351. e
Creatures which onely be round. ibid.
Creatures whole houfed, their legs grow not in length. ibid. f what creatures will not liue nor breed within some coun∣tries. 234. g
Creatures hurtfull to strangers and none else. ibid. h
Creatures without bloud haue no liuers. 341. d
C. Crispinus Hilarius his traine of children and issue in li∣neall descent liuing. 162. m
Critobulus healed king Philip his eie. 174. m. his re∣ward. ibid.
Crocodile of the riuer. 337. a. moueth the vpper iaw. ibid.
Crocodiles male and female sit by turnes. 302. h
Crocodiles wilie and industrious. 346. l
Crocodiles their description. 208. m. they haunt both land and water. 209. a
Crocutae, what kinde of beasts and their nature. 206. g
Cromes, a kinde of fish. 245. a
Crotalia, what pearles. 256. g
Crow, a subtill bird. 276. h. shee feedeth her young being fledge. ibid. i
a Crow taught to speake. 294. k

C T

Ctesias of Gnidos. 47. b
Ctesiphon framed Dianaes temple at Ephesus. 175. b

C V

Cuckow reckoned a Hawke. 275. b. his time of appearance. ibid. killed by his owne kinde. ibid.
Cuckowes lay in other birds nests, and why. 275. c they deuoure the young birds of their nource. 275. d young Cuckowes fat and delicate meat. ibid.
Cuckow checketh the idle husband that is behind hand with his worke. 593. b
Cucus, a tree. 390. k
Cuit wine, Melampsithium, Psithium. 416. l
Cuits of sundry sorts. 416. m. 417. a
Culeus, the biggest measure of liquors that was among the Romanes. 606. g
Countries, the varietie and diuerse disposition therof. 36. m
Curites towne. 40. m
Curtius, a noble knight of Rome. 443. f
Cusculium, what it is. 461. a
Cutting of corne after diuerse sorts. 602. h
Cuttle fish. 256. g. their nature. 250. g

C Y

Cybia, quarters of Pesaurides. 243. d
Cycae, certaine Dates. 388. g
Cyclopes, monsters of men. 154. g
Cychramus, what bird. 283. a
Cyneas his merrie scoffe at a Uine that bare hard wines. 405. b. his memorie. 168. g
Cynae trees. 363. f
Cynobatos. 401. i
Cynosura, what kinde of addle egge. 301. c
Cyonoides, water-serpents. 243. b
Cynocephali, a kinde of Apes or Monkies. 232. g
Cypresse tree will not be dunged nor watered. 544. i it is worse for good Physicke. ibid.
Cypresse trees beare ordinarily thrice a yeare. 475. a
Cypresse tree described at large, with the properties thereof. 479. c. consecrated to Pluto, and why. ibid.
Cypresse tree good to make vinets and borders. 479. d
Cypresse woods gainefull to the Lord. ibid. c
Cypresse trees loue the Isle Candy best. ibid.
Cypresse wood faire and shining. 491. d
Cypresse tree Rosin. 424. g
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Cyprinum oyle. 376 g. 382 h
Cypros, an Aegiptidn tree. 375 f
Cyprus Island. 48 k. ioined sometimes to Syria. 40 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the compasse and length thereof. 110 m
Cyrene, the description thereof. 94 k. famous, and why, ibid.
Cytisus highly commended for feeding sheep and other cat∣tell. 400 l. m. it encreaseth nurses milke. 401. a. b. c how it is to be planted and ordered. ibid. c

D A

DAbula what they be. 386 g
Dactyli, certaine grapes 405 f. why so called ibid.
Daffodill floureth thrice, and sheweth three seasons of plow∣ing. 592 h
Daphnoeides Isocinnamon. 374 g
Daphnoeides. 453 a
Daphnitis. 452 m
Date trees their sundrie kindes. 384 m. 385 b
Dates how they be imploied. ibid.
Of a date tree and other plants prospering vnder it, a won∣der incredible. 581 d
Date trees described. 385 c. d
Distinguished by sects euidently. ibid. d
Iacke Dawes. See Choughs.
Dates how they are to be set. 385 e
Daemaenetus turned into a Wolfe. 207 d
Date in Aegypt. 374 l
Dates conceiue by the presence of the male. 386 g. h
Date trees corne of flips and branches, as well as of ker∣nils. ibid. i
Date trees spring of their owne leaues. 508 m
Dates guelded. 386 l
Date tree growing in the Capitoll of Rome. 143 e
Dates of 49 sorts. 387 b
Dates Royall. 161 d
Dates of Iurie best. 387 e
Dates of sundry sorts. 388 h
Dates serue to franke Swine. ibid. i
Damascene prunes. ibid. l
Date tree leaues serue for cordage. 470 l. how to be pulled and ordered. 470 l
Date trees like not in a strange country. 478 k
Date tree of great antiquitie. 495 e
Dathiathum what it is. 367 d
Daies how they come to be vnequall, and not of certaine length. 13 f
Daylight in the night. 18 g
Daylight vpon earth, the reason thereof. 35 c
Day where it is longest and where shortest. 36 i continuall day for six moneths. ibid. how daies are ob∣serued. 36 l
Day for six moneths together, where. 84 i
the kindenesse of a Daughter to her mother. 174 h
Daughters of Agrippa deliuered of two tyrants. 160 g
Daphnis a bondslaue how highly praised. 175 e
Daudo a Sclauonian, liued fiue hundred yeares. 181 a
Dactyle fishes. 209 f
Daughters of Marcus Curiatius, why they were called Sedigitae. 349 c
Dauncing whose inuention. 189 c

D E

Death suddaine. 185 c. d. &c.
Dead supposed recouer. 184 h
Deale. See Firre.
Deaw when it appeareth. 29 b
signes of Death in sicknesse. 183 e
Dead bodies weigh more than quicke. 156 e
Deafe naturally be dumbe. 306 g
Decumanus lines, what it is. 609 b
Deere, where they haue foure kidnies apeece. 343 d
Decapolis, why so called. 701 e
Defrutum, what it is. 416 l
Delos Island. 40 g
Delos Island famous, and why so called. 81 b. the diuerse names thereof. 161 d
Demetrius spared to burn Rhodes for the loue of a picture. 175 d
Democritus foreseeing by the stars a dearth of oile, bought vp all aforehand. 598 g. hee fained two gods, Punish∣ment and Benefit. 3 d
Democritus in hot weather fore-saw a shoure of raine and foretold it. 610 m
Deuteriae what wines. 417 e

D I

Dials, where first inuented. 191 b. not seruing for all places. 35 d
Dialeta, a kinde of Purples. 29 b
Dianitis Murrhe. 369 b
Dianaes temple at Ephesus, foure hundred yeares in buil∣ding. 491 b. of what timber it was built. 161 d her image of wood. 491 c. by what meanes it endured so long. ibid.
Dianaes temple at Saguntum. ibid. d
Dibapha, what Purple dies. 260i
Dianaes temple in Aulis. 491 e
Dia Pasmata, what they be. 383 c
Dicaearchus his commission. 31 d
Digestion of meat worse in Summer than in Winter. 355 f
Digestion in sleepe of what effect. 356 g
Diademe first inuented. 187 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Diuination by beasts who deuised. 189 d
Dinochares, a renowned Architect. 99 b
Diomedian birds described, and why so called. 294 m 295 a. b.
Dibapha, what dies. 260 i
Dioscurias, a famous citie of the Colchians. 117 c. d by whom founded. ibid. d
Diuinors, or men of a propheticall spirit. 173 d
Dionysius being deposed from his kingdome, the sea-water grew to be fresh. 44 i
Dionysiodorus a Geometrician. 49 c. and his Epistle found in his sepulchre, and the contents thereof. ibid.
Diomedes his lake. 94 g
Diomedes his horses. 78 h
Diribitorium. 489 d
Discord betweene beasts. 308 h
Diuersitte of childrens resemblance of their parents. ibid. b
Diuision of fishes. 247 d
Difference between brains and marrow of the bones. 333 a
Difference of eie-sight in men. 334
Diuersitie of mouthes in creatures, 336 l
Diuersitie of teeth in creatures. 337 a
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Diseases strange incident to men and women. 182. l. as strangely cured. 183. a. who liued long without disease. ibid. b.
Diseases of sundry sorts. ibid. c. d
Diseases ihat haunt trees. 538. m
Distances in planting how to be obserued. 514. l

D O

Docus, shining beames in the skie. 17. b
Dogs louing and faithfull to their masters. 218. l
Dogs restore a king to •…•…is crowne againe. 218. m. their af∣fection to their master. 219. a
Dogs emploied in wars. 218. m. their rare properties. 219. c
one Dog ouercommeth a Lion and an Elephant. 220. g. h
Dogs mad. 220. i. how they be preserued from madnesse. ib.
a Dog speaketh. 220. k
Dogs come into Hercules temple in the beast-market at Rome. 285. d
Dogs will not liue in the Isle of Sygaros. 141. e
Dog-starre his power. 19. f
Dog-starre powerfull on the sea. 245. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Dog-starre of great effect and precious. 597. d. highly ho∣noured. ibid.
Dolphins their nature. 238. h. i
Dolphin swiftest of all fishes and creatures. 238. m. swifter than an arrow out of a bow. ibid. sort themselues like man and wife. 238. i
Dolphins louingly affect men and musicke. ibid. l. they loue mankind, diuerse examples thereof. 238. m
Dolphins know the name Simo. ib. they helpe fishers to catch fish. 240. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. they haue a certaine commonwealth. ibid. l
Dolphins haue no eares. 333. c
Dolphins enemies to Crocodiles. 209. c
Dormice kept tame. 233, b. they sleepe all winter. ibid. c kinde to their sires. ibid.
Doricke tune. 14. l
house Doues chast. 290. g. hen-Doues meeke. ibid h. the cocks iealous. ibid. kinde to their pigions. ibid. i. how they drinke. ibid.
stocke-Doues liue long. 29•…•… k. their tune. ibid.
Doues winke with both their eie-lids. 336. i
house-Doues glorious. 290. m. taken in their pride by the faulcon. 291. b. they loue the Kestrell or Stanell, and wherefore. ibid. doues emploied as posts and courriers betweene. ib. c. how they be kept to their owne doue-cote. ibid. doues and pigeons of great price. 291. d
Doues how of•…•…en they sit and lay in a yeare. 298. i. house∣doues hatch a cocke and a hen pigeon. 300. k. hen-doues tread one another for want of a cocke. ibid. l
Donax, a kind of reed. 485. c. k
Dough how it is made. 560

D R

sea-Dragon. 249. d
Dragons in vines what they be. 536. h
Dragons fight with elephants, and their subtiltie. 198. k where they breed. 199. c. Dragons procure appetite to meat with the iuice of wild lettuce. 271. a
some men neuer Dreame. 309. c
〈◊〉〈◊〉 by Dreames who first practised. 189. d
Dreames common to all creatures that bring forth their young quicke. ibid.
Drepan•…•…s the sea-swallow seldome seen. 351. d
Drinke may be forborne altogether. 166. g
Drupae, what oliues. 379. b 30. g
Drypetae what oliues. 430. g
Dryos hyphear. 496. k
Dryidae in France. 497. b. why so called. ibid. Dryidae their ceremonies in gathering of okes misselto. ibid. c
against drunkennesse and Drunkards. 426. i
M. Antonius a Drunkard, and maintainer of Drunken∣nesse. 428. g
the behauiour of Drunkards. 427. a
Parthians great Drinkers of wine. ibid. d
Dromiscos Island. 40. k

D V

Dung of blackebirds for what it is good. 507. c
Dunging of land, when and in what order. 582. l
Dunghill cockes best adorned on the heads. 331. b
Dung how it is to be raked. 582. l
Dunging of grounds inuented by King Augeas. 507. b
Duracina, certaine grapes 405. e
Duracina peaches. 436. k. why so called. ibid.

D W

Dwarfes in both sexes. 165. c
Dwarfes there be in all kinde of creatures. 352. g

D Y

Dying wooll who deuised. 188. i
Dyals by whom deuised. 191. b
water Dyals or Clepsidres whose inuention. 191. d

E A

EAle what kinde of beast it is. 206. h
Eares tokens of courage. 333. d
Earth, what portion thereof is habitable. 33. c. how it ap∣peareth that the earth is in the mids of the world. 34. h
Earth in the middest thereof an wholesome mixture from both sides. 37. b
Earthquakes the reason thereof. 37. c. when they commonly happen. 38. h. signes of earthquakes comming. ibid. reme∣dies against it. ib. strange and monstrous earthquakes. 39. a. wonders of earthquakes. ibid.
Earth hath deuoured her selfe, and what lands haue swal∣lowed vp themselues. 40. m. parts of the earth that euer tremble and shake. 41. e
the measure of the earth in length and breadth. 48. k
Earth element. 2. l
Earth lowest and in the midst: earth hangeth by the poles of the heauens. 2. m
Earth peiseth all other elements. 3. a. earth vnmoueable. ib.
Earth lesse than the Sun. 8. i
Earth no place therof inhabited which lieth vnder the Zo∣diacke. 11. b
Earth defended by an apologie of the author. 548. i. k.
Earth scorneth and repineth to be tilled by slaues. 552. h
Earth engrauen in Achilles his armour. 504. l
Earth how it is subiect to old age. 504. k
Earth, the nature thereof requisite to be knowne. 515. b
Earth desireth the act of generation. 523. a
Easie is the deliuerance of a man child. 159. a

E B

Ebene, a tree of India. 360. g. the wood paid as tribute. ibid.
Ebene of two kindes. 360. h
Ebene a tree shewed in a triumph. ibid.
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Ebene wood maketh a sweet perfume. ibid.
Ebrus riuer. 503. d

E C

Echetae, a kinde of grashoppers. 325. e
Echinometrae, fishes. 253. b
Echineis a fish. 248. m. it staieth the flux of women. ib. a
Echini, vrchins of the sea. 253. a
Echo, and the reason thereof. 21. d
Eclipse of the Sun and Moone. 7. d. why they are not eclip∣sed at set times. ibid.
Eclipse, who were the first findes out thereof. 8. l
Eclipses much feared, and of whom. 9. a
Eclipse of the Moone thought to be by enchantment, and to be helped by dissonant ringing of basons. ibid.
Eclipses, in what time they haue their returne to the for∣mer points. 9. g
Eclipse of the Sun when it happeneth. 9. g
Eclipse of the Moone alwaies in the full. ibid.
Eclipses how often, in what space, and the first finder out thereof. 9. d
Eclipse longer than ordinary when Caesar Dictatour was murdred. 17. e

E G

Egs diuerse in colour. 298. g
Egs of birds of two colours within the shell. ibid.
Egs of fishes of one colour. ibid.
Egs of birds, serpents, and fishes, how they differ. ibid.
Egs best for an hen to sit vpon. 299. a
Egs hatched without a bird. 299. c. onely by a kind heat. ib.
Egs how they be marred vnder an hen. 299. b
wind-Egs called Hypenemia. 300. l. how they be engen∣dred. 301. e. wind-Egs Zephyria. ibid.
Egs drawne through a ring. ibid.
Egs how they he best kept. ibid.
Egnat. Mecennius killed his wife for drinking wine. 418. k
of Eye plucking out, vomit followeth. 334. d

E L

Elaterium what it is. 369. a
Elate. 379. e
Electrum a kinde of mettall. 260. l
Elements three, Water, Aire, and Fire, haue neither sauour nor taste. 449. b
Elenchi, what pearles. 255. f
Elaeomeli, what it is. 435. a
Elephants cure themselues by the wild oliue. 211. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Elephants bring forth but one at once. 303. d
Elephants tooth. See Yuorie.
Elephants haue broad tongues. 339. a
Elephants haue foure bellies or paunches. 343. b
Elephants most industrious and wittie. 346. l how they bend their hams. 350. g
Elephants capacitie, vertue, religion, desire of glory. 192. i The biggest of land beasts. ibid. they adore the new Moone. 192. k. subiect to sickenesse. 197. f. their docilitie. 192. l. 193. b. they plough the ground. ibid. they draw in a chariot. ibid. their manner of dauncing. ibid. their feats of actiuitie and nimblenesse. 193. a. an Elephant goeth vp and downe ropes. 193. b. writing Greeke cha∣racters. ibid. embarked and their manner of landing. 193. c. their armes called hornes or teeth. ibid. they hide their teeth. ibid.
Elephants young how they be knowne. 193. d. how they order their teeth. ibid. what vse they make of them. ibid. they know wherefore they are hunted. 193. e. their cle∣mencie to man. 193. f. their feare of mans footing. 194. g
Elephant how he vttereth his voice. 353. e. their manner of march. 194. i. their passage ouer riuers. ibid.
Elephants bashfull and shamefull. ibid. k. l
Elephants two of K. Antiochus. ibid.
Elephants, their time of generatior. 194. l. their affection in loue. 194. l. m. 195. a. both to their owne and also to mankind. ibid. their memorie. 195. a. their iustice. ibid. when they were first seene in Italy. 196. b. baited in the cirque of Rome. 195. c
Elephants fight in the cirque of Rome. ibid. c
an Elephant of wonderfull courage. 196. g. their industrie. ibid. mooue people to pittie. ibid. h. Elephants fight. ib. i. k
Elephants gentle to weaker beasts. ibid. k
Elephants harmelesse, vnprouoked. ib. their maner of fight. ibid. how they be tamed. ib. l. 197. d
Elephants how they be taken. 196. l. 197. a. b
Elephants mad in time of rut. 197. c. how they serue in warre. ibid. d
Elephants affrighted at the grunting of swine. ibid.
Elephants how long they goe with young. 197. e.
Elephants in India bigger than African. 197. e. 198. k they loue waters. 191. i. can abide no cold. ibid. their food. 198. g. their trunke and the vse thereof. ibid. they cannot abide a mouse. ibid. they take harme by swallow∣ing a horse-leech. ib. h. their skin. ib. it serueth to kill flies. ibid.
Elephants teeth of great price. ib. and the vse of them. ibid.
Elephants trunk vsed for meat. 198. i. where they breed. ib. k their policie, and the reason thereof in nature. 199. a
Elder tree good for pipes. 485. e. the berries for what vse. 486. g. their stakes best to prop vines. 526. g
Elegia. 483. g
Elme seed when to be gathered. 512. g. how to be sowne. ib.
Elmes of diuerse kindes.. 467. e. f
Elme Atinia not good for vines. 535. a
Elmes husbands to vines. 512. b
Elops, a fish. 245. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Elpis taketh a bone from betweene a Lions teeth. 203. d
Elleborine. 398. i. the leaues medicinable. ibid.

E M

Emperour Nero drawne by monstrous beasts. 352. i
Embrodered workes, whose deuise. 228. i
Emerita, a place in Portugall. 261. b
Emplastration, what manner of grafting. 519. d. e

E N

Endimion, when that fable first sprang vp of being in loue with the Moone. 7. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
what beasts engender backeward. 302. k
Engines of battery whose inuention. 189. b. c
English oysters best of all others. 267. a
Enhaemon, a soueraigne salue. 370. l
Enuious persons are venomous. 548. m

E O

Eone a tree, 399. b

E P

Ephemerides, who first deuised. 188. g
Epirus description. 72. k
Epimenides his sleepe. 184. i
Ephesus a famous citie of Asia. 109. b
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Epileps•…•…e, whence it is. 335. a
Epiglossis, a little tongue at the root of the other. 339. b
it is in no creature that layeth egs. ibid. vse of it. ibid. it is two fold. ibid.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, what it is. 585. d
Epipactis. 398. i. the leaues medicinable. ibid.
Ephesus, sometime it was so neere the sea that it did beat vpon the temple of Diana. 39. e
Epopos hill. 40. h
Epidaurus Island. 40. k

E R

Eratosthenes measured the globe of the earth, by what light and direstion. 44. g
Eratosthenes a most cunning clearke. 49. b. 36. h
Eratosthenes a writer his great praise. 49. b
Erithace, Sandaracha Cerinthus, food of bees. 313. b
Erithace effected of spring dew. ibid.
Erithace. See Robin-redbrest.
Ericaeum, a kinde of wild hony. 317. d
Eruile not chargeable in sowing. 572. i
Eruile medicinable by the testimony of Augustus Caesar. 572. k. when to be sowne. ibid.
Errour in numbring of yeares. 181. a
Erysinum, what kinde of corne. 565. b
Erythini, fishes altogether female. 244. m
Erythraea, myrrhe. 369. d
Erysisceptron. See Aspalathus.
Erythrocoma, Pomegra•…•…ats. 398. g. h

E S

Esculetum, a groue neere Rome. 462. g
Esculus the mast thereof. 458. m
Esculus runneth as deep into the ground as it riseth aboue the ground. 477. c
Esseni, people throughout the world most wonderfull. 101. d carnall lust they know not. ibid. keepe company onely with date trees. ibid. continued many thousand yeares without generation. ibid.

E T

Etesiae, the name of winds. 23. d
Etesiae winds. 97. f. 473. b

E V

Eumecos. 376. l
Euonimus, a tree. 399. b
Eurotas riuer flowing ouer Peneus riuer like oile, not min∣gled therewith. 76. l
Europe the measure thereof. 89. d
Euphorbia hearbe the wonderfull •…•…rtue thereof. 92. i
Euphrates a famous riuer, the description thereof. 103. d
Eupetalon. 453. a
Europe not the third part of the earth. 51. a. but the one halfe. ibid.
Eutheristos. 376. l
Eutyche, a woman of Tralleis deliuered in her life time of thirtie births. 157. c. carried to her funerall by twentie of her children. ibid.
Euthimin•…•…s hi•…•… sonnes growth. 165. c
Euthemus a wrestler honored as a god. 180. k

E X

Exacetus what •…•…sh. 247. b. 488. i
Experience best proofe. 502. k
Excr•…•…ments of mans body best dung for ground. 507. c
〈◊〉〈◊〉 pearles of commendation. 255. f

E Y

Eyebrowes of man like the eaues of a house. 333. d
Eyebrowes the seats of pride. ibid. e
what liuing creatures haue no Eies. 333. f
one Eye in some Herons. 334. g
Eyes of sundry colours. 334. g. h. i
ball or apple of the Eye different from the other parts. ibid. k
Eyes shew the affection and disposition of the mind. 334. k. l
membranes of the Eye. 335. a. b
opticke nerues of the Eyes whether they reach to the braine or stomacke. ibid. d
Eyes why they be closed ceremoniously in the dead. ibid.
Eyes yeeld forth teares. 334. k
Eyes, sometime why they see not and be well. 335. a
Eye sight how it is placed. ibid. b
Eyelids, their vse. 336. g. why they shed their haire. ibid. h
Eytooth of a wolfe on the right side worketh wonders. 337. f
of Eye-sight quicke, wonderfull examples. 167. b

F A

FAbaria. 569. a
Fabariae certaine Islands. 596. d
Face proper onely to mankinde. 333. d
Factus what it is. 433. d
Fall of leafe a good rule for husbandmen to direct them to seednesse. 588. l
Falcon helpeth the owle in fight. 277. f
Fallowing each other yeare. 581. b
Fagutalis, Iupiter at Rome. 461. f
Farrago. 572. b
Farrage corne or dredge. 573. a
Farina, whereof it is deriued. 564. g
Fabius a Senatour of Rome strangled with a haire. 159. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Fauonius the Westerne wind, why so called 471. d. why cal∣led Chelidonius. 23. c. why named Orinthius. ibid. highly commended. 569. a
Fairies seen oftentimes in the desarts of Affricke. 157. c they vanish away like illusions. ibid.

