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BLacke pepper is hottest, and mooste drye, whyte pepper is next, longe pepper is most temperate. The generall propertye of all kyndes of pepper is to heate the bodye, but as Galene sayth, it perceth downeward, and dothe not spreade into the vaynes, yf it be grosse bea∣ten. It dissolueth fleume and wynde, it helpethe digestion, expulseth vrine, and it helpeth agaynst the diseases of the breaste, procedynge of colde. It is hot in the fyrste degre, & dry in the second