he
Verses before recited.

The Huskes or Cods of Logwood, or Campeche, are very good, and smell
like Fennell; and every one puts in of these, because they are not
very hot; though it excuse not the putting in of Annis-seed, as sayes
the Author of this Receipt; for there is no _Chocolate_ without it,
because it is good for many cold diseases, being hot in the third
degree; and to temper the coldnesse of the _Cacao_; and that it may
appeare, it helpes the indisposition of Cold parts, I will cite the
Verses of one curious in this Art:

Morbosus renes, vesicam, guttura, vulnam,
Intestina, jecur, cumque lyene caput
Confortat, variisque Anisum subdita morbis
Membra: istud tantum vim leve semen habet.

_The Reyns, the Bladder, throat, & thing between--
Enatrailes and Liver, with the Head, and spleen
And other Parts, by [C] it are comforted:
So great a vertue's in that little seed._

[C] Annis.

The quantity of a Nut of the _Achiote_[D] is too little to colour the
quantity made according to his Receipt; and therefore, he that makes
it, may put in it, as much as he thinkes fit.

[D] Ta-asco.

Those, who adde Almons, and Nuts, doe not ill; because they give it
more body and substance then _Maiz_ or _Paniso_[E], which others use;
and for my part, I should always put it into _Chocolate_, for Almonds
(besides what I have said of them before) are moderately hot, and have
a thinne juice; but you must not use new Almons, as a learned Author
sayes in these Verses.

[E] A graine like Millet.

Dat modice calidum dulcisque Amigdala succum,
Et tenuem; inducunt plurima damna nova.

_New Almonds yeild a Hot and slender juice,
But bring new mischiefs by too often use._

And the small Nuts are not ill for our purpose; for they have almost
the temper, which the Almons have; onely because they are dryer, they
come nearer the temper of Choler; and doe therefore strengthen the
Belly, and the Stomacke, being dryed: for so they must be used for the
Confection; and they preserve the head from those vapours, which rise
from the Belly: as it appeares by the said Author in these Verses.

Bilis Avellanam sequitur; sed roborat alvum
Ventris, & a fumis liberat assa caput.

_Filberds breed Chollar, Th' Belly Fortifie,
Benzoin the Head frees from Fumosity._

And therefore they are proper for such as are troubled with
ventuosities, and _Hypochondriacall_ vapours, which offend the brain,
and