F E

Feast Fornacalia instituted by Numa. 549. c
Faecatum what it is. 417 f
L. Sylla called Faelix, yet vnhappy. 177. c
Felicitie diuersly vnderstood. 276. h
Feeling a sense common to all creatures. 306. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Femals may certainly turne to be males. 158. b
Femals haue smaller voices than males, except kine. 353. e
Female sirrs taller than the male. 563. h. i
Fenigreeke to be sowne negligently. 552. b
Ferrets naturally hunt conies. 232. b
Ferula, two kindes. 399. d. root of Ferula dangerous. 399. f
Ferula maketh excellent fin•…•… matches. 400. h
a Ferme house how to be purchased and chosen. 553. b. c. d
Ferne or brake how to be killed. 556. m
Fesant bastards. 288. c
Fesants of Colchis daintie birds. 296. g
Fesant will die of lyee. 329. d
Feuer, a chappell dedicated to her. 3. c

F I

Figtree beare fruit contrary to other trees, and why. 474. k
Figtrees beare twice a yeare: wild fig trees beare thrice a yeare. ibid. l
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Figtree milke or sap serueth for rendles. 486. g
Figs Liuian. 442. i. Pompeian. ibid. Figs mariscae. ibid. speckled figs. ibid. Herculanian. 442. i. Albicerate. ibid. Aratian. ibid. Porphyrite. 442. k. Popular. ibid. Chelido∣nian. ibid.
Figs both early and lateward. 442. k. Figs Duracinae. ibid. Chalcidian figs beare three times in one yeare. ibid. Ta∣rentine figs called Oinae or Oenades. ibid.
Figs as big as peares. 442. g
Figs of Ida described. ibid.
Figtree Alexandrina. ib. Figtrees of Hyrcania. 442. h
Figs: Chalcidian. 442. h. Chian. ib. Lydian. ib. Mamillane or teat figs. ib. Callistruthian. ib. African. 442. i. Alex∣andrine or delicat. ib. Rhodian. ib. Tyburtine. ibid.
Figdates when to be planted. 442. l
Figs African, Saguntine, Tellian. ibid.
winter figs. ibid.
Figs fall from the tree, if it thunder at the feast Uulcana∣lia. 546. k
Figs of Moesia ripen when other blossome, by what deuise. 442. m.
a Fig the occasion of Carthage ouerthrow. 443. b. c
Figtree Nauia in Rome. 443. d
Figtrees Ruminalis. ibid.
Figtree in the Forum at Rome. ibid.
Figtree before the temple of Saturne in Rome. 443. l
Figs ripen altogether on the tree. 444. h
wild Figtrees. ibid.
Figs ripen the sooner by the meanes of wild figtrees. ib. h. i. k
Figs of the Isle Ebusus the best. 444. l
Figs how they be put vp and kept. ibid.
Figs good victuals. ibid. m
Figs: Coctanae, Caricae, Cauniae. ibid.
Figtree made fruitfull by the sea onion Squilla. 514. g. it is drier in the mids than at the head. 517. c
Figtree how it is made to beare oliues. 524. g
Figtree of all other ageth the soonest. 526. m
Figtree groweth best by the water side. 544. i
Figs how they are ripened by caprification. 545. e
Figs how they are made smooth and pleasant. 547. b
a Figtree of India. 360. k. the description thereof. ibid. it setteth it selfe. ibid.
Aegiptian figtree. See Sycamore.
Syrian figtree. 389. e. f
Fields in Aethiopia about the hill Hesperis shine and glit∣ter like starres. 47. d
Filberds called Abellinae, whereupon. 446. h
Filberds: Caluae, Praenestine, Thasian, Albensian, Taren∣tine, Molluscae. ibid. i
Fines passed vnder the name of sheep & oxē at Rome. 550k
Firrs taller than any rosin tree. 465
Firrs topped die, topped liue. 476. i
Firtrees how emploied and how to be chosen. 488. l. m
Firre masts for shipping. 489. f
Firre is good for plankes. 547. a
Firre how it will not putrifie in water. 492. i
Firre wood highly commended in carpentry and ioyners worke. 493. a. b
Fire bird. Looke Incendiaria.
Fire in the hill Chimera flamed with water and quenched with earth. 47. c
Fire the maruailes thereof. 46. m
Firie glasses opposite to the sun-beames sooner inflame than fire. 47. f
Fire the highest element. 2. l
Fires about the body of men. 48. h
Firmament seen to chinke and open. 17. g
Fishes feed on land. 235. e. diuided according to their sun∣dry shapes. 247. d
Fishes of all sorts breath after a manner. 237. e
Fishes both heare and sleepe. ib. & 306. h. 309. b
Fishes changing colour. 249. d
Fishes which be bloudlesse. 249. c
Fishes esteemed diuersly in sundry places. 246. m
Fishes are not all alike couered. 242. h
Fishes some mislike in cold, others in heat. 245. b
a Fish leapeth out of the water at Caesars feet. 244. l
Fishes how and where they like and liue best. 245. a
Fishes, of what kinde they be all spawners & no milters. ib.
Fishes haue sense. 261. d
Fishes, of all creatures haue the biggect heads. 332. g
Fishes their eies shine by night. 335. c
Fishing time which is best. 244. m
Fishes that be soft haue no bones. 345. a
Fishes female commonly bigger than male. 244. l
Fishes doe smell. 306. h
Fishes presage things to come. 244. l
Fisticke nuts, and their nature. 388. l

F L

the Flap Epiglossis. 339. c
Flies drowned will reuiue kept in ashes. 330. l
Fleas engendred of dust. 329. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Flies enter not into Hercules temple in the beast-market at Rome. 285. d
Flies breed in the fire at Cyprus. 330. i
Floore for threshing how to be tempered. 602. d
Floralia a festiuall holiday. 600. g
Flacci why so called. 333. b
Flockeworkes. 277. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

F O

Forehead sheweth the nature of man or woman. 333. e
Food of sundry creatures. 307. d
Foules distinguished generally by their feet. 276. g
Foules why they pecke at the eies of a man. 335. c
Fortune a goddesse, her vniuersall power. 4. k. her mutabili∣tie. 177. a. variable fortunes of diuerse persons. 177. b
to bad-Fortune a temple. 3. e
Foules that haue crooked talons be long legged. 351. d
Foliatum ointment. 382. k
Fountaines of wonderfull and strange natures. 45. a. b
Fountaine from vnder the sea yeelding fresh water. 110. l
Forrests in Germany. 455. c
Foxes very quicke of hearing. 222. g. how they engender. 302. m. sea-Foxes. 262. g
strange Foules in the Island Area. 120. l

F R

France not subiect to earthquakes, and why. 38. h
Fraud of Toranius a merchant slane-seller. 162. g
Frogs force inhabitants to abandon a citie. 212. h
Frogs Rubetae. 213. a
Frogs how they make their noise. 338. l
Frankincense male what it is. 367. d
Frankincense best how it is knowne. 368. i
Frument what it is, and of how many kindes. 557. c. d
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Frankincense onely in Arabia. 366. g
Frankincense tree described. ibid. k
Frankincense gathered. 367. a. the manner thereof. ibid. b
Frankincense paieth much toll. 368. h. high price of Rome. ibid. i.
Frize mantles. 227. f
Fronditius passed ouer the riuer Vulturnus in spight of Anniball. 499. c
Frost how it is engendred. 29. b
Fruits how to be preserued. 440. m. 441. a. b
Fruits grow after diuerse sorts. 450. g. h. in what regard they be set by. ibid. i
Frument or spike-corne. 582. h
Frumentie corne. 559. d
Frumentie bastard. 568. i

F V

Fullers craft who found out. 188. i
C. Furius Cres•…•…us a notable good husbandman, accused and acquit. 556. g. h.
Furlong how many paces. 14. l
Furnaceus panis, what it was. 566. m
Furrowes direct. 579. e
Furrowes ouerthwart, ibid. l
Fusius Saluius his strength. 166. l. m
Fusterna in trees what it is. 488. f

F Y

Fyre striking out of a flint, who deuised. 188. m

G A

GAbalium. 314. h
Gabara. 165. b
Gades. 48. i
Gagates. See Aetites.
Gall in serpents is their venome. 337. c
Gall hangs at the liuer. 341. c. it is not in all creatures. ib.
Gall of a Deere where it lieth. 341. d
Gall infecteth the body with the yellow iaundise. ibid. e
Gall of seals good for many purposes. 342. g
Galbanum a gum. 518. i. the best how it is knowne. ibid. the vertue and the price. ibid.
Galguli what birds, and how they build. 288. l
Gallia the description thereof. 87. a
Gall-nuts of the oke Hemeris best for curriours. 460. g
Gall-nuts appropriate to mast trees. ibid.
Gall-nuts, which be best. ibid.
Gall-nuts breake forth all in a night. ibid.
Gamale, a territory in Phoenicia. 40. m
Games publique who first ordained. 189. f
Games solemne: Olympia, Isthmia, Pythia, Nemea. 457. a
Ganders and geese how they do engender. 301. b
Ganges the description thereof. 126. h
Ganges a riuer. 48, k. 156. i
Ganzae what geese. 281. a

G E

Geese bashfull and modest. 279. a
wild-Geese in what manner they flie. 282. k
Geese watchfull. 280. i. saued the Capitoll. ibid. prouided for with the first state of Rome. ibid.
Geese giuen to loue mankind. 280. k
Geese seeme to haue vnderstanding. ibid.
Geese liuer is excellent meat as is it ordered. 280. i. who de∣vised the same dish. ibid.
Geese trauailed afoot from Terwin and Turney in France to Rome. 280. m. their feathers and downe. ibid. a
Geese how they sit and hatch. 301. b.
Geirs exceed vs in smelling. 305. f
Geirs where they build, and how they breed. 274. g
Geometritian who was excellent. 175. a
Generation of mankinde, the reason thereof. 162. i. k
Ges-clithron a famous caue. 154. k

G H

Ghost of Aretaeus in forme of a rauen. 184. i
Ghost abandoning the bodie at times. ibid. h

G I

Giants in times past. 165. a. b
Giddinesse in the braine ten daies after the women hath had company with the man, sheweth conception. 159. a
Gilthead a fish. 245. b
Ginney or Turkie hens. 296. g

G L

Glandules or kernels in swine. 339. b
Glanis a fish, her nature. 262. g
Glauce loued of a goose. 280. k
Glaucus a sea-fish. 245. b
Gledes. See Kites.
Glew made of an oxe hide sodden. 347. c. what woods will not be glewed. 493. c. the best glew is made of bulls hides. 347. c.
Glo-birds or Glo-wormes, what they betoken. 593. c
Glottis what bird. 283. a
Glo-wormes, why they be called Lamprides. 326. l when they firct appeare. ibid.
Glynon a kinde of Maple. 466. l

G N

Gnats. 310. l
Gnat hath all the fiue senses. ibid. is thirstie of mans bloud. ibid.
Gnat-snappers what kinde of birds. 286. m. when they be called Ficedulae. 287. a. when they be called Melancory∣phi. ibid.
Gnesios the royall Aegle. 272. g
Gnomon, what. 35. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

G O

God, what he is. 3. d
Gods thought to be many, and how this foolish opinion first sprang. 3. d. To assigne any forme to God is mans weake∣nesse. 3. i. Plagues accounted as Gods. ibid.
Gods more in heauen, than men in earth, if they should be so many as men do feigne. 3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
men haue accounted beasts, and other filthy things to bee Gods. 3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Gods that they be married, vaine it were to beleeue. 3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
God feigned yong and old, winged and lame. 3. f
Gods, in them are feigned adulteries, haired, and wars. ib.
Gods worne vpon fingers in rings. 4. b
Gods cannot do all things, as to die. 5. a
Gods not innumerable. 3. d
Gods, Democritus maketh two onely. ibid.
a God canonized here vpon earth. 180. i
Gold, what people hath it. 138. h
Gold mines who discouered. 188. k
Gold melting, trying, and fining, whose deuise. ibid.
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Goats, their manner of breeding. 229. a. both male and fe∣male. ibid. how they helpe their eie-sight. 229. b. their wit. ibid. male goats which be best. ibid. female goats how to be chosen. ibid.
Goats euer in an ague. 229. d. their haire in stead of wooll vsed in cloath. ibid. they barke and kill trees. ibid. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. the goats beard. ibid. how they breath. 229. d. they see by night. ibid. they kill oliue trees by licking them onely. ibid. e.
Goats wilde of sundry kinds. 231. c
Goats not sacrificed to Minerua. 229. e
Goslings stung with a nettle die vpon it. 301. b. greedie fee∣ding the bane of goslings. ibid.
Gossampine trees bearing cotton. 363. e. f
Goggle eies dim-sighted. 334. h

G R

Gray eies in the darke see better than others. 334. h
Graies how they escape the hunter. 218. g
Graines in fruit different. 447. e
Graine. See corne.
Graine of three sorts esteemed by the Greekes: Dracontias, Strange as, Selinusium. 360. g
Grafting how it is. 517. a
Grafts ought to be taken from the top of the tree. ibid. g
Grafts how to be taken from boughes that beare well. ibid. how they are to be set. ib. how they are to be thwighted. ibid. not to be sharpened in the wind. 518. b. they are to be set before the moone is in the full. ibid.
Grafting in seutcheon. 519. e. f. 520. g. h. Rules to be obser∣ued in grafting. 521. c
Grafts of cherrie trees how to be vsed. 518. i
Grafts of vines how to be vsed. 519. b
Grafts of wild trees will not grow in the tame. 519. e
Grafting more plentifull than sowing of seeds. 520. k
Grafts of oliues when they are to be set in dry places. 522. g
Grafts of oliues how they are to be vsed in Barbary. ibid. h
Grammarian, who excellent. 174. l
Grapes how they are preserued from pullain. 420. k
Grapes that loose the belly. 423. a. grapes that bind the belly. ibid.
Grapes Echoledes, why so called. ibid.
Grapes de-guard. 440. i
Grape bunches how to be gathered for guard. ibid. m
Grapes of diuerse sorts. 45. e
Grapes how preserued. 406. g
Grapes dried in furnaces. ib. grapes sodden in wine must. ib.
Grapes hanging all winter on the vine till new come. 406. h
Greeke grapes of Corinth. 407. c
Grapes Uarianae, and why so called. 408. g
Grapes Inerticulae might be called the sober grapes. ibid i
Grapes of the free towne Pompeij. 409. d
Grapes Tiburtine. ibid.
oliue Grapes. ibid.
Grapes Vinaciolae. ibid.
Grapes Capciades. 409. k
Grapes Bucconiatis. ibid.
Grapes Tarrupiae. ibid.
Grapes Phariae. ibid.
Grapes Prusiniae. ibid.
Grapes streptos. ibid.
Grapes Thasiae. ibid.
Grapes Mariotides. ibid. grapes Lageae. ibid.
Grapes Bimammae. 410. g
Grapes of Spaine. ibid. h
Grapes Escariae. ibid.
Grapes Bumasti. ib. Ounce grapes. 410. h
Grapes Aegiptian. ibid.
Grapes Rhodian. ibid.
Market grapes. ibid.
Grapes Cinereae. ibid.
Grapes Scirpulae. 416. m
Grapes Aegiptian, Thasia, Aethalos, Peuce. 415. f
Grashoppers how they liue. 325. d. their sundry kindes. ibid. d. e. they be dim-sighted. 326. g. they may be redu∣ced into three kindes. ibid. they be meat to some nations. ibid. when they flie. ibid. they be not euery where. ibid. they haue wings onely without mouth. ib. f. where they be mute. ibid.
of Greace. 344. k
Greekes full of lies and vanities. 207. d
Griffons defend golden mines. 154. h. what birds. 296. k
Grind-stones and whet-stones for sithes. 595. c
Gristles broken will not close together. 345. b. more of gri∣stles. ibid.
Grounds ouergrowne with bushes how to be clensed, 505. b
Ground how to be trenched. 559. a. b
to chuse ground, rules infallible. 505. b
Grounds which are principall. 504. k
Ground must be bettered by sowing some graine in it. 508. h
Ground burned by cich-pease. ibid.
the Growth of man or woman. 345. b

G V

Guarlands giuen to victors in the foure great games. 457. a
a Guild instituted by Romulus ouer corn fields seege. 549. c
Guarlands of corne-eares first knowne at Rome. ibid.
Guelded apples. 438. l
Gueldings cast not their teeth. 338. h
Sea-guls, where they breed. 287. f
Gums of diuers sorts. 391. c. d
Gum Arabicke. 424. g
Gum of Iurie. ibid.
Gum Colophonian. ibid.
Gum Spagas. ibid.
Gum Cypryan. ibid.
Gut Longaon how it maketh creatures insatiable. 343. b
of the Guts. 342. k. l. m. 343. a. b

G Y

Gymnosophystes, certaine Philosophers of India. 155. e they can looke against the Sun. ibid.
Gymnetes, people liuing aboue a hundred yeares. 147. a
Gynacocratumeni, people why so called. 118. h

H A

HAdrosphaeron. 364. k
Hadrobolon what it is. 363. a
Haddocke, a kinde of cod-fish. 243. e
Haile how it is engendred. 29. b
Halcyones the name of birds: their hatching. 287. e
Haliattes. 8. l
Haliaetos, what kinde of aegle. 272. g. shee traineth her young ones to looke against the Sun. ibid▪
Halfe our time spent in sleepe. 183. a
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Halcion daies. 287. d
Halciones of diuerse kinds. ibid.
Halciones when they breed. ibid.
Haliphleos, a kinde of Oke. 450. d. vnfortunate. ibid.
Hammoniacum. See Ammoniacum.
Hanno banished for taming a Lion. 203. b
Ha•…•… his booke and commission to suruey the compasse of Affricke. 91. b
Ha•…•… his nauigation. 33. a
Hangings of exceeding great price. 228. k
Happie is no man in this life. 176. h
who was deemed most happie by the Oracle. 180. h
Hares admit superfoetation. 303. d
Harpe starre Fidicula. 588. g
Harrowing how it is performed. 579. f
Hares sleepe open eied. 335. a
Hard and stiffe harted folkes are accounted brutish. 340. i
Hardishrews if they go ouer a cart-tract, streight die. 244. g
Hares in some places haue two liuers. 341. c being then transported they lose one of them. ibid.
Hare will neuer be fat. 344. k
Hares admit superfoetation or double conception. 232. k
Hare the hairiest creature. 347. a
Hares how their age is knowne. 232. i. both male and fe∣male. ibid.
the sea-h•…•…re a venomous fish. 191. b. 264. i
Hares very fruitfull. 232. k
Hares haire very good to make cloth. ibid.
Harmonie of Planets. 14. k
Harts shewed the vse of the hearbe Dictamnus. 210. k cure themselues with craifishes. ibid.
Harts and Hinds are cured by the Artichoke. 211. c
Harts. See Stags. 214. g. h
Hastie apples. See Apples Mustea.
Hasell nuts. See Filbards.
Haulme. See Straw.
Hawkes. 272 f. their kinds. 274. k. where they breed on the ground. ibid. l
Hawkes and men catch birds together. 274. m and part the prey equally. ibid.
of Haire. 332. i k
Haires and stones engender in mens bladders. 344. g
Haires out of a thicke skin are grosse and hard. 347. a they grow long vpon Horses and Lions. ibid.
swallowing downe of an Haire the death of Fabius a Ro∣man Senatour. 159. e
Haires of Connies long on their cheekes. ibid.
Hairie men more lecherous than others. ibid.
Haires come not sometime without the helpe of art. 347. b
Haire of the head in men groweth most. ib. it groweth not at the cut end but from the root. ibid.
Haire groweth vpon dead bodies. 347. b
Hairie beasts, except the Asse and the sheepe, are troubled with lice. 329. b
Haires white. 232. h

H E

Heads adorned with crests, tufts, and combes. 331. a
Heads cut from the bodie licked vp their owne bloud. 242. h.
Heart in man and beast how it is scituate and made: also to what vse it serueth. 340. g. h
Heart of fishes pointeth vp to the mouth. ibid,
Heart first formed in the mothers wombe. 340. a. it dieth last. ibid. h. it panteth like a liuing creature by it selfe. ibid. h. the treasure of life. ibid. the seat of the mind and soule. 340. h
Heart cannot abide paine. ibid. paine of it bringeth present death. ibid.
Hearts, they that haue little, are valiant. ibid.
Heart of a man how much it groweth yearely. 340. f. how long it groweth. ibid. when and how much it decreaseth. ibid.
Hearts of some men all hairie. 340. i
Hearts hairie shew strange and valorous men. ibid.
Heauen full of pourtraits. 2. g
Heauen and World all one. 1. c
Heauen in the motion thereof an harmonie. 2. h
Heauen called Coelum, and why. ibid.
Heauen diuided into sixteene parts by the Tuscanes. 7. a See more in World.
Hebre riuer. 53. b
Heouba her tombe and name thereof. 79. a
Hedgehogs how they engender. 302. l
Hedysmata. 381. d
Helix of three sorts. 481. a
Helix, a kinde of Yuie. 480. k
Hellenes, whence they tooke their name. 76. h the three names Homer gaue vnto them. ibid.
Helena, a Meteor so called. 18. l
Heliotropium turning alwaies with the Sunne. 20. h
Hellespontias, the name of a wind. 23. b. the time of it. ibid.
Hellespont, sometime a land. 40. l
Helix, a kinde of Willow or Oysier, 485. i
Heliotropium the hearbe, a direction vnto the Husband∣man. 593. f
Hemeris, a kinde of Oke. 459. b
Heneti, from whence the Uenetians. 175. b
house-Hens seeme religious. 292. m
Hens or Pullets great layers. 298. i
Hens bring vp Ducklings. 299. e
Hens which be kindly. 300. g
grig-Hens. ibid. b
Hens and Puslein first crammed. 297. a
Hens fat how they are knowne. ibid. b
Hephaestij, mountaines in Lycia. 47. c
Hepsema, what it is. 416. l
Hercules pillars. 48. i
Hercules his altar. 96. l
Hermotinus Clazomenius his ghost. 184. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Hercules his sphere, the planet Mars so called. 6. g
Hercules Rusticellus, who so called. 166. l
Hercynia forrest. 455. e. the wonderfull trees that are there growing. 455. f
Marcus Herennius a Counsellor struck with lightening in a cleare day. 25. f
Hermaphrodites. See Androgini.
Hermines. See Menuver.
Heroum, what it is. 273. f
Herophilus, a renowned interpreter of Physicke. 345. b
Herons of three sorts. 301. l. they engender with great paine. ibid. and lay with as much. ibid.
Hesperius, a mountain in Aethyopia. 47. c
Hexametre verse, who first deuised. 189. c

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H I

Hiera an Island of Aetolia, neere Italy. And the burning thereof. 47. d
Hiera Island. 40. g
Hierapolis citie. 104. l
Himantipus, what kind of birds 295. d
Himilco his nauigation. 33. a
Hinds, their nature and manner of breeding. 213. d
Hinds and stags how they engender. 302. m
Hinuti, what they be. 224. h
Hinus, what it is. ibid. i
Hippanis, a riuer in Pontus, it bringeth downe bladders, 330. l. wherein it enclosed the flie Hemerobion. ibid.
Hipparchus his Ephemerides what they contained. 8. l his inuention conceruing the Eclipse of the Sunne and Moone. 9. d
Hipparchus his opinion of the stars, his praise, and opinion of the soule. 16. e. he sindeth out a new starre rising in his time. 16. m
Hipparchus. 49. c
Hippaee, a kinde of crabsish. 252. l
Hippaeus, a kinde of Comet. 15. f
Hippocrates honoured like Hercules. 17 h. he foretold of a pestilence. ibid.
Hippocentaur borne in Thessalie. 157. f
Hippomanes, what it is. 222. k
Hippophestar, good to purge the body for the falling sicke∣nesse. 496. k
Hippoglottian. 452. m
Hippuri, a sort of Lobstars. 245. b
Hirpiae, certain families, wherein they be all witches. 155. c 155. e.
Hispalis, a Colonie. 52. h
Hiues of Lanterne hornes. 318. k
driuing of Hiues. 317. b. what must be left for the Bees. ibid.

