PAR. 14.
THe bitter herbs mentioned in the Law, are Cazareth, Gnolshen, Tameah, Char∣cabinah, and Meror; any one, or all of them together, saith Maymonides. If you wish to know, the English words, infallibly answering to the Hebrew, I thinke, it cannot be done: It is most likely that Sorrell, Cichory, wilde-Lettuce, Tansie, Endive, or the like, were ingredients of that bitter sallet. Beza, (on Matth. 26.) makes these herbes to be a kind of sowre sallet; and saith, the Iewes had a pleasant Condiment to eate with them; but, say I, even by his owne authority, the Condi∣ment was at the (second) supper; and there, the sawce might be more artificially tempered for the palat: and yet the herbs prescribed to the first supper, that is, to the eating of the rosted Passeover, must needs be bitter, and eaten (quatenus amarae) as they were bitter, being memorialls of their bitternesse in affliction (though, after they were passed the red-sea, their sorrowes were sweetned with much joy) their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and bricke, and, in all manner of service in the field; all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with ri∣gour, Exod. 1.14. a more exact, and adaequate record, or resemblance of their bit∣ternesse, could not be invented, then these bitter herbs; being to be eaten, at the first supper, and service of the Lambe; which, neither Baronius, nor Beza, suffici∣ently distinguished, though they acknowledge a second Supper likewise at the same time.