# Nicholas Culpeper, "The English Physitian" ("Culpeper's Herbal")
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#     Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
#     "The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical
#       discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation"
#     London : Peter Cole, 1652.
#     8 p.l., 255 p. (i.e. 159 p.), [5] p., front. (port.)
#     Pages numbered 1-92, 189-255.
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#   From Richard Siderits's introduction:
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#     Nicholas Culpeper, a legendary figure in the field of herbal
#     medicine and author of /The English Physitian/, transcribed
#     within, was a man of mystery and glory - a revolutionary who
#     taxed the hierarchal politicos, challenged the procedures and
#     policies of the clergy and championed the wonderings of common
#     folk, much to the chagrin of the established pedantists.
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#     Within this manuscript, the reader will find the wit, intellect,
#     ethic and conviction of a man maligned by his colleagues and
#     much respected by his community. Culpeper worked to bring
#     medicinal treatments from the mysterious to the comprehensible.
#     His philosophy was to teach the common folk to minister to
#     themselves by providing them with the tools and knowledge for
#     self health. His mind and ambition was to reform the whole
#     system of medicine by being an innovative questioner paving the
#     way for new thoughts and principles contrary to established
#     traditions.
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#     A man of and for the common people, Culpeper wrote with a
#     personal style revealing his insights as well as his struggles.
#     Culpeper's writing tends to be comprehensive and exhaustive in
#     its approach to reconciling astrology and medicine.
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  THE
  ENGLISH PHYSITIAN:÷
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  OR÷
  An Astrologo~Physical Discourse of the Vulgar
  Herbs of this Nation.
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  Being a Compleat Method of Physick, whereby a man
  may preserve his Body in Health; or cure himself, being
  sick, for three pence charge, with such things only
  as grow in England, they  being most fit
  for English Bodies.
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  Here in also shewed,
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  {»}1. The way of making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls,
  {»}Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Julips, or Waters, of
  {»}all sorts of Physical Herbs, That you may have them
  {»}readie for your use at all times of the yeer.
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  {»}2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in
  {»}Physick) that groweth in England.
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  {»}3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly, and
  {»}Astrologically.
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  {»}4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the yeer.
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  {»}5. The Way of keeping their Juyces ready for use at all
  {»}times.
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  {»}6. The Way of making and keeping all kind of useful
  {»}Compounds made of Herbs.
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  {»}7. The way of mixing Medicines according to Cause and and
  {»}Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body
  {»}Afflicted.
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  By Nich° Culpeper, Gent° Student in Physick
  and Astrologie.
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  LONDON:÷
  Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing~Press in
  Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange.
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  1652.
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# Preamble
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  TO THE READDR.
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  Courteous Reader,
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       Aristotle, in his Metaphysicks writing of the Nature
  of Man, hit the Nail on the Head when he said, That Man is
  naturally enclined to, and desirous of Knowledg: and
  indeed it is palpable and apparent, that as Pride is the
  first visible sin in a child, whereby we may gather that
  it was the first sin of Adam; so Knowledg being the first
  Vertue a Child minds, as is apparent to them that do but
  with the eye of Reason heed their actions even whilst they
  are very yong, even before they are a yeer old, even by
  natural instinct, whereby a man may more than guess that
  Knowledg was the greatest loss, or at least one of the
  greatest we lost by the fall of Adam: Knowledg, saith
  Aristotle, is in Prosperity an Ornament, in Adversity a
  Refuge; and truly there is almost no greater enemy to
  Knowledg in the world that Pride and Covetousness;
  Excellently said, Juvenal, Sat° 7.
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@begin {ltv}
  {»}Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo.÷
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@end {ltv}
@begin {env}
  {»}Although all men, in Knowledg take delight,÷
  {»}Yet they love money better, that's the spight.÷
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       And again, some men are so damnable proud and envious
  withal, that they would have no body know any thing but
  themselves; the one I hope will shortly learn better
  manners, and the other be a burden too heavy for the Earth
  long to bear.
  =
       The Subject which I here fixed my thoughts upon is
  not only the Description and Nature of Herbs, which had it
  been all, I had authority sufficient to bear me out in it,
  for Solomon employed part of that wisdom he asked, and
  received of God in searching after them, which he wrote in
  Books, even of all Herbs, Plants and Trees; some say those
  Writings were carried to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar; being
  kept in the Temple at Jerusalem for the publick view of
  the People, but being transported to Babylon in the
  Captivity, Alexander the GREAT TYRANT at the taking of
  Babylon gave them to his Master Aristotle, who committed
  them to the mercy of the fire.
  =
       But since the daies of Solomon, many have those
  famous men been that have written of this Subject, and
  great Encouragements have been given them by Princes, of
  which I shall quote an example or two, Mathiolus his
  greediness was such to finish his Comment upon
  Dioscorides, which Book is yet in use in the famous
  Universities in Leyden in Holland, & Mountpilier in
  France, that he forgot to count what the charges of it
  might amount to, although I rather comend him for his
  dilligence in Studie and Care of the Worlds good, than
  harbor the least ill thought of him for not counting the
  middle and both ends before he began the Work, I say when
  he came to count the charges of Printing and cutting the
  Cuts, it far surmounted his Estate; in this he was
  abundantly furnished by Ferdinand the Emperor, and diverse
  other Princes of Germany, as himself confessed furnished
  him with great sums of money, for perfecting that so
  great, so good a Work; the Prince Elector of Saxony sent
  him much money towards his charge, as also Joachim,
  Marquess of Brandenburg, who as he was neighbor to Saxony
  in Place, so was he in Affection to so good a Work;
  Frederick, Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Cardinal
  Prince of Trent, the Arch Bishop of Saltzberg, the Dukes
  of Bavaria and Cleveland, and the Free State of Norimberg,
  together with many others, so that he had the help of the
  Emperor, of Arch Dukes, Dukes, Electors, Cardinals,
  Princes.  Happie is that Nation whose Magistrates
  countenance such as mind and study their Good: I might
  instance in many more, and thereby give you a glimps how
  Magistrates formerly favored this Art, and which is more,
  how studious they were in it.  Bellonius a man that soared
  high in the Nature of Herbs, also professed he had the
  helping hand of Kings and Cardinals to maintain him in his
  Studies, and more than this, kings themselves were
  Studious in it; amongst which (Solomon excepted)
  Mithridates that renowned King of Pontus seems to bear
  away the Bell, his Writings after his death were found in
  his Country Mannor by Pompey the great, but never a Roman
  of them all had the honesty to print them with his name in
  the Frontispiece, so that we have nothing of them but what
  is quoted by some honest Authors, especially by Plutarch.
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  {»}Ad nos vix tenuis fame dilabitur aura.÷
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  {»}Men mind our good, but such cross times do fall,÷
  {»}We only hear they did, and that is all.÷
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       Mesue King of Damascus, Avicenna, and Evax King of
  Arabia, labored much in this Study, and I could well have
  afforded to have mentioned Dioclesian the Roman Emperor
  had he not washed out his Vertues, and defiled them with a
  Purple stain, in a most bloody persecution of Christians.
  It is quoted in Virgil, that when a famous Prince was
  proffered by Apollo to be taught his Arts, viz° Physick,
  Musick, Augury, and the Art of Shooting in the Bow, he
  made choice of Physick and to know the Nature of Herbs.
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@begin {ltv}
  {»}Ipse suas artes, sua munera, laetus Appollo÷
  {»}Augurium, Citheramq; dedit, celerefs; sagittas,÷
  {»}Ille, ut depositi preferret fata Parentis÷
  {»}Scire potestates Herbarum, usumq; Medendi÷
  {»}Maluit: & mutas agitare(inglorias) Artes.÷
  =
@end {ltv}
@begin {env}
  {»}His Arts to him, when great Appollo gave,÷
  {»}He did nor Augury, nor Arrows crave,÷
  {»}Nor the Melodius Lute, but to prevent÷
  {»}His Fathers death, who now with age was spent,÷
  {»}To be an Herbarist, and Medicine÷
  {»}To learn, he rather did his thoughts incline.÷
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       So precious hath the knowledg of the Vertues of Herbs
  been in former times to men of quality, and indeed happy
  is that Nation, whose Rulers mind Knowledg, as Solomon
  saith on the contrary, Wo to that Nation whose King is a
  Child, and indeed in Ancient times people need little
  other Physick than such Herbs as grew neer them, some
  Footsteps of which and but a few only, are now in use with
  us to this day, as people usually boyl Fennel with Fish,
  and know not why they do it but only for custom, when
  indeed the Original of it was founded upon Reason, because
  Fennel consumes that Flegmatick quality of Fish, which is
  obnoxious to the Body of man, Fennel being an Herb of
  Mercury, and he so great an Enemie to the Sign Pisces.
  =
       In this Art the Worthies of our own Nation, Gerard,
  Johnson, and Parkinson are not to be forgotten, who did
  much good in the Studie of this Art, yet they and all
  others that wrote of the Nature of Herbs, gave not a bit
  of a reason why such an Herb was apropriated to such a
  part of the Body, nor why it cured such a Disease; truly
  my own body being sickly brought me easily into a
  capacitie to know that Health was the greatest of all
  Earthly Blessings, and truly he was never sick that doth
  not beleeve it; then I considered that all Medicines were
  compounded of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Seeds &c° and this
  first set me awork in studying the Nature of Simples, most
  of which I knew by sight before, and indeed all the
  Authors I could reade gave me but little satisfaction in
  this particular, or none at all; I cannot build my faith
  upon authors words, nor beleeve a thing because they say
  it, and could wish every bodie were of my mind in this, to
  labor to be able to give a reason for every thing they say
  or do; they say reason makes a man differ from a Beast, if
  that be true, pray what are they that instead of Reason
  for their judgment, quote old Authors, perhaps their
  Authors knew a reason for what they Wrote, perhaps they
  did not, what is that to us, do we know it?  Truly in
  writing this Work first, to satisfie my self I drew out all
  the Vertues of vulgar Herbs, Plants, and Trees &c° out of
  the best and most approved Authors I had or could get, and
  having done so, I set my self to studie the Reason of
  them; I knew well enough the whol world and every thing
  in it was formed of a Composition of contrary Elements,
  and in such a harmony as must needs shew the wisdom and
  Power of a great God.  I knew as well this Creation though
  thus composed of contraries was one united Body, and man
  an Epitome of it, I knew those various affections in man
  in respect of Sickness and Health were caused Naturally
  (though God may have other ends best known to himself) by
  the various operations of the Macrocosm; and I could not
  be ignorant, that as the Cause is, so must the Cure be,
  and therefore he that would know the Reason of the
  operation of Herbs must look up as high as the Stars; I
  alwaies found the Disease vary according to the various
  motion of the Stars, and this is enough one would think to
  teach a man by the Effect where the Cause lay: Then to
  find out the Reason of the Operation of Herbs, Plants, &c°
  by the Stars went I, and herein I could find but few
  Authors, but those as full of nonsense and contradictions
  as an Egg is full of meat, this being little pleasing, and
  less profitable to me, I  consulted with my two Brothers,
  Dr° REASON, and Dr° EXPERIENCE, by whose advice together
  with the help of Dr° DILLIGENCE, I at last obtained my
  desires, and being warned by Mr° HONESTY, a stranger in
  our daies to publish it to the World, I have done it.
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       But you will say, What need I have written of this
  Subject, seing so many famous and learned men have written
  so much of it in the English Tongue, nay much more than I
  have done?
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       To this I Answer,
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  1. All that have written of Herbs either in the English or
  not in the English Tongue, have no waies answered my
  intents in this Book, for they have intermixed many, nay
  very many outlandish Herbs, and very many which are hard,
  nay not at all to be gotten, and what harm this may do I
  am very sensible of.  Once a Student in Physick in Sussex
  sent up to London to me, to buy for him such and such
  Medicines, and send them down, which when I viewed, they
  were Medicines quoted by authors living in another Nation,
  and not to be had in London for Love nor Money, so the
  poor man had spent much pains and Brains in studying
  Medicines for a Disease that were not to be had; so a man
  reading Gerards or Parkinsons Herbal for the Cure of a
  Disease so may as like as not, light on an Herb that is
  not here to be had, or not without great diffuculty, if
  possible; but in mine, all grow neer him.
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  2. My last, though not the least of my Reasons is,
  Neither Gerard nor Parkinson nor any that ever wrote in
  the like Nature, ever gave one wise Reason for what they
  wrote, and so did nothing els but train up yong Novices in
  Physick in the School of Tradition, and teach them just as
  a Parrot is taught to speak, an Author saith so, therefore
  'tis true, and if all that Authors say be true, why do
  they contradict one another?  But in mine, if you view it
  with the Eye of Reason, you shall see a Reason for every
  thing that is written, whereby you may find the very
  Ground and Foundation of Physick, you may know
  what you
  do, and wherefore you do it, and this shall call me
  Father, it being (that I know of) never done in the world
  before.
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       I have now but two things more to write and then I
  have done.
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  {»}1. What the profit and benefit of this Work is.
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  {»}2. Instructions in the Use of it.
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  1. The Profit and Benefits arising from it, or that
  may acrue to a wise man, from it are many, so many that
  should I sum up all the particulars, the Epistle would be
  as big as the Book; I shall only quote some few general
  Heads.
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       First, The admirable Harmony of the Creation is
  herein seen, in the Influence of Stars upon Herbs and the
  Body of man, how one part of the Creation is subservient
  to another, and all for the use of man whereby the
  Infinite Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation appears;
  and if I do not admire at the simplicity of the Ranters,
  never trust me, who but viewing the Creation can hold such
  a sottish Opinion, as that it was from eternity, when the
  Mysteries of it are so cleer to everie eye; but that
  Scripture shall be verified to them, Rom° I° 20.  The
  invisible things of Him from the Creation of the world are
  cleerly seen, being understood by the things that are
  made, even his eternal Power and Godhead, so that they are
  without excuse.  And a Poet could teach them a better
  Lesson.
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@begin {ltv}
  {»}Excideret ne tibi divini muneris author÷
  {»}Presentem monstrat; qualibet Herba Deum.÷
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  {»}Because out of thy thoughts God should not pass,÷
  {»}His Image stamped is on every Grass.÷
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     This indeed is true, God hath stamped his Image upon
  every Creature, and therefore the abuse of the Creature is
  a great sin; but how much more doth the Wisdom and
  Excellencie of God appear if we consider the Harmony of
  the Creation in the Vertue and Operation of every Herb;
  this is the first.
  =
       Secondly, Hereby thou maist know what infinite
  Knowledg Adam had in his Innocencie, that by looking upon
  a Creature, he was able to give it a name according to his
  Nature, and by knowing that, thou maist know how great thy
  fall was, and be humbled for it even in this respect,
  because hereby thou are so ignorant.
  =
       Thirdly, Here is the right way for thee to begin the
  study of Physick if thou art minded to begin at the right
  end, for here thou hast the Reason of the whol Art.  I
  wrote before in certain Astrological Lectures which I
  read, and printed, intituled Semeiotica Uranica what
  Planet caused (as a second Cause) every Disease, and how
  it might be found out what Planet caused it; here thou
  hast what Planet cures it by Sympathy and Antipathy; and
  this brings me to my last premise, Viz°
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  Instructions for the right use of the Book.
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       And herein let me promise a word or two, Many Herbs,
  Plants, &c  are not in the Book apropriated to their
  propper Planets, the Reason was, want of time, or some
  other thing else, which many that know me will easily
  guess at; at last the Book hanging longer in the Press
  that I imagine it would, I took the time and pains (though
  I could ill have spared either) to apropriate them all,
  and have for thy benefit (Courteous Reader) inserted them
  in order after the Epistle, now then for thy Instruction,
  =
       First, Consider what Planet causeth the Disease; that
  thou maist find in my Semeiotia.
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       Secondly, Consider what part of the Body is afflicted
  by the Disease, and whether it lie in the Flesh, or Blood,
  or Bones, or Ventricles.
  =
       Thirdly, Consider by what Planet the afflictd part of
  the Bodie is governed; that my Semeiotica will inform you
  in also.
  =
       Fourthly, You have in this Book the Herbs for Cure
  apropriated to the Several Diseases, and the Diseases for
  your ease set down in the Margin, whereby you may
  strengthen the part of the Bodie by its like, as the Brain
  by Herbs of Mercury, the Breast and Liver by Herbs of
  Jupiter, the Heart and Vitals by Herbs of the Sun, &c°.
  =
       Fifthly, You may oppose Diseases by Herbs of the
  Planet opposite to the Planet that causeth them, as
  Diseases of Jupiter by Herbs of Mercury, and the contrary;
  Diseases of the Luminaries by Herbs of Saturn, and the
  contrary; Diseases of Mars by Herbs of Venus, and the
  contrary.
  =
       Sixthly, There is a way to cure Diseases somtimes by
  Sympathy, and so every Planet cures his own Diseases, as
  the Sun and Moon by their Herbs cure the Eyes, Saturn the
  Spleen, Jupiter the Liver, Mars the Gall and Diseases of
  Choller, and Venus Diseases in the Instruments of
  Generation.
  =
       Seventhly, There was a small Treatise of mine of
  Humane Vertues, printed at the latter end of my Ephemeris
  for the yeer 1651.  I suppose it would do much good to
  yong Students to peruse that with this Book.
  =
       Eighthly, Yong Students would do themselves much
  good, and benefit themselves exceedingly in the Study of
  Physick if they would tak the pains to view the Vertues of
  the Herbs &c° in the Book, and compare them to these
  Rules, they shall to their exceeding great content find
  them all agreeable to them, and shall thereby see the
  reason why such an Herb conduceth to the Cure of such a
  Disease.
  =
       Ninthly, I gave you the Key of al in the Herb
  Wormwood, which if because of the volubility of the
  Language, any think it would not fit the Lock, I will here
  give it you again in another Herb of the same Planet which
  in the Book either through my own forgetfulness, or my
  Amanuensis was omitted, and here I shal give it you
  plainly without any circumstances.
  =
@section 2 {h0}
@section 3 {tth}
  The Herb is Carduus Benedictus.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
       It is called Carduus Benedictus, or blessed Thistle
  or holy Thistle, I suppose the name was put uppon it by
  some that had little Holiness in  themselves: It is an Herb
  of Mars, and under the Sign Aries; now in handling this
  Herb, I shall give you a rational Pattern of all the rest,
  and if you please to view them throughout the Book, you
  shall to your content find it true.
  =
       It helps Swimming and giiddiness of the Head, or the
  Disease called Vertigo, because Aries is the House of
  Mars.
  =
       It is an excellent Remedy against the yellow
  Jaundice, and other infirmities of the Gall, because Mars
  governs Choller.
  =
       It strengthens the attractive faculty in man, and
  clarifies the Blood, because the one is ruled by Mars.
  =
       The continual drinking the Decoction of it helps red
  Faces, Tetters, and Ringworms because Mars causeth them.
  =
       It helps Plague sores, Boils, and Itch, the Biting of
  mad Dogs and venemous Beasts, all which infirmities are
  under Mars.  Thus you see what it doth by Sympathy.
  =
  By Antypathy to other Planets.
  =
       It cures the French Pox by Antypathy to Venus who
  governs it.
  =
       It strengthens the Memory and cures Deafness by
  Antipathy to Saturn who hath his Fall in Aries which Rules
  the Head.
  =
       It cures Quartan Agues, and other Diseases of
  Melancholly and adult Choller by Sympathy to Saturn, Mars
  being exalted in Capricorn.
  =
       Also it provokes Urine, the stopping of which is
  usually caused by Mars or the Moon.
  =
       If you please to make use of these Rules, you shall
  find them true throughout the Book, and by heeding them,
  you may be able to give a Reason of your Judgment to him
  that asketh you: I assure you it gave much content to me,
  and for your goods did I pen it; but I must conclude, my
  Epistle having exceeded its Bounds alreadie; hereby you
  see what Reason may be given for Medicines, and what
  necessity there is for every Physitian to be an
  Astrologer, you have heard it before I suppose, but now
  you know it; what remains, but that you labor to glorifie
  God in your several places, and do good to your selves
  first by encreasing your Knowledg, and to your Neighbors
  afterwards by helping their Infirmities; some such I hope
  this Nation is worthy of, and to such shall I remain a
  Friend, during life, readie to my poor power to help.
  =
@section 2 {sgn}
  Nich° Culpeper.
  =
  Spittle~fields next door to the red Lyon.
  =
  Novemb° 6° 1652.
  =
# 
####################################################################### 
# Initial tables
# 
@section 1 {tbs}
@section 2 {bib}
@section 3 {tt}
  Authors made use of in this TREATISE.
  =
@section 3 {bd}
@section 4 {A}
@section 5 {lb}
  A
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Aegineta.÷
  Aetius.÷
  Aristotle.÷
  Avicenna.÷
  Averrois.÷
  Avenaris.÷
  Andreas Caesalpinus.÷
  Antonius Musa.÷
  =
@section 4 {B}
@section 5 {lb}
  B
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Baubine.÷
  Bellus.÷
  Bartholomeus Anglus.÷
  Butler, a Manuscript.÷
  =
@section 4 {C}
@section 5 {lb}
  C
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Clusius.÷
  Cameravius.÷
  =
@section 4 {D}
@section 5 {lb}
  D
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Dodoneus.÷
  Dioscorides.÷
  =
@section 4 {E}
@section 5 {lb}
  E
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Dr° Experience.÷
  =
@section 4 {F}
@section 5 {lb}
  F
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Fabius Columna.÷
  Fuchsius.÷
  =
@section 4 {G}
@section 5 {lb}
  G
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Gesner.÷
  Galen.÷
  Gerrhard.÷
  =
@section 4 {I}
@section 5 {lb}
  I
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Isidore.÷
  Johnson.÷
  =
@section 4 {L}
@section 5 {lb}
  L
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Leonicerus.÷
  Lobel.÷
  Lugdunensis.÷
  =
@section 4 {M}
@section 5 {lb}
  M
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Mathiolus.÷
  Mesue.÷
  Mizaldus.÷
  =
@section 4 {O}
@section 5 {lb}
  O
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Otho Brunfelsius.÷
  =
@section 4 {P}
@section 5 {lb}
  P
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Parkinson.÷
  Pliny.÷
  Pena.÷
  Platearius.÷
  Pona.÷
  =
@section 4 {R}
@section 5 {lb}
  R
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Dr° Reason.÷
  Rhazis.÷
  =
@section 4 {S}
@section 5 {lb}
  S
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Serapio.÷
  =
@section 4 {T}
@section 5 {lb}
  T
  =
@section 5 {ns}
  Taberna Montanus.÷
  Theophrastus.÷
  Turner.÷
  Tragus.÷
  =
@section 2 {pp}
@section 3 {tt}
  A Catalogue of the Herbs and Plants &c° in this
  Treatise, apropriated to their several
  PLANETS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
  Under Saturn are,
  =
@begin {ls1}
  Barley÷
  Red Beets÷
  Beech~tree÷
  Bifoyl, or Twayblade÷
  Birdsfoot÷
  Bistort, or Snakeweed÷
  Blewbottles÷
  Buckshorn~Plantane÷
  Wild Campions÷
  Pilewort÷
  Cleavers, or Goosgrass÷
  Clowns Woundwort÷
  Comfry÷
  Cudweed, or Cottonweed÷
  Sciatica Cresses÷
  Crosswort÷
  Darnel÷
  Doddar÷
  Epithimum÷
  Elm~tree÷
  Osmond Royal÷
  Fleawort÷
  Flixweed÷
  Fumitory÷
  Stinking Gladwin÷
  Goutwort÷
  Wintergreen÷
  Haukweed÷
  Hemlock÷
  Hemp÷
  Henbane÷
  Horstail÷
  Knapweed÷
  Knotgrass÷
  Medlar~tree÷
  Moss÷
  Mullein÷
  Nightshade÷
  Polypodium÷
  Poplar~tree÷
  Quince~tree÷
  Rupture~wort÷
  Rushes÷
  Solomons~Seal÷
  Sarazens Confound÷
  Service~tree÷
  Spleenwort, or Cetrach÷
  Tamaris÷
  Melancholly~Thistle÷
  Blackthorn÷
  Throughwax÷
  Tutsan, or Parkleaves÷
  Woad.÷
  =
@end {ls1}
  Under Jupiter are,
  =
@begin {ls2}
  Agrimony÷
  Alexanders÷
  Asparagus÷
  Avens÷
  Bay~tree÷
  White Beets÷
  Water~Bettony÷
  Wood~Bettony÷
  Bilberries÷
  Borrage÷
  Bugloss÷
  Chervil÷
  Sweet Cicely÷
  Cinkfoyl÷
  Costmary, or Alecost÷
  Dandelyon÷
  Docks÷
  Bloodwort÷
  Dog, or Quich~grass÷
  Endive÷
  Hartstongue÷
  Hysop÷
  Housleek, or Sengreen÷
  Liverwort÷
  Lungwort÷
  Sweet Maudlin÷
  Oak~tree÷
  Red Roses÷
  Sage÷
  Sauce alone, or Jack by the Hedg÷
  Scurvy~grass÷
  Succory÷
  Our Ladies Thistles.÷
  =
@end {ls2}
  Under Mars are,
  =
@begin {ls3}
  Arsesmart÷
  Asarabacca÷
  Barberry~bush÷
  Sweet Bazil÷
  Bramble~bush÷
  Briony÷
  Brooklime÷
  Butchers~broom÷
  Broom÷
  Broomrape÷
  Crowfoot÷
  Cuckoopint, or Wake~Robin÷
  Cranebil÷
  Cotton~Thistle÷
  Flax~weed, or Toad~flax÷
  Fursebush÷
  Garlick÷
  Hawthorn÷
  Hops÷
  Naddir÷
  Masterwort÷
  Mustard÷
  Hedg~Mustard÷
  Mettles÷
  Onions÷
  Pepperwort, or Dittander÷
  Carduus Benedictus, in the Epistle÷
  Rhadish÷
  Horse Rhadish÷
  Rhubarb÷
  Rapontick÷
  Bastard Rhubard÷
  Thistles÷
  Star~thistle÷
  Tobacco÷
  Wolly Thistle÷
  Treacle Mustard÷
  Mithridate Mustard÷
  Wold, Weld, or Dyers Weed÷
  Wormwood.÷
  =
@end {ls3}
  Under the Sun are,
  =
@begin {ls4}
  Angelica÷
  Ash~tree÷
  Bawm÷
  One~blade÷
  Burner÷
  Butter~bur÷
  Chamomel÷
  Chelondine÷
  Centaury÷
  Eyebright÷
  St° Johns wort÷
  Lovage÷
  Marigolds÷
  Misleto÷
  Peony÷
  St° Peters wort÷
  Pimpernel÷
  Rosa Solis÷
  Rosemary÷
  Rhue÷
  Saffron÷
  Tormentil÷
  Turnsole, or Heliotropium÷
  Vipers Bugloss÷
  Walnut~tree÷
  =
@end {ls4}
  Under Venus are,
  =
@begin {ls5}
  Alehoof, or Ground~Ivy÷
  Black Alder~tree÷
  Alter~Tree÷
  Apple~Tree÷
  Stinking Arrach÷
  Arch~Angel, or Dead Nettles÷
  Beans÷
  Ladies Bedstraw÷
  Birch~tree÷
  Bishops Weed÷
  Blites÷
  Bugle÷
  Burdock÷
  Cherry~tree÷
  Winter Cherries÷
  Chickweed÷
  Cichpease÷
  Clary÷
  Cocks~head÷
  Coltsfoot÷
  Cowslips÷
  Daisies÷
  Devils~bit÷
  Elder÷
  Dwarf Elder÷
  Eringo÷
  Featherfew÷
  Figwort÷
  Filipendula÷
  Foxgloves÷
  Golden~rod÷
  Gromwel÷
  Groundsel÷
  Herb Robert÷
  Herb Truelove÷
  Kidneywort÷
  Ladies Mantle÷
  Mallows÷
  Marsh~Mallows÷
  Mercury÷
  Mints÷
  Motherwort÷
  Mugwort÷
  Nep, or Catmint÷
  Parsnip÷
  Peach~tree÷
  Pear~tree÷
  Penyroyal÷
  Plantane÷
  Plum~tree÷
  Primroses÷
  Ragwort÷
  Rocket÷
  Winter~Rocket÷
  Damask Roses÷
  Wood Sage÷
  Sanicle÷
  Selfheal÷
  Sopewort, or Bruisewort÷
  Sorrel÷
  Wood Sorrel÷
  Sowthistles÷
  Spignel÷
  Strawberries÷
  Garden Tansy÷
  Wild Tansy, or Silver~weed÷
  Teazles÷
  Vervain÷
  Vine~tree÷
  Violets÷
  Wheat÷
  Yarrow.÷
  =
@end {ls5}
  Under Mercury are,
  =
@begin {ls6}
  Calaminth, or Mountain Mint÷
  Carrots÷
  Carraway÷
  Dill÷
  Elicampane÷
  Fern÷
  Fennel÷
  Hogs Fennel÷
  Germander÷
  Hazel Nut~tree÷
  Horehound÷
  Houndstongue÷
  Lavender÷
  Liquoris÷
  Wall~Rhue÷
  Maidenhair÷
  Golden Maidenhair÷
  Sweet Marjoram÷
  Melilot÷
  Moneywort÷
  Mulberry~tree÷
  Oats÷
  Parsley÷
  Cow Parsnep÷
  Pellitory of the Wall÷
  Groundpine, or Chamepitys÷
  Rest~Harrow, or Chamock÷
  Sampire÷
  Summer and winter Savory÷
  Scabious÷
  Smallage÷
  Southernwood÷
  Meadow Trefoyl÷
  Garden Valerian÷
  Woodbind, or Honey~Suckles.÷
  =
@end {ls6}
  Under the Moon are,
  =
@begin {ls7}
  Adders Tongue÷
  Cabbages÷
  Coleworts÷
  Sea Coleworts÷
  Columbines÷
  Watercresses÷
  Duckmeat÷
  Yellow Waterflag÷
  Flower~de~luce÷
  Fluellin÷
  Ivy÷
  Lettice÷
  Water~Lillies÷
  Loosestrife, with, and without spiked Heads÷
  Moonwort÷
  Mousear÷
  Orpine÷
  Poppies÷
  Purslain÷
  Privet÷
  Rattle~grass÷
  White Roses÷
  White Saxifrage÷
  Burnet Saxifrage÷
  Wall~flowers, or Winter~gilliflowers÷
  Willow~tree÷
  =
@end {ls7}
#
#######################################################################
# The Herbal proper
#
@section 1 {hb}
@section 2 {ptp}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE ENGLISH PHYSTIAN.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h1}
@section 3 {tt}
  ADDERS TONGUE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This small Herb hath but one Leaf; which grows with the
  Stalk a fingers length above the ground, being fat, and of
  a fresh green colour, broad like the Water Plantane (but
  less) without any middle Rib in it: from the bottom of
  which Leaf on the inside, riseth up (ordinarily) one,
  somtimes two or three small slender stalks, the upper half
  wherof is somwhat bigger, and dented with smal round dents
  of a yellowish green colour, like the Tongue of an Adder
  or Serpent (only this is as useful as they are formidable)
  The Root continues all the year.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in moist Meadows, and such like places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And is to be found in April and May, for it quickly
  perisheth with a little heat.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is temperate, in respect of heat, but dry in the
  Second Degree.  The Juyce of the Leaves drunk with the
  distilled Water of Horstail is a singular Remedy for all
  manner of wounds in the Breast, Bowels, or other parts of
  the body, and is given with good success unto those who
  are troubled with Casting, Vomiting, or bleeding at the
  Mouth or Nose, or otherwise downwards.  The said Juyce
  given in the distilled Water of Oaken Buds is very good
  for Women who have their usual Courses, or the Whites
  flowing down too abundantly.  It helps sore Eyes.  The
  Leaves infused or boyled in Oyl Omphacine, or unripe
  Olives set in the Sun for certain daies, or the green
  Leaves sufficiently boyled in the said Oyl, is made an
  excellent green Balsom, not only for green and fresh
  Wounds, but also for old and inveterate Ulcers, especially
  if a little fine clear Turpentine be dissolved therin: It
  also stayeth and represseth all inflamations that arise
  upon pains, by Hurts, or Wounds.
  {Note 1 here}
  =
@begin {m1}
  {Note 1:} Wounds in the Breast, Bowels, Vomiting,
  Bleeding, Terms stops, Whites, Wounds, Ulcers,
  Inflamations in Wounds.
@end {m1}
     It is an Herb under the Dominion of the Moon in Cancer,
  and therfore if the weakness of the Rententive Faculty be
  caused by an evil influence of Saturn, in any part of the
  Body governed by the Moon, or under the Dominion of
  Cancer, this Herb cures it by Sympathy: It cures those
  Diseases before specified in any part of the Body under
  the influence of Saturn, by Antypathy.
  =
     What parts of the Body are under each Planet and Sign,
  and also what Diseases may be found in my Astrological
  Judgment of Diseases, and for the internal Work of Nature
  in the Body of Man, as Vital, Animal, Natural, and
  Procreative Spirit of Man, The Apprehension, Judgment,
  Memory, the external Sences, viz° Seeing, Hearing,
  Smelling, Tasting, and Feelings; the Vertues, Attractive,
  Retentive, Digestive, Expulsive &c° under the Dominion of
  what Planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris for
  the yeer 1651. in both which you shall find the Chaff of
  Authors blown away by the Fame of Dr Reason, and nothing
  but Rational Truths left for the Judgment of the Ingenious
  to feed upon.
  =
     Lastly, To avoid blotting Paper with one thing many
  times, and also to ease your Purses in the price of the
  Book, and withal to make you Studious in Physick, you have
  at the latter end of the Book, the way of preserving all
  Herbs either in Juyce, Conserve Oyl, Oyntment, or
  Plaister, Electuary Pill or Troches.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h2}
@section 3 {tt}
  AGRIMONY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers long leaves (some greater, some
  smaller) set upon a Stalk, all of them dented about the
  edges, green above, and  grayish underneath, and a little
  hairy withal: Among which ariseth up usually, but one
  strong, round, hairy, brown Stalk, two or three Foot high,
  with smaller Leaves set here and there upon it, at the top
  wherof grow many smal yellow Flowers one above another in
  long Spikes: after which come rough heads of Seeds hanging
  downwards which wil cleave to and stick upon Garments or
  any thing that shal rub against them.  The Root is black,
  long, and somwhat woody, abiding many yeers and shooting
  afresh every Spring which Root, though smal hath a
  reasonable good scent.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth upon Banks near the sides of Hedges, or
  Pales.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And it Flowreth in July and August, the Seed being ripe
  shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Uses.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is of a clensing and cutting faculty without any
  manifest heat, moderately drying and binding; It openeth
  and clenseth the Liver, helpeth the Jaundice, and is very
  beneficial to the Bowels, healing all inward Wounds,
  Bruises, Hurts, and other distempers.  The Decoction of the
  Herb made with Wine and drunk is good against the stinging
  and biting of Serpents, and helps them that have foul,
  troubled, or bloody waters, and makes them piss cleer
  spedily; It also helpeth the Chollick, clenseth the
  Breast, and rids away the Cough.  A draught of the
  Decoction taken warm before the fit, first removes, and in
  time rids away the Tertian or Quartan Agues; The Leaves
  and Seed taken in Wine, stayeth the Bloody Flux.
  Outwardly applied, being stamped with old Swines grease,
  it helpeth old sores, Cancers, and inveterate Ulcers; and
  draweth forth Thorns, Splinters or Wood, Nails, or any
  other such thing gotten into the Flesh; it helpeth to
  strengthen the Members that be out of joynt; and being
  bruised and applied, or the Juyce dropped in, it helpeth
  foul and imposthumed Ears.
  {Note 2 here}
  =
@begin {m2}
  {Note 2:} Clensing, Drying, Binding, Liver, Jaundice,
  Inward Wounds, Inward Bruises, Bloody and troubled urin,
  Chollick, Breast, Cough, Tertian and Quartan Agues, Bloody
  Flux, ulcers, Cancers, Thorns, Splinters and Nails in the
  flesh, Members out of joynt, Aposthumes.
@end {m2}
     The distilled Water of the Herb is good to all the said
  purposes, either inward or outward, but a great deal
  weaker.
  =
     It is an Herb under Jupiter, and the Sign of Cancer,
  and therfore strengthens those parts under that Planet and
  Sign, and removes Diseases in them by Sympathy, and those
  under Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, by Antipathy.  If they
  happen in any part of the Body governed by Jupiter, or
  under the Signs, Cancer, Sagitary, or Pisces, and therfore
  must needs be good for the Gout, either used outwardly in
  an Oyl or Oyntment, or inwardly in an Electuary or Syrup,
  or concreated Juyce, for which see the latter end of the
  Book.
  =
     It is a most admirable remedy for such whose Livers are
  annoyed either by heat or cold.  The Liver is the former
  of Blood, and Blood the Nourisher of the body, and
  Agrimony and Strengthner of the Liver.
  =
     I cannot stand to give you a Reason in every Herb why
  it cureth such Diseases, but if you please to peruse my
  Judgment in the Herb Wormwood you shall find them there,
  and it will be well worth your while to consider it in
  every Herb, you shall find them true throughout the Book.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h3}
@section 3 {tt}
  ALEHOOF, OR GROUND~IVY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This well known Herb, lieth, spreadeth, and creepeth
  upon the ground, shooting forth Roots, at the corners of
  the tender joynted Stalks, set all along with two round
  Leavs at every Joynt, somwhat hairy, crumpled, and
  unevenly dented about the edges with round dents: at the
  Joynts likewise with the Leaves towards the end of the
  Branches come forth hollow long Flowers of a blewish
  Purple colour with small white spots upon the lips that
  hang down: The Root is small with strings.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is commonly found under Hedges, and on the sides of
  Ditches, under Houses, or in shadowed Lanes, and other
  wast grounds in almost every part of the Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower somwhat early, and abide so a great while;
  the Leaves continue green untill Winter, and somtimes
  abide, except the Winter be very sharp and cold.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is quick, sharp, and bitter in tast, and is therby
  found to be hot and dry, a singular Herb for all inward
  Wounds, exulcerated Lungs, or other parts, either by it
  self or boyled with other the like Herbs: And being drunk,
  it in short time easeth all griping Pains, Windy and
  Chollerick Humors in the Stomach, Spleen, or Belly: helps
  the yellow Jaundice by opening the stoppings of the Gaul
  and Liver, and Melancholly by opening the stoppings of the
  Spleen, expelleth Venom or Poyson, and also the Plague, it
  provoketh Urin, and Womens Courses.  The Decoction of it
  in Wine drunk for some time together procureth ease unto
  them that are troubled with the Sciatica or Hip Gout, as
  also the Gout in the Hands, Knees, or Feet: and if you put
  to the Decoction, some Honey, and a little Burnt Allum, it
  is excellent good to gargle any sore Mouth or Throat, and
  to wash the Sores and Ulcers in the privy parts of man or
  woman: It speedily healeth green Wounds being bruised and
  bound therunto: The Juyce of it boyled with a little Hony
  & Verdigrees, doth wonderfully clens Fistula's Ulcers, and
   stayeth  the spreading or eating of Cancers and Ulcers, It
  helpeth the Itch, Scabs, Wheals, and other breakings out
  in any part of the Body.  The Juyce of Celondine, Field
  Daysies, and Ground~Ivy clarified, and a little fine Sugar
  dissolved therin and dropped into the Eyes is a Sovereign
  Remedy for all the Pains, Redness, and Watering of them;
  as also for the Pin and Web, Skins, and Films growing over
  the Sight; It helpeth Beasts as well as Men; The Juyce
  dropped into the Ears doth wonderfully help the noise and
  singing of them, and helpeth the Hearing which is decayed.
  It is good to Tun up with new Drink, for it will so
  clarifie it in a night, that it will be the fitter to be
  drunk the next morning; or if any Drink be thick with
  removing or any other accident, it will do the like in a
  few hours.
  {Note 3 here}
  =
@begin {m3}
  {Note 3:} Inward Wounds, Pains Gripping, Wind, Choller,
  Stomach, Spleen, Belly, Stopping in the Liver, Gaul,
  Plague, Poyson, Gout, Sciatica, sore Mouth & Throat,
  Ulcers in the Privities, Itch, Scabs, Pain in the Eye
  Redness watering of them, Ulcers, noise in the Ears
  Deafness.
@end {m3}
     It is an Herb of Venus, and thefore cures her Diseases
  by Sympathy, and those of Mars by Antipathy; how to
  preserve it all the yeer you shall find at the latter end
  of the Book.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h4}
@section 3 {tt}
  ALEXANDER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is usually sown in all the Gardens in Europe, and so
  well known, that it needs no further Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It warmeth a cold Stomach, and openeth stoppings of the
  Liver and Spleen, it is good to move Womens Courses to
  expel the After~birth, to break Wind, to provoke Urine,
  and help the Strangury; and these things the Seeds wil do
  likewise, if either of them be boyled in Wine, or being
  bruised and taken in Wine, it is also effectual against
  the biting of Serpents.  And now you know what Alexander
  Porredg which is so familiar in this City is good for,
  that you may no longer eat it out of ignorance but out of
  knowledg.
  {Note 4 here}
  =
@begin {m4}
  {Note 4:} Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, provokes
  the Terms, Afterbirth, Wind, provokes urin, biting of
  Serpents.
@end {m4}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h5}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BLACK ALDER~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Tree seldom groweth to any great bigness, but for
  the most part abideth like a Hedg, Bush, or Tree spreading
  into Branches, the Wood of the Body being white, and of a
  dark, red Core or Heart; the outward Bark is of a blackish
  colour, with many white spots theron: but the inner Bark
  next unto the Wood is yellow, which being chewed will turn
  the Spittle neer unto a Saffron colour.  The Leaves are
  somwhat like those of the ordinary Alder~Tree, or the
  Foemale Cornel, or Dogberry~Tree, called in Sussex
  Dog~wood, but blacker, and not so long.  The Flowers are
  white, coming forth with the Leaves at the Joynts, which
  turn into small round Berries, first green, afterwards
  red, but blackish when they are through ripe, divided as
  it were into two parts, wherin is contained two small
  round and flat Seeds:  The Root runneth not deep into the
  Ground, but spreadeth rather under the upper crust of the
  earth.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Tree or Shrub may be found plentifully in St°
  Johns Wood by Hornsey, and in the Woods upon Hamsted
  Heath; as also at a Wood called the old Park in Barcomb in
  Sussex, near the Brooks side.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowereth in May, and the Berries are ripe in
  September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The inner yellow Bark herof purgeth downwards both
  Choller & Flegm, & the watry humors of such as have the
  Dropsie, and strengtheneth the inward parts again by
  binding.
  {Note 5 here}
  =
@begin {m5}
  {Note 5:} Choller, Flegm.
@end {m5}
     If the Bark hereof be boyled with Agrimony, Wormwood,
  Dodder, Hops, and some Fennel, with Smalledg, Endive, and
  Succory Roots, and a reasonable draught taken every
  morning for some time together, it is very effectual
  against the Jaundice, Dropsie, and the evil disposition of
  the Body, especially if some sutable purging Medicine have
  been taken before to avoid the grosser excrements;
  {Note 6 here}
  =
@begin {m6}
  {Note 6:} Jaundice, Dropsy, Cachexia, Liver, Spleen.
@end {m6}
     It purgeth and strengtheneth the Liver and Spleen,
  clensing them from such evil humors, and hardness as they
  are afflicted with:  It is to be understood that these
  things are performed by the dryed Bark, for the fresh
  green Bark taken inwardly provoketh strong Vomitings,
  pains in the Stomach, and gripings in the Belly: Yet if
  the Decoction may stand and settle two or three daies
  until the yellow colour be changed black, it will not work
  so strongly as before, but will strengthen the Stomach,
  and procure an Appetite to Meat.
  {Note 7 here}
  =
@begin {m7}
  {Note 7:} Stomach weak, Apetite lost, Flux, Lice, Itch,
  Scabs, Tooth~ach, Teeth loos.
@end {m7}
     The outer Bark contrarywise doth bind the Body, and is
  helpful for all Lasks and Fluxes therof, but this must
  also be dried first, wherby it wil work the better.  The
  inner Bark herof boyled in Vinegar, is an approved remedy
  to kill Lice, to cure the Itch, and take away Scabs by
  drying them up in a short time:  It is singular good to
  wash the Teeth, to take away the Pains, to fasten those
  that are loos, to clens them, to keep them sound.  The
  Leaves are good Fodder for Kine to make them give more
  Milk.
  =
     If in the Spring time you use the Herbs before
   mentioned and will but take a handful of each of them, and
  to them ad a handful of Elder Buds, and having bruised
  them all, boyl them in a Gallon of ordinary Beer when 'tis
  new, and having boyled them half an hour, ad this to three
  Gallons more, and let them work together, and drink a
  draught of it every morning half a pint or there about: It
  is an excellent Purge for the Spring, to consume that
  Flegmatick quality the Winter hath left behind it, and
  withal keep your Body in health, and consume those evil
  humors which the heat of Summer will readily stir up,
  esteem it as a Jewel.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h6}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE COMMON ALDER~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Groweth to a reasonable heighth, and spreads much if it
  like the place; It is so generally wel known unto Country
  People that I conceive it needless to tel them that which
  is no news.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It delighteth to grow in moist Woods and watry places,
  Flowring in April or May and yeilding ripe Seed in
  September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leaves and Bark of the Alder~Tree, are cooling,
  drying, and binding, The fresh Leaves laid upon swelling,
  dissolveth them, and staieth the Inflamations; The Leaves
  {Note 8 here}
  put under the bare Feet gauled with travelling are a great
  refreshing to them:  The said Leaves gathered while the
  morning dew is on them, and brought into a chamber
  troubled with Fleas, wil gather them therinto, which being
  suddenly cast out wil rid the Chamber of those troublesom
  Bed~fellows.
  =
@begin {m8}
  {Note 8:} Cooling, Drying, Binding, Swellings, Fleas.
@end {m8}
     It is a Tree under the Dominion of Venus, and of some
  watry Sign or other, I suppose Pisces, and therfore the
  Decoction, or distilled Water of the Leaves is excellent
  against Burnings, and Inflamation, either with Wounds or
  without, to bath the place grieved with, and especially
  for that inflamation in the Breast which the vulgar call
  an Ague.
  {Note 9 here}
  =
@begin {m9}
  {Note 9:} Burnings, Inflamations.
@end {m9}
     If you cannot get the Leaves, as in Winter 'tis
  impossible, make use of the Bark in the same manner.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h7}
@section 3 {tt}
  ANGELICA.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     To write a Description of that which is so well known
  to be growing in almost every Garden, I suppose is
  altogether needless: yet for its Vertues it is of
  admirable use.
  =
     In times of Heathenism when men had found out any
  excellent Herb &c° they dedicated it to their gods, As the
  Bay~tree to Apollo, the Oak to Jupiter, the Vine to
  Bacchus, the Poplar to Hercules: These the Papists
  following as their Patriarchs, they dedicate them to their
  Saints, as our Ladies Thistle to the Blessed Virgin, St°
  Johns Wort to St° John, and another Wort to St° Peter, &c°.
  Our Physitians must imitate like Apes, (though they cannot
  come off half so cleverly) for they Blasphemously call
  Pansies, or Hartseas, an Herb of the Trinity, because it
  is of three colours: and a certain Oyntment, an Oyntment
  of the Apostles, because it consisteth of twelve
  Ingredients; Alas poor Fools, I am sorry for their folly,
  and grieved at their Blasphemy; God send them the rest of
  their Age, for they have their share of Ignorance already;
  O! why must ours be Blasphemous becaus the Heathens and
  Papists were Idolatrous? certainly they have read so much
  in old rustie Authors, that they have lost all their
  Decmity, for unless it were amongst the ranters, I never
  read or heard of such Blasphemy: The Heathens and Papists
  were bad, and ours wors, the Papists giving Idolatrous
  Names to Herbs for their Vertues sake, not for their fair
  looks; and thefore some called this an Herb of the Holy
  Ghost, others more moderate called it Angelica, becaus of
  its Angelical Vertues, and that name it retains still, and
  all Nations follow it so near as their Dialect will
  permit.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Uses.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It resists Poyson, by defending and comforting the
  Heart, Bleed, and Spirits, it doth the like against the
  Plague, and all Epidemical Diseases if the Root be taken
  in pouder to the waight of half a dram at a time with some
  good Triacle in Cardus Water, and the party therupon laid
  to sweat in his Bed.  If Treacle be not at hand, take it
  {Note 10 here}
  alone in Cardus or Angelica Water.  The Stalks or Roots
  candied and eaten fasting are good Preservatives in time
  of Infection; and at other times to warm and comfort a
  cold Stomach.  The Root also steeped in Vinegar, and a
  little of that Vinegar taken somtimes fasting, and the
  Root smelled unto is good for the same purpose.  A water
  distilled from the Root simply, or steeped in Wine and
  distilled in Glass, is much more effectual than the Water
  of the Leaves; and this Water drunk two or three spoonfuls
  at a time, easeth all Pains and Torments coming of Cold
  and Wind, so as the Body be not bound: and taken with some
  of the Root in Pouder at the beginning helpeth the
  Pluresy, as also all other Diseases of the Lungues and
  Breast, as Coughs, Phthisick, and shortness of Breath; and
  a Syrup of the  Stalks doth the like: It helps pains of the
  Colick, the Strangury, and stopping of the Urin, procureth
  Womens Courses, and expelleth the After~birth, openeth the
  stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and briefly easeth and
  discusseth al windiness and inward swellings.  The
  Decoction drunk before the fit of an Ague, that they may
  sweat (if possible) before the fit come, wil in two or
  three times taking rid it quite away: It helps digestion,
  {Note 11 here}
  and is a remedy for a Surfet.  The Juyce or the Water
  being dropped into the Eyes or Ears, helps dimness of
  sight and deafness:  The Juyce put into the hollow Teeth,
  easeth their pains.  The Roots in Pouder made up into a
  Plaister with a little Pitch; and laid on the biting of a
  mad~Dog, or any other venemous creature, doth wonderfully
  help: The Juyce or the Water dropped, or tents wet therin,
  and put into old filthy deep Ulcers, Or the Pouder of the
  Root (in want of either) doth clens and cause them to heal
  quickly, by covering the naked Bones with Flesh.  The
  distilled Water applied to places pained with the Gout or
  Sciatica, doth give a great deal of ease.
  {Note 12 here}
  =
@begin {m10}
  {Note 10:} Poyson, Pestilence, Epidemical Diseases.
@end {m10}
@begin {m11}
  {Note 11:} Chollick, provokes the Terms, afterbirth,
  stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, Indigestion, Surfets,
  Toothach, biting of Mad~dogs.
@end {m11}
@begin {m12}
  {Note 12:} Ulcers, Gout, Sciatica.
@end {m12}
     The wild Angelica is not so effectual as the Garden,
  although it may be safly used to all the purpose
  aforesaid.
  =
     It is an Herb of the Sun in Leo; let it be gathered
  when he is there, the Moon applying to his good Aspect;
  let it be gathered either in his hour, or in the hour of
  Jupiter, let Sol be angular.  Observe the like in
  gathering the Herbs of other Plants, and you may happen do
  wonders.  In all Epidemical Diseases caused by Saturn this
  is as good a Preservative as grows.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h8}
@section 3 {tt}
  APPLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     A Word or two of the most usual kinds of Apples, though
  the Colledg of Physitians make use of none but such as
  Vulgo vulgati, Pearmains, vel Pippins.
  =
     Apples in general are cold and windy, and being of
  sundry tasts, Galen sheweth thereby how to distinguish
  them: Som have a sharp tast, and are good for fainting
  Stomachs and loos Bellies; others sowr, good to cool and
  quench thirst; som sharp, fit to cut gross flegm; som
  sweet, soon destributed in the Body, and as soon passed
  away, yet sooner corrupted in the Stomach if they be
  staid:  The best sorts before they be throughly ripe are
  to be avoided; then to be roasted or scalded is the best
  {Note 13 here}
  way to take them and a little Spice or Seeds cast upon
  them and taken after meat, do strengthen both Stomach and
  Bowels, especially in those that loath, or hardly digest
  their meat, or are given to casting, or have a Flux or
  Lask:  Those that are a little sowr and harsh used in that
  manner are fittest: Sweet Apples loosen the Belly and
  drive forth Worms; Sowr Apples stop the Belly, and provoke
  Urin; and Crabs for this purpose are fittest: The sweet
  Apples as the Pippin and Pearmain, help to dissolve
  Melancholly humors, and to procure Mirth, and therfore are
  {Note 14 here}
  fittest for Confectio Alkermes, and Syrupus de Pomis.  The
  Leavs boyled and given to drink in hot Agues, where the
  heat of the Liver and Stomach causeth the Lips to break
  out, and the Throat to grow dry, harsh and furred, is very
  good to wash and gargle it withal, and to drink down som.
  This may to good purpose be used when better things are
  not at hand, or cannot be had.  The Juyce of Crabs either
  Verjuyce or Cider, is of singular good use in the Heat and
  faintings of the Stomach, and against Casting to make a
  Posset with, or taken som of it alone by it self.  The
  Juyce of Crabs, or Cider applied with wet cloaths therein
  to scalded or burnt places, cooleth, healeth, and draweth
  forth the Fire.  A rotten Apple applied to Eyes
  bloodshotten, or enflamed with heat, or that are black and
  blue about them by any stroke of fall, and bound too all
  day or night, helpeth them quickly.  The distilled Water
  {Note 15 here}
  of rotten Apples doth cool the heat and inflamations of
  Sores, and is good to bath foul creeping Ulcers, and to
  wash the Face to take away Spots, Freckles or other
  discolorings.  The distilled Water of good and sound
  Apples is of special good use to procure Mirth, and expel
  Melancholly.  The ointment called Pomatum, if sweet and
  well made, helpeth the Chops in the Lips or Hands, and
  maketh smooth and supple the rough Skin of the Hands or
  Face parched with wind or other accidents.
  {Note 16 here}
  =
@begin {m13}
  {Note 13:} Fainting Stomach, Loos Bellies, Thirst, Flegm.
@end {m13}
@begin {m14}
  {Note 14:} Stomach, Bowels, Vomiting, Flux, Loosen Worms,
  Melancholly, Agues, heat of the Liver and Stomach.
@end {m14}
@begin {m15}
  {Note 15:} Scalding, Burning, Eyes, Inflamation, Ulcers,
  Spots, Freckles.
@end {m15}
@begin {m16}
  {Note 16:} Chaps in the Lips & Hands.
@end {m16}
     Thus my Authors.
  =
     All that I can say of Apples is this:
  =
  {»}1 That they are extream windy.
  =
  {»}2 That they provoke Urin, being roasted (especially
  {»}Pomwaters) and mixed with fair Water, and drunk up at
  {»}night going to bed; half a dozen great ones mixed with a
  {»}quart of Water, excellently provokes Urin, if there be no
  {»}material stone in the Body:  This I had of Gerhard, and
  {»}have often known it proved, and alwaies with good success.
  {»}All Apples loosen the Belly and pleasure the Stomach by
  {»}their coolness.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h9}
@section 3 {tt}
  ARRACH WILD & STINKING.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath small and almost round Leaves, yet a little
  pointed and without dent or cut, of a dusky mealy colour,
  growing on the slender Stalks and Branches that spread on
  the ground, with smal Flowers in clusters set with
   the Leaves, and small Seeds succeeding like the rest,
  perishing yearly, and rising again with its own sowing.