H O

Holmes, three at Tiber very old. 458. l
a Holme tree of a wonderfull age. 495. b
a Holme tree of a monstrous bignesse. 496. h
a Mast-Holme tree of two sorts. 458. l
Holothuria, fishes of the nature of plants. 264. g
Holydaies vnto Uulcan. 48. g
Homers Ilias couched within a nut-shell. 167. b
thicke Hony nothing commendable. 317. b
thin Hony will not thicken. ibid.
Hony engendreth in the aire. 317. b. when it is engendred. ibid. of what mater. ibid. how it is corrupted. ibid. it is diuerse, according to the tokens of good hony. ibid. regions. 316. h
a Honey-combe eight foot long. ibid. i
Honey-combes best about Sunne-stead in Summer. 316. i
Honey when it is most gathered. 317. a
Honey in some sort hurtfull for Bees 321. d
Hondearia, a kind of Plums. 436. m
Honey apples. See apples Melimela.
Honey who made first. 188. l
Hornes of great bignesse. 331. f
How they stand, and to what vse they are put. ibid. d. e what beasts haue hornes. 331. b
Hornes of sundry shapes. ibid.
Hornets, whether they haue stings or no. 322. k
Horologies how deuised. 191. b. c. d
Horses wild. 200. g
Riuer-Horse his description and properties. 209. f inuented Phlebotomie or bloud-letting. 210. i
Horse of Caesar Dictatour. 221. a
Horse entombed by Augustus Caesar. ibid.
Horses entombed at Agragentum. 221. a
a Horse loued by Semiramis. ibid.
a Horse reuengeth his masters death. 221. b
Horse furniture and harneis who first inuented. 189. c
Horses loath to couer their dams. ibid.
Horse-fight, who first deuised. 189. c
Horces of seruice vsed to daunce to Musicke. 221. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 their kind affections to their masters. ib. their docilitie. ibid. their perceiuance. ibid. d. desiring of praise. ibid. e. their age. 222. h. their breeding. ibid.
Horses where they be worth a taelent of gold. 148. h
Horses subiect to many diseases. 222. m
Horses age how it is knowne after their shedding of teeth. 358. i.
Horses and men alone haue teeth of one leuell. 337. a
Horses teeth wax white by age. 338. h. their age knowne by their teeth. ibid.
a Horse where he is worth a talent of gold. 148. h
Horses, where they are thought to haue no gall. 341. d
Horde arij, who they be. 561. c
Horminum. a kinde of graine. 565. b
Hortensius wept for the death of a Lamprey. 261. d
Hornets are not vniforme. 322. h. they die when Winter is come. ibid. c
Hornes of a Hart kept as monuments in India. 324. a
Hornes of Act•…•…on and Cippas fabulous things. 331. b
Hounds. See dogs.
Hound-fishes their nature. 263. c
a House in the country how to be seated. 554
House leeke medicinable for all maladies incident to corne: 565. e.
Houfes of what beasts will heale being cut. 351. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
of Houfes a discourse. ibid.

H V

Huboles or Houps gon so soon as they haue hatched. 284. i a filthie bird. 287. a
ill Husbandry censured by the Censors. 550. i
to be a good Husbandman, a credit. ibid.
Husbandrie in old time, by whom it was performed. 551. f by whom in later daies. 552. h
Husbandrie, a Prince-like profession and studie. ibid. i
Husbandry studied by what kings. 552. i
Husbandry professed of what warriors. ibid.
bookes of Husbandrie written by Mago, saued by the Se∣nate of Rome, and translated into Latine by D. Sylle∣nus. 552. k
Husbandmens outworkes after the fall of the leafe. 589. e
the Husbandrie in Aegypt about sowing and reaping of corne. 577. d. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Husbandmens worke in Winter Interuali, what they bee. 590. g. h. their workes in the Interuall of the Spring. what they be. 591. e. their workes in the Spring accor∣ding to Cato. ibid.
M. Uarro, a writer of Husbandry. 553. b
Husbandry workes presently vpon the Spring Aequinox. 593. b.
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Husbandry workes in the Summer Solstice. 594
Husking of corne. 565. c
Husbandry after the Summer Solstice. 594. i
Husbandrie at the entring of Autumne. 605. d

H Y

Hyades, what starres, and why so called. 562. l
Hyaene change their sects. 212. i
Hyades, starres called otherwise Suculae. 19. e
Hybandia Island. 40. k
Hybridae, what they be. 232. c
Hylas, a great writer of Augurie by the nature of birds. 277. e.
Hypelate. 496. c
Hyphear, what it is. 476. g
Hyphear. 496. c. the properties it hath. ibid.
Hyperborei, people so called: blessed, liuing long. 84. i
strange reports of them. ibid.

I A

IAcke Daw. See Chough.

I B

Ibis inuented the clyster. 210. k
Ibes destroy serpents. 284. m. where they be blacke, where white. 287. b

I C

Ichneumones, a kinde of Waspe. 322. h
Ichneumon, the nature of it. 208. k. his combat with Aspis. ibid. he killeth the Crocodile. 209. a
Ichthyophagi, people that feed of fish, and swim naturally in the sea. 145. a

I D

Ides of March fatall to Caesar. 591. b
Idoll of the Meremaid where honoured. 103. b. the names thereof. ibid.

I L

Ilex. See more in Holme.
the Mast of Ilax. 458. m. 100. i
Ilium and all the tract thereabout sometime main sea. 39. e

I M

Imaus, a mountaine. 154. h
Imageures famous. 175. d
Imperfections incident to corne sowne. 574. g. h. i

I N

Incendiaria, a bird vnluckie. 277. b. the reason of the name. ibid.
Incense. See Frankincense.
India full of strange and miraculous things. 155. d
India, by whome discouered. 152. b. the force of that nation. ibid. the long continuance of their kingdome. ibid.
sixtie riuers therein. 125. c
Indian trees vnnamed. 361. b
a hundred & twentie nations of India lacking twain. 125. c
the nation of Indians described beyond Nilus. 126. k
India bringeth forth all things bigger than other. 155. d
the reason thereof. ibid.
Indians subiect to no diseases. 155. e. engender with beasts. 157. a.
Indian sea fishes bigger than others. 235. b. c
Indus the riuer. 106. l. receiuing into it sixtie other riuers. ibid. more of this riuer. 127. c
Infants borne before the seueth moneth, neuer liue. 158. k
knowne oftentimes to want the passages of nosthrils and eares. 336. l
Infants toothlesse, not to be burned in a funerall fire. 164. l
Infants how they lie in the mothers wombe. 304. i. they sleepe much and dreame, how they be formed there. •…•…ow they come forward afterwards. 164. h
Inoculation. See Graffing in Scutcheon.
Inning of corne after sundry sorts. 602. l
Insects how winged. 326. i. how they be offensiue. ibid.
Insects do breath and sleepe. 311. c. none haue teeth. 327. a hauing legs, go not directly. ibid. how engendred. 329. d what they be & why so called. 310. i. they haue no bones. 345 a. they haue no taile saue onely scorpions. 327. a
Inuentors of sundry things. 187. c. & deinceps.

I O

Ionian characters first vsed generally. 190. k
Iordan riuer, the praise thereof. 100. m. &c.
Iouis Barba, a plant good for arbors in gardens. 468. k

I R

Ireland the description thereof. 86. k
Irio, what kinde of graine. 565. b

I S

Isidorus, a writer. 48. i
Isidos-Plocamos. 402. i
Isis, the Planet Venus. 6. i
Isocinnamum. 374. g
Islands that newly appeare out of the sea, and the reason thereof. 39. f
when Islands haue sprung vp. 40. g
what Islands haue ioined to the maine. 40. k
Islands in the Gaules Ocean. 86. i
Islands in the Ocean. 88. k

I T

in Italy lightenings be common, and why. 25. d

I V

Iuba, a king memorable for learning. 92. i
Iugerum. See Acre.
Iudiciall court of Capitol matters, who first inuented. 189. a
Iu iubes, what fruit. 437. f
Iuncus Odoratus. See Squinanth.
Iunipers. 489. a
Iuno the Planet Uenus. 6. i
Iuno Lacinia. 48 g
Iupiter Planet his colour. 13. c. to him lightenings are attri∣buted. 14. g
Iupiter Lycaeus, and his chappell. 75. b
Iupiter Olympius, and his chappell. 74. i. famous for the games there vsed. ibid.
Iupiter Cassiope•…•…s his temple. 79. d
Iulius Caesar Dictatour his singular parts. 168. k
Iurie renowmed for Date trees. 384, m. the description thereof. 100. l. how diuided into ten gouernements. ibid.
Iuie vnwilling to grow in Asia. 480. h. employed in solem∣nities to Bacchus. ibid. i. an enemie to other plants. 480. i male and female. ibid. k. both male and female of three sorts. 480. k
Iuie, Nysia, Bacchica. ibid. l
Iuie Erythranos. 480. l
Iuie Chrysocarpos. ibid.
Iuie wood of a wonderfull propertie te trie wines delaied with water. 481. e. Iuie garland the first. 456. m

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K E

KErnils in fruit different. 447. e
of the Kell in man and beast. 343. c

K I

of Kidnies. 343. d. c
Kidnies are in all fourefooted beasts that bring their young quicke. ibid. e
Kindnesse naturall examples thereof. 174. g
Kings fishers. See Halciones.
Kine and Buls how they engender. 302. m
King of Taprobane how he is chosen. 130. m. he may be deposed, condemned, and put to death, the manner of his execution. 131. a. b
King of bees described. 318. m. exempt from labour. ibid.
Kinning in an egge, what it is. 298. h
in Boeufes, Kine haue bigger voices than Buls. 353. e
Kites reckoned among Hawkes. 275. e. their nature. ibid. they taught the vse of the Helme in the ship. 275. f are troubled with the gout. ibid.
Kissing of women by kinsfolke vpon what occasion. 418. k

K N

Knees being wounded in their hollowes, bring present death. 350. i
of Knees a discourse. ibid.
Knurs in timber. 489. b

L A

LAburnum, what manner of tree. 468. k
Labeones who they were. 336. l
Laboriae in Campane, a most fruitfull tract. 567. f
Labruscae, bastard wild Uines. 538. g
Lacta, the best Casia or Canell. 373. e
Lactes placed next to the bag of the stomacke. 342. l
Lacydes accompanied with a Goose. 280. k
Ladanum the best. 370. k. the price thereof. ibid.
Ladanum how it is gathered. 370. g
Ladanum of two kindes. ibid. i
Laestrigones, monsters of men. 154. g
Laërtes, a king mucked ground with his own hands. 507. b
Lagopus, a bird why so called. 296. h
Lalisiones, what they be. 224. i
Lama what tree. 369. e
Lambes named Cordi. 226. l
Lambes how to be chosen. ibid.
Lampades, flaming torches in the skie. 17. b
Lampadias, a kinde of Comet. 15. f
Lampido, the onely woman knowne to haue been daughter to a king, a kings wife, and mother to a king. 176. l
Lampries in France how they are marked. 248. i
Lamprey, a fish. 245. b
Lampreics of fresh water. 246. g
sea Lampreies their nature. 248. h
Lampyrides what they are. 593. c
Lanata, what apples. 438. g. why so called. ibid.
Lanati, a sort of Pikes. 245. e
Land in the country made distinction of states at Rome. 550. m.
Land worth fortie denarij, the short cubit. 581. d
Land Mediterranean fittest for fruits. 501. c
Land how much assigned by king Romulus to his subiests. 549. d.
Land of whom to be bought. 553. c
little Land well tilled. 554. m
Lands may be ouermuch tended. 555. b
Lanisis of Lacedaemon his swiftnesse. 167. a
Lanterne, a sea fish. 249. d
Laodicea a citie, the description thereof. 107. a
Larch tree. 462. l. the timber and the liquid rosin thereof. ibid. how it is drawne. 465. b
Larch tree female. 487. b
Larch tree of great length. 489. d
Lares, a temple to them: neere to which an altar erected to Orbona. See Orbona.
Large space between the stomacke and the paunch, is cause of more hunger. 342. l
Lawes who first inuented. 187. c
Lawrea, the leafe of Lawrell. 454. g
Lawrell tree not smitten with lightening. 27. c
Lawrell groues, why called Triumphales. 454. g
Lawrell a medicine for the Rauens. 211. d
the mad Lawrell. 495. d
Lawrell tree how it was employed at Rome. 452. i
Lawrell, Delphicke, Cyprian, Mustacea. ibid.
Delphicke Lawrell described. 452. k
Cyprian Lawrell described. ibid.
Lawrell Tinus or wild Lawrell. 452. k
Lawrell Augusta or Imperiall. ibid.
Lawrell Baccalia. 452. l
Lawrell Triumphall. ibid.
Lawrell Taxa. 452. l
Lawrell Spadonia. ibid.
Lawrell Alexandrina. 452. m
Lawrell Idaea. ibid.
Lawrell, token of peace. 453. b
Lawrell much honoured at Rome, and why. ibid. c
Lawrell fairest vpon Parnassus. 453. c
Lawrell not smitten with the lightening. ibid.
a Lawrell Chaplet vsed by Tiberius Caesar against lighte∣ning. 453. d
Lawrell why vsed in triumph. ibid.
Laurcola. 453. a. described. ibid.
Laurices, young Rabbets or Leuerets. 232. h
Laurus, the onely tree in Latine that giueth name vnto a man. 454. g
who laughed the day that he was borne. 164. m
Lax, a fish. 243. a

L E

Lead, who first found out. 188. l
League who first deuised. 189. i
Leape yeare. 6. h
Learned wits honoured. 171. f
Leaues of Aspen tree neuer hang still. 514. l
Leaues that alter their shape & form vpon the trees. 470. h
Leaues of some trees turne about with the Sunne in the Tropicke of Cancer. 407. i
Leaues of the trees how they be framed aboue and beneath. 470. k.
Leaues of trees distinguished by their bignesse, forme, and substance. 470. l. m
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Leaues distinguished by other qualities, and their order. 471. a.
Leaues of trees, good fodder. 471. b
what Leaues are apt to shed, and which are not. 469. d
a Philosophicall discourse touching the cause of shedding or holding Leaues. 469. e. f
Leaues of what trees hold their colour. 470. g
Lectos, a promontory in Trou•…•…. 471. f
Ledon. 370. i
Lemnos Island. 378. g. their manner. ibid.
Length of the legs and necke, answerable for the proportion in all creatures. 339. e
Lentill where and when to be sowne. 569. e
Lentills of two kindes. ibid.
Lents and Lenes in Latine whence deriued. 569. e
Lentiske berries preserued. 448. k
Lentuli, why so called. 550. h
Leococruta, what kind of beast. 206. h. and what of nature. ibid. how engendred. 212
Lconides rebuked Alexander the Great for burning too much Frankincense. 367. f
Leontophonus, what beast. 217. e. and why so called. ibid.
Leopards how they lie in wait. 308. g
Leptorhages, what grapes. 495. m
Lepo or Mole, a kinde of fish. 249. c
Letters or characters who inuented. 187. f
Leuaines. 566. h. i. the nature thereof. ibid. l
Leuci, kinde of Herons with one eye. 334. g
Lecocomum, a kinde of Pomegranats. 398. h
Leucogaeon, a place. 568. h. it yeeldeth chalke to make white frumentie, and a great reuen•…•…e yearely. ibid.
Leucosia Island sometimes ioined to the promontory of Sy∣reus. 540. i

L I

Libanus mount, the description thereof. 102. i
Liciniani, why so called, 163. a
Licinius Stolo condemned by vertue of his owne law. 551. d
of mans Life, the tearme vncertaine. 180. l
Life short, a benefit. 183. b
Licorne. See Monoceros.
Lignum, a fault in Cytron wood. 396. h
Lightenings attributed to Iupiter. 14. g. the reason thereof. ibid. presages of future things. ibid.
Lightenings seldome in Summer or Winter, and the reason. 25. c. in what lands they fall not. ibid. the sundry sorts and wonders thereof. 25. e. diuerse obseruations touching them 26. g. raised by coniuration. ibid. k. generall rules of lightening. ibid. m. it is seene before the thunderclap is heard, and why. ibid. what things are not strucken with lightenings. 27. e
Lights, the seat of the breath. 341. a. spongeous and full of pipes. ibid.
Limosae, what fishes. 243. c
Lime at the root of Cberrte-troes hastens their fruit. 546. k
Limning. See Painting.
Linden trees differ in sex. 466. i. their fruit no beast will touch. ibid.
the Linden tree yeeldeth fine panicles for cordage. 466. i the timber will not be worme-eaten. ibid. k
Linnen fine cloath whence. 80. l
Linnet very docible. 293. a
Likenes of children to parents, grandsire, or others. 160. m 161. a. b. the reason in Nature. 161. c
Likenesse of one man to another diuerse examples. 161. d & deinceps.
Lions of the right kinde how they be knowne. 200. i. k
Lions bones will strike fire. 344. m
Lions how they will walke. 350. k
Lionesse lecherous. 200. k
Lionesses engender with Pardes. ibid.
Lion iealous of the Lionesse. 200. k
Lionesse, how oft shee beareth young. 200. l. and the manner thereof. 201. b
of Lions two kindes. ibid. their nature and properties. ibid.
Lions long liued. 201. c
Lions crucified. ibid. and why. ibid.
Lions gentle to those that submit themselues. 201. d
Lions spare women and babes. ibid.
Lions entreated with faire language, 201. e. their dispositi∣on knowne by their tailes. ibid. f. their generos•…•…tie and magnanimitie. 202. g. whereat they be affrighted. 202. i their diseases and remedies. ibid.
Lions first shewed at Rome in the cirque. 202. k. how they be taken. ibid. l
Lions yoked and put to draw at Rome. 202 m
a Lions thankefulnesse. 203. d
Lions die with tasting Leontophonus. ibid. or drenched with the vrine. 217. f
of Lips. 336. l
Liquor falling from heauen. 316. m. how good. ibid.
Lisards their nature. 218. k
Lisimachus strangled a Lion. 202. m
Liuer lieth on the right side. 341. b
Liuers found in sacrifice without the head or fibres. ibid. seene with twaine. ibid. what they foreshewed. ibid.
Liuers insacrifice found inward, to the number of six. 341 b
Liuer found cut, presageth ill hap. ibid. c
Liuer receiueth bloud from the heart. ibid. d
Liuer of Mice and Rats groweth at mid Winter. 342. g hath so many fibres as the Moone is daies old. ibid.
Liuers continued in salt a hundred yeares. 342 h
who Liued a long time. 180. l
Liuia Augusta made triall by an egge whether shee went with a boy or a girle. 299. d
Liuia Drusilla August a presented with a b•…•…y branch in a Hens bill falling into her lap. 453. c
Lizards tender skinned and foure-footed. 336. h
Lizards how they engender. 302. m. they deliuer their eggs at their mouth. 305. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

L O

Lobae, the stalkes of Millet. 558. i.
Lobstars want bloud. 252. i. they cast their coats in Spring ibid. dieth for woe. 270. g
Lobstars their nature. 252. i
Locry, a free state: with the description of their country. 73. c.
Locupletes (i. Rich men) why so called. 550. i
Locusts how they vtter their voice. 353. a
Locusts and Grashoppers haue no eies. 334. g
Locusts lay egges in Autumne. 327. b. their young creep on their wings. ibid. c. the mother of them dieth at the brin∣ging forth of her young. ibid. c. they can kill serpents. ib. d
Locusts in Indaea three foot long. ibid. they are caried away with wind. 327. d. they flie many daies without rest. ib.

