Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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moiſteſt of Trees) cut ſmall, and caſt into Furrows well dunged, will cauſe
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the ground to put forth Mushromes, at all ſeaſons of the year fit to beeaten,
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ſome add to the mixture Leaven of Bread, reſolved in Water.</
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">It is reported, that if a Hilly-field, where the ſtubble is ſtanding, be ſet on
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fire, in the ſhowry ſeaton, it will put forth great ſtore of Mushromes.</
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Dung, and watred, putteth up Mushromes. </
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of a fat and clammy ſubſtance: </
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like.</
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out of a Stags-Horn; </
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tion of the Horn upon the Ivy, than from the Horn it ſelf. </
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known any ſubſtance, but Earth, and the Procedeurs of Earth, (as Tile-
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Stone, &</
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made of ſome Seeds, as that Fennel-Seed, Muſtard-Seed, and Rape-Seed,
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put into ſome little holes made in the Horns of Stags, or Oxen, to ſee if they
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will grow.</
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rome: </
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ſtool; </
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a Tree, and like wiſe about the Roots of rotten Trees; </
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to take his Juyce from Wood putrified. </
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Wood putrified yieldeth a frank moiſture.</
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gotten no name, but it is large and of a Cheſnut colour. </
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no more than the Carcaſſes of Mens Bodies that put forth Hair and Nails for
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a time.</
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firſt is hard like a Tennis-Ball, and white; </
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colour, and full of light duſt upon the breaking; </
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gerous for the eyes, if the Powder get into them, and to be good for Kibes.
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lower parts of the Bodies of Trees, eſpecially of Elders, and ſometimes Aſhes.
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treamly. </
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ſquinancies, and inflamations in the Throat, whereby it ſeemeth to have a
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mollifving, and lenifying vertue.</
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the Roots of the Laſer-Tree, and ſometimes upon Cedar, and other Trees.
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Phyſick for the purging of tough Flegm. </
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for the Liver, but offenſive to the Stomach; </
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ſweet and after bitter.</
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<
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have an idle Tradition, that there is a Bird called a Miſſel-Bird, that feedeth
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upon a Seed, which many times ſhe cannot diſgeſt, and ſo expelleth it
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whole with her Excrement; </
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hath ſome rift, putteth forth Miſſeltoe. </
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probable, that Birds ſhould ſeed upon that they cannot diſgeſt. </
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