  It smels like old rotten Fish, or somthing worse.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
      It grows usually upon Dunghills.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower in June and July, and their Seed is ripe
  quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Stinking Arrach is used as a remedy to help Women
  pained, and almost strangled with the Mother, by smelling
  to it: But inwardly taken, there is not a better Remedy
  under the Moon for that Disease.  I would be large in
  commendation of this Herb, were I but Eloquent.  It is an
  {Note 17 here}
  Herb under the dominion of Venus, and under the sign
  Scorpio: It is common almost upon every Dunghil.  The
  Works of God are given freely to Man, his Medicins are
  common and cheap, and easie to be found: 'tis the
  Medicines of the Colledg of Physitians that are so dear
  and scarce to find) I commend it for an Universal Medicine
  for the Womb, and such a Medicine as will easily, safly,
  and speedily cure any Diseas therof, as the fits of the
  Mother, Dislocation or falling out therof; it cools the
  {Note 18 here}
  Womb being over~heated. (And let me tel you this, and I
  wil tel you but the truth, Heat of the womb is one of the
  greatest causes of hard labor in Childbirth) It makes
  barren women fruitful, it clenseth the Womb if it be foul
  and strengthens it exceedingly; it provokes the Terms if
  they be stopped, and stops them if they flow immoderately.
  You can desire no good to your Womb, but this Herb will
  effect it; therfore if you love Children, if you love
  Health, if you love Ease, keep a Syrup alwaies by you made
  of the juyce of this Herb and Sugar (or Honey if it be to
  clens the Womb) and let such as be rich keep it for their
  poor neighbors, and bestow it as freely as I bestow my
  studies upon them, or els let them look to answer it
  another day when the Lord shall come to make inquisition
  for Bloud.
  =
@begin {m17}
  {Note 17:} Mother,
@end {m17}
@begin {m18}
  {Note 18:} Womb.
@end {m18}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h10}
@section 3 {tt}
  ARCHANGEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     To put a gloss upon their practice; the Physitians call
  an Herb (which Country people vulgarly know by the name of
  Dead~Nettles) Archangel, wherein whether they favor of
  more Superstition or Folly I leave to the judicious
  Reader. There is more curiosity than courtesie to my
  Countrymen used by others in the explaination, aswel of
  the Names as Description of this so wel~known an Herb;
  which that I may not also be guilty of, Take this short
  Description first of the Red~Archangel.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers square stalks somwhat hairy, at the
  joynts whereof grow two sad green Leaves dented about the
  edges, opposit to one another, the lowermost upon long
  footstalks, but without any toward the tops which are
  somwhat round, yet pointed, and a little crumpled and
  hairy: Round about the upper Joynts where the Leaves grow
  thick, are sundry gaping Flowers of a pale reddish
  colour, after which com the Seeds three or four in a Husk.
  The Root is small and thriddy, perishing every year: the
  whol Plant hath a strong scent, but not stinking.
  =
     White~Archangel hath diverse square stalks not standing
  streight upright but bending downward, wheron stand two
  Leavs at a Joynt, larger and more pointed than the other,
  dented about the edges and greener also more like unto
  Nettle~Leavs, but not stinking, yet hairy: At the Joynts
  with three Leavs stand larger and more open gaping white
  Flowers, in Husks round about the Stalks (but not with
  such a bush of Leavs, as Flowers set in the top, as in on
  the other) wherin stand smal roundish black Seeds:  The
  Root is white, with many strings at it, not growing
  downward but lying under the upper crust of the Earth, and
  abideth many years encreasing: This hath not so strong a
  scent as the former.
  =
     Yellow~Archangel is like the White in the Stalks and
  Leavs, but that the Stalks are more streight and upright,
  and the Joynts with Leaves are further asunder, having
  longer Leavs than the former; and the Flowers a little
  larger and more gaping, of a fair yellow colour in most,
  in som paler.  The Roots are like the White, only they
  creep not so much under the ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow almost everywhere, (unless it be in the
  middle of the street) the Yellow most usually in the wet
  grounds of Woods, and somtimes in the dryer, in divers
  countries of this Nation.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower from the begining of the spring all the
  summer long.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Archangels are somwhat hot and dryer than the
  stinking Nettles, and used with better success for the
  stopping and hardness of the Spleen than they by using the
  Decoction of the Herb in Wine, and afterwards applying the
  Herb hot unto the Region of the Spleen as a Plaister, or
  the Decoction with Spunges. The Flowers of the White
  {Note 19 here}
  Archangel are preserved, or conserved to be used to stay
  the Whites and the Flowers of the Red to stay the Reds in
  Women.  It makes the Heart merry, drives away Melancholly,
  quickens the Spirits, is good against Quartan Agues,
  stancheth bleedings at Mouth or Nose, if it be stamped and
  applied  to the nape of the Neck: The Herb also brused
  {Note 20 here}
  and with some Salt and Vinegar, and Hogs Greas laid upon
  any hard tumor or swelling; or that which is vulgarly
  called the Kings Evil, doth help to dissolve or discuss
  them, and being in like manner applied doth much allay the
  pains and give eas to the Gout, Sciatica, and other aches
  of the Joynts and Sinews: It is also very effectual to
  heal all green Wounds, and old Ulcers, also to stay their
  fretting, gnawing, and spreading; It draweth forth
  Splinters and such like things gotten into the flesh, and
  is very good against bruises and burnings.  But the yellow
  Archangel, is most commended for old filty corrupt Sores
  and Ulcers, yea, although they grow to be hollow; and to
  dissolve tumors.  The chief use of them is for Women it
  being an Herb of Venus, and may be found in my Guide for
  Women.
  =
@begin {m19}
  {Note 19:} Spleen.
@end {m19}
@begin {m20}
  {Note 20:} White, Red and yellow Flux.  Melancholy,
  Quartan Agues, Bleeding at Nose, Swelling, Kings Evil,
  Gout, Sciatica, Joynts, Ulcers, Old sores, Bruises,
  Burnings.
@end {m20}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h11}
@section 3 {tt}
  ARSMART.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description of the Mild.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath broad Leaves set at the great red Joynts of
  the Stalks, with semicircular blackish marks on them
  usually, yet somtimes without:  The Flowers grow in long
  Spikes usually either blush or whitish with such like Seed
  following.  The Root is long with many strings therat
  perishing yeerly;  this hath no sharp tast (as another
  sort hath, which is quick and biting) but rather sowr like
  Sorrel, or els a little drying without tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It grows in watery Plashes, Ditches, and the like,
  which for the most part are dry in Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, and the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is of a cooling and drying quality, and very
  effectual for putrified Ulcers in Man or Beast, to kill
  the worms and clens the putrified Places:  The Juyce
  therof dropped in, or otherwise applied, consumeth all
  cold Swellings, and dissolveth the congealed Blood of
  bruises by strokes, falls, &c°.  A piece of the Root, or
  some of the Seed bruised and held to an aching Tooth,
  taketh away the pain.  The Leaves bruised and laid to the
  {Note 21 here}
  Joynt that hath a Fellon theron, taketh it away.  The
  Juyce destroyeth Worms in the Ears being dropped into
  them:  if the hot Arsmart be strewed in a Chamber it will
  soon kill all the Fleas; and the Herb or Juyce of the cold
  Arsmart put to Horses or other Cattels sores will drive
  away the Flie in the hottest time of Summer:  A good
  handful of the hot biting Arsmart put under a Horses
  Saddle will make him travel the better although he were
  half tired before:  The mild Arsmart is good against hot
  Imposthumes and Inflamations at the beginning and to heal
  green Wounds.
  =
@begin {m21}
  {Note 21:} Ulcers, Cold swellings, Bruises, Congeled
  Blood, Toothach, Felons, or Andicoms, Worms in the Ears,
  Fleas, Tired Horses, Impostums Inflamations, Wounds.
@end {m21}
     All Authors chop the Vertues of both sort of Arsmart
  together, as men chop Herbs for the Pot, when both of them
  are of clean contrary qualities, The hot Arsmart groweth
  not so high or tall as the mild doth, but hath many leaves
  of the colour of Peach leaves, very seldom or never
  spotted, in other particulars it is like the former, but
  may easily be known from it, if you will be but pleased to
  break a Leaf of it cross your Tongue, for the hot will
  make your Tongue to smart, so will not the cold; if you
  see them both together you many easily distinguish them,
  becaus the mild hath far broader Leaves: And our Colledg
  of Physitians out of their learned care for the publick
  good, Anglice their own gain, mistake the one for the
  other in their New~Master~Piece, wherby they discover, 1°
  Their Ignorance,  2°  Their Carelesness, and he that hath
  but half an eye may see their pride without a pair of
  Spectacles.  I have done what I could to distinguish them
  in their Vertues, and when you find not the contrary
  named, use the cold.  The truth is, I have not yet spoken
  with Dr° Reason, nor his Brother Dr° Experience,
  concerning either of them both.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h12}
@section 3 {tt}
  ASARABACCA.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Asarabacca hath many Heads rising from the Roots, from
  whence come many smooth Leavs, every one upon his own
  Footstalk, which are rounder and bigger than Violet
  Leaves, thicker also, and of a darker green shining colour
  on the upper side, and of a paler yellow green underneath,
  little or nothing dented about the edges; from among which
  rise smal round hollow, brown green husks, upon short
  stalks about an inch long, divided at the brims into five
  divisions, very like the Cups or Heads of the Henbane
  Seed, but that they are smaller; and these be all the
  Flowers it carrieth, which are somwhat sweet, being
  smelled unto, and wherein when they are ripe is contained
  smal cornered, rough Seeds, very like the Kernels or
  Stones of Grapes or Raisons.  The Roots are small and
  whitish spreading divers waies in the ground, and
  encreasing into divers Heads; but not running or creeping
  under ground as some other creeping Herbs do; They are
  somwhat sweet in smell, resembling Nardus, but more when
  they are dry, than green; and of a sharp but not
  unpleasant tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth frequently in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They keep their Leaves green all Winter, but shoot
  forth new in the Spring, and with them come forth those
  Heads or Flowers which give ripe Seed about Midsummer, or
  somwhat after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Herb being drunk, not only provoketh vomiting, but
  purgeth downward, and by Urin also, purging both Choller
  and Flegm: if you ad to it some Spicknard, with the Whey
  of Goats Milk or Honeyed Water, it is made more strong,
  but it purgeth Flegm more manifestly than Choller, and
  therfore doth much help pains in the Hips and other parts,
  it being boyled in Whey, it wonderfully helpeth the
  Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen, and therfore
  profitable for the Dropsie and Jaundice being steeped in
  Wine and drunk.  It helps those continual Agues that come
  {Note 22 here}
  by the plenty of stubborn humors:  An Oyl made therof by
  setting it in the Sun, with some Laudanum added to it,
  provoketh sweating (the ridg of the Back being anointed
  therwith) and therby driveth away the shaking Fits of
  Agues.  It will not abide any long boyling, for it loseth
  its chiefest strength therby; nor much beating; for the
  finer Pouder doth provoke Vomit and Urin, and the courser
  purgeth downwards.
  =
@begin {m22}
  {Note 22:} Causeth Vomiting, Choller, Flegm, Urin,
  Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, Dropsy, Jaundice,
  Agues.
@end {m22}
     The common Use herof is to take the Juyce of five or
  seven Leavs in a little Drink to caus Vomitings: The Roots
  have also the same Vertue, though they do not operate so
  forcibly, yet they are very effectual against the biting
  of Serpents, and therfore is put as an ingredient both
  {Note 23 here}
  into Methridate and Venice Treacle.  The Leaves and Roots
  being boyled in Ly, and the Head often washed therwith,
  while it is warm, comforteth the Head and Brain that is
  ill affected by taking cold, and helpeth the Memory.
  =
@begin {m23}
  {Note 23:} Serpents. Head.  Memory.
@end {m23}
     I shall desire Ignorant people to forbear the use of
  the Leavs, the Roots purge more gently, and may prove
  beneficial in such as have Cancers, or old putrified
  Ulcers, or Fistulaes upon their Bodies, to take a dram of
  them in Pouder in a quarter of a pint of white Wine in the
  morning.  The truth is, I fancy Purging and Vomiting
  Medicines as little as any Man breathing doth, for they
  weaken Nature nor shall never advise them to be used
  unless upon urgent necessity.  If a Physitian be Natures
  servant, it is his duty to strengthen his Mistris as much
  as he can, and weaken her as little as may be.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h13}
@section 3 {tt}
  ASPARAGUS, SPARAGUS, OR SPERAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It riseth up at first with divers whitish green scaly
  Heads very brittle or easie to break while they are yong,
  which afterwards rise up into very long and slender green
  stalks, of the bigness of an ordinary riding wand at the
  bottom of most, or bigger or lesser, as the Roots are of
  growth; on which are set divers branches of green Leavs,
  shorter and smaller than Fennel to the top, at the joynts
  wherof come forth small mossie yellowish Flowers, which
  turn into round Berries, green at the first, and of an
  excellent red colour when they are ripe, shewing like
  Beads of Corral, wherin are contained exceeding hard,
  black Seeds.  The Roots are dispersed from a spongeous
  Head into many long, thick, and round strings, wherby it
  sucketh much Nourishment out of the ground, and encreaseth
  plentifully thereby.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h14}
@section 3 {tt}
  PRICKLY ASPARAGUS, SPARAGUS, OR SPERAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth usually in Gardens; and some of it grows
  wild, in Appleton Meadow in Gloucestershire, where the
  poor people do gather the Buds, or yong Shoots, and sell
  them cheaper than our Garden Asparagus is sold at London.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They do for the most part Flower, and bear their
  Berries late in the yeer, or not at all, although they are
  housed in Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The yong Bud or branches boyled in ones ordinary broth,
  maketh the Belly soluble and open, and boyled in white
  Wine, provoketh Urin being stopped, and is good against
  the Strangury, or difficulty of making water; it expelleth
  {Note 24 here}
  the gravel and stone out of the Kidneys, and helpeth pains
  in the Reins: And boyled in white Wine or Vinegar it is
  prevalent for them that have their Arteries loosned, or
  are troubled with the Hip~Gout, or Sciatica.  The
  Decoction of the Roots boyled in Wine and taken is good to
  cleer the sight, and being held in the Mouth easeth the
  Toothach:  And being taken fasting several mornings
  together stirreth up bodily lust in Man or Woman
   (whatsoever some have written to the contrary.)  The
  Garden Asparaus nourisheth more than the wild; yet hath it
  the same effects in al the aforementioned Diseases.  The
  Decoction of the Roots in white Wine, and the Back and
  {Note 25 here}
  Belly bathed therwith, or kneeling or lying down in the
  same, or sitting therin as a Bath, hath been found
  effectual against pains that happen to the lower parts of
  the Body; and no less effectual against stiff and benummed
  Sinews, or those that are shrunk by Cramps, and
  Convulsions, and helpeth the Sciatica.
  =
@begin {m24}
  {Note 24:} Belly, Strangury, Disury, Gout, Sciatica, Eyes,
  Tooth~ach.
@end {m24}
@begin {m25}
  {Note 25:} Reins, Bladder, Mother, Cramp, Chollick,
  Convulsion.
@end {m25}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h15}
@section 3 {tt}
  ASH~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known that time wil be misspent and
  Paper wasted in writing a Description of it; and therfore
  I shal only insist upon the Vertues of it.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The yong tender Tops with the Leaves taken inwardly,
  and some of them outwardly applied are singular good
  against the biting of the Viper, Adder, or any other
  Venemous Beast: And the Water distilled therfrom, being
  taken a smal quantity every morning fasting, is a singular
  Medicine for those that are subject to a Dropsie, or to
  abate the greatness of those who are too gross or fat.
  {Note 26 here}
  The Decoction of the Leaves in white Wine, helpeth to
  break the Stone and expel it, and cureth the Jaundice.
  The Ashes of the Bark of the Ash made into Ly, and those
  Heads bathed therwith which are Leprous, Scabby, or
  Scal'd, they are therby cured.  The Kernels within the
  Husks commonly called Ashen Keys, prevaileth against
  Stitches and pains in the sides proceeding of Wind, and
  avoideth away the stone by provoking Urin.
  =
@begin {m26}
  {Note 26:} Adders & Vipers biting, Dropsy, Stone,
  Jaundice, Leprosie, Scabs, Scald Heads, Stitches, Stone,
  Disury, Rickets.
@end {m26}
     I can justly except against none of all this save only
  the first, viz° That Ash~tree Tops and Leaves are good
  against the biting of Serpents and Vipers, and I suppose
  this had its rise from Gerard, or Pliny, both which hold
  that there is such an Antipathy between an Adder and an
  Ash~tree, that if an Adder be compassed round with
  Ash~tree Leaves, she wil sooner run through the fire than
  through the Leaves, the contrary to which is the truth, as
  both my eyes are witnesses: the rest are Vertues somthing
  likely, only if it be in Winter when you cannot get the
  Leaves, you may safely use the Bark instead of them, the
  Keys you may easily keep all the year, gathering them when
  they are ripe.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h16}
@section 3 {tt}
  AVENS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The ordinary Avens hath many long, rough, dark green,
  winged Leavs rising from the Root, every one made of many
  Leavs set on each side of the middle Rib, the largest
  three wherof grow at the ends and are snip'd or dented
  round about the edges:  the other being smal pieces,
  somtimes two and somtimes four standing on each side of
  the middle rib underneath them; among which do rise up
  divers rough or hairy Stalks about two foot high branching
  forth with Leavs at every Joynt, not so long as those
  below, but almost as much cut in on the edges, some into
  three parts, some into more: On the Tops of the Branches
  stand smal pale yellow Flowers consisting of five Leavs,
  like the Flowers of Cynkfoyl, but larger in the middle,
  wherof standeth a smal green Head, which when the Flower
  is fallen groweth to be rough and round, being made of
  many long greenish purple Seeds (like grains) which wil
  stick upon your Cloathes.  The Root consists of many
  brownish strings or fibres, smelling somwhat like unto
  Clover, especially those which grow in the higher, hotter,
  and drier grounds, and in the freer and clear Air.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow wild in many places under Hedg sides, and by
  the Pathwaies in Fields, yet they rather delight to grow
  in shadowy than in Sunny places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in May and June for the most part, and
  their seed is ripe in July at the furthest.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is good for the Diseases of the Chest or Breast, for
  pains and Stitches in the Sides, and to expel crude and
  raw humors from the Belly and Stomach by the sweet savor
  and warming quality;  it dissolveth the inward congealed
  Blood hapning by falls or bruises, and the spitting of
  Blood, if the Roots either green or dryed be boyled in
  Wine and drunk, as also al manner of inward Wounds or
  outward if they be washed or bathed therwith.  The
  Decoction also being drunk comforteth the Heart, and
  {Note 27 here}
  strengtheneth the Stomach, and a cold Brain, and therfore
  is good in the Spring time to open Obstructions of the
  Liver, and helpeth the wind Chollick; it also helpeth
  those that have Fluxes; or are bursten, or have a Rupture;
  It taketh away spots or marks in the Face, being washed
  therwith: The Juyce of the fresh Root or Pouder of the
  dried Root hath the same effect with the Decoction.
   The Root in the Spring time steeped in Wine doth give it a
  delicat savor and tast, and being drunk fasting every
  morning comforteth the Heart, and is a good Preservative
  against the Plague, or any other Poyson; it helpeth
  Digestion, and warmeth a cold Stomach, and openeth the
  Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen,
  =
@begin {m27}
  {Note 27:} Breast, Stitches, Wind, Belly, Stomach Inward
  Wounds, Heart, cold Brain, Obstructions, Chollick, Fluxes,
  Ruptures, Spots and Marks in the Face, Plague, Poyson,
  Indigestion.
@end {m27}
     It is very safe, you need have no Dose prescribed; and
  is very fit to be kept in every good bodies house.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h17}
@section 3 {tt}
  BALM.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This Herb is so wel known to be an Inhabitant almost in
  every Garden, that I shal not need to write any
  Description thereof, although the Vertues thereof which
  are many may not be omitted.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Arabian Physitians have extolled the Vertues hereof
  to the Skyes, although the Greeks thought it not worth
  mentioning.  Serapio saith, It causeth the Mind and Heart
  to becom merry, and reviveth the Heart fainting into
  foundlings, especially of such who are over taken in their
  sleep, and driveth away al troublesom cares and thoughts
  {Note 28 here}
  out of the mind arising from Melancholly, or black
  Choller; which Avicen also confirmeth.  It is very good to
  help Digestion, and open Obstructions of the Brain; and
  hath so much purging quality in it (saith Avicen) as to
  expel those Melancholly vapors from the Spirits & Blood
  which are in the Heart and Arteries although it cannot do
  so in other parts of the Body.  Diascorides saith, That
  the Leaves steeped in Wine, and the Wine drunk, and the
  Leavs externally applied is a remedy against the sting of
  Scorpions, and the bitings of mad Dogs, and commendeth the
  Decoction therof for Women to bath or sit in to procure
  their Courses; it is good to wash aching Teeth therwith
  and profitable for those that have the bloody Flux.  The
  Leaves also with a little Nitre taken in Drink, are good
  against a Surfet of Mushromes, helps the griping pains of
  the Belly and being made into an Electuary is good for
  them that cannot fetch their breath: Used with Salt it
  takes away Wens, Kernels, or hard Swellings in the Flesh
  or Throat; it clenseth foul Sores and easeth pains of the
  Gout:  It is good for the Liver and Spleen.  A Tansie or
  Cawdle made with Egs and the Juyce therof while it is
  yong, putting to it some Sugar and Rosewater is good for
  Women in Childbed when the After~birth is not throughly
  avoided, and for their faintings upon, or after their sore
  travel.  The Herb bruised and boyled in a little Wine and
  Oyl and laid warm on a Boil, will ripen and break it.
  =
@begin {m28}
  {Note 28:} Mind, Heart, Faintings Swonings, Melancholy,
  Indigestion, Obstruction of the Brain, Heart, Arteries,
  Venemous Beasts, Mad Dogs, Terms provokes, Toothach, Blood
  Flux.  Mushroms dificulty of breathing, Gout, Liver,
  Spleen, Women in Child bed, Fainting in travel, Boyls.
@end {m28}
     It is an Herb of Jupiter and under Cancer, and
  strengthens Nature much in al its actions; let a Syrup
  made with the Juyce of it and Sugar, (as you shall be
  taught at the latter end of the Book) be kept in every
  Gentlewomans house, to releeve the weak stomachs and sick
  Bodies of their poor sickly Neighbors; as also the Herb
  kept dry in the Hous that so with other convenient Simples
  you may make it into an Electuary with Hony according as
  the Diseas is, and as you shall be taught at the latter
  end of the Book.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h18}
@section 3 {tt}
  BARBERRY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Shrub is so wel known to every Boy and Girl that
  hath but attained to the age of seven years, that it needs
  no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Mars owns the shrub, and present it to the use of my
  Country~men to purge their Bodies of Choller.  The inner
  Rind of the Barberry Tree boyled in White~Wine and a
  quarter of a pint drunk each morning, is an excellent
  remedy to clense the Body of Chollick Humors, and free it
  {Note 29 here}
  from such Diseases as Choller causeth, such be Scabs, Itch
  Tetters, Ringworms, yellow Jaundice, Boils, &c°.  It is
  excellent for hot Agues, Burnings, Scaldings, heat of
  Bloud, heat of the Liver, Bloudy~flux, for the Berries are
  as good as the Bark, and more pleasing; they get a man a
  good stomach to his victuals, by strengthning the
  attractive faculty, which is under Mars, as you see more
  at large in the latter end of my Ephemeris for the year
  1651.  The Hair washed with the Ly made of the Ashes of
  the Tree and Water, 'twil make it turn yellow, viz° of
  Mars his own colour.  The Fruit and Rind of the Shrub, the
  Flowers of Broom and of Heath, or Furz, clens the Body of
  Choller by Sympathy, as the Flowers, Leaves and Bark of
  the Peach~Tree do by Antipathy; because these are under
  Mars, that under Venus.
  =
@begin {m29}
  {Note 29:} Choller, Scabs, Itch Tetters, Ringworm, Yellow
  Jaundice, Boyls, Agues, Burning, Scaldings, Apetit lost,
  Hair.
@end {m29}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h19}
@section 3 {tt}
  BARLY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The continual usefulness hereof hath made al in general
  so aquainted herewith, that it is altogether needless to
  describe its several kinds hereof plentifully growing,
  being yearly sown in this Land.  The Vertues whereof take
  as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Barly in al the parts and compositions therof (except
  Malt) is more cooling than Wheat, and a little clensing:
  and al the Preparations  therof,  as Barly~water and other
  things made therof, do give great nourishment to persons
  troubled with Feavers, Agues, and heats in the Stomach.
  {Note 30 here}
  A Pultis made of Barly Meal or Flower boyled with Vinegar
  and Honey, and a few dry Figs put into them, dissolveth
  all hard Imposthums, and aswageth Inflamations being
  therto applied: And being boyled with Melilot and Chamomel
  Flowers, and som Linseed, Fenngreek and Rue in Pouder, and
  applied warm, it easeth the pains in the Sides and
  Stomach, and windiness of the Spleen.  The Meal of Barly
  and Fleawort boyled in Water, and made into a Pultis with
  Honey and Oyl of Lillies, applied warm, cureth swellings
  under the Ears, Throat, Neck and such like: and a Plaister
  made therof with Tar, Wax & Oyl, helpeth the Kings~Evil in
  the Throat: Boyled with sharp Vinegar into a Pultis and
  laid on hot helpeth the Leprosie: Being boyled in red Wine
  with Pomgranat Rinds and Mirtles, stayeth the Lask or
  other Flux of the Belly: Boyled with Vinegar and a Quince,
  it easeth the hot pains of the Gout.  Barly flower, white
  Salt, Honey and Vinegar mingled together, taketh away the
  Itch speedily and certainly: The Water distilled from the
  green Barly in the end of May is very good for thos that
  have Defluxions of humors fallen into their Eyes, and
  easeth the pains being dropped into them: or White~Bread
  steeped therein and bound on to the Eyes, doth the same.
  =
@begin {m30}
  {Note 30:} Feavers, Agues, Stomach, Apostums,
  Inflamations, Spleen, Ears, Throat, Neck, Kings Evil,
  Leprosie, Flux, Gout, Itch Eyes.
@end {m30}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h20}
@section 3 {tt}
  GARDEN BAZIL or SWEET BAZIL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The greater ordinary Bazil riseth up usually with one
  upright Stalk diversly branching forth on all sides, with
  two Leaves at every Joynt, which are somewhat broad and
  round, yet pointed, of a pale green colour, but fresh, a
  little snipt about the edges, and of a strong heady scent:
  The Flowers are smal and white standing at the tops of the
  Branches, with two smal Leavs at the Joynt, in som places
  green, in others brown, after which come black Seed.  The
  Root perisheth at the approach of Winter, and therfore
  must be new sowen every year.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It only groweth in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It must be sowed late, and flowers in the heat of
  Summer, being a very tender Plant.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is the Herb which all Authors are together by the
  Ears about, and rail at one another like Lawyers: Galen
  and Diascorides hold it not fitting to be taken inwardly:
  and Chrysippus rails at it with downright
  Billingsgate~Rhetorick.  Pliny, and the Arabian Physitians
  defend it.
  =
     For mine own part I presently found that speech true;
  =
@begin {ltv}
  {»}Non nostrum inter nos tantas componere lites.÷
  =
@end {ltv}
     And away to Dr° Reason went I, who told me it was an
  Herb of Mars, and under the Scorpion, and perhaps therfore
  called Basilicon, and then no mervail if it carry a kind
  {Note 31 here}
  of virulent quality with it:  Being applied to the place
  bitten by a venemous Beast, or stung by a Wasp or Hornet,
  it speedily draws the Poyson to it; Every like draws his
  like.  Myzaldus affirms, That it being laid to rot in
  Horsdung it wil breed Venemous Beasts.  And Hollerius a
  French Physitian affirms upon his own knowledg, That an
  acquaintance of his by common smelling to it, had a
  Scorpion bred in his Brain.  Somthing is the matter this
  Herb and Rue wil not grow together, no nor near one
  another: And we know Rue is as great an enemy to Poyson as
  any grows.
  =
@begin {m31}
  {Note 31:} Venemous Beasts, Bees, Wasps, Hornets.
@end {m31}
     To conclude: It expelleth both Birth, and After~birth;
  and as it helps the deficiency of Venus in one kind, so it
  spoils al her actions in another.  I dare write no more of
  it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h21}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BAY TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known that it needs no Description; I
  shal therfore only write the Vertues therof, which are
  many.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Galen saith, That the Leaves or Bark do dry and heal
  very much, and the Berries more than the Leaves: The Bark
  of the Root is less sharp and hot, but more bitter, and
  hath some astriction withal, whereby it is effectual to
  break the Stone, and good to open obstructions of the
  {Note 32 here}
  Liver, Spleen, and other inward parts, which bring the
  Dropsie, Jaundice, &c°.  The Berries are very effectual
  against al Poyson of venemous Creatures, and the Stings of
  Wasps and Bees, as also against the Pestilence or other
  infectious Diseases, and therfore is put into sundry
  Triacles for that purpose: They likewise procure Womens
  Courses; and seven of them given to a Woman in sore travel
  of Child~birth, do cause a speedy delivery, and expel the
  After~birth; and therfore not to be taken by such as have
  not gon out their time lest they procure Abortment, or
  cause Labor too soon: They wonderfully help al cold and
  rhumatick Distillations from the Brain to the Eyes, Lungs
  or other parts: And being made into an Electuary with
  Honey, do help the  Consumption, old Coughs, shortness of
  Breath, and thin Rhewms: as also the Meagrim, they
  mightily expel wind and provoke Urin; help the Mother, and
  kil the Worms: The Leaves also work the like effects.  A
  {Note 33 here}
  Bath of the Decoction of the Leavs and Berries, is
  singular good for Women to sit in that are troubled with
  the Mother, or the Diseases therof, or the stoppings of
  their Courses, or for the Diseases of the Bladder, pains
  in the Bowels by wind, and stoppnig of Urin: A decoction
  likewise of equal parts of Bay~berries, Cummin~Seed,
  Hysop, Origanum, and Euphorbium, with some Honey, and the
  Head bathed therwith doth wonderfully help Distillations
  and Rhewms, and setleth the Pallat of the Mouth into its
  place.  The Oyl made of the Berries is very comfortable in
  all cold Griefs of the Joynts, Nervs, Arteries, Stomach,
  Belly, or Womb, and helpeth Palsies, Convulsions, Cramps,
  Aches, trembling and numness in any part, weariness also,
  and pains that come by sore travelling: Al griefs and
  pains likewise proceeding from Wind, either in the Head,
  Stomach, Back, Belly, or Womb, by anointing the parts
  affected therwith: And pains in the Ears are also cured by
  dropping in some of the Oyl, or by receiving into the Ears
  the warm fume of the Decoction of the Berries through a
  Funnel.  The Oyl takes away marks of the Skin and Flesh by
  bruises, Fals, &c° and dissolveth the congealed Bloud in
  them: It helpeth also the Itch, Scabs, and Wheals in the
  Skin.
  =
@begin {m32}
  {Note 32:} Stone, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen,
  Dropsie, Poyson, Jaundice, Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Terms
  provokes, Cause Delivery, Afterbirth, Eyes,Lungs.
@end {m32}
@begin {m33}
  {Note 33:} Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Megrim, Wind,
  Vertigo, Disury, Mother, Worms, Joynts, Nerves, Arteries,
  Stomach, Belly, Womb, Ears, Marks in the Skin, Itch,
  Scabs.
@end {m33}
     I shal but only ad a word or two to what my Friend hath
  {Note 34 here}
  written, viz° That it is a Tree of the Sun, and under the
  Coelestial Sign Leo, and resisteth Witchcraft very
  potently, as also al the evil old Saturn can do to the
  Body of Man, and they are not a few, for it is the Speech
  of one, and I am mistaken if it were not Myzaldus, That
  neither Witch nor Devil, Thunder nor Lightning wil hurt a
  Man in the place where a Bay~Tree is.
  =
@begin {m34}
  {Note 34:} Witchcraft.
@end {m34}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h22}
@section 3 {tt}
  BEANS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Both the Garden and Field Beans are so wel known that
  it saveth me labor of writing any Description of them:
  Their Vertues briefly are as followeth.
  =
     The distilled wather of the Flowers of Garden Beans is
  good to clens the Face and Skin from Spots and Wrinkles,
  and the Meal or Flower of them, or the smal, doth the
  same.  The Water distilled from the green Husks is held to
  be very effectual against the Stone, and to provoke Urine.
  {Note 35 here}
  Bean Flower is used in Pultisses to asswage Inflamations
  rising upon Wounds, and the swelling of Womens Breasts
  caused by the curding of their Milk, and represseth their
  Milk: The Flower of Beans and Fenugreek mixed with Honey,
  and applied to Fellons, Boyls, Bruises, or blue Marks by
  blows, or the Imposthumes in the Kernels of the Ears,
  helpeth them all: And with Rose Leavs, Frankinsens and the
  white of an Egg being applied to the Eyes, helpeth them
  that are swoln, or do water, or have received any blow
  upon them if used with Wine.  If a Bean be parted in two,
  {Note 36 here}
  the skin being taken away, and laid on the place where a
  Leech hath been set that bleedeth too much, it staieth the
  bleeding.  Bean Flower boyled to a Pultis with Wine and
  Vinegar and some Oyl put therto, ceaseth both pain and
  swelling of the Cods: The Husks boyled in Water to a
  consumption of a third part therof staieth a Lask: and the
  Ashes of the Husks made up with old Hogs Greas, helpeth
  the old pains, contusions and Wounds of the Sinews, the
  {Note 37 here}
  Sciatica, and Gout.  The Field Beans have all the
  aforementioned Vertues as the Garden Beans
  =
@begin {m35}
  {Note 35:} Spots, Stone, Disury, Inflamation, Womens
  Breasts.
@end {m35}
@begin {m36}
  {Note 36:} Felons, or Andicoms, Boils, Bruses, Ears, Eyes,
  Leeches.
@end {m36}
@begin {m37}
  {Note 37:} Cods swelled, Flux, Pain, Sinews, Sciatica,
  Gout.
@end {m37}
     Beans eaten are extream windy meat, but if after the
  Dutch fashion when they are half boyled you husk them, and
  then stew them (I cannot tell you how, for I never was
  Cook in al my life) they are wholsomer food.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h23}
@section 3 {tt}
  FRENCH~BEANS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The French or Kidney Bean ariseth up at first but with
  one stalk which afterwards divideth its self into many
  Arms or Branches, but also weak that if they be not
  sustained with sticks or poles, they wil lie fruitless
  upon the ground: at several places of these Branches grow
  forth long footstalks, with every one of them three broad
  round and pointed green Leavs at the end of them, towards
  the tops wherof come forth divers Flowers made like unto
  Pease Blossoms, of the same colour for the most part that
  the fruit wil be of, that is to say, white, yellow, red,
  blackish, or a deep purple; but white is most usual; after
  which come long and slender flat Pods, some crooked, some
  straight, with a string as it were running down the Back
  therof, wherein are contained flattish round fruit made to
  the fashion of a Kidney; the Root is long and spreadeth
  with many strings annexed to it, and perisheth every year.
  =
     There is also another sort of French Beans commonly
  growing with us in this land, which is called the Scarlet
  flowred Bean.
  =
     This ariseth up with sundry Branches as the other, but
  runs up higher to the length of Hop~poles, about which
  they grow twining, but turning contrary to the Sun, having
  Footstalks  with three Leaves on each as on the other: The
  Flowers also are in fashion like the other, but many more
  set together, and of a most Orient Scalet colour.  The
  Beans are larger than the ordinary kind, of a deep Purple
  colour, turning black when it is ripe and dry:  The Root
  perisheth also in Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The ordinary French Beans are of an easie digestion,
  they move the Belly, provoke Urin, enlarge the Breast that
  is straitned with shortness of Breath, engender Sperme,
  and incite Venery.
  {Note 38 here}
  =
@begin {m38}
  {Note 38:} Disury, Shortess of breath, Incite to Venery.
  A gallant shew.
@end {m38}
     And the Scarlet~coloured Beans in regard of the
  glorious beauty of their colour being set near a Quickset
  Hedg, wil bravely adorn the same, by climing up theron; so
  that they may be discerned a great way, not without
  admiration of the beholder at a distance.  But they wil go
  near to kil the Quicksets by cloathing them in Scarlet.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h24}
@section 3 {tt}
  LADIES~BEDSTRAW.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This ariseth up with divers smal brown and square
  upright Stalks a yard high or more, somtimes branched
  forth into divers parts, ful of Joynts, and with diverse
  very fine small Leaves at every one of them little or
  nothing rough at al:  At the top of the Branches grow many
  long tufts or branches of yellow Flowers very thick set
  together, from the several Joynts which consist of four
  smal Leavs apiece, which smel somwhat strong, but not
  unpleasant:  The Seed is smal and black like Poppy seed,
  two for the most part joyned together:  The Root is
  reddish with many smal thrids fastned unto it, which take
  strong hold of the ground and creepeth a little: And the
  Branches leaning a little down to the ground take Root at
  the Joynts therof, wherby it is easily encreased.
  =
     There is also another sort of Ladies~Bedstraw growing
  frequently in England, which beareth white Flowers as the
  other doth yellow; but the Branches of this are so weak
  that unless it be sustained by the Hedges, or other things
  near which it groweth it wil lie down on the ground;  the
  Leaves a little bigger than the former, and the Flowers
  not so plentiful as those; and the Root hereof is also
  thridy, and abiding.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in Meadows and Pastures both wet and dry, and
  by the Hedges.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower in May for the most part, and the Seed is
  ripe in July and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the former of these being drunk is
  good to fret and break the Stone, and provokes Urin,
  stayeth inward bleedings, and healeth inward Wounds: The
  {Note 39 here}
  Herb or Flower bruised and put up into the Nostrils,
  stayeth their bleeding likewise:  The Flowers and the Herb
  made into an Oyl by being set in the Sun, and changed
  after it hath stood ten or twelve daies; or into an
  Ointment being boyled in Axungia or Sallet~Oyl with some
  Wax melted therein after it is strained; either the Oyl
  made therof or the Ointment do help Burnings with Fire, or
  Scalding with Water: the same also, or the Decoction of
  the Herb and Flower is good to bath the Feet of Travellers
  and Lacquies whose long running causeth weariness and
  stifness in their Sinews and Joynts;  If the Decoction be
  used warm, and the Joynts afterwards anointed with the
  Ointment.  It helpeth the dry Scab, and the Itch in
  Children:  And the Herb with the white Flower is also very
  good for the Sinews, Arteries, and Joynts to comfort and
  strengthen them after travel, cold and pains.
  {Note 40 here}
  =
@begin {m39}
  {Note 39:} Stone, Dysury, Bleeding, Wounds.
@end {m39}
@begin {m40}
  {Note 40:} Burnings, Gauled~Feet, Weariness, Stiffness of
  Joynts, Scabs, Itch.
@end {m40}
     They are both Herbs of Venus and therfore strengthen
  the patrs both internal and external which she rules.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h25}
@section 3 {tt}
  BEETS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     There are two sorts of Beets which are best known
  generally, and wherof I shal principally intreat at this
  time.  Viz°  The White and the Red Beets, and their
  vertues.
  =
     The Common White Beet hath many great Leaves next the
  ground somwhat large, and of a whitish green colour:  The
  Stalk is great, strong and ribbed, bearing great store of
  leaves upon it almost to the very top of it:  The flowers
  grow in very long tufts, smal at the ends, and turning
  down their Heads, which are smal, pale, greenish, yellow
  Burrs, giving cornered prickled Seed.  The Root is great,
  long and hard, and when it hath given Seed of no use at
  all.
  =
     The Common Red Beet differeth not from the White, but
  only it is lesser and the Leaves and the Roots are somwhat
  red:  The Leaves are differently red, in som only with red
  strakes or veins, som of a fresh red, and others of a dark
  red.  The Root hereof is red, spungy and not used to be
  eaten.
  {Note 41 here}
  =
@begin {m41}
  {Note 41:} Clens, Digest, Disury, Obstructions of the
  Liver and Spleen, Vertigo, Venemous Beasts.
@end {m41}
     The White Beet doth much loosen the Belly, and is of a
  clensing and digesting quality, and provoketh Urin: The
  Juyce of it openeth obstructions both of the Liver and
  Spleen, and is good for the Headaches and swimmings
  therein, and turnings of the Brain; and is effectual also
  against al venemous creatures: and applied upon the
  Temples, stayeth Inflamations  in the Eyes; it helpeth
  Burnings being used without Oyl, and with a little Allum
  {Note 42 here}
  put to it, is good for St° Anthonies fire.  It is also
  good for al Wheals, Pushes, Blisters, and Blains in the
  Skin:  The Herb boyled and laid upon Chilblains or Kibes,
  helpeth them:  The Decoction therof in Water and some
  Vinegar healeth the Itch, if bathed therwith, and clenseth
  the Head of Dandraf, Scurff, and dry Scabs, and doth much
  good for fretting and running Sores, Ulcers, & Cankers in
  the Head, Legs, or other parts, and is much commended
  against Baldness and shedding of Hair.
  =
@begin {m42}
  {Note 42:} Brning, St° Anthonies Fire, Wheals, Blisters,
  Chilblains, Kibes,Itch, Dandriff, Scurff Scabs, Ulcers,
  Cankers, Baldness.
@end {m42}
     The red Beet is good to stay the Bloody Flux, Womens
  Courses, and the Whites, and to help the yellow Jaundice.
  {Note 43 here}
  The Juyce or the Root put into the Nostrils purgeth the
  Head, helpeth the nois in the Ears, and the Tooth~ach; the
  Juyce snuffed up the Nose helps a stinking Breath if the
  caus lie in the Nose as many times it doth, if any bruis
  have been there, as also want of smel coming that way.
  =
@begin {m43}
  {Note 43:} Flux Terms, Stops, Whites, Stinking Breath,
  Noise in the Ears, Toothach, Smell lost.
@end {m43}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h26}
@section 3 {tt}
  WATER~BETONY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     First of the Water~Betony, which riseth up with square
  hard greenish Stalks, and somtimes brown, set with broad
  dark green Leavs dented about the edges with notches,
  somwhat resembling the Leavs of the Wood~Betony, but much
  larger, two for the most part set at a Joynt.  The Flowers
  are many, set at the tops of the Stalks and Branches,
  being round bellied, and open at the Brims and divided
  into two parts, the uppermost being like a Hood, and the
  lowest like a Lip hanging down, of a dark red colour,
  which passing away, there comes in their places smal round
  Heads with smal points in the ends, wherin lie smal and
  brownish Seeds:  The Root is a thick Bush of strings and
  threds growing from an Head.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth by Ditchsides, Brooks, and other
  Water~courses generally through this Land, and is seldom
  found far from the Waters sides.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowereth about July and the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is of a clensing quality;  the Leavs bruised and
  applied are effectual for all old and filthy Ulcers; and
  especially if the Juyce of the Leavs be boyled with a
  little Honey, and tents dipped therin, and the Sores
  dressed therwith: as also for Bruises or Hurts whether
  {Note 44 here}
  inward or outward.  The distilled water of the Leaves is
  used for the same purposes; as also to bath the Face or
  Hands spotted or blemished, or discolored by Sunburning.
  =
@begin {m44}
  {Note 44:} Ulcers, Bruises, Sunburning.
@end {m44}
     I confess I do not much fancy distilled Waters, I mean
  such Waters as are distilled cold, some vertue of the Herb
  they may happliy have (it were a strange thing else) but
  this I am confident of, that being distilled in a Pewter
  Stil, as the vulgar and apish fashion is, both Chymical
  Oyl and Salt is left behind, unless you burn them, and
  then all is spoiled, Water and al, which was good for as
  little as can be by such a Distillation.  You have the
  best way of Distillation in my Translation of the London
  Dispensatory.  The Colledg of Physitians having as much
  skil in Distillations as an Ass hath reading Hebrew.
  =
     Water~Betony is an Herb of Jupiter in Cancer and is
  apropriated more to Wounds and Hurts in the Breast than
  Wood~Betony which follows.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h27}
@section 3 {tt}
  WOOD~BETONY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common or Wood~Betony hath many Leavs rising from
  the root which are somwhat broad and round at the ends,
  roundly dented about the edges, standing upon long
  Footstalks, from among which rise up smal, square,
  slender, but yet upright hairy Stalks, with some Leaves
  thereon, two apiece at the Joynts, smaller than the lower,
  whereon are set several spiked Heads of Flowers like
  Lavender, but thicker and shorter for the most part, and
  of a reddish or purple colour, spotted with white spots
  both in the upper and lower part;  The Seeds being
  contained within the Husks that hold the Flowers, are
  blackish, somwhat long and uneven.  The Roots are many
  white threddy strings; the Stalk perisheth, but the Root
  with some Leavs theron, abides al the Winter.  The whole
  Plant is somwhat smal.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth frequently in Woods, and delighteth in
  Shady~places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And it flowreth in July, after which, the Seed is
  quickly ripe, yet in its prime in May.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Antonius Musa Physitian to the Emperor Augustus Caesar,
  wrote a peculiar Book of the Vertues of this Herb, and
  amongst other vertues, saith of it, That it preserveth the
  Lives and Bodies of Men free from the danger of Epidemical
  Diseases, and from Witchcrafts also:  It is found by daily
  experience to be good for many Diseases; It helpeth those
  {Note 45 here}
  that loath, or cannot digest their Meat, those that  have weak Stomachs, or sower belchings, or continual rising in
  their Stomach, using it familiarly either green or dry;
  either the Herb, the root, or the Flowers in Broth drunk,
  or Meat, or made into Conserve, Syrup, Water Electuary, or
  Pouder as every one may best frame themselvs unto, or as
  the time or season requireth, taken any of the aforesaid
  waies.  It helpeth the Jaundice, Falling~sickness, the
  Palsie, Convulsions, or shrinking of the Sinews, the Gout,
  and those that are inclined to Dropsies, those that have
  continual Pains in their Head, although it turn to
  Phrensie.  The Pouder mixed with pure Honey is no less
  available for al sorts of Coughs or Colds, Wheesing or
  shortness of Breath, Distillations of thin Rhewm upon the
  Lungues, which causeth Consumptions.  The Decoction made
  with Mead and a little Penyroyal, is good for those that
  are troubled with putrid Agues, whether Quotidian,
  Tertian, or Quartan, and to draw down and evacuate the
  Blood and humors that by falling into the Eyes do hinder
  the Sight:  The Decoction therof made in Wine and taken,
  killeth the Worms in the Belly, openeth Obstructions both
  of the Spleen and Liver, cureth Stitches and Pains in the
  Back, or Sides, the Torments and griping pains of the
  Bowels, and the wind Chollick: and mixed with Honey
  purgeth the Belly, helpeth to bring down Womens Courses,
  and is of especial use for those that are troubled with
  the falling down of the Mother, and pains therof, and
  causeth an easie and speedy delivery of Women in
  Childbirth: it helpeth also to break and expel the Stone
  either in the Bladder or Kidneys.  The Decoction with Wine
  gargled in the Mouth, easeth the Toothach.  It is
  commended against the sting or biting or Venemous Serpents
  or Mad Dogs.  Being used inwardly and applied outwardly to
  the place.  A dram of the Pouder in Betony taken with a
  little Honey in some Vinegar, doth wonderfully refresh
  those that are overwearied by travail; it staieth
  bleedings at the Mouth or Nose, and helpeth those that
  piss or spit Blood, and those that are Bursten or have a
  Rupture, and is good for such as are bruised by any fall
  or otherwise.  The green Herb bruised, or the Juyce
  applied to any inward hurt or outward green Wound in the
  Head or Body wil quickly heal and close it up; as also any
  Veins or Sinews that are cut; and will draw forth any
  broken Bone, or Splinter, Thorn or other thing gotten into
  the Flesh: It is no less profitable for old Sores, or
  filthy Ulcers, yea, though they be Fistulaus and hollow,
  but some do advise to put in a little Salt to this
  purpose:  Being applied with a little Hogs Lard, it
  helpeth a Plague~Sore, and other Boyls and Pushes: The
  fumes of the Decoction while it is warm received by a
  Funnel into the Ears, easeth the pains of them, destroyeth
  the Worms, and cureth the running Sores in them.  The
  Juyce dropped into them doth the same.  The Root of Betony
  is displeasing both to the tast and Stomach, whereas the
  Leavs and Flowers by their sweet and spicy tast, are
  comfortable both in Meat and Medicine.
  =
@begin {m45}
  {Note 45:} Epidemical Diseases, Witchcraft, Apetite,
  Indigestion, Stomach, Belching, Jaundice, Falling
  sickness, Palsey, Convulsion, Shrinking of the Sinews,
  Gout, Dropsie, Frensie, Cough, Cold, Shortness of Breath,
  Agues of all sorts, Sore Eyes, Worms, Obstructions of the
  Liver and Spleen, Stitches, Pains in the Back and Belly,
  Terms provokes, Mother, Childbirth, Stone, Toothach,
  Venemous Beasts, Mad~dogs, Weariness, Bleeding at Mouth
  and Nose, Pissing & spitting of Blood, Ruptures, Bruises,
  Wounds, Veins and Sinews, Cuts, Ulcers, Fistulaes, Boyls,
  Ears.
@end {m45}
     There are some of the many Vertues Antony Musa an
  expert Physitian (for it was not the practice of Octavius
  Caesar to keep Fools about him) apropriates to Bethony; It
  is a very precious Herb that's certain, and most fitting
  to be kept in a mans hous both in Syrup, Conserve, Oyl,
  Oyntment, and Plaister.  The Flowers are usually
  Conserved.
  =
     The Herb is apropriated to the Planet Jupiter, and the
  Sign Aries.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h28}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BEECH TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     In treating of this Tree, you must understand that I
  mean the great Mast Beech; which is by way of distinction
  from that other smal rough sort, called in Sussex, the
  small Beech; but in Essex, Hornbeam.
  =
     I suppose it needless to describe it, being already so
  wel known to my Countrymen.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Woods amongst Oaks, and other Trees, and
  in Parks, Forrests, and Chases, to feed Deer; and in other
  places to fatten Swine.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It bloometh in the end of April, or begining of May for
  the most part, and the Fruit is ripe in September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs of the Beech~Tree are cooling and binding,
  and therfore good to be applied to hot Swellings to
  discuss them:  The Nuts do much nourish such Beasts as
  feed thereon: The Water that is found in the hollow places
  of decaying Beeches, will cure both Man and Beast of any
  Scurf, Scab, or running Tetters, if they be washed
  therwith.  You may boyl the Leavs into a Pultis, or make
  an Ointment of them when time of year serves.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h29}
@section 3 {tt}
  BILBERRIES:
  Called also (by som)
  Whorts, and Whortleberries.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Descriptions.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Of these I shal only speak of two sorts, which are
  commonly known in England, Viz°  The Black, and the Red
  Bilberries.  And first of the Black.
  =
     This smal Bush creepeth along upon the ground scarce
  rising half a yard high, with divers smal dark green
  Leaves set on the green Branches, not alwaies one against
  another, and a little dented about the edges:  At the foot
  of the Leaves com forth smal, hollow, pale, blush coloured
  Flowers, the brims ending in five points, with a reddish
  threed in the middle, which pass into smal round Berries
  of the bigness and colour of Juniper Berries, but of a
  Purple sweetish sharp tast; the Juyce of them giveth a
  Purplish colour to their Hands and Lips that eat and
  handle them, especially if they break them.  The Root
  groweth asloop under ground, shooting forth in sundry
  places as it creepeth:  This loseth its Leaves in Winter.
  =
     The Red Bilberry, or Whortle~bush, riseth up like the
  former, having sundry harder Leaves, like the Box~Tree
  Leaves, green and round pointed standing on the several
  Branches, at the tops whereof only, and not from the sides
  as in the former, com forth divers round flowers of a pale
  red color, after which succeed, round reddish sappy
  Berries when they are ripe, of a sharp tast: The Root
  runneth in the ground, as the former; but the Leaves of
  this abide al Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first groweth in Forrests, on the Heaths and such
  like barren plaaces:  The Red grows in the North parts of
  this Land, as Lancashire, Yorkshire, &c°.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower in March and April; and the Fruit of the
  Black is ripe in June and July.
  =
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertue and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Black Bilberries are good in hot Agues and to cool
  the heat of the Liver and stomach; they do somwhat bind
  the Belly, and stay Vomitings and Loathings:  The Juyce of
  {Note 46 here}
  the Berries made into a Syrup, or the Pulp made into a
  Conserve with Sugar, is good for the purposes aforesaid,
  as also for an old Cough or an Ulcer in the Lungs, or
  other diseases therein.  The Red Whorts are more binding,
  and stop Womens Courses, spitting of Blood, or any other
  Flux of Blood or Humors, being used aswel outwardly as
  inwardly.
  =
@begin {m46}
  {Note 46:} Agues, Stomach, Liver, Vomiting, Apetite lost,
  Cough, Phtisick, Fluxes.
@end {m46}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h30}
@section 3 {tt}
  BIFOYL, or TWAYBLADE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This smal Herb from a Root somewhat sweet, shooting
  downwards many long strings, riseth up a round green Stalk
  bare or naked next the ground for an inch, two or three to
  the middle therof, as it is in age or growth, as also from
  the middle upward to the Flowers, having only two broad
  Plantain~like Leaves (but whiter) set at the middle of the
  Stalk one against another, and compasseth it round at the
  bottom of them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is a usual Inhabitant in Woods, Copses, and in many
  other places in this Land.
  =
     There is another sort growes in wet grounds and
  Marshes, which is somwhat differing from the former: It is
  a smaler Plant, and greener, having somtimes three Leaves;
  the Spike of Flowers is less than the former, and the
  Roots of this do run or creep in the ground.
  =
     They are much and often used by many to good purpose
  for Wounds both green and old, and to consolidate or knit
  Ruptures.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h31}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BIRCH~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth a goodly tall straight Tree, fraught with
  many Boughes and slender Branches bending downward; the
  old ones being covered with a discoloured chapped Bark,
  and the yonger being browner by much:  The Leaves at their
  first breaking out are crumpled, and afterward like the
  Beech Leaves, but smaler and greener, and dented about the
  edges:  It beareth smal short Catkins, somwhat like those
  of the Hazel~Nut~tree, which abide on the Branches a long
  time, until growing ripe they fall on the ground, and
  their Seed with them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It usually groweth in Woods.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of the Leaves while they are yong, or the
  distilled Water of them, or the Water that coms out of the
  Tree, being bored with an Augur and distilled afterwards;
  {Note 47 here}
  any of these being drunk for some time together, is
  available to break the Stone in the Kidnies or Bladder;
  and is good also to wash sore Mouths.
  =
@begin {m47}
  {Note 47:} Stone, sore Mouths.
@end {m47}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h32}
@section 3 {tt}
  BIRDS~FOOT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This smal Herb groweth not above a span high, with many
  Branches spread on the ground, set with many wings of smal
  Leaves; The Flowers grow upon the Branches, many smal ones
  of a pale yellow colour, being set at a head together,
  which afterwards turn into so many smal joynted Cods with
  Seeds in them; the Cods well resembling the Claws of smal
  Birds, whence it took its name.
  =
     There is another sort of Birds~Foot in all
  things like
  the former, but a little larger; the Flowers of a pale
  whitish red colour, and the Cods distinct by Joynts like
  the other, but a little more crooked, and the Roots do
  carry many small white Knots or Kernels amongst the
  Strings.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These grow on Heaths, and many open untilled places of
  this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower and feed in the end of Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are of a drying, binding quality and therby very
  good to be used in Wound~drinks, as also to apply
  outwardly for the same purpose.  But the latter Birds~foot
  is found by experience to break the Stones in the Back or
  {Note 48 here}
  Kidnies, and drive them forth, if the Decoction therof be
  taken; and it wonderfully helpeth the Rupture, being taken
  inwardly, and outwardly applied to the place.
  =
@begin {m48}
  {Note 48:} Dry, Binds Wounds, Stone, Ruptures.
@end {m48}
     All Salts have best operation upon the Ston, as
  Ointments & Plaisters have upon Wounds; and therfore if
  you may make a Salt of this for the Stone, the way how to
  do so many be found in my Translation of the London
  Dispensatory, and it may be I may give you again in
  plainer terms at the latter end of this Book.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h33}
@section 3 {tt}
  BISHOPS~WEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Bishops~weed riseth up with a round straight
  Stalk, somtimes as high as a Man, but usually three or
  four foot high, beset with divers smal, long, and somwhat
  broad Leavs, cut in som places and dented about the edges,
  growing one against another, of a dark green colour;
  having sundry Branches on them, and at the top smal umbels
  of white flowers, which turn into smal round brown Seed,
  little bigger than Parsly~seed, of a quick hot scent and
  tast: The Root is white and stringie, perishing yearly
  after it hath seeded, and usually riseth again of its own
  sowing.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth wild in many places in England and Wales, as
  between Greenheath and Gravsend.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It digesteth Humors, provoketh Urin and Womens Courses,
  dissolveth Wind; and being taken in Wine, easeth pains and
  griping in the Bowels, and is good against the biting of
  Serpents: It is used to good effect in those Medicins
  which are given to hinder the poysonful operation of
  Cantharides upon the passages of the Urin: Being mixed
  with Honey, and applied to black and blue marks, coming of
  Blows or bruises, it takes them away: and being drunk or
  outwardly applied, it abates an high colour, and makes it
  pale; and the Fumes therof taken with Rozin, or Raisons,
  {Note 49 here}
  clenseth the Mother.
  =
@begin {m49}
  {Note 49:} Disury, Terms provokes, Wind, Chollick,
  Venemous Beasts, Cantharides, black and blew Spots, High
  Colour, Mother.
@end {m49}
     It is hot and dry in the third degree, of a bitter tast
  and somthing sharp withal; it provokes Lust to purpose; I
  suppose Venus owns it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h34}
@section 3 {tt}
  BISTORT, OR SNAKEWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath a thick, short, knobbed Root, blackish
  without, and somwhat reddish within, a little crooked or
  turned together, of an harsh astringent tast, with divers
  black threds hanging there, from whence spring up every
  year divers Leaves standing upon long Footstalks, being
  somwhat broad and long like a Dock~leaf, and a little
  pointed at the ends, but that it is of a blewish green
  colour on the upper side, and of an Ash colour gray, and a
  little purplish underneath, with divers Veins therin; from
  among which rise up divers smal and slender Stalks, two
  foot high, and almost naked, and without Leavs, or with
  very few, and narrow, bearing a spiky Bush of pale Flesh
  colour'd Flowers, which being past there abideth smal
  Seed, somwhat like unto Sorrel Seed, but greater.
  =
     There are other sorts of Bistort, growing in this Land,
  but smaller, both in height, Root, and Stalks, and
  especially in the Leavs, The Root blackish without, and
  somwhat whitish within, of an austere binding tast as the
  former.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in shadowy moist Woods, and at the foot of
  Hils, but are chiefly nourished up in Gardens.  The narrow
  leaved Bistort groweth in the North, in Lancashire,
  Yorkshire, and Cumberland.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower about the end of May, and the Seed is ripe
  about the beginning of July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Both the Leavs and Roots have have a powerful faculty
  to resist al Poyson: The Root in Pouder taken in drink
  expelleth the Venem of the Plague, the smal Pox, Meazles,
  Purples, or any other infectious Disease, driving it out
  by sweating:  The Root in Pouder or the Decoction therof
  {Note 50 here}
  in Wine being drunk, stayeth al manner of inward bleedings
  or spittings of Blood, and any Fluxes in the Body of
  either Man or Woman or Vomitings; it is also very
  available against Ruptures or Burstings or all bruises or
  fals, dissolving the congealed Blood, and easeth the pains
  that happen therupon, it also helpeth the Jaundice. The Water
   distilled from both Leavs and Roots is a singular
  remedy to wash any place bitten or stung by any venemous
  creature;  as also for any of the purposes before spoken
  of.
  =
@begin {m50}
  {Note 50:} Poyson, Plague, Smal Pocks, Meazles, Purples,
  Epidemical Diseases.  Inward bleeding, Flux, Vomiting
  Ruptures, Jaundice, Venemous Beasts.
@end {m50}
     And is very good to wash any running Sores or Ulcers.
  The Decoction of the Root in Wine being drunk, hindreth
  Abortion or Miscarriage in Child~bearing.  The Leavs also
  kil the Worms in Children, and is a great help for them
  that cannot keep their Water, if the Juyce of Plantane be
  added therto.  And outwardly applied, much helpeth the
  {Note 51 here}
  Gonorrhea, or Running of the Reins.  A dram of the Pouder
  of the Root taken in the Water thereof, wherein som red
  hot Iron or Steel hath been quenched is also an admirable
  help thereto, so as the Body be first prepared and purged
  from the offensive humors.  The Leaves, Seed, or Roots are
  al very good in Decoctions, Drinks or Lotians, for inward
  or outward Wounds or other sores: and the Pouder strewed
  upon any cut or wound in a Vein, stayeth the immoderat
  bleeding thereof.  The Decoction of the Roots in Water
  whereunto som Pomgranate Pils and Flowers are added,
  injected into the Matrix, stayeth the access of humors to
  the Ulcers thereof, and bringeth it to its right place,
  being fallen down, and stayeth the immoderat flux of the
  Courses.  The Root hereof with Pellitory of Spain and
  burnt Allum of each a like quantity, beaten smal and made
  into Past, with some Honey, and a little piece thereof put
  into an hollow~Tooth, or held between the Teeth if there
  be no hollowness in them, stayeth the defluxion of Rhewm
  upon them, which causeth pains, and helps to clense the
  Head, and avoid much offensive Water.  The Distilled Water
  is very effectual to wash Sores or Cankers in the Nose or
  any other part, if the Pouder of the Root be applied
  {Note 52 here}
  therunto afterwards.  It is good also to fasten the Gums,
  and to take away the heat and inflamations that happen in
  the Jaws, Almonds of the Throat or Mouth, if the Decoction
  of the Leavs, Roots, or Seeds be used, or the Juyce of
  them; but the Roots are most effectual to all the purposes
  aforesaid.
  =
@begin {m51}
  {Note 51:} Ulcers, Abortion, Worms, Diabites, Running of
  the Reins, Wounds, Bleeding.
@end {m51}
@begin {m52}
  {Note 52:} Matrix, Terms stops, Tooth~ach, Head, Cankers,
  Gums, Inflamations, Almonds of the Ears.
@end {m52}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h35}
@section 3 {tt}
  ONE~BLADE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This smal Plant never beareth more than one Leaf, but
  only when it rises up with its Stalk which thereon beareth
  another, and seldom more, which are of a bluish green
  colour, broad at the bottom and pointed with many Ribs or
  Veins like Plantane:  At the top of the Stalk grow many
  smal white Flowers Star~fashion smelling somthing sweet:
  after which come smal reddish Berries when they are ripe.
  The Root is smal, of the bigness of a Rush, lying and
  creeping under the upper crust of the Earth, shooting
  forth in diverse places.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in moist shadowy, grassie places of Woods in
  many places of this Realm.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth about May, and the Berries be ripe in June,
  and then quickly perisheth until the next year it springth
  from the same again.
  =
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
  The Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Half a dram, or a dram at most of the Roots hereof in
  Pouder, taken in Wine and Vinegar of each a like quantity,
  and the party presently laid to sweat, is held to be a
  sovereign remedy for those that are infected with the
  Plague, and have a sore upon them, by expelling the Poyson
  and defending the Heart and Spirits from danger: it is
  also accounted a singular good Wound~Herb, and therfore
  used with other Herbs in making such Balms as are
  necessary or the curing of Wounds, either green or old,
  and especially if the Nervs or Sinews be hurt.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h36}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BRAMBLE;
  or Black~Berry~Bush.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known that it needeth no Description.
  The Vertues therof are as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Buds, Leavs and Branches while they are green are
  of a good use in the Ulcers and putrid sores of the Mouth
  and Throat, and for the Quinsie; and likewise to heal
  other fresh Wounds and Sores; but the Flowers & Fruit
  {Note 53 here}
  unripe are very binding, and so profitable for the
  Bloudy~flux, Lasks, and are a fit remedy for spitting of
  Bloud.  Either the Decoction or Pouder of the Root being
  taken is good to break or drive forth Gravel, and the
  Stone in the Reins and Kidnies.  The Leavs and Brambles
  aswel green as dry, are excellent good Lotions for sores
  in the Mouth or secret parts:  The Decoction of them & of
  the dried Branches, do much bind the Belly, and are good
  for the too much flowing of Womens Courses:  The Berries
  or the Flowers are a powerful remedy against the Poyson of
  the most venemous Serpents, as wel drunk as outwardly
  applied, helpeth the sores of the Fundament, and the
  Piles.  The Juyce of the Berries mixed with Juyce of
  Mulberries, do bind more effectually, and help fretting
  and eating sores and Ulcers whersoever.  The Distilled
  Water of the Branches, Leaves and Flowers, or of the
  Fruit, is very pleasant in tast, and very effectual
   in Feavers and hot distempers of the Body, Head, Eyes and
  other parts, and for al the purposes aforesaid.  The
  Leaves boyled in Ly and the Head washed therewith, healeth
  the Itch and the running sores therof, and maketh the Hair
  black.  The Pouder of the Leaves strewed on cankrous and
  running Ulcers, doth wonderfully help to heal them.  Some
  {Note 54 here}
  use to condensate the Juyce of the Leaves, and some the
  Juyce of the Berries to keep for their use all the year,
  for the purposes aforesaid.
  =
@begin {m53}
  {Note 53:} Ulcers, Sores, Quinsie, Wounds, Flux, Bloody
  flux, Spitting Bloud, Gravel, Stone, Secrets.
@end {m53}
@begin {m54}
  {Note 54:} Terms stops, Poyson, Venemous Beasts.
  Fundament Piles, Feavers, Head, Eyes, Itch, Scabby Heads.
@end {m54}
     It is a Plant of Venus in Aries:  You shall have Som
  directions at the latter end of the Book for the gathering
  of al Herbs and Plants &c°.  If any ask the reason why
  Venus is so prickly?  Tel them 'tis because she is in the
  house of Mars.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h37}
@section 3 {tt}
  BLITES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Of these there are two sorts commonly known, viz° White
  and Red.  The White hath Leavs somwhat like unto Beets,
  but smaller, rounder and of a whitish green colour, every
  one standing upon a smal long Footstalk:  The Stalk riseth
  up two or three foot high with such like Leavs theron:
  The Flowers grow at the top in long round tufts or
  clusters, wherein are contained smal and round Seed.  The
  Root is very full of threeds or strings.
  =
     The red Blite is in all things like the white, but that
  his Leavs and tufted heads are exceeding red at first, and
  after turn more Purplish.
  =
     There are other kinds of Blites which grow wild,
  differing from the two former sorts but little, only the
  wild are smaler in every part.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in Gardens, and wild in many places of this
  Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They seed in August and September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are all of them cooling, drying and binding,
  serving to restrain the Fluxes of Bloud in either man or
  woman, especially the Red; which also stayeth the
  overflowing of women's Reds, as the white Blite stayeth
  the Whites in Women.  It is an excellent secret, you
  cannot wel fail in the use; they are al under the Dominion
  of Venus.
  {Note 55 here}
  =
@begin {m55}
  {Note 55:} Reds and Whites in Women.
@end {m55}
     There is one other sort of wild Blites, like the other
  wild kinds, but having long and spike heads of greenish
  Seed, seeming by the thick setting together to be al Seed.
  =
     This sort the Fishes are delighted with, and it is a
  good and usual Bait; for the Fishes will bite fast enough
  at them, if you have but wit enough to catch them when
  they bite.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h38}
@section 3 {tt}
  BORRAGE & BUGLOSS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so wel known to be Inhabitants in every
  Garden, that I hold it needless to describe them.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe
  shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are very Cordial.  The Leaves or Roots are to very
  good purpose used in putrid and Pestilential Feavers, to
  defend the Heart, and help to resist and expel the Poyson,
  or the Venom of other Creatures; the Seed is of the like
  effect; and the Seed and Leavs are good to encrease Milk
  in Womens Breasts: The Leavs, Flowers and Seed, all, or
  {Note 56 here}
  any of them are good to expel Pensiveness and Melancholly:
  it helpeth to clarifie the Bloud, and mitigate heat in
  Feavers.  The Juyce made into a Syrup prevaileth much to
  all the purposes aforesaid, and is put with other cooling,
  opening, clensing Herbs, to open obstructions, and help
  the yellow~Jaundice, and mixed with Fumitory, to cool,
  clens, and temper the Blood, therby it helpeth the Itch,
  Ringworms, and Tetters, or other spreading Scabs or Sores.
  The Flowers candied, or made into a Conserve are helping
  in the former causes, but are chiefly used as a Cordial,
  and is good for those that are weak with long sickness,
  and to comsumptions, or troubled with often swoonings or
  {Note 57 here}
  passions of the Heart:  The Distilled Water is no less
  effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and helpeth the
  redness and inflamations of the Eyes being washed
  therewith:  The dried Herb is never used, but the green;
  yet the Ashes therof boyled in Mead, or Honyed Water is
  available against Inflamations and Ulcers in the Mouth or
  Throat, to wash and gargle it therewith.  The Roots of
  Bugloss are effectual being made into a licking
  Electuarie, for the Cough, and to condensate thin flegm,
  and Rhewmatick Distillations upon the Lungs.
  =
@begin {m56}
  {Note 56:} Feavers, Pestilence, Poyson, Venemous Beasts.
  Milk in Nurses.  Melancholy, Ill Bloud.
@end {m56}
@begin {m57}
  {Note 57:} Yellow~Jaundice, Itch, Ringworms, Tetters,
  Scabs, Weakness by long sickness, Consumption, Swooning,
  Inflamations.  Ulcers, sore Mouths & Throat, Cough, Flegm.
@end {m57}
     They are both Herbs of Jupiter, and under Leo, both
  great Cordials, great strengthners of Nature.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h39}
@section 3 {tt}
  BLUEBOTTLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so wel known generally unto my Country men to
  grow among their Corn, that I suppose it needless to write
  any Description therof: There are other kinds
   which I purposely omit both in this and others, my intent being
  only to insist most principally upon the vulgarly known,
  and commonly growing Flowers and Herbs.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower and Seed in the Summer Months.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Pouder or dried Leavs of the Bluebottle, or
  Cornflower is given with good success to those that are
  bruised by a fal, or have broken a Vein inwardly, and void
  much Blood at the Mouth, being taken in the Water of
  Plantane, Horstail, or the greater Comfry.  It is a
  Remedy, against the Poyson of the Scorpion, and resisteth
  al other Venoms and Poysons;  The Seed or Leavs taken in
  Wine is very good against the Plague, and al infectious
  Diseases, and is very good in Pestilential Feavers.  The
  {Note 58 here}
  Juyce put into fresh or green Wounds doth quicky soder up
  the Lips of them together, and is very effectual to heal
  al Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth:  The Juyce dropped into
  the Eyes, taketh away the heat and inflamation in them.
  The distilled Water of the Herb hath the same properties,
  and may be used for all the Effects aforesaid.
  =
@begin {m58}
  {Note 58:} Bruises, Broken Veins, Poyson, Plague,
  Epidemical Diseases, Wounds, Ulcers, Inflamations in the
  Eyes.
@end {m58}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h40}
@section 3 {tt}
  BRIONY or WILD VINE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common white Briony groweth ramping upon the
  Hedges, sending forth many long rough very tender branches
  at the beginning with many very rough broad Leavs theron,
  cut (for the most part) into five partitions, in form very
  like a Vine Leaf, but smaller, rougher, and of a whitish
  or hoary green colour, spreading very far, spreading and
  twining with his smal Claspers (that come forth at the
  Joynts with the Leavs) very far on whatsoever standeth
  next it:  At the several Joynts also (especially towards
  the top of the Branches) cometh forth a long Stalk bearing
  many whitish Flowers, together in a long tuft, consisting
  of five smal Leaves apiece, laid open like a Star: after
  which come the Berries, separated one from another more
  than a Cluster of Grapes, green at the first, and very red
  when they are through ripe, of no good sent, but of a most
  loathsom tast provoking Vomit:  The Root groweth to be
  exceeding great with many long Twines or Branches growing
  from it of a pale whitish colour on the outside, and more
  white within, and of a sharp, bitter loathsom tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on Banks, or under Hedges, through this Land
  the Roots lie very deep.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowereth in July and August, some earlier and some
  later than others.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Roots of the Briony purge the Belly with great
  Violence, troubling the Stomach, and hurting the Liver,
  and therfore not rashly to be taken, but being corrected
  is very profitable for the Diseases of the Head, as
  Falling~sickness, Giddiness, and Swimmings, by drawing
  away much Flegm and Rhewmatick humors that oppress the
  Head, as also the Joynts and Sinews, and is therfore good
  {Note 59 here}
  for Palseys, Convulsions, Cramps, and Stitches in the
  Sides, and the Dropsie; and in provoking Urin it clenseth
  the Reins and Kidnies from Gravel and the Stone, and
  consumeth the hardness and swellings therof.  The
  Decoction of the Root in Wine drunk once a week at going
  to bed, clenseth the Mother, and helpeth the rising,
  therof, expelleth the dead Child, and Afterbirth, but is
  not to be used by Women with Child, for fear of abortion;
  a dram of the Root in Pouder taken in white Wine bringeth
  down their Courses.  An Electuary made of the Roots and
  Honey, doth mightily clens the Chest of Rotten Flegm, and
  wonderfully help an old strong Cough, those that are
  troubled with shortness of Breath, and is very good for
  them that are brused inwardly, to help to expel the
  clotted or congealed Blood.  The Leavs, Fruit, and Root,
  do clens old and filthy Sores, are good against al
  fretting and running Cankers, Gangrenes, and Tetters, and
  therfore the Berries are by some Country People called
  Tetter~Berries.  The Root clenseth the Skin wonderfully
  from al black and blew Spots, Freckles, Morphew, Leprosie,
  foul Scars, or other deformity whatsoever: as also al
  running Scabs, and Manginess are healed by the Pouder of
  the dried Root, or the Juyce therof, but especially by the
  fine white hardned Juyce:  The distilled water of the
  {Note 60 here}
  Roots worketh the same effects but more weakly.  The Root
  bruised and applied of it self to any place where the
  Bones are broken, helpeth to draw them forth, as also
  Splinters and Thorns in the Flesh; and being applied with
  a little Wine mixed therwith it breaketh Boyls, and
  helpeth Whitlows on the Joynts.
  =
@begin {m59}
  {Note 59:} Falling~sickness, Vertigo, Flegm, Palsies,
  Convulsion, Cramp, Stitches, Dropsies, Gravel, Stone,
  Obstructions, Womb, Mother, Dead Child, After~birth.
@end {m59}
@begin {m60}
  {Note 60:} Cough, Shortness of Breath, Sores, Cankers,
  Gangrenes, Tetters, Ringworms, Black Spots, Freckles,
  Morphew, Leprosie.
@end {m60}
     For al these latter beginning at Sores, Cankers &c°
  apply it outwardly and take my advice along with you, you
  shal find in my Translation of the London Dispensatory,
  {Note 61 here}
  among the Preparations at latter end, a Medicin called
  Focculae Brioniae, take that and use it, you have the way
  there how to make it, and mix that with a little Hogs
  Greas or other convenient Oyntment, and use it at your
  need.
  =
@begin {m61}
  {Note 61:} Broken Bones, Splinters, Thorns, Whitlows, or
  Nail~wheals, or Andicoms.
@end {m61}
     As for the former Diseases where it must be taken
  inwardly, it purgeth very Violently, and  needs an abler
  hand to correct it than most Country people have, therfore
  it is a better way for them (in my opinion) to let the
  Simple alone, and take the Compound Water of it, mentioned
  in my Dispensatory, and that is far more safe, being
  wisely corrected.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h41}
@section 3 {tt}
  BROOKLIME.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This sendeth forth from a creeping Root, that shooteth
  forth strings at every Joynt as it runneth, divers and
  sundry green Stalks, round and sappy with some branchs on
  them, somwhat broad, round, deep green, and thick Leavs
  set by couples theron: from the Bosom wherof shoot forth
  long Footstalks, with sundry smal blue Flowers on them,
  that consist of five smal round pointed Leavs apiece.
  =
     There is another sort nothing differing from the
  former, but that it is greater, and the Flowers of a paler
  blue Colour.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in smal Standing Waters, and usually neer
  Watercresses.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And Flower in June and July, giving Seed the next Month
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Brooklime and Watercresses are generally used together
  in Diet Drinks with other things, serving to purge the
  Blood and Body from ill Humors that would destroy health,
  and are helpful for the Scurvy:  They do also provoke
  {Note 62 here}
  Urin, and help to break the Stone and pass it away; they
  procure Womens Courses, and expel the dead Child.  Being
  fried with Butter and Vinegar and applied warm, it helpeth
  all manner of Tumors or Swellings, and Inflamations.
  =
@begin {m62}
  {Note 62:} Blood purgeth, Ill Humors, Scurvy, Disury,
  Stone, Terms provokes, Dead child, Swellings,
  Inflamations.
@end {m62}
     Such drinks ought to be made of Sundry Herbs according
  to the Malady offending, I shal give a plain and easie
  Rule at the latter end of the Book.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h42}
@section 3 {tt}
  BUTCHERS~BROOM.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first shoots that sprout from the Root of
  Butchers~Broom are thick, whitish, and short, somwhat like
  those of Asparagus, but greater; these rising up to be a
  foot and an half high are spread into divers Branches,
  green & somwhat crested with the roundness, tough and
  flexible, wheron are set somwhat broad and almost round
  hard Leavs, sharp and prickly pointed at the ends, of a
  dark green colour, two for the most part set at a place,
  very close or neer together; about the middle of the Leaf,
  on the back or lower side from the middle Rib, breaketh
  forth a smal whitish green Flower consisting of four smal
  round pointed Leavs standing upon little or no Footstalk,
  and in the place wherof cometh a smal round Berry, green
  at the first, and red when it is ripe, wherin are two or
  three white, hard, round Seeds contained: The Root is
  thick, white, and great at the Head, and from thence
  sendeth forth divers thick, white, long, tough strings.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Copses, and upon Heaths and wast grounds,
  and often times under or neer the Holly~Bushes.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It shooteth forth his yong buds in the Spring and the
  Berries are ripe in or about September, The Branches and
  Leavs abiding green al the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Roots made with Wine, openeth
  Obstructions, provoketh Urin, helpeth to expel Gravel and
  the Stone, the Strangury, and Womens Courses, as also the
  yellow Jaundice and the Head~ach; and with some Honey or
  Sugar put therunto, clenseth the Breast of Flegm, and the
  Chest of much clammy Humors gathered therin.  The
  Decoction of the Roots drunk, and a Pultis made of the
  {Note 63 here}
  Berries and Leavs being applied, are effectual in knitting
  and consolidating broken Bones and Parts out of Joynt.
  =
@begin {m63}
  {Note 63:} Obstructions, Disury, Gravel, Stone, Strangury
  Terms provokes, Yellow~Jaundice, Headach, Flegm.  Broken
  Bones, Dislocations.
@end {m63}
     It is called Bruscus in some places, and in Sussex
  Kneeholly, and Kneeholm.  The common way of using it is to
  boyl the Roots of it and Parsly, and Fennel, and Smallage
  in white Wine, and drink the Decoction, adding the like
  quantity of Grass Roots to them; the more of the Roots you
  boyl the stronger will the Decoction be, it works no ill
  effects, yet I hope you have wit enough to give the
  strongest Decoction to the strongest Bodies.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h43}
@section 3 {tt}
  BROOM, & BROOMRAPE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     To spend time in writing a Descripton herof is
  altogether needless, it being so generally used by all the
  good Huswifes almost through this Land to sweep their
  Houses with and therfore very wel known to all sorts of
  people.
  =
     The Broomrape springeth up in many places from the
  Roots of the Broom, (but more often in fields, by Hedg
  sides, and on Heaths).  The Stalk wherof is of the bigness
  of a Finger or Thumb, above two Foot high having a show of
  Leavs on them and many Flowers at   the top, of a deadish,
  yellow colour, as also the Stalks and Leavs are.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in many places of this Land commonly, and as
  commonly spoyl all the Land they grow in.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And Flower in the Summer Months, and give their Seed
  before Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce, or Decoction of the yong Branches, or Seed,
  or the Pouder of the Seed taken in Drink, purgeth
  downwards, and draweth Flegmatick and watery humors from
  the Joynts, wherby it helpeth the Dropsie, Gout, Sciatica,
  and the pains in the Hips and Joynts: It also provoketh
  strong Vomit, and helpeth the pains of the Sides, and
  swellings of the Spleen, clenseth also the Reins, or
  Kidneys and Bladder of the Stone, provoketh Urin
  abundantly, and hindreth the growing again of the Stone
  {Note 64 here}
  in the Body.  The continual use of the Pouder of the
  Leaves and Seed, doth cure the Black Jaundice:  The
  distilled Water of the Flowers is profitable for al the
  same purposes; it also helpeth Surfets, and altereth the
  Fits of Agues, if three or four ounces therof, with as
  much of the Water of the lesser Centaury and a little
  Sugar put therin, be taken a little before the fit cometh,
  and the party be laid down to sweat in their Bed.  The Oyl
  or Water that is drawn from the ends of the green sticks
  heated in the fire, helpeth the Toothach.  The Juyce of
  the yong Branches made into an Oyment of old Hogs Greas
  and anointed, Or the yong Branches bruised and heated in
  Oyl or Hogs Greas, and laid to the Sides pained by wind,
  as in Stitches, or the Spleen, easeth them in once or
  twice using it:  The same boyled in Oyl is the safest and
  surest Medicine to kil Lice in the Head or Body of any;
  and is an especial Remedy for Joynt aches, and swoln Knees
  that come by the falling down of Humors.
  =
@begin {m64}
  {Note 64:} Flegm, Joynts, Dropsie, Sides, Spleen, Bladder,
  Kidneys, Stone, Disury, black Jaundice, Agues.
@end {m64}
     The Broomrape also is not without his Vertues.
  {Note 65 here}
  =
@begin {m65}
  {Note 65:} Toothach, Wind, Stitches, Lice, Stone, Disury,
  Green Wounds.
@end {m65}
     The Decoction therof in Wine is thought to be as
  effectual to avoid the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder,
  and to provoke Urin, as the Broom it self:  The Juyce
  therof is a singular good help to cure as wel green
  Wounds, as old and filthy Sores, and malignant Ulcers.
  The insolate Oyl wherin there hath been three or four
  Repetitions of Infusion of the top stalks with Flowers
  strained and cleered, clenseth the Skin of al manner of
  Spots, Marks and Freckles that arise either by the heat of
  the Sun, or the Malignity of humors.
  =
     As for the Broom (for as yet I know not what to say to
  Broomrape in the business) but as from Broom, Mars owns
  it, and it is exceeding prejucidial to the Liver, I
  suppose by reason of the Antipathy between Jupiter and
  Mars, therfore if the Liver be disaffected, administer not
  of it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h44}
@section 3 {tt}
  BUCK~HORN PLANTANE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This being sown of Seed, riseth up at the first with
  smal, long, narrow hairy dark green Leavs like grass,
  without any division or gash in them; but those that
  follow are gashed in on both sides the Leavs into three or
  four gashes and pointed at the ends resembling the Knags
  of a Bucks Horn (wherof it took the name) and being well
  grown round about the Root upon the ground, in order one
  by another therby rsembling the form of a Star: from among
  which rise up divers hairy Stalks, about a hand breadth
  high, bearing every one a smal long spiky Head like to
  those of the common Plantane, having such like Bloomings
  and Seed after them.  The Root is single, long, and smal,
  with divers strings at it.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in dry Sandy grounds, as in Tuttle~Fields by
  Westminster, and divers other places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower and Seed in May, June, and July, and their
  green Leavs do in a manner abide fresh al the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This boyled in Wine and drunk, and some of the Leavs
  applied to the hurt place, is an excellent remedy for the
  biting of the Viper or Adder which I take to be one and
  the same:  The same being also drunk helpeth those that
  are troubled with the Stone in the Veins or Kidnies by
  cooling the heat of the parts afflicted strengthning them:
  as also weak Stomachs that cannot retain but cast up their
  Meat. It stayeth al bleedings at Mouth and Nose, bloody
  Urin, or the Bloody Flux, and stoppeth the Lask of the
  Belly and Bowels.  The Leavs herof bruised and laid to
  their sides that have an Ague, suddenly easeth the Fit:
  and the Leavs and Roots beaten with some Bay Salt and
  applied to the Wrists, worketh the same effects.  The Herb
  boyled in Ale or Wine and given for some mornings and
  evenings together, staieth the distillations of hot and
  sharp Rhewms falling into the Eyes from the Head, and
  helpeth al sorts of sore Eyes.
  {Note 66 here}
  =
@begin {m66}
  {Note 66:} Venemous Beasts, Stone, Stomach, Vomiting,
  Bleeding, Pissing blood, Flux, Bloody Flux, Agues, Eyes.
@end {m66}
     Venus challengeth the Dominion of this Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h45}
@section 3 {tt}
  BUGLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath larger Leavs than those of the Selfheal, but
  els of the same fashion, or rather a little longer, in
  some green on the upper side, and in others more brownish,
  dented about the edges, somwhat hairy, as the square Stalk
  is also, which riseth up to be half a yard high somtimes,
  with the Leavs set by couples; from the middle almost
  hereof upwards stand the Flowers together, with many
  smaler and browner Leaves than the rest on this stalk
  below, set at distances, and the stalk bare between them,
  among which Flowers are also smal ones of a bluish, and
  somtimes of an Ash colour, fashioned like the Flowers of
  the Ground~Ivy, after which come small, round, blackish
  Seed.  The Root is composed of many strings, and spreadeth
  upon the ground in divers parts round about.
  =
     The White~flowered Bugle differeth not in form or
  greatness from the former, saving that the Leavs and
  Stalks are alwaies green and never brown like the other,
  and that the Flowers therof are very white.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in Woods, wet Copses, and Fields generally
  throughout England; but the White flowered Bugle is not so
  plentiful as the other.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower from May until July, and in the mean time
  perfect their Seed.  The Roots and Leavs next therunto
  upon the ground abiding all Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Leavs and Flowers made in Wine and
  taken dissolveth the congeled Blood in those that are
  bruised inwardly by a fall or otherwise, and is very
  effectual for any inward wounds, Thrusts or Stabs in the
  Body or Bowels, and is an especial help in all
  Wound~drinks, and for those that are Liver~grown (as they
  cal it.)  It is wonderful in curing all manner of Ulcers
  and Sores whether new and fresh, or old and inveterate,
  yea Gangrenes and Fistulaes also, if the Leavs bruised be
  aplied, or their Juyce used to wash and bath the places.
  And the same made into a Lotion with some Honey and Allum,
  cureth all sores of the Mouth or Gums be they never so
  foul, or of long continuance; and worketh no less
  powerfully and effectually for such Ulcers and Sores as
  happen in the secret parts of Men or Women: Being also
  taken inwardly, and outwardly applied, it helpeth those
  that have broken any Bone, or have any Member out of
  joynt.  An Ointment made with the Leaves of Bugle,
  {Note 67 here}
  Scabious and Sanicle bruised and boyled in Hogs~Greas,
  until the Herbs be dry, and then strained forth into a
  Pot, for such occasions as shal require it is so singular
  good for all sorts of hurts in the Body, that non that
  know its usefulness will be without it.
  =
@begin {m67}
  {Note 67:} Bruises, Falls, Wounds, Scabs, Ulcers,
  Liver~grown, Gangreans, Fistulaes, Sore Mouths, Gums.
  Sores in the Secrets, broken bones.
@end {m67}
     This Herb is belonging to Dame Venus, and if the
  Vertues of it make you in love with it, (as they wil if
  you be wise) keep a Syrup of it to take inwardly, and an
  Ointment and Plaister of it to use outwardly alwaies by
  you.
  =
     The truth is I have known this Herb cure some Diseases
  of Saturn, of which I thought good to quote one.  Many
  times such as give themselvs much to drinking are troubled
  with strange Fancies, strange sights in the night~time,
  and some with Voices, as also with the Diseas Ephialtes or
  the Mare.  I take the reason of this to be (according to
  {Note 68 here}
  Fernelius) a Melancholly vapor made thin by excessive
  drinking strong Liquor, and so flys up and disturbs the
  Fancy, and breeds imaginations like it self, viz° fearful
  and troublesom:  These I have known cured by taking only
  two spoonfuls of the Syrup of this Herb, after Supper two
  hours when you go to bed.  But whether this do it by
  Sympathy or Antipathy is som question; all that know any
  thing in Astrologie, know that there is a great Antipathy
  between Saturn and Venus in matter of Procreation, yea
  such an one, that the barreness of Saturn can be removed
  by none but Venus, nor the lust of Venus be repelled by
  none but Saturn:  but I am not yet of opinion this is done
  this way; and my reason is because these vapors though in
  quality Melancholly, yet by their flying upward seem to be
  somthing Aeriel, therfore I rather think it is done by
  Sympathy, Saturn being exalted in Libra the house of
  Venus.
  =
@begin {m68}
  {Note 68:} Mares, Strange Sights in the night.
@end {m68}
     Selfheal, which follows, is of the same nature, and I
  am of opinion the same Herb, only differs a little in form
  according to the difference of place they grow in; this I
  am sure they work the same effect.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h46}
@section 3 {tt}
  BURNET.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The common Garden Burnet is so well known that it
  needeth no description.  There is another sort which is
  wild, the description wherof take as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The great wild Burnet, hath winged Leavs rising from
  the Roots like the Garden Burnet, but not so many, yet
  each of these Leavs are at the least twice as large as the
  other, and nicked in the same manner about the edges, of a
  grayish colour on the underside:  The Stalks are greater
  and rise higher, with many such like Leavs set theron, and
  greater heads at the tops of a brownish green colour, and
  out of them  come smal dark purple Flowers, like the
  former, but greater.  The Root is black and long like the
  other, but greater also: It hath almost neither scent nor
  tast therin like the Garden kind.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first grows frequently in Gardens.  The Wild kind
  groweth in divers Countries of this Land, especially in
  Huntington & Northampton shires in the Meadows there; as
  also near London by Pancras~Church, and by a Causey side
  in the middle of a Field by Paddington.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower about the end of June and beginning of
  July, and their Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are accounted to be both of one property, but the
  lesser is more effectual, because quicker and more
  Aromatical:  It is a friend to the Heart, Liver, and other
  the principal parts of a mans Body.  Two or three of the
  Stalks with Leavs put into a Cup of Wine, especially
  Clarret, are known to quicken the Spirits, refresh and
  cheer the Heart and drive away Melancholly.  It is a
  special help to defend the Heart from noisom vapors, and
  from Infection of the Pestilence, the Juyce therof being
  taken in som Drink, and the party laid to sweat thereupon.
  {Note 69 here}
  They have also a drying and an astringent quality, whereby
  they are available in all manner of Fluxes or Bloud or
  Humors, to stanch bleedings inward or outward, Lasks,
  Scourings, the Bloudy~flux, Womens too abundant Courses,
  the Whites, and the Chollerick belchings and castings of
  the Stomach; and is a singular good Wound~herb for all
  sorts of Wounds both of the Head and Body, either inward
  or outward; for all old Ulcers, or running Cankers and
  moist sores to be used either by the Juyce or Decoction of
  the Herb, or by the Pouder of the Herb or Root, or the
  Water of the Distilled Herb, or Ointment by it self, or
  with other things to be kept.  The Seed is also no less
  effectual both to stop Fluxes and dry up moist Sores,
  being taken in Pouder inwardly, in Wine or steeled Water,
  that is, wherin hot Gads of Steel have been quenched.  Or
  the Pouder of the Seed mixed with the Ointments.
  =
@begin {m69}
  {Note 69:} Heart, Liver, Melancholy, Pestilence,
  epidemical Diseases, Bleeding, Stoppeth Terms and Whites,
  Belching, Vomiting, Wound, Ulcers, Cankers, Sores, Fluxes.
@end {m69}
     This is an Herb the Sun challengeth dominion over, and
  is a most precious Herb, little inferior to Betony:  The
  continual use of it preservs the Body in health, and the
  Spirits in vigor; for if the Sun be the preserver of life
  under God, his Herbs are the best in the World to do it
  by.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h47}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BUTTER~BUR.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up in February, with a thick Stalk about a
  foot high, whereon are set a few smal Leavs, or rather
  pieces, and at the tops a long spiked head of Flowers, of
  a blush or deep red colour, according to the soil wherin
  it groweth; and before the Stalk with the Flowers have
  abidden a month above ground, wil be withered and gone,
  blown away with the wind; and the Leaves will begin to
  spring, which being full grown are very large & broad,
  being somwhat thin and almost round, whose thick red
  footstalks, about a foot long stand towards the middle of
  the Leavs:  The lower parts being divided into two round
  parts, close almost one to another, and of a pale green
  colour, and hoary underneath.  The Root is long and
  spreading under ground, being in some places no bigger
  than ones Finger, in others much bigger, blackish on the
  outside & white within, of a bitter and unpleasant tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in low and wet ground by Rivers and Waters
  side: their Flower (as is said) rising and decaying in
  February and March, before the Leavs which appear in
  April.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Roots hereof are by long experience found to be
  very available against the Plague and Pestilential
  Feavers, by provoking Sweat, if the Pouder therof be taken
  in Wine, it also resisteth the force of any other Poyson.
  {Note 70 here}
  The Root hereof taken with Zedoary and Angelica, or
  without them, helps the rising of the Mother:  The
  Decoction of the Root in Wine is singular good for those
  that wheeze much, or are short~winded.  It provoketh Urin
  also and Womens courses, and killeth the flat and broad
  Worms in the Belly.  The Pouder of the Root doth
  wonderfully help to dry up the moisture of sores that are
  hard to be cured, and taketh away all spots and blemishes
  of the skin.
  =
@begin {m70}
  {Note 70:} Plague, epidemical Diseases.  Poyson, Mother,
  Wheezing, Difficulty of breathing, Disury, Terms provokes,
  Flat and broad Worms, Blemishes of the skin.
@end {m70}
     It were wel if Gentlewomen would keep this Root
  preserved to help their poor Neighbors:  It is fit the
  Rich should help the Poor, for the Poor cannot help
  themselvs.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h48}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BUR~DOCK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     It is so well known even to the little Boys who pul off
  the Burs to throw and stick upon one another, that I shal
  spare to write any description of it.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow plentifully by Ditches and Water~sides, and
  by the high~wales almost every where through this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Bur Leavs are cooling, moderatly drying, and
  discussing withal, whereby it is good for old Ulcers and
  Sores:  A dram of the Roots taken with Pine Kernels,
  helpeth them that spit foul, mattery, and bloudy Flegm:
  The Leavs applied on the places troubled with the
  shrinking of the Sinews or Arteries, give much ease:  The
  Juyce of the Leavs, or rather the Roots themselvs given to
  drink with old Wine doth wonderfully help the bitings of
  any Serpents: And the Root beaten with a little Salt and
  laid on the place, suddenly easeth the pain thereof, and
  {Note 71 here}
  helpeth those that are bit with a mad~Dog.  The Juyce of
  the Leavs taken with Honey provoketh Urin, and remedieth
  the pain of the Bladder.  The Seed being drunk in Wine
  forty daies together, doth wonderfully help the Sciatica.
  The Leavs bruised with the White of an Egg and applied to
  any place burnt with Fire, taketh out the Fire, gives
  sudden ease, and heals it up afterwards.  The Decoction of
  them fomented on any fretting sore or Canker stayeth the
  corroding quality, which must be afterwards anointed with
  an Ointment made of the same Liquor, Hogs~Greas, Nitre and
  Vinegar, boyled together.  The Roots may be preserved with
  Sugar, and taken fasting, or at other times for the said
  purposes, and for Consumptions, the Ston, and the Lask.
  The Seed is much commended to break the Stone and cause it
  to be expelled by Urin; and is often used with other Seeds
  and things to that purpose.
  =
@begin {m71}
  {Note 71:} Cools, Dryes, Ulcers, Sores, Flegm, Sinews,
  Arteries, Venemous Beast, Mad dogs, Disury, Bladder,
  Sciatica, Burning, Sores, Cankers, Consumption, Stone,
  Flux.
@end {m71}
     Venus challengeth this Herb for her own, and by its
  Leaf or Seed you may draw the Womb which way you pleas,
  either upward by applying it to the Crown of the Heed, if
  in case it fal out; or downward in fits of the Mother, by
  applying it to the Soals of the Feet; Or if you would stay
  it in its place, apply it to the Navel, and that is one
  good way to stay the Child in it.  See more of it in my
  Guide for Women.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h49}
@section 3 {tt}
  CABBAGES and COLEWORTS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     I shal spare a labor in writing a Description of these,
  sith almost every one that can but write at all may
  describe them from his own knowledg, they being generally
  so well know that Descriptions are altogether needless.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These are generally planted in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Their flowering time is towards the middle or end of
  July, and the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Cabbages or Coleworts boyled gently in Broth and
  eaten do open the Body, but the second Decoction doth bind
  the Body.  The Juyce therof drunk in Wine helpeth those
  that are bitten by an Adder, and the Decoction of the
  Flowers bringeth down Womens Courses.  Being taken with
  Honey, it recovereth hoarsness or loss of the voice.  The
  often eating of them wel boyled, helpeth those that are
  entring into a Consumption.  The Pulp of the middle Ribs
  of Coleworts boyled in Almond Milk, and made up into an
  Electuary with Honey, being taken often, is very
  profitable for those that are pursie and short~winded.
  Being boyled twice, and a old Cock boyled in the Broth and
  drunk, it helpeth the pains and obstructions of the Liver
  and Spleen, and the Stone in the Kidnies.  The Juyce
  boyled with Honey and dropped into the corner of the Eye,
  cleareth the sight, by consuming any Film or cloud
  begining to dim it; it also consumeth the Canker growing
  therin.  They are much commended being eaten before meat,
  {Note 72 here}
  to keep one from surfetting, as also from being drunk with
  too much Wine, or quickly make a man sober again that is
  drunk before.  For (as they say) there is such an
  Antipathy or enmity between the Vine and the Colewort,
  that the one will die where the other groweth.  The
  Decoction of Colworts taketh away the pain and ach, and
  allayeth the swellings of swoln and gouty Legs and Knees,
  wherein many gross and watry humors are fallen, the place
  being bathed therwith warm:  It helpeth also old and
  filthy sores, being washed therewith, and healeth all smal
  Scabs, Pushes and Wheals that break out in the Skin.  The
  Ashes of Colwort Stalks mixed with old Hogs~Grease are
  very effectual to annoint the Sides of those that have had
  long  pains therin, or any other place pained with
  Melancholly and windy humors.
  =
@begin {m72}
  {Note 72:} Venemous Beasts.  Terms provokes, Hoarsness,
  Consumption, Obstructions, Stone, Sight, Canker Surfets,
  Swellings, Gout, Sores, Scabs, Wheals, Melancholly, Wind.
@end {m72}
     This was surely Chrysippus his god, and therfore he
  wrote a whol Volumn of them and their Vertues, and that
  none of the least neither, for he would be no smal Fool,
  he apropriates them to every part of the Body, and to
  every Disease in every part, and honest old Cato they say
  used no other Physick, I know not what Mettals their
  Bodies were made of, this I am sure, Cabbages are extream
  windy whether you take them as Meat, or as Medicine, yea
  as windy Meat as can be eaten, unless you eat Bagpipes or
  Bellows, and they are but seldom eaten in our daies, and
  Colewort Flowers are somthing more tollerable, and the
  wholsomer Food of the two.
  =
     The Moon challengeth the Dominion of the Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h50}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE SEA COLEWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers somwhat long and broad, large thick
  wrinkled Leavs, somwhat crumpled upon the edges, growing
  each upon a several thick Footstalk very brittle, of a
  grayish green colour.  From among which riseth up a strong
  thick stalk two Foot high and better, with some Leavs
  theron to the top, where it brancheth forth much; and on
  every Branch, standeth a large Bush of pale whitish
  Flowers, consisting of four Leavs apiece:  The Root is
  somwhat great and shooteth forth many Branches under
  ground, keeping the green Leavs al the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in many places upon the Sea Coasts, as wel on
  the Kentish, as Essex Shores, as at Lidd in Kent,
  Colechester in Essex, and divers other places, and in
  other Countries of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower and Seed about the time that other kinds
  do.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Broth or first Decoction of the Sea Colewort doth
  by the sharp nitrous and bitter qualities therin, open the
  Belly and purge the Body, it clenseth and digesteth more
  powerfully than the other kind:  The Seed herof bruised
  and drunk, killeth Worms.  The Leavs or the Juyce of them
  applied to Sores or Ulcers clenseth and healeth them, and
  dissolveth Swellings, and taketh away Inflamations.
  {Note 73 here}
  =
@begin {m73}
  {Note 73:} Sores, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings, Inflamations.
@end {m73}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h51}
@section 3 {tt}
  CALAMINT, or MOUNTAIN MINT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is a smal Herb seldom rising above a a Foot high,
  with square hoary and woody Stalks, and two smal hoary
  Leavs set at a Joynt, about the bigness of Marjoram, or
  not much cigger, a little dented about the edges, and of a
  very fierce or quick scent, as the whol Herb is:  The
  Flowers stand at several spaces of the Stalks from the
  middle almost upwards, which are smal and gaping like to
  those Mints, and of a pale Blush colour:  after which
  follow smal, round, blackish Seeds:  The Root is smal and
  Woody, with divers smal sprigs spreading within the
  ground, and dieth not, but abideth many yeers.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on Heaths, and Upland dry grounds, in many
  places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in July, and their Seed is ripe quickly
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Herb being drunk, bringeth down
  Womens Courses and provoketh Urin:  It is profitable for
  those that are Bursten, or troubled with Convulsions or
  Cramps, with shortness of Breath, or Chollerick torments
  and pains in their Bellies or Stomachs, it also helpeth
  the yellow Jaundice, and staieth Vomiting, being taken in
  Wine; taken with Salt and Honey, it killeth al manner of
  Worms in the Body:  It helpeth such as have the Leprosie,
  either taken inwardly, drinking Whey after it, or the
  green Herb outwardly applied:  It hindreth Conception in
  Women: being either burned, or strewed in the Chamber, it
  driveth away Venemous Serpents.  It takes away black and
  blue marks in the Face, and maketh black Scars become wel
  colored, if the green Herb (not the dry) be boyled in Wine
  {Note 74 here}
  and laid to the place, or the place washed therwith.
  Being applied to the Hucklebone, by continuance of time it
  spendeth the humors which caused the pain of the Sciatica.
  The Juyce dropped into the Ears killeth the Worms in them:
  The Leavs boyled in Wine and drunk provoketh sweat, and
  openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen; it helpeth
  them that have a Tettian Ague (the body being first
  purged) by taking away the cold Fits.  The Decoction herof
  with some  Sugar put therto afterwards, is very profitable
  for those that be troubled with the overflowing of the
  Gal, and that have an old Cough, and that are scarce able
  to breath by the shortness of their wind:  That have any
  cold distemper in their Bowels, and are troubled with the
  hardness of the Spleen, for al which purposes, both the
  Pouder called Diacalaminthes and the Compound Syrup of
  Calamint (which are to be had at the Apothecaries) are
  most effectual.
  =
@begin {m74}
  {Note 74:} Terms provokes, Disury, Ruptures, Convulsions.
  Cramps, Shortness of Breath, Jaundice, Vomiting, Worms,
  Leprosie, Serpents, Black and blue Marks, Scars, Sciatica,
  Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen.  Tertian Agues.
@end {m74}
     Let not Women be too busy with it, for it works very
  violently upon the Foeminin parts.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h52}
@section 3 {tt}
  CHAMOMEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known every where that it is but lost
  time and labor to describe it.  The Vertues wherof are as
  followeth.
  =
     A Decoction made of Chamomel and drunk, taketh away al
  pains and Stitches in the Sides.  The Flowers of Chamomel
  beaten and made up into Bals with Oyl driveth away al
  sorts of Agues; if the party grieved be anointed with that
  Oyl taken from the Flowers, from the Crown of the Head to
  the Soal of the Foot, and afterwards laid to sweat in his
  Bed, and that he sweat wel: This is Nichessor an
  Egyptian's Medicine.  It is profitable for all sorts of
  Agues that come either from Flegm or Melancholly, or from
  {Note 75 here}
  an Inflamation of the Bowels being applied when the Humors
  causing them shal be concocted; and there is nothing more
  profitable to the sides and Region of the Liver and Spleen
  than it.  The bathing with a Decoction of Chamomel taketh
  away weariness, easeth pains to what part of the Body
  soever they be applied: it comforteth the Sinews that are
  overstrained, mollifieth al Swellings:  It moderately
  comforteth al parts that have need of warmth, digesteth
  {Note 76 here}
  and dissolveth whatsoever hath need therof by a wonderful
  speedy property.  It easeth al the pains of the chollick
  and Stone, and al pains and torments ofthe Belly, and
  gently provoketh Urin.  The Flowers boyled in Posset Drink
  provoketh Sweat, and helpeth to expel Colds, Aches, and
  Pains, whersoever and is an excellent help to bring down
  Womens Courses.  A Syrup made of the Juyce of Chamomel
  {Note 77 here}
  with the Flowers and white Wine, is a Remedy against the
  Jaundice and Dropsie.  The Flowers boyled in a Ly, are
  good to wash the Head, and comfort both it and the Brain.
  The Oyl made of the Flowers of Chamomel is much used
  against al hard swellings, pains or aches, shrinking of the
  Sinews or Cramps, or pains in the Joynts, or any other
  part of the Body; being used in Clisters, it helpeth to
  dissolve wind and pains in the Belly; anointed also it
  helpeth Stitches and pains in the Sides.
  =
@begin {m75}
  {Note 75:} Stitches in the Side, Agues, Liver, Spleen,
  Weariness.
@end {m75}
@begin {m76}
  {Note 76:} Sinews, Swellings, Chollick, Stone, Belly~ach.
@end {m76}
@begin {m77}
  {Note 77:} Cold, Ach, Jaundice, Dropsie, Brain, Cramp,
  Stitch in the Side.
@end {m77}
     Nichessor saith the Egyptians dedicated it to the Sun
  becaus it cured Agues;and they were like enough to do it,
  for they were the arrantest Apes in their Religion that
  ever I read of.  Baccinus, Pena, and Lobel commend the
  Syrup made of the Juyce of it and Sugar, taken inwardly,
  to be excellent for the Spleen.  Also this is certain,
  that it most wonderfully breaks the Stone, some take it in
  Syrup or Decoction, others inject the Juyce of it into the
  Bladder with a Syring; my Opinion is, That the Salt of it
  taken half a dram in a morning, in a little White or
  Rhenish Wine is better than either, that it is excellent
  for the Stone appears by this, which I have seen tried,
  viz°  That a Stone that hath been taken out of the Body of
  a man being wrapped in Chamomel will in time dissolve, and
  in a little time too.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h53}
@section 3 {tt}
  CAMPIONS WILD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The white wild Campion hath many long and somwhat broad
  dark green Leavs, lying upon the ground with divers Ribs
  therin somwhat like Plantane, but somwhat hairy, broader,
  and not so long:  The hairy Stalks rise up in the middle
  of them three of four foot high, and somtimes more, with
  divers great white Joynts at several places theron, and
  two such like Leavs therat up to the top, sending forth
  Branches at the several Joynts also al which bear on
  several Footstalks white Flowers at the tops of them,
  consisting of five broad pointed Leavs, every one cut in
  on the end unto the middle, making them seem to be two
  apiece, smelling somwhat sweet, and each of them standing
  in large green striped hairy Husks, large and round below
  next to the Stalk:  The Seed is smal and grayish in the
  hard Heads that come up afterwards:  The Root is white and
  long, spreading divers fangs in the ground.
  =
     The Red Wild Campion groweth in the same manner as the
  White, but his Leavs are not so plainly ribbed, somewhat
  shorter, rounder and more woolly in handling:  The Flowers
  are of the same form and bigness, but in som of a pale, in
  others of a bright red colour, cut in at ends more finely,
  which maketh the Leavs seem more in number than the other.
  The Seed and the Roots are alike:  The Roots of both sorts
  abiding many years.
  =
     There are forty five kinds of Campions more, those of
  them which are of Physical uses having the like Vertues
  with these above described, which I take to be the two
  chiefest kinds.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow commonly through this Land by Fields,
  Hedg~sides, and Ditches.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower in Summer som earlier than others, and some
  abiding longer than others.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found by experience that the Decoction of the
  Herb either the White or Red being drunk, doth stay inward
  bleedings; and applied outwardly it doth the like:  And
  being drunk helpeth to expel the Urin being stop'd, and
  Gravel or the Stone in the Reins or Kidnies.  Two drams of
  {Note 78 here}
  the Seed drunk in Wine, purgeth the Body of Chollerick
  humors, and helpeth those that are stung by Scorpions, or
  other venemous Beasts; and may be as effectual for the
  Plague:  It is of very good use in old Sores, Ulcers,
  Cankers, Fistulaes and the like, to clens and heal them,
  by consuming the moist humors falling into them, and
  correcting the putrifaction of Humors offending them.
  =
@begin {m78}
  {Note 78:} Bleeding inward & outward, Disury, Gravel,
  Choller, Venemous Beasts.  Plagues, Sores, Ulcers,
  Cankers, Fistules.
@end {m78}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h54}
@section 3 {tt}
  CARROTS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Garden kind are so wel known that they need no
  Description; but because they are of less Physical use
  than the Wild kind (as indeed almost in all Herbs the Wild
  are most effectual in Physick, as being more powerful in
  operation then the Garden kinds)  I shal therfore briefly
  describe the Wild Carrot.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in a manner altogether like the Tame, but
  that the Leavs and Stalks are somwhat whiter and rougher:
  The Stalks bear large tufts of white Flowers, with deep
  Purple spot in the middle, which are contracted together
  when the Seed begins to ripen, that the middle part being
  hollow and low, and the outer Stalks rising high, maketh
  the whol Umbel to shew like a Birds~Nest.  The Root is
  smal, long, and hard, unfit for meat, being somwhat sharp
  and strong.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Wild kind groweth in divers parts of this Land
  plentifully by the Fields sides, and in untilled places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower and seed in the end of Summer.
  =
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
  The Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Wild kind, breaketh Wind, and removeth Stitches in
  the Sides, provoketh Urin and Womens Courses, and helpeth
  to break and expel the Stone:  The Seed also of the same
  worketh the like effect, and is good for the Dropsie, and
  those whose Bellies are swollen with Wind; helpeth the
  {Note 79 here}
  Chollick, the Stone in the Kidnies, and the rising of the
  Mother, being taken in Wine, or boyled in Wine and taken;
  and helpeth Conception.  The Leavs being applied with
  Honey to running Sores or Ulcers, doth clense them.
  =
@begin {m79}
  {Note 79:} Wind, Stitches, provokes Urin and the Terms,
  Stone, Dropsie, Chollick, Barrenness, Ulcers.
@end {m79}
     I suppose the Seeds of them perform this better than
  the Roots; And though Galen commend Garden Carrots highly,
  to break Wind; yet experience teacheth that they breed it
  first; and we may thank Nature for expelling it, not they:
  The Seeds of them expel Wind indeed, and so mend what the
  Root marreth.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h55}
@section 3 {tt}
  CARAWAY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It beareth divers Stalks of fine cut Leavs lying upon
  the ground somwhat like to the Leavs of Carrots, but not
  bushing so thick, of a little quick tast in them, from
  among which riseth up a square Stalk not so high as the
  Carrot, at whose Joynts are set the like Leavs but smaler
  and finer, and at the top smal open tufts or umbels of
  white Flowers, which turn into smal blackish Seed smaler
  than the Anniseed, and of a quicker and hotter tast.  The
  Root is whitish, smal and long, somwhat like unto a
  Parsnep, but with more wrinckled Bark, and much less, of a
  little hot and quick tast, and stronger than the Parsnep,
  and abideth after Seed~time.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is usually sown with us in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower in June or July, and seed quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Caraway Seed hath a moderat sharp quality wherby it
  breaketh Wind and provoketh Urin, which also the Herb
  doth.  The Root is better food than the Parsnep, and is
  pleasant & comfortable to the Stomach, helping digestion.
  The Seed is conducing to all the cold griefs of Head and
  Stomach, the Bowels or Mother, as also the wind in them,
  and helpeth to sharpen the Eye~sight.  The Pouder of the
  Seed put into a Pultis, taketh away black and blue spots
  of Blows or Bruises.  The Herb it self, or with some of
  the Seed bruised and fryed, laid hot in a bag or double
  cloth to the lower part of the Belly, easeth the pains of
  the wind Chollick.
  {Note 80 here}
  =
@begin {m80}
  {Note 80:} Wind, Disury, Indigestion, Head, Stomach,
  Bowels, Mother, Black and blue spots, Bruises, Chollick.
@end {m80}
     The Roots of Caraway eaten as men eat Parsnips,
  strengthen the Stomacks of ancient people exceedingly, and
  they need not make a whol meal of them neither, and are
  fit to be planted in every ones Garden.
  =
     Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a
  spoonful of them eaten in the morning fasting,  and as many
  after each  meal is a most admirable Remedy for such as are
  troubled with Wind.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h56}
@section 3 {tt}
  CELANDINE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers tender, round, whitish, green Stalks,
  with greater Joynts than ordinary in other Herbs, as it
  were Knees, very brittle and easie to break, from whence
  grow Branches with large tender long Leavs, much divided
  into many parts, each of them cut in on the edges, set at
  the Joynts on both sides of the branches, of a dark bluish
  green colour on the upper side like Columbines, and of a
  more pale bluish green underneath, ful of a yellow sap,
  when any part is broken, of a bitter tast and strong
  scent.  At the tops of the Branches which are much
  divided, grow gold yellow Flowers of four Leaves apiece,
  after which come smal long pods, with blackish seed
  therin.  The Root is somwhat great at the head, shooting
  forth divers other long Roots and smal Strings, reddish on
  the outside and yellow within, ful of a yellow sap
  therein.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places by old Walls, by the Hedges,
  and way sides in untilled places; and being once planted
  in a Garden, especially in some shady place, it wil remain
  there.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower all the Summer long, and the Seed ripeneth
  in the mean time.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Herb or Roots boyled in white~Wine and drunk, a few
  Aniseeds being boyled therwith, openeth Obstructions of
  the Liver and Gall, helpeth the yellow Jaundice: and the
  often using it, helps the Dropsie, and the Itch, and those
  that have old Sores in their Legs, or other parts of the
  Body.  The Juyce thereof taken fasting, is held to be of
  singular good use against the Pestilence:  The distilled
  Water, with a little sugar, and a little good Triacle
  mixed therwith (the party upon the taking being laid down
  to sweat a little) hath the same effect.  The Juyce dropped
  into the Eyes clenseth them from Films and the Cloudiness
  which darken the sight, but it is best to allay the
  sharpnes of the Juyce with a little Breast~milk:  It is
  good in old filthy corroding creeping Ulcers whersoever,
  to stay their malignity of fretting and running, and to
  cause them to heal the more speedily:  The Juyce often
  applied to Tetters, Ringworms, or other such like
  spreading Cancers, will quickly heal them, and rubbed
  often upon Warts will taken them away.  The Herb with the
  Roots bruised and heated with Oyl of Camomel, applied to
  the Navel, taketh away the griping pain in the Belly and
  Bowels, and all the pains of the Mother: and applied to
  Womens Breasts stayeth the overmuch flowing of their
  Courses.  The Juyce Decoction of the Herb gargled between
  the Teeth that ake, easeth the pain; and the Pouder of the
  Dryed Root, laid upon an aching hollow, or loos Tooth, wil
  cause it to fal out.  The Juyce mixed with som Pouder of
  Brimstone, is not only good against the Itch, but taketh
  away al discolourings of the Skin whatsoever: And if it
  {Note 81 here}
  chance that in a tender Body it causeth any Itching or
  Inflamation, by bathing the place with a little Vinegar it
  is helped.
  =
@begin {m81}
  {Note 81:} Obstructions of the Liver and Gall, yellow
  Jaundice, Dropsie, Pestilence, Eyes, Ulcers, Tetters,
  Ringworms, Cancers, Warts, Belly, Bowels, Mother Worms,
  Terms, Stops, Toothach, Itch, Beauty lost.
@end {m81}
     This is an Herb of the Sun, & under the Coelestial
  Lyon, and is one of the best cures for the Eyes that is.
  Al that know any thing in Astrologie, know as wel as I can
  tel them, That the Eyes are subject to the Luminaries; let
  it then be gathered when the Sun is in Leo, and the Moon
  in Aries applying to his Trine; let Leo arise, then may
  you make it into an Oyl or Oyntment which you please to
  anoint your sore Eyes withal:  I can prove it both by my
  own experience, and the experience of those to whom I have
  taught it, That most desperat sore Eyes have been cured by
  this only Medicine; And then I pray, is not this farbetter
  than endangering the Eyes by the art of the Needle? for if
  this do not absolutly take away the Film, it wil so
  facilitate the work that it may be don wihout danger.
  =
     Another il~favored trick have Physitians got to use to
  the Eye, and that is worse than the Needle; which is, To
  eat away the Film by corroding or gnawing Medicines.  This
  I absolutly protest against.
  =
  {»}1. Because the Tunicles of the Eye are very thin, and
  {»}therfore soon eaten asunder.
  =
  {»}2. The Callus or Film that they would eat away is
  {»}seldom of an equal thickness in every place, and then the
  {»}Tunicle may be eaten asunder in one place, before the Film
  {»}be consumed in another, and so be a readier way to
  {»}extinguish the sight than to restore it.
  =
     It is called Chelidonium from the Greek word ***{Greek script}
  which sigifies a Swallow, because they say, That if you
  prick out the Eyes of yong Swallows when they are in the
  Nest, the old ones wil recover their Eyes again with this
  Herb.  This I am confident, for I have tried it, That if
  you mar the very Apple of their Eyes with a Needle, she
  wil recover them again, but whether with this Herb or no I
  know not.
  =
     Also I have read (and it seems to be somwhat probable)
  That the Herb being gathered as I shewed before, and the
  Elements drawn apart from it by the art of the Alchymist,
  and after they are drawn apart, rectified, the earthy
  quality still in rectifying them, added to the Terra
  damnata (as Alchymists call it) or Terra sacratissima (as
  som Phylosophers call it)  the Elements so rectified are
  sufficient for the Cure of al Diseases, the humor
  offending being known and the contrary Element given, It
  is an Experience wurth the trying, and can do no harm.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h57}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE LESSER CELONDINE÷
  usually known by the Name of÷
  PILEWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     I wonder what ailed the Antients to give this the name
  of Celandine which resembles it neither in Nature nor
  form:  It acquired the Name of Pilewort from its Vertues,
  and it being no great matter where I set it down, so I do
  set it down at al, I humor'd Dr° Tradition so much as to
  set it down here.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Celandine then or Pilewort (which you please) doth
  spread many round, pale, green Leavs set on weak and
  trailing Branches which lie upon the ground, and are fat,
  smooth, and somwhat shining, and in some places (though
  seldom) marked with black spots, each standing on a long
  Footstalk among which rise smal yellow Flowers, consisting
  of nine or ten smal narrow Leavs, upon slender Footstalks
  very like unto a Crowfoot, wherunto the Seed also is not
  unlike, being many smal ones set together upon a Head.
  The root is made of many smal Kernels like grain of Corn,
  some twice as long as others, of a whitish colour with
  some Fibres at the end of them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth for the most part in the moist corners of
  Fields, and places that are neer water Sides, yet wil
  abide in dryer grounds, if they be but a little shadowed.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowereth betimes about March or April, is quite
  gone in May, so as it cannot be found until it spring
  again.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is certain by good experience that the Decoction of
  the Leavs and Roots, doth wonderfully help the Piles and
  Hemorrhoids as also Kernels by the Ears and Throat called
  the Kings evil; or any other hard Wens or Tumors.
  =
     Here's another Secret for my Country Men and Women, a
  couple of them together, Pilewort being made into an Oyl
  Oyntment or Plaister readily cures both the Piles or
  Hemorrhoids, and the Kings Evil, If I may Lawfully cal it
  {Note 82 here}
  the Kings Evil now there is no King, the very Herb born
  about ones Body next the Skin, helps in such Diseases,
  though it never touch the place grieved, let good people
  make much of it for these uses, with this I cured my own
  Daughter of the Kings Evil, broke the Sore, drew out a
  quarter of a pint of Corruption, and cured it without any
  Scar at all, and in one Weeks time.
  =
@begin {m82}
  {Note 82:} Hemorrhoids, Kings Evil.
@end {m82}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h58}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE ORDINARY SMALL CENTAURY
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth up most usually but with one round and
  somwhat crested stalk, about a foot high, or better,
  branching forth at the top into many sprigs, and some also
  from the Joynts of the Stalks below;  The Flowers that
  stand at the tops as it were in an umbel or tuft, are of a
  pale red, tending to a Carnation colour, consisting of
  five, somtimes six small Leavs, very like those of St°
  Johns Wort, opening themselvs in the daytime, and closing
  at night; after which come Seed in little short Husks in
  form like unto Wheat Corns:  The Leavs are smal and
  somwhat round.  The Root smal and hard, perishing every
  year:  The whol Plant is of an exceeding bitter tast.
  =
     There is another sort in al things like the former,
  save only it beareth white Flowers.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow ordinarily in Fields, Pastures, and Woods,
  but that with the white Flowers, not so frequent as the
  other.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in July, or there abouts, and Seed within
  a Month after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Herb boyled and drunk, purgeth Chollerick and
  gross humors, and helpeth the Sciatica:  It openeth
  Obstructions of the Liver, Gall, and Spleen, helping the
  Jaundice, and easing pains in the Sides, and hardness of
  {Note 83 here}
  the Spleen, used outwardly, and is given with very good
  effect in Agues:  It helpeth those that have the Dropsie
  or the green Sickness, being much used by the Italians in
  pouder for that purpose.  It killeth the Worms in the
  Belly as is found by experience.  The Decoction therof
  (viz°) the tops of the Stalks with the Leavs and Flowers,
  is good against the Chollick, and to bring down Womens
  Courses, helpeth to avoid the dead birth, and easeth pains
  of the Mother, and is very effectual in al old pains of
  {Note 84 here}
  the Joynts, as the Gout, Cramps, or Convulsions.  A dram
  of the Pouder therof taken in Wine, is a wonderful good
  help against the biting and poyson of the Adder.  The
  Juyce of the Herb with a little Honey put to it, is good
  to cleer the Eyes from dimness, mists, and clouds that offend
  {Note 85 here}
  or hinder the Sight:  It is singular good both for
  green and fresh Wounds, as also for old Ulcers and Sores,
  to close up the one and clens the other, and perfectly to
  cure them both, although they be hollow or Fistulous; the
  green Herb especially being bruised and laid therto.  The
  Decoction therof dropped into the Ears, clenseth them from
  Worms, clenseth the foul Ulcers and spreading Scabs of the
  Head, and taketh away al Freckles, Spots, and Marks in the
  Skin being washed therwith.
  =
@begin {m83}
  {Note 83:} Choller, Sciatica, Obstructions, Liver, Gall,
  Spleen, Agues, Dropsie, green sickness, Chollick, Terms
  provokes, Joynts, Gout, Sciatica.
@end {m83}
@begin {m84}
  {Note 84:} Cramp, Convulsion, Venemous Beasts, Eyes,
  Wounds, Ulcers.
@end {m84}
@begin {m85}
  {Note 85:} Ears, Scabby Heads, Freckles, Spots.
@end {m85}
     The Herb is so safe you cannot fail in the using of it,
  only give inwardly for inward Diseases, use it outwardly
  for outward Diseases,  'Tis very wholsom but not very
  toothsom.
  =
     Dr° Reason and Dr° Experience could not agree (the last
  time I spake with them) whether the Herb were under the
  Dominion of the Sun or Mars.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h59}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE CHERRY~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     I suppose there are few but know this Tree, for his
  Fruits sake, and therfore shal spare the writing a
  Description therof.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     For the place of its growth, it is afforded room in
  every Orchard.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Cherries, as they are of different tasts, so they are
  of divers qualities:  The sweet pass through the Stomach
  and Belly more speedily, but are of little Nourishment.
  {Note 86 here}
  The tart or sowr, are more pleasing to an hot Stomach,
  procuring appetite to meat, and help to cut tough Flegm
  and gross humors; but when these are dryed they are more
  binding the belly than when they are fresh, being cooling
  in hot Diseases, and welcom to the Stomach, and provoke
  Urin.  The Gum of the Cherry~Tree dissolved in Wine, is
  good for a cold Cough, and hoarsness of the Throat,
  mendeth the colour in the Face, sharpneth the Eye~sight,
  provoketh appetite, and helpeth to break and expel the
  Stone.  The Black Cherries bruised with the Stones and
  distilled, the Water therof is much used, to break the
  Stone, expel gravel, and break the Wind.
  =
@begin {m86}
  {Note 86:} Appetite lost, Flegm, Gross Humors, Cool,
  provoke Urine, Cough, Hoarsness, Sight, Gravel, Wind.
@end {m86}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h60}
@section 3 {tt}
  WINTER CHERRIES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Winter Cherry hath a running or creeping Root in
  the ground of the bigness many times of ones little
  Finger, shooting forth at several Joynts ins everal
  places, wherby it quickly spreadeth a great compass of
  ground:  The Stalk riseth not above a yard high, wheron
  are set many broad, and long green Leavs, somwhat like
  Nightshade but larger, at the Joynts wherof come forth
  whitish Flowers made of five Leavs apiece; which after
  turn into green Berries, inclosed with thin Skins, which
  change to be reddish, when they grow ripe, the Berry
  likewise being reddish, and as large as a Cherry, wherein
  are contained many flat and yellowish Seeds lying within
  the pulp; which being gathered and strung up are kept all
  the yeer to be used upon occasion.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow not naturally in this Land, but are cherished
  in Gardens for their Vertues.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower not until the middle or latter end of July,
  and the Fruit is ripe about the end of August, or
  beginning of September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are of great use in Physick:  The Leavs being
  cooling may be used in Inflamations, but not opening, as
  the Berries and Fruit are, which by drawing down the Urine
  {Note 87 here}
  provoke it to be avoided plentifully when it is stopped or
  grown hot, sharp, and painful in the passage; it is good
  also to expel the Stone and Gravel out of the Reins,
  Kidnies, and Bladder, helping to dissolve the Stone, and
  avoiding it by greet or gravel sent forth in the Urin; It
  also helpeth much to clens inward Impostumes or Ulcers in
  the Reins or Bladder, or in those that avoid a Bloody or
  foul Urin.  The distilled Water of the Fruit, or the Leavs
  together with them, or the Berries green or dry, distilled
  with a little Milk, and drunk morning and evening with a
  little Sugar, is effectual to al the purposes afore
  specified, and especially against the heat and sharpness
  of the Urin.  I shal only mention one way amongst many
  others which might be used for ordering the Berries to be
  helpful for the Urin and the Stone, which is thus.  Take
  {Note 88 here}
  three or four good handfuls of the Berries either green
  and fresh, or dried and having bruised them, put them into
  so many Gallons of Beer or Ale when it is new tunned up:
  This Drink taken daily hath been found to do much good to
  many, both to eas the pains and expel Urin, and the Stone;
  and to caus the Stone not to ingender.  The Decoction of
  the Berries in Wine or Water is the most usual way; but
  the Pouder of them taken in drink is more effectual.
  =
@begin {m87}
  {Note 87:} Inflamations, Disury, Stone, Gravel, Ulcers in
  the Reins and Bladder, pissing Blood, Sharpness of Urins.
@end {m87}
@begin {m88}
  {Note 88:} A precious Receipt.
@end {m88}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h61}
@section 3 {tt}
  CHERVIL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden Chervil doth at first somwhat resemble
  Parsly, but after it is better grown the Leavs are much
  cut in and jagged  resembling Hemlocks, being a little
  hairy and of a whitish green colour, somtimes turning
  reddish in the Summer with the Stalks also;  It riseth
  little above half a Foot high, bearing white Flowers in
  spoked tufts, which turn into long and round Seed pointed
  at the ends, and blackish when they are ripe; of a sweet
  tast, but no smel, though the Herb it self smelleth
  reasonable wel:  The Root is smal and long and perisheth
  every yeer, and must be sowen anew in the Spring for Seed,
  and after July for Autumn Sallet.
  =
     The wild Chervil growth two or three foot high, with
  yellow Stalks and Joynts, set with broader and more hairy
  Leavs, divided into sundry parts nicked about the edges,
  and of a darker green colour, which likewise grow reddish
  with the Stalks; at the tops wherof stand smal white tufts
  of Flowers & afterwards smaller and longer seed:  The Root
  is white, hard, and enduring long.  This hath little or no
  scent.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first is sown in Gardens, for a Sallet~Herb.  The
  second groweth wild in many of the Meadows of this Land,
  and by the Hedg~sides, and on Heaths.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower and seed early, and thereupon are sown
  again in the end of Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden Chervil being eaten, doth moderately warm
  the Stomach, and is a certain remedy (Saith Tragus) to
  dissolve congealed or clotted Bloud in the Body, or that
  which is clotted by bruises, fals, &c°.  The Juyce or
  distilled Water therof being drunk, and the bruised Leavs
  {Note 89 here}
  laid to the place, being taken either in meat or drink, it
  is held good to provoke Urin, to expel the Stone in the
  Kidnies, to send down Womens Courses, and to help the
  Plurisie and prickings of the Sides.
  =
@begin {m89}
  {Note 89:} Stomach Clotted Blood, Bruises, Falls, Disury,
  Stone, Pleuresie, Sides, Swellings, black and blue Spots.
@end {m89}
    The wild Chervil bruised and applied, dissolveth
  Swellings in any part of the Body, and taketh away the
  Spots and Marks of congealed Blood by Bruises or Blows, in
  a little space.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h62}
@section 3 {tt}
  SWEET CHERVIL or SWEET CICELY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth very like the greater Hemlock having large
  spread Leavs, cut into diverse parts, but of a fresher
  green colour than the Hemlock, tasting as sweet as the
  Anniseed.  The Stalk riseth up a yard high or better being
  crested or hollow, having the like Leavs at the Joynts,
  but lesser; and at the tops of the branched Stalks, Umbels
  or Tufts of white Flowers; after which com large and long
  crested, black shining Seed, pointed at both ends, tasting
  quick, yet sweet and pleasant.  The Root is great and
  white, growing deep in the ground, and spreading sundry
  long Branches therin, in tast and smel stronger than the
  Leavs or Seed, and continuing many years.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This whol Plant besides its pleasantness in Sallets,
  hath also his Physical Vertues.  The Root boyled and eaten
  {Note 90 here}
  with Oyl and Vinegar, (or without Oyl) doth much pleas and
  warm an old and cold Stomach, oppressed with wind or
  flegm, or those that have the Phtisick or Consumption of
  the Lungs.  The same drunk with Wine, is a peservative
  from the Plague; it provoketh Womens Courses, and
  expelleth the After~birth, procureth an appetit to meat,
  and expelleth Wind.  The Juyce is good to heal the Ulcers
  of the Head and Face.  The candied Roots hereof are held
  as effectual as Angelica to preserv from Infection in the
  time of a Plague, and to warm and comfort a cold weak
  Stomach.
  =
@begin {m90}
  {Note 90:} Cold Stomach, Wind, Flegm, Lungues, Phtisick,
  Pestilence, Terms provokes, Afterbirth, Appetite lost,
  Ulcers, Epidemical Diseases.
@end {m90}
     It is so harmless you cannot use it amiss.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h63}
@section 3 {tt}
  CHICKWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is generally known to most People, I shal therfore
  not trouble you with the Description therof; nor my self
  with setting fourth the several kinds; sith but only two
  or three are considerable for their usefulness.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These are usually found in moist and watry places, by
  Wood sides, and els~where.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flower about June, and their Seed is ripe in July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found to be as effectual as Purslane to al the
  purposes whereunto it serveth, except for meat only.  The
  Herb bruised or the Juyce applied (with cloaths or spunges
  dipped therein) to the Region of the Liver, and as they
  dry to have fresh applied, doth wonderfully temper the
  heat of the Liver; and is effectual for all Imposthums and
  Swellings wheresoever; for Scabs, the Juyce either simply
  {Note 91 here}
  used, or boyled with Hogs~Greas and applied; the same
  helpeth Cramps, Convulsions and Palsies; The Juyce or
  distilled Water is of much good use for al heat and
  redness in the Eyes to drop som therof into them; as also
  into the Ears to ease pains in them, and is of good effect
  to ease  the pains, the heat, and sharpness of Blood in
  the Piles and generally al pains in the Body that arise of
  heat; it is used also in hot and virulent Ulcers and sores
  in the privy parts of Man or Woman, or on the Legs or
  els~where.  The Leavs boyled with Marsh Mallows and made
  into a Pultis with Fenugreek, and Linseed, applied to
  Swellings or Imposthumes ripeneth and breaketh them, or
  swageth the swellings and easeth the pains: It helpeth the
  Sinews when they are shrunk by Cramps or otherwise, and to
  extend and make them pliable again, by this Medicine.
  Boyl an handful of Chickweed and a handful of Red~Rose
  Leavs dryed, but not distilled in a Quart of Muscadine
  until a fourth part be consumed; then put to them a pint
  of the Oyl of Trotters, or Sheeps~feet; let them boyl a
  good while still stirring them wel; which being strained,
  anoint the grieved place herewith, warm against a fire,
  rubbing it wel in with ones hand, and bind also some of
  the Herb (if you wil) to the place, and with Gods blessing
  it will help in three times dressing.
  =
@begin {m91}
  {Note 91:} Hot Liver, Apostums, Swellings, Red Face,
  Wheals, Pushes, Itch, Scabs, Cramp, Convulsion, Palsy, Red
  Eyes, Hemorrhoids, Ulcers, Sinews.
@end {m91}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h64}
@section 3 {tt}
  CICH~PEAS, or CICERS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden sorts, whether Red, Black, or White, brings
  forth Stalks a yard long, wheron do grow many smal and
  almost round Leavs, dented about the edges, set on both
  sides of a middle Rib: at the Joynts come forth one or two
  Flowers upon short Footstalks, Peas fashion, either white
  or whitish, or purplish red, lighter or deeper according as
  the Peas that follow will be, that are contained in smal,
  thick, and short Pods, wherin lie one or two Peas more
  usually, a little pointed at the lower end, and almost
  round at the Head, yet a little corner'd or sharp.  The
  Root is smal, and perisheth yeerly.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are sown in Gardens, or the Fields, as Peas, being
  sown later than Peas, and gathered at the same time with
  them, or presently after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are no less windy than Beans, but nourish more,
  they provoke Urine, and are thought to encreas Sperm, they
  have a clensing faculty, wherby they break the Stones in
  the Kidneys.  To drink the cream of them being boyled in
  Water is the best way; it moveth the Belly downwards,
  {Note 92 here}
  provoketh Womens Courses, and Urin, and encreaseth both
  Milk and Seed.  One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of French
  Barley, and a smal handful of Marsh~Mallow Roots, clean
  washed and cut, being boyled in the broth of a Chicken,
  and four ounces taken in the morning and fasting two hours
  after is a good Medicine for a pain in the Side.  The
  white Cicers are used more for Meat than Medicine, yet
  have they the same effect, and are thought more powerful
  to encrease Milk and Seed.
  =
@begin {m92}
  {Note 92:} Disury, Seed encreas, Stone, Costivness, Terms
  provokes, Pain in the sides, Obstruction, Stone, Open,
  Digest, Dissolve.
@end {m92}
     The wild Cicers are so much more powerful than the
  Garden kinds, by how much they exceed them in heat and
  driness; whereby they do more open Obstructions, break the
  Stone, and have al the properties of cutting, opening,
  digesting, and dissolving, and this more speedily, and
  certainly than the former.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h65}
@section 3 {tt}
  CINKFOYL, or FIVE LEAVED GRASS;÷
  Called in some Countries,÷
  FIVE FINGER'D GRASS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This spreadeth and creepeth far upon the ground, with
  long slender strings like Strawberries, which take Root
  again and shooteth forth many Leavs made of five parts,
  and somtimes of seven, dented about the edges and somwhat
  hard; The Stalks are slender leaning downwards, and bear
  many smal yellow Flowers theron, with some yellow threds
  in the middle, standing about a smooth green head; which
  when it is ripe is a little rough, and containeth smal
  brownish Seeds.  The Root is of a blackish brown colour,
  seldom so big, as ones little finger but growing long with
  some threds therat; and by the smal strings it quickly
  spreadeth over the ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth by Wood sides, Hedg sides, the Pathwaies in
  Fields, and in the Borders and Corners of them almost
  through all this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in Summer, some sooner, some later.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is an especial Herb used in all Inflamations and
  Feavers whether Infectious or Pestilential; or among other
  Herbs to cool, and temper the Blood and humors in the
  Body; As also for all Lotions, Gargles, Injections, and
  {Note 93 here}
  the like for sore Mouths, Ulcers, Cankers, Fistulaes, and
  other corrupt Foul, or running sores.  The Juyce herof
  drunk about four ounces at a time for certain daies
  together, cureth the Quinsie, and the yellow Jaundice, and
  taken for thirty daies together cureth the
  Falling~sickness.  The Roots boyled in Milk and drunk is a
  most effectual remedy, for all Fluxes in Man or Woman,
  whether the  Whites, or Reds, as also the Bloody Flux.  The
  {Note 94 here}
  Roots boyled in Vinegar, and the Decoction therof held in
  the Mouth easeth the pains of the Toothach.  The Juyce or
  Decoction taken with a little Honey, helpeth the hoarsness
  of the Throat, and is good for the Cough of the Lungs.
  The distilled Water of both Roots and Leavs is also
  effectual to all the purposes aforesaid: and if the Hands
  be often washed therin and suffered at every time to dry
  in of it self without wiping, it wil in short time help
  the Palsy or shaking in them.  The Roots boyled in
  Vinegar, helpeth all Knots, Kernels, hard swellings, and
  lumps growing in any part of the Flesh, being therto
  applied; as also al Inflamations, and St° Anthonies Fire,
  all Imposthumes, and painful Sores, with heat and
  putrefaction; the shingles also, and all other sorts of
  running, and foul Scabs, Sores, and Itch.  The same also
  boyled in Wine, and applied to any Joynts full of pain and
  ach, or the Gout in the Hands or Feet, or the Hip~gout
  called the Sciatica, and the Decoction therof drunk the
  while, doth cure them; and easeth much pains in the
  Bowels.  The Roots are likewise effectual to help Ruptures
  or Burstings, being used with other things available to
  that purpose, taken either inwardly or outwardly, or both;
  as also for Bruises, or Hurts by Blows, Falls, or the
  like, and to stay the bleeding of Wounds in any part
  inward or outward.
  =
@begin {m93}
  {Note 93:} Inflamation, Feavers, Pestilence, Sore Mouths,
  Ulcers, Cankers, Fistulaes, Quincy, Yellow Jaundice,
  Falling sickness, Flux, Terms, Stops.
@end {m93}
@begin {m94}
  {Note 94:} Whites, Bloody Flux, Tooth~ach, Hoarsness,
  Cough, Palsey of the Hands, Knots in the Flesh, St°
  Anthonies Fire, Shingles, Scabs, Itch, Joynts pained,
  Sciatica, Ruptures, Gouts, Bruises, Fall, Bleeding, Agues.
@end {m94}
     This is an Herb of Jupiter, and therfore strengthens
  the parts of the Body that he rules, let Jupiter be
  angular and strong when it is gathered, and if you give
  but a scruple (which is but twenty grains of it) at a
  time, either in white Wine, or white Wine Vinegar, you
  shal very seldom miss the cure of an Ague be it what Ague
  soever in three Fits, as I have often proved to the
  admiration both of my self and others, let no Man despise
  it becaus it is plain and easie, the waies of God are all
  such, 'tis the ungodliness and impudencey of Man that made
  things hard, and hath (by so doing) made sport for al the
  Devils in Hell, and grieved the good Angels, and when you
  reade this your own Genius if you be any thing at al
  acquainted with it, may dictate to you many as good
  Conclusions both of this and other Herbs.
  =
     Some hold that one Leaf cures a Quotidian, three a
  Tertian, and four a Quartan Ague, and a hundred to one if
  it be not Dioscorides, for he is ful of such Whimseys.
  The truth is I never stood so much upon the number of the
  Leavs, nor whether I gave it in Pouder or Decoction: If
  Jupiter were strong and the Moon applying to him or his
  good aspect at the gathering of it, I never knew it miss
  the desired effects.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h66}
@section 3 {tt}
  CLARY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our ordinary Garden Clary hath four square Stalks, with
  broad, rough, wrinkled, whitish, or hairy green Leavs,
  somwhat evenly cut in on the edges, and of a strong, sweet
  sent, growing some neer the ground, and some by couples
  upon the Stalks:  The Flowers grow at certain distances
  with two smal Leavs at the Joynts under them, somwhat like
  unto the Flowers of Sage, but smaller, and of a whitish
  blue colour:  The Seed is brownish, and somwhat Flat, or
  not so round as the wild, the Roots are blackish and
  spread not far, and perish after the Seed time:  It is
  usually sown, for it seldom riseth of its own sowing.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowereth in June and July, some a little later than
  others, and their Seed is ripe in August, or therabouts.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Seed is used to be put into the Eyes to cleer them
  from Moats, or other such like things gotten within the
  Lids to offend them, as also to clear them from white or
  red spots in them.  The Muccilage of the Seed made with
  Water, and applied to Tumors and swellings, disperseth and
  taketh them away, as also draweth forth Splinters, Thorns,
  or other things gotten into the Flesh.  The Leavs used
  with Vinegar either by it self or with a little Honey,
  {Note 95 here}
  doth help hot Inflamations, as also Boyls, Felons, and the
  hot Inflamations that are gathered by their pains, if it
  be applied before they be grown too great.  The Pouder of
  the dried Leavs put into the Nose provoketh neesing, and
  therby purgeth the Head and Brain of much Rhewm and
  Corruption.  The Seed or Leavs taken in Wine provoketh to
  Venery.  It is of much use both for Men and Women that
  have weak Backs, to help to strengthen the Reins, used
  either by it self or with other Herbs conducing to the
  same effect, and in Tansies often:  The fresh Leavs dipped
  in a Batter of Flower, Egs, and a little Milk, and fried
  in Butter, and served to the Table, is not unpleasant to
  any, but exceeding profitable for those that are troubled
  with weak Backs, and the effects therof.  The Juyce of the
  Herb put into Ale or Beer, and drunk, bringeth down Womens
  Courses, and expelleth the After~birth.
  =
@begin {m95}
  {Note 95:} Eyes, Swellings, Splinters, Thorns,
  Inflamations, Boyls, Felons, Head, Brain, Lust provokes,
  Back, Terms provokes, Afterbirth.
@end {m95}
     It is an usual cours with Men when they have gotten the
  running of the Reins, or Women the Whites, then run to the
  bush of Clary; Maid bring hither the Frying Pan, fetch me
  some Butter quickly, then to eating fryed Clary, just as
  Hogs eat Acorns, and thus they think wil cure their
  Disease (forsooth) wheras when they have devoured as much
  Clary as wil grow upon an Acre of ground, their Backs are
  as much the better as though they had pissed in their
  shoos, nay perhaps much wors.
  =
     As for the trick of curing the Eyes by it I can as yet
  say nothing to it, for the rest it may be effectual.
  =
     We will grant that Clary strengthens the Back, but this
  we deny, That the caus of the running of the Reins in Men,
  or the Whites in Women lies in the Back (though the Back
  may somtimes be weakned by them) and therfore the Medicine
  is as proper, as for me when my Toe is sore, to lay a
  Plaister to my Nose.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h67}
@section 3 {tt}
  CLEAVERS, or GOOSGRASS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Cleavers hath divers very rough square
  Stalks, not so big as the Tag of a Point, but rising up to
  be two or three yards high somtimes, if it meet with any
  tall Bushes or Trees wheron it may climb (yet without any
  Claspers) or els much lower and lying upon the Ground full
  of Joynts, and at every of them shooteth forth a Branch,
  besides the Leavs therat, which are usually six, set in a
  round compass like a Star, or the Rowel of a Spur: from
  between the Leavs at the Joynts towards the tops of the
  Branches, come forth very smal white Flowers, every one
  upon a smal threddy Footstalk, which after they are
  fallen, there do shew two smal, round, rough Seeds, joyned
  together like two Testicles, which when they are ripe grow
  hard and whitish, having a little hole on the side,
  somewhat like unto a Navil.  Both Stalks, Leavs, and Seeds
  are so rough that they wil, cleave to any thing shal touch
  them.  The Root is small and very threddy, spreading much
  in the Ground, but dieth every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth by the Hedg, and Ditch Sides in many places
  of this Land, and is so troublesom an Inhabitant in
  Gardens, that it rampeth upon and is ready to choak what
  ever grows next it.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe and
  falleth again in the end of July or August, from whence it
  springeth up again and not from the old Roots.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of the Herb, and Seed together taken in Wine,
  helpeth those that are bitten with an Adder, by preserving
  the Heart from the Venom; It is familiarly taken in Broth
  to keep them lean and lank that are apt to grow fat.  The
  distilled Water drunk twice a day helpeth the yellow
  Jaundice, and the Decoction of the Herb in experience
  found to do the same, and stayeth Lasks and Bloody Fluxes.
  {Note 96 here}
  The Juyce of the Leavs, or they a little bruisep and
  applied to any bleeding wound, stayeth the Bleeding.  The
  Juyce is also very good to close up the Lips of green
  Wounds; and the Pouder of the dried Herb strewed therupon
  doth the same, and likewise helpeth old Ulcers:  Being
  boyled with Hogs Greas, it healeth al sorts of hard
  Swellings or Kernels in the Throat, being anointed
  therwith.  The Juyce dropped into the Ears taketh away the
  pains of them.
  =
@begin {m96}
  {Note 96:} Venemous Beasts, Heart, Fatness, Yellow
  Jaundice, Flux, Bloody Flux, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings,
  Kings Evil, Pain in the Ears.
@end {m96}
     It is a good remedy in the Spring eaten (being first
  chopped smal and boyled well) in Water~gruel, to clens the
  Blood, and strengthen the Liver, thereby keeping the Body
  in health, and fitting it for that change of Season that
  is coming.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h68}
@section 3 {tt}
  CLOWNS WOUNDWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth up somtimes to three or four Foot high, but
  usually about two Foot, with square, green, rough Stalks,
  but slender joynted somwhat far asunder, and two very long
  and somwhat narrow, dark green Leavs, bluntly dented about
  the edges thereat ending in a long point, the Flowers
  stand toward the tops compassing the Stalks at the Joynts
  with the Leavs and end likewise in a spiked top, having
  long and much open gaping hoods of a Purplish red colour,
  with whitish spots in them, standing in somwhat rough
  Husks, wherein afterwards stand blackish round Seeds.  The
  Root is composed of many long strings, with some tuberous
  long Knobs growing among them, of a pale yellowish or
  whitish colour, yet at some times of the year these knobby
  Roots in many places are not seen in the Plant:  The whol
  Plant smelleth somwhat strongly.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in sundry Counties of this Land both North
  and West, and frequently by Path sides in the Fields neer
  about London, and within three or four miles distance
  about it, yet it usually grows in or neer Ditches.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe soon
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     I is singularly effectual in all fresh and green
  Wounds, and therfore beareth not this name for nought.
  And is very available in stanching of Blood, and to dry up
  the Fluxes of Humors in old fretting Ulcers, Cancers, &c°
  that hinder the healing of them.
  {Note 97 here}
  =
@begin {m97}
  {Note 97:} Wounds, Ulcers, Blood, Cancers, Bloody Flux,
  Vessels broken, Ruptures, Spitting, pissing, and Vomiting
  Blood, Veins Swelled, Muscles cut.
@end {m97}
     A Syrup made of the Juyce of it is inferior to none for
  inward Wounds, Ruptures of Veins, Bloody Flux, Vessels
  broken, spitting, pissing or vomiting Blood, Ruptures are
  excellently and speedily, even to admiration cured by
  taking now and then a little of the Syrup, and applying an
  Oyntment or Plaister of the Herb to the place.  Also if
  any Vein be swelled or Muscle cut apply a Plaister of this
  Herb to it, and if you ad a little Comfry to it 'twil not
  do amiss, I assure the Herb deservs Commendations though
  it have gotten but a Clownish name, and whoever reades
  this (if he try it as I have done) will commend it as well
  as I.
  =
     I have done, only take notice, that it is of a dry
  Earthy quality, and under the Dominion of the Planet
  Saturn.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h69}
@section 3 {tt}
  COCKS~HEAD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers weak, but rough Stalks, half a yard
  long, leaning downwards, beset with winged Leavs, longer
  and more pointed than those of Lentils, and whitish
  underneath; from the tops of these Stalks arise up other
  slender Stalks, naked without Leavs unto the tops, where
  there grow many smal Flowers in manner of a Spike, of a
  pale reddish colour, with some blueness among them:  after
  which rise up in their places, round, rough, and somwhat
  flat Heads.  The Root is tough and somwhat woody, yet
  liveth and shootheth anew every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth under Hedges, and somtimes in the open
  Fields, in divers places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower all the Months of July and August, and the
  Seed ripeneth in the mean while.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
    It hath a power to rarifie and digest, and therfore the
  green Leavs bruised and laid as a Plaister disperseth
  Knots, Nodes, or Kernels in the Flesh, and if when it is
  {Note 98 here}
  dry it be taken in Wine, it helpeth the Strangury: and
  being anointed with Oyl, it provoketh Sweat.  It is a
  singular Food for Cattel to cause them to give store of
  Milk, and why then may it not do the like being boyled in
  the ordinary drink of Nurses.
  =
@begin {m98}
  {Note 98:} Knots and Kernels in the Flesh, Strangury, Milk
  in Cattel.
@end {m98}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h70}
@section 3 {tt}
  COLUMBINES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so wel known, growing in almost every Garden,
  that I think I may save the expence of time in writing a
  Description of them.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in May, and abide not for the most part
  when June is past, perfecting their Seed in the mean time.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs of Columbines are commonly used in Lotions
  with good success for sore Mouths and Throats: Tragus
  saith, That a dram of the Seed taken in Wine with a little
  {Note 99 here}
  Saffron, openeth Obstructions of the Liver, and is good
  for the yellow Jaundice, if the party after the taking
  therof be laid to sweat wel in his Bed:  The seed also
  taken in Wine causeth a speedy Delivery of Women in
  Childbirth; if one draught suffice not, let her drink a
  second, and it is effectual:  The Spaniards use to eat a
  piece of the Root hereof in a morning fasting, many daies
  together to help them being troubled with the Stone in the
  Reins or Kidneys.
  =
@begin {m99}
  {Note 99:} Sore Mouths and Throats, Obstructions, yellow
  Jaundice, Womens Travail, Stone.
@end {m99}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h71}
@section 3 {tt}
  COLTSFOOT, or FOALSFOOT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This shooteth up a slender Stalk with small yellowish
  Flowers somwhat early, which fall away quickly, and after
  they are past, come up somwhat round Leavs, somtimes
  dented a little about the edges, much lesser, thicker and
  greener than those of Butterbur, with a little down or
  Freez over the green Leaf on the upper side, which may be
  rubbed away, and whitish or mealy underneath.  The Root is
  smal and white spreading much underground, so that where
  it taketh, it windwardly be driven away again if any
  little piece be abiding therin; and from thence springeth
  fresh Leavs.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth as well in wet grounds, as in drier places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And Flowreth in the end of February, the Leavs
  beginning to appear in March.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The fresh Leavs, or Juyce, or a Syrup made therof is
  good for a hot dry Cough, for wheesings and shortness of
  breath. The dry Leavs are best for those that have thin
  {Note 100 here}
  Rhewms, and Distillations upon the Lungs, causing a  Cough, for which also the dried Leavs taken as tobacco, or the
  Root, is very good.  The distilled water herof simply, or
  with Elder Flowers and Nightshade, is a singular remedy
  against al hot Agues, to drink two ounces at a time, and
  apply Cloathes wet therein to the Head and Stomach; which
  also doth much good being applied to any hot Swellings or
  Inflamations, it helpeth St° Anthonies Fire, and Burnings,
  and is singular good to take away Wheals, and smal Pushes
  that arise through heat; As also the burning heat of the
  Piles, or privy parts, cloathes wet therin being therunto
  applied.
  =
@begin {m100}
  {Note 100:} Cough, Wheesing, Shortness of breath, Agues,
  Inflamations, Swelling, St° Anthonies fire, Burnings,
  Chollerick, Pushes, Piles, Inflammations in the Privities.
@end {m100}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h72}
@section 3 {tt}
  COMFRY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common great Comfry hath divers very large and
  hairy green Leavs lying on the ground, so hairy or prickly
  that if they touch any tender part of the Hands, Face, or
  Body, it will caus it to itch:  The Stalk that riseth up
  from among them being two or three Foot high, hollow and
  cornered, is very hairy also, having many such like Leavs
  as grow below, but lesser and lesser up to the top.  At
  the Joynts of the Stalks, it is divided into many branches
  with some Leavs theron, and at the ends stand many Flowers
  in order one about another, which are somwhat long and
  hollow like the finger of a Glove, of a pale whitish
  colour, after which come smal black Seed.  The Roots are
  great and long, spreading great thick Branches under
  ground, black on the outside and whitish within, short or
  easie to break, and ful of a glutinous or clammy Juyce of
  little or no tast at al.
  =
     There is another sort in al things like this, save only
  it is somwhat less, and beareth Flowers of a pale purple
  colour.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow by Ditches and Water Sides, and in divers
  Fields that are moist, for therin they chiefly delight to
  grow:  The first generally through al the Land, and the
  other but in some several places.
  =
     By the leave of my Author, the first grow often in dry
  places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June and July, and give their Seed in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The great Comfry helpeth those that spit blood, or make
  a Bloody Urin; The Root boyled in Water or Wine and the
  Decoction drunk, helpeth al inward Hurts, Bruises and
  Wounds, and the Ulcers of the Lungs, causing the Flegm
  that oppresseth them to be easily spit forth;  It staieth
  the defluxions of Rhewm from the Head upon the Lungs, the
  Fluxes of Blood or humors by the Belly, Womens immoderate
  Courses, as well the Reds, as the Whites; and the running
  of the Reins hapning by what caus soever.  A syrup made
  therof is very effectual for all those inward Griefs and
  Hurts; and the distilled Water for the same purpose also,
  and for outward Wounds and Sores in the Fleshy, or Sinewy
  part of the Body whersoever; as also to take away the fits
  of Agues, and to allay the sharpness of Humors.  A
  Decoction of the Leavs herof is available to all the
  purposes, though not so effectual as of the Roots.  The
  Roots being outwardly applied, helpeth fresh Wounds or
  Cuts immediatly, being bruised and laid therunto;  and is
  especial good for Ruptures and broken Bones:  yea it is
  said to be so powerful to consolidate and Knit together;
  {Note 101 here}
  that if they be boyled with dissevered pieces of Flesh in
  a pot it will joyn them together again.  It is good to be
  applied to Womens Breasts that grow sore by the abundance
  of Milk coming into them: as also to repress the overmuch
  bleeding of the Hemorrhoids to cool the Inflamation of the
  parts therabouts, and to give eas of pains.  The Roots of
  Comfry taken fresh, beaten smal, and spread upon Leather,
  and laid upon any place troubled with the Gout, do
  presently give eas of the pains; and applied in the same
  manner giveth eas to pained Joynts and profiteth very much
  from running and moist Ulcers;  Gangrenes, Mortifications,
  and the like, for which it hath by often experience been
  found helpful.
  =
@begin {m101}
  {Note 101:} Spitting, pissing Blood, Inward Wounds &
  Bruises, Phtisick, Bloody Flux, Terms stops, Whites, Nervs
  cut, Muscles cut, sharp Humors, Wounds, Ruptures, broken
  Bones, Knotted Breasts, Hemorrhoids, Inflamation, Gout,
  Pained Joynts, Gangreans.
@end {m101}
     This is also an Herb of Saturn, and I suppose under the
  Sign Capricorn, cold dry, and earthy in quality, what was
  spoken of Clowns Woundwort may be said of this.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h73}
@section 3 {tt}
  COSTMARY, or ALECOST.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so frequently known to be an Inhabitant in
  almost every garden, that I suppose it needless to write a
  Description therof.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The ordinary Costmary as well as Maudlin, provoketh
  Urin abundantly, and moistneth the hardness of the Mother;
  It gently purgeth Choller and Flegm, extenuating that
  which is gross, and cutting that which is tough and
  gluttenous clenseth that which is foul, and hindreth
  putrefaction and corruption, it dissolveth without
  Attraction, openeth Obstructions, and healeth their evil
  effect, and is a wonderful help to al sorts of day Agues.
  It is astringent to the Stomach, and strengtheneth  the Liver and al the other inward parts and taken in Whey
  worketh the more effectually.  Taken fasting in the
  morning, it is very profitable for the pains in the Head
  that are continual, and to stay, dry up, and consume all
  thin Rhewms, or distillations from the Head into the
  {Note 102 here}
  Stomach, and helpeth much to digest raw humors that are
  gathered therein.  It is very profitable for those that
  are fallen into a continual evil disposition of the whol
  Body called Cachexia, being taken especially in the
  beginning of the Diseas: It is an especial friend and help
  to evil, weak, and cold Livers.  The Seed is familiarly
  given to Children for the Worms, and so is the infusion of
  the Flowers in white Wine, given them to the Quantity of
  two ounces at a time:  It maketh an excellent Salve to
  clens and heal old Ulcers, being boyled with Oyl Olive,
  and Adders Tongue with it:  and after it is strained, to
  put a little Wax, Rozin, and Turpentine to bring it into a
  convenient Body.
  =
@begin {m102}
  {Note 102:} Disury, Womb, Choller, Flegm, Putrefaction,
  Corruption, Obstructions, Quotidian Agues,  Stomach,
  Liver, Head~ach, Rhewm, Raw Humors, Cachexia, Worms,
  Ulcers.
@end {m102}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h74}
@section 3 {tt}
  CUDWEED, or COTTONWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Cudweed riseth up but with one Stalk
  somtime, and somtimes with two or three, thick set on all
  sides with small long, and narrow whitish or wooly Leavs
  from the middle of the Stalk almost up to the top; with
  every Leaf standeth a smal Flower, of a dun or brownish
  yellow colour, or not so yellow as others; in which Heads
  after the Flowers are fallen come smal Seed wrapped up
  with the down therin and is carried away with the Wind.
  The Root is small and threddy.
  =
     There are other sorts hereof, which are somwhat lesser
  than the former, not much different, save only that as the
  Stalk and Leavs are shorter, so the Flowers are paler, and
  more open.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in dry, barren, sandy, and gravelly Grounds,
  in most places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower about July, some earlier, some later, and
  their Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Plants are all stringent, or binding and drying,
  and therfore profitable for Defluxions of Rhewm from the
  Head, and to stay Fluxes, of Blood whersoever.  The
  Decoction being made into red Wine and drunk, or the
  Pouder taken therin; it also helpeth the Bloody Flux, and
  easeth the torments that come therby, stayeth the
  immoderate Courses of Women, and is also good for inward
  {Note 103 here}
  or outward Wounds, Hurts, and Bruises, and helpeth
  Children both of Burstings and the Worms; and the Disease
  called Tenasmus which is an often provocation to the
  Stool, and doing nothing, being either drunk or injected:
  The green Leavs bruised and laid to any green Wound
  staieth the bleeding, and healeth it up quickly:  The
  Decoction or Juyce therof doth the same, and helpeth all
  old and filthy Ulcers quickly:  The juyce of the Herb
  taken in Wine and Milk is (as Pliny saith) a Soverign
  remedy against the Mumps and Quinsie; and further saith,
  That whosoever shal so take it, shal never be troubled
  with that Disease again.
  =
@begin {m103}
  {Note 103:} Bind, Dry, Fluxes, Terms ill stopped, Ruptures,
  Worms, Tenasmus, Wounds, Bleeding Ulcers, Quinsy.
@end {m103}
     Venus is Lady of it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h75}
@section 3 {tt}
  COWSLIPS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Both the Wild and Garden Cowslips are so wel know that
  I wil neither trouble my self nor the Reader with any
  description of them.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in April and May.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Flowers are held to be more effectual than the
  Leavs and the Roots of little use.
  =
     An Oyntment being made with them taketh away Spots,
  and Wrinkles of the Skin, Sunburning and Freckles, and ads
  Beauty exceedingly:  They remedy all infirmities of the
  {Note 104 here}
  Head coming of Heat and Wind, as Vertigo, Ephialtes, Fals
  apparitions, Phrensies, Falling~sickness, Palsies,
  Convulsions, Cramps, Pains in the Nerves:  The Roots eas
  pains in the Back and Bladder, and open the passages of
  Urine:  The Leavs are good in Wounds, and the Flowers take
  away trembling:  If the Flowers be not well dried and kept
  in a warm place, they wil soon putrifie and look green,
  have a special eye over them:  if you let them see the Sun
  once a Month, it wil do neither the Sun nor them harm.
  =
@begin {m104}
  {Note 104:} Spots, Wrinkles, Sunburning, Head Heat, Wind,
  Beauty ads, Vertigo, Ephialtes, Convulsion, Cramp, Back,
  Bladder, Wounds, Trembling, Frenzy, Falling~sickness,
  Palsey.
@end {m104}
     Because they strengthen the Brain and Nerves, and
  remedy Palsies the Greeks gave them the name Prralisis;
  The Flowers preserved or conserved, and the quantity of a
  Nutmeg eaten every morning, is a sufficient Dose, for
  inward Diseases, but for Wounds, Spots, Wrinkles, and
  Sunburnings, an Oyntment is made of the Leavs and Hogs
  greas.
  =
     Venus laies claim to the Herb as her own, and it is
  under the Sign Aries, and our City Dames know wel enough
  the Oyntment or Distilled Water of it ads Beauty, or at
  least restores it when it is lost.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h76}
@section 3 {tt}
  SCIATICA~CRESSES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These are of two kinds; The first riseth up with a
  round Stalk about two foot high spread into divers
  Branches, whose lower Leavs are somwhat larger than the
  upper, yet all of them cut, or torn on the edges, somewhat
  like unto Garden Cresses, but smaller:  The Flowers are
  smal and white, growing at the tops of the Branches, where
  afterwards grow Husks with smal brownish Seed therin, very
  strong and sharp in tast, more than the Cresses of the
  Garden:  The Root is long, white and woody.
  =
     The other hath the lower leavs whol, somwhat long and
  broad not torn at al, but only somwhat deeply dented about
  the edges towards the ends, but those that grow up higher
  are lesser.  The Flowers and Seed are like the former, and
  so is the Root likewise: and both Root and Seed as sharp
  as it.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These grow by the waysides in untilled places, and by
  the sides of old Walls.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Flower in the end of June, and their Seed is ripe
  in July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs, but especially the Roots taken fresh in the
  Sumer time, beaten & made into a Pultis or Salve, with old
  Hogs Greas, and applied to the place pained with the
  Sciatica, to continue theron four hours if it be on a Man,
  and two hours on a Woman;  the place afterwards bathed
  with Wine and Oyl mixed together, and then wrapped with
  Wool or Skins after they have set a little, wil assuredly
  {Note 105 here}
  cure not only the same Diseas in the Hips, Hucklebone, or
  other of the Joynts, as the Gout in the Hands or Feet, but
  all other old Griefs of the Head (as inveterate Rhewms)
  and other part of the Body that is hard to be cured:  And
  if of the former Griefs any part remain; the same Medicine
  after twenty daies is to be applied again.  The same is
  also effectual in the Diseases of the spleen and applied
  to the Skin it taketh away the blemishes therof, whether
  they be Scars, Leprosie, Scabs or Scurf: which although it
  exulcerate the part, yet that is to be helped afterwards
  with a Salve made of Oyl and Wax.
  =
@begin {m105}
  {Note 105:} Sciatica, Gout, Head~ach, Rhewms, Spleen,
  Scars, Leprosie, Scurf, Scabs.
@end {m105}
     Esteem of this as another Secret.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h77}
@section 3 {tt}
  WATER~CRESSES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our ordinary Water~Cresses spreadeth forth with many
  weak hollow sappy Stalks, shooting out fibres at the
  Joynts and upwards, long winged Leavs, made of sundry
  broad, sappy and almost round Leavs of a brownish green
  colour.  The Flowers are many and white, standing on long
  Footstalks, after which come small yellow Seed, contained
  in smal long pods like Horns:  The whol Plant abideth
  green in the Winter and tasteth somwhat hot and sharp.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow (for the most part) in the smal standing
  Waters, yet somtimes in smal Rivulets of running Water.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower and Seed in the beginning of Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are more powerful against the Scurvy, and to clens
  the Blood and Humors than Brooklime is, and serve in al
  the other uses in which Brooklime is available, as to
  break the Stone, and provoke Urin, and Womens Courses.
  {Note 106 here}
  The Decoction therof clenseth Ulcers by washing them
  therwith.  The Leavs brused, or the Juyce, is good to be
  applied to the Face, or other parts troubled with
  Freckles, Pimples, Spots, or the like, at night, and
  washed away in the morning, The Juyce mixed with Vineger,
  and the forepart of the Head bathed therwith is very good
  for those that are dull and drowsie, or have the Lethargy.
  =
@begin {m106}
  {Note 106:} Scurvy, Blood, Humors, Stone, Disury, Terms
  provokes, Ulcers, Freckles, Pimples, Spots, Dulness,
  Lethargy.
@end {m106}
     Water~cress Pottage is a good Remedy to clens the Blood
  in the Spring and help Head~aches, and consume the gross
  Humors Winter hath left behind, those that would live in
  health may use it if they pleas, if they will not I cannot
  help it:  If any fancy not Pottage they may eat the Herb
  as a Sallet.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h78}
@section 3 {tt}
  CROSSWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common Crosswort groweth up with square hairy brown
  Stalks, little above a Foot High, having four smal broad
  and pointed hairy, yet smooth green Leavs, growing at
  every Joynt, each against other Cross waies, which hath
  caused the name:  Toward the tops of the Stalks at the
  Joynts with the Leavs in three or four rows upwards, stand
  smal pale, yellow Flowers, after which come smal blackish
  round Seed, four for the most part set in every Husk.  The
  Root is very smal and full of Fibres, or Threads, taking
  good hold of the ground, and spreading with the Branches a
  great deal of ground which perisheth not in Winter,
  although the Leavs die every year, and spring again anew.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many moist grounds as well Meadows, as
  untilled places about London.  In Hamsted Church~yard, at
  Wye in Kent, and sundry other places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth from May al the Summer long in one place or
  other, as they are more open to the Sun; and the Seed
  ripeneth soon after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is a singular good Wound Herb, and is used
  inwardly, not only to stay bleeding of Wounds, but to
  consolidate them, as it doth outwardly any green Wounds,
  which it quickly sodereth up and healeth.  The Decoction
  {Note 107 here}
  of the Herb in Wine, helpeth to expectorate Flegm out of
  the Chest, and is good for Obstructions in the Breast,
  Stomach or Bowels, and helpeth a decayed Appetite;  It is
  also good to wash any Wound or Sore with, to clens and
  heal it:  The Herb bruised and then boyled and applied
  outwardly for certain daies together, renewing it often,
  and in the mean time, the Decoction of the Herb in Wine
  taken inwardly every day doth certainly cure the Rupture
  in any, so as it be not too inveterate; but very speedily
  if it be fresh and lately taken.
  =
@begin {m107}
  {Note 107:} Wounds inward & outward, Flegm, Obstructions,
  Stomach, Bowels, Ruptures.
@end {m107}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h79}
@section 3 {tt}
  CROWFOOT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Abundance are the sorts of this Herb, that to describe
  them all would tire the Patience even of Socrates himself,
  but because I have not yet attained to the Spirit of
  Socrates, I shall but describe the most usual.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The most common Crowfoot hath many dark green Leavs cut
  into divers parts, in tast biting & sharp, biting &
  blistering the Tongue, it bears many Flowers and those of a
  bright resplendent yellow colour, I do not remember that
  ever I saw any thing yellower, Virgins in Ancient time
  used to make Pouder of them to strew Bride Beds, after
  which Flowers come smal heads of Seeds, round, but tugged
  like a Pine Apple.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow very common every where, unless you run your
  Head into a Hedg you cannot chuse but see some of them
  wherever you walk.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in May and June, even till September.
  =
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
  Names.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Many are the Names this furious biting Herb hath
  obtained, almost enough to make up a Welch~mans Pedegree,
  if he fetch it no further than John of Gaunt of William
  the Conqueror, for it is called Frogs~foot from the Greek
  name ***{Greek transliteration for "bad potion"}, Crowfoot,
  Gold Knobs, Gold Cups, King Kob, Bassinets, Troll Flower,
  Polts, Locker Goulons, and Butter~Flowers.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This fiery and hot spirited Herb of Mars is no way fit
  to be given inwardly, but an Oyntment of the Leavs or
  Flowers wil draw a Blister and may so be fitting applied
  to the nape of the Neck to draw back Rhewm from the Eyes,
  the Herb being bruised and mixed with a little Mustard,
  draws a Blister as well and as perfectly as Cantharides,
  and with far less danger to the Vessels of Urin which
  Cantharides Naturally delight to wrong, I knew the Herb
  once applied to a Pestilential rising that was falling
  down, and it saved life even beyond hope, it were good
  keeping an Oyntment and Plaister of it if it were but for
  that.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h80}
@section 3 {tt}
  CUCKOWPINT, or WAKE~ROBIN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This shooteth forth three, four, or five Leavs at the
  most from one Root, every one wherof is somwhat large and
  long, broad at the bottom next the Stalk, and forked, but
  ending in a point without cut on the edges, of a ful green
  colour each standing upon a thick round Stalk, of a hands
  breadth long or more:  among which after two or three
  Months that they begin to wither, riseth up a bare round
  whitish green Stalk, spotted and straked with purple,
  somwhat higher than the Leavs: at the top wherof standeth
  a long hollow Hose or Husk close at the bottom, but open
  from the middle upwards ending in a point; in the middle
  whereof standeth a smal long Pestle or Clapper, smaller at
  the bottom than at the top, of a dark purple colour as the
  Husk is on the inside, though green without; which after
  it hath so abidden for some time, the Husk with the
  Clapper decayeth, and the foot or bottom therof groweth to
  be a smal long Bunch of Berries, green at the first, and
  of a yellowish red colour when they are ripe, of the
  bigness of an Hazel nut Kernel; which abide theron almost
  until Winter;  The Root is round  and somwhat long, for the
  most part lying along, the Leavs shooting forth at the
  bigger end, which when it beareth his Berries, is somwhat
  wrinkled and loos, another being growing under it, which
  is solid and firm with many smal threads hanging therat:
  The whol Plant is of a very sharp biting tast, pricking
  the Tongue as Nettles do the Hands, and so abideth for a
  great while without alteration: The Root hereof was
  anciently used instead of Starch to starch Linnen withal.
  =
     There is another sort of Cockowpint with lesser Leavs
  than the former, and somwhat; harder, having blackish
  spots upon them which for the most part abide longer green
  in Summer than the former; and both Leavs and Roots are
  more sharp and fierce than it:  In al things els it is
  like the former.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These two sorts grow frequently almost under every Hedg
  side in many places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They shoot forth Leavs in the Spring and continue but
  until the middle of Summer, or somwhat later, their Husks
  appearing before they fall away; and their Fruit shewing
  in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Tragus reporteth that a dram weight, or more if need be
  of the spotted Wake~Robin, either fresh and green, or
  dried, being beaten and taken is a most present and pure
  Remedy for Poyson and the Plague.  The Juyce of the Herb
  taken to the quantity of a spoonful hath the same effect.
  But if there be a little Vinegar added therunto as well as
  unto the Root aforesaid it somwhat allayeth the sharp
  biting tast therof upon the Tongue.  The green Leavs
  bruised and laid upon any Boyl or Plague Sore, doth
  wonderfully help to draw forth the Poyson;  a dram of the
  Pouder of the dried Root taken with twice so much Sugar in
  the form of a licking Electuary, or the green Root doth
  wonderfuly help those that are pursie and short winded, as
  also those that have a Cough; it breaketh, digesteth, and
  riddeth away Flegm from the Stomach, Chest, and Lungs.
  {Note 108 here}
  The Milk wherin the Root hath been boyled is effectual also
  for the same purpose.  The said Pouder taken in Wine or
  other Drink; or the Juyce of the Berries, or the Pouder of
  them; or the Wine wherein they have been boyled, provoketh
  Urine, and bringeth down Womens Courses, and purgeth them
  effectually after Child~bearing to bring away the
  After~birth.  Taken with Sheeps Milk it healeth the inward
  Ulcers of the Bowels.  The distilled Water herof is
  effectual to all the purposes aforesaid;  A spoonful taken
  at a time healeth the Itch; And an ounce or more taken at
  a time for some daies together doth help the Rupture; The
  Leavs either green or dry, or the Juyce of them, doth
  clens all manner of rotten and filthy Ulcers in what part
  of the Body soever, and healeth the stinking Sores in the
  Nose called Polipus.  The Water wherin the Root hath been
  boyled dropped into the Eyes, clenseth them from any Film
  or Skin, Clouds or Mists which begin to hinder the Sight,
  and helpeth the watering or redness of them; or when by
  {Note 109 here}
  some chance they become black and blue.  The Root mixed
  with Bean Flower and applied to the Throat or Jaws that
  are inflamed helpeth them.  The Juyce of the Berries
  boyled in Oyl of Roses, or beaten into Pouder and mixed
  with the Oyl, and dropped into the Ears and easeth pains
  in them.  The Berries or the Roots beaten with hot Ox
  Dung, and applied, easeth the pains of the Gout.  The
  Leavs and Roots boyled in Wine with a little Oyl, and
  applied to the Piles, or the falling down of the Fundament
  easeth them; and so doth sitting over the hot fumes
  therof.  The fresh Roots bruised, and distilled with a
  little Milk, yieldeth a most Sovereign Water to clens the
  Skin from Scurff, Freckles, Spots, or Blemishes whatsoever
  therin.
  =
@begin {m108}
  {Note 108:} Poyson, Plague, Boyl, Difficulty of breath,
  Cough, Flegm, Disury, Terms provokes, Afterbirth, Ulcers,
  Itch, Ruptures.
@end {m108}
@begin {m109}
  {Note 109:} Polipus, Eyes, Throat, Jaws, Gout, Piles, or
  Hemorrhoids, Fundament falling down, Scurf, Freckles,
  Spots, Blemishes.
@end {m109}
     Authors have left large Commendation of this Herb you
  see, but for my part I have neither spoken with Dr°
  Reason, nor Dr° Experience about it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h81}
@section 3 {tt}
  DAISIES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so wel known to almost every Child, that I
  suppose it altogether needless to write any Description of
  them.  Take therfore the Vertues of them as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The greater wild Daisie is a Wound Herb of good
  respect, often used in those Drinks or Salvs that are for
  Wounds, either inward or outwards.  The Juyce or distilled
  Water of these, or the smal Daisies, doth much temper the
  heat of Choller, and refresheth the Liver and other inward
  parts.  A Decoction made of them and drunk, helpeth to
  cure the Wounds made in the hollowness of the Breast: The
  same also cureth al Ulcers and Pustles in the Mouth or
  Tongue, or in the secret parts.  The Leavs bruised and
  applied to the Cods, or to any other parts that are
  swollen and hot, doth resolve it and temper the Head:  A
  Decoction made hereof with Walwort and Agrimony and the
  places fomented or bathed therwith warm, giveth great eas
  to them that are troubled with the Palsy, Sciatica, or the
  Gout.  The same also disperseth and dissolveth the Knots
  or Kernels that grow in the Flesh of any  part of the Body
  and the Bruises and Hurts that come of Fals and Blows:
  {Note 110 here}
  They are also used for Ruptures, and other inward Burnings
  with very good success.  An Oyntment made hereof doth
  wonderfully help al Wounds that have Inflamations about
  them, or by reason of moist humors having access unto
  them, are kept long from healing and such are those for
  the most part that happen in the Joynts of the Arms or
  Legs.  The Juyce of them dropped into the running Eyes of
  any doth much help them.
  =
@begin {m110}
  {Note 110:} Wounds, inward & outward, Choller, Liver,
  Breast, Ulcers, Swellings, Kernels, Bruises, Falls,
  Ruptures, Burnings, Inflamations.
@end {m110}
     The Herb is under the Sign Cancer, and under the
  Dominion of Venus, and therfore excellent good for Wounds
  in the Breast, and very fitting to be kept both in Oyls,
  Oyntments, and Plaisters, as also in Syrup.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h82}
@section 3 {tt}
  DANDELYON,÷
  Vulgarly called,÷
  PISS~A~BEDS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is wel known to have many long and deeply gashed
  Leavs lying on the ground, round about the Head of the
  Root; the ends of each Gash or Jag on both sides looking
  downwards towards the Root, the middle rib being white
  which broken yieldeth abundance of bitter Milk, but the
  Root much more:  from among the Leavs which alwaies abide
  green, arise many slender, weak, naked Footstalks, every
  one of them bearing at the top one large yellow Flower,
  consisting of many rows of yellow Leavs, broad at the
  points and nicked in with a deep spot of yellow in the
  middle, which growing ripe, the green Husk wherin the
  Flower stood turneth it self down to the Stalk, and the
  Head of down becometh as round as a Ball, with long
  reddish Seed underneath, bearing a part of the Down on the
  Head of every one, which together is blown away with the
  Wind, or may be at once blown away with ones Mouth.  The
  Root growth downwards exceeding deep, which being broken
  off within the ground, wil notwithstanding shoot forth
  again; and wil hardly be destroyed where it hath once
  taken deep Root in the ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth frequent in al Meadows and Pasture Grounds.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in one place or other almost all the yeer
  long.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is of an opening and clensing quality, and therfore
  very effectual for the Obstructions of the Liver, Gall,
  and Spleen, and the Diseases that arise from them, as the
  jaundice, & Hypocondriacal Passion: It wonderfully openeth
  the Passages of the Urin both in yong and old.  It
  powerfully clenseth Aposthumes, and inward in the Uritory
  passages, and by the drying and temperate quality doth
  afterwards heal them; for which purpose the Decoction of
  the Roots or Leavs in white Wine, or the Leavs chopped as
  Potherbs with a few Allisanders and boyled in their Broth,
  {Note 111 here}
  is very effectual.  And whoso is drawing towards a
  Consumption, or an il Disposition of the whol Body called
  Cachexia by the use herof for some time together shal find
  a wonderful help:  It helpeth also to procure rest and
  sleep to Bodies distempered by the Heat of Ague Fits, or
  otherwise.  The distilled Water is effectual to drink in
  Pestilential Feavers, and to wash the Sores.
  =
@begin {m111}
  {Note 111:} Openeth, Clenseth, Obstructions, Liver, Gall,
  Spleen, Jaundice, Hypochodriacal Melancholly, Disury,
  Consumption, Cachexia, Watching, Heat, Agu, Pestilence.
@end {m111}
     You see here what Vertues this common Herb hath, and
  that's the reason you French and Dutch so often eat them
  in the Spring; and now if you look a little further you
  may see plainly wthout a pair of Spectakles, that Forraign
  Physitians are not so selfish as ours are, but more
  communicative of the Vertues of Plants to People.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h83}
@section 3 {tt}
  DARNEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath all the Winter long, sundry long, fat, and
  rough Leavs, which when the Stalk riseth which is slender
  and joynted, are narrower, but rough stil; on the top
  groweth a long spike composed of many Heads, set one above
  another, containing two or three Husks with sharp, but
  short Beards or awns at the ends;  the Seed is easily
  shaked out of the Ear, the Husk it self being somwhat
  tough.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Country Husbandmen do know this too well to grow
  among their Corn: or in the Borders and Pathwaies of other
  Fields that are fallow.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     As this is not without some Vices, so hath it also many
  Vertues.  The Meal of Darnel is very good to stay
  Gangreans, and other such like fretting and eating
  Cankers, and putrid Sores: It also clenseth the Skin of al
  {Note 112 here}
  Lepries, Morphews, Ringworms, and the like, if it be used
  with Salt and Rhadish Roots.  And being used with quick
  Brimstone and Vinegar it dissolveth Knots and Kernels and
  breaketh those that are hard to be dissolved, being boyled
  in Wine with Pidgeons Dung and Linseed:  A Decoction
  therof made with Water and Honey and the place bathed
  therwith is profitable for the Sciatica.  Darnel Meal
  applied  in a Poltis, draweth forth Splinters and broken
  Bones in the Flesh: The red Darnel boyled in red Wine and
  taken stayeth the Lask and all other Fluxes, and Womens
  bloody Issues; and restraineth Urin that passeth away too
  suddenly.
  =
@begin {m112}
  {Note 112:} Gangreans, Cankers, Leprosie, Morphew,
  Ringworms, Sciatica, Thorns, Splinters, broken Bones,
  Diabets.
@end {m112}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h84}
@section 3 {tt}
  DILL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Dill groweth up with seldom more than one
  Stalk, neither so high nor so great usually as Fennel,
  being round and with fewer Joynts theron, whose Leavs are
  sadder, and somwhat long, and so like Fennel that it
  deceiveth many; but harder in handling and somwhat
  thicker, and of a stronger unpleasanter set:  The tops of
  the Stalks have four Branches and smaller Umbels of yellow
  Flowers, which turn into smal Seed somwhat flatter and
  thinner than Fennel Seed.  The Root is small and woody,
  perishing every year after it hath born Seed; and is also
  unprofitable, being never put to any use.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is most usually sown in Gardens, and Grounds for the
  purpose, & is also found wild with us in some places.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Dill being boyled and drunk is good to eas
  Swellings & pains, it also stayeth the Belly, and Stomach
  from casting:  The Decoction thereof helpeth Women that
  are troubled with the Pains and Windiness of the Mother,
  if they fit therin.  It stayeth the Hiccough, being boyled
  in Wine and but smelled unto, being tied in a Cloth.  The
  Seed is of more use than the Leavs and more effectual to
  {Note 113 here}
  digest raw and viscuous humors, and is used in Medicines
  that serve to expel Wind and the pains proceeding
  therfrom.  The Seed being toasted or fried and used in
  Oyls or Plaisters, dissolveth the Imposthumes in the
  Fundament, and drieth up all moist Ulcers (especially in
  the secret parts.)  The Oyl made of Dill is effectual to
  warm, to resolve Humors and Imposthumes, to eas pains and
  to procure rest.
  =
@begin {m113}
  {Note 113:} Swellings, Pains, Loosness, Vomiting, Mother,
  Hiccough, Raw and tough Humors, Wind, Apostums, Ulcers,
  Terms provokes.
@end {m113}
     The Decoction of Dill be it Herb or Seed (only if you
  boyl the Seed you must bruis it) in white Wine, being
  drunk is a gallant expeller of Wind and provoker of the
  Terms.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h85}
@section 3 {tt}
  DEVILS~BIT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a round green, smooth Stalk about
  two foot high set with divers long and somwhat narrow,
  smooth, dark, green Leavs, somwhat snip'd about the edges
  for the most part, being els al whol and not divided at al
  or but very seldom, even to the tops of the Branches which
  yet are smaller than those below, with one Rib only in the
  middle:  At the end of each Branch standeth a round Head
  of many Flowers set together in the same manner or more
  neatly than the Scabious, and of a more blewish purple
  colour; which being past there followeth Seed that falleth
  away.  The Root is somehat thick, but short and blackish
  with may Strings, abiding after Seed time many yeers.
  This Root was longer untill the Devil (as the Fryars say)
  bit away the rest of it for spight, envying its usefulness
  unto Man~kind.  For sure he was not troubled with any
  Disease for which it is proper.
  {Note 114 here}
  =
@begin {m114}
  {Note 114:} A Learned Tale that cost a dull Fryar seven
  yeers study.
@end {m114}
     There are two other sorts hereof in nothing unlike the
  former, save that the one beareth White and the other
  Blush colour'd Flowers.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first groweth as well in dry Meadows and Fields, as
  moist, in many places of this Land:  But the other two are
  more rare, and hard to meet with, yet they are both found
  growing wild about Appledore, neer Rye in Kent.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower not usually untill August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Herb or Root (all that the Devil hath left of it)
  being boyled in Wine and drunk is very powerful against
  the Plague, and all Pestilential Diseases or Feavers,
  Poysons also, and the bitings of Venemous Beasts;  It also
  helpeth those that are inwardly bruised by any casualty,
  {Note 115 here}
  ar outwardly by Falls or Blows, dissolving the clotted
  Blood:  and the Herb or Root beaten and outwardly applied,
  taketh away the black and blue Marks that remain in the
  Skin.  The Decoction of the Herb, with Honey of Roses put
  therin is very effectual to help the inveterate tumors and
  Swellings of the Almonds and Throat, by often gargling the
  Mouth therwith.  It helpeth also to procure Womens
  Courses, and easeth all pains of the Mother, and to break
  and discuss Winds therein and in the Bowels.  The Pouder
  of the Root taken in Drink, driveth forth the Worms in the
  body:  The Juyce, or distilled Water of the Herb is
  effectual for green Wounds, or old Sores, and clenseth the
  Body inwardly, and the Seed outwardly from Sores, Scurff,
  Itches, Pimples, Freekles, Morphew, or other deformities
  therof, but especially if a little Vitriol be dissolved
  therin.
  =
@begin {m115}
  {Note 115:} Pestilence, Feaver, Poyson, Venemous Beasts,
  Bruises, Falls, Clotted Blood, Swellings of the Throat,
  Mother, Wind, Worms, Wounds, Scurff, Itch, Dandriff,
  Pimples, Freckles, Morphew.
@end {m115}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h86}
@section 3 {tt}
  DOCK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so wel known many kinds of them, that I shall
  not trouble you with a Description of them;  my Book grows
  big too fast.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     All of them have a kind of cooling(but not all alike)
  drying quality the Sorrels being most cold, and the
  Bloodworts most drying:  Of the Bur~dock I have spoken
  already by himself.  The Seed of most of the other kinds
  whether of the Garden or Field, do stay Lasks or Fluxes of
  all sorts, the loathings of the Stomach through Choller,
  and is helpful to those that spit Blood.  The Roots boyled
  in Vinegar helpeth the Itch, Scabs, and breakings out of
  the Skin if it be bathed therwith.  The Distilled Water of
  the Herb and Roots hath the same Vertue, and clensth the
  Skin of Freckles, Morphews, and all other Spots and
  Discolourings therin.
  {Note 116 here}
  =
@begin {m116}
  {Note 116:} Flux, Loathing of Meat, Spitting Blood, Scabs,
  Itch, Freckles, Morphew.
@end {m116}
     All Docks being boyled with Meat, make it boyled the
  sooner:  Besides Bloodwort is exceeding strengthning to
  the Liver, and procures good Blood, being as wholsom a Pot
  Herb as any grows in a Garden, yet such is the nicity of
  our times forsooth, that Women will not put it in the Pot
  becaus it makes the Pottage black, Pride and Ignorance (a
  couple of Monsters in the Creation) preferring Nicity
  before Health.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h87}
@section 3 {tt}
  DODDER OF TIME, or EPITHIMUM, and other DODDERS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This first from seeds giveth Roots in the ground, which
  shooteth forth threads or Strings, grosser or finer, as
  the property of the Plant wherein it groweth, and the
  climate doth suffer, creeping and spreading on that Plant
  wheron it fastneth, be it high or low.  These Strings have
  no Leavs at all upon them but wind and interlace
  themselves so thick upon a smal Plant that it taketh away
  all comfort of the Sun from it, and is ready to choke or
  strangle it:  After these Strings are risen up to that
  Height that they may draw Nourishment from the Plant, they
  seem to be broken off from the ground, either by the
  strength of ther rising, or withered by the heat of the
  Sun.  Upon these Strings are found clusters of small Heads
  or Husks, out of which start forth whitish Flowers, which
  afterwads give smal pale colour'd Seed somwhat flat, and
  twice as big as Poppy Seed.  It generally participates of
  the Nature of that Plant which it climbeth upon, but the
  Dodder of Time is accounted the best, and is the only true
  Epithimum.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is accounted the most effectual for Melanchollick
  Diseases, and to purge black or burnt Choller, which is
  the caus of many Diseases of the Head and Brains, as also
  for the trembling of the Heart, faintings, and swounings.
  It is helpful in all Diseases and Griefs of the Spleen,
  and of that Melancholly that ariseth from the windiness of
  the Hypochondria.  It purgeth also the Reins or Kidneys by
  Urin.  It openeth Obstructions of the Gall, wherby it
  profiteth them that have the Jaundice; as also of the
  Liver, and Spleen; purging the Veins of Chollerick and
  Flegmatick Humors, and helpeth Childrens Agues, a little
  Wormfeed being put therto.
  =
     The other Dodders do (as I said before) participate of
  the Nature of those Plants whereon they grow: As that
  which hath been found growing upon Nettles in the West
  Country, hath by experience been found very effectual to
  procure plenty of Urin where it hath been stopped or
  hindred.  And so of the rest.
  {Note 117 here}
  =
@begin {m117}
  {Note 117:} Melancholy, Addust Choller, Trembling,
  fainting, swooning, Spleen, Hypochondria, Obstructions,
  Gall, Jaundice, Liver, Disury.
@end {m117}
     All Dodders are under Saturn.  Tell not me of
  Physitians crying up Epithimum, or that Dodder which grows
  upon Time (most of which comes from Hymettus in Greece, or
  Hybla in Sicilia, becaus those Mountains abound with Time)
  he is a Physitian indeed that hath wit enough to chuse his
  Dodder according to Nature of the Diseas and Humor
  peccant, we confess, Time is the hottest Herb it usually
  grows upon, and therfore that which grows upon Time is
  hotter than that which grows upon colder Herbs, for it
  draws Nourishment from what it grows upon as well as from
  the Earth where its Root is and thus you see old Saturn is
  wise enough to have two Strings to his Bow.
  =
     Sympathy and Antipathy, are the two Hinges upon which
  the whol Moddel of Physick turns, and that Physitian which
  minds them not is like a Door off from the Hooks, more
  likely to do a man a mischief than to secure him:  then
  all the Diseases Saturn causeth, this helps by Sympathy, &
  strengthens al the parts of the Body he rules, such as
  caused by Sol it helps by Antipathy, what those Diseases
  are see my Judgment of Diseases by Astrology, and you be
  pleased to look the Herb Wormwood, you shal find a
  Rational way for it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h88}
@section 3 {tt}
  DOGS~GRASS or QUICH~GRASS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is well known that this Grass creepeth far about
  under ground with long white joynted Roots, and smal
  fibres almost at every Joynt very sweet in tast, as the
  rest of the Herb is, and interlacing one another, from
  whence shoot forth many fair long grassy Leavs small at
  the ends and cutting or sharp on the edges.  The Stalks
  are joynted like Corn with the like Leavs on them, and a
  long spiked Head with long Husks on them and hard rough
  Seed in them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth commonly through this Land in divers plowed
  grounds, to the no smal trouble of the Husbandman, as also
  of the Gardiners in Gardens to weed it out if they can,
  for it is a constant Customer to the place it gets footing
  in.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is the most Medicinable of all the Quich~grasses:
  Being boyled and drunk it openeth Obstructions of the
  Liver and Gall, and the stoppings of the Urin, and easeth
  the griping pains of the Belly, and Inflamations; wasteth
  the matter of the Stone in the Bladder, and the Ulcers
  thereof also:  The Roots brused and applied doth
  consolidate Wounds: The Seed doth more powerfully expel
  Urin, and stayeth the Lask, and Vomitings; The distilled
  Water alone, or with a little Wormfeed killeth the Worms
  in Children.
  {Note 118 here}
  =
@begin {m118}
  {Note 118:} Liver, Gall, Disury, Griping, Inflamations,
  Ulcers, in the Bladder, Wounds, Vomiting, Worms, Stopping.
@end {m118}
     The way of use is to bruis the Roots, and having well
  boyled them in white Wine, drink the Decoction; 'tis
  opening, but not purging very safe; 'tis a Remedy against
  all Diseases coming of Stopping and such are half those
  which are incident to the Body of man; and although a
  Gardiner be of another opinion, yet a physitian holds half
  an Acre of them to be worth five Acres of Carrots twice
  told over.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h89}
@section 3 {tt}
  DOVESFOOT, or CRANES~BILL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers small, round, pale, green Leavs, cut
  in about the edges, much like Mallows, standing upon long
  reddish hairy Stalks lying in a round compass upon the
  ground; among which rise up two or three, or more reddish
  Joynted, slender, weak, and hairy Stalks, with some such
  like Leavs thereon, but smaller, and more cut in up to the
  tops, where grow many very smal, bright, red Flowers of
  five Leavs apiece after which follow smal Heads, with smal
  short beaks pointing forth, as all other sorts of these
  Herbs do.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Pasture Grounds, and by the Path sides in
  many places and wil also be in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, July, and August, some earlier,
  and some later and the Seed is ripe quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found by experience to be singular good for the
  Wind Chollick, and pains thereof, as also to expel the
  Stone and Gravel in the Kidnies.  The Decoction thereof in
  Wine is an exceeding good Wound Drink for those that have
  inward Wounds, Hurts, or Bruises, both to stay the
  {Note 119 here}
  bleeding to dissolve and expel the congealed Blood, and to
  heal the parts, as also to clens, and heal outward Sores,
  Ulcers, and Fistulaes; and for green Wounds many do but
  bruise the Herb, and apply it to the place, and it healeth
  them quickly.  The same Decoction in Wine fomented to any
  place pained with the Gout, or to Joynt~aches, or pain, of
  the Sinews giveth much eas.  The Pouder, or Decoction of
  the Herb taken for some time together is found by
  experience to be singular good for Ruptures, and Burstings
  in People, either yong or old.
  =
@begin {m119}
  {Note 119:} Chollick, Stone, Gravel, Wounds, Congealed
  Blood, Sores, Ulcers, Fistulaes, Gout, Sinews, Ruptures.
@end {m119}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h90}
@section 3 {tt}
  DUCKSMEAT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known to swim on the top of standing
  Waters, as Ponds, Pools, and Ditches, that it is needless
  further to describe it.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is effectual to help Inflamations and St° Anthonies
  fire, as also the Gout, either applied by it self, or in a
  Pultis with Barley Meal.  The distilled Water herof is by
  some highly esteemed, against all inward Inflamations, and
  Pestilent Feavers; as also to help the redness of the
  Eyes, the Swellings of the Cods, and of the Breasts before
  they be grown too much.  The fresh Herb applied to the
  Forehead, easeth the Pains of the Head~ach coming of heat.
  {Note 120 here}
  =
@begin {m120}
  {Note 120:} Inflamations, St° Anthonies Fire, Pestilence,
  Eyes, Swillings of the Cods, Headach.
@end {m120}
     Cancer claims the Herb, and the Moon wil be Lady of it,
  a word is enough to a Wise man.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h91}
@section 3 {tt}
  DOWN, or COTTON~THISTLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many large Leavs lying on the ground, somwhat
  cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a green
  colour on the upper side, but covered over with a long
  hairy Wool, or Cottony Down, set with most sharp, and
  cruel pricks; from the middle of whose Heads of Flowers,
  thrust forth many Purplish, Crimson Treds, and somtimes
  (although more seldom) white ones.  The Seed that
  followeth in these Heads, lying in a great deal of fine
  white Down is somwhat large, long, and round, like the
  Seed of Ladies Thistle, but somwhat paler.  The Root is
  great and thick spreading much, yet it usually dieth after
  Seed time.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on divers Ditches Banks, and in the
  Corn~fields, and High~waies generally every where
  throughout the Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and beareth Seed about the end of Summer,
  when other Thistles do Flower and Seed.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Pliny and Dioscorides write That the Leavs & Roots
  hereof taken in Drink, helpeth those that have a Crick in
  their Neck, wherby they cannot turn their Neck but their
  whol Body must turn also (Sure they do not mean those that
  have got a Crick in their Neck by being under the Hangmans
  Hands.)  Galen saith that the Root and Leavs hereof are of
  an heating quality, and good for such Persons as have
  their Bodies drawn together by some Spasme or Convulsion;
  as it is with Children that have the Rickets, or rather
  (as the Colledg of Physitians will have it) the Rachites,
  for which name for the Disease, they have (in a particular
  Treatise lately set forth by them) Learnedly Disputed, and
  put forth to the publick view, that the World may see,
  they took much pains to little purpose.
  {Note 121 here}
  =
@begin {m121}
  {Note 121:} Wry Neck, Spasmus, Convulsion, Rickets.
@end {m121}
     Mars owns the Plant, and manifests to the World, that
  though it may hurt your Fingers it will help your Body,
  for I fancy it much for the Premises.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h92}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE ELDER~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     I hold it needless to write any Description of this,
  sith every Boy that plaies with a Potgun, will not mistake
  another Tree instead of Elder.  I shall therfore in this
  place only describe the Dwarf Elder, called also Danewort,
  and Walewort.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h93}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE DWARF ELDER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is but an Herb every yeer dying with his Stalks to
  the ground, and rising again afresh every Spring; and is
  like unto the Elders both in form and quality, rising up
  with a four square rough hairy Stalk four foot high or
  more somtimes.  The winged Leavs are somwhat narrower than
  the Elder, but els very like them.  The Flowers are white
  with a dash of Purple standing in Umbels, very like the
  Elder also but more sweet in scent, after which come smal
  blackish Berries, full of Juyce while they are fresh,
  wherein there lie smal hard Kernels or Seed.  The Root
  doth creep under the upper crust of the ground, springing
  afresh in divers places being of the bigness of ones
  finger or Thumb somtimes.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Places.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Elder~Tree groweth in Hedges, being planted there
  to strengthen the Fences, and Partitions of Grounds, and
  to hold up the Banks by Ditches, and Water~courses.
  =
     The Dwarf Elder groweth Wild in many places of England,
  where being once gotten into a Ground it is not easily
  gotten forth again.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Times.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Most of the Elder~Trees Flower in June, and their Fruit
  is ripe for the most part in August.
  =
     But the Dwarf Elder, or Wallwort Flowreth somwhat
  later, and his fruit is not ripe until September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first Shoots of the common Elder boyled like
  Asparagus, & the yong Leavs & Stalks boyled in Fat Broth,
  doth mightily carry forth Flegm and Choller.  The middle
  {Note 122 here}
  or inner Bark boyled in Water, and given to drink worketh
  much more violently; and the Berries either green or dry,
  expel the same humors, and is often given with good
  success to help the Dropsie.  The Bark of the Root  boyled in Wine, or the Juyce therof drunk, worketh the same
  effects, but more powerfully than either the Leavs or
  Fruit.  The Juyce of the Root taken doth mightily provoke
  {Note 123 here}
  Vomit, and purgeth the watery Humors of the Dropsie.  The
  Decoction of the Root taken cureth the biting of the
  Adder, and biting of Mad Dogs; It mollifieth the hardness
  of the Mother, if Women sit therin and openeth the Veins,
  and bringth down their Courses:  The Berries boyled in
  Wine performeth the same effect; and the hair of the Head
  washed therwith is made black.  The Juyce of the green
  Leavs applied to the hot Inflamations of the Eyes,
  asswageth them.  The Juyce of the Leavs snuffed up into
  the Nostrils purgeth the Tunicles of the Brain.  The Juyce
  of the Berries boyled with a little Honey and dropped into
  the Ears, helpeth the pains of them.  The Decoction of the
  Berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urine.  The
  distilled Water of the Flowers is of much use to clear the
  Skin from Sunburning, Freckles, Morphew, or the like; and
  taketh away Headaches coming of a cold caus, the Head
  being bathed therwith.  The Leavs or Flowers distilled in
  the Month of May, and the Legs often washed with the said
  distilled Water, it taketh away the Ulcers and Sores of
  them:  The Eyes washed therewith, it taketh away the
  redness and Bloodshot: And the Hands washed morning and
  evening therwith helpeth the Palsey, and shaking of them.
  {Note 124 here}
  =
@begin {m122}
  {Note 122:} Flegm, Choller, Dropsie.
@end {m122}
@begin {m123}
  {Note 123:} Venemous Beasts, Mad Dogs, Terms provokes.
  Inflamation, Brain, Ears, Urine provokes, Sunburning,
  Freckles, Morphew.  Headach, Ulcers, Palsey.
@end {m123}
@begin {m124}
  {Note 124:} Gout Inflamation, Burning, Scalding, Chollick,
  Stone, Disury.
@end {m124}
     The Dwarf Elder is more powerful than the Common Elder,
  in opening and purging Choller, Flegm, and Water, in
  helping the Gout, the Piles, and Womens Diseases, coloreth
  the Hair black, helpeth Inflamation in the Eyes, and pains
  in the Ears; the biting of Serpents or a Mad Dog, Burnings
  and Scaldings, the wind Chollick, Chollick and Stone, the
  difficulty of Urine, the cure of old Sores, and Fistulous
  Ulcers.
  =
     Either Leavs or Bark of Elder stripped upward as you
  gather it causeth Vomiting, but stripped downward it
  purgeth downwards.  Also Dr° Butler in a Manuscript of his
  commends Dwarf Elder to the Sky for Dropsies, viz° to
  drink it being boyled in white Wine, to drink the
  Decoction I mean, not the Elder.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h94}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE ELM TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This Tree is so well known, growing generally in all
  Countries of this Land; that it is needless to describe
  it.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs herof bruised and applied healeth green
  Wounds being bound thereon with its own Bark:  The Leavs
  or the Bark used with Vinegar, cureth Scurf, and Lepry
  very effectually:  The Decoction of the Leavs, Bark or
  Root, being bathed, healeth broken Bones.  The Water that
  is found in the Bladders on the Leavs, while it is fresh,
  is very effectual to clens the Skin and make it fair: and
  if clothes be often wet therin and applied to the Ruptures
  of Children it helpeth them; if they be after wel bound up
  with a Truss.  The said Water put into a Glass, and set in
  the Ground, or els in Dung for twenty five daies, the
  {Note 125 here}
  Mouth therof being close stopped; and the bottom set upon
  a lay of ordinary Salt, that the Feces may setttle and the
  Water become very cleer, is a singular and Soveraign Balm
  for green Wounds, being used with soft tents: The
  Decoction of the Bark of the Root fomented mollifieth hard
  tumors, and the shrinking of the Sinews.  The Roots of the
  Elm boyled for a long time in Water, and the fat rising on
  the top therof being clean scummed off, and the place
  anointed therwith that is grown Bald, and the Hair fallen
  away, will quickly restore them again.  The said Bark,
  ground with Brine and Pickle until it come to the form of
  a Pultis and laid on the place pained with the Gout,
  giveth great eas.  The Decoction of the Bark in Water is
  excellent to bath such places as have burned with fire.
  =
@begin {m125}
  {Note 125:} Wounds Scurff, Leprosie, Beauty, Ruptures,
  Swellings, Baldness, Gout, Burning.
@end {m125}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h95}
@section 3 {tt}
  ENDIVE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Garden Endive beareth a longer and a larger
  Leaf than Succory, and abideth but one yeer, quickly
  running up to Stalk and Seed, and then perisheth: It hath
  blue Flowers, and the Seed of the ordinary Endive is so
  like Succory Seed, that it is hard to distinguish them.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Leavs, or the Juyce, or the
  distilled Water of Endive serveth well to cool the
  excessive Heat in the Liver and Stomach, and in the hot
  Fits of Agues, and all other Inflamations in any part of
  the Body; it cooleth the heat and sharpness of the Urine,
  and the Excoriations in the Uritory parts; The Seed is of
  the same property or rather more powerful, and besides is
  available for the faintings, swounings, and passions of
  the Heart.  Outwardly applied they serve to temper the
  sharp Humors of fretting Ulcers, hot Tumors and Swellings,
  and Pestiential Sores; and wonderfully helpeth not only
  the redness and Inflamation in the Eyes, but the dimness
  of the Sight also: They are also used to allay the pains
  of the Gout.
  {Note 126 here}
  =
@begin {m126}
  {Note 126:} Liver, Stomach, Agues, Sharpness of Urine, and
  Excoriations thereby, Passion of the Heart, Ulcers,
  Swellings, Eyes, Gout.
@end {m126}
     You cannot use it amiss, a Syrup of it is a fine
  cooling Medicine for Feavers.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h96}
@section 3 {tt}
  ELECAMPANE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This shooteth forth many large Leavs, long, and broad,
  lying neer the ground, smal at both ends, somwhat soft in
  handling, of a whitish green on the upper side, and gray
  underneath, each set upon a short Footstalk; from among
  which rise up divers great, and strong hairy Stalks, three
  or four foot high with some Leavs thereon compassing them
  about at the lower ends, and are branched toward the tops,
  bearing divers great and large Flowers like those of the
  Corn Marigold, both the Border of Leavs and the middle
  thrum being yellow, which turn into Down; with long small
  brownish Seed among it, and is carried away with the wind.
  The Root is great and thick, branched forth divers waies,
  blackish on the outside, and white within, of a very
  bitter tast, and strong, but good sent, especially when
  they are dryed, no part els of the Plant having any smel.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in the moist Grounds, and shadowy places
  oftner than in the dry and open Borders of Fields and
  Lanes, and in other wast places almost in every Country of
  this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the end of June and July, and the Seed
  is ripe in August, The Roots are gathered for use, as well
  in the Spring before the Leaves come forth, as in Autumn
  or Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The fresh Roots of Elcampane preserved with Sugar, or
  made into a Syrup or Conserve, are very effectual to warm
  a cold and windy Stomach, or the pricking therin, and
  Stiches in the Sides caused by the Spleen; and to help the
  Cough, shortness of Breath, and wheesing in the Lungs.
  The dried Root made into Pouder, and mixed with Sugar and
  taken, serveth to the same purposes, and is also
  profitable for those that have their Urine stopped; or the
  {Note 127 here}
  stopping of Womens Courses, the pains of the Mother, and
  of the Stone in the Reins, Kidneys, or Bladder: It
  resisteth Poyson, and stayeth the spreading of the Venom
  of Serpents, as also of putrid and pestilential Feavers,
  and the Plague it self.  The Roots and Herb beaten and put
  into new Ale or Beer, and dayly drunk, cleareth,
  strengthneth, and quickneth the Sight of the Eyes
  wonderfully.  The Decoction of the Roots in Wine or the
  Juyce taken therin, killeth and driveth forth all manner
  of Worms in the Belly, Stomach, and Maw; and gargled in
  the mouth; or the Root chewed fastneth loos Teeth, and
  helpeth to keep them from Putrefaction:  And being drunk
  is good for those that spit Blood, helpeth to remove
  {Note 128 here}
  Cramps or Convulsions, and the pains of the Gout, the
  Sciatica, the loosness and pains in the Joynts, or those
  Members that are out of Joynt, by cold or moisture hapning
  to them, applied outwardly as well as inwardly, and is
  good for those that are bursten, or have any inward bruis.
  The Roots boyled well in Vinegar, beaten afterwards and
  made into an Oyntment, with Hogs Suet or Oyl of Trotters
  is an excellent remedy for Scabs or Itch in yong or old:
  The places also bathed or washed with the Decoction doth
  the same; it also helpeth all sorts of filthy, old, putrid
  Sores or Cankers wheresoever.  In the Roots of this Herb
  lieth the chief effect for all the Remedies aforesaid:
  The distilled Water of the Leavs and Roots together is
  very profitable to clens the Skin of the Face or other
  parts, from any Morphew, Spots, or Blemishes therein, and
  maketh it cleer.
  =
@begin {m127}
  {Note 127:} Cold, Stomach, Wind, Stitch, Spleen, Cough,
  Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, Terms provokes, Mother,
  Stone, Poyson, Venemous Beasts, Pestilence, Eyes, Worms.
@end {m127}
@begin {m128}
  {Note 128:} Loos Teeth, Spitting Blood, Cramps,
  Convulsions, Gout, Joynts, Itch, Cankers, Freckles,
  Morphew, Spots.
@end {m128}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h97}
@section 3 {tt}
  ERINGO, or SEA~HOLLY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first Leavs of our ordinary Sea~Holly, are nothing
  so hard and prickly as when they grow old, being almost
  round and deeply dented about the edges; hard, and sharp
  pointed and a little crumpled, of a bluish green colour,
  every one upon a long Footstalk:  but those that grow up
  higher with the Stalk, do as it were compass it about.
  The stalk it self is round and strong, yet somwhat crested
  with Joynts and Leavs set therat, but more divided, sharp,
  and prickle; and branches rising from thence, which have
  likewise other smaller Branches, each of them bearing
  several bluish round prickly Heads, with many smal jagged
  prickly Leavs under them standing like a Star, and are
  somtimes found greenish or whitish:  The Root groweth
  wonderful long, even to eight or ten Foot in length, set
  with Rings or Circles, toward the upper part, but smooth
  and without Joynts down lower, brownish on the outside,
  and very white within, with a pith in the middle, of a
  pleasant tast, but much more being artificially preserved
  and candy'd with Sugar.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found about the Sea Coasts, in almost every
  Country of this Land which bordereth upon the Sea.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the end of Summer, and giveth ripe Seed
  within a Month after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Root herof in Wine is very
  effectual to open the Obstructions of the Spleen and
  Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the Dropsie, the
  pains in the Loins, and wind Chollick, provoketh Urine,
  and expelleth the Stone, and procureth Womens Courses.
  {Note 129 here}
  The continued use of the Decoction for 15 daies taken
  fasting and next to Bedward, doth help the strangury, the
  pissing by drips, the stopping of Urine and Stone, and all
  defects of the Reins or Kidneys; and if the said drink be
  continued longer, it is said that it perfectly cureth the
  Stone, and that experience hath found it so: It is found
  good against the French Pox.  The Roots bruised and
  applied outwardly, helpeth the Kernels of the Throat,
  commonly called the Kings evil; or taken inwardly and
  applied to the place stung or bitten by any Serpent,
  healeth it speedily. If the Roots be bruised and boyled in
  old Hogs greas, or salted Lard and applied to broken
  Bones, Thorns &c° remaining in the Flesh doth not only
  draw them forth, but healeth up the place again, gathering
  new Flesh where it was consumed:  The Juyce of the Leavs
  {Note 130 here}
  dropped into the Ears, helpeth Imposthumes therin:  The
  Distilled Water of the whol Herb when the Leavs and Stalks
  are yong, is profitably drunk for all the purposes
  aforesaid; and helpeth the Melancholly of the Heart, and
  is available in Quartane and Quotidian Agues, as also for
  them that have their Necks drawn awry, and cannot turn
  them, without turning their whol Body.
  {Note 131 here}
  =
@begin {m129}
  {Note 129:} Obstructins, Spleen, Liver, Yellow Jaundice,
  Dropsie, Chollick, Disury, Strangury, Reins.
@end {m129}
@begin {m130}
  {Note 130:} French Pox, Kings Evil, Venemous Beasts,
  Thorns, broken Bones, Splinters, Thorns, Apostums,
  Melancholly, Quartan, & Quotidian Agues, Wry Necks.
@end {m130}
@begin {m131}
  {Note 131:} Seed breedeth.
@end {m131}
     The Plant is Venerial, and breedeth Seed exceedingly
  and strengthens the Spirit procreative, it is hot and
  moist, and under the Coelestial Ballance.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h98}
@section 3 {tt}
  EYEBRIGHT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Eyebright is a small low Herb, rising up
  usually but with one blackish, green Stalk, a span high,
  or not much more, spread from the bottom into sundry
  Branches, wheron are set smal and almost round, yet
  pointed dark, green, Leavs finely snipped about the edges,
  two alwaies set together, and very thick:  At the Joynts
  with the leavs from the middle upward, come forth small
  white Flowers stryped with purple and yellow Spots or
  stripes; after which follow small round Heads with very
  small Seed therin: The Root is long, small, and threddy at
  the end.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many Meadows, and grassy places, in this
  Land.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     If this Herb were but as much used as it is neglected,
  it would half spoil the Spectacle makers Trade; and a man
  would think that reason should teach people to prefer the
  preservation of their Natural before Artificial
  Spectacles: which that they may be instructed how to do,
  take the Vertues of Eyebright as followeth.
  =
     The Juyce or distilled Water of Eyebright taken
  inwardly in white Wine or Broth, or dropped into the Eyes
  for divers daies together, helpeth all infirmities of the
  Eyes that caus dimness of Sight: Some make a Conserv of
  the Flowers to the same effect: Being used any of these
  waies it also helpeth a weak Brain or Memory,  This tunned
  up with strong Beer that it may work together, and drunk;
  {Note 132 here}
  Or the Pouder of the dried Herb mixed with Sugar, a little
  Mace, and Fennel Seeds, and drunk or eaten in Broth: Or
  the said Pouder made into an Electuary with Sugar and
  taken, hath the same powerful effect to help and restore
  the Sight decaied through age.  And Arnoldus de villa
  nova, saith, It hath restored Sight to them that have been
  blind a long time before.
  =
@begin {m132}
  {Note 132:} Eyes, Dimness, Brain, Memory.
@end {m132}
     It is under the Sign of the Lyon, and Sol claims
  Dominion over it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h99}
@section 3 {tt}
  FERN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Of this there are two kinds principally to be noted;
  viz°  The Male and Female: The Female groweth higher than
  the Male, but the Leavs therof are lesser, & more divided
  or dented; & of as strong a smel as the Male:  The Vertues
  of them are both alike; and therfore I shall not trouble
  you with any further Description or distinction of them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They both grow on Heaths, and in shady places neer the
  Hedg sides in all Countries of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flourish and give their Seed at Mid~summer.
  =
     The Femal Fern is that plant which is in Sussex called
  Brakes, the Seed of which some Authors hold to be so rare,
  such a thing there is I know, and may easily Be had upon
  Mid~summer Eve, and for ought yet I know two or three
  daies before or after, if not more.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Roots of both these sorts of Ferns, being bruised
  and boyled in Mead or Honyed Water, and drunk, killeth
  both the broad and long Worms in the Body; and abateth the  Swelling and hardness of the Spleen.  The green Leavs
  eaten, purgeth the Belly and Chollerick and waterish
  humors, but it troubles the Stomach.  They are dangerous
  for Women with Child to meddle with, by reason they caus
  {Note 133 here}
  abortment.  The Roots bruised and boyled in Oyl or Hogs
  greas, maketh a very profitable Oyntment to heal Wounds,
  or pricks gotten into the Flesh.  The Pouder of them used
  in foul Ulcers, drieth up their Malignant moisture, and
  causeth their speedier healing: Fern being burned, the
  smoke therof driveth away Serpents, Gnats, and other
  noisom Creatures, which in the Fenny Countries do in the
  night time trouble and molest people lying in their Beds
  with their Faces uncovered it causeth Barrenness.
  =
@begin {m133}
  {Note 133:} Worms, Spleen, Choller, Flegm, Stomach, Wounds,
  Ulcers, Serpents, Gnats, Venemous Beasts.
@end {m133}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h100}
@section 3 {tt}
  OSMOND ROYAL, or WATER FERN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This shooteth forth in the Spring time (for in the
  Winter the Leavs perish) divers rough hard Stalks, half
  round and hollowish, or flat on the other side, two Foot
  high, having divers Branches of winged yellowish green
  Leavs on all sides, set one against another, longer,
  narrower, and not nicked on the edges as the former:  From
  the top of some of these Stalks grow forth a long Bush of
  smal, and more yellowish green scaly aglets as it were set
  in the same manner on the Stalks as the Leavs are; which
  are accounted the Flower and Seeds; The Root is rough,
  thick, and Scaly, with a white pith in the middle which is
  called the Heart therof.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on Moors, Bogs, and Watery places in many
  parts of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is green all the Summer; and the Root only abideth
  in Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath all the Vertues mentioned in the former
  Ferns, and is much more effectual than they both for
  inward and outward Griefs; and is accounted singular good
  {Note 134 here}
  in Wounds, Bruises or the like, the Decoction to be drunk,
  or boyled into an Oyntment or Oyl, as a Balsom or Balm,
  and so it is singular good against Bruises, and Bones
  broken or out of joynt, and giveth much eas to the
  Chollick, and Splenetick Diseases; as also for Ruptures,
  or burstings. The Decoction of the Root in white Wine
  provokes Urine exceedingly and clenseth the Bladder and
  passages of Urine.
  =
@begin {m134}
  {Note 134:} Wounds, Bruises, Broken Bones, Chollick,
  Spleen, Ruptures, Disury.
@end {m134}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h101}
@section 3 {tt}
  FEATHERFEW.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Featherfew hath many large fresh green Leavs
  very much torn or cut on the edges:  The Stalks are hard
  and round set with many such like Leavs, but somwhat
  smaller, and at the tops stand many single Flowers upon
  several smal Footstalks, consisting of many smal white
  Leavs, standing round about a yellow thrum in the middle.
  The Root is somwhat hard and short, with many strong
  Fibres at it:  The scent of the whol Plant is very strong,
  and stuffing, and tast very bitter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth wild in some places of this Land; but it
  is for the most part nourished in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the Months of June and July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is chiefly used for the Diseases of the Mother,
  whether it be the strangling or rising of the Mother, or
  Hardness or Inflammations of the same, applied outwardly
  thereunto: or a Decoction of the Flowers in Wine with a
  little Nutmeg or Mace put therin, and drunk often in a
  day, & is an approved Remedy to bring down Womens Courses
  speedily, and helpeth to expel the dead Birth and
  Afterbirth.  For a Woman to sit over the hot fumes of the
  Decoction of the Herb made in Water or Wine is effectual
  also for the same; and in some cases to apply the boyled
  Herb warm to the privy parts.  The Decoction therof made,
  {Note 135 here}
  with some Sugar or Honey put therto, is used by many with
  good success, to help the Cough, and stuffing of the Chest
  by cold, as also to clens the Reins and Bladder, and help
  to expel the stone in them.  The Pouder of the Herb taken
  in Wine, with some Oximel purgeth both Choller and Flegm,
  and is available for those that are short winded; and are
  troubled with Melancholly and Heaviness or sadness of the
  Spirits.  It is very effectual for all pains in the Head
  coming of a cold caus, the Herb being bruised, and applied
  to the crown of the Head; as also for a Vertigo, that is a
  turning or swimming in the Head.  The Decoction therof
  {Note 136 here}
  drunk warm, and the Herb bruised with a few Corns of Bay
  Salt and applied to the Wrists before the coming of the
  Ague Fits, doth take them away.  The distilled Water
  taketh away Freckles & other Spots and Deformities in the
  Face. The Herb bruised and heated on a Tyle, with some
  Wine to moisten it, or fried with a little Wine and Oyl in
  a frying Pan, and applied warm outwardlly  to the places,
  helpeth the wind and Chollick in the lower part of the
  Belly:  It is an especial Remedy against Opium taken too
  liberally.
  {Note 137 here}
  =
@begin {m135}
  {Note 135:} Mother, Womb, Terms provokes, Dead Birth,
  Afterbirth.
@end {m135}
@begin {m136}
  {Note 136:} Cough, Reins, Bladder, Choller, Flegm,
  Melancholly, Sadness, Headach, Vertigo.
@end {m136}
@begin {m137}
  {Note 137:} Ague, Deformity of the Skin, Wind, Chollick,
  Opium.
@end {m137}
     Venus commands the Herb and hath commanded it to
  succour her Sisters (Women) and to be a general
  strengthner of their Wombs and remedy such infirmities, as
  a careless Midwife hath there caused, if they will be but
  pleased to make use of her Herb boyled in white Wine, and
  drink the Decoction, it clenseth the Womb, expelleth the
  Afterbirth, doth the Woman all the good she can desire of
  an Herb. And if any grumble because they cannot get the
  Herb in Winter, tell them if they pleas they may make a
  Syrup of it in Summer.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h102}
@section 3 {tt}
  FENNEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Every Garden affordeth this so plentifully, that it
  needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Fennel is good to break wind, to provoke Urine, and eas
  the pains of the Stone, and help to break it. The Leavs or
  Seed boiled in Barley Water and drunk is good for Nurses
  to encreas their Milk and make it more wholsom for the
  Child:  The Leavs, or rather the Seed boyled in Water
  staieth the Hiccough, and taketh away that loathing which
  {Note 138 here}
  oftentimes hapneth to the Stomachs of Sick, and Feaverish
  Persons, and allayeth the heat therof. The Seed boyled in
  Wine and drunk, is good for those that are bitten by
  Serpents, or have eaten Poyson full Herbs or Mushroms:
  The Seed and the Root much more helpeth to open
  Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Gall, and thereby
  helpeth the painful and windy swellings of the Spleen, and
  the yellow Jaundice, as also the Gout and Cramps.  The
  {Note 139 here}
  Seed is of good use in Medicines to help shortness of
  breath, and Wheesing by stopping of the Lungs. It helpeth
  also to bring down the Courses and to clens the parts
  after delivery. The Roots are of most use in Physick
  Drinks and Broths that are taken to clens the Blood, to
  open Obstructions of the Liver to provoke Urine, and amend
  the ill colour in the Face after Sickness, and to caus a
  good habit through the Body:  Both Leavs, Seeds, and Roots
  hereof are much used in Drinks or Broths, to make people
  more spare and lean that are too fat.  The distilled Water
  of the whol Herb or the condensate Juyce dissolved, but
  especially the Natural Juyce that in hot Countries issueth
  out thereof of its own accord, dropped into the Eyes,
  clenseth them from mists and films that hinder the sight.
  The sweet Fennel is much weaker in Physical uses, than the
  common Fennel.  The wild Fennel is stronger and hotter
  than the tame; and therefore most powerful against the
  Stone, but not so effectual to encreas Milk, because of
  its driness.
  =
@begin {m138}
  {Note 138:} Wind, Disury, Stone, Encreaseth Milk, Amends
  Milk, Hiccough, Loathing of meat, Venemous Beasts, Poyson,
  Mushroms.
@end {m138}
@begin {m139}
  {Note 139:} Obstructions in the Liver, Spleen, and Gall,
  Yellow Jaundice, Gout, Cramp, Wheesing, Terms provokes,
  After Delivery, Clens, open, Fatness, Eyes.
@end {m139}
     One good old fashion is not yet quite left off, viz° To
  boil Fennel with Fish, for it consumes that Flegmatick
  humor which Fish most plentifully afford and annoy the
  body by, therefore it is a most fit Herb for that purpose
  though few that use it know why or wherfore they do it, I
  suppose the Reason of its benefit this way is becaus it is
  an Herb of Mercury and under Virgo, and therfore bears
  Antipathy to Pisces. Dill is also an Herb of Mercury,
  which I forgot to certifie you of before.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h103}
@section 3 {tt}
  SOW FENNEL, or HOGS FENNEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Sow~Fennel hath divers branched Stalks of
  thick and somwhat long Leavs, three for the most part
  joyned together at a place, among which riseth a crested
  strait Stalk, less than Fennel with some Joynts theron,
  and Leavs growing thereat, and toward the top some
  Branches issuing from thence, likewise on the tops of the
  Stalk and Branches stand divers tufts of yellow Flowers,
  where after grow somwhat flat, thin, and yellowish Seed
  bigger than Fennel Seed: The Root groweth great and deep
  with many other parts and Fibres about them, of a strong
  scent like hot Brimstone and yielding forth a yellowish
  Milk, or clammy Juyce almost like Gum.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth plentifully in the Salt low Marshes neer by
  Feaversham in Kent.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and seedeth in July and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of Sow~Fennel (saith Dioscorides and Galen)
  used with Vinegar and Rosewater, or the Juyce with a
  little Euphorbium put to the Nose, helpeth those that are
  {Note 140 here}
  troubled with the Lethargy, the Frensie, the turning or
  Giddiness of the Head, the Falling~Sickness, long and
  inveterate Headach, the Palsie, Sciatica, and the Cramp,
  and generally all the Diseases of the Sinews, used with
  Oyl and Vinegar.  The Juyce dissolved in Wine, or put into
  an Eg, is good for the Cough, or shortness of Breath and
  for those that are troubled with the Wind in the Body; It
  purgeth the Belly gently, helpeth the hardness of the
  Spleen, giveth eas to Women that  have sore travail in
  Childbirth, and easeth the pains of the Reins and Bladder,
  and also of the Womb.  A little of the Juyce dissolved in
  {Note 141 here}
  Wine and dropped into the Ears, easeth much of the pains
  in them; and put into an hollow Tooth, easeth the pain
  therof.  The Root is less effectual in all the aforesaid
  Diseases: yet the Pouder of the Root clenseth foul Ulcers
  being put into them; and taketh out Splinters of broken
  Bones or other things in the Flesh and healeth them up
  perfectly, as also it dryeth up old and inveterate running
  Sores, and is of admirable Vertue in all green Wounds.
  =
@begin {m140}
  {Note 140:} Lethargy, Frenzie, Vertigo, Falling~Sickness,
  Headach, Palsey, Sciatica, Cramp, Sinews, Cramp, Shortness
  of breath, Wind, Spleen.
@end {m140}
@begin {m141}
  {Note 141:} Childbirth, Reins, Bladder, Womb, Ears, Hollow
  Teeth, Ulcers, broken Bones, Thorns, Wounds.
@end {m141}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h104}
@section 3 {tt}
  FIGWORT, or THROATWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The common great Figwort sendeth forth divers great,
  strong, hard, square, brown Stalks three or four Foot
  high, wherin grow large, hard, and dark green Leavs, two
  at a Joynt, which are larger and harder than Nettle Leavs,
  but not stinging:  At the tops of the Stalks stand many
  purple Flowers set in Husks, which are somwhat gaping and
  open, somwhat like those of Water~Betony; after which come
  hard round Heads, with a small point in the middle, wherin
  lie small brownish Seed.  The Root is great, white, and
  thick, with many branches at it growing aslope under the
  upper crust of the Ground, which abideth many yeers but
  keepeth not his green Leavs in Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth frequently in moist and shadowy Woods, and
  in the lower parts of Fields and Meadows.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowereth about July, and the Seed will be ripe
  about a Month after the Flowers are fallen.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Herb taken inwardly, and the
  bruised Herb applied outwardly dissolveth clotted or
  {Note 142 here}
  congealed Blood within the Body, coming by any Wound,
  Bruis, or Fall; and is no less effectual for the Kings
  Evil, or any other Knots, Kernels, Bunches or Wens growing
  in the Flesh whersoever, and for the Hemorrhoids or Piles,
  or other Knobs or Kernels which somtimes grow about the
  Fundament: An Oyntment made hereof, may be used at all
  times when the fresh Herb is not to be had.  The distilled
  Water of the whol Plant, Roots and all is used for the
  same purposes, and drieth up the superfluous virulent
  moisture of hollow and corroding Ulcers; It taketh away
  all redness, Spots and Freckles in the Face, as also the
  Scurff or any foul Deformity therin, and the Leprosie
  likewise.
  =
@begin {m142}
  {Note 142:} Congealed Blood by Wound, Bruise, or Fall,
  Kings Evil, Wens, Hemorrhoids, Fundament, Ulcers, Scurff,
  Spots, Freckles, Deformity, Leprosie.
@end {m142}
     Some Latin Authors call it Cervicria becaus 'tis
  apropriated to the Neck, and we Throatwort becaus 'tis
  apropriated to the Throat: Venus owns the Herb, and the
  Coelestial Bull will not deny it, therefore a better
  Remedy cannot be for the Kings Evil, becaus the Moon that
  rules the Diseas is exalted there, nor for any Diseas in
  the Neck, the rest of the Diseases specified, you may if
  you look see a very good reason for their cure by this
  Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h105}
@section 3 {tt}
  FILIPENDULA, or DROPWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This sendeth forth many Leavs some bigger, some lesser,
  set on each side of a middle Rib, and each of them dented
  about the edges, somwhat resembling wild Tansie, or rather
  Agrimony, but harder in handling, among which riseth up
  one or more Stalks two or three Foot high, with like Leavs
  growing theron, and somtimes also divided into other
  Branches spreading at the top into many white sweet
  smelling Flowers, consisting of five Leavs apiece with
  some threds in the middle of them standing together in a
  tuft or Umbel each upon a smal Footstalk, which after they
  have been open and blown a good while do fall away, and in
  their places appear smal, round chaffy heads like Buttons
  wherein are the chaffy Seed set and placed.  The Root
  consists of many smal black tuberous pieces, fastned
  together by many smal long blackish Strings which run from
  one to another.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of this Land, in the Corners
  of dry Fields and Meadows, and their Hedg Sides.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June and July, and their Seed is ripe in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is very effectual to open the passages of the Urine,
  and help the Strangury, and all other pains of the Bladder
  and Reins, helping mightily to expel the Stone in the
  Kidnies or Bladder, and the Gravel also, and these are
  {Note 143 here}
  done by taking the Roots in Pouder, or a Decoction of them
  in white Wine, whereunto a little Honey is added:  The
  same also helpeth to expel the Afterbirth.  The Roots made
  into Pouder and mixed with Honey into the form of an
  Electuary doth much help  them whose Stomachs are swollen,
  dissolving and breaking the Wind which was the cause
  therof, and is also very effectual for all diseases of the
  Lungs, as shortness of breath, wheesings, hoarsness of the
  Throat, and the Cough, and to expectorate cold Flegm, or
  any other parts thereabouts.
  =
@begin {m143}
  {Note 143:} Disury, Strangury, Reins, Bladder, Stone,
  Gravel, Wind, Lungs, Wheesing, Hoarseness, Cough, Flegm.
@end {m143}
     It is called Dropwort becaus it helps such as piss by
  drops.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h106}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE YELLOW WATER~FLAG, or, FLOWER~de~LUCE
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
    This groweth like the Flower~de~luces, but it hath much
  longer, and narrower sad green Leavs joyned together in
  that fashion; the Stalk also groweth oftentimes as high,
  bearing smal yellow Flowers, shaped like the
  Flower~de~luce with three falling Leavs, and other three
  arched that cover their Bottoms; but instead of the three
  upright Leavs as the Flower~de~luce hath, this hath only
  three short pieces standing in their places, after which
  succeed thick and long three square Heads containing in
  each part somwhat big and Flat Seed like to those of the
  Flower~de~luces:  The Root is long and slender, of a pale
  brownish colour on the outside, and of a Hore flesh colour
  on the inner side, with many hard fibres thereat, and very
  harsh in tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It usually groweth in watery Ditches, Ponds, Lakes, and
  More sides which are alwaies overflown with water.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth in July, and the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Root of this Water~Flag is very astringent,
  cooling, and drying, and therby helpeth all Lasks and
  Fluxes, whether of Blood or Humors, as bleeding at Mouth,
  Nose, or other parts, bloody Fluxes, and the immoderate
  Flux of Womens Courses.  The distilled water of the whol
  Herb, Flowers, and Roots is a Soveraign good Remedy for
  watering Eyes, both to be dropped into them, and to have
  {Note 144 here}
  Cloathes or Spunges wetted therin and applied to the
  Forehead; It also helpeth the Spots or Blemishes that
  happen in or about the Eyes, or in any other parts:  The
  said water fomented on Swellings and hot Inflamations of
  Womens sore Breasts, upon Cankers also, and those
  spreading Ulcers called Noli me Tangere, doth much good:
  It helpeth also foul Ulcers in the privy parts of man or
  woman, or elswhere.  An Oyntment made of the Flowers is
  better for these external applications.
  =
@begin {m144}
  {Note 144:} Binds, Cools, Dries, Flux, Bloody flux,
  Bleeding, Terms stops, Eyes, Spots, Blemishes,
  Inflamations, Sore Breasts, Cankers, Ulcers, Noli me
  tangere.
@end {m144}
     Take notice that the Moon rules the Plant and then I
  have done.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h107}
@section 3 {tt}
  FLAXWEED, or TOADFLAX.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Flaxweed hath divers Stalks full fraught
  with long and narrow blue or Ash~colour'd Leavs, and from
  the middle of them almost upward stored with a number of
  pale yellow Flowers, of a strong unpleasant scent, with
  deeper yellow mouths, and blackish flat Seeds in round
  Heads.  The Root is somwhat woody and white, especially
  the main downright one, with many fibres, abiding many
  yeers, shooting forth Roots every way round about, and new
  Branches every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth throughout this land, both by the way
  sides in Meadows, as also by Hedg sides, and upon the
  sides of Banks and Borders of Fields.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in Summer, and the Seed is ripe usually
  before the end of August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is frequently used to provoke Urine being stopped,
  and to spend the abundance of those watery Humors by Urine
  which caus the Dropsie.  The Decoction of the Herb both
  Leavs and Flowers in Wine, taken and drunk doth somwhat
  move the Belly downwards, openeth Obstructions of the
  Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, expelleth Poyson,
  provoketh Womens Courses, driveth forth the dead Child,
  {Note 145 here}
  and Afterbirth.  The Distilled water of the Herb and
  Flowers is eflectual for all the same purposes, especially
  being drunk with a dram of the Pouder of the Seeds, or
  Bark of the Root of Walwort and a little Cinnamon for
  certain daies together, is held a singular Remedy for the
  Dropsie:  The Juyce of the Herb or the distilled Water
  dropped into the Eyes is a certain Remedy for all heat,
  Inflamations and redness in them.  The Juyce or water put
  into foul Ulcers whither they be Cancrous or Fistulous
  with tents rouled therin, or the parts washed or injected
  therwith clenseth them throughly from the bottom, and
  healeth them up safely.  The same Juyce or Water also
  clenseth the Skin wonderfully of all sorts of deformity
  thereof, as Lepry, Morphew, Scurff, Wheals, Pimples, or
  any other Spots or Marks in the Skin, applied of it self,
  or used with some Pouder of Lupines.
  =
@begin {m145}
  {Note 145:} Disury, Dropsie, Obstructions of the Liver,
  yellow Jaundice, Dead Child and Afterbirth, Inflamations,
  Eyes, Ulcers, Cancers, Fistulaes, Leprosie, Scabs,
  Pimples, Freckles.
@end {m145}
     Mars owns the Herb, in Sussex we call it,  Gall~wort and lay it in our Chickens water, to cure them of the Gall I
  think, I am sure it releevs them when they are drooping.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h108}
@section 3 {tt}
  FLEAWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The ordinary Fleawort riseth up with a Stalk two Foot
  high, or more, full of Joynts and Branches on every side
  up to the top, and at every Joynt two small long and
  narrow whitish green Leavs somwhat hairy:  At the tops of
  every Branch stand divers small short scaly or chaffy
  Heads, out of which come forth small whitish yellow
  threds, like to those of the Plantane Herbs, which are the
  Bloomings or Flowers.  The Seed inclosed in those Heads is
  smal and shining while it is Fresh very like unto Fleas,
  both for colour and bigness, but turning black when it
  groweth old.  The Root is not long but white, hard, and
  woody, perishing every yeer and rising again of its own
  Seed for divers yeers if it be suffered to shed:  The whol
  Plant is somwhat whitish and hairy, smelling somwhat like
  Rozin.
  =
     There is another sort hereof differing not from the
  former in the manner of growing, but only that his Stalk
  and Branches being somwhat greater do a little more bow
  down to the ground:  The Leavs are somwhat larger; the
  Heads somewhat lesser, the Seed alike; and the Root and
  Leavs abide all the Winter, and perish not as the former.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first groweth only in Gardens, the second
  plentifully in Fields that are neer the Sea.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in July, or thereabouts.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Seed fried and so taken staieth the Flux or Lask of
  the Belly, and the corrosions that come by reason of hot,
  Chollerick, Sharp, and malignant Humors or by the too much
  purging of any violent Medicine, as Scammony or the like.
  The Muccilage of the Seed made with Rose Water, and a
  little Sugar Candy put therto is very good in all hot
  Agues and burning Feavers, and other Inflamations to cool
  the thirst, and lenify the dryness and roughness of the
  Tongue and Throat.  It helpeth also hoarsness of the
  {Note 146 here}
  voice, and Diseases of the Breast and Lungs caused by
  heat, or sharp salt humors, and the Pluresie also.  The
  Muccilage of the Seed made in Plantane Water, whereunto
  the Yolk of an Egg or two, and a little Populeon is put,
  is a most safe and sure Remedy to eas the sharpness,
  prickings, and pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles, if it be
  {Note 147 here}
  laid on a cloath and bound therto.  It helpeth also all
  Inflamations in any parts of the Body and the pains that
  come thereby, as the Headach and Megrim, and all hot
  Imposthumes or Swellings, or breakings out of the Skin, as
  Blains, Wheals, Pushes, Purples, and the like; as also the
  pains of the Joynts, and of those that are out of joynt;
  the pains of the Gout and Sciatica, the Bursting of yong
  Children, and the swelling of the Navel applied with Oyl
  of Roses and Vinegar.  It is also very good to heal the
  Nipples and Sore Breasts of Women being often applied
  thereonto.  The Juyce of the Herb with a little Honey put
  into the Ears helpeth the running of them, and the Worms
  breeding in them:  The same also mixed with Hogs Greas,
  and applied to corrupt and filthy Ulcers and Sores,
  clenseth and healeth them.
  =
@begin {m146}
  {Note 146:} Flux, Corrosion, Chollerick, Humors, Agues,
  Feavers, Inflamation, Thirst, Hoarseness, Salt Humors,
  Pleuresie.
@end {m146}
@begin {m147}
  {Note 147:} Hemorrhoids, Headach, Megrim, Apostums, Blains,
  Wheals, Pushes, Purples, Gout, Joynts, Sciatica, Nipples,
  Sore Breasts, Ears, Worms, Ulcers.
@end {m147}
     The Herb is cold and dry, Saturnine, I suppose it
  obtained the name Fleawort becaus the Seeds are so like
  Fleas.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h109}
@section 3 {tt}
  FLIXWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a round upright hard Stalk four or
  five Foot high, spread into sundry Branches, wheron grow
  many grayish green Leavs very finely cut and severed into
  a number of short and almost round parts.  The Flowers are
  very smal and yellow growing Spike fashion, after which
  come very smal, long Pods, with very smal yellowish Seed
  in them.  The Root is long and woody perishing every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow wild in the Fields by Hedgsides, and
  High~waies, and among rubbish, and in many other places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower and Seed quickly after, namely in June and
  July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Both the Herb and Seed of Flixweed is of excellent use
  to stay the Flux or Lask of the Belly being drunk in Water
  wherein gads of Steel heated have been often quenched; and
  is no less effectual for the said purpose than Plantane or
  {Note 148 here}
  Comfry, and to restrain any other Flux of Blood in man or
  Woman, as also to consolidate Bones broken or out of
  Joynt.  The Juyce therof drunk in Wine, or the Decoction
  of the Herb drunk, doth kill the Worms in the Stomach or
  Belly, or the  Worms that grow in putrid and filthy Ulcers;
  And made into a Salve doth quickly heal all old sores, how
  foul or Malignant soever they be.  The distilled water of
  the Herb worketh the same effects although somwhat weaker,
  yet is a fair Medicine, and more acceptable to be taken.
  =
@begin {m148}
  {Note 148:} Flux, Bleeding, Bloody Flux, Terms stops,
  broken Bones, Members disjoynted, Worms, Sores, Ulcers.
@end {m148}
     It is called Flixweed becaus it cures the Flux, and for
  its uniting broken Bones, &c°.  Paracelsus extols it to the
  Skies.  It is fitting Syrups, Oyntments, and Plaisters of
  it were kept in our Houses.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h110}
@section 3 {tt}
  FLOWER~de~LUCE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is so wel known, being nursed up in most Gardens,
  that I shall not need to spend time in writing a
  Description thereof.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Flaggy kinds thereof have the most Physical uses;
  the Dwarf kinds thereof flower in April, the greater sorts
  in May.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce or Decoction of the green Roots of the Flaggy
  kind of Flower~de~luce, with a little Honey drunk, doth
  purge and clens the Stomach of gross and tough Flegm and
  Choller therin; It helpeth the Jaundice and the Dropsie by
  evacuating those humors both upwards and downwards, and
  becaus it somwhat hurteth the Stomach, is not to be taken
  but with Honey and Spicknard.  The same being drunk doth
  eas the pains and torments of the Belly and Sides, the
  {Note 149 here}
  shaking of Agues, the Diseases of the Liver and Spleen,
  the Worms in the belly, the Stone in the Reins,
  Convulsions or Cramps that come of cold Humors, it also
  helpeth those whose Seed passeth from them unawars;  It is
  a Remedy against the bitings and stingings of Venemous
  Creatures being boyled in Water and Vineger and drunk:
  Being boyled in Wine and drunk it provoketh Urine, helpeth
  the Chollick, bringeth down Womens Courses; and made up
  into a Pessary with Honey, and put up into the Body,
  draweth forth the dead Child.  It is much commended
  {Note 150 here}
  against the Cough to expectorate tough Flegm;  It much
  easeth pains in the Head, and procureth sleep:  Being put
  into the Nostrils it procureth Neesing, and therby purgeth
  the Head of Flegm:  The Juyce of the Root applied to the
  Piles or Hemorrhoids giveth much eas.  The Decoction of
  the Roots gargled in the Mouth easeth the Toothach, and
  helpeth a Stinking breath.  The Oyl called Oleum Irinum if
  it be rightly made of the great broad Flag Flower~de~luce
  (and not of the great Bulbous blue Flower~de~luce as is
  used by some Apothecaries) and Roots of the same of the
  Flaggy kinds is very effectual to warm and comfort all
  cold Joynts and Sinews, as also the Gout and Sciatica, and
  mollifieth, dissolveth, and consumeth Tumors or Swellings
  in any part of the Body, as also of the Matrix:  It
  helpeth the Cramp and Convulsion of the Sinews:  The Head
  and Temples anointed therwith helpeth the Catark or thin
  Rhewm distilling from thence; and used upon the Breast or
  Stomach, helpeth to extenuate the cold tough Flegm.  It
  helpeth also the pains and noise in the Ears, and the
  stench of the Nostrils.  The Root it self either green or
  in Pouder helpeth to clens, heal, and incarnate Wounds,
  and to cover the naked Bones with Flesh again that Ulcers
  have made bare; and is also very good to clens and heal up
  Fistulaes and Cankers that are hard to be cured.
  =
@begin {m149}
  {Note 149:} Stomach, Flegm, Choller, Jaundice, Dropsie,
  Belly, Sides, Agues, Liver, Spleen, Stones, Convulsion,
  Cramp, Venemous Beasts, Disury, Chollick, Terms provokes,
  Cough.
@end {m149}
@begin {m150}
  {Note 150:} Sneesing, Hemorrhoids, Toothach, Joynts,
  Sinews, Gout, Sciatica, Womb, Rhewm, Breast, Wounds,
  Ulcers, Fistulaes, Cankers.
@end {m150}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h111}
@section 3 {tt}
  FLUELLIN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This shooteth forth many long Branches partly lying
  upon the Ground, and part standing upright, set with
  almost round Leavs, yet a little pointed, and somtimes
  more long than round, without order theron, somwhat hoary,
  and of an evil greenish white colour; at the Joynts all
  along the Stalks, and with the Leavs come forth smal
  Flowers one at a place, upon a very small short Footstalk,
  gaping somwhat like Snapdragons, or rather like Toadflax,
  with the upper Jaw of a yellow colour, and the lower of a
  Purplish, with a small heel or Spur behind, after which
  come small round Heads, containing smal black Seed.  The
  Root is smal and threddy, dying every yeer, and raiseth it
  self again of its own sowing.
  =
     There is another sort of Lluellin which hath longer
  Branches wholly trailing upon the ground two or three foot
  long, and somtimes more, thinner set with Leavs theron,
  upon smal Footstalks:  The Leavs are a little larger and
  somwhat round, and cornered somtimes in some places on the
  edges; but the lower part of them being the broadest, hath
  on each side a smal point, making it seem as if they were
  Ears, somwhat hairy but not hoary, and of a better green
  colour than the former; The Flowers come forth like the
  former, but the colours therein are more white than
  yellow, and the Purple not so fair:  It is a larger
  Flower, and so are the Seed, and Seed Vessels: The Root is
  like the other, and perisheth every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in divers Corn Fields, and in borders about
  them, and in other fertile  grounds, about Southfleet in
  Kent abundantly, at Buckworth, Hamerton, and Richwesworth
  in Huntingtonshire; and in divers other places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are in Flower about June and July, and the whol
  Plant is dry and withered before August be done.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs bruised and applied with Barley Meal to
  watering Eyes that are hot and inflamed by defluxions from
  the Head, doth very much help them, as also the Fluxes of
  Blood or Humors, as the Lask, Bloody Flux, Womens Courses,
  {Note 151 here}
  and staieth all manner of bleeding at Nose, Mouth, or any
  other place, or that cometh by any Bruis, or Hurt, or
  bursting a Vein; and wonderfully it helpeth all those
  inward parts that need consolidating or strengthening: and
  is no less effectual both to heal and close green Wounds,
  as to clens or heal all foul or old Ulcers, fretting or
  spreading Cankers or the like.
  {Note 152 here}
  =
@begin {m151}
  {Note 151:} Eyes, Flux.
@end {m151}
@begin {m152}
  {Note 152:} Bloody Flux, Terms stops, Wounds, Ulcers,
  Cankers.
@end {m152}
     Bees are industrious and go abroad to gather Honey from
  each Plant and Flower, but Drones lie at home, and eat up
  what the Bees have taken pains for; Just so do our Colledg
  of Physitians, lie at home and domineer, and suck out the
  Sweetness of other Mens Labors and Studies, themselvs
  being as ignorant in the Knowledg of Herbs as a Child of
  four yeers old, as I can make appear to any Rational man
  by their last Dispensatory, now then to hide their
  Ignorance, there is not a readier way in the World, than
  to hide Knowledg from their Country men, that so no Body
  might be able so much as to smel out their Ignorance, when
  Simples were more in use mens Bodies were in better health
  by far than now they are, or shall be if the Colledg can
  help it.  The truth is, this Herb is of a fine cooling,
  drying quality, and an Oyntment or Plaister of it, might
  do a Man a courtsie that hath any hot virulent Sores, 'tis
  admirable for the Ulcers of the French Pox, and being a
  gallant Antivenerian Medicine, under the Dominion of
  Saturn, if taken inwardly may cure the Diseas.  It was at
  first called Faemale Speedwel, but a Shentle man of Wales
  whose Nose was almost eaten off with the Pox, and so neer
  the matter, that the Docters commanded it to be cut off,
  being cured by only the Use of this Herb, to honor the
  Herb for saving his Nose whol, gave it one of her own
  Country names, Lluellin.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h112}
@section 3 {tt}
  FOXGLOVE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many long and broad Leavs lying upon the
  Ground dented about the edges, a little soft or woolly,
  and of a hoary green colour among which rise up somtimes
  sundry Stalks, but one very often bearing such Leavs
  thereon from the bottom to the middle, from whence to the
  top it is stored with large and long hollow reddish Purple
  Flowers, a little more long and eminent at the lower edg,
  with some white Spots within them, one above another, with
  smal green Leavs at every one, but all of them turning
  their Heads one way and hanging downwards, having some
  threds also in the middle, from whence rise round Heads
  pointed sharp at the ends, wherein smal brown Seed lieth.
  The Roots are many smal Huskie Fibres, and some greater
  strings among them; The Flower hath no scent; but the
  Leavs have a bitter hot tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on the dry sandy Grounds for the most part,
  and as well on the higher as lower places under Hedg~sides
  in almost every Country of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It seldom Flowreth before July, and the Seed is ripe in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Herb is familiarly and frequently used by the
  Italians to heal any fresh or green Wound, the Leavs being
  but bruised and bound thereon; and the Juyce therof is
  also used in old Sores, to clens, dry, and heal them.  The
  Decoction hereof made up with some Sugar or Honey is
  {Note 153 here}
  available to clens and purge the Body, both upwards and
  downwards somtimes of tough Flegm and clammy Humors and to
  open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen;  It hath been
  found by experience to be available for the Kings Evil,
  the Herb bruised and applied; or an Oyntment made with the
  Juyce thereof and so used:  And a Decoction of two
  handfuls therof with four Ounces of Polipody in Ale, hath
  been found by late experience to cure divers of the
  Falling~sickness, that have been troubled with it above
  twenty yeers.
  =
@begin {m153}
  {Note 153:} Wounds, Clens, dry, Heal, Obstruction of the
  Liver and Spleen, Kings Evil, Falling~sickness, Scabby
  Heads.
@end {m153}
     My self am confident that an Oyntment of it is one of
  the best Remedies for a Scabby Head that is.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h113}
@section 3 {tt}
  FUMITORY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Fumitory is a tender sappy Herb, sending
  forth from one square slender weak Stalk and leaning
  downwards on all sides many Branches two or three foot
  long, with finely cut and jagged Leavs of a whitish or
  rather Blewish, Seagreen colour:  At the tops of the
  Branches stand many small Flowers, as it were in a long
  spike one above another, made like little Birds of a
  reddish Purple colour with whitish Bellies:  After which
  come small round Husks containing smal black Seed.  The
  Root is yellow, smal, and not very long, ful of Juyce
  while it is green But quickly perishing with the ripe
  Seed:  In the Corn Fields in Cornwal this beareth white
  Flowers.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in the Corn Fields almost every where as
  well as in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in May for the most part, and the Seed
  ripeneth shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce or Syrup made thereof, or the Decoction made
  in Whey by it self, with some other purging or opening
  Herbs and Roots to caus it to work the better, (it self
  being but weak) is very effectual for the Liver and
  Spleen, opening the Obstructions thereof and clarifying
  the Blood from Saltish, Chollerick, and Adult Humors,
  {Note 154 here}
  which cause Lepry, Scabs, Tetters, and Itches, and such
  like breakings out of the Skin, and after the Purging doth
  strengthen all the inward parts; it is good also against
  the yellow Jaundice, and spendeth it by Urin, which it
  procureth in abundance.  The Pouder of the dried Herb
  given for some time together cureth Melancholly, but the
  Seed is strongest in operation for all the former
  Diseases.  The dististilled Water of the Herb is also of
  good effect in the former Diseases, and conduceth much
  against the Plague and Pestilence, being taken with good
  {Note 155 here}
  Treacle.  The Distilled Water also, with a little Water
  and Honey of Roses helpeth all the Sores of the Mouth or
  Throat, being gargled often therwith.  The Juyce dropped
  into the Eyes cleareth the Sight, and taketh away redness
  and other defects in them, although it procure some pain
  for the present and cause Tears.  Dioscorides saith it
  hindreth any fresh springing of hairs on the Eyelids
  (after they be pulled away) if the Eyelids be anointed
  with the Juyce hereof with Gum Arabick dissolved therin.
  The Juyce of Fumitory and Docks mingled with Vinegar, and
  the places gently washed or wet therwith, cureth all sorts
  of Scabs, Pimples, Itches, Wheals, or Pushes which arise
  on the Face or Hands, or any other part of the Body.
  =
@begin {m154}
  {Note 154:} Liver, Spleen, Choller, Adult Melancholly,
  Madness, Forgetfulness, Jaundice, yellow & black.
@end {m154}
@begin {m155}
  {Note 155:} Pestilence, Sore Mouth & Throat, Eyes, Hairs,
  Scabs, Itch, Pimples, Wheals.
@end {m155}
     Saturn owns the Herb and presents it to the World as a
  Cure for his own Diseases, and a strengthner of the parts
  of the Body he rules: If by my Astrological Judgment of
  Diseases, from the Decombiture, you find Saturn Author of
  the Disease, or if by Direction from a Nativity you fear a
  Saturnine Disease approaching, you may by this Herb
  prevent it in the one, and cure it in the other; and
  therfore 'tis fit you keep a Syrup of it alwaies by you.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h114}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE FURS~BUSH.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known, as well by this name, as in some
  Countries by the name Gors, that I shal not need to write
  any Description therof, my intent being to teach my
  Country men what they know not, rather than to tell them
  again of that which is generally known before.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are known to grow on dry barren Heaths, and other
  wast gravelly or sandy grounds in all Countries of this
  Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They also Flower in the Summer Months.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are hot and dry good to open Obstructions of the
  Liver and Spleen.  A Decoction made with the Flowers
  therof hath been found effectual against the Jaundice, as
  also to provoke Urine, and clens the Kidneys from Gravel
  or Stones ingender'd in them.
  {Note 156 here}
  =
@begin {m156}
  {Note 156:} Obstructions, Liver, Spleen, Yellow Jaundice,
  Disury, Gravel, Stone.
@end {m156}
     It is a Plant of Mars, and doth all this by Sympathy.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h115}
@section 3 {tt}
  GARLICK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The offensivenes of the breath of him that hath eaten
  Garlick will leade you by the Nose to the knowledg hereof,
  and (instead of a description) direct you to the place
  wher it groweth in Gardens, which kinds are the best and
  most phisical.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This was antiently accounted the Poormans Treacle, it
  beeing a remedy for all diseases or hurts (except those
  which it self breeds).  It provoketh Urine and womens
  Courses, helpeth the biting of a Mad Dog and of other
  Venemous Creatures, killeth Worms in
  {Note 157 here}
  Children, cutteth and
  avoydeth tough flegm purgeth the head, helpeth the
  Lethargie, is a good preservative against, a remedy for
  any Plague sore, or foul Ulcer: taketh away spots and
  blemishes in the Skin, easeth pains of the eares ripeneth
  and breaketh Impostumes or other swellings: And for all
  these diseases the Onyons are also effectual; But the
  Garlick hath some more peculiar vertues besides the
  former: viz° It hath a speciall quality to discuss the
  inconveniences coming by corrupt Agues or Mineral Vapours
  or by drinking corrupt and stinking waters; as also by
  taking of Wolfbane, Henbane, Hemlock, or other poysonfull
  and dangerous herbs.  It is also held good in Hydropick
  diseases, the Jaundice, falling~sickness, Cramps,
  Convulsions, the piles or Hemorrhoids or other cold
  diseases.
  {Note 158 here}
  =
@begin {m157}
  {Note 157:} Urine, Terms provokes, Mad Dogs, Venemous
  Beasts, Worms.
@end {m157}
@begin {m158}
  {Note 158:} Lethargy, Flegm, Pestilence, Apostums, Mineral
  vapors, Stinking Vapors, Henbane, Hemlock, Wolfbane,
  Dropsie, Cramps, Convulsions, Falling~sickness.
@end {m158}
     My Author quotes here many diseases this is good for,
  but conceals its vices:  its heat is very vehement, and al
  vehement hot things send up but ill favor'd vapors to the
  brain; in chollerick men 'twil ad fuel to the fire, in men
  oppressed by melancholly t'wll attenuate the humor and
  send up strange fancies and as strange visions to the
  head, therfore let it be taken inwardly with great
  moderation, outwardly you may make more bold with it.
  =
     Mars owns the herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h116}
@section 3 {tt}
  GERMANDER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Germander shooteth forth sundry stalks with
  small and somwhat round leavs, dented about the edges:
  The Flowers stand at the tops, of a deep purple colour:
  The Root is composed of divers sprigs, which shoot forth a
  great way round about, quickly over spreading a ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth usually with us in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And flowreth in June or July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This taken with Honey (saith Dioscorides) is a remedy
  for Coughs for hardnes of the Spleen, and difficulty of
  Urin, & helpeth those that are fallen into a Dropsie,
  especially at the beginning of the disease, a Decoction
  being made therof when it is green & drunk:  It also
  bringeth down Womens Courses and expelleth the dead child:
  {Note 159 here}
  It is most effectual against the poyson of al Serpents,
  being drunk in Wine and the bruised herb outwardly applyed
  used with Honey, it clenseth old and foul Ulcers, and made
  into an Oyl and the Eyes anoynted therwith, taketh away
  their dimness and moystness: It is likewise good for the
  paines in the sides: and Cramps.  The Decoction thereof
  taken for some daies together, driveth away and cureth
  both Tertian and Quartan Agues.  It is also good against
  all diseases of the brain as continual Headach
  Falling~sickness, Melancholly, Drowsines and Dulnes of
  spirit, Convulsions and Palseys.  A dram of the seed taken
  in Pouder purgeth by Urine and is good against the yellow
  Jaundice.  The Juyce of the leaves dropped into the eares
  killeth the worms in them:  The tops therof when they are
  in flower steeped twenty four hours in a draught of white
  Wine and drunk, killeth wormes in the belly.
  =
@begin {m159}
  {Note 159:} Cough, Spleen, Disury, Dropsie, Terms provokes,
  Dead child, Poyson, Ulcers, Cramps, Agues, Falling
  sickness, Headach, Melancholy, dulness of Spirit,
  Convulsion, Palsey, Yellow Jaundice, Worms.
@end {m159}
     It is a most prevalent Herb of Mercury, and strengthens
  the brain and apprehention exceedingly; you may see what
  humane vertues are under Mercury in the latter end of my
  Ephemeris for 1651.  Strengthen them when weak, relieve
  them, when drooping, by this Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h117}
@section 3 {tt}
  STINKING GLADWIN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is one of the kinds of Flower~de~luces, having
  divers Leavs rising from the Roots very like a
  Flower~de~luce, but that they are sharp edged on both
  sides, and thicker in the middle, of a deeper green
  colour, narrower and sharper pointed and of a strong ill
  scent if they be bruised between the fingers:  In the
  midle riseth up a reasonable strong Stalk a yard high at
  least, beareth 3 or 4 Flowers at the top made somwhat like
  the Flowers of the Flower~de~luce with three upright
  Leaves of a dead Purplish Ash~colour with some Veins
  discoloured in them, the other three do not fall down, nor
  the three other smal ones are so arched nor cover the
  lower leaves as the Flower~de~luce doth, but stand loose,
  or asunder from them:  After they are past, there come up
  three square hard Husks opening wide into three parts when
  they are ripe, wherin lie reddish seed, turning black when
  it hath abidden long:  The Root is like that of the
  Flower~de~luce but reddish on the outside, and whitish
  within, very sharp and hot in tast, of as evil a scent as
  the leavs.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth as well on the upland grounds as also in
  moist places, in woods and shadowy places by the Sea side
  in many places of this Land, and is usually nursed up in
  Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth not until July, and the seed is ripe in
  August or September, yet the Huskes after they are ripe
  opening themselves, will hold their seeds within them for
  2 or 3 Months, and not shedd them.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is used by many countrey people to purge corrupt
  tough Flegm and Choller which they  do by drinking the
  decoction of the Root, and some to make it work more
  gently do but infuse the sliced roots in Ale, and some
  take the leavs wch serveth wel for the weaker stomachs.
  {Note 160 here}
  The Juyce herof put up, or snuffed up the nose causeth
  neezing, & draweth from the head much corruption; & the
  pouder therof doth the same:  The Pouder therof drunke in
  wine, helpeth those that are troubled with Cramps, and
  Convulsion or wth the Gout or Sciatica and giveth ease to
  those that have any griping pains in their body or belly,
  and helpeth those that have the Strangury:  It is given
  wth much profit to those that have had long Fluxes by the
  sharp & evil quality of humors, which it stayeth having
  first clensed & purged them by the drying and binding
  property therin.  The Root boyled in wine and drunk doth
  effectually procure womens courses, and used as a Possary
  worketh the same effect, but causeth Abortion in women
  with child.  Half a dram of the seed beaten to pouder and
  taken in wine doth speedily caus one to pis which otherwis
  {Note 161 here}
  cannot:  The same taken with vinegar, dessolveth the
  hardnes & swellings of the spleen.  The Root is very
  effectual in all Wounds, and specially of the head, as
  also to draw forth any splinters, Thornes, Broken bones,
  or any other thing sticking in the flesh without causing
  pain, being used with a little Verdigreese and Honey, and
  the great Centaury Root:  The same boyled in Vinegar and
  laid upon any Tumor or Swelling, doth very effectually
  dissolve and consume them, yea even the swellings of the
  Throat called the Kings evil.  The Juyce of the Leavs and
  Roots healeth the Itch and all running or spreading Scabs
  or Sores, and Blemishes or Scars in the Skin wheresoever
  they be.
  =
@begin {m160}
  {Note 160:} Flegm, Choller, Head, Cramp, Convulsion, Gout,
  Sciatica, Belly~ach, Strangury, Fluxes.
@end {m160}
@begin {m161}
  {Note 161:} Terms provokes, Disury, Spleen, Wounds,
  Splinters, Thorns, broken Bones, Kings Evil, Itch, Scabs,
  Blemishes in the Skin.
@end {m161}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h118}
@section 3 {tt}
  GOLDEN ROD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with brownish smal round Stalks two foot
  high and somtimes more, having thereon many narrow and
  long dark greene leaves very seldom with any dents about
  the edges, or any strakes or white spots therin, yet they
  are somtimes so found; divided at the tops into many small
  branches, with divers small yellow flowers on every one of
  them, all which are turned one way, and being ripe do turn
  into down & are caried away with the wind.  The Root
  consisteth of many small fibres which grow not deep in the
  ground, but abideth all the winter therin, shooting forth
  new branches every yeer, the old ones dying downe to the
  ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in the open places of woods and Copses both
  moyst and dry grounds in many places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about the Month of July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Arnoldus de villa nova, commendeth it much against the
  Stone in the Reins and Kidneys, and to provoke Urine in
  abundance, whereby also the Gravel or Stone may be
  avoided.  The Decoction of the Herb green or dry, or the
  {Note 162 here}
  distilled Water therof is very effectual for inward
  Bruises, as also to be outwardly applied, it stayeth
  bleedings in any part of the Body, and of Wounds also, the
  {Note 163 here}
  Fluxes of Humors, the Bloody Flux, and Womens Courses; and
  is no less prevalent in all Ruptures or Burstings, being
  drunk inwardly and outwardly applied.  It is a Soveraign
  Wound Herb, inferior to none, both for inward and outward
  Hurts, green Wounds and old Sores and Ulcers are quickly
  cured therewith.  It is also of especial use in all
  Lotions for Sores or Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat, or privy
  parts of Man or Woman:  The Decoction also helpeth to
  fasten the Teeth that are loos in the Gums.
  =
@begin {m162}
  {Note 162:} Stone, Gravel, Disury, Wounds, Flux, Bloody
  Flux, Terms stops, Ruptures.
@end {m162}
@begin {m163}
  {Note 163:} Ulcers, Sore Mouth & Throat, Teeth loos, Beauty
  lost.
@end {m163}
     Venus claims the Herb, and therefore to be sure, it
  restores Beauty lost.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h119}
@section 3 {tt}
  GOUTWORT, or HERB~GERRARD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is a low Herb seldom rising half a yard high,
  having sundry Leavs standing on brownish green Stalks by
  threes, snipped about, and of a strong unpleasant favour.
  The Umbels of Flowers are white, and the Seed blackish,
  the Root runneth in the Ground, quickly taking up a great
  deal of room.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth by Hedg and Wall sides, and often in the
  borders or Corners of Fields, and in Gardens also.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth, and Seedeth about the end of July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Goutwort had not his name for nothing, but upon good
  experience to help the cold Gout, and Sciatica, as also
  Joynt aches, and other cold Griefs.
  {Note 164 here}
  =
@begin {m164}
  {Note 164:} Gout, Sciatica, Joynts.
@end {m164}
     The very bearing of it about one, easeth the pains of
  the Gout, and defends him that bears it from the Disease.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h120}
@section 3 {tt}
  GROMEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Of this I shall briefly describe three kinds which are
  principally used in Physick, the Vertues whereof are
  alike, though somwhat different in their manner and form
  of growing.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The greater Gromel groweth up with slender hard and
  hairy Stalks trailing and taking Root in the ground as it
  lieth thereon, and parted into many other smaller Branches
  with hairy dark green Leavs thereon.  At the Joynts with
  the Leavs come forth very smal blew Flowers, and after
  them hard stony roundish Seed.  The Root is long and woody
  abiding the Winter and shooting forth fresh Stalks in the
  Spring.
  =
     The smal wild Gromel sendeth forth divers upright hard
  branched Stalks two or three foot high, full of Joynts, at
  every of which growth smal, long, hard, and rough Leavs,
  like the former but lesser, among which Leavs come forth
  small white Flowers, and after them grayish round Seed
  like the former.  The Root is not very long, but with many
  Strings thereat.
  =
     The Garden Gromel hath divers upright slender woody
  hairy Stalks brown and crested, very little branched, with
  Leavs like the former, and white Flowers, after which in
  rough brown Husks is contained a white hard round Seed
  shining like Pearls, & greater than either of the former:
  The Root is like the first described, with divers Branches
  and Strings thereat, which continueth (as the first doth)
  all Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The two first grow wild in barren or untilled places,
  and by the way sides in many places of this Land.  The
  last is a Nursling in the Gardens of the curious.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They all Flower from Midsummer unto September somtimes,
  and in the mean time the Seed ripeneth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These are accounted to be of as singular force as any
  other Herb or Seed whatsoever, to break the Stone, and to
  avoid it and the Gravel either in the Reins or Bladder; as
  also to provoke Urine being stopped, and to help the
  Strangury.  The Seed is of greatest use, being bruised and
  boiled in white Wine, or in Broth, or the like, or the
  Pouder of the Seed taken therin:  Two drams of the Seed in
  Pouder taken with Womens Breast~Milk, is very effectual to
  procure a speedy Delivery to such Women as have sore pains
  in their Travail and cannot be delivered.  The Herb it
  self (when the Seed is not to be had) either boyled or the
  Juyce therof drunk, is effectual to all the purposes
  aforesaid but not so powerful or speedy in operation.
  {Note 165 here}
  =
@begin {m165}
  {Note 165:} Stone, Gravel, Strangury, Travail in Women.
@end {m165}
     The Herbe belongs to Dame Venus, and therfore if Mars
  caus the Chollick or Stone, as usually he doth if in
  Virgo, this is your cure.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h121}
@section 3 {tt}
  WINTER GREEN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This sendeth forth 7. 8. or 9 Leaves from a smal
  brownish creeping Root, every one standing upon a long
  Footstalk, which are almost as broad as long, round
  pointed, of a sad green colour and hard in handling, and
  like the Leaf of a Pear~tree, from whence ariseth a
  slender weak Stalk, yet standing upright, bearing at the
  top many smal, white and sweet smelling Flowers, laid open
  like a Star, consisting of five round pointed Leavs, with
  many yellowish threds standing in the middle, about a
  green Head, and a long stile with them, which in time
  groweth to be the Seed Vessel, which being ripe is found
  five square with a smal point at it, weerin is contained
  Seed as small as dust.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth seldom in the Fields, but frequently in the
  Woods Northwards, viz° In Yorkshire, Lancashire, and
  Scotland.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about June or July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Winter~Green is a singular good Wound Herb and an
  especial Remedy for to heal green Wounds speedily, the
  {Note 166 here}
  green Leavs being brused and applied, or the Juyce of
  them: A Salve made of the green Herbs stamped or the Juyce
  boyled with Hogs Lard, or with Sallet Oyl and Wax, and
  some Turpentine added unto it, is a Soveragn Salve, and
  highly extolled by the Germans who much use it to heal all
  manner of Wounds and Sores.  The Herb boyled in Wine and
  Water and given to drink to them that have any inward
  Ulcers in their Kidneys or Neck of the Bladder, doth
  {Note 167 here}
  wonderfully help them:  It staieth also all Fluxes whether
  of Blood or Humors, as the Lask, bloody Flux, Womens
  Courses, and bleeding of Wounds, and taketh away any
  Inflamation rising upon pains of the Heart.  It is no less
  helpful for foul Ulcers hard to be cured, as also for
  Cankers or Fistulaes.  The distilled Water of the Herb
  doth effectually perfrom the same things.
  =
@begin {m166}
  {Note 166:} Wounds.
@end {m166}
@begin {m167}
  {Note 167:} Ulcers, Kidneys, Bladder, Flux, Bloody flux,
  Terms stops, Inflamations, Cankers, Fistulaes.
@end {m167}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h122}
@section 3 {tt}
  GROUNDSEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Groundsel hath a round green, and somwhat
  brownish Stalk spread toward the top into Branches, set
  with long and somwhat narrow green Leavs cut in on the
  edges, somwhat like the Oak Leavs, but lesser and round at
  the ends; at the tops of the Branches stand many smal
  green Heads, out of which grow small yellow threds or
  thrums, which are the Flowers, and continue many daies
  blown in that manner before it pass away into Down, and
  with the Seed is carried away in the wind.  The Root is
  smal and threddy, and soon perisheth, and as soon riseth
  again of its own sowing, so that it may be seen many
  Months in the Yeer, both green, and in Flower and Seed,
  for it will Spring and Seed twice in a yeer at least if it
  be suffered in a Garden.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth almost every where, as  wel on the tops of
  Walls as at the foot among Rubbish, and untilled grounds,
  but especially in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth as is said before, almost in every Month
  through the yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Herb (saith Dioscorides) made with
  Wine and Drunk helpeth the pains in the Stomach proceeding
  of Choller (which it may well do by a Vomit, as daily
  experience sheweth) the Juyce hereof taken in Drink, or
  the Decoction of it in Ale, gently performeth the same:
  It is good against the Jaundice and Falling~sickness being
  taken in Wine, as also against difficulty of making Water,
  it provoketh Urin, expelleth Gravel in the Reins or
  Kidneys; a dram thereof given in Oximel, after some
  walking or stirring the Body; It helpeth also the
  Sciatica, griping of the Belly and the Chollick, helpeth
  the defects of the Liver, and provoketh Womens Courses.
  The fresh Herb boyled and made into a Pultis and applied
  to the Breasts of Women that are swollen with pain and
  heat, as also to the privy parts of Man or Woman, the
  Seat, or Fundament, or the Arteries, Joynts, and Sinews
  when they are inflamed and swoln, doth much eas them: and
  used with some Salt helpeth to dissolve Knots or Kernels
  in any part of the Body.  The Juyce of the Herb, or (as
  Dioscorides saith) the Leavs and Flowers with some fine
  Frankincense in Pouder, used in Wounds of the Body, Nervs,
  or Sinews, doth singularly help to heal them:  The
  Distilled water of the herb performeth well all the
  aforesaid Cures, but especially for Inflamations or
  watering of the Eyes by reason of the Defluxion of Rhewm
  into them.
  {Note 168 here}
  =
@begin {m168}
  {Note 168:} Choller in the Stomach, Yellow Jaundice,
  Falling~sickness, Disury, Gravel, Sciatica, Chollick,
  Liver, Terms provokes, Womens Breasts, Privy parts,
  Arteries, Joynts & Sinews over heated, Kernels, Wounds in
  the Sinews, Inflamations in the Eyes.
@end {m168}
     This Herb is Venus her Mrs° piece, and is as gallant an
  Universal Medicine for all Diseases coming of heat
  whatsoever they be, or in what part of the Body soever
  they lie, as the Sun shines upon; 'tis very safe and
  friendly to the Body of Man, yet causeth Vomiting if the
  Stomach be afflicted, if not, it purging, and it doth it
  with more gentleness than can be expected.  'Tis moist and
  somwhat cold withal, thereby causing expulsion, and
  repressing the Heat caused by the motion of the internal
  parts in Purges and Vomits, Lay by your Learned Receipts,
  Take so much Senna, so much Scammony, so much Colocynthis,
  so much Infusion of Crocus Metallorum, &c,  This Herb
  alone preserved in a Syrup, in a distilled Water, in an
  Oyntment shal do the deed for you in all hot Diseases, and
  it shall do it, 1° Safely, 2° Speedily.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h123}
@section 3 {tt}
  HARTS~TONGUE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers Leavs rising from the Root every one
  severally which fold themselvs in their first springing
  and spreading; when they are full grown are about a foot
  long, smooth and green above, but hard and with little Sap
  in them, and straked on the back athwart on both sides of
  the middle Rib, with smal and somwhat long brownish marks;
  the bottoms of the Leavs are a little bowed on each side
  of the middle Rib somwhat narrow with the length, and
  somwhat smal at the end.  The Root is of many black
  threds, folded or interlaced together.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is green all the Winter, but new Leavs spring every
  yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Harts~Tongue is much commended against the hardness and
  stoppings of the Spleen and Liver, and against the heat of
  the Liver and Stomach, and against Lasks and the Bloody
  Flux:  The Distilled Water therof is also very good
  against the Passions of the Heart, and to stay the
  Hiccough, to help the falling of the Pallat, and stay the
  bleeding of the Gums being gargled in the mouth.
  Dioscorides saith it is good against the stinging or
  biting of Serpents.
  {Note 169 here}
  =
@begin {m169}
  {Note 169:} Spleen, Liver, Flux, Bloody flux, Hiccough,
  Gums, Venemous Beasts.
@end {m169}
     Jupiter claims Dominion over this Herb, therfore is a
  singular Remedy for the Liver, both to strengthen it when
  weak, and eas it  when afflicted, 'tis no matter by what
  you should do well to keep it in a Syrup all the yeer, for
  though my Author say 'tis green all the yeer, I scarce
  beleev it.
  =
     As for the use of it, my Directions at latter end will
  be sufficient, and enough for those that are studious in
  Physick to whet their Brains upon for one year or two.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h124}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE HAZEL NUT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These ar so well known to every Boy, that they need no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The parched Kernels made into an Electuary, or the Milk
  drawn from the Kernels with Mead or Honeyed Water, is very
  good to help an old Cough; and being parched and a little
  Pepper put to them and drunk digesteth the Distillations
  of Rhewm from the Head:  The dried Husks and Shels to the
  weight of two drams taken in red Wine, staieth Lasks, and
  Womens Courses, and so doth the red Skin that covers the
  Kernels which is more effectual to stay Womens Courses.
  {Note 170 here}
  =
@begin {m170}
  {Note 170:} Cough, Phtisick, Flux, Terms stops.
@end {m170}
     And if this be true as it is, then why should the
  Vulgar so familiarly affirm, that eating Nuts causeth
  shortness of Breath than which nothing is falser, for how
  can that which strengthens the Lungues cause shortness of
  breath? I confess the Opinion is far older than I am, I
  knew Tradition was a Friend to Errors before, but never
  that he was the Father of Slanders, or are mens tongues so
  given to slandering one another that they must slander
  Nuts too, to keep their tongues in use?  If any thing of
  the Hazel Nut be stopping 'tis the Husks and Shels, and no
  body is so mad to eat them unless Physically, and the red
  Skin which covers the Kernel which you may easily pull
  off.  And thus have I made an Apology for Nuts which
  cannot speak for themselves.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h125}
@section 3 {tt}
  HAWKWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many large hairy leaves lying on the ground,
  much rent or torn on the sides into many gashes like
  Dandelion but with greater parts more like the smooth sow
  Thistle from among wth ariseth a hollow rough stalk two or
  three foot high branched from the middle upward, wherin
  are set at every Joynt longer leaves, little or nothing
  rent or cut in, bearing at their tip sundry pale, yellow
  Flowers consisting of many small narrow leavs, broad
  pointed and nicked in at the ends, set in a double row or
  more, the outermost beeing larger than the inner, which
  form most of the Hawkweeds (for there are many kinds of
  them) do hold, which turne into down, and with the small
  brownish seeds, is blown away with the wind:  The Roote is
  long somwhat greater with many small fibres thereat.  The
  whole is full of bitter milke.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in divers places about Field sides, and the
  path waies in dry grounds.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth & flies away in the Sumer Months.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Hawkweed (saith Dioscorides) is cooling somwhat drying
  and binding, and therfore good for the heat of the
  stomach, and gnawings therein, for Inflamations and the
  hot fits of Agues.  The Juice therof in wine helpeth
  digestion, discusseth wind, hindreth crudities abiding in
  the stomack, and helpeth the difficulty of making Water,
  the biting of Venemous Serpents, and sting of the
  Scorpion, if the herb be also outwardly applyed to the
  place, and is very good against all other Poysons.  A
  scruple of the dryed Juyce given in wine and vinegar is
  {Note 171 here}
  profitable for those that have the Dropsie.  The decoction
  of the Herb taken with Honey, digesteth thin flegm in the
  chest or lungs, and with Hysop helpeth the cough.  The
  Decoction therof and of wild Succory made with wine and
  taken helpeth the wind chollick and hardness of the
  spleen, it procureth rest and sleep, hindereth venery and
  venereous dreams, cooleth, heats, purgeth the stomach,
  encreaseth blood, & helpeth the diseases of the Reins and
  Bladder.  Outwardly applied it is singular good for all
  the defects and diseases of the eyes, used with some
  womens Milke, and is used wth good success in fretting or
  creeping ulcers, especially in the beginning.  The green
  Herb bruised and with a little Salt applyed to any place
  burnt with fire before blisters do arise, helpeth them, as
  also inflamations St° Anthonies fire and al Pushes, and
  eruptions, heat, and salt Flegm.  The same applyed with
  Meal and salt water in manner of a Poltis to any place
  affected with convulsions and the Cramp or such as are out
  of Joynt doth give help and ease.  The distilled water
  clenseth the skin and taketh away freckles, Spots, the
  Morphew or Wrinkles in the face.
  =
@begin {m171}
  {Note 171:} Cools, Dries, Binds, Gnawing in the Stomach,
  Inflamations, Agues, Crudity, Disury, Venemous Beasts,
  Poyson, Dropsie, Flegm, Chollick, Spleen, Watching, Lust
  stops, Venerious Dreams, Reins, Bladder, Eyes, Ulcers,
  Burnings, Inflamations, St° Anthonies Fire, Heat, salt
  Flegm, Convulsion, Cramp, Freckles, Spots, Morphew,
  Wrinkles.
@end {m171}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h126}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE HAWTHORN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     It is not my intent to trouble you with a Description
  of this Tree which is so well known that it needeth none.
  =
     It is ordinarily but a Hedg Bush, although being pruned
  and dressed it groweth to be a Tree of a reasonable
  height.
  =
     As for the Hawthorn tree at Glastenbury, which is said
  to flower yearly on Christmas Day, it rather shews the
  superstition of those who observe it for the time of its
  Flowring, than any great wonder, sith the like may be
  found in diverse other places of this land, as in
  Whey~street in Rumney Marsh, and neer unto Nantwiche in
  Cheshire by a place called White~Green, where if the
  Winter be milde they will be white blossomes all over
  before and about Christmas, as in May, if the weather be
  frosty, it Flowreth not until January, or that the hard
  weather be over.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Berries or the seed in the Berries beaten to pouder
  and drunk in wine, are held singular good against the
  stone and are good for the dropsy.  The distilled water of
  the Flowers stayeth the lask.  The seeds cleared from the
  Down, bruised and boyled in wine & drunk is good for
  inward tormenting pains:  If cloathes and spunges be wet
  in the said distilled water and applyed to any place
  wherin thornes, splinters or the like do abide in the
  Flesh, it will notably draw them forth.
  {Note 172 here}
  =
@begin {m172}
  {Note 172:} Stone, Dropsie, Flux, Inward pains, Splinters,
  Thorns.
@end {m172}
     And thus you see the thorn gives a medicine for his own
  pricking, and so doth almost every thing else.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h127}
@section 3 {tt}
  HEMLOCK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common great Hemlock groweth up with a green stalk
  four or five foot high or more, ful of red spots somtimes,
  and at the Joynts very large winged leavs set at them
  which are divided into many other winged leaves, one set
  against another dented about the edges, of a sad green
  colour branched towards the top where it is full of Umbles
  of white Flowers, and afterwards with whitish flat Seed:
  The Root is long, white, and somtimes crooked and hollow
  within, the whol Plant and every part hath a strong,
  heady, and ill favor'd scent, much offending the Senses.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in all Countries of this Land by Wals and
  Hedges sides, in wast Grounds and untilled places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and Seedeth in July, or there abouts.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Hemlock is exceeding cold and very dangerous,
  especially to be taken inwardly:  It may safely be applied
  to Inflamations, Tumors, and Swelling in any part of the
  Body (save the Privy parts) as also to St° Anthonies fire
  Wheals, Pushes, and creeping Ulcers that rise of hot sharp
  Humors, by cooling and repelling the heat.  The Leavs
  bruised and laid to the Brow or Forehead, is good for
  their Eyes that are red and swollen, as also to take away
  a Pin and Web growing in the Eye, this is a tried
  Medicine; Take a smal Handful of the Herb and half so much
  Bay Salt beaten together, and applied to the contrary
  Wrest of the Hand for twenty four Hours, doth remove it in
  thrice dressing.  If the Root hereof be roasted under the
  Embers, wrapped in double wet Papers, until it be soft and
  tender, and then applied to the Gout in the Hands or
  Fingers it will quickly help this evil.  If any shall
  through mistake eat the Herb Hemlock instead of Parsly, or
  the Root instead of a Parsnip (both which it is very like)
  whereby hapneth a kind of Phrensie, or Perturbation of the
  senses, as if they were stupified or drunk, The Remedy is
  as Pliny saith, to drink of the best and strongest pure
  Wine, before it strike to the Heart, or Gentian put into
  Wine or a draught of good vinegar, wherewith Tragus doth
  affirm that he cured a Woman that had eaten the Root.
  {Note 173 here}
  =
@begin {m173}
  {Note 173:} Inflamations, St° Anthonies Fire, Tetters,
  Ringworms, Eyes, Pin and web, Gout, Lechery.
@end {m173}
    Saturn claims Dominion over the Herb, yet I wonder why
  it may not be applied to the privities in a Priapismus, or
  continual standing of the Yard, it being very beneficial
  for that Disease; I suppose my Authors Judgment was first
  upon the opposit Disposition of Saturn to Venus in those
  Faculties, and therfore he forbid the applying of it to
  those parts that it might not caus Barrenness, or spoil
  the Spirit Procreative, which if it do, yet applied to the
  Privities it stops lustful thoughts.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h128}
@section 3 {tt}
  HEMP.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known to every good Huswife in the
  Country, that I shal not need to write any Description of
  it.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is sown in the end of March, or beginning of April,
  and is ripe in August or September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Seed of Hemp consumeth Wind, and by the much use
  thereof disperseth it so much that it drieth up the
  natural Seed for Procreation; yet being boyled in Milk and
  taken, helpeth such as have a hot dry Cough.  The Dutch
  make an Emulsion out of the Seed, and give it with good
  success to those that have the Jaundice, especially in the
  {Note 174 here}
  beginning of the Disease if there be no Ague accompanying
  it, for it  openeth Obstructions of the Gall, and causeth
  digestion of Choller.  The Emulsion or Decoction of the
  Seed staieth Lasks and continual Fluxes, easeth the
  Chollick, and allayeth the troublesom Humors in the
  Bowels, and staieth bleeding at the Mouth, Nose, or other
  place, some of the Leavs being fried with the Blood of
  that bleed, and so given them to eat.  It is held very
  good to kill the Worms in man or Beast, and the Juyce
  dropped into the Ears killeth Worms in them, and draweth
  forth Earwigs, or other living Creatures gotten into them.
  {Note 175 here}
  The Decoction of the Root allayeth Inflamations in the
  Head or any other parts; the Herb it self, or the
  Distilled Water thereof doth the like:  The Decoction of
  the Roots easeth the pains of the Gout, the hard Tumors,
  or Knots in the Joynts, the pains and shrinking of the
  Sinews, and the pains of the Hips:  The fresh Juyce mixed
  with a little Oyl and Butter, is good for any place that
  hath been burnt with fire being thereto applied.
  =
@begin {m174}
  {Note 174:} Wind, Cough, Jaundice, Gall, Choller.
@end {m174}
@begin {m175}
  {Note 175:} Flux, Chollick, Bleeding, Worms, Earwigs,
  Inflamation, Gout, Sinews shrunk.
@end {m175}
     It is a Plant of Saturn, and good for something els you
  see than to make Halters only.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h129}
@section 3 {tt}
  HENBANE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Henbane hath very large, thick, soft, wooly
  Leavs lying upon the ground, much cut in or torn on the
  edges of a dark ill grayish green colour, among which rise
  up divers thick & short Stalks two or three foot high,
  spread into divers smaller Branches with lesser Leavs on
  them, and many hollow Flowers scarce appearing above the
  Husks, and usually torn on the one side, ending in five
  round points growing one above another, of a deadish
  yellow colour, somwhat paler toward the edges, with many
  purplish Veins therein, and of a dark yellowish purple in
  the bottom of the Flower, with a smal pointel of the same
  colour in the middle, each of them standing in hard close
  Husk, which after the Flower is past, groweth very like
  the Husk of Asarabacca, and somwhat sharp at the top
  Points, wherein is contained much smal Seed very like
  Poppy Seed, but of a dusky grayish colour.  The Root is
  great, white and thick, branching forth divers waies under
  ground, so like a Parsnip Root (but that it is not so
  white) that it hath deceived divers.  The whol Plant more
  than the Root hath a heavy ill soporiferous smell somwhat
  offensive.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It commonly groweth by the way sides, and under Hedg
  sides and Wals.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in July, and springeth again yeerly of its
  own Seed.
  =
     I doubt my Author mistook July for June, if not for
  May.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs of Henbane do cool all hot Inflamations in
  the Eyes or any other part of the Body; and are good to
  asswage all manner of Swellings of the Cods or Womens
  Breasts, or els where, if they be boyled in Wine, and
  either applied themselves or the Fomentation warm; it also
  asswageth the pain of the Gout, the Sciatica and all other
  pains in the Joynts which arise from an hot caus.  And
  applied with Vinegar to the Forehead and Temples, helpeth
  the Headach and want of sleep in hot Feavers.  The Juyce
  of the Herb or Seed, or the Oyl drawn from the Seed doth
  the like.  The Oyl of the Seed is helpful for the
  Deafness, Nois, and Worms in the Ears, being dropped
  therein; the Juyce of the Herb, or Root doth also the
  same.  The Decoction of the Herb, or Seed, or both,
  killeth Lice in Man and Beast.  The fume of the dried Herb
  Stalks and Seed burned, quickly healeth Swellings,
  Chilblains, or Kibes in the Hands or Feet, by holding them
  in the fume thereof.  The Remedy to help those that have
  taken Henbane is to drink Goats Milk, Honyed Water or Pine
  Kernels, with Sweet Wine: or in the absence of these,
  Fennel Seed, Nettle Seed, the Seed of Cresses, Mustard, or
  Radish, as also Onions, or Garlick taken in Wine, do all
  help to free them from danger, and restore them to their
  due temper again.
  {Note 176 here}
  =
@begin {m176}
  {Note 176:} Inflamation, Cods, Womens Breasts, Gout,
  Sciatica, Joynts, Watching, Deafness, Noise in the Ears,
  Chilblains, Kibes, French Pox.
@end {m176}
     Take notice that this Herb must never be taken
  inwardly, outwardly, an Oyl, Oyntment, or Plaister of it,
  is most admirable for the Gout, to cool the Venerial heat
  of the Reins in the French Pox, to stop the Toothach being
  applied to the aching side, to allay all Inflamations, and
  to help the Diseases before premised.
  =
     I wonder in my Heart how Astrologers could take on them
  to make this an Herb of Jupiter, and yet Mizaldus, a man
  of a penetrating Brain, was also of this Opinion as wel as
  the rest, the Herb is indeed under the Dominion of Saturn,
  and I prove it by this Argument.
  =
     All the Herbs which delight most to grow in Saturnine
  places, are Saturnine Herbs.
  =
     But Henbane delights most to grow in Saturnine places,
  and whol Cart loads of it may be found neer the places
  where they empty the common Jakes, and scarce a stinking
  Ditch to be found without, it growing by it.
  =
     Ergo 'tis an Herb of Saturn.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h130}
@section 3 {tt}
  HERB ROBERT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a reddish stalk two foot high,
  having divers leaves thereon upon very long and reddish
  footstalkes, divided at the ends into three or five
  divisions, each of them cut in on the edges some deeper
  then others, and all dented likewise about the edges,
  which often tims turn reddish:  At the tops of the stalk
  come forth divers flowers made of five leavs, much larger
  than the Doves foot, and of a more reddish colour after
  which come beak heads as in others:  The Roote is small
  and threddy, and smelleth as the whole plant very strong,
  almost stinking.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth frequently every where by way sides, upon
  ditch banks, and wast grounds whersoever one goeth.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth in June and July chiefly, and the seed is
  ripe shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Herb Robert is commended not only against the stone,
  but to stay bloud, where or howsoever flowing; it speedily
  healeth all green wounds, and is effectual in old ulcers
  in the privy parts or else where.
  {Note 177 here}
  =
@begin {m177}
  {Note 177:} Stone, Bleeding, Terms stops, Wounds, Ulcers in
  the Privities.
@end {m177}
     You may perswade your self this is true and also
  conceive a good reason for it, if you doe but consider
  'tis an herb of Venus for al it hath gotten a mans name.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h131}
@section 3 {tt}
  HERB TRUE~LOVE, or ONE~BERRY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The ordinary Herb True~love, hath a small creeping Root
  running under the upper crust of the ground, somwhat like
  a Coutchgrass Root but not so white, shooting forth stalks
  with leavs, some wherof carry no berries, though others
  do, every stalk smooth without Joynts and blackish green,
  rising about half a foot high if it bear berries otherwise
  seldom so high, bearing at the top four leaves set
  directly one against another in maner of a Cross or a
  Riband tied (as it is called) on a True~loves Knot: which
  are each of them a part: somwhat like unto a Nightshade
  Leav, but somwhat broader, having somtimes but three
  Leavs, sometimes five, sometimes six, and these somtimes
  greater than in others.  In the middle of the four Leavs
  riseth up one smal slender Stalk about an inch high,
  bearing at the top thereof one Flower spread open like a
  Star consisting of four small and narrow long pointed
  Leavs of a yellowish green colour, and four other lying
  between them lesser than they; in the middle wherof
  standeth a round dark purplish Button or Head, compassed
  about with eight smal yellow Mealy threds, with three
  colours make it the more conspicuous and lovely to behold:
  This Button or Head in the middle, when the other Leavs
  are withered, becometh a blackish Purple Berry full of
  Juyce of the bigness of a reasonable Grape, having within
  it many white Seeds: The whol Plant is without any
  manifest tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Woods and Copses, and somtimes in the
  corners or borders of Fields and wast Grounds in very many
  places of this Land; and abundantly in the Woods, Copses,
  and other places about Chisselhurst and Maidstone in Kent.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They spring up in the middle of April or May, and are
  in Flower soon after;  The Berries are ripe in the end of
  May, and in some places in June.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs or Berries hereof are effectual to expel
  poyson of all sorts, especially that of the Aconites, as
  also the Plague, and other Pestilential Diseases.  Some
  have been holpen therby saith Mathiolus, that have lien
  long in a lingring sickness, and others that by Witchcraft
  (as it was thought) were become half foolish, by taking a
  {Note 178 here}
  dram of the Seeds or Berries hereof in Pouder every day
  for twenty daies together, they were restored to their
  former health.  The Roots in Pouder taken in Wine easeth
  the pains of the chollick speedily:  The Leavs are very
  effectual as well for green Wounds, as to clens and heal
  up old filthy Sores and Ulcers; and is very powerful to
  discuss all Tumors, and Swellings in the Cods, privy
  Parts, or Groyn, or in any part of the Body, and speedily
  to ally all Inflamations.  The Leavs or their Juyce
  applied to Felons, or those Nails of the Hands or Toes
  that have Imposthumes or Sores gathered together at the
  Roots of them, healeth them in short space.
  =
@begin {m178}
  {Note 178:} Poyson, Pestilence, Feavers, Witchcraft,
  Chollick, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings in the Groyn, Cods,
  and Privities, Inflamations, Aposthumes.
@end {m178}
     The Herb is not to be described for the premises, but
  is fit to be nourished in every good Womans Garden.
  =
     Venus owns it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h132}
@section 3 {tt}
  HYSOP.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known to be an Inhabitant in every
  Garden, that it wil save me Labor in writing a Description
  thereof.  The Vertues are as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith that Hysop boyled with Rue and Honey,
  and drunk, helpeth those that are troubled with Coughs,
  shortness of breath, wheesing, and Rhewmatick
  Distillations upon the Lungs:  Taken also with Oximel, it
  purgeth gross Humors by the Stool; and with Honey killeth
  Worms in the Belly; and with fresh or new Figs bruised,
  helpeth to loosen the Belly, and more forcibly if the Root
  of Flower~de~luce and Cresses be added therto.  It
  amendeth and cherisheth the Native colour of the Body
  spoiled by the yellow Jaundice, and being taken with Figs
  and Nitre helpeth the Dropsie and the Spleen.  Being
  boyled with Wine, it is good to wash Inflamations: and
  taketh away black and blew Spots and Marks that come by
  Strokes, Bruises, or Fals, being applied with warm Water.
  {Note 179 here}
  It is an excellent Medicine for the Quinsie, or Swelling
  in the Throat, to wash and gargle it, being boyed with
  Figs.  It helpeth the Toothach, being boyled in Vinegar,
  and gargled therwith.  The hot Vapors of the Decoction
  taken by a Funnel in at the Ears, easeth the Inflamations
  and singing nois of them:  Being bruised and Salt, Honey,
  and Cummin Seed put to it, it helpeth those that are stung
  by Serpents.  The Oyl thereof being anoynted killeth Lice,
  and taketh away Itching of the Head:  It helpeth those
  that have the Falling~sickness which way soever it be
  applied:  It helpeth to expectorate tough Flegm, and is
  effectual in al cold Griefs, or Diseases of the Chest and
  Lungs, being taken either in a Syrup or licking Medicine.
  The green Herb bruised and a little Sugar put thereto,
  doth quickly heal any cut, or green Wound, being therunto
  applied.
  =
@begin {m179}
  {Note 179:} Cough, Shortness of breath, Wheesing, Gross
  Humors, Worms, yellow Jaundice, Dropsie, Spleen,
  Inflamations, black and blue spots, Quinsie, Toothach,
  Noise in the Ears, Venemous Beasts, Lice, Itching of the
  Head, Falling~sickness, Wounds.
@end {m179}
     The Herb is Jupiters, and the Sign Cancer; It
  strengthens all the parts of the Body under Cancer and
  Jupiter, which what they be may be found amply discoursed
  of in my Astrological Judgment of Diseases.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h133}
@section 3 {tt}
  HOPS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that they need no Description,
  I mean the manured kind which every good Husband or
  Huswife is acquainted with.
  =
     The wild Hop groweth up as the other doth, ramping upon
  Trees or Hedges that stand next unto them, with rough
  branches, and Leavs like the former; but it giveth smaller
  Heads & in far less plenty than it, so that there is
  scarce a Head or two seen in a year on divers of this wild
  kind; wherein consisteth the chief difference.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They delight to grow on low moist grounds, and are
  found in all parts of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They spring not up until April, and Flower not until
  the latter end of June, the heads are not gathered until
  the middle or latter end of September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Physical operation is to open Obstructions of the
  Liver and Spleen to clens the Blood, to loosen the Belly,
  to clens the Reins from Gravel, and provoke Urine.  The
  Decoction of the tops of Hops, as well of the tame as the
  wild, worketh the same effects.  In clensing the Blood
  they help to cure the French Disease, and al manner of
  Scabs, Itch, and other breakings out in the Body, as also
  al Tetters, Ringworms, and spreading Sores, the Morphew,
  and all discolourings of the Skin.  The Decoction of the
  {Note 180 here}
  Flowers and tops, do help to expel poyson that any one
  hath drunk:  Half a dram of the Seed in Pouder taken in
  drink, killeth Worms in the Body, bringeth down Womens
  Courses, and expelleth Urin:  A Syrup made of the Juyce
  and Sugar, cureth the yellow Jaundice, easeth the Headach
  that comes of Heat, and tempereth the heat of the Liver
  and Stomach, and is profitably given in long and hot Agues
  that rise of Choller and Blood.  Both the wild and the
  manured are of one property, and alike effectual in al the
  aforesaid Diseases.
  =
@begin {m180}
  {Note 180:} Obstructions, Liver, Spleen, Blood, Reins
  clenseth, French Pox, Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms,
  Morphew, Poyson, Worms, Terms provokes, Disury, yellow
  Jaundice, Liver, Stomach, Agues.
@end {m180}
     By all these Testimonies, Beer appears to be better
  than Ale.
  =
     Mars owns the Plant, and then Dr° Reason will tell you
  how it performs these actions.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h134}
@section 3 {tt}
  HOREHOUND.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
Discription.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Horehound groweth up with square hoary Stalks,
  half a yard or two foot high, set at the Joynts with two
  round crumpled rough Leavs, of a sullen hoary green
  colour, of a reasonable good scent, but a very bitter
  tast:  The Flowers are smal, white and gaping, set in
  rough, hard, prickly Husks, round about the Joynts with
  the leaves from the middle of the Stalk upwards, wherein
  afterwards is found smal round blackish Seed.  The root is
  blackish, hard, and  woody, with many strings thereat, and
  abideth many years.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found in many parts of this Land, in dry grounds
  and wast green places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in or about July, and the Seed is ripe in
  Augst.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     A Decoction of the dried Herb with the Seed, or the
  Juyce of the green Herb taken with Honey, is a Remedy for
  those that are pursie or short winded, or have a Cough or
  are fallen into a Consumption either through long
  sickness, or thin Distillations of Rhewm upon the Lungs.
  It helpeth to expectorate tough Flegm from the Chest,
  being taken with the Roots of Iris or Orris.  It is given
  to Women to bring down their Courses, to expel the
  Afterbirth, and to them that have sore and long Travails,
  as also to those that have taken Poyson, or are stung or
  bitten by Venemous Serpents:  The Leavs used with Honey
  purge foul Ulcers stay running or creeping sores, and the
  growing of the Flesh over the Nails.  It also helpeth
  {Note 181 here}
  pains of the sides.  The Juyce thereof with Wine and Honey
  helpeth to cleer the Eyesight, and snuffed up into the
  Nostrils, purgeth away the yellow Jaundice, and with a
  little Oyl of Roses dropped into the Ears easeth the pains
  of them.  Galen saith it openeth Obstructions both of the
  Liver and Spleen, purgeth the Breast and Lungues of Flegm;
  and used outwardly, it both clenseth and digesteth.  A
  decoction of Horehound (saith Mathiolus) is available for
  those that have bad Livers, and for such as have Itches
  and running Tetters; The Pouder hereof taken, or the
  Decoction, killeth Worms.  The green Leavs bruised and
  boyled in old Hogs Greas unto an Oyntment, healeth the
  biting of Dogs abateth the Swellings of Womens Breasts,
  and taketh away the Swelling and Pains that come by any
  pricking of Thorns, or such like means, and used with
  Vinegar it clenseth and healeth Tetters.  There is a Syrup
  made of Horehound to be had at the Apothecaries, very good
  for old Coughs, to rid the tough Flegm, as also to avoid
  cold Rhewm from the Lungs of old Folks, and for those that
  are Asmatick or short winded.
  =
@begin {m181}
  {Note 181:} Difficulty of breath, Cough, Consumption,
  Flegm, Terms provokes, Afterbirth, Weariness, Poyson,
  Venemous Beasts, Ulcers, Sides, Eyes, Yellow Jaundice,
  Ears, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen.  Liver, Itch,
  Tetters, Worms, Dogs bitings, Womens Breasts, Thorns,
  Asthmaes.
@end {m181}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h135}
@section 3 {tt}
  HORSTAIL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Of this there are many kinds, but I shall not trouble
  you not my self with any large Description of them, which
  to do, were but as the Proverb is, to find a knot in a
  Rush;  All the kinds hereof being nothing else but knotted
  Rushes, some with Leavs and some without: Take the
  Description of the most eminent sort as followeth.
  =
     The greater Horstail at the first springing hath Heads
  somwhat like those of Asparagus, and after grow to be
  hard, rough, hollow Stalks, joynted at sundry places up to
  the top, a foot high, so made as if the lower part were
  put into the upper, whereat grow on each side a Bush of
  smal, long, Rush~like hard Leavs, each part resembling a
  Hors Tail (from whence it was so called).  At the tops of
  the Stalks come forth smal Catkins like to those of Trees.
  The Root creepeth under ground having Joynts at sundry
  places.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This (as most of the other sorts hereof) groweth in wet
  grounds.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They spring up in April, and their blooming Catkins in
  July, seeding for the most part in August, and then perish
  down to the ground, rising afresh in the Spring.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Horstail, the smoother rather than the rough, and the
  Leaved rather than the Bare are most Physical.  It is very
  powerful to stanch bleedings whersoever, either inward or
  outward, the Juyce or Decoction, or distilled Water
  applied outwardly: It staieth also al sorts of Lasks and
  Fluxes in Man or Woman, and the pissing of Blood, and
  healeth also not only the inward Ulcers, and excoriations
  of the Entrails, Bladder, &c° but al other sorts of foul,
  moist, and running Ulcers, and soon sodereth together the
  tops of green Wounds; It cureth also Ruptures in Children.
  {Note 182 here}
  The Decoction hereof in Wine being drunk provoketh Urin,
  and helpeth the Stone and the Strangury; and the distilled
  Water thereof drunk two or three times in a day, a smal
  quantity at a time; as also easeth the Intrails or Guts,
  and is effectual against a Cough that cometh by
  distillation from the Head.  The Juyce or distilled Water
  being warmed, and hot Inflamations, Pustules, or red
  Wheals, and other breakings out in the Skin, being bathed
  therewith doth help them, and doth no less eas the
  Swellings, heat, and Inflamations of the Fundament or
  Privy parts in Man or Woman.
  =
@begin {m182}
  {Note 182:} Bleeding, Flux, Terms stops, Pissing Blood,
  Inward Ulcers, Excoriations of the Bladder, Ulcers,
  Wounds, Ruptures, Disury, Stone, Strangury, Cough,
  Inflamations, Pimples, Red Faces.
@end {m182}
     The Herb is belonging to Saturn yet is very harmless,
  and excellent good for the Premises.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h136}
@section 3 {tt}
  HOUSLEEKS, or SENGREEN
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so wel known unto my Country Men that I shal
  not need to write any Description of them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth commonly on Walls and Hous sides, and
  flowreth in July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our ordinary Housleek is good for all inward heats, as
  wel as outward, and in the Eyes or other parts of the
  Body:  A Posset made with the Juyce of Housleek is
  singular good in al hot Agues, for it cooleth and
  tempereth the Blood and Spirits, and quench the thirst;
  and is also good to stay al hot Defluxions of sharp and
  salt Rhewms in the Eyes, the Juyce being dropped into
  them, or into the Ears helpeth them; It helpeth also other
  Fluxes of Humors into the Bowels, and the immoderate
  Courses of Women.  It cooleth and restraineth also all
  other hot Inflamations.  St° Anthonies Fire, Scaldings and
  Burnings, the Shingles, fretting Ulcers, Cankers, Tetters,
  Ringworms and the like, and much easeth the pain of the
  Gout proceeding from an hot caus.  The Juyce also taketh
  away Warts and Corns in the Hands or Feet, being often
  bathed therewith, and the Skin of the Leavs being laid on
  {Note 183 here}
  them afterwards.  It easeth also the Headach, and
  distempered heat of the Brain in Phrensies, or through
  want of sleep, being applied to the Temples and Forehead.
  The Leavs bruised and laid upon the Crown or Seam of the
  Head staieth bleeding at the Nose very quickly.  The
  distilled Water of the Herb is profitable for all the
  purposes aforesaid:  The Leavs being gently rubbed on any
  place stung with Nettles or Bees, doth quickly take away
  the Pain.
  =
@begin {m183}
  {Note 183:} Heat, Eyes, Agues, Thirst, Salt Rhewms, Ears,
  Terms stops, Fluxes, Inflamations, St° Anthonies Fire,
  Burnings, Scaldings, Tetters, Ringworms, Corns on the
  Hands and Feet, Headach, Frenzy, Watching, Bleeding,
  Nettles, Bees, &c°.
@end {m183}
     It is an Herb of Jupiter, and it is reported by
  Myzaldus to preserve, it grows upon from Fire and
  Lightning.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h137}
@section 3 {tt}
  HOUNDSTONGUE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The great ordinary Houndstongue hath many long and
  somwhat narrow, soft, hairy darkish green Leavs, lying on
  the ground somwhat like unto Bugloss Leavs, from among
  which riseth up a rough hairy Stalk about two foot high,
  with some smaller Leavs thereon, and branched at the top
  into divers parts, with a smal Leaf at the Foot of every
  Branch, which is somwhat long, with many Flowers set along
  the same, which Branch is crooked or turned inwards before
  it Flowreth and openeth by degrees as the Flowers do blow,
  which consist of four smal purplish red Leavs of a dead
  colour, scarce rising out of the Husk wherein they stand,
  with some threds in the middle:  It hath somtimes a white
  Flower.  After the Flowers are past there cometh rough
  flat Seed, with a smal pointel in the middle, easily
  cleaving to any Garment that is toucheth, and not so
  easily pulled off again:  The root is black, thick, and
  long, hard to break, and ful of a clammy Juyce, smelling
  somwhat strong, of an evil scent as the Leavs also do.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in most places of this Land, in wast
  grounds, and untilled places by high way sides, Lanes, and
  Hedg sides.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about May and June, and the Seed is ripe
  shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Root is very effectually used in Pills, as wel as
  in Decoctions, or otherwise, to stay al sharp and thin
  Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head into the Eyes or Nose,
  or upon the Stomach or Lungs, as also for Coughs or
  shortness of breath.  The Leavs boyled in Wine (saith
  Dioscorides) but others do rather appoint it to be made
  {Note 184 here}
  with Water, and to ad thereto Oyl and Salt, mollifieth or
  openeth the Belly downwards; it also helpeth to cure the
  biting of a mad Dog, some of the Leavs being also applied
  to the Wound: The Leavs bruised, or the Juyce of them
  boyled in Hogs Lard, and applied, helpeth the falling away
  of the Hair which cometh of hot and sharp humors; as also
  for any place that is scalded or burnt:  The Leavs bruised
  and laid to any green Wound doth heal it up quickly.  The
  Root baked under the Embers wrapped in Past, or wet
  Papers, or in a wet double Cloth, and thereof a
  Suppository made and put up into, or applied to the
  Fundament, doth very effectually help the painful Piles or
  Hemorrhoids.  The distilled Water of the Herb and Roots,
  is very good to al the purposes aforesaid, to be used as
  wel inwardly to drink, as outwardly to wash any sore
  places, or it healeth al manner of Wounds and Punctures
  and those foul Ulcers that arise by the French Pox.
  {Note 185 here}
  =
@begin {m184}
  {Note 184:} Eyes, Nose, Stomach, Lungs, Shortness of
  breath, Mad Dogs.
@end {m184}
@begin {m185}
  {Note 185:} Scaldings, Burnings, Hemorrhoids, Wounds,
  Ulcers, French Pox.
@end {m185}
     Mizaldus ads to this, that the Leavs laid under the
  Feet wil keep the Dogs from barking at you, Houndstongue
  becaus it tries the Tongue of Hounds, whether it be true
  or not I never tried yet I have cured the biting of a mad
  Dog with this only Medicine.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h138}
@section 3 {tt}
  ST° JOHNS WORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common St° Johns~wort shooteth forth brownish,
  upright, hard, round Stalks, two foot high, spreading many
  Branches from the sides up to the tops of them with two
  smal Leavs set one against another at every place, which
  are of a deep green colour, somwhat like the Leavs of the
  lesser Centaury, but narrower, and ful of smal holes in
  every Leaf, which cannot be so wel perceived as when they
  are held up to the light:  At the tops of the Stalks and
  Branches stand yellow Flowers made of five Leavs apiece,
  with many yellow threds in the middle, which being bruised
  do yeild a reddish Juyce like blood after which come smal
  round Heads wherein is contained smal blackish Seed
  smelling like Rozin:  The Root is hard and woody with
  divers strings and fibres at it, and of a brownish colour
  which abideth in the ground many yeers, shooting anew
  every Spring.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth in Woods and Copses, as wel those that are
  shady, as open to the Sun.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower about Midsummer, and in July, and their
  Seed is ripe in the latter end of July or in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     St° Johns~wort, is as singular a Wound Herb as any
  other whatsoever, either for inward Wounds, Hurts, or
  Bruises, to be boyled in Wine and drunk, or prepared into
  Oyl or Oyntment, Bath or Lotion outwardly:  It hath power
  to open Obstructions, to dissolve Swellings to close up
  the Lips of Wounds, and to strengthen the parts that are
  weak & feeble.  The Decoction of the Herb and Flowers, but
  {Note 186 here}
  of the Seed especially in Wine being drunk; or the Seed
  made into Pouder and drunk with the Juyce of Knotgrass,
  helpeth al manner of spitting and Vomiting of Blood, be it
  by any Vein broken inwardly, by Bruises, Falls, or
  howsoever:  The same helpeth those that are bitten or
  stung by any Venemous Creature:  And is good for those
  that are troubled with the Stone in their Kidneys, or that
  cannot make water; and being applied provoketh Womens
  Courses.  Two drams of the Seed of St° Johns~wort made
  {Note 187 here}
  into Pouder and drunk in a little Broth, doth gently expel
  Choller, or congealed Blood in the Stomach;  The Decoction
  of the Leavs and Seeds being drunk somwhat warm before the
  Fits of Agues, whether by the Tertians, or Quartanes, doth
  alter the fits, and by often using doth take them quite
  away:  The Seed is much commended being drunk for forty
  daies together, to help the Sciatica:  The Falling
  sickness, and the Palsey.
  =
@begin {m186}
  {Note 186:} Wounds, Bruises, Obstructions, Swellings,
  Spitting and Vomiting blood.
@end {m186}
@begin {m187}
  {Note 187:} Venemous Beasts, Disury, Choller, Agues,
  Sciatica, Falling~sickness, Palsey.
@end {m187}
     It is under the Coelestial Sign Leo, and under the
  Dominion of the Sun, it may be if you meet with a Papist
  that is an Astrologer, he will tel you St° John made it
  over to him by a Letter of Attourney, especially if withal
  he be a Lawyer also.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h139}
@section 3 {tt}
  IVY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is so well known to every Child al to grow in
  Woods upon the Trees, and upon the stone Walls of
  Churches, Houses, &c° and somtimes to grow alone of it
  self, though but seldom.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth not until July, and the Berries are not
  ripe til Christide that they have felt the Winter Frosts.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     A pugil of the Flowers, which may be about a dram
  (saith Dioscorides) drunk twice a day in red Wine, helpeth
  the Lask and Bloody Flux.  It is an enemy to the Nerves
  and Sinews being much taken inwardly, but very helpful
  unto them being outwardly applied.  Pliny saith that the
  yellow Berries are good against the Jaundice, and taken
  before one be set to drink hard, preserveth from
  drunkeness, and helpeth those that spit Blood: and that
  {Note 188 here}
  the white Berries being taken inwardly, or applied
  outwardly killeth the Worms in the Belly.  The Berries are
  a singular Remedy to prevent the Plague, as also to free
  them from it that have got it, by drinking the Berries
  therof made in Pouder, for two or three daies together:
  They being taken in Wine do certainly help to break the
  Stone, provoke Urine and Womens Courses.  The fresh Leavs
  of Ivy boyled in Vinegar, and applied warm to the sides of
  {Note 189 here}
  those that are troubled with the Spleen, Ach, or Stitch in
  the sides, doth give them much eas:  The same applied with
  some Rosewater and Oyl of Roses to the Temples and
  Forehead, easeth the Headach though it be of long
  continuace.  The fresh Leavs boyled in Wine, and old
  filthy Ulcers that are hard to be cured washed therewith,
  doth wonderfully help to clens and heal them, it also
  quickly healeth green Wounds, as also it is effectual to
  heal al Burnings and Scaldings, and all kinds of
  ezuicerations coming thereby. or by Salt Flegm or hot
  Humors in other parts of the Body.  The Juyce of the
  Berries or Leavs snuffed up into the Nose, purgeth the
  head  and Brain of thin Rhewm that maketh Defluxions into
  the Eyes and Nose, and cureth the Ulcers and Stench
  therin:  The same dropped into the Ears helpeth the old
  and running Sores of them.  Those that are troubled with
  the Spleen shal find much eas by continual drinking out of
  a Cup made of Ivy, so as the drink may stand some smal
  time therein before it be drunk.   Cato saith, that Wine
  put into such a Cup wil soak through it, by reason of the
  Antipathy that is between them.
  =
@begin {m188}
  {Note 188:} Flux, Bloody Flux, Jaundice, Spitting Blood,
  Worms, Drunkeness, Pestilence.
@end {m188}
@begin {m189}
  {Note 189:} Stone, Disury, Terms provokes, Spleen, Stitch,
  Headach, Ulcers, Wounds, Burnings, Scaldings, salt Flegm,
  Rhewm, Sore Ears.
@end {m189}
     There seems to be a very Antipathy between Wine and
  Ivy, for if any have got a surfet by drinking Wine, his
  speediest cure is to drink a draught of the same Wine
  wherein a handful of Ivy Leavs being first bruised have
  been boyled.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h140}
@section 3 {tt}
  KIDNEYWORT, or WALL~PENYROYAL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many thick, flat, and round Leavs growing
  from the Root, every one having a long Footstalk fastned
  underneth about the middle of it and a little unevenly
  waved somtimes about the edges, of a pale green colour,
  and somwhat hollow on the upper side like a Sawcer; from
  among which rise one or more tender smooth hollow Stalks
  half a foot high with two or three smal Leavs thereon,
  usually not round as those below, but somwhat long and
  devided at the edges:  The tops are somtimes devided into
  long Branches, bearing a number of Flowers, set round
  about a long spike one above another, which are hollow and
  like a little Bell, of a whitish green colour, after which
  come smal Heads containing very smal brownish Seed, which
  falling on the ground, wil plentifully spring up before
  Winter, if it have moisture.  The Root is round and most
  usually smooth, grayish without and white within, having
  smal fibres at the head of the Root, and bottom of the
  Stalk.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth very plentifully in many places of this
  Land, but especially in all the West parts thereof, upon
  stone and mud Wals, upon Rocks also, and in stony places
  upon the ground, at the Bottom of old Trees, and somtimes
  on the Bodies of them that are decayed and rotten.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It usually Flowreth in the beginning of May and the
  Seed is ripening quickly after, sheddeth it self: so that
  about the end of Many usually, the Leavs and Stalks, are
  withered, dry, and gone until September, that the Leavs
  spring up again, and so abide all Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce or the distilled water being drunk is very
  effectual for al Inflamations and unnatural heats, to cool
  a fainting hot Stomach, or a hot Liver or the Bowels: The
  bruised Herb or the place bathed with the Juyce or
  {Note 190 here}
  distilled Water thereof and outwardly applied healeth
  Pimples, Redness, St° Anthonies Fire, and other outward
  heats and Inflamations.  The said Juyce or Water helpeth
  much also to heal sore Kidneys, torn or fretted by the
  Stone, or exulcerated within, and easeth the pains;  It
  also provoketh Urine, and is available for the Dropsie,
  and helpeth to break the Stone, cooling the Inflamed parts
  and other pains of the Bowels, and the bloody Flux; It is
  singular good to cool the painful Piles, or Hemorrhoidal
  Veins, the Juyce being used as a Bath unto them, or made
  into an Oyntment:  It is no less effectual to give eas of
  pains to the hot Gout, the Sciatica, and the Inflamations
  and Swellings in the Cods; It helpeth the Kernels or Knots
  in the Neck or Throat, called the Kings Evil; healeth
  Kibes and Chilblains if they be bathed with the Juyce, or
  anointed with an Oyntment made thereof, and some of the
  skin of the Leaf laid upon them; It is also used in green
  Wounds to stay the Blood, and to heal them quickly.
  =
@begin {m190}
  {Note 190:} Inflamations, Pimples, Redness, St° Anthonies
  fire, Kidneys hurt by the Stone, Disury, Dropsie, Stone,
  Bloody flux, Piles, Hemorrhoids, Gout, Sciatica, Cods,
  Kings Evil, Kibes, Chilblains.
@end {m190}
     Venus challengeth the Herb, under Libra.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h141}
@section 3 {tt}
  KNAPWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common sort herof hath many long and somwhat broad
  darke green leaves, rising from the root deeply dented
  about the edges, and somtimes a little rent or torne on
  both sides in two or three places, and somwhat hairy
  withal among which riseth up a strong round stalk four or
  five foot high, devided into many branches: at the tops
  wherof stand great scalygreen heads, & from the middle of
  them thrust forth a number of dark purplish red thrumms or
  threds, which after they are withered and past, ther is
  found divers black Seeds: lying in a great deal of down,
  somwhat like unto a Thistle Seed, but smaller: The Root is
  white, hard and woody, with divers fibres annexed
  therunto, which perisheth not but abideth with leavs
  theron all the winter, shooting out fresh every Spring.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in most Feilds and Meadows, and about their
  borders and Hedges and in many wast grounds also, almost
  every where.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It usually flowreth in June and July, and the seed is
  ripe shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Knapweed helpeth to stay Fluxes, both of blood at
  the mouth or nose, or other outward parts, and those veins
  that are inwardly broken, or inward wounds, as also the
  Fluxes of the belly; It stayeth the distillations of thin
  and sharp humors from the head upon the stomach and Lungs:
  it is good for those that are bruised by any fall, blowes,
  or otherwise.  It is very profitable for those that are
  {Note 191 here}
  bursten and have a Rupture, by drinking the decoction of
  the Hearbe and roots in wine and applying the same
  outwardly to the place.  It is singular good in al running
  sores, cankrous and fistulous drying up the moysture and
  healing them up gently, without sharpness; it doth the
  like to running sores or scabs of the head or other parts.
  It is of special use for the soreness of the Throat,
  swelling of the Vvula and Jaws; and excellent good to stay
  the bleeding and heale up all green wounds.
  =
@begin {m191}
  {Note 191:} Fluxes, Bleeding, Veins broken, Phtisick,
  Falls, Blows, Ruptures, Sores, Cankers, Scabby head, Sore
  throat, Vvula, Jaws.
@end {m191}
     Saturn challengeth the herb for his own.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h142}
@section 3 {tt}
  KNOT~GRASS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is generally so wel known that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in every Country of this Land, by the
  Highway sides and by foot paths in Fields, as also by the
  sides of old Walls.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It springeth up late in the Spring, and abideth until
  Winter, when all the branches perish.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of the common kind of Knot~grass, is most
  effectuall to stay bleeding at the mouth, being drunke in
  steeled or red Wine: and the bleeding at the Nose, to be
  applyed to the Forehead and Temples or to be squirted up
  into the Nostrils.  And no less effectuall to coole and
  {Note 192 here}
  temper that heat of the blood, & stomach and to stay any
  Flux of the blood or humors, as Lask, Bloody flux, Womens
  courses, and Running of the Reins.  It is singular good to
  provoke Urine, helpe the strangurie, and allay the heate
  that cometh therby; and it powerful by Urin to expel the
  Gravell, or stone in the kidneys or Bladder, a dram of the
  pouder of the Herb being taken in wine for many dayes
  together: Being boyled in wine and drunke, it is
  profitable to those that are stung or bitten by venemous
  creatures, and very effectual to stay al defluxions of
  rhewmatick humors upon the stomach, & killeth Worms in the
  {Note 193 here}
  belly or stomack, quieteth inward paines that arise from
  the heat, sharpness & corruption of blood and Choller: The
  distilled water herof taken by itself, or wth the pouder
  of the Herb or seed, is very effectual to al the purposes
  aforesaid, and is accounted as one of the most Soveraign
  remedies to cool all manner of inflamations, breakings out
  through heate, hot Swellings, and Impostumations,
  Gangrenes, and Fistulous Cankers, or foule filthy Ulcers,
  being applyed or put into them; but especially for all
  sorts of Ulcers and Sores happening in the privie parts of
  men or women.  It helpeth all fresh and green Wounds, and
  speedily helpeth them:  The Juyce dropped into the Ears
  cleanseth them being foule and having running matter in
  them.
  =
@begin {m192}
  {Note 192:} Bleeding, Heat, Flux, Bloody Flux, Courses
  stops, Disury, Gravel, Venemous Beasts, Rhewm, Worms,
  Heat.
@end {m192}
@begin {m193}
  {Note 193:} Choller, Inflamations, Apostums, Gangrenes,
  Fistulaes, Cankers, Ulcers, Wounds, Ears.
@end {m193}
     Saturn seems to me to own the Hearb, and yet some hold
  the Sun, out of doubt 'tis Saturn, it is very prevalent
  for the premises: as also for btoken Joynts, and Ruptures.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h143}
@section 3 {tt}
  LADIES~MANTLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many leavs rising from the Root, standing
  upon long hairy footstalkes, being almost round, but a
  little cut in on the edges, into eight or ten parts more
  or less, making it seem like a Star, with so many corners
  and points, and dented round about, of a light green
  colour somwhat hard in handling, and as if it were folded,
  or plaited at first, and them crumpled in divers places,
  and a little hairy as the Stalk is also, which riseth up
  among them to the height of two or three foot, with such
  like Leavs thereon but smaller, and being weak is not able
  to stand upright, but bendeth down to the Ground, devided
  at the top into two or three smal Branches, with smal
  yellowish green Heads, and Flowers of a whitish colour,
  breaking out of them; which being past, there cometh smal
  yellow Seed like Poppy Seed: The Root is somwhat long and
  black with many strings or fibres thereat.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth naturally in many Pastures, and Wood sides,
  in Harfordshire, Wiltshire, and Kent, and other places of
  this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in May and June, and abideth after Seed
  time green al the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Ladies Mantle is very proper for those Wounds that have
  Inflamations, and is very  effectual to stay Bleedings,
  Vomitings, Fluxes of al sorts in man or woman, and Bruises
  by Fals or otherwise, and helpeth Ruptures, and such Women
  or Maids as have over great Flagging Breasts, causing them
  to grow less and hard, being both drunk, and outwardly
  {Note 194 here}
  applied:  The distilled water drunk for twenty daies
  together helpeth Conception, and to retain the Birth, if
  the Woman do somtimes also sit in a Bath made of the
  Decoction of the Herb.  It is one of the most singular
  Wound Herbs that is, and therfore highly prized and
  praised by the Germans, who use in al Wounds inward and
  outward, to drink the Decoction thereof and wash the
  Wounds therewith, or dip Tents therein and put them into
  the Wounds, which wonderfully drieth up al humidity of the
  Sores, and abateth Inflamations therein.  It quickly
  healeth al green Wounds, not suffering any corruption to
  remain behind, and cureth old Sores though Fistulous and
  hollow.
  =
@begin {m194}
  {Note 194:} Inflamations, Bleeding, Vomiting, Fluxes,
  Bruises, Ruptures, Flagging Breasts, Barrenness, Women
  with child.
@end {m194}
     Venus claims the Herb as her own.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h144}
@section 3 {tt}
  LAVENDER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known, being an Inhabitant in almost
  every Garden, that it needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth about the end of June and beginning of
  July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Lavender is of special good use, for all the Griefs and
  pains of the Head and Brains that proceed of a cold caus,
  as the Apoplexy, Falling~sickness, the drowsie or sluggish
  Malady, Cramps, Convulsions, Palseys, and often Faintings.
  It strengtheneth the Stomach, and freeth the Liver and
  Spleen from Obstructions, provoketh Womens Courses, and
  expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth.  The Flowers of
  Lavender steeped in Wine helpeth them to make water that
  are stopped, or are troubled with the Wind or Chollick, if
  the place be bathed therewith.  A Decoction made with the
  Flowers of Lavender, Horehound, Fennel, and Asparagus
  Roots, and a little Cinnamon is very profitably used to
  help the Falling~sickness, and the giddiness or turning of
  the Brain.  To gargle the Mouth with the Decoction thereof
  {Note 195 here}
  is good against the Toothach.  Two spoonfuls of the
  distilled Water of the Flowers taken, helpeth them that
  have lost their voice; as also the tremblings and passions
  of the Heart, and faintings and swounings, not only being
  drunk, but applied to the Temples, or Nostrils to be smelt
  unto but it is not safe to use it where the Body repleat
  with Blood and Humors, becaus of the hot and subtil
  spirits wherewith it is possessed.  The Chimical Oyl drawn
  from Lavender, usually called Oyl of Spike, is of so
  fierce and piercing Spirits that it is cautiously to be
  used: some few drops being sufficient to be given with
  other things, either for inward or outward Griefs.
  =
@begin {m195}
  {Note 195:} Head, Brains, Apoplexie, Falling~sickness,
  Lethargy, Cramps, Convulsions, Palsey both dead and
  shaking, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Terms provokes, Chollick,
  Vertigo, loss of voyce, Trembling, Fainting.
@end {m195}
     Mercury owns the Herb, and it carries his effects very
  potently.
  =
     Lavender Cotten hath the same Vertues with
  Southernwood, which shal be shewed you when I come to
  speak of it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h145}
@section 3 {tt}
  LETTICE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known being generally used as a Sallet
  Herb, that it is altogether needless to write any
  Description thereof.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of Lettice mixed or boyled with Oyl of Roses,
  and applied to the Forehead and Temples procureth Sleep,
  and easeth the Headach proceeding of an hot caus; being
  eaten boyled, it helpeth to loosen the Belly.  It helpeth
  digestion, quencheth thirst, encreaseth Milk in Nurses,
  easeth griping pains of the Stomach or Bowels, that come
  of Choller.  It abateth Bodily lust, represseth Venerous
  {Note 196 here}
  Dreams, being outwardly applied to the Cods with a little
  Camphire:  Applied in the same manner to the Region of the
  Heart, Liver or Reins, or by bathing the said place with
  the Juyce or distilled Water, wherein some white Sanders
  and red Roses are put also, it not only represseth the
  heat and Inflamation therein, but comforts and strengthens
  those parts, and also tempereth the heat of Urine.  Galen
  adviseth old men to use it with Spices, and where Spices
  are wanting to ad Mints, Rocket and such like hot Herbs,
  or els Citron, Lemmon, or Orange Seeds, to abate the cold
  of one, and heat of the other.  The Seed and distilled
  Water of the Lettice work the like effects in al things:
  but the use of Lettice is chiefly forbidden to those that
  are short winded, or have any imperfection in their Lungs,
  or spit Blood.
  =
@begin {m196}
  {Note 196:} Watching, Head~ach, Indigestion, Thirst, Milk
  encreaseth, Choller, Bowels, Lust, Venerious Dreams,
  Inflamation, Heat of Urine.
@end {m196}
     The Moon owns them, and that's the reason they cool and
  moisten what heat and driness Mars causeth, because Mars
  hath his fall in Cancer, and they cool the Heart, becaus
  the Sun rules it, between whom and the Moon is a Reception
  in the Generation of Man, as you may see in my Guide for
  Women.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h146}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE WATER~LILLY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Of these there are two principally noted kinds, Viz°
  The White, and the Yellow.
  =
     The White Lilly hath very large, round and thick dark
  green Leavs lying on the Water, sustained by long and
  thick Footstalks, that rise from a great thick, round and
  long tuberous black Root, spungy or loos with many Knobs
  thereon like Eyes, and whitish within, from amidst the
  which rise other the like thick and great Stalks,
  sustaining one large white Flower thereon, green on the
  outside, but as white as Snow within, consisting of divers
  rows of long, and somwhat thick and narrow Leavs, smaller
  and thinner the more inward they be, encompassing a head
  within wth many yellow threds, or thrums in the middle,
  where after they are past, stand round Poppy~like Heads
  ful of broad, Oyly, and bitter Seed.
  =
     The yellow kind is little different from the former
  save only it hath fewer Leavs on the Flowers, greater and
  more shining Seed, and a whitish Root, both within and
  without:  The Roots of both being somwhat sweet in tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are found growing in great Pools and standing
  Waters, and somtimes in slow running Rivers and lesser
  Ditches of Water, in sundry places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower most commonly about the end of May, and
  their Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs and Flowers of the Water~Lillies are cold and
  moist, but the Root and Seed is cold and dry:  The Leavs
  do cool al Inflamations, and both outward and inward heats
  of Agues, and so doth the Flowers also, either, by the
  Syrup or Conserve; The Syrup helpeth much to procure rest,
  and to settle the Brains of Frantick persons, by cooling
  the hot distemperature of the Head.  The Seed as wel as
  the Root is effectual to stay Fluxes of Blood or Humors,
  {Note 197 here}
  either of Wounds, or of the Belley; but the Roots are most
  used, some chusing the one, and some the other to be more
  effectual to cool, bind and restrain all Fluxes in Man or
  Woman, as also the running of the Reins, and the passage
  away of the Seed when one is asleep: but the frequent use
  hereof extinguisheth Venerous actions:  The Root is
  likewise very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharp
  to be boyled in Wine or Wter, and the Decoction drunk.
  The Distilled water of the Flowers is every effectual for
  al the Diseases aforesaid both inwardly taken and
  outwardly applied, and is much commended to take away
  Freckles, Spots, Sunburn, and Morphew from the Face, or
  other parts of the Body.  The Oyl made of the Flowers as
  Oyl of Roses is made, is profitably used to cool hot
  Tumors, and the Inflamations of Ulcers and Wounds and to
  eas the pains, and help the Sores.
  =
@begin {m197}
  {Note 197:} Inflamations, Agues, Watching, Frenzy, Flux,
  Belly, Running of the Reins, Venery, Freckles, Spots,
  Sunburn, Morphew.
@end {m197}
     The Herb is under the Dominion of the Moon, and
  therefore cools and moistens like the former.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h147}
@section 3 {tt}
  LIQUORIS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our English Liquoris riseth up with divers woody
  Stalks, whereon are set at several distances, many narrow
  long green Leavs, set together on both sides of the Stalk,
  and an od one at the the end, very wel resembling a yong
  Ash~tree sprung up from the Seed:  This by many yeers
  continuance in a place without removing, and not else,
  will bring forth Flowers, many standing together Spike
  fashion one above another upon the Stalks, of the form of
  Pease Blossoms, but of a very pale blue colour, which turn
  into long somwhat flat and smooth Rods, wherein is
  contained smal, round hard Seed:  The Root runneth down
  exceeding deep into the ground, with divers other smaller
  Roots and Fibres growing with them, and shoot out Suckers
  from the main Roots al about, wherby it is much encreased,
  of a brownish colour on the outside, and yellow within.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is planted in Fields and Gardens in divers places of
  this Land, and thereof good profit is made.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Liquoris is boyled in fair Water with some Maindenhair
  and Figs, maketh a good Drink for those that have a dry
  Cough, or Hoarceness, Wheesing, shortness of breath; and
  for al the Griefs of the Breast and Lungs, Phytisick or
  Consumption caused by the Distillation of Salt humors on
  them.  It is also good in all pains of the Reins, the
  Strangury, and heat of Urine:  The fine Pouder of Liquoris
  {Note 198 here}
  blown through a Quil into the Eyes that have a Pin and Web
  (as they cal it) or Rhewmatick Distillations into them,
  doth clens and help them:  The Juyce of Liquoris is as
  effectual in al the Diseases of the Breast & Lungs, the
  Reins and Bladder, as the Decoction.  The Juyce dissolved
  in Rose Water with some Gum~Tragacanth, is a fine licking
  Medicine for Hoarceness, Wheesings, &c°.
  =
@begin {m198}
  {Note 198:} Cough, Hoarsness, Phtisick, Consumption, Reins,
  Strangury, Heat of Urine, Eyes, Bladder.
@end {m198}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h148}
@section 3 {tt}
  LIVERWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common Liverwort, groweth close and spreadeth much
  upon the ground in moyst and shadowy places, with many sad
  green leaves, or rather (as it were) sticking flat one to
  another, very unevenly cut in on the edges, and crumpled,
  from among which arise smal slender stalks an Inch or two
  high at most, bearing smal Starlike Flowers at the tops:
  The Roots are very fine and smal.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is a singular good Herb for all the diseases of the
  Liver, both to cool and clense it, and helpeth the
  Inflamations in any part, and the yellow Jaundice
  likewise: Being bruised and boyled in small Beer and
  {Note 199 here}
  drunke, it cooleth the heat of the Liver and Kidneys, and
  helpeth the runing of the Reins in man, & the Whites in
  Women: It is a singular remedy to stay the spreading of
  Tetters, Ringworms, and other fretting and running Sores &
  Scabs, and is an excellent remedy for such whose Livers
  are corrupted by surfets wch causeth their bodies to break
  out, for it fortifies the Liver exceedingly and make it
  impregnable.
  =
@begin {m199}
  {Note 199:} Liver, Inflamation, yellow Jaundice, Spleen,
  Running of the Reins, Whites, Tetters, Ringworms, Surfets.
@end {m199}
     It being under the command of Jupiter, and under the
  sign Cancer.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h149}
@section 3 {tt}
  LOOS~STRIFE or WILLOW HEARB.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common yellow Loos~strife groweth to be four or
  five foot high or more, with great round stalks a little
  crested, diversly branched from the middle of them to the
  tops, into great & long Branches, on al wch at the Joynts
  ther grow long and narrow Leavs, but broader below, and
  usually two at a Joynt, yet somtimes three or four somwhat
  like Willow Leavs, smooth on the edges, and of a faint
  green colour from the upper Joynts of the branches, and at
  the tops of them also stand many yellow Flowers of five
  Leaves a piece, with diverse yellow threeds in the middle,
  which turn into small round heads, containing small
  cornered Seeds:  The Roote creepeth under ground, almost
  like Couchgrass, but greater, and shooteth up every
  Spring, brownish heads, which afterwards grow up into
  stalks:  It hath no scent nor tast but only astringent.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of this Land in moyst
  Meadowes and by water sides.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth from June to August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Hearb is good to stay all manner of Bleeding at
  Mouth or Nose or Wounds, and all Fluxes of the Belly, and
  the bloody Flux, given either to drinke, or taken by
  Clystor; it stayeth also the abundance of Womens Courses:
  {Note 200 here}
  It is a singular good wound Hearb for green wounds, to
  stay the bleeding, and quickly to close together the lips
  of the Wound, if the herb be bruised and the Juyce only
  applyed:  It is often used in Gargles for sore mouthes, as
  also for the secret parts: the smoke herof being burned
  driveth away Flyes and Gnats which use in the night~time
  to molest people inhabiting neere Marshes and the Fenney
  Countryes.
  =
@begin {m200}
  {Note 200:} Bleeding, Flux, Bloody Flux, Terms stops,
  Wounds, Sore Mouth, Privities, Gnats.
@end {m200}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h150}
@section 3 {tt}
  LOOS~STRIFE, with SPIKED HEADS OF FLOWERS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth with many woody square stalkes, full of
  Joynts about three foot high at least, at everyone wherof
  stand two long Leaves, shorter, narrower, and of a deeper
  green colour than the former; and some brownish.  The
  stalkes are branched into many long stemmes of spiked
  Flowers, half a foot long, growing in Rundles one above
  another, out of smal husks very like the Spiked heads of
  Lavender, each of which Flowers have five round pointed
  Leaves of a Purple Violet Colour, or somwhat inclining to
  redness, in wch husks stand small round heads, after the
  Flowers are fallen, wherein is contained small seed:  The
  Root creepeth under ground like unto the yellow, but is
  greater than it; and so is the heads of the Leaves when
  they first appear out of the ground and more brown than
  the other.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth usually by Rivers, and Ditches sides in wet
  grounds, as about the Ditches at and neer Lambeth: and in
  many other places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the months of June and July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Herb is no whit inferior unto the former; it
  having not only all the vertues which the former hath, but
  some particular vertues of its own found out by
  experience, as namely.
  =
     The distilled water is a present remedy for hurts and
  blows on the eyes and for blindness, so as the Christaline
  humor be not perished or hurt; and this hath been
  sufficiently proved true by the experience of a man of
  judgment, who kept it long to himself as a great secret.
  {Note 201 here}
  It also cleareth the Eyes of dust or any other thing
  gotten into them, and preserveth the Sight: It is also
  very much available against Wounds and Thrusts, being made
  into an Oyntment on this manner; To every ounce of the
  Water, ad two drams of May Butter without Salt, and of
  Sugar and Wax of each as much also, let them boyl gently
  all together: Let Tents be dipped in the Liquor that
  remaineth after it is cold, and put into the Wounds, and
  the place covered with a Linen cloth doubled and anointed
  with the Oyntment, and this is also an approved Medicine.
  It is likewise clenseth and healeth all foul Ulcers and
  Sores wheresoever, and staieth their Inflamations by
  washing them with the Water, and laying on them a green
  Leaf or two in the Summer, or dry Leaves in the Winter.
  This Water gargled warm in the Mouth, and somtimes drunk
  also doth cure the Quinsie, or Kings Evil in the Throat.
  The said Water applied warm taketh away all Spots, Marks,
  and Scars in the Skin: And a little of it drunk quencheth
  thirst when it is extraordinary.
  =
@begin {m201}
  {Note 201:} Eyes, Blindness, Wounds, Ulcers, Inflamations,
  Quinsie, Kings Evil, Spots, Marks, Scars.
@end {m201}
     The Herb is an Herb of the Moon, and under the Sign
  Cancer, neither do I know a better Preserver of the Sight
  when 'tis well, nor a better Curer of sore Eyes than
  Eyebright taken inwardly, and this used outwardly, 'tis
  cold in quality.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h151}
@section 3 {tt}
  LOVAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many long and great Stalks, of large winged
  Leavs devided into many parts like Smallage, but much
  larger and greater, every Leaf being cut about the edges
  broadest forwards, and smallest at the Stalk, of a sad
  green colour, smooth and shining, from among which rise up
  sundry strong hollow green Stalks, five or six foot, yea
  somtimes seven or eight foot high, full of Joynts, but
  lesser Leavs set at them than grow below, and with them
  toward the tops come forth long Branches, bearing at their
  tops large Umbels, of yellow Flowers, and after them flat
  brownish Seed:  The Root groweth thick, great and deep,
  spreading much and enduring long, of a brownish colour on
  the outside, and whitish within:  The whol Plant, and
  every part of it smelleth strong, and Aromatically, and is
  of an hot sharp biting tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is usually planted in Gardens, where if it be
  suffered it groweth huge and great.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the end of July, and seedeth in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It openeth, cutteth and digesteth Humors, and mightily
  provoketh Womens Courses and Urine.  Half a dram at a time
  of the dried Root in Pouder taken in Wine, doth
  wonderfully warm a cold Stomach, helping digestion, and
  consuming all raw & superfluous moisture therein; easeth
  al inward gripings and pains, dissolveth wind, and
  resisteth Poyson and infection: It is a known and much
  practiced Remedy to drink the Decoction of the Herb for
  any sort of Ague, and to help the pains and Torments of
  the Body and Bowels coming of cold.  The Seed is effectual
  {Note 202 here}
  to al the purposes aforesaid (except the last) and worketh
  more powerfully.  The distilled water of the Herb helpeth
  the Quinsie in the Throat, if the Mouth and Throat be
  gargled and washed therewith, and helpeth the Pluresie,
  being drunk three or four times.  Being dropped into the
  Eyes it taketh away the redness or dimness of them, it
  likewise taketh away Spots or Freckles in the Face.  The
  Leavs bruised and fried with a little Hogs Lard & laid hot
  to any Botch or Boyl, wil quickly break it.
  =
@begin {m202}
  {Note 202:} Humors, Terms provokes, Disury, Cold Stomach,
  Indigestion, Wind, Poyson, Epidemical Diseases, Agues,
  Belly~ach, Quinsie, Pleuresie, Spots, Freckles, Boyls.
@end {m202}
     It is an Herb of the Sun under the Sign Taurus, if
  Saturn offend the Throat (as he alwaies doth if he be
  occasioner of the Malady and in Taurus in the Genesis)
  this is your cure.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h152}
@section 3 {tt}
  LUNGWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is a kind of Moss, that groweth on sundry sorts of
  Trees, especially Oaks, and Beeches, with broad grayish
  tough Leavs; diversly folded, crumpled, and gashed in on
  the edges, and somtimes spotted also, with many smal spots
  on the upper side:  It was never seen to bear any Stalk or
  Flower at any time.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is of great use with many Physitians to help the
  Diseases of the Lungs, and for Coughs, Wheesings, and
  shortness of breath, which it cureth both in Man and
  Beast: It is very profitably put into Lotions that are
  taken to stay the moist Humors that flow to Ulcers, and
  hinder their healing, as also to wash all other Ulcers in
  the privy parts of Man or Woman.
  {Note 203 here}
  =
@begin {m203}
  {Note 203:} Lungues, Coughs, Wheesings, Shortness of
  breath, Ulcers in the Privities and elswhere.
@end {m203}
     It is an excellent Remedy boyled in Beer for
  broken~winded Horses.
  =
     Jupiter seems to own the Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h153}
@section 3 {tt}
  MADDER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden Madder shooteth forth many very long, weak
  four square reddish Stalks trailing on the Ground a great
  way, very rough or hairy and full of Joynts; At every of
  those Joynts come forth divers long, and somwhat narrow
  Leavs, standing like a Star about the Stalks, rough also
  and hairy, toward the tops whereof come forth many smal
  pale yellow Flowers: after which come smal round Heads,
  green at first, and reddish afterwards, but black when
  they are ripe, wherin is contained the Seed.  The Root is
  not very great, but exceeding long, running down half a
  mans length into the ground, red and very clear while it
  is fresh, spreading divers waies.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is only manured in Gardens or larger Fields for the
  profit that is made thereof.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth towards the end of Summer, and the Seed is
  ripe quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It hath an opening quality, and afterwards to bind and
  strengthen.  It is an assured Remedy for the yellow
  Jaundice by opening the Obstructions of the Liver and
  Gall, and clensing those parts:  It openeth also the
  Obstructions of the Spleen, and diminisheth the
  Melanchollick humor.  It is available for the Palsey and
  {Note 204 here}
  Sciatica, and effectual for Bruises inward or outward, and
  is therfore much used in Vulnerary Drinks.  The Root for
  all those aforesaid purposes, is to be boyled in Wine or
  Water, as the caus requireth, and some Honey or Sugar put
  therunto afterwards.  The Seed herof taken with Vinegar
  and Honey, helpeth the Swellings and Hardness of the
  Spleen.  The Decoction of the Leavs and Branches is a good
  Fomentation for Women to sit over that have not their
  Courses.  The Leavs and Roots beaten and applied to any
  part that is discoloured with Freckles, Morphew, the white
  Scurf, or any such deformity of the Skin, clenseth them
  throughly, and taketh them away.
  =
@begin {m204}
  {Note 204:} Yellow Jaundice, Obstructions of the Liver and
  Gall, Spleen, Melancholly, Palsey, Sciatica, Bruises
  inward and outward, Terms provokes, Freckles, Morphew,
  Scurf.
@end {m204}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h154}
@section 3 {tt}
  MAIDENHAIR.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Maindenhair doth from a number of hard black
  Fibres send forth a great many blackish shining brittle
  Stalks, hardly a span long; many not half so long, on each
  side set very thick with smal round dark green leavs, and
  spotted on the back of them like other Ferns.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth much upon old Stone Wals in the West parts,
  and Wales, in Kent and divers other places of this Land;
  It joyeth likewise to grow by Springs, Wels, and rockie
  moist and shadowy places; and is alwaies green.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h155}
@section 3 {tt}
  WALL~RUE; or ORDINARY WHITE MAIDENHAIR.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath very fine pale green Stalks, almost as fine
  as hairs, set confusedly with divers pale green Leavs on
  very short Footstalks, somwhat neer unto the colour of
  Garden Rue, and not much differing in form, but more
  diversly cut in on the edges, and thicker, smooth on the
  upper part and spotted finely underneath.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of this Land, as at Dartford,
  and the Bridg at Ashford in Kent, at Beconsfield in
  Buckinghamshire, at Wolley in Huntingtonshire, on
  Frammingham Castle in Suffolk, on the Church wals at
  Mayfield in Sussex, in Summerset shire and divers other
  places of this Land, and is green in Winter as well as in
  Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Vertues of both these are so neer alike; that
  although I have described them, and their places of
  growing, severally; yet I shall in writing the Vertues of
  them joyn them both together: as followeth.
  =
     The Decoction of the Herb Maidenhair being drunk,
  helpeth those that are troubled with the Cough, shortness
  of breath, the yellow Jaundice, diseases of the spleen,
  stopping of Urin, and helpeth exceedingly to break the
  Stone in the Kidneys: (in all which Diseases the Wall Rue
  is also very effectual)  It provoketh Womens Courses, and
  {Note 205 here}
  staieth both Bleedings and Fluxes of the Stomach and
  Belly, especially when the Herb is dry, for being green,
  it loosneth the Belly, and avoideth Choller and Flegm from
  the Stomach and Liver, it clenseth the Lungs, and by
  rectifying the Blood causeth a good colour to the whol
  Body: The Herb boyled in Oyl of Chamomel, dissolveth
  Knots, allayeth Swellings, and drieth up moist Ulcers.
  The Ly made thereof is singular good to clens the head
  from Scurf, and from dry and running Sores; stayeth the
  falling of shedding of the Hair, and causeth it to grow
  thick, fair, and wel coloured; for which purpose some boyl
  it in  Wine putting some Smallage Seed thereto, and
  afterwards some Oyl.  The Wall Rue is as effectual as
  Maidenhair in all Diseases of the Head, and falling or the
  recovering of Hair again; and generally for all the
  aforementioned Diseases: and besides, The Pouder of it
  taken in drink for fourty daies together, helpeth the
  burstings in Children.
  =
@begin {m205}
  {Note 205:} Cough, Shortness of breath, the yellow
  Jaundice, Spleen, Disury, Stone, Terms provokes, Bleeding,
  Fluxes, Lungs, Swellings, Ulcers, Scurff, Sores, Baldness.
@end {m205}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h156}
@section 3 {tt}
  GOLDEN MAIDENHAIR.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     To the two former give me leave to ad this, and I shall
  do no more but only describe it unto you, and for the
  Vertues refer you unto the former, sith whatsoever is said
  of them, may be also said of this:
  =
     It hath many small brownish red hayres to make up the
  form of Leavs growing about the ground from the Root, and
  in the middle of them in Summer, rise smal Stalks of the
  same colour, set with very fine yellowish green hairs on
  them, and bearing a smal gold yellow head, lesser than a
  Wheat Corn standing in a great Husk.  The Root is very
  smal and threddy.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on Bogs and Moorish places, and also on dry
  shadow places at Hampstead Heath and elswhere.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h157}
@section 3 {tt}
  MALLOWS, and MARSH~MALLOWS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Common Mallowes are generally so well known that
  they need no Description.
  =
     Our common Marsh~mallows have divers soft hoary white
  stalkes rising to be three or four foot high, spreading
  forth many Branches the Leavs wherof are soft and hairy,
  somwhat lesser then the other Mallow Leaves but longer
  pointed, cut (for the most part) into some few deivisions,
  but deep:  The Flowers are many but smaller also then the
  other Mallows & white, or tending to a blush colour.
  After which come such like round cases and Seed as in the
  other Mallows.  The Roots are many and long, shooting from
  one Head, of the bigness of a Thumb or Finger, very
  pliant, tough and bending like Liquoris, of a whitish
  yellow colour on the outside, and more white within, full
  of a slimy juyce which being, layd in water will thicken
  it as if it were gelly.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Common Mallows grow in every countrey of this Land.
  =
     The Common Marsh Mallowes in most of the Salt Marshes
  from Woolwich, downe to the Sea, both on the Kentish and
  Essex Shoares and in diverse other places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower all the Summer Months, even until the
  Winter do pull them down.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs of either of the sorts above named, and the
  Roots also boyled in Wine or Water, or in Broth, with
  Parsley or Fennel Roots, doth help to open the Body, and
  is very convenient in hot Agues or other distempers of the
  Body to apply the Leavs so boyled warm to the Belly; It
  not only voideth hot Chollerick and other offensive
  Humors, but easeth the pains and torments of the Belly
  coming thereby; and are therefore used in all Clysters
  conducing to those purposes: The same used by Nurses,
  procureth them store of Milk.
  {Note 206 here}
  =
@begin {m206}
  {Note 206:} Agues, Choller, Gripings in the Belly, Milk,
  Excoriation, Phtisick, Pleuresie, Travail in Women.
@end {m206}
     The Decoction of the Seed of any of the common Mallows,
  made in Milk or Wine doth Merveilously help excoriations,
  the Phtisick, Plurisie, and other Diseases of the Chest
  and Lungues that proceed of hot causes, if it be continued
  taking for sometime together: The Leavs and Roots work the
  same effects: They help much also in the excoriations of
  the Guts and Bowels and hardness of the Mother, and in all
  hot and sharp diseases thereof.  The Juyce drunk in Wine,
  or the Decoction of them therein doth help Women to a
  speedy and easie Delivery.  Pliny saith, That whosoever
  shal take a spoonful of any of the Mallows, shal that day
  be free from all Diseases that may come unto him; and that
  it is special good for the Falling~sickness.  The Syrup
  also and Conserve made of the Flowers are very effectual
  for the same Diseases, and to open the Body being costive:
  {Note 207 here}
  The Leavs bruised and laid to the Eyes with a little
  Honey, taketh away the Impostumations of them.  The Leavs
  bruised or rubbed upon any place stung with Bees, Wasps or
  the like, presently taketh away the pains, redness, and
  Swellings that rise thereupon: and Dioscorides saith, The
  Decoction of the Leavs and Roots helpeth all sorts of
  Poyson, so as the Poyson be presently voided by Vomit.  A
  Pultis made of the Leavs boyled and bruised, whereunto
  {Note 208 here}
  some Bean or Barley Flower and Oyl of Roses is an especial
  Remedy against all hard Tumors and Inflamations of
  Impostums and Swellings of the Cods and other parts, and
  easeth the pains of them; as also against the hardness of
  the Liver or Spleen, being applied to the places.  The
  Juyce of the Mallows boyled in old Oyl and applied, taketh
  away al roughness of the Skin,   as also the Scurf, Dandrif,
  or dry Scabs in the Head or other parts if they be
  anointed therewith, or washed with the Decoction, and
  preserveth the Hair from falling off. It is also effectual
  against Scaldings and Burnings, St° Anthonies fire, and
  all other hot, red, and painful Swellings in any part of
  the Body.  The Flowers boyled in Oyl or Water (as every
  one is disposed) wherunto a little Honey and Allum is put,
  is an excellent Gargle to wash, clens, and heal any sore
  Mouth or Throat in a short space.  If the Feet be bathed
  or washed with the Decoction of the Leavs, Roots, and
  Flowers, it helpeth much the Defluxions of Rhewm from the
  Head.  If the Head be washed therewith, it staieth the
  falling and shedding of the Hair.  The green Leavs (saith
  Pliny) beaten with Nitre and applied draweth out Thorns,
  or Pricks in the Flesh.
  {Note 209 here}
  =
@begin {m207}
  {Note 207:} Falling sickness, Eyes, Bees, Wasps &c°,
  Poyson, Hard swelling, Inflamation, Cods, Liver, Spleen,
  Roughness of the skin.
@end {m207}
@begin {m208}
  {Note 208:} Scurff, Dandrif, Scabby Heads, Scalding,
  Burning, St° Anthonies Fire, Sore Mouth & Throat,
  Baldness, Thorns, Belly.
@end {m208}
@begin {m209}
  {Note 209:} Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs,
  Hoarsness, Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, Excoriation of
  the Guts, Ruptures, Cramps, Convulsions, The Kings Evil,
  Kernels, Chincough.
@end {m209}
     The Marsh Mallows are more effectual in al the Diseases
  before mentioned:  The Leavs are likewise used to loosen
  the Belly gently, and in Decoctions for Clysters, to eas
  al pains of the Body, opening the strait Passages, and
  making them slippery, whereby the Stone may descend the
  more easily and without pain, out of the Reins, Kidneys,
  and Bladder, and to eas the torturing pains thereof:  But
  the Roots are of more especial use for those purposes, as
  well as for Coughs, Hoarsness, shortness of Breath, and
  Wheesings, being boyled in Wine or Honeyed Water and
  drunk.  The Roots and Seeds hereof boyled in Wine or
  Water, is with good success used by them that have
  Excoriations in the Guts, or the bloody Flux, by
  qualifying the violence of the sharp fretting Humors,
  easing the pains, and healing the Soreness: It is
  profitably taken of them that are troubled with Ruptures,
  Cramps, or Convulsions of the Sinews; and boyled in white
  Wine for the Impostumes of the Throat, commonly called the
  Kings Evil, and of those Kernels that rise behind the
  Ears, and Inflamations or Swellings in Womens Breasts.
  {Note 210 here}
  The dried Roots boyled in Milk and drunk is special good
  for the Chin~Cough.  Hippocrates used to give the
  Decoction of the Roots, or the Juyce therof to drink to
  those that were wounded, and ready to faint through loss
  of Blood, and applied the same, mixed with Honey and Rozin
  to the Wounds: As also the Roots boyled in Wine to those
  that had received any Hurt by Bruises, Falls, or Blows, or
  had any Bone or Member out of Joynt, or any Swelling pain,
  or ach in the Muscles, Sinews, or Arteries.  The Muccilage
  of the Roots, and of Linseed, and of Fennugreek put
  together, is much used in Pultises, Oyntments, and
  plaisters, to mollifie and digest all hard Swellings, and
  the Inflamation of them, and to eas pains in any part of
  the Body.   The Seed either green or dry mixed with
  Vinegar clenseth the Skin of the Morphew, and al other
  discolourings, being bathed therewith in the Sun.
  =
@begin {m210}
  {Note 210:} Wounds, Bruises, Falls, Blows, Muscles,
  Morphew, Sunburning.
@end {m210}
     You may remember that not long since there was a raging
  Disease called the Bloody Flux, the Colledg of Physitians
  not knowing what to make of it, called it the Plague in
  the Guts, for their wits were at ne plus ultra about it.
  My son was taken with the same Disease, and the
  excoriation of his Bowels was exceeding great; my self
  being in the Country was sent for up, the only thing I
  gave him was Mallows bruised and boyled both in his Milk
  and Drink, in two daies (the blessing of God being upon
  it) it cured him, and I here to shew my thankfulness to
  God in communicating it to his Creatures, leav it to
  posterity.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h158}
@section 3 {tt}
  SWEET MARJEROM.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so wel known being an Inhabitant in every
  Garden, that it is needless to write any Description
  thereof, neither of the Winter Sweet Marjerom, nor Pot
  Margerom.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grown commonly in Gardens; some sorts there are
  that grow wild in the Borders of Corn Fields, and Pastures
  in sundry places of this Land, but it is not my purpose to
  insist upon them:  The Garden kinds being most used and
  useful.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in the end of Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues of Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Sweet Marjerom is warming and comfertable in
  cold Diseases of the Head, Stomach, Sinews, and other
  parts, taken inwardly, or outwardly applied:  The
  Decoction thereof being drunk helpeth al the Diseases of
  the Chest which hinder the freeness of breathing; and is
  also profitable for the Obstructions of the Liver and
  Spleen:  It helpeth the cold Griefs of the Womb, and the
  windiness thereof, and the loss of Speech, by resolution
  of the Tongue.  The Decoction thereof made with som
  Pellitory of Spain, and long Pepper, or with a little
  Acorus or Origanum, being drunk, is good for those that
  are beginning to fall into a Dropsie, for those that
  cannot make Water, and against pains and torments in the
  Belly; it provoketh Womens Courses if it be put up as a
  Pessary.  Being made into Pouder and mixed with Honey, it
  {Note 211 here}
  taketh away the black marks of Blows and Bruises, being
  therto applied. It is good for the Inflamations and
  watering of the Eyes, being mixed with fine Flower and
  laid unto them.  The Juyce dropped into the Ears easeth
  the Pains and singing nois in them.  It is profitably put
  into those Oyntments and Salves  that are made to warm and
  comfort the outwards parts, as the Joynts and Sinews, for
  Swellings also and places out of Joynt.  The Pouder
  thereof snuffed up into the Nose, provoketh neezing, and
  thereby purgeth the Brain; and chewed in the Mouth draweth
  forth much Flegm.  The Oyl made thereof is very warming
  and comfortable to the Joynts that are stiff, and the
  Sinews that are hard to mollifie and supple them.
  Margerom is much used in all odoriferous Waters, Pouders,
  &c° that are for Ornament or delight.
  =
@begin {m211}
  {Note 211:} Head, Stomach, Breast, Obstructions, Liver,
  Spleen, Womb, Wind, Dropsie, Bellyach, Terms provokes,
  Marks of Blows, Noise in the Ears, Joynts, Sinews,
  Swellings, Neesing, Flegm.
@end {m211}
     It is an Herb of Mercury and under Aries, and is
  therefore an excellent Remedy for the Brain and other
  parts of the Body and Mind, under the Dominion of the same
  Planet.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h159}
@section 3 {tt}
  MARIGOLDS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These being so Plentifull in every Garden are so well
  known that they need no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower al the Summer long, and somtimes in the
  Winter if it be mild.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Flowers either green or dryed are used much in
  Possets, broths, and drinkes, as a comforter of the Heart
  and spirits, and to expell any malignant or pestilential
  quality which might annoy them.
  =
     It is an Herb of the Sun and under Leo they strengthen
  the heart exceedingly, and are very expulsive, and little
  less Effectual in the smal pox and measles than Saffron.
  The Juyce of Marigold Leaves mixed with Vinegar, and any
  hot swelling bathed with it, instantly giveth ease and
  asswageth it.
  {Note 212 here}
  =
@begin {m212}
  {Note 212:} Heart, Vital Spirits, Pestilence, Smal Pox,
  Meazles, Hot swellings, Feavers, Pestilence.
@end {m212}
     A plaister made with the dry Flowers in pouder, hogs
  greas, Turpentine and Rozin, and applyed to the breast
  strengthens and succours the heart infinitly in feavers
  whether pestilential or not pestilential.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h160}
@section 3 {tt}
  MASTERWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Masterwort hath divers stalks of winged Leaves
  devided into sundry parts, three for the most part
  standing together at a small footstalk on both sides of
  the greater, and three likewise at the end of the stalk,
  somwhat broad and cut in on the edges, into three or more
  devisions all of them dented about the brims, of a dark
  green colour, somwhat resembling the leaves of Angelica,
  but that these grow lower to the ground, & on lesser
  stalks: among which rise up 2. or 3. short stalks about 2.
  foot high, and slender, with such like Leavs at the Joynts
  as grow below, but with lesser & fewer devisions, bearing
  Umbels of white Flowers, and after them small, thinne,
  flat, blackish seed bigger than Dil seeds:  The Root is
  somwhat greater and groweth rather sideways than down deep
  into the ground, shooting forth sundry heads, which tast
  sharp, biting on the Tongue, and is the hottest and
  sharpest part of the Plant, and the seed next unto it,
  being somewhat blackish on the outside, and smelling well.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is usually kept in Gardens with us in England.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and seedeth about the end of August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper and very
  available in all cold Greifes and Diseases both of Stomach
  and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward:
  It is also used in a decoction with wind against al cold
  rhewms, or distillations upon the Lungs, and shortness of
  breath, to be taken morning and evening; it also provoketh
  Urin and helpeth to break the Stone, and expel the
  Greavell from the Kidneys, procureth womens Courses, and
  expelleth the dead birth; is singular good for the
  {Note 213 here}
  strangling of the Mother, and other such like Feminine
  Diseases.  It is effectuall also aganist the Dropsie,
  Cramps, and the Falling sicknes, for the decoction in wine
  being gargled in the Mouth  draweth down much water and
  flegm from the brain, purging & easing it of what
  oppresseth it.  It is of a rare quality against al sorts
  of cold poyson, to be taken as there is cause, It
  provoketh sweat.  But lest the tast herof, or of the seed
  (which worketh to the like effect though not so
  powerfully) should be too offensive; the best way is to
  take the water distilled both from the Herb and Root.  The
  Juyce herof dropped or Tents dipped therin, and applyed
  either to green wounds, or filthy rotten Ulcers and those
  that come by invenomed Weapons, doth soon clens and heal
  them, or if they be bathed with the distilled water.  The
  same is also very good to help the Gout coming of a cold
  cause.
  =
@begin {m213}
  {Note 213:} Cold Griefs, Stomach, Wind, Cold Rhewms, Urine,
  Stone, Gravel, Womens Courses, Dead Child, Mother,
  Dropsie, Cramps, & Falling~sickness, Cold, Poysons, Sweat,
  Green Wounds, Rotten Ulcers, Gout.
@end {m213}
     It is an Herb of Mars.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h161}
@section 3 {tt}
  SWEET MAUDLIN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Maudlin have somwhat long and narrow Leaves,
  snip'd about the edges: the stalks are two foot high,
  bearing at  the topps many yellow flowers Set round
  together and all of an equal height, in umbels tufts like
  unto Tansy after which flowereth small whitish Seed almost
  as big as Wormseed. The whol Herb is sweet and bitter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth in June and July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Vertues hereof being the same with Costmary, or
  Alecost, I shal not trouble you to make any repetition
  thereof, lest my Book grow too big:  but rather refer you
  unto Costmary for satisfaction.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h162}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE MEDLAR.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Tree groweth neer the bigness of the Quince Tree,
  spreading Branches reasonable large, with longer and
  narrower Leaves than either the Apple or Quince, and not
  dented about the edges:  At the end of the Sprigs stand
  the Flowers made of Five white, great broad pointed Leavs,
  nicked in the middle, with some white threds also: after
  which cometh the Fruit, of a brownish green colour, being
  ripe, bearing a Crown as it were on the top, which were
  the five green leaves; and being rubbed off or fallen
  away, the head of the Fruit is seen to be somwhat hollow.
  The Fruit is very harsh before it be mellowed, and hath
  usually five hard Kernels within it.
  =
     There is another kind hereof differing nothing from the
  former, but that it hath some Thorns on it in several
  places, which the other hath not, and the Fruit is smal
  and not so pleasant.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in this Land; and Flower in May for the most
  part, and bear ripe Fruit in September, and October.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are very powerful to stay any Fluxes of Blood or
  Humors in Man or Woman: the Leavs have also the like
  quality.  The Fruit eaten by Women with Child, stayeth
  their longings after unusual meats, and is very effectual
  for them that are apt to miscarrry, and be delivered
  before their time, to help that malady, and make them
  joyful Mothers.  The Decoction of them is good to gargle
  and wash the Mouth, Throat and Teeth, when there is any
  {Note 214 here}
  defluxion of Blood to stay it, or of Humors, which causeth
  Pains and Swellings: It is a good bath for Women to sit
  over that have their Courses flow too abundantly; or for
  the Piles when they bleed too much.  If a Pultis or
  Plaister be made with dried Medlars beaten and mixed with
  the Juyce of red Roses, whereunto a few Cloves and Nutmeg
  may be added, and a little red Correl also, and applied to
  the Stomach that is given to casting, or loathing of meat,
  it effectually helpeth.  The dried Leavs in Pouder,
  strewed on fresh, bleeding Wounds, restraineth the Blood,
  and healeth up the Wound quickly:  The Medlar stones made
  into Pouder and drunk in Wine, wherein some Parsley Roots
  have bien infused all night, or a little boyled, do break
  the Stone in the Kidneys, helping to expel it.
  =
@begin {m214}
  {Note 214:} Fluxes, Stayeth Womens Longings, Hinders
  Miscarriage, Gargle, Womens Courses, Piles, Loathing of
  Meat, or Casting, Bleeding, Fresh Wounds, Stone in the
  Kidneys, Miscarriage.
@end {m214}
     The Fruit is old Saturns, and sure a better Medicine he
  hardly hath to strengthen the retentive faculty; therfore
  it staies Womens Longings, the good old Man cannot endure
  Womens minds should run a gadding: Also a Plaister made of
  the Fruit dried before they be rotten, and other
  convenient things, and applied to the Reins of the Back,
  stops Miscarriage in Women with Child.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h163}
@section 3 {tt}
  MELILOT, or KINGS CLAVER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many green Stalks two or three foot high,
  rising from a tough long white Root, which dieth not every
  yeer; set round about at the Joynts with smal and somwhat
  long wel smelling Leavs set three together, unevenly
  dented about the edges: The Flowers are yellow, and well
  smelling also, made like other Trefoyls, but smal,
  standing in long Spikes, one above another, for an hand
  breath long, or better, which afterwards turn into long
  crooked Cods, wherein is contained flat Seed, somwhat
  Brown.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land, as
  in the edg of Suffolk and in Essex, as also in
  Huntingtonshire, and in other places, but most usually in
  Corn Fields, in corners of Meadows.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July and is ripe quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Melilot boyled in Wine and applied mollifieth all hard
  Tumors and Inflamations that happen in the Eyes or other
  parts of the Body, as the Fundament: or privy parts of Man
  or Woman; and somtimes the Yolk of a roasted Egg, or fine
  Flower or Poppy Seed, or Endive is added unto it: It
  {Note 215 here}
  helpeth the spreading Ulcers in the Head, it being washed
  with a Ly made thereof; It helpeth the pains of the
  Stomach being applied fresh, or boyled with any of the
  aforenamed things.  It helpeth also the pains of the Ears
  being dropped into  them; and steeped in Vinegar and Rose
  Water it mitigateth the Headach.  The Flowers of Melilot
  and Chamomel are much used to be put together in Clisters
  to expel Wind & to eas pains; also into Pultices for the
  same purpose, and to asswage Swellings or Tumors in the
  Spleen or other parts; & helpeth Inflamations in any part
  of the Body.  The Juyce dropped into the Eyes is a
  singular good Medicine to take away any Film or Skin that
  cloudeth or dimmeth the Eyesight.  The Head often washed
  with the distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers, or a Ly
  made therwith, is effectual for those that have suddenly
  lost their senses; as also to strengthen the Memory, to
  comfort the Head and Brains, and to preserve them from
  pains and the Apoplexie.
  =
@begin {m215}
  {Note 215:} Hard Tumors & Inflamations in the Eyes, or
  elswhere, Ulcers in the Head, Stomach pained, Headach,
  Wind, Spleen, Dimness of sight, Stupidity of Senses,
  Strengthen Memory, Apoplexy.
@end {m215}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h164}
@section 3 {tt}
  FRENCH, and DOGS MERCURY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a square green stalk full of Joynts
  two foot high or therabouts, with two Leaves at every
  Joynt and branches likewise from both sides of the stalk,
  set with fresh green Leaves somwhat broad and long, about
  the bigness of the Leaves of Bassell finely dented about
  the edges: towards the topps of the stalks and branches
  come forth at every Joynt in the Male Mercury two small
  round green heads, standing together upon a short
  footstalk which growing ripe are the seeds; not having any
  Flower: In the female; The stalk is longer, spike fashion,
  set round about with smal green husks, which are the
  Flowers made like smal branches of Grapes which give no
  seed, but abide long upon the stalks without shedding:
  The Root is composed of many smal Fibres, which perisheth
  every year at the first approach of winter, and riseth
  again of its own sowing, and where it once is suffered to
  sow it self, the ground will never want it aftewards even
  both sorts of it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h165}
@section 3 {tt}
  DOGS MERCURY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
Discription.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Having described unto you that which is called French
  Mercury, I come now to shew you in a Description this kind
  also.
  =
     This is likewise of two kinds, Male and Female, having
  many stalks slender & lower than Mercury and without any
  branches at all upon them:  The Male is set with two Leavs
  at every Joynt somwhat greater than the Female, but more
  pointed and full of Veins, and somwhat harder in handling,
  of a darker green colour, and less dented or snip'd about
  the edges:  At the Joynts with the Leavs come forth longer
  Stalks then the former, with two hairy round Seeds upon
  them twice as big as those of the former Mercury: The tast
  hereof is Herby, and the smel somwhat strong and Virulent:
  The Female hath much harder Leavs standing upon longer
  Footstalks, and the stalks are also longer: From the
  Joynts come forth Spikes of Flowers, like the French
  Female Mercury, The Roots of them both are many, and full
  of smal Fibres, which run under ground, and mat themselves
  very much, not perishing as the former Mercuries do, but
  abiding the Winter, and shoot forth new Branches every
  yeer (for the old die down to the ground.)
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Male and Female French Mercury are found wild in
  divers places of this Land; as by a Village called
  Brookland in Rumney Marsh in Kent.
  =
     The Dogs Mercury in sundry places of Kent also, and
  elswhere; but the Female more seldom than the Male.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flourish in the Summer months, and therein give
  their Seed.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of the Leavs of Mercury, or the Juyce
  thereof in Broth, or Drunk with a little Sugar put to it,
  purgeth Chollerick and waterish Humors.  Hippocrates
  commendeth it wonderfully for Womens Diseases; and applied
  it to the secret parts to eas the pains of the Mother; and
  used the Decoction of it both to procure Womens Courses,
  and to expel the Afterbirth: And give the Decoction
  thereof with Mirrh or Pepper, or used to apply the Leavs
  outwardly against the Strangury, and Diseases of the Reins
  and Bladder.  He used it also for sore and watering Eyes,
  and for the Deafness and pain in the Ears, by dropping the
  Juyce therof into them, and bathing them afterwards in
  white Wine.
  {Note 400 here}
  =
@begin {m400}
  {Note 400:} Purgeth Chollerick Humors, Womens sickness,
  Mother, Womens Courses, Strangury, sore Eyes, Agues,
  Flegm, Rhewms and Catarrhes, Melancholly Humors.
@end {m400}
     The Decoction therof made with Water and a Cock
  Chicken, is a most safe Medicine against the hot fits of
  Agues: It also clenseth the Breast and Lungs of Flegm, but
  a little offendeth the Stomach: The Juyce or distilled
  Water snuffed up into the Nostrils purgeth the Head and
  Eyes of Catarrhes and Rhewms.  Some use to drink two or
  three ounces of the distilled water with a little Sugar
  put to it, in the morning fasting, to open and purge the
  Body of gross viscous and Melancholly Humors. It is
  wonderful (if it be not Fabulous) that Dioscorides and
  Theophrastus do relate of it: Viz° That if Women use these
  Herbs either Inwardly or outwardly for three daies
  together after Conception, and their Courses be past, they
  shal bring forth Male or Female Children, according to
  that kind of  Herb they use.  Mathiolus saith, That the
  {Note 216 here}
  Seed of both the Male and Female Mercury boyled with
  Wormwood and drunk, cureth the yellow Jaundice in a speedy
  manner: The Leavs or the Juyce rubbed upon Warts, taketh
  them away:  The Juyce mingled with some Vinegar, helpeth
  all running Scabs, Tetters, Ringworms and the Itch.  Galen
  saith that being applied in manner of a Pultis, to any
  Swelling or Inflamation, it digesteth the Swelling and
  allayeth the Inflamation; and is therfore given in
  Clysters to evacuate the Belly from offensive Humors.
  =
@begin {m216}
  {Note 216:} Yellow Jaundice, Warts, Scabs, Tetters, &
  ringworms, Swellings, Inflamations, Waterish & Melancholly
  Humors.
@end {m216}
     The Dogs Mercury, although it be less used yet may
  serve in the same manner to the same purpose to purge
  waterish and Melanchollick Humors.
  =
     Mercury they say owns this Herb, but I rather think
  'tis Venus, and am partly confident of it too, for I never
  read that Mercury ever minded Womens businesses so much, I
  beleev he minds his study more.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h166}
@section 3 {tt}
  MINT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Of all the kinds of Mints, the Spear~Mint or
  Heart~Mint, being most useful; I shal only describe it: as
  followeth.
  =
     Spear~Mint, hath divers round Stalks, and long, but
  narrowish Leavs set thereon; of a dark green colour.  The
  Flowers stand in Spiked Heads at the tops of the Branches,
  being of a pale blush colour.  The smel or scent hereof is
  somwhat neer unto Bassil.  It encreaseth by the Root under
  ground, as all the others do.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is an usual Inhabitant in Gardens; And becaus it
  seldom giveth any good Seed, the defect is recompensed by
  the plentiful encreas of the Root, which being once
  planted in a Garden will hardly be rid out again.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth not until the beginning of August, for the
  most part.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, It hath an heating, binding and
  drying quality, and therefor the Juyce taken with Vinegar,
  staieth Bleeding: It stirreth up Venery or Bodily lust:
  Two or three Branches thereof taken with the Juyce of sowr
  Pomegranates stayeth the Hiccough, Vomiting, and allayeth
  Choller: It dissolveth Impostumes being laid too with
  Barley Meal.  It is good to repress the Milk in Womens
  Breasts, and for such as have swollen, flagging, or great
  Breasts: applied with Salt, it helpeth the biting of a Mad
  Dog; with Mead or Honeyed Water, it easeth the pains of
  the Ears and taketh away the roughness of the Tongue being
  rubbed thereupon.  It suffereth not Milk to curdle in the
  {Note 217 here}
  Stomach if the Leavs hereof be steeped or boyled in it
  before you drink it.  Briefly it is very profitable to the
  Stomach: The often use hereof is a very powerful Medicine
  to stay Womens Courses, and the Whites.  Applied to the
  Forehead or Temples, it easeth pains of the Head.  And is
  good to wash the Heads of yong Children therewith, against
  all manner of breakings out, Sores, or Scabs therein; and
  healeth the chops of the Fundament.  It is also profitable
  against the Poyson of Venemous Creatures.  The distilled
  Water of Mints is available to all the purposes aforesaid,
  yet more weakly.
  =
@begin {m217}
  {Note 217:} Provokes Venery, stayeth Vomiting, Allayeth
  Choller, Impostums, great Breasts, Mad Dogs biting, Pains
  of the Ears.
@end {m217}
     But if a Spirit thereof be rightly and Chimically drawn
  it is much more powerful than the Herb it self.  Simeon
  Sethi saith, It helpeth a cold Liver, strengthneth the
  Belly and Stomach, causeth digestion, staieth Vomit and
  the Hiccough, is good against the Gnawings of the Heart,
  provoketh Appetite, taketh away Obstructions of the Liver,
  and stirreth up Bodily Lust: But thereof too much must not
  be taken, becaus it maketh the Blood thin and wheyish, and
  turneth it into choller, and therfore Chollerick persons
  must obstain from it.
  {Note 218 here}
  =
@begin {m218}
  {Note 218:} Good for the Stomach, Pains of the Head, Sores
  and Scabs, Chops of the Fundament, Poyson.
@end {m218}
     It is a safe Medicine for the biting of a Mad Dog,
  being bruised with Salt and laid thereon.  The Pouder of
  it being dried and taken after Meat helpeth digestion, and
  those that are Splenetick: taken with Wine it helpeth
  Women in the Sore Travail in Child~bearing; It is good
  against the Gravel and the Stone in the Kidneys, and the
  Strangury.  Being smelled unto, it is comfortable for the
  Head and Memory.  The Decoction thereof gargled in the
  Mouth cureth the Gums and Mouth that is sore, and mendeth
  an ill favoured Breath: as also with Rue and Coriander,
  causeth the Pallat of the Mouth that is down to return to
  his place, the Decoction being gargled and held in the
  Mouth.
  {Note 219 here}
  =
@begin {m219}
  {Note 219:} Helpeth Liver and Stomach, stayeth Vomiting and
  Hiccough, provoketh Lust, Spleen, Gravel, Stone, and
  Strangury, comforts the Head, sore Mouth, ill Breath,
  Pallet down, Wind, Veneral Dreams, and Nightly pollutions,
  Ears pained, biting of Serpents, Kings Evil, stinking
  Breath, Lepry, Dandrif.
@end {m219}
    The Vertues of the wild or Hors Mints, such as grow in
  Ditches (whose Description I purposely omitted in regard
  that are well enough known) are especially to dissolve
  wind in the Stomach, to help the Chollick, and those that
  are short winded, and are an especial Remedy for those
  that have Venerous Dreams and pollutions in the Night
  being outwardly applied to the Testicles or Cods.  The
  Juyce dropped into the Ears easeth the pains of them, and
  destroyeth the Worms that breed therein.  They are good
  against the Venemous biting of Serpents.  The Juyce laid
  on warm helpeth the Kings Evil, or Kernels in the Throat:
  The Decoction or distilled Water helpeth a stinking Breath
  proceeding from the corruption of the Teeth; and snuffed
  up into the Nose purgeth the Head.  Pliny saith, That
  eating of the Leavs hath been found by experience  to cure the Lepry, and applying some of them to the Face: and to
  help the Scurf or Dandrif of the Head used with Vinegar.
  =
     They are extream bad for wounded people and they say a
  wounded man that eats Mints his Wound will never be cured,
  and that's a long day.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h167}
@section 3 {tt}
  MISSELTO.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up from the Branch or Arm of the Tree
  whereon it groweth, with a woody Stem, parting it self
  into sundry Branches, and they again devided into many
  other smaller Twigs, interlacing themselves one within
  another, very much covered with a grayish green Bark,
  having two Leaves set at every Joynt, and at the end
  likewise, which are somwhat long and narrow, smal at the
  bottom but broader toward the end.  At the Knots or Joynts
  of the Boughs and Branches, grow smal yellowish Flowers,
  which turn into smal round white transparant Berries three
  or four together, full of glutinous moisture, with a
  blackish Seed in every of them, which was never yet known
  to spring being put into the ground or any where els to
  grow.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth very rarely on Oaks with us, but upon sundry
  other, as well Timber as Fruit~Trees, plentifully in
  Woods, Groves, and the like through all this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the Spring time, but the Berries be not
  ripe until October, and abide on the Branches all the
  Winter, unless the Black~Birds, and other Birds do devour
  them.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Both the Leavs and Berries of Mistleto do heat and dry,
  and are of subtil parts:  The Birdlime doth mollifie hard
  Knots, Tumors, and Impostumes, ripeneth and discusseth
  them; and draweth forth thick as well as thin Humors from
  the remote places of the Body, digesting and separating
  them: And being mixed with equal parts of Rozin and Wax,
  doth mollifie the hardness of the Spleen, and healeth old
  Ulcers and Sores: Being mixed with Sandarack, and Ortment,
  it helpeth to draw off foul Nails: and if quicklime and
  {Note 220 here}
  Wine Lees be added thereunto it worketh the stronger. The
  Mistleto it self of the Oak (as the best) made into Pouder
  and given in drink to those that have the
  Falling~sickness, doth assuredly heal them as Mathiolus
  saith, but it is fit to use it for forty daies together.
  Some have so highly esteemed of the Vertues hereof that
  they have called it Lignum Sanctae Crucus, Wood of the
  holy Cross, beleeving it to help the Falling~sickness,
  Apoplexie, and Palsie very speedily, not only to be
  inwardly taken, but to be hung at their Necks.  Tragus
  saith, That the fresh Wood of any Mistleto bruised, and
  the Joyce drawn forth and dropped into the Ears that have
  Imposthumes in them, doth help and eas them within a few
  daies.
  =
@begin {m220}
  {Note 220:} Impostums, Spleen, Ulcers, Falling~sickness,
  Apoplexy, Palsey.
@end {m220}
     That it is under the Dominion of the Sun, I do not
  question, and can also take for granted that that which
  grows upon Oaks participates somthing of the Nature of
  Jupiter, becaus an Oak is one of his Trees; as also that
  which grows upon Pear~trees and Apple~trees, participates
  somthing of the Nature, becaus he rules the Trees, and it
  draws sap from the Trees, it grows upon having no Root of
  its own, but why that should have most vertues that grows
  upon Oaks I know not, unless becaus 'tis rarest, and
  hardest to come by, and our Colledges Opinion is in this
  contrary to the Scripture which saith, Gods tender Mercies
  are over all his Works, and so 'tis, Let the Colledg of
  Physitians walk as contrary to him as they pleas, and
  that's as contrary as the East is to the West.  Clusius
  affirms that which grows upon Pear~trees to be as
  prevalent, and give order that is should not touch the
  ground after it is gathered, and also saith, That being
  hung about the Neck, it remedies Witchcraft.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h168}
@section 3 {tt}
  MONEY~WORT, or HERB TWO~PENCE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Money~wort, sendeth forth from a small
  threddy Root, divers long, weak, and slender Branches
  lying and running upon the ground two or three Foot long
  or more, set with Leavs two at a Joynt one against another
  at equal distances, which are almost round, but pointed at
  the ends, smooth and of a good green colour: At the Joynts
  with the Leavs from the middle foreward come forth at
  every Joynt somtimes one yellow Flower, and somtimes two,
  standing each on a smal Footstalk, and made of five Leavs,
  narrow, and pointed at the ends, with some yellow threds
  in the middle: which being past, there stand in their
  places smal round Heads of Seed.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth plentifully in almost all places of this
  Land; commonly in moist grounds by Hedg sides, and in the
  middle of grassy Fields.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June and July, and their Seed is ripe
  quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Moneywort is singular good to stay all Fluxes in Men or
  Woman, whether they be Lasks, Bloody Fluxes, the Flowing
  of Womens Courses, Bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and
  the weakness of the Stomach that is given to casting.  It
  {Note 221 here}
  is very good also for all Ulcers, or Excoriations of the
  Lungs or other inward parts.  It is exceeding good for all
  Wounds, either fresh or green to heal them speedily; and
  for old Ulcers that are of a spreading nature: For all
  which purposes, The Juyce of the Herb, or the Pouder drunk
  in Water, wherein hot Steel hath been often quenched: Or
  the Decoction of the green Herb in Wine or Water drunk; Or
  the Seed, Juyce or Decoction used to the outward places to
  wash or bath them, or to have Tents dipped therein and put
  into them, are effectual.
  =
@begin {m221}
  {Note 221:} Fluxes, Ulcers, Green Wounds, Old Ulcers.
@end {m221}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h169}
@section 3 {tt}
  MOONWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up usually but with one dark green thick
  and fat Leaf standing upon a short footstalk, not above
  two fingers breadth; but when it will flower it may be
  said to beare a small slender stalk about four or five
  Inches high, having but one leaf set in the middle therof,
  which is much devided on both sides into somtimes five or
  seven parts on a sid, somtimes more, each of which parts
  is small next the middle rib, but broad forwards and round
  pointed, resembling therein an half Moon from whence it
  took the name, the upper most parts or divisions being
  less than the lowest: The Stalk riseth above this Leaf two
  or three inches, bearing many Branches of small long
  Tongues, every one like the spiky Head of Adders~tongue,
  of a brownish colour, which whether I shall call them
  Flowers or the Seed, I well know not: which after they
  have continued a while resolve into a Mealy dust: The Root
  is smal and Fibrous.  This hath somtimes divers such like
  Leavs as are before Described, with so many branches or
  tops arising from one Stalk each devided from the other.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on Hills, and Heaths, yet where there is
  much Grass, for therein it delighteth to grow.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is to be found only in April and May, for in June
  when any hot weather cometh for the most part it is
  withered and gone.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Moonwort is cold and drying more than Adders~tongue,
  and is therefore held to be more available for all Wounds
  both inward and outward: The Leavs boyled in red Wine and
  drunk stayeth the immoderate Flux of Womens Courses and
  the Whites: It also staieth Bleeding, Vomitings, and other
  Fluxes; It helpeth all Blows and Bruises, and to
  consolidate all Fractures and Dislocations.  It is good
  for Ruptures: But it is chiefly used by most, with other
  Herbs to make Oyls or Balsoms to heal fresh or green
  Wounds (as I said before) either inward or outward, for
  which it is excellent good.
  {Note 222 here}
  =
@begin {m222}
  {Note 222:} Womens Courses, Bleedings, Vomiting, Fluxes,
  Broken and disjoynted Bones, Green Wounds.
@end {m222}
     Moonwort is an Herb which they say will open Locks, and
  unshoo such Horses as tread upon it, this some laugh to
  scorn, and those no smal Fools neither, but Country people
  that I know, call it «Unshoo the Horse» besides I have
  heard Commanders say, That on White Down in Devon neer
  Tiverton, there was found thirty Hors shoos, pulled off
  from the feet of the Earl of Essex his Horses being there
  drawn up in a Body, many of them being but newly shod, and
  no reason known, which caused much admiration; and the
  Herb described usually grows upon Heaths.  The Moon owns
  the Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h170}
@section 3 {tt}
  MOSSES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     I shal not trouble the Reader with any Description of
  these, sith my intent is to speak only of two kinds as the
  most principal, Viz° Ground~Moss, and Tree~Moss, both
  which are very well know.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Gound~Moss, growing in our moist Woods, and the
  bottoms of Hills, in boggy grounds, and in shadowy
  Ditches, and many other such like places.
  =
     The Tree~Moss groweth only on Trees.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Ground~Moss, is held to be singular good to break
  the Stone, and to expel and drive it forth by Urin, being
  boyled in Wine and drunk: The Herb bruised and boyled in
  Water and applied easeth al Inflamations and pains coming
  of an hot caus; and is therfore used to eas the pains of
  the hot Gout.
  {Note 223 here}
  =
@begin {m223}
  {Note 223:} Stone, Inflamations, Fluxes, Vomiting,
  Bleeding, Womens Courses, Dropsie, Headach, Sinews.
@end {m223}
     The Tree~Mosses are cooling and binding, and partake of
  a digesting and mollifying quality withal, as Galen saith.
  But each Moss doth partake of the Nature of the Tree from
  whence it is taken; therefore that of the Oak is more
  Binding; and is of good effect to stay Fluxes in man or
  Woman, as also Vomitings or Bleedings, the Pouder thereof
  being taken in Wine:  The Decoction thereof in Wine is
  very good for Women to be bathed with, or to sit in that
  are toubled with the overflowing of their Courses: The
  same being drunk stayeth the Stomach that is troubled with
  casting,  or the Hiccough; and as Avicenna saith, it
  comforteth the Heart: The Pouder thereof taken in Drink
  for some time together, is thought available for the
  Dropsie.  The Oyl of Roses that hath had fresh Moss
  steeped therin for a time, and after boyled and applied to
  the Temples and Forehead, doth Merveilously eas the
  Headach coming of a hot caus, as also the Distillations of
  hot Rhewm or Humors to the Eyes or other parts: The
  Antients much used it in their Oyntments and other
  Medicines against Lassitude, and to strengthen and comfort
  the Sinews.  For which, if it was good then, I know no
  reason but it may be found so still.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h171}
@section 3 {tt}
  MOTHERWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath a hard, square, brownish, rough, strong
  Stalk, rising three or four foot high at the least,
  spreading into many Branches, whereon grow Leavs on each
  side with long Footstalks, two at every Joynt, which are
  somwhat broad and long as it were, rough, or crumpled,
  with