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foresee a famine. ib. e. darken the sunne with their flight ibid. burne corne with their blast. ibid.
Lollia Paulina how shee was adorned with pearles. 256. k the price of them. ibid.
Lomentum. 568. m
Lora, what it is. 417. e
Loretum, a place. 454. g
Lote tree Capillata, and why so called. 495. a
Lote trees of long continuance. 494. m. 495. a
Lotophagi, people. 397. b
Lots taken for a god. 4. k
Lotus tree in Affrick. 397. a. the description thereof. ibid. the fruit. ibid. b. it serueth for meat and drinke. 397. c
Lotus the hearbe. ibid.
Lotus tree wood. ibid.
Lotus of Aegypt. 397. c. d. the strange nature of the head and floure. ibid. e. the root feedeth hogs. ibid. f
Lotus tree why it is regarded much at Rome. 476. k. the description thereof and the vses. ibid.
of the Lousie disease, Pherecides died. 184. g

L V

Luceia acted on the stage a hundred yeares. 181. c
Lucentum a towne of the Latines. 53. d
Lucerna, a shining fish. 249. d
Lucifer, why so called. 6. i
Lucina, the name of Diana, and whereupon. 494. m
Lucini, men so called. 335. e. why so called. ibid.
Lucius Martius. 48. h
Lucius Cossitius turned from a woman to a man on the ve∣ry mariage day. 158. h
Lucius Sylla vnworthily named Foelix. 177. d
Lucius Metellus onely suffered to ride in his coach vnto the Senat. 138. h. thought most happie. ibid. g
Lucius Apronius his sonne how fat he was. 334. l
Lucius Opimius and Quintius Fabius, when they were Consuls an arch seen about the Sunne. 17. e
Lucius Portius and Marcus Acilius when they were Con∣suls, a round circle about the Sunne. ibid.
Lucullus resisted by the muddie slime Maltha at Samosa∣tis. 46. m
Lungs are but in few fishes. 335. e
Lungs that are little cause the body to be swift. 341. a
Lupi, a sort of spiders. 323. d. they spin not. ibid.
Lupine a direction to the husbandman. 594. g
Lupine meat medicinable. 272. g
Lupines not easily mowed downe. 571. c
simpathie betwixt Lupines and the Sunne. ibid. d. wonder∣fully affectionat to the earth. ibid.
Lupines sow themselues. ibid. e
Lupines sowing is as good as soile or compost. 571. f. 572. g
Lupines steeped mens meat. ibid.
Lupines how to be kept. ibid.
Lupines profitable to be set in ground. 508. g
Lucae-bones what they be. 195. b
Lusitania whence it hath the name. 51. f
Lusitania, the description thereof. 88. i
Lutarius, a kinde of Barble. 246. h
Lutense, a kinde of Pelagiae purples. 259. a

L Y

Lyncurium what it is. 217. f
Lycus riuer. 268. b
Lyrare what it is. 579. f
Laestrigones, monsters of men. 154. g.
Lycion, what composition it is. 362. h

M A

MAcrobij, and other people liuing long. 156. l. m
Macedonia the description thereof. 77. a
Macer. 362. the medicinable vertue of the rind. ibid.
Machlis, what manner of beast. 200. g
Macius Island sometime ioined to Euboea. 4. i
Macrinus Vistus how he vsed to bleed. 346. g
Maeander riuer where it now runneth by goodly medowes, in times past was all sea. 39. e. the description thereof. 108. h.
Maenander how he loued his studie. 172. m
Magnesiae, the description thereof. 36. m
Magnesia Island. 40. k
Magna, what it is. 383. c
Maid child in Rome became a boy. 158. h
Males in all beasts stronger than females. 352. k. some are excepted. ibid.
Males haue more teeth than females. 338. g
Maladies and death consumes bloud. 346. i
Maldacon. See Brochos.
Malacha. See Brochos.
Maleus a mountaine. 36. g
Maladies of trees what it is. 541. c
Malis bonis what it meaneth. 555. d
Malobathron, a plant. 378. l. the description thereof. ibid. and the kindes. ibid. m
Malobathrum the leafe. 379. a
Malt made stronger drinke in old time. 428. h. i
Maltha, a slimie mud so called. 46. m
Maltha, a kinde of mud in a pond of the citie Samosatis. ibid. the strange nature of it. ibid.
Man how long he groweth. 345. b
Mans brest onely broad and square. 343. e
Man onely bleedeth at the nose. 346. g
Man onely two footed. 349. b
Man onely hath a cannell bone, and shoulders. ibid.
Man onely hath palmes on his hands. 350. l
Man in Aegypt hath foure eies. 354. h
Man for his proportion hath most braine. 352. b. hath more braines than woman. ibid.
Man his braines onely panteth and breatheth. 333. a. they are not setled before he speaketh. ibid.
Man onely wanteth power to shake his eares. 333. b
Man onely hath face and visage. 333. d. his forehead de∣clareth his nature. ibid.
Man onely borne without teeth. 337. e
Man, than whom nothing more proud and wretched. 4. m
Man, the best gift he hath bestowed vpon him, that he can rid himselfe by death out of his miseries. 5. a
Mans flesh sacrificed and eaten. 154. g
Man to man a god. 4. g
Man compared with other creatures. 152. i
Man hath no certaine time to abide in the wombe. 258. k
Mankind more inordinate than other creatures in the act of generation. 302. m
the Mani-foot fish Ozoena. 250. m
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the Sunne. 272. b. the age of this bird and manner of dying. ibid. hence the young Phoenix is bred. 271. c
Mandri people women bring forth children at seuen yeares of age. 157. a
Manlius Capitolinus, first that was rewarded with a mu∣rall crown. 170. k. his deeds and rewards. ib. his praise. ib.
Manna, what it is. 376. h
Manna Thuris. 367. e
Mantichora, what kinde of beast. 206 k. resembleth mans language. 222. l
Maples of many kindes. 466. k. the wood commended for fine graine, and serueth in curious workemanship. 466. l
Maquerels. 243. e
Cn. Martius first deuised to cut out arbors at Rome. 359 b
Marcellus Esurinus brought plain trees into Italie. 358. m
Mareolis Lybia bordering vpon Aegypt described. 95. d
Mares of the nature of Hermophrodites. 352. i. seene they were at Rome. ibid.
a Mare in fole wan the prize in the Olympian race. 304. g
Mares better than stallions in war seruice in Scythia. 222 l
Mares conceiue by the wind. ibid.
Mares how they be brought to admit Asses to couer them. 303. e.
Mares with fole labour as well as before. 303. f. they steale their foling many times. 304. g
Margarides, Dates. 387. b
Margo, a kinde of Limestone. 505. d
Mario a fish of pleasant tast. 243. b
Marioram oyle the best. 382. g
C. Marius commended by Sylla Foelix for building a man∣nor house in the countrie. 554. i
Marmosets where bred. 106. g
Marmotanes their nature. 226. m
Maiorinae, what Oliues. 432. g
of Marrow. 344. l. m
Marrow neuer found but in hollow bones. 344. l
Marrow of the Uine tree and nature thereof. 526. i
Marrow of the backe descendeth from the braine. ibid.
Marrow of a mans backe proueth a snake. 305. b
Marsians endued with a vertue against serpents. 154. l
Mars his nature and motion. 6. g
Mars his course least of all others can be obserued. 12. m his colour. 13. c
Mars his motion and light. 10. h
Marsys hung himselfe in a Plane tree. 495. d
Marsyans descended from ladie Circes sonne. 154. l
Martia, the name of a ladie, which was strucken with lightening, being great with child, her child killed, and shee without harme. 25. f
Martines, enemies to Bees. 292. i
Martines called Apodes. ibid.
Martines or Martinets. See Swallowes.
Martius Musician stroue with Apollo. 107. b
Martius in an Oration of his, his head was on a flaming fire. 48. h
Massaris, what it is. 379. d
Mast trees honoured especially by the Romanes. 456. g
Mast, a great reuenewes in some countries. ibid. ground for bread. ibid. serued vp to the table for delicates. ibid.
Mast of different kindes. 456. h
beech Mast sweetest of all others. 458. i
beech Mast described. ibid. k
Mast of sundry trees. ibid. l
Mast differ sundrie waies. 459. a
Mast which is best for feeding cattell. 459. e. f
Mast of a ship of maine bignesse. 489. e
Mast tree how it groweth. 525. f
Masticke tree sheweth three reasons of plowing ground. 599. b.
Masticke the rosin of the Lentiske tree. 424. g
Masticke gum. 369. c. the best. ibid. f. issueth of the Len∣tiske-tree. 370. g
of the Matrice. 344. g. h
Mattimacians their presumptuousnesse. 15. b
Matutine rising or setting of fixed starres. 587. d
Mauises change thelr colour. 285. f
Mauritania, the description thereof. 90. i

M E

Measure of the sea. 149 d
Measure of the parts of the world. ibid. e
Medow grounds how to be chosen and ordered. 595. b. when to be mowed. ibid.
Medaea burnt her husbands concubine by force of Naptha. 47. a.
Medowes called Prata or Parata. 553. f
Media the desc•…•…ption thereof. 122. i
Medica described 573. b. how and where to be sowed. ib. c. d a singular forage. ibid.
Medicines not applied in due season, be mischiefes. 546. g
Melampus taught to vnderstand birds language. 296. l
Melitaei, dogs, whence so called. 71. f
Meleandrya. 243. d
Mellaria, a towne. 51. d
Members of mens bodies of miraculous effects. 168. h
Memorie lost by sundry occasions, 155.
Memorie rare examples. 167. f. reduced into art. 168. g
Members genitall of a bonie substance. 352. h. in what creatures. ib. are medicinable for the disease of the ston. ib
Memmonides, birds. 284. k
Memphis, sometime neere the sea. 36. e
Men slaine for sacrifice. 154 g
Men conuersing generally with beasts. 154. h. their defor∣mitie and swiftnesse. ibid.
Men headed like dogs, their manners. 155. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Men aboue fiue cubits tall, their strong constitution of bo∣die. ibid.
Men without noses and mouthes in Aegypt. 146. l
Men that know not the vse of fire in Aegypt. ibid.
Men that goe euer naked. 177. b
Men eight cubits high, called Olabij. 147. b
Men headed like dogs, called Cynamolgi. ibid. e
Men in Aethiopia which liue onely on wild locusts. 147. f
Men and women greatest footed for their proportion. 150. l
Men surnamed of trees. 499. c
Men made to husband the earth. 516. g
Men weigh heauier than women. 165. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Men haue been slaine and yet not bled. ibid.
Men canonized, wherefore. 54. g. their strange shapes. 155 f
Menoba, a riuer. 52. i
Mentor plucked a spill out of a lions foot. 203. b
Mercurie, so named to expresse his nature. 4. g
Mercurie his nature and motion. 6. k. of some called A∣pollo. ibid.
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Mercurie his stations. 10. i. wherefore his starre differs not from the Sunne aboue three and twentie degrees. 12. h
Mercurie his colour. 13. c
Meremaides. 236. h. no fabulous things. ibid.
Meremen, or Seamen. ibid. i
Meroe, an Island. 36. g
Merops a bird. 289. b
Mese wind. 23. a
Mesopheron. 364. k
Messalina, the Empresse of vnsatiable lusts. 302. i
Lu. Messalinus Cotta deuised a dish of meat made of Geese feet and Cockes combes. 280. l
L. Metellus his rare praises. 177. f
Metellus Macedonicus highly commended. 178. i. his vn∣happie fortune. ibid. k. l
Meteagrides, what birds. 284. k
Motopia, what trees. 375. d

M I

Mice and Rats indocible. 295. b
Mice presage the fall of an house. 211. e
Mice forced a people to void out of an Island. 212. h
Mice great theeues. 233. a
Mice presage shining things to one. 232. m. they gnaw yron and steele. ibid.
Mice engender more in a drought. 305. a
Mice of Aegipt prickely and goe on their hinder feet. 305. a
Mice most fruitfull. 304. l. they engender by licking. ibid.
young Mice found with young in the bellie of the old dam. 304. l
Mice forced the inhabitants of Troas to abandon the re∣gion. ibid. m
Mice and rats ominous in some cases. 233. f
field-Mice sleepe all Winter. ibid. c
against Mice, Rats, and Dormice to be serued vp to the table, an Act made. ibid.
of the Midriffe. 342. h
Miel-dewes remedied in corne. 576. g
Miletus, the head citie of Ionia. 108. g. the diuerse names thereof in former times. ibid. it brought forth that noble Citizen Cadmus. ibid.
Millet how it groweth in the head and beareth fruit. 558. h it maketh diuerse kindes of bread. ibid.
Milke rained. See Raine.
Indish Millet of greatest encrease. ibid. i
Milke of a woman before shee haue gone seuen moneths, is not good. 548. g
Millet where it is much vsed. 555. f. 556. g
Milke vsed in sacrifice. 418. h
of Milke a discourse. 348. h
Milke of a woman how it is most pleasant. ibid.
Millet how to be ordered for preuenting maladies incident thereto. 575. d
Milke that commeth first from a Cow, is called Beestings, it will be as hard as a pumish stone. ibid.
Milke of shee Asses when it is not good. ibid.
Milke of Cammels most thin. 348. i
Milke-way what circle. 599. c
Milke of Asses most thicke. ib. it whiteth womans skin. ibid.
Milke of all sorts will thicken by the fire. ibid.
Minutius Augurius honoured with a statue. 551. c
Misselto a wonder in Nature. 496. h
Misselto vpon the Oke. 460. m
Misselto of three kindes. 496. g
Misselto of what tree it groweth. ibid. k
Misselto how it groweth and whereupon it commeth. ibid. m
Misselto for what it is thought good. 497. d
Mines of brasse who first digged. 188. i
Mists when they are seene. 29. b
a kinde of Mist like vnto a pillar, and so called. 23. a
Milo his strength. 166. m
Militarie orders and discipline who first deuised. 189. c

M O

Modenna, a territorie. 39. d
Mola, a Moone-calfe. 163. c
a Monster embaulmed and preserued in hony. 158. g
Molluscum, what it is. 467. a
Monstrous births. 157. f
Monarchie, who first erected. 189. a
Mona an Island. 36. k
Monkie. 206. h
Monoceros, what kinde of beasts. 212. h
Monosceli, what kinde of men. 156. g
Moon her nature, motion, and effect. 6. l. the diuerse motions hereof obserued first by Endimion, who therefore is said to be in loue with her. 7. a. eclipse thereof in the night on∣ly, and why. 7. d. See further in Eclipse.
Moone lesse than the other Planets, and the reason thereof. 9. f. what difference there is betweene the earth and the Moone. 14. i
Moon how many furlongs from the cloudy region t•…•… her. 14 m
Moone in the middest between the earth and the Sun. 15. b
Moon: calfe, what it is. 163. e
Moon to be obserued in cutting hair of head & beard. 488 i
Moone to be obserued in falling timber. 487. e
Moones threè appeared. 18. g. by her power grow the bodies of sisters Muskles. 20. i. foresheweth wind and wea∣ther. 611. e
Moone with all power it hath ouer things on earth, and in the sea. 44. c. creatures that haue no bloud, doe most of all feele her power. ibid. a Planet feminine, and of her nature. 44. k. nourished by the fresh water. ibid. how to be knowne croisant, in the wane, full, and change. 607. d to be obserued in some points of husbandrie. 607. b
Moone-calues how engendred. 304. a
Moramarusa, what. 85. c
Morphnos, a kinde of Aegle. 271. e
Mosses sweet. 375. e
Mouldwarpes vndermine a towne. 212. h
Mouldwarpes passe vs in the sence of hearing. 306. g
Mould blacke and red not alwaies best. 502. k

M V

Mucke when best to be spread. 508. i
Muckhils how made and where. ib. how kept frō snakes. ib.
Muing of foules who first deuised. 297. c
Mulberry tree lasteth long aad why. 474. g
Mulberries described. 447. c. it is of three colours. ibid.
Mulberies of the bramble. 447. d
Mulberrie trees the wisest of all others. 472. l. how to be cut for the liquor thereof. 486. h. they giue signe that cold weather is gone. 494. h
Mules how engendred. 223. f. which be so called properly. 224. h. bearing foles, prodigious. ibid. in Cappadocia they engender and beare. ibid.
Mullets their nature. 245. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
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a Mule eighteen yeares old. 224. i
Mulvian•…•… Quinces. 436. h
Mures Marini, what they be. 247. b
Murex, what fish, 249. a
Munkies and Marmosetes adore the new Moone. 231. e
Muscadell grapes and wines. See Apianae.
Musicke who first inuented. 189. d
Musicall instruments. ibid.
Mushromes. 460. l
Mustea, what Quinces. 436. h

M Y

Myagirus, the god of the Elaeans. 285. a
Myrobalanus. See Ben.
Myrobalanos Petraea. 374. k
Myrtles of sundry kindes. 451. d
Myrtle Hexastica. ibid. why so called. ibid.
Myrtle tree lasteth long. 494. l
Myrtles of three principall kindes. 451. c
Myrtle berries vsed in stead of Pepper. 450. l
Myrtle growing in the place where Rome standeth. ibid. m
Myrtle Plebeia and patritia at Rome. 451. b
Myrtle Coniugula. ibid. c
Myrice. 398. m
Myrrhina, what wine. 419. a
Myrrhe Atramiticke. 369. b
Myrrhe Ausaritis. ibid.
Myrrhe Dusaritis. ibid.
Myrrhe trees where they grow. 368. k. their description. ib. l
Myrrhe of sundry sorts. 369. b
Myrtle berries of diuerse kindes. ibid. d. how counterfeit. ib.
Myrtle leaues in pouder very good. 451. e
Myrtle wine, how made. 451. d
Myrtle oyle, the vse thereof. ibid. e
Myrtle coronets vsed in triumph. 452. g
Myrtle rods and rings to what vse. ibid.

N A

NAcre, a kinde of fish. 261. c
Naevius Pollio, a giant. 165. h
Names of Uine sprigs or sets. 526. k. 527. a
of Nailes a discourse. 349. f
Naphtha, the strange nature thereof, and affinitie it hath with fire. 47. a
Naphtha, what it is. ibid.
Nard leafe of three sorts. 364. k
Nard the best. ibid. l
Nard Celticke. ibid. m
Nard Rusticke. ibid.
Narcissimum ointment. 381. d
Nardinum oyle. 382. k
Nardus sophisticated, and true, how distinguished. 364. k root, spike, and leafe. ibid.
Actius Nauius the Augur. 443. d
Nathecusa Island. 40. k
Nature onely accounted of diuine power. 5. b
Nature of wild trees mitigated by translating them. 510. l.
Natures secrets not to be attained vnto. ibid. i
Nature or ground diuerse. 506. l
Nauell, the place where veines do meet. 345. e
Nabis, a kinde of beast. 205. d
Navew. See Rape.
Navigation, who deuised. 190. g.
Nauigations vpon the sea. 32. k. by whom the parts thereof were sailed and discouered. ibid.
Nauplius a fish, how it swimmeth. 252. h
Nautilos or Pompiles, a fish, and wonder of Nature. 150. l
Nayles grow in dead men. 550. g
Nayles are the extremities of the fingers. 345. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Nayles in creatures except the Elephant. ibid.

N E

Nea Island. 40. g
Necke how it is composed. 339. a
Neckes of all beasts may turne about. ibid.
Needle fishes Belonae. 266. h
Needle worke whose inuention. 228. i
Nemesis her place behind the right eare.. 250. k
Neptune his chappell, famous for the games there vsed eue∣ry fiue yeares. 74. m
Nereides. See Meremaids.
Nerion. See Oleander.
Nero how he tooke out the blew and blacke markes in his face, after beating. 400. h
Nero borne with his feet forward. 160. h
Nero, how much Incense he wasted at the funerall of Poppea. 371. e
Neasts wonderfully made by birds. 288. l
sea-Nettle, a fish. 262. i

N I

Nicaeus, borne of his mother afaire woman, resembled his Grand-father a blacke Aethiopian. 161. b
Nicias ouer fearefull of the Moone Eclipse. 9. a
Nicolas Dates. 287. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Nightingales contend who shall sing best and longest. 586. i
Nightingale a wonderfull bird for singing. 286. g. presaged singular skill in Musicke to Stesichorus. ibid. i
Nightingales dearer than men. 286. k. a white Nightin∣gale. ibid.
Nightingales singing counterfeited by men. 286. l. not tongued like other birds. ibid. m
Nightingale parle Greeke and Latine. 293. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Niger riuer and nature thereof. 96. h
Nigraee, people whose king hath but one eie, and that is placed in his forehead. 147. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Nilus the ploughman of Aegypt. 577. b. his manner of ri∣sing. ibid. c
Nilus riuer described. 97. b. hidden for twenty daies iour∣nie. ibid. surnamed Astapus, and why. 97. d. the diuerse names therof. ib. when he riseth & when he falleth. 98. h the ordinary height of his rising is sixteene cubits. ib. the greatest eighteene cubits, in the time of Claudius. ibid. i the least that euer was, against the death of Pompey and the reason. ibid.
Nilus water helpeth generation and conception. 157. d

N O

of the Nose and nosthrils. 336. k. man onely hath his nose bearing forth. ibid

O B

OBeliske in the Uaticane. 489. c
Obliuion. See Memorie

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O C

Ocellae, who they be properly. 335. e
Occhi trees. 362. m
Occultation of fixed starres. 587. d
Ocymum, a kinde of prouender. 573. b

O D

Odoraria, Myrrhe. 369. d

O E

Oenanthe, a bird. 287. a
Oenanthe, the grape of the wild vine. 379. d
Oesypum. 370. b
Oestrus, a bad kinde of Bee. 318. h

O I

Oisters haue hearing. 306. g
Oister bread. 566. g
Oisiers emploied in wicker ware 486. a
Ointment or oyle of Cinnamon, 382. k
Ointments odoriferous, whose inuention. 380. k
Ointment of Marioram. ibid.
Ointment of Saffron. 381. b
Ointment odoriferous how they be kept and tried. 383. c to what vse they serue. ibid. e. they may be spared. ibid. against ointments an edict. 384. i

O K

Okes of great age. 495. c
Okes of sundry kindes. 459. a
Oke droppings are hurtfull. 51. h
Oke Mast. See Acornes.
an Oke in Calabria alwaies greene. 469. c
Okes fruitfull. 460. l
Oke Robur beareth Catkins. ibid.
Oke ashes. 461. a
mightie Okes sailing vpright in the sea. 455. d
Oke Quercus beareth berries like bull heads. 463. i. it beareth bals, pils, callosites. ibid.

