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Chap. 30. An 'xpólltion upon tbe Took of J o B. Verf. 4. 43 They cut up mallows for their meat. Naturalifts fay, mallows are medicinal, and of much ufe in ,bfalva cib;st phyfick ; And as they are for medicine to the bzfi, fo for rite tto eft lilttftnorurn the meaner and lower fort ofpeople. And forre tell us,that the bo,,,i.eon notation of the wörd in the Greeke tongue implyes rh tt it is a p utryt SLtt proper food for poore and hungry bet lyes , becaufe it bath ape- pier t. culiar vertue in it to appeafe the rage of hunger, and cloy the Alma. vet Ali- fbarpnefleofa craving ftmtack, fo that the poore feeding upon maa ab a pri_ it, werequickly, filled, and fouasd a kinde of fatiety or glut upon v't'T2 o' Uá'a their appetite, Some of the Ancients rffi:me, that among the ci q of Moores this was a very common food fur the poorer fort,. and fame, feria,. that being tyedup in handfulls or littlebundles , it was wont to D. uf: be cryed up and downe the ftreets ( as many other hcrbes are in Apud Mauri- Great Townesand Cities) mallows ; however we need `aaolioci, áaatr not flay to find out, or critically to defcribe the nature of this q,e per Babylo- herb ; It is enough for the openingof this Scripture, toknow in n a,s, crrcumfe- generall, that it was a vulgar, hard andhomely kindeof feeding renter in manes They cut up mallows. ales fefcirulos r onent Nor need we here take this wordmallows ftriftly,for that par- Jco amirabanes t titular herb, but, proverbially, to note any courfe diet or fare. Moliochio, So that when fob faith, they cut up mallows by the bsa_l5es , it is as S ralochia. ifhe had plainly told us, theywere very poore, and meane, even rrap ,x (rnea men of that fame rare and ranke in the world, with them that ufe Jen +entta) (mei to feedupon mallows : as the Prophet faith ( ,4mos7. 14. ) 1 rate women eíf was no `Poppet, neither was 1 a Peephets [roue, but 1 was a hera'f cotsplé é "t her- man, and a gathereroffyeetuorefruit ; that is, I was a poore man, bar'agrefes. a man of a low condition. The Sycomore fruit, which fame In_ Bold. terpreters upon that place fay, was a kinde ofwildor Egyptian figge, was a food in ufe among the poorer fort of thofe times ; As if Amos had laid, I d:d not' turne Prophet for my belly, I had learned to fare hardly, r hick you (O Amaziah and your fellow- Court.Priefto) can hardly doe,, and therefore you fsnooth up the King in his Idolatrous worfhip,th -ft you may ferveyour own turnes, but fycomore fruit will ferve my turne. Now as to eate fycomore fruit, fo here, toeat mallows, or ro be a mallowes -ea- ter,ts a Circumlocution,denotir:g a poore man a That which fol- lowe! is the fame ftreine of 'Abel ick ; G 2 They

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