there cause such troublesome dreames, and sad imaginations.

Those who mixe _Maiz_ or _Paniso_ in the _Chocolate_ doe very ill;
because those graines doe beget a very melancholly humour: as the same
Author expresseth in these Verses.

Crassa melancholicum praestant tibi Panica succum
Siccant, si penas membra, gelantque foris.

_Grosse Eares of Corne have Cholorique juice (no doubt)
Which dries, if taken inward; cooles without._

It is also apparantly windy; and those which mixe it in this
_Confection_, doe it onely for their profit, by encreasing the
quantity of the _Chocolate_; because every _Fanega_ or measure of [F]
_Grani_ containing about a Bushell and a halfe, is sold for eight
shillings, and they sell this _Confection_ for foure shillings a
pound, which is the ordinary price of the _Chocolate_.

[F] Maiz, or Indian Wheat

The _Cinamon_ is hot and dry in the third degree; it provokes Urine,
and helps the Kidneys and Reynes of those who are troubled with cold
diseases; and it is good for the eyes; and in effect, it is cordiall;
as appeares by the Author of these Verses.

Commoda & urinae Cinnamomum, & renibus
Lumina clarificat, dira venena fugat. (affert:

_Cinnamon helps the Reines and Urine well,
It cleares the Eyes, and Poison doth expell._

The _Achiote_ hath a piercing attenuating quality, as appeareth by the
common practice of the Physitians in the _Indies_, experienced daily
in the effects of it, who doe give it to their Patients, to cut, and
attenuate the grosse humours, which doe cause shortnesse of breath,
and stopping of urine; and so it may be used for any kind of
Opilations; for we give it for the stoppings, which are in the breast,
or in the Region of the belly, or any other part of the Body.

And concerning the long red Peper, there are foure sorts of it. One is
called _Chilchotes_: the other very little, which they call
_Chilterpin_; and these two kinds, are very quicke and biting. The
other two are called _Tonalchiles_, and these are moderately hot; for
they are eaten with bread, as they eate other fruits, & they are of a
yellow colour; and they grow onely about the Townes, which are in, and
adjoyning to the Lake of _Mexico_. The other Pepper is called
_Chilpaclagua_, which hath a broad huske, and this is not so biting as
the first; nor so gentle as the last, and is that, which is usually
put into the _Chocolate_.

There are also other ingredients, which are used