O L

Olalygones, names of Frogs. 338. l
Oleander, what kinde of plant. 469. a. poyson to certaine beasts. ibid. counterpoison to man. ibid.
Oleastrum a kinde of Box tree. 467. c
Olenus loued by a Goose. 280. k
Old oyle of Oliues, the vse thereof. 435. a
Old forme of Spaine changed. 53. h
an Oliue tree made barraine by the licking of a Goat. 542. h.
Oliue burnt vnto the very stumpe, hath reuiued againe. ibid.
Oliue garden in the Marrucine territory, crosseth the highway. 544. g. it exchangeth her place with a plot of corne. ibid.
Oliue trees require greatest distance. 515. b
Oliues to bee graffed in Autumne. 521. e. not to bee set in a holme, whereout an Oke hath beene stocked. 522. h.
Oliue plot how long it hath prospered. ibid. when they are to bee cherished. ibid. in their blouming they are most hurt by violens raine. 540. m
Oliue chaplets. 432. l
Oliue branches. ibid.
Oliues how to be planted and ordered, according to Cato. 432. m.
Oliue Hort-yards where to be made. 433. a
Oliues how to be gathered, prepared, and dressed. 433. b
Oliues how to be kept after Catoes precepts. ibid.
Oliues, what fire they require in pressing. ibid. c
Oliue trees hurt by the licking of Goats. 435. d
Oliue in the Forum of Rome. 444. g
Oliue trees neither in Italy, Spaine, or Affricke, during the reigne of the kings of Rome. 429. c
of Oliues, the opinion of Hesiodus, where they loue to grow. ibid. d
of Oliues three kindes according to Virgill. 429. c
Oliue trees require pruning and other dressing. ibid.
Oliues when to be gathered. ibid.
Oliues which are best. 430. l
Oliue dregs or lees. ibid.
Oliues blacke, what they signifie. 431. a
Oliues when they need watering. ibid.
Oliues to be gathered by hand, or shaken gently, and not to be beaten downe. ibid. b. c
Oliues of diuerse kinds to be gathered at sundry times. ib. d
Oliues royall. ibid.
Oliues when to be pressed after gathering. ibid. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Oliues the greatest, not most oleous. 432. g
Oliues of Italy fullest of oile. ibid.
Oliues outlandish kept to be eaten. 432. g
Oliues of Decapolis no bigger than Capers. ibid.
Oliues confected or condite. ibid.
Oliue trees of India. 361. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Oliues how they are made pleasant to tast. 432. h
Oliues purple. ibid.
Oliues pleasant of themselues. ibid.
Oliues proud. ibid.
Oliue trees of long continuance. 449. h
Oliue wild of great antiquitie. 495. c
Oliue trees liue ordinarily two dundred yeares. 446. c
Olyra, what kinde of corne. 559. d

O M

Omphacium, what it is. 430. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

O N

Onces where they breed. 206. g
Onesicratus, Alexander his captaine and writer. 36. h
Onocrotali, what birds. 295. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

O P

Opheostaphyle. 400. i
Ophiogenes, people, their strange nature. 154. l. they cure the sting of serpents. ibid.
Opinions diuerse concerning the generation of Bees. 318. g
Opinion of the learned concerning nature of marrow. 339 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Opinions concerning the dammage of cattell. 507. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Lu. Opimius and Q. Fabius, when they were Consuls, an arch seene about the Sunne. 17. c
Opimian wines. 419. d
Opobalsemum. 377. a. how it was sold. ibid. b
Opopanax. 378. l
Opiet, a tree whereunto a Vine is wedded. 535. b

O R

Oracles or sage sentences of Cato and others concerning Husbandry. 555. b
Orbona, an alter erected to her. 3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Orcades Islands. 86. l
Orchitae, what Oliues. 429. e. why they are so called. 433. b
Orestes his body. 165. a
Orge, a strange fountaine. 58. i
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Oricum Island. 40. k
Order of their digesting which chew not the cud. 343. a
Origan found by the storke to be medicinable. 210. m
Orionor Otus. 165. a
Orites, people of India. 157. b. eat fish onely, rost it against the Sunne. ibid.
Oripelargus. See Percnopterus.
Oryx, a beast with one horne in the middest of his fore∣head. 331. d
Oryx, a wilde Goat. 231. d
Oryx, a Goat that drinketh not. 307. f. a remedie against thirst. ibid.
Oryx a wilde beast in Aegypt, standeth full against the dog starre when it ariseth. 19. f
Orobanche. 575. a
Orpheus his descent. 78. g
Orphe, a fish. 245. b
Ortygometra, what bird it is. 283. a

O S

Oscines, what birds they be. 278. l
Osprey or Orfrey, what kinde of foule. 272. k
Ostris or Ostria. 398. m
Osser, a towne. 52. h
Ossigi, a towne. ibid. g
Ossifragi, a kinde of Aegle. 272. k
Ossonoba, a citie. 51. d
Ostippo, a towne. 51. i
Ostriches naturally bald. 332. k
Ostriches the biggest foules that bee. 270. l. their de∣scription. ibid. their swiftnesse on foot. ibid. their egges and feathers. ibid. m. their foolishnesse. ibid. l.

O T

Otis, why so called. 283. c
Otes vsed for bread. 574. h
Otides, what kinde of birds. 281. c
Otus and like-Owles onely haue feathers like eares. 33. d

O W

Owles their wit when they fight with other birds. 277. f
Owsels depart for a time. 284. g

O X

Oxen of the Troglodites hang their hornes downewards. 331. d.
Oxen at two yeares age change their teeth. 338. i
draught Oxen how to be coupled in yoke, and how they la∣bour at the plough. 579. a. how much they plough in a day, according to the ground. ibid. b
Oxe gall dedicated to Nature. 342 g
Oxen how highly honoured in old time. 225. c
Oxycedrus. 388. l
Oxymyrsinum. 434. h

O Y

Oyle, who drew first out of Oliues. 189. a
Oyle of wild Oliues. 433. e
Oyle of Chamelaea. ibid.
Oyle of Cicior Ricinus. ibid. how it is made. 434 g. the vse thereof. ibid.
Oyle of Almonds bitter. 434. g
Oyle of blacke Myrtle berries. ibid. h
Oyle of garden Myrtle. ibid.
Oyle of Cypros and Cipresses. 434. i
Oyle of Lentiske, Ciprinum, of Chestnuts, Sesame seed, Rice. ibid.
Oyle Melinum. 382. h
Oyle of Oenanthe. 434. i
Oyle of fishes. ibid.
Oyle of Plane berries. ibid.
Oyle of Quinces. 382. g. h
Oyle de Bais. 382. g
Oyle of Myrtles. ibid.
Oyle of Quinces. See Melinum.
Oyle of Lillies. 382. h
Oyle of Fenigreeke. ibid.
Oyle of Myrrhe. 382. m
Oyle, an acceptable liquor to be vsed outwardly. 428. i
Oyle, the vses thereof. 432 k
Oyle Licin anum. 430. i
Oyle abused by the Greekes. ibid.
Oyle de Bays how it is made. 434. g
Oyle Oliue, the price at Rome. 429. c
Oyle Oliue of greene Oliues. ibid. f worse for age. 430. g and why▪ ibid. it hath three degrees in goodnesse and no more. 432 i
Oyle of Graine Gnidian. 434. i
Oyle Gleucinum. ibid k
Oyles of Aspalathus. ibid.
Oyles of sweet Calamus, Baulme, Iris or Floure de Lis, Cardamomum or graines of Paradise, Melilot. French Nard, Panax, Maiorā, Elecampane, Cinnamon root. ib.
Oyle Rosat. 434. l
Oyle of Squinanth, of Henbane, of Lupines, of Daffodill. ibid.
Oyle of Radish seed. 434. l. the root of Gramen. ibid.
Oyle Cortinon. ibid.
Oyle Cnecinum or Cnidium. 434. l
Oyle of Lillies. ibid. Selgeticum. ibid. of Pitch. ibid.
Oyle liquor w•…•…ll turne into lees. 430 m
Oyle contrary to venome of Scorpions. 325. g
Oyle lees or dregs, wherefore it is good. 435 b
Oyle kill•…•…th Insects. 355. e
Oyle of Saffron. 504. m

O Z

Ozanitis, what it is. 364. i

P A

PActolus, a famous riuer. 107. e. the names thereof. ibid.
Padians, a people gouerned by women. 1•…•…8. h
Paet•…•…, families in Rome. 335. e. why so called. ibid.
Paezon, an Eunuch how he was sold. 175. f
Pagri, fishes. 245. a
Pala, a tree of India. 361. a
Palatium, a mount wherein a chappell was dedicated to the goddesse Feauer. 3. e
Palesimundum, a famous and populous citie in Tapro∣bane. 130 g
Palilicium, what starre. 592. l
Palmyra, a noble citie, with the description thereof. 104. i.
Paliurus, a thorne plant. 398. g
Palma Christi. See Ricinus.
Palme. 379. e
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Palmestrie friuolous. 354. k
Palmiprimum, what wine. 421. a
Pamphylia of Coos, inuentresse of weauing silke. 323. a
Pa•…•…gouernour of Lucitania. 51. f
Panaces or Panax what manner of plant. 378. k
Panathenaicum ointment. 381. c
Pandore, a kindred of Indians that liue in vallies vntill two hundred yeares age. 156. m
Panicke of many kind•…•…s. 558. h. it yeeldeth very much floure. ibid.
Panicke with Beanes, much vsed in Piemont. 566. g
Panicke, a corne, why so called. 558. g
Pantheon, a temple of Uenus in Rome. 257. d
a Panther secketh helpe at mans hand. 204. g. her thanke∣fulnesse. ibid. i
Panthers skins. ibid. i. their sweet smell and hideous lookes. ibid. k.
Panthers marked in their shoulders. ibid.
Panthers exhibited in shewes at Rome. ibid. l
Panthers how they be poisoned with Aconitum, and cured againe. 211. b
Pantherinae, what manner of Tables. 396. g
of Paps a discourse. 346. k. 347. d
Paps of a Dolphin placed in the bottome of her belly. 248. g
Paps of a Sow hauing beene newly farrowed, bee excellent meat. 344. i
Paps how they are placed in creatures. 347. i
Paps of Elephants are vnder their shoulders. 347. e
Papyr cane in Aegypt. 391. e
Papyr when it was first made, and where. ibid.
Papyr reed or cane how it groweth. 392. g. h the vse thereof besides Papyr. 392. h
Papyr Hieralica. ibid. k
Papyr Augusta. ibid.
Papyr Liuia. ibid. l
Papyr Amphitheatrica. ibid.
Papyr Fanniana. ibid.
Papyr Saitica. ibid. m
Papyr Taniotica. ibid.
Papyr Emporetica, or shop-papyr. ibid.
Papyr how it was made. 393. a
Papyr Macrocola. ibid. c
Papyr Claudian. ibid.
Parchment deuised at Pergamus, and vpon what occasion. 392. g.
Pardalium, an ointment. 381. c
Parietarie, a medicine to diuerse birds. 211. c
Parkes when first deuised. 231. a
Parrae, certaine birds. 288. l
the Parrat what manner of bird. 293. b. named Sittace. ibid. can prate, and pronounce 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. ibid. hard headed, feeble footed. ibid. loueth wine. ibid.
Parrats haue the hardest souls. 332. l
Parrats are fir•…•…t seene in the Island Gagandus. 446. h
Parts most principall of man, are skinned by themselues. 342. l.
Parts •…•…all make difference in nations. 352. h
P•…•… •…•…all of Herm•…•…phrodites, serue for both sexes. ibid.
〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉. 40. k
〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 to corrupt breath. 335. b
•…•…o 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. 289. g
〈◊〉〈◊〉, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 haue two hearts. 340. i
Partridges will neuer be fat. 344. k
Partridges, how industrious they are in building their neasts. 289. b
Partridges exceeding letcherous. ibid. c
Cock-Partridges tread one another for want of Hens. 289. c
Hen-Partridges conceiue with the very aire of the Cockes. 289. d. their iealousie. ibid. e. f. their pollicie to saue their young. ibid. their age. 290. g
Pascua the reuenewes at Rome. 550. k
Passienus Crispus fancied a beech tree. 496. g
Patales, a famous port in India. 36. g
Pateton, a kinde of Date, why so called. 387. f
of Patience sundry examples. 167. e
Patroclus, the name of an Elephant. 194. k. his hardie ad∣uenture and reward. ibid.
Paulinus Suetonius, a Romane that went first ouer Atlas. 92. h.
Paunches of hoofed beasts hard and rough. 343. a
Paunch neuer compassed with bones. 343. e
Pausiae, what Oliues. 429. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

P E

Peaches foure kindes. 436. b
Peaches, why called Persica. 437. c
Peaches in Persia, whether they be venomous or no. ibid. d
Peacockes crowned with hairie feathers. 331. a
Peacockes beautifull, wittie, and proud. 278. m. his life. 279. a. they be malicious. ibid. made fat and serued vp to the table first. ibid. b
Peacockes letcherous. 301. a
M. Aufidius Lurco fed Peacockes, and made a gaine there∣by. 379. b
the Pea-hen how shee layeth. 300. m. and hatcheth. 301. a
Peares more pointed than Apples. 439. f
Peares how preserued. 440. g
the properties of Peares and their vses. ibid.
Peares how they are kept long. ibid. k
Peares Barbarian, Uenerian or coloured, Royall, Patrician, Voconian, Uolenian. 439. d
gourd Peares. ibid.
Peares called Libralia. 436. k
Peares proud. 439. a
Peares Crustumine. ibid.
Peares Falerne, why so called. ibid.
milke Peares. ibid.
Syrian Peares, why so called. ibid. b
Peares Dicimiana. ibid.
Peares Dolabellian. ibid.
Peares Pseudodecimiana. ibid.
Pompeian Peares. ibid.
pap Peares. ibid.
Tyberian Peares, why so called. 439. c
Peares taking name of countries. ibid.
Peares Licerian, Seuerian, Tyrannian, Favonian, Lateri∣an, Anitian, Amerian, Picentine, Numantine, Alexan∣drian, Numidian, Grecian, Tarentine, Signine. ibid. b
Peares Testacia, why so called. 439. b. Onychine. ibid.
purple Peares. ibid.
Peares Myrapia, Lauret, Nard, Barley, Bottle, Thickskin, Coriolana. 439. d.
Pearles how they be engendred, why they be called Vnions. 254. m. 255. e.
Pearles the soueraigne commodities of the world. 254. k

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the cause of their dimnesse or clearenesse. 254. l
Pearles much in request with the Romanes. 256. g
Pearles out of Arabia. 371. f
Pearles found in Acarnania will lose their colour. 256. i
Pearles their price and estimation. 254. k
Pease, when to be sowne. 569. e. how codded. 570. g
Pecunia, whence deriued. 550. h
Pegasi, what birds. 296. k
Pegasi, winged horses. 206. g.
Peinting who first deuised. 190. g
Pelagiae, a kinde of purples. 259. a
Pelamides, fishes. 243. c
Pelasgum. 453. a
Pelecinon. See 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Pelion, a hill measured and the height thereof. 31. d
Peloponnesus, the description thereof. 73. e
Peneus a famous riuer. 76. l
Peniroyall floures in mid-winter. 588. l
Peneroyall floureth fresh in mid-winter. 20. h
People of the East feed of grashoppers. 325. a
People without heads. 156. g
People with •…•…ares that couer their whole body. 157. a
Pepiniers how they are to be made. 510. l
Pepper trees: 361. c. long pepper. ibid. d. white pepper, blacke pepper. ibid.
Pepper sophisticate. 361. c
Peppers their price. ibid.
Percnopteros, what kinde of Hawke. 272. g. and her pro∣perties. ibid.
Percnos. See Morphuos.
Perfumes. See Ointments odoriferous.
Periurte euen in the very Capitoll. 4. i.
Perne Island. 40. k
Persea, a venomous tree. 437. d
Persica, what manner of tree, and the fruit. 390. i. the wood durable and serueth for images. ibid. k
Pestilence beginning in the South goeth to the West. 183. d continueth but three moneths. ibid.

P H

Phalangia, a sort of spiders. 322. h
Phalangium engendred in Eruile. 575. b
Phalerides, daintie water-foules. 296. g
Pharnaces, a people in Aethiopia. 155. b.
Pharus, an Island cut from Aegypt by the sea. 39. e
Phauliae, what oliues. 432. g
Phedius was accounted most happie. 180. h
Pherecides, Pythagoras his master fore-telling an earth∣quake. 37. d
Phiala, a place in Nilus. 226. c
Philip of M•…•…cedony 〈◊〉〈◊〉 against Greece, the skie appea∣reth bloudie. 17. c
Phil•…•…ppides his swiftness•…•…. 161 m
Phil•…•…scus how 〈◊〉〈◊〉 loued B•…•…es. 313. f
Philomides, the courrier or Post of Alexander, 35. c
Ph•…•…monoe male of 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. 322. h
Phoenicobala•…•…. 374. i
Ph•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 296. g
Phoenicurus. S•…•…e 〈◊〉〈◊〉 redbreast.
Phoenix w•…•…at manner of bird. 271. e
Phoenix the bir•…•…y it tooke that name. 387. c
Phoenix ad•…•…ed wi•…•…h 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of feath•…•…s. 331. a
Phrygian t•…•…e •…•…y w•…•… •…•…piter •…•…th. 1•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Phthorium, a wine to cause abortiue fruit, how it is made. 422 g.
Phu. 364. l
Phycos. 401. d
Phygemata, vntimely fruits of shell-fishes. 255. a
Phyros, what it is. 401. d
Physeter, what fish. 235. f
Physicke, who deuised. 188. i
Physicians taxed for dealing with dangerous medicines. 400. g.
Physicians that excelled. 174. l

P I

Pietie. See Kindenesse, Naturall.
Pia mater, a tunicle of the braine. 332. m
Pictures of great price. 175. c
Pics learne to speake. 293. c
Pig taken from the pap, maketh it returne flat to the bellie. 347. f.
Pigs know their owne paps. 547. f
Pikes of the sea. 245. e
Pillers of Crassus did beautifie the theatre. 499. b
Pilummi, why so called. 550. h
Pindarus feared the Suns eclipse. 9. a
Pine tree and Pinaster. 462. h
Pine tree chaplets. 434. g
Pine nuts or apples how they grow. 435. e
Pine trees euer full of fruit. 473. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Pinna, a cockle in Acarnania. 256. h
Pinnotar, what fish. 253. a
Pip in hens. 300. h. the cure. ibid.
Pipes of Canes, Reeds, Shanke-bones, Siluer, Box and Lo∣tos. 484. i
Pipes made of reeds and canes. 844. l
Pyrrhus his great toe, and vertue thereof. 155. c. it was re∣serued for a holy relique. 155. d
Pirrie or wine of peares. 421. a
Pisles of Camels serue for bow-strings. 352. h
Pismires greedy of Cypresse seeds. 512. c
Pismires shew the change and full of the Moone. 601. c ruled by the power of the Moone. 20. i
C. Piso a notable drinker, aduanced therefore by Tiberius Claudius. 427. e
Pisones, why so called. 550. h
Pisse of Beares hard as horne. 152. h
Pissoceros, the second foundation of the worke of Bees. 313. b
Pistores, who they were in Rome. 567. b
Pitch trees of six kindes. 462. h
Pitch plaisters. 424. h
Pitch wine. ibid.
Brutian or Calibrian Pitch. 424. l
Pitch how it is knowne good from bad. ibid.
Pitch where it hateth to grow. 462. i. the description there∣of. 462. k
Pitch trees commended for their rosin. ibid. l
timber of Pitch tree for what it serueth. ibid.
Pitch tree how it differeth from the Larch, 463. b
Pitch trees grow againe if they be burnt to the root. ibid.
Pitch tree why it is called Phthiriophoros. 463. e
Pitch both liquid and stony, how it is drawne and made. 464. h. i.
Palimpissa or stone pitch. ibid. Brutian pitch. ibid.
Pitch rosin out of the pitch tree. 465. a
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stilled Pitch, what it is. 464. k
Pissasphalta, Pitch. 465. b
Pitch, where and when it is gathered best. ibid.
Pitch hurtfull to trees. 541. e
Pithecusae Islands. 40. h
Pithous, a kinde of Comet. 15. e
Pitydia, what Pine nuts they be: good for the cough. 435. f
Pits for wells who sunke first. 118. i

P L

Plaice, a fish. 145. b
Players vpon the stage rich. 175. e. f
Plane tree whereupon Marsyas hung himselfe. 495. d
Plane tree honoured for shade onely. 358. g
Plane trees nourished with wine at the root. ibid. h
Plane of admirall bignesse in Lycia. 358. h. i
the Plane tree of C. Caligula. ibid. k
the Plane tree of Candie so much renowmed. ibid. l
dwarfe Plane trees. 359. b
Plane tree turned to an oliue in Laodicea. 543. d
Planets, by whose motions are occasi•…•…ned the seasons of the yeare. 19. i
Planets keepe their power as well vnder the earth as a∣boue. 42. l
Planets and their motions to bee considered in husbandrie. 585. f.
Planets seuen. 3. a
Planets their moouing: they goe a contrary course to the starry heauen. 5. f
Planets fed with earthly moisture. 7. c
Planets, touching their motions and lights. 10. c
Planets their circles or angles. ibid. k
Planets, why some seeme higher, some lower. ibid. m
the opinion of them confuted that thinke Planets doe arise and mount from earth to heauen. 11. d. whence their stations tooke their name. ibid. f
generall rules as touching Planets. 12. h. their seuerall di∣stinct colours. 13. c. their distances one from another. 14. i
Planets of their musicke and harmonie. ibid. k
Plants winding about others & growing vpon them. 496. i
Plants haue an appetite to incorporat one in another. 523. a
Plants in what regard they be accepted. 450. i. k
Plants of peares and apple trees how to be nourished. ibid.
Platanistae, fishes in the riuer Ganges, 143. b
Plato how he was honoured of Denis the tyrant. 171. f
Platter of Aesope. 297. d
Platycerotes, a sort of stags, why so called. 331. c
Plagues accounted gods. 53. d
Plaines of Rosea the very fat of Italy. 504 g
Plenty of corne among oliue trees in Boetica. 515. c
Plinic confesseth himselfe beholden to former writers. 10. k
Plotia a reed. 483. c
Plough, who first deuised. 189. a
L. Plotius found by the smell of a pretious ointment. 384. l
Plumgeons, what birds. 296. h
Aegyptian Plumtree. 391. a
Plums of sundry sorts. 436. m
asse Plums. 437. a
purple Plums. ibid.
wheat Plums or wax Plums. ibid.
nut Plums. ibid.
apple Plums. 437. b
almond Plums. ibid.
damascen Plums. 437. b

P O

Poetry, who inuented. 189. f
Polenta, how it was made. 561. c
Pogoniae a kinde of Comets. 15. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Poisons, food to serue creatures. 307. a
Poisoning deuised by man onely. 548. k
Pol•…•…s two, where supposed to be. 84. i
Polydorus his tombe. 78. h
Polypes or Pourcuttles. 250. h 251. a
Polypi, how they liue. 251. a. one of them robbed the fishers. ibid. b.
of a theeuing Polype a wonderfull example. 251. d
Pollen. fine floure. 564. h
Polybius his search into Africke, and opinion concerning the description thereof. 91. c
Polymita, what kinde of cloaths. 228. i
Pomecitrons, why called Medica. 437. f
Pomegranats, how to be kept. 440. i. k
Pomegranats approppiat to the territory of Carthage. 398. h diuerse kindes. ibid.
Pomegranate rindes. 398 i
Pomegranate floures. ibid.
Cn. Pompeius praised. 168. l. 169. a
Cn. Pompeius no purchaser of his neighbours lana. 555. a hated for his crueltie to Elephants. 196. i
Pompeius magnus, why so called. 169. a. compared to Alex∣ander and Hercules. ibid. b
Pompey subdued 876 townes of Spaine. 169. b
how he came to be called Magnus. ib•…•…d.
Pompey dis inscription on the temple of Minerua. ibi•…•…. d his deeds. ib•…•…d.
Pompili, certaine fishes. 244. h
Pome-poires, or Peare-apples. See apples Melapia.
Ponticke nuts. See Filberds.
Pontus, the Islands thereof. 85. b
Poplars their diuerse kindes. 470 h
Poplar wood good timber but for often lopping. 490. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
white Poplar mosse. 379. d
Poppie-worke cloth. 228. h
Poppies both wilde and tame, when to be sowne. 589 c. d their medicinable vertues. ibid.
Poppaea wife to Nero, how shee bathed her body. 348. i
Popular gouernement, who first erected. 189. a
Popularia, a kinde of Abricocts. 436. l
Porkepines, their description and nature. 215. e
Porphyrio, what manner of bird, and how hee drinketh. 295. d.
another Porphyrio. 296. k
Porpuisses, fishes. 241. a
K. Porsena raised vp lightning by coniuration. 26. k
Porcius Cato his commendable parts. 169. f. & deinceps.
Posidonius the Mathematician. 14. l
Posidonius honoured of Pompeius. 172. h
Pottery, whose deuise. 188. l
a Poulter cunning in egs. 299. e
Pourcuttle, a fish. 247. e
Poyson of Scorpions is white. 325. a
Poyson of serpents proceedeth from the gall. 341. e

P R

Praecordia, the vpmost inwards of man. 342. i they be a defence to the heart. ibid.
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Praesages of fortune by the teeth. 164. l
Praesage by fishes. 244. l
Praesages by the setling of Bees. 519. d
Praesages by weaning of spiders. 324. i
Praesages by slight of Herons. 334. g. hy lightenings, snee∣sings, stumbling with the foot. 4. l
Praestar, the name of a blast and the nature thereof. 25. a
Praetextae, garments, when deuised. 228. h
Praeuarication, what it is in Husbandry. 379 c, a word borrowed by lawyers. ibid.
Prason. 401. d
Praxitales his grauen image. 175. d
Price of Isocrates his oration. 151. f
Priests of Cybele their manner. 352. h
Principles about Husbandry. 555. a. b
Priests, fishes two hundred cubits long. 235. c
Procella a storme. 25. b
Procyon, what starre. 597. b
Prochyta Island. 61. c
in Prodigies who were first skilfull. 189. d
Prodromi, what figs. 474. k
Prodromi so called, are the Northeast winds, and why. 23. d.
Prognostications of weather and wind. 610. l
Prognostications by the eyebrowes. 354. l
Prognostication by the eyes. ibid.
Prognostication of weather and other future things by dumbo beasts. 211. e
Prohibitory, what bird. 277. c
Promontory Nymphaeum. 48. g
Promontory Saturnes cape. 53. d
Promontory Taurus. 268. l
Propagation of trees two waies helped. 516. g
Propolis the third foundation of the worke of Bees. 313. b
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, what it is. 585. d
Protropum, what it is. 487. d
Prusias K. of Bithynians his son was borne hauing a bone 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in stead of a gum in the vpper iaw. 164. i
Prose, writing and speaking who inuented first. 189. f

P S

Pseudonardus. 364. k
Psyllians named of king Psyllus. 154. k
Psyllians venomous by nature. ibid.
Psyllians how they make triall of their wiues chastitie. ib. their bodies kill serpents. ibid.

P T

Ptaeambati, people which haue a dog to their king. 147. c
Ptisana, how it is made. 561. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. highly commended. ibid.
Phthongus, Mercurie his tune. 14, l

P V

Publius Catienus Philotimus burned himselfe for loue of his master. 174. k
Publius Rutilius died suddenly. 134. i
Puffe apples. 438. l
Pulmentaria. 563. b
Pulpa in trees, what it is. 486. k
Pulse, what it is. 557. c. 558. i. how it is rooted. 557. e
Pulse of all sorts how it groweth. 558. l
Pulse called in Latine Legumina, and why. 576. m
Pulse of the arteries bewraieth hidden diseases. 345. d
Pulse what kinde of leafe they haue. 558. m. long in blow∣ing and not at once. 559. a
Purple fishes 258. g
Purple colour from whence it commeth. ibid. h
Puteal Libonis. 443. d
Puttockes. See Kites.
Purple fishes of two sorts, Purpura, and Buccinum. 258. l their difference. ibid.
Purples Pelagiae, Taeniense, a kinde. 259. a

P Y

Pyannets what kinde of birds. 285. d they remooue their nests. 289. g
Pygargi, a kinde of goats. 231. d
Pygargos, a kinde of Aegle. 271. c
Pygmaei Spythamei, a people in India three handfuls high. 156. i. their warre with cranes, ibid. k
Pyraeum, an Athenian hauen, by the retiring of the sea left drie land. 39. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Pyromantie whose deuise. 189. d
Pyrosachne, a plant. 398. k
Pyrrhaeum the forrest, burnt and reuiued. 463. b
King Pyrrhus his great toe and other parts medicinable. 155. d.
Pyrrhus bearing twice a yeare. 474. m
Pyrrhus K. of Epirus intended to ioyne by a bridge Greece vnto Italy. 64. g
Pyrrocorax, what bird. 296. h
Pythagoras first found out the nature of Uenus planet, and when. 6. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Pythagoras found out the distance betweene the earth and the Moone. 14. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Pythius of Massiles a writer. 43. c
Pyxacanthus Chironius. 36.

Q V

QVadrant for an husbandman. 609. c
Quailes flie by troups. 282. l
Quailes how they helpe themselues by flying. 283. a. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 they •…•…eed vpon white Ellebore seed. ibid. they be subiect to the falling sickenesse. ibid.
foure Quarters principall in Rome. 551. a
Quickenesse of spirit, examples thereof. 168. i
Quicke creatures come naturally into the world with their heads forward. 304. i
Querquetulana, a gate in Rome. 462. g
Quinces, why called Cydonia. 436. g
Quinces of diuers kindes. ibid. h. how to be kept and preser∣ued. 440. i
Quincius Cincinnatus sent for from the plough to be Di∣ctatour of Rome. 552. g
Quintiana Prata. 552. g
Quisquilium. See Cusculeum.

R A

RAdij, what oliues. 429. c
Radish keepeth away drunkennesse. 242. l
Ragged apples. 438. l
Raine, food of trees. 500. i
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Raine in midsummer nought for vines. ibid. k
Raine in Winter most in season for plants. 501. b
Raine at the same time helpeth not all trees. ibid.
Raine by night better than by day. 501. e
Raine how it is caused. 20. k
Raine strange and prodigious, of milke, bloud, brickes, tyles. &c. 27. f. 28. g
Raine not at all in some lands. 42. h
Raine water saued for ordinary vse to drinke. 146. m
Raine-bow sheweth what weather. 612. m
Rainebow the nature and reason thereof. 28. l. m
Ram-fish his manners. 262. h
Rams and their nature. 226. m
Rams generally armed with crooked hornes. 331. c
Ranke corne how to beremedied. 576.
Rankenesse hurtfull to corne. 482. g
Rapes, and their vse. 570. i. k. their plentifull commoditie, they grow euery where. ibid. k
Rapes male and female. 570. l
Rapes of three sorts. 570. m
wilde Rapes medicinable. 571. a
Rapes with what ceremonie to be sowne. ibid. b
Raspis described. 485. f
the floures of Raspis medicinable. ibid.
Ratumena the gate of Rome, and whence it tooke that name. 222. g
Rats of Pontus their nature. 216. m
a Rat sold for two hundred sesterces. 233. a
Rauens taught to speake. 293. f
Rauens their properties. 276. i. how they conceiue with young. ibid. k
a Rauen saluted the Emperour. 294. g. solemnely interred. ibid. h. his death reuenged by the people of Rome. ibid.
Rauens employed by an hawker. 294. k
a Rauen made shift to drinke at a bucket. ibid. l
Ray killeth wheat. 575. a

R E

Red Deere. See Stags.
Red sea, why so called. 134. g
Reeds of strange bignesse. 155. e
Reeds where they grow. 524. m. they multiplie and encrease of themselues. 515. a
Reeds and Canes to be set before the Calends of March. ib.
Reeds cease to grow at mid-winter. ibid. alwaies to be cut in the wane of the Moone. 525. b
Reeds employed to many vses. 482. g
Reeds vsed to calfret ships. ibid. h
Reeds serue Easterlings for arrowes. ibid. f
Reeds of Italie compared with those of Candie and Picar∣die for making of shafts. ibid. k. l
Reeds differ in leafe. 483. c
what part of the Reed sittest for euery pipe. 484. i
Reeds for Faulconers poles. ibid.
Reeds for angle-rods. ibid.
Reeds for vine pearches. ibid.
Reeds and canes how to be planted. ibid. k
Reeds, how to be killed. 557. a
Reremice. See Bats.
Refrivae or Refrinae. 569. b
Region in Thessalia, how it grew to be cold. 503. d
Attilius Regulus slew a monstrous serpent. 199. d
Religious reuerence in the knees of men. 350. h
Remedie against stinging of scorpions. 325. c
Remedies of trees common and proper. 546. l
Remedies against sundry maladies in corne. 575. c
Rennet of a Rabbet medicinable for the flux of the belly. 346. k.
Report of Hercules and Pyrene or of Laturne is fabulous, 51. f
Residence vpon land. 555. a

R H

Rhaphanus, a venomous shrub. 362. l
Rhododendron, a beast. 205. e
Rhododendron. See Oleander.
Rhemnius Palaemon an excellent good husband. 411. d
Rhinoceros, what beast it is. 205. e, his fight with the Ele∣phant. ibid. horned in the nose. 133. e
Rhododaphnis. See Oleander.
Rhodes Island. 40. g

R I

Ricinis. 433. f. why so called. ibid.
Rice corne described. 561. b. c. and the vse thereof. ibid.
Rie. 572. l
Riuer-horse in some sort his owne physitian. 346. l
Riuers of a wonderfull and strange nature. 45 a. b
a Riuer warme in Winter, and exceeding cold in Summer. 545. a

R O

Robin Redbreast. 287. a
Rocke of stone of a strong and wondrous nature. 42. h
Rockes in Syria burne corne. 503. e
Royall ointment, what it is. 383. b
Roiot and excesse of Romane Senatours. 91. f
Romanes kinde and good one to another in old time. 4. g
Romanes trafficke into India. 133. b
Romanes excell all nations in all kinde of vertues. 176. h
Rome diuided into quarters according to woods adioy∣ning. 461. f
Rooke. See Crow.
Root of an oke taking an acre in compasse. 477. e
a Root of a rape weighing foure hundred and one pound. 570. l. how dressed for the table. ibid. how preserued co∣loured artificially. ibid.
Roratio a blasting of vines after their blouming. 540. i
Rosat oile in great request. 382. g
Rosin trees of six kindes. 462. h

R V

Rubigo in corne, what it is. 598. i
Rubigalia, a festiuall holiday. 600. g
Rue discouered by the Weasill. 210. m
Rumbotinus, a tree. 405. b

S A

SAba, & Sabota, the proper place for frankincense. 366 g
Sabis a god. 368. g
Sabines called Sevini, and why. •…•…65. a
Sacrifice young beasts when they be in their season. 230. g
Sagunt a child being borne presently returned into his mo∣thers wombe againe. 158. g
Saltpeter earth good for plants. 503. c
Salt cannot be made without mingling of fresh water. 46. k
Salamander his description and nature. 305. e
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Salamander not distinguished by sex. 305. d
the Salmon fish. 247. a
Sallowes. See Willowes.
Samara, what it is. 468. g
Samosatis, a citie in Comagene. 46. m
Sambri, people where fourfooted beasts haue no ears. 146. k
Sandalum, what corne. 559. d
Sandalides, Dates. 387. d
Sangualis, what bird. 274. h
Sapa, what it is. 416. l
Sapa in Aethiopia what it signifieth. 147. b
Sap of trees. See Alburnum.
Sapium, what it is. 465. d
Sapinus, what it is. ibid.
Sapinus in trees, what it is. 488. l
Sarcocolla, a tree and gum. 391. d
Sarcling, what it is, and of what vse. 580. k
Sardis the capitall citie of Tydia. 107. e
Sardane a shel-fish. 244. i
Sargus, what fish. 246. h
Sari, a shrub. 400. k
Sarpedon his letters written in papyr. 394. l
Saturne what he is, and nature and motion thereof. 5. f
Saturne causeth raine, &c. 19. e
Saturne colour. 13. c
Satyres their shape. 96. i
Satyres haunt mountaines in India. 156. g
Satyres what they are. 156 g
Sauces how they be dangerous. 355. e
Sauine how it is helped in growing. 516. i
Sauorie or Cumlabubula found in the land Tortoise. 210. l
Sauromates eat but one meale of meat in three daies. 154. i
Sauours different in fruit. 449 d
Sauce, called Garum Sociorum. 246. k

S C.

Scallops. 253. d
Scallop fish like to the sea vrchin. 256 h
Scarus, a kinde of fish. 245. f
Scaurus Consuil, found out a vaine obseruation of lighte∣ning. 27. c
Scenitae, people why so called. 139. f
Sceptrum. See Erysisceptrum.
Schoenus, what measure it is. 366. h
Sciotericon, a diall, and the finder out thereof. 36. k
Scienae, fishes. 244. h
Scincus bred in Nilus. 209. b. the vertues thereof in Phy∣sicke. ibid.
in sundry Sciences excellent men. 174 k
Sciopodes, a people in India. 156. g
Scipio Africanus the former cut out of his mothers wombe 160. i.
Scipio Africanus the second his trench separating the two prouinces of Africke. 93. e
Scipio Nasica his hard hap. 173. e. his praise. ibid.
Scolopendres, fishes. 262. g
Scolopendres chase people out of the countrie. 212. h
Scolopendres without wings. 327. b
Scordastus, a tree. 363. a
Scorpions and Solpages depopulate a countrie. 212. h
Scorpious perish by their young ones. 324. l
Scorpions their stings dangerous as serpents. 324. l. how they exercise them. ibid. they cannot quench their thirst. 325. a. they are harmelesse in Italy. ibid. b. they are harmelesse to things without bloud. 325. c
Scorpions, where they be harmelesse to strangers, and n i∣some to inhabitants: they reuenge their brethrens death. 325. c.
Scutcheons for graffing how to be made. 520 h
Scyros wind. 23. a
Scythia free from lightening, and the reason. 23. c
Scythian nation, the description thereof. 123. e. called by Persians Sacas. ibid.
Scythian sea the water thereof fresh. 124. g
Scythians feed on mens flesh. 153. f

S E

Sea engendreth the like of all that is in the world besides. 235. a.
Sea-Rams. 236. k
Sea Elephants. ibid.
Sea-calues or Seales. 243. a
Sea, where it is deepest. 44. l
Sea hotter in winter. 46. k. made calme with oile. ib•…•…d.
Seas in the reflux and ebbe thereof liuing creatures die, and not else. 43. e
why the Sea is salt. 44. h
Seas the reason of their reciprocall ebbe and flow and where they keepe no order. 42. k
maruailes of the Sea. 43. f
Sea, what land haue been turned wholly into. 40. i
Seas how they haue gone backe and deuided lands. 39. f what lands they haue broken in betweene. 4. h
Seareeds. 401. d
Sea trees. 401. d e. f
Sea cobs. 287. f
Sea water vnwholesome to be vsed in making dough. 560 i
Sea about Tabrobane full of trees. 130. h
Sea snakes twentie cubits long. 132 k
Sea-merle fish. 244. h
Sea-thrush fish. ibid.
Sea yeeldeth pretious coquils and pearles. 254. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Sea nettles and Spunges, neither liuing creatures nor yet plants. 262. i. their manners. ibid.
Sea-hare. 26•…•… g
Sea Tortoise hath neither tongue nor teeth. 339. f
Seales haue not bones. 345 a
Seale fishes haue no eares. 333. g
Seasoning time of the yeare in plants when it is. 47•…•…. d
Sebesten, what fruit. 388. l
Sebesten. 437. c
Sebesten and Seruices may be graffed both in one stocke. 511, f.
Uolcatius why he was called Sedigitus. 349. c
Seed, what it is. 563. a
Seed-corne of all sorts how to be chosen. 582. m
Seed how to be dispensed for sundry grounds. 483. d
ground take Seed, some more than other. 483. b
Seed falling from heauen engender all things. 2. h
Segesta, a goddesse. 549. e
Seia, a goddesse. ibid.
Selenitium an Iuie. 480 l
Seleucus Nicator purposed to cut the land through be∣tween Cimmerius Bosphorus and the Caspian s•…•…a. 120. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Seleucides, birds enemies to locusts. 284 l
Sementine or Autumne corne. 557 d
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Sembracena, myrrhe. 369. b
Annaeus Seneca. 411. f
Senses wherein men excell other creatures. 305. e
Sences wherein other creatures excell them. ibid.
Septentrio, a wind. 22. l
Seres a people described. 130. i. k
Seres, people famous for fine silke. 124. i. their nature. ibid. they cannot abide to merce with others. ibid.
M. Sergius (grandsire to Catiline) his cōmendation. 170. l
Sergius Arata first deniser of oyster pits. 266. l
Serichatum. 374. h
Serpents hauing lost their eies will haue new. 336. g
Serpents haue but one venomous tooth. 337. d
Serpents of great bignesse. 199. d. assaile foules of the aire. ibid.
Serpents destroy a citie. 212. h
Serpents and lizards haue long liuers. 343. h
Serpents haue thirtie ribs. 343. f
Serpents some of them footed like Geese. 351. d
a Serpent barked. 202. k
Serpents how they engender. 301. g. they lay egs. ibid. chained together about vipers. 302. h
father of the Gracchi found two serpents within his house. 174. i. what they presaged. ibid.
Serpents chased away with the perfume of harts horne. 306. k.
Serpents loue egs. 307. a. they loue wine. ibid. b
Servius Tullius being a child sleeping, had a light fire shone ouer his head. 48. g
Seruants and slaues of great price. 175. e
Sesame. See Ricinus.
Sestius a Romane Astronomer foresaw a dearth. 598. i
Seseli or Siler-mountaine, helpeth hinds to calue. 213. d
Senta, a caue in Dalmatia wherin breedeth the wind. 21. e
Sewing with the needle or nall who first deuised. 188. i
Sexes distinct in all plants. 385. d

S H

Shadow of the walnut tree noysome to men. 514. k
Shadowes of trees. ibid.
Shadow of the Palme tree pleasant and comfortable. ibid. l
Shadowes of some trees no better than poison. 515. a
Shadowes are not to be seene in some part of India. 156. l
Shadowes when and where there be none at all. 35. f. where twice in the yeare they fall contrary. 36. h
Shee asses much pained with paine of their vdders. 347. e suckle their young but six moneths. ibid.
Shee Beares haue foure paps apeece. 348. g
Sheepe how necessarie. 226. k their time of engendring. ibid. l
of Sheepe two principall kindes. 227. b
Sheepe which be kindely. 228. k
Sheepe rotten how to be cured. 496. l
Sheepe without galls in Euboea. 341. c
Sheepe in Naxus haue two gals. ibid.
Sheepe good to eate downe ranke corne. 576. h
Shearing trees when first deuised. 359. b
Shields burning in heauen. 18. h
Shelfish the occasion of much royot and excesse in the world 254. g.
Shindles of that wood best. 461. e. f. they couered the hou∣ses at Rome a long time. ibid.
Ships with proes at both ends. 129. d
Ship that brought the Obeliske out of Aegypt. 489. e. sunk in the hauen of Ostia. 14.
Ship of K. Demetrius of a mightie bignesse. 490. g
Shipping of sundry sorts. 190. g
Ship tackling, cables, ankers, &c. who deuised. ibid. i
Shouelars what manner of birds. 292. l

S I

Sicilie sometimes ioyned to Italy. 4. i
Sider or wine of apples. 421. a
Signes of short life. 534. i
Signifer circle in heauen. See Zodiacke.
Signes of the spring. 586. g
Signes of good earth. 505. a
Silkewormes how to be ordered. 323. b
Siligo. 562. m. commended. 563. c. the finest wheat for manchet and pastrie worke. 563. d. a fine floure. 564. h the wheat is a tickelish corne. 564. i
Silicia or Siliqua. See Fenigreeke.
Silurus, riuer whale. 243. a
Similage a fine floure. ibid.
Simones and Silones, sir names. 336. k. why so called. ibid.
Simach the fruit. 389. c
Sinewes bind the bones together. 345. b. being cut cause much paine. ibid. where they are hidden. ibid. c
Siluer mines who first found out. 188. k
Singing whose inuention. 189. e
Siphylus. 40. m
Silurus a fish, supposed to be a sturgeon. 243. a. his proper∣ties. 245. e
of Sinewes, cords, and ligaments. 345. b
Sirbon lake carrying a circuit of 150 miles. 100. i
Sithes of two sorts. 395. f

S K

Skarlet graine of the oke Ilex. 461. a
Skie, strange sights seen therein in time of Octanius, Con∣sull. 18. i
Skill in planting directed by the nature of the soile. 501. e
of the skin a discourse. 346. k
Skin subtile and thin causeth finenesse of spirit. 346. k it hath no fellowship with vnderstanding. ibid. l
Skin of Crocodiles hard. 346. k
Skin of Riuer-horse turneth iauelines and speares. 346. l
Skin of Elephants not to be pierced. ibid.
Skins of Gorgon women hung vp in Iunoes temple in Car∣thage. 148. l
Skritchowle flieth not directly. 277. a. one of them entred the sanctuarie of the Capitoll of Rome. ibid.

S L

Slauerie who brought in first. 289. a
Slaues deuoured of Lampreys. 348. i

S M

Smell most pleasant that commeth from the earth. 505. a
Smell of a snuffe of a candle causeth vntimely birth. 159. c
Smilaces. 558. l
Smilax one of the names of Yeugh. 463. f
Smilax how it is described. 481. d. supposed to be vnluckie and why. ibid. the name of a young damsell turned into the plant Smilax. 481. d. the vse that the wood is em∣ployed vnto. ibid. c
in Smyrna a boy changed into a girle. 158. h
Shouelars what manner of birds. 292. l
Snailes. 218. i
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Snake casteth her slough, and by what meanes. 211. a. in Syria they hurt no Syrians, but deadly to strangers. 234 i
Snow falleth not where sea is deepe. 46. k. how it is engen∣dered. 29. b. how it is good for trees. 500. i

S O

Socrates kept one countenance alwaies. 166. h
Socrates iudged the wisest man. 173. c
Socrates neuer knowne to change countenance. 166. g
Soles, fishes. 244. h
Soruises trees how they be kept long. 440. l. of foure kindes. 445. c. round as apples, pointed as peares, long as egs. ib.
Soruise Torminale, why so called. ib. d. preserued in cuit. ib. e
Sosigenes. 6. k
South wind when it bloweth, causeth creatures to be lesse hungrie. 24. g. it raiseth more surging waues than the North-wind, and why. ibid. h
Soules of men parcello, heauen. 16. m
Soules whether immortall. 187. a. b
Southerne winds make trees feeble. 600. h. a rocke conse∣crated vnto it. 21. e. riseth from mid-day. 12. l
Sowes eat their owne Pigs. 230. g. how they be splaied. ib. k their liuer made into a daintie dish. ibid. they vse not their teeth to strike as Bores. 337. b. enraged when they goe a brimming, and how remedied. 304. g. h. that bee wild, breed but once a yeare. 231. a. raging in their far∣rowing. ibid.
Sophocles enterred by warning from Bacchus. 171. d
Sowing of corne. 579. e. in the right season. 583. b
art in Sowing. ibid.
late Sowing more dangerous than earely. 584. k
in Sowing the Moone and signes to be obserued. ibid.

S P

Spadonei Dates. 449. c
Spagos. 424. g
Spaine, the description thereof. 87. f
Spathe, what it is. 379. e
Sparrowes short liued and let cherous. 290. m
Sphagnos, sweet. mosse. 375. d
Sphinges, a kinde of Monkey or Marmosets. 232. i
Spikenard. See Nard.
Spinturnix, what bird. 277. b
Spiders greatest enemies to Bees. 321. c. where she beginneth her web. ibid. e. hunt after Lizards. 324. i. lay egs. ibid. k being young, eat their mothers. ibid. the vse of their web. 323. b. drinketh vp the moisture of cloth. 330. h
Springs colder in Summer than in Winter. 46. k. leape vp∣ward. ibid. l
Spittle noisome to serpents. 154. l
Springs entrance when it beginneth. 590. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 591. a
Spring corne. 557. d
•…•…piders how they engender. 324. i. why they scatter their •…•…gges. ibid. i
〈◊〉〈◊〉 of sundry sorts. 262. l
Sp•…•…ghts, birds called Pici Martij. 278. g. why. h. effectuall •…•…presages. ibid. i. their admirable nature. ibid. k. no Speights at Tarentum. 285. c
Sp•…•… Tarpeius serued in 120 foughten fields. 170. h
Spindle tree. 399. b. the properties thereof. ibid.
S•…•…ado es, certaine reeds. 484. g
Sp•…•…lt. 363. a
Spiders foreshew the fall of an house. 211. c
Spleene fastened in the left side of the bellie. 343. c. thought to be in serpents. ibid. it hindereth the running. ibid. pro∣fessed runners wast it in a hot yron. ibid. may be taken out of the bodie without harme. ibid. being taken away, the laughter is gone. ibid.
Spikenard will not thriue in Arabia. 478. l
Spindle and spinning whose inuention. 188. i
Spira, fault in wood. 489. a
Spirit. See Aire.
Spondilium, an hearbe and fruit. 378. l
Spinter and Pamphylus, two players, how they resembled Lentulus and Metellus Consuls. 161. f
Spring when it beginneth. 23. c
fasting Spittle killeth serpents. 154. l
of the Spleene. 343. c

S Q

Squali, fishes. 248. l
Squilla floureth thrice, and sheweth three times of plough∣ing. 592. h
Squinanth where it groweth. 375. a. the best, and price of it. ibid. b
Squirrils, their properties. 218. g

S T

Stacte, the best Murrhe. 368. m
Stadises, a towne in Aegypt where the fall of Nilus maketh men deafe. 145. e
Stagonius. 367. e
Stagonitis. 378. i
Stag enuious to man. 213. c in danger seeketh to man. ibid.
white Stags of Q. Sertorius. 214. k. enemies to serpents. ib. long liuers. ibid. l. their flesh good for the liuer. ibid. l. aue vnder their tongue twentie little wormes. 333. b
Stags and Hinds. 213. c. they teach their young to run. ibid. how they behaue themselues when they be hunted. ibid. e their sundrie qualities ibid. e. f. how they swim ouer sea. 214. g. they cast their hornes yearely. ibid. how their age is knowne. ibid. h
Staphylodendrum, what it is. 467. c
Stature of man decreaseth. 165. a
fixed Starres and starrie skie presage future weather, how, and after what sort. 612. i. k
Stars predominate after the Spring of Equinox. 592. k
Stars fixed, their rising and setting to be taken two waies. 587. c. d.
Stars none lesse than the Moone. 19. d
Stars seene with the Sunne all day long. 17. d
Stars fixed which haue influence till the comming of Favo∣nius. 590. i
Stars & signs whether to be regarded for Seednes. 584. l. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Star fish. 269. e
Star-lizards, stellons cast their skins. 213. b. their venomab
Stars wandring. See Planets. to them attri∣buted the euent of things when they begin to gouerne the seas. 597. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Stars or Planets not appointed for euery man according to his state or condition, as some vainly haue imagined. 5. c
Stars obiected in nanigation first by whom, &c. 190. i. their shooting and falling, what it is. 5. d. their power and ope∣ration. ib. that be fixed, shine as well by day as night. 9. f their vnequall rising. 34. i. whether to bee regarded for seednes. 584. l. m. rising and setting of which be diuer∣sly taken. 587. c. d. predominant after the Spring Aequi∣nox. 592. k. how they presage future weather. 612. i
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Stelus, what it is. 496. k
Stellions liue onely by deaw and spiders. 325. d
Stares could parle Greeke and Latine. 293. e
Sterlings depart for a season. 284. g. their manuer of flight. ibid. h
Stephanos Alexandri. 453. a
Stesichorus feared the eclipse of the Sunne. 9. a
Starch. See Amylum.
Starres running too end fro. 18. i
Stature in men and women is now decaied. 165. a
Stewes for fishes who deuised. 266. m
Straw serued for bedding. 551. a
Strength of body many examples. 166. k
Stimmata. 381. d
Strabones, who they be properly. 335. e
Stimphalides crisped on the head. 331. a
Straw how to be vsed and ordered. 602. l. m
Stones greased and enflamed with fire. 48. g
Stones of beasts how they are placed. 352. k
Stone quarries who first digged. 188. i
Stones found in trees. 489. b. c
white Stones in the maw of young birds, vsed in Magicke. 343. b.
Stone of a strange power. 42. h
Stones raining downe. 28. h
Stone in young heifers good for women. 343. c
Stones raining downe. 19. c
Stomacke how it is framed, and the vse. 340. g
Stockdoues out of the way for a time. 284. h. sit vpon their egges, Cocke and Hen by turnes. 300. k
Storks esteemed better meat than Cranes in old time. 282. g their manner of flight. ibid. h
to kill a Storke, fellonie in Rhessalie. ibid. kinde to their pa∣rents. ibid. k
no Storkes within eight miles of the lake Lurius. 285, c
Starres and other flames seene about the Sunne. 17. d
Stay-ship fish. See Echeneis.
Straw, how it is a signe of good ground. 503. a
Straw of barly, the best. 562. k
Strix, a word of cursing. 347. d
Strabones, families in Rome, why so called. 335. e
Strategiae, what they be. 119. d
Strawberrie tree. See Arbute.
Strobos plant Laedeum. 370. h
Strobon in Ceraunia. 321. a. a sweet tree. ibid.
Storax, a sweet odour. ibid. c. the effects thereof. ibid.
Storax (Calamita.) 378. g
Styrax or Storax the tree. ibid.
Styrax gum of diuerse kinds. 378. k
Struthea, what Quinces. 436. h
Struthopodes, what people. 156. h
Sturgeon fish much set by of our ancestours. 245. e

S V

Subis, a bird. 277. c
Sugar. 362. k
Suns motion, what it is. 13. f. wherefore it burneth not the earth. 14. m. what Summer we shall haue, Democritus shewed by the Solstice. 590. g. how many furlongs from the cloudie region to the Sunne. ibid. how to know the heights of it from the earth vp to the Sunne. 15. a
Summan, what kinde of dish. 230. l
Suns heat causeth monstrous shapes in Aegipt. 146. k
Superfluitie of meat alwaies dangerous. 356. h
Subulones, a kinde of stag. 331. c
Subsolanus wind. 22. l
Sunne, a diuine power. 36. c. his Eclipse. See Eclipse.
Sulpitius Gallus first found the reason of the Eclipse. 8. l
Sulpetia, a Matron that consecrated Venus image. 173. f
Superstition in chusing Marget. 4. i
Superfluitie in pretious ointments. 384. g. h
Superfluous expence in Seeling and inlaid workes. 494. h
Sun greatest of the Planets. 3. b. the soule of the world. ib.
Island of the Sunne described. 132. i
Suns many seene at once. 17. f. in midwinter maketh tem∣pests. 20. g
Suns motion, what it is. 13. f. the strange colour appearing therein. 17. g. the signes of weather depending of his rising or setting. 611. a. b. lends his light to the other stars. 3. c
why the Sun departeth from vs in Winter. 8. g. h
Sunsteads when. 13. i
Sunne his race. 2. k
Sunne the greatnesse thereof. 8. g. by how many demonstra∣tions it appeareth bigger than the earth. ibid.
Sunne, the best prognosticator of weather. 611. a
Signes depending on the Suns rising or setting. 611. a. b
Sunstead of Summer. 587. e. what weather we shall haue, Democritus gesseth by the Solstice day. 590. g
Sunne his power. 44. h. fed by the salt sea. ibid. l
Sumach, a plant. 389. b
Sunnes Oxen, whence the fable arose that they were kept in stall. 43. f
Supernata, a kinde of Abricocts. 436. l
Suculae, what starres. 592. l
Surname Stolo, whence it came. 489. c
Surus the name of an Elephant. 194. i
Susinum. See Oile of Lillies.
Superfitation. See more in Conceptions.

S W

Sweate of the Pharnaces dangerous to be touched. 155. b
Swine when they goe a brimming. 229. f. how long they breed. ibid. eat their owne Pigs. ibid. g. their age. 230. b their diseases. ibid. they know the swinards voice. ibid. i how they are knowne sicke or sound. ibid. their sub∣tiltie and wit. ibid. their flesh yeeldeth varietie of dishes. 230. k. haue ten ribs. 243. f
Swallowes feed flying. 284. h. they are indocible. 295. b of diuerse sorts. 288. h. how they feed and keepe cleane their young birds. ibid. their neasts make a banke to Nilus. ibid. i. how they build. ibid. g. they fortifie an Island yearely. 288. i
Swallowes enemies to Bees. 320. i
young Swallowes being calcined, doth cure the squinan∣cie. 288. k
Swallowes hauing lost their eies, will haue new. 336. g they are gone in Winter. 283. d. why they build not in the citie Thebes. ibid. l. nor in Byzia. ibid.
wild Swans how they flie. 282. i
Swans sing not before they die. 284. l
of Swiftnesse in running many examples. 166. m

S Y

Syrians warre against Locusts. 328. h
Sylke-wormes how to be vsed. 323. b
Sylla Dictatour died of lice. 329. d
Sybilla excellent at diuination. 173. d
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Syria, a renowned region, the description thereof. 99. f
Syrenes fabulous birds. 296. k
Syagri, kinde of Dates. 387. b
Sycomore tree. 389. d. passing fruitfull. ibid.
Syraeum, what it is. 416. l
Sycc, what kinde of rosin. 463. a
Syene, a towne, at noonetide in the middest of the Summer, no shadow is to be seene there. 35. f
Syringias, a kinde of Cane or Reed. 483. b
Syrites, a stone found in a Wolfes bladder. 344. g
Syrictae, people that haue legs like Snakes. 156. h

T A

TAder riuer. 53. d
of Tailes a discourse. 352. l
Taprobane Island. 157. a
Taprobane the manner of the people, and their long life. 131. b.
Taprobane thought to be a second world. 129. b
Taprobane Island description thereof. ibid. b. king of Tapro∣bane, admitted the Romans vpon relation of their iustice and seeing their peeces of coin all of equall weight. 129. f the maner & fashions of the Island of Taprobane. 130. k
Tamarix. 398. m
of Tastes thirteene kindes. 448. l
of Tallow. 344. k
Tallow whether it lieth in the breast. ibid.
Tales there be of Scritch-owles feeding young infants with their milke. 347. c
Tanaquils distaffe and spindle. 228. g
Tarre out of what tree it is boiled. 464. h. whereto it is em∣ploied. ibid. the manner of drawing it. ibid.
Taprobane and Toidis, countries most fruitfull of pearles. 254. k.
Tarum. 298. m
Tarandus, what beast. 215. c
Tasts of sundrie sorts in hearbes. 449. b
Tasting equall to all creatures. 306. l
Tasting common to all creatures. ibid.
Tast of meats in all creatures but man, is at the lip of the tongue. 339. b
Taurus, a mightie mountaine. 105. e. the diuerse names thereof. ibid.
Taurus a bird lowing like a Bull. 293. a
Tautalus citie swallowed vp. 40. m
Tayles of serpents being cut off will grow againe. ibid.
Tayle in all creatures except men and Apes. 352. i. serueth to necessarie vse. ibid.
Tayles of Oxen and Kine greatest and biggest. 16. m
Taygetus, an hill. 37. d

T E

Teeth their nature, sundry kindes and vses. 164. i. k their presages. 164. l
Teeth of Vipers hidden within their gumbes, 337. d
Teeth of sundrie kindes, and how they be set, and to what vse, &c. 337. c. 338. g
Teda or the Torch-tree. 462. m
Tepidare riuer in Italie. 545. it is warme in Winter. ibid.
Temple of Iupiter Hammon in Meroe in Aegypt. 146. i
Tempests diuerse kindes thereof. 25. e
Temetrum. 418. k
Tempsis, the pitch of the mountaine. 181. e
Temerinda the name of Meotis, and why. 118. i
Tenerum, what it is. 2. h
Tenthorania, in times past neere vnto the seas. 39. e
Tenera terra. 582. g
Tentyrites enemies to Crocodiles. 209. d
Tennise play whose inuention. 190. g
Tepidare, what it signifieth. 545. a
Terra Tenera, earth as good as can be imagined. 504. k
Terra pulla, a tender and mellow soile. ibid.
Teramnon. 575. d. 62. m
Terminatra, a feast instituted by king Numa. 549. e
Teredines what wormes. 492. h
Terebinth wood fine. 490. h
Territorie of Mutina. 48. g
Territorie of Sabines and Sidicines. ibid. f
Terpentine the clearest rosin. 423. f
Terebinth or Tepidian tree. 389. a. the kindes thereof and the fruit. ibid. b
Terpentine how it is drawne from the tree. 465. b
Terentine, pine nuts. 435. e. f. wit-teeth. 338. g
Teeth serue not onely for grinding our meat. 164. k
Tetartemorion, what quadrant. 182. g
Tettigoniae, a little kinde of Grashopper. 325. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

T H

Thalis Milesius among the Greekes first found out the rea∣son of Eclipses. 8. l
Theophrastus, one of them that wrot of the Romanes. 58. i
Thracia the description thereof. 77. f
Thunder and lightening the reason thereof. 20. m
Thorne roiall. 400. l
Thirstie thorne. 402. g
Thrasymenus lake. 48. h
Thripes. 492. h
Thybians, their strange nature and eye-sight. 155. b
Thucidides called from banishment. 172, g
Thracians how they proue their fortune. 176. i
Thracians how they measure their happinesse. ibid.
Thrashing practised sundry waies. 602. k

T I

Tibur citie founded by Tiburts, more ancient than Rome. 415. b.
Tiberius Caesar his saying of Sarnell in wines. 414. h. he•…•… could see by night. 334. i
Tib. Caesar wrote a Poem of the comet called Acontias. 15. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Tibuli, what trees. 462. i
Tickes want meanes to auoid excrements. 330. g
Tigris, the riuer where it begins, and the diuerse names it hath. 137. a. runneth through the lake Arethusa. ibid. d
Tingitania prouince, the description thereof. 92. k
Tinea, what wormes. 492. h
Timarchus the Paphian. 338. g. had double course of teeth in each iaw. ibid.
Timber trees in what way seuerally they are employed. 491 f
Tilthes fine. 380. g
Tissue cloath whose inuention. 228. i

T M

Tmolus the hill well planted with Vineyards. 107. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

T O

Tokens of good honey. 317. b
Tokens of good Bees. ibid. d
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Tokens of death. 183. e
Tokens of life vncertaine. ibid.
Tooles for smiths who first deuised. 188. h
Tokens by the eares of beasts. 333. d
Torpedo, the Crampefish. 261. d
Nouellius Torquatus Tricongius, a worthie wine-bibber. 427. d.
Tortoiser hath a kidnie alone of them that lay egs. 343. e
Tortoises of the sea. 241. b
Tortoise shels as much as will couer houses. 134. i
Tortoise his lungs without bloud. 341. a
Tortivum wine, what it is. 425. b
Towne, by whome first built. 188. h
Towne wals and towers who first reared. 188. h. i
of Tongues. 338. m. 339. a
Tongues of serpents and liberds three forked. 338. k
Tongues of Lizards two forked. ibid.
serpents Tongues as small as haires. ibid.
Tongues of Crocodiles cleaue to their pallat. ibid.
Tongues of Lions and Libards vneuen. ibid. l
Tongues of Cats bring madnesse. ibid.
Tongues of Bees very long. 339. a
Tonsillae, spungeous kernils in men. ibid. b

T R

Trabca, K. Romulus his mantill of estate. 260. h
Trafficke first deuised. 187. e. 188. m
Tragelaphis his nature. 214. m
Tragum, what it is. 562. g
Trees the temples of the gods. 357. b. how they grow. 508. l
Trees that neuer grow out of their owne kinde. 509. b. by what meanes they grow. 508. l. what trees bring forth young impes at the root. 510. h. what trees grow by pric∣king into the ground. ibid. k. how to be remoued. 512. m not in windie weather. 513. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. their roots not to be hand∣led violently. 514. g
Trees which be slow in growth. 515. e. which be forward in fruit. ibid. their shoots hinder growth. ibid. would ouer∣spread the face of the earth, if they were not repressed. ibid. f. how they grow one vpon another. 516. l
Trees ought to be planted in Autumne. 522. m
Trees of diuerse natures how to be conioined. 123. d
Trees planted for the vse of Uines. 534. l
Trees of much shadow not good for Uines. 535. a
Trees admirable about the sepulchre of Protesilaus. 495. c
•…•…o Trees exempt from the worme, blasting, and ioint-ach. 539. a.
Trees hunger starued, headlesse. ibid.
Trees more or lesse subiect to diseases. 539. b
what Trees soonest be worme-eaten. ibid. c
Trees troubled with certaine flies. 541. c
Trees when they are said to die or to be sicke. 440. g
Trees blasted with certaine winds. 541. c shedding of leaues a signe of their recouerie. ibid. d. frozen to death in Pon∣tus and Phrygia. ibid. soone die hauing once lost their heads. 542. h
Trees that beare rosin, abide any bruise or wound. ibid. i
Trees growing thicke, kill one another. ibid. k
Trees prospering without leaues. 543. a
Trees changing their colour from blacke to white. ibid. b
Trees changing from better to worse, are vnlucky. signesib. c
Trees sunke and swallowed vp of the earth. 443. d
Trees yeelding many prodigious foretokens. ibid. remedies of Trees diseases. 5•…•…4. h
Trees when they desire to be watered. ibid. l
Trees turning their leaues in the Summer Sunstead. 20. h
Trees and timber peeces of monstrous length. 489. d
Trees troubled with Ants, how to be remedied. 547. d
Trees of India exceeding high. 155. d
Trees forced to grow by art. 498. h
Trees standing vpon the North, doe like best. 500. g. why sometime they lose their fruit. 500. h. nourished by raine. 500. i
Trees standing Southward, soonest shed their leaues. 502. i
no Trees in some countries. 454. m
Trees are not loaden with fruit after one and the same ma∣ner. 475. b
Trees more fruitfull in age than in youth, and contrariwise. ibid.
what Trees liue longer than other. 475. e
Trees age soone by bearing. ibid.
Trees bearing fruits diuersly. ibid.
Trees differ in the manner of their growth, either with sin∣gle stockes or manifold bodies. 476. h. i
Trees differing in root. 477. b
Trees of longest continuance. 494. l. m
Trees replanted that haue been blowne downe. 477. e
Trees fallen of themselues rise of their owne accord. 478. g
Trees fallen, topped and squared, and yet reuiue. 478. h
Trees grow naturally by three manner of meanes. ibid. i
Trees and shrubs will not all grow in euerie place. 478. k the reason thereof. ib. their Homogenean or substantiall parts 486. b. their bonie substance or heart. ibid. their fat or flesh. ibid. i. their marrow, sinewes, bloud, and veines. 487. c. d
Trees of what age best for timber. 488. g
Trees deliuered of a birth of harneis. 489. b
Trees growing in the sea. 402. g. h
Trees ouerthrowne by tides. ibid.
Trees male distinguished from the female by the ax. 463. c
Trees distinguished, according to the places where they loue to grow. 468. g. h
Trees some sauage, others ciuile. ibid. m
Trees that lose not their leaues. 469. a
Trees greene alwaies in the head, shead leaues in the water boughes. ibid.
no Tree about Memphis in Aegypt sheadeth leaues. 469. e
Trees that bud, though they blossome not. 472. g
what Trees haue three springs or buddings in the yeare. ib. i
Trees how they bud, blossome, and beare. 472. l. 473. a. b
Trees bearing no fruit at all. ibid. c
Trees vnfortunate and accursed. ibid. f
Trees soonest forgoing their blossome, and shedding their fruit. 374. g
Trees fruitlesse by occasion of the soile. ibid. i
Trees male whether they beare not. ibid.
Trees of sbortest life. 495. c
a Tree fish. 236. g
Trebius honoured for bringing down the corn market. 551c
Trenches and ditches for Vines how to be made. 529. a
Tribes Rusticke in Rome. 550. m
Tribes Vrbanae. 551. a
Trichna a fisb. 244. i
Trimenon wheat, what it is, 561. b
Triticum, 563. a
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Trixis. See Ricinus.
Tritanus, a man of extraordinaris strength. 166. k. his sonne. ibid.
Triticum. 561 b
Tritons, fishes, discouered at Lisbon. 236. h. what they are. ibid. how they breed. 241. d
Troas. 109. c
Trochos, a fish. 266. i
Troglodytes, people aboue Aethiopia swifter than horses. 157. b. eight cubits high. ibid.
Troupes of horsemen hidden vnder the boughs of a figtree. 155. d.

T V

Tuberes of two sorts. 438. g
Tuberes, what fruit. 437. f. when they and Iuiubes were brought into Italie. 438. g
Turneps, how, where, and when to be sown. 571. a. b
Tullus Hostilius first ware therobe Pretexta. 260. h
Tullus Hostilius killed with lightening, and why. 26. k
Tunies, their historie. 242. m
Tunie fishes readie to ouerturne a ship. 235. c
Turbo the name of a blast. 25. a
Turbot, a kinde of fish. 247. d
Tuscanes, their opinion of lightning. 26. g
Turners craft, whose inuention. 188. l

T W

Twins dangerous to the mother if they bee of both sexes. 158. i.

T Y

Tympania, a kinde of pearles. 255. b
Typhe. 563. a
Tyriamethyst, a double purple colour. 261. a
Tyrus, the description thereof. 102. g
Typhon, the name of a whirlepuffe. 24. l. how mariners may preuent the danger thereof. ibid.
Tyrannicall rule, who first practised. 189. a

V A

VAlour, sundrie examples thereof. 170. h
Ualerius Antias a writer. 48. g
Valeria, vnfortunate to the place whither shee was carried. 164. i.
Varietie of mens speech and shape is wonderfull. 153. d
Vappa, what it is. 424. k
Vari, who they be called properly. 350. k
Varices i. swelling, veines more ordinarie in men than in women. 350. k

V B

Vbians fat their ground with any kinde of earth. 506. k

V E

Vedius Pollio his pastime to see lampries deuour men. 248. i
of Ueins and Arteries. 345. c
Veine in timber called Fertile. 493. c
Veine in trees what it is. 486. k
Vetouis in the Capitoll. 491. d
Venetians, from whence. 115. d
Venus Cluacina. 451. a. Venus Murtea or Myrtea. ibid. c
Venus planet, her nature, motiō, excellencie, & names. 6. h. i her motion making two stations. 10. i. why shee neuer departeth from thē Sun more than 46 degrees. 12. h her colour. 13. c
Venerium, Cicer, kinde of pease. 570 g
Vergiliae, starres in the taile of Taurus. 20. k. called the gar∣ment hanging out at the brokers shop. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. k
Vermin, as lice, &c. in sea as well as in land. 264 g
Vermin hurtfull to trees. 5•…•…0 m
Veruectum, what it is. 578 m
Verulenus Aegialus, a si•…•…gular good husband man. 411. c
Vespasian Augustus his praise. 4. g. In his Corsuship ei∣ther Sun nor Moone seene in twelue daies. 9. e
Vesper the starre, why Venus so called. 6. i
Vespertinus, rising or setting of fixed starres. 587. d
Vetches when to be sowne. 572. i. not chargeable. ibid. h

V I

Viatores, what officers at Rome. 552. h
Vinalia, a festiuall holiday. 600. g
Vine the nature thereof. 530. h
Vine planting and pruning, who first practised. 188. m
Vine-sets doe temper the hot ground Carbunculus. 503. b
Vine hath the sense of smelling. 542. l
Vine turneth away from the Radish and Lawrell. ibid.
Vines of fiue sorts. 528. i
Vines take most harme in blouming time by raine. 540. m erected vpon trees beare latest. 536. h. wedded to •…•…rees, when to be cui. 535. b. ho•…•… many may be reared to one tree. ibid. when such are to be cut. 535. b. when vines are to be pruned. 533 h
Vine leaues to be cleansed once in the spring. ib•…•…d.
Vine frames and trailes how they ought to be made. 5•…•…2. k
Vine bearing before the seuenth yeare dieth. 531. e
Vines to be repressed und not cockered. 531. e
Vine frames of what best. 530. h
Vines to be set in a drie day. 529. b
Vine hateth all pot-hearbes or woorts. ibid.
Vines in what order to be planted. 529. c
Vine trees how they be killed. ibid.
Vines how many in an acre. 530. c. ought to be prured once a yeare, 546. g
Vines full of cicatrices not to be trusted. 530 h
Vines yeelding a double vintage yearely. 581 e they die with much bearing. 475. d
Vines the elder beare the better wine. but the younger more plentie. 47•…•…. c
Vines bearing thrice a yeare. ibid. a
Vines their diseases. 540. i
Vine in the Forum at Rome. 444. g
Vine Heluenaca. 408. k. of two kindes ib. very plentifull. ib.
Vine Arca. ibid it loueth not Italie. ib. is neuer blasted ib.
Vine Spionia, or Spinea, 408. l
Vine Basilica. ibid. h
Vine Venicula. ibid. m
Vine Apiana, why so called. 407. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Vines, Stacula, Sirculus, Numisiana. 408. m
Vine Murgentina. 409. a
Vine Pompeiana. ibid.
Vine Maerica. ibid.
Vine Tudernis. 409. b
Vine Florentia. ibid.
Vine Talpana. ibid. why so called. 409. c
Vine Etesiaca, 409. b. why so called. ibid. c
Vine Conseminia. 409. b
Vine Irtiola. 409. c. Vine Pumula. ibid. d
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Vine Bananica. 409. d
Vine Gaurania. ibid.
Vine Falerna. ibid.
Vine Tarentine. ibid.
Vine Duracina. 409. f
Vine Ambrosiaca. ibid.
Vine Orthampelos. ibid.
Vines Dactylides. 410. g. why so called. ibid.
Vines Columbine. ibid.
Vine Tripedanea. ibid.
Vine Rhetian ibid.
Vine Alexandrina. 410. k
Vine Narbonica. ibid.
Vine Scantiana. 411. b
Vines Fundane. 414. i
Vines Taurominitane. 414. k
Vine Theriace. 423. a
Vines, Libanios, Aspendros. ibid.
Vine compluviata, what it is. 528. l
Vine sets how they may grow without their marrow or pith 528. h. how they beare grapes without kernels. ibid. their distance one from another. 527. c. full of ioynts, fruitlesse. 527. b
Vintage time. 605. e
rules seruing for Vintage time. ibid. e. f
wild Vine Labrusca, the roots and grapes good for courri∣ours. 420. k
Vine props and railes which be best. 525. b
Vine tendrils and burgens how to be ordered for the table. 423. c.
Vines afford most plants of all other trees. 527. a
Vine tree how to be graffed. 520. h
Vines draw into them the tast of herbes and plants grow∣ing neere vnto them. 422. g
Vineyard how to be bounded. 529. b. how to be ordred with smallest expense. ibid. f. ought to be exposed to the Sun. 527. c.
Vineyards Statanae. 414. h
Vinegre how it is made, and the vses thereof. 424 k
Vinegre of Cypresse figs. 412. a
Vinegre of Alexandrine figs. ibid.
L. Vitellius stores his ferme with fig trees. 445. a
Vis maior, what it is. 599. a

V L

Vlysses ship turned into a rocke. 79. d

V N

Vnedo, the fruit of the Arbute tree. 447. e

V O

Voluox, a worme hurtfull to Vines. 547. c
Volta the name of a monster. 26. k
Vopisci, who be so called. 160. h
Vortex, the name of a stormie blast. 25. b

V R

Vrchins of the sea. 253. a
Vrinum, what kinde of addle egge. 300. k

V T

Vtorus or loci in a woman, what part. 344. h

V V

Vulcans temple built by Romulus, 495. a
Vulturnus, what wind. 22. l
Of Voices, a discourse, 353. a. b. c

W A

VVAgons and chariots who first made. 188 l
Walwort, a weed naught for ground. 508. g
Walnuts emploied at weddings. 445. e. and why. ibid.
Walnut trees brought out of Persia by commandement of kings. 445. f.
Walnut, why called Persicon and Basilicon. ibid.
Walnut named in Greeke Caryon, and why. ibid.
Walnut huskes and the young nuts how to be vsed. 446. g
Walnuts differ onely in the shell. ibid.
Walnut shels diuided in twaine. ibid.
Walnuts called Inglandes, and why. ibid. i
Walnuts brought first into Italy by L. Vitellius. ibid. k
Walnut tree wood cracketh before it breaketh. 492. m
Water an element. 2. l. the roundnesse thereof. 31. e. the be∣nefit it hath by the earth, and the earth by it. 32. h
Water of what tast. 449. a
Waters fresh run aloft the sea, and why. 44. m
Watering cherisheth corne and killeth grasse about Sulmo in Italy. 544. m
Water bringeth forth greater liuing creatures and more plentie than the earth. 134. m
Water verie materiall for corne fields. 581. f ouerflowing corne fields as good as a weeding in some place. 545. a
Warden peares. 439. d
Wax made of all hearbs saue Dockes and Goosefoot. 313. d

W E

Weauing whose deuise. 188. i
Weeding of corne. 580. l
Weeds choking corne and pulse. 545. a
Weights and measures whose deuise. 188. l
Weapons and armour whose inuention. 189. a. b
Wesps how to be kept from preserued fruits. 441. f
Wesps feed greedily vpon serpents. 355. e
Westerne wind Fauonius a husband to all plants, and to certaine mares. 471. d
Wezando, what it is. 339. c

W H

Whales and Whirlepoles. 235. b. c. as long as foure acres of land 235. c
Wheat sold at Rome for one As by the Modius. 551. b. c
Wheat how it is spiked, eared, and ioynted. 558. k
Wheat of Italie best. 559. e. other countries compared with. ibid.
Wheat of B•…•…otia commended. 559. e
Wheat of Italie praised by Sophocles the Poet. 560. h
Wheat esteemed by weight, and so compared. 560. h. i
Wheat different in the straw or stalke. 560. i
Wheat of Thrace, a three moneths corne. ibid. m
Wheat of Thrace, a two moneths corne. 561. a
Wheat subiect to the mieldew. 562. k
Wheat of sundry kindes different in name. 562. k
Wheat what proportion it should yeeld in meale and floure. 563. e. f.
common Wheat Triticum exceeding fruitfull. 564. m. the wonderfull and incredible encrease of wheat in Africke. 565. a.
Wheeles, a kinde of fishes. 236. g

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W I

Wilding apples. 438. m
a wedded Wife turned to he a man and a husband, and con∣trariwise. 158. h
Willowes of many sorts. 484. l. their manifold vses in pear∣ches, trailes, props, and bindings. ibid.
red-Willowes good both to wind and bind. 484. m
Willowes fit for wicker workes. ibid. as gainefull to the master, as corne fields, medowes, and oliue rows. 485. b. See more in Withies.
Wings of B•…•…ts diuided into ioints. 347. a
Winds raigne in the region of the aire. 19 c. how they arise and whence. 21. c. their natures and obseruations. 22. 23. &c.
Windpipe, what it is. 339. c
the obseruation of winds good in husbandrie. 608. i
Winds who first distinguished. 189. d
Winds how they may be knowne distinctly one from ano∣ther. 608. g
Wine a most pleasant liquor to be vsed inwardly. 428. i
of Wines 195 sorts. 428. i
Wine who first delaied with water. 189. m
Wine congealed into yee. 425. d
Wine lees maintaineth fire. ibid. e
Wine how it is knowne to decay. ibid. b
Wines how to be seasoned and medicined. 425. a. b. how to be ordered, prepared, and seasoned. 425. d
Wines allowable for sacrifice and the seruice of the gods. 423. c.
Greeke wines reiected in sacrifice. ibid.
Wines when they grew in request at Rome. 418. h
Wines turne sower and recouer of themselues. 423. b
Wines reduced into 80 kindes. 418. g
of Wines foure principall colours. 416. l
Wine how to be tunned and kept. 425. c. d
Wine-cellers how to be ordered. ibid. e
Wine vessels how to be placed in the cellar. ibid.
Wine vessels how to be made and chosen. 427. d
drinking Wine fasting. ibid.
Wine of strange and wonderfull effects. 422. l
Wine causing women to be fruitfull. ibid. procuring mad∣nesse. ibid. driuing women to slip their birth. 422. m disabling for the act of generation. ibid.
Wines spiced and compound forbidden by Themison. 422. k
Wines of trees and shrubs. ibid. h
Wines of sundry hearbes and roots. ibid. g
Wine Phorinean. 416. k
Wine Cicibeli•…•…es. ibid. l
Wine Halyntium. ibid.
Wines sweet of diuerse sorts. 417. a. b. c. d
Wine Aigleuces. 417. b
Wine Dulce. ibid.
Wine Diachyton. ibid.
Wine Melitites. 417. d. how it is made. ibid.
Wines alter according to the climat and soile where the Vines grow. 415. b
Wine spared among the Romanes. 418. k. l. Forbidden in sacrifice. ibid. h
Women in Rome not allowed to drinke wine. 418. k
Women punished for drinking wine. 418. k. l
Wines aromatized. 419. a
Wines Greeke. 419. f
Greeke wine giuen in a congiarie by L. Lucullus at Rome. 420. g.
Wine of Chios prescribed for the Cardiaca passio. 420. g
left by Hortensius to the quantitie of 10000 barrels when he died. ibid.
Wines giuen in a congiarie by Iul. Caesar, Dictatour. 420. h
Wines artificiall. 420. i
Wine Omphacium. ibid.
Wine Oenanthinum. ibid.
Wine Adynamon. 420. l. how it is made. ibid. the vse thereof. ibid.
Wine of Millet. 420. l
Date wine. 420. m. how it is made. ibid.
Fig wine, Sycites. 421. a. wine of Lotus. ibid.
Wine of Carobs. ibid.
Wine Rhoites, of Pomegranats. ibid. of Gorneil or wild cherries. ibid. of Medlers. ibid. of Cer∣voises. ib•…•…d. of Mulberies. ibid. of Pen-nuts. ibid.
Wine of Myrtles how it is made. 421. b
Wine Myrtidanum. ibid.
Wine of Beterrae. 414. l. of Tarentum. 414. l. of Serviti∣um. ibid. of Consentia. ibid. of Tempsa. ibid. of Ba∣via. ibid. of Lucania. ibid.
Wine of Thurium. 415. a
Wine of Lagaria. ib. brought into credit by Messala. ibid.
Wine of Trebellia. ibid. of Cauli•…•…. ibid.
Wine Trebulane. ibid. Trifoline. ibid.
Wine of Pompeij. ibid.
Wines of Spaine. 415. a
Wine of Laletatane. ibid. of Tarracon, of Arragon, of Laur•…•…ne. ibid.
Wines of the Balear Islands. ibid.
Wine of Thasos. 415. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. of Chios. ibid.
Wine Ariusium. ibid.
Wine of Lesbos ibid. of Clazomene. ibid. of mount Tmo∣lus. ibid. of Sicyone, Cypresse, Telmessus, Tripolis, Berytus, Ty∣rus, Sebennys. 415. f
Wine Hippodamantian. ibid. Cantharites. ibid. Gnidian. ibid.
Wines of Catacecanment. 416. g. of Petra. ibid. of My∣cone. ibid.
Wine Mesogites. 416. g of Ephesus. ibid. of Apamea. ibid.
Wine Protagium. ibid.
Wines of Pontus, Naspercenites, Oroeoticke, Oe•…•…ates, of Leucas, of Ambracia, of Peparethus. 416. g. h
Wine Leucochrum. 416. i
Wine Tethalassomenum. ibid.
Wine Thalassites. 416. k. why so called. ibid.
Wine Greekish. 416. k
Wine Scyzinum, Itaeomelis, Lectispagites. 422. g
Wines of garden hearbes. 421. b of Radish. 421. c. of Sparage. ibid. of Savorie. ibid. of Maioram. ibid. of Origan. ibid. of Smallach seed. ibid. of Southernwood, ibid. of wild Mints. ibid. of Rue. ibid. of Nep or Calaminth. ibid. of running Thyme. ibid. of Horehound. ibid.
Wine of Navews. 421. c
Wine Squilliticke. ibid.
Wines of floures. 421, c
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Wine rosat, how it is made. 421. d
Wine of Celticke spikenard. ibid.
Wine Ipocras or aromatized. ibid. after what sort. ibid.
Wines condite, or Pepper wines. 421. e
Wine Nectarites, why so called. ibid. how it is made of Elecampane. ibid.
worme-wood Wine. ibid.
hyssope Wine. 421. f
ellebore Wine. ibid.
Scammonite Wine. ibid.
Winkles or Sea-snailes, what fishes. 253. c. of sundry sorts. ibid. e.
what Winter we shall haue, knowne by Bruma, according to Democritus. 589. f
Witchcraft by praising and eye-biting. 155. a
Wi•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 examples thereof. 171. b
〈◊〉〈◊〉 tree, called Spilfruit. 474. h. it groweth quickly if it be pricked onely into the ground. ibid.
Withies or willowes where they loue to grow. 484. l exceeding commodious. ibid. compared with poplers and •…•…lders. ibid.

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Women bearing but once in their life time. 156. m
Women seldome left handed. 165. e
Women with a double apple in their eie witches. 155. b bearing children at seauen yeares of age. 157. a. at fiue yeares. ibid. how many they may beare at one burthen naturally. 157. d
Women in Aegypt more fruitfull than others, and the rea∣son. ibid.
Womens monethly sickenesse. 163. c. the strange effects thereof. ibid. d. e. they stay commonly at fourtie yeares of age. 163. a
a Woman deliuered at once of two boies and two girles. 157. d. it presaged famine. ibid.
Women many times lie for dead and whereupon. 184. k
a Woman deliuered of twenty children at four births. 157. e
Wood most massie and which swimmeth not. 490. g
Wood seruing to strike fire. ibid. k
Woods of sundrie natures and for diuerse vses. 490. k. l. & 493. d. e. f.
Wood-wormes, foure sorts 492. h
Wood breeding no worme. 492. i
Wood how it is preserued from cleauing. 492. l
Wood of diuerse natures. ibid.
World, what it is. 1. c. euerlasting and infinit. 1. c. vn∣measurable, 1. d
Worlds, not innumerable. 1. d. of a round forme. 1. f
World visible, a haemisphere. 2. g it turneth round in foure and twentie houres. 2. g whether in turning it make an audable sound or har∣monie. 2. h. whether the bodie thereof be all smooth. 2. h
World certaine and yet vncertain. 1. c. containing all things within it selfe. ibid.
World and heauen all one. 1. b
World, why called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and Mundus in Latine, 2. k. the geometricall dimension. 14. l
Wormes hurtfull to standing corne. 544. k

XEnophilus liued an hundred and fiftie yeares without sickenesse. 183. b
Xiphiae, a kinde of Comets. •…•…5. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Xylocinnamon. 373. a
Xylobalsamum. 377. b. the price of it. 378. h

YEels, the manner of their engendring. 265. d
Yeels, their nature. 247. f. their life, ibid.
how they be taken in Benacus. 248. g
of great length. 235. c
Yeeles-skins vsed to ierke boys. 249. k
Yeeles dead, onely, flote not aboue the waters. 247. f
Yeeres diuersly reckoned. 181. a
Yeere diuided into twelue moneths. 7. b
Yoking oxen who first began. 189. a
Yron and steele who found first. 188. k
Yron-smith forge who first vsed. 188. l

ZOroastres laughed the first day that he was borne: he liued in a wildernesse 20 yeares with cheese. 349. b
Zodiacke, a circle in heauen. 2. k. the deuisers of all the parts thereof. 5. 〈◊〉〈◊〉

The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

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