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Another did nothing but winke and make faces. There was a parasite, & he with clapping his hands and thripping his fingers seemed to dance an antike to and fro The onely thing they did well, was the prodigal childes hunger, most of their schollers being hungerly kept, and surely you would haue sayd they had ben brought vp in hogs academie to learne to eate acornes, if you had seene how sedulously they fell to them.
There is a kinde of berry or acorne, of which there are fiue sorts that grow on seuerall kindes of trees: the one is called Sagatemener, the second Osamener, the third Pummuckoner. These kinde of acornes they vse to drie vpon hurdles made of reeds, with fire vnderneath, almost after the maner as we dry Malt in England.
There is a kind of Reed which beareth a seed almost like vnto our Rie or Wheat; and being boiled is good meat. In our trauels in some places we found Wilde peaze like vnto ours in England, but that they were lesse, which are also good meat. Of a kinde of fruit or berry in forme of Acornes.
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