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to be Abſynthium marinum, becauſe he neuer ſawe the ſea in all hys lyfe where as thys herbe doth comonly growe. As concernyng Woꝛmwoode Pontyke from whych we haue by occaſyon geuē, ſome thyng dygreſſed: I will ſhoꝛtly ſhew you, what my minde is of it. I thynke verelye that Abſinthium Romanum of Meſue is, Dioſcorides: Abſinthium Ponticum, that ſame haue I ſene of late many tymes. I had it from Rome, and it groweth about templum pacis, and alſo about the walles in dyuerſe places, a kynde of that, is much in Germany ⁊ in Bꝛabant. about Colen it is called graue crowt, becauſe they ſet it vpon their frendes graues, yͤ Freſes call it wyld Roſmary, The Pothecaryes of Anwerpe Abſinthium Romanum. How be it, there is ſome difference betwene it, that groweth in Rome, and it that groweth in Germanye. It that groweth in Germanye, hath leſſe leaues, grener and thynner then it whyche groweth in Rome, and alſo a pleaſanter ſauour. It that groweth in Rome hath thycke, whyter and bygger leues, then it of Germanye, they are alſo hoter and of a ſtronger ſmell. As foꝛ it that groweth in Germany, I haue pꝛoued oft tymes that it hath perfytly done ſuch thynges as pertayne vnto Woꝛmwod Pontyke. Thys herbe is not founde in Germany of hys owen ſettinge oꝛ ſowynge in the feldes, but is only in gardynes, where as it is planted oꝛ ſet by mannes handes, The thyꝛde kynde of Woꝛmwood is called Abſinthium Santonicum, I haue ſene it in Englande ofter than ones, that euer I remembꝛe, it maye be called well in Englyſh, French woꝛmwode, becauſe it hath the name of a certaine regyon of France, whoſe inhabyters are called Santones. The degꝛee, ontike Worꝛmwoode is hote in the firſt and dꝛye in the thirde after Galene, Aetus, and Paulus agineta, but after Meſue it is dꝛye, but in the ſecond degree, but moꝛe credence is to be geuene vnto Galene then to meſue, Sea Woꝛmwoode is, as Aegineta wꝛiteth hote in the firſt degree, and dꝛye in the firſt. Frenche Woꝛmwode is weker then ſea Woꝛmwode in bꝛeakyng of humours, in hete and dꝛynes, The iuce of Pontyke Woꝛmwode is rekened of all ſubſtancyall autoꝛes moꝛe hote a good dele then the leaues are. The pꝛoperties of woꝛmwode,Woꝛm⹀