Fabae.
Beans were first a field fruit, howsoever (to make them more sappy) they have lately been set and kept in gardens. Pythagoras forbad his Scholers to eat of them (especially coming once to be great and black-taild) be∣cause they hinder sleep and procure watchfulness (for which cause they were given to Iudges as they sate down in judgement) or else in sleep cause fearful and * 1.1troublesome dreams, as you may read in Tullius second book of Divination; wherefore howsoever Camathe∣rus (Immanuel Commenaeus his Secretary) ventured for * 1.2them, or men now affect them in these dayes; assuredly they are a very hurtful meat, unless they be eaten very young, and sod in fat broth, and afterwards (being freed of their husk) be eaten in the beginning or midst of meal, buttered throughly and sufficiently sprinkled with gross pepper and salt; then will they nourish much, and too too much encrease seed to lusty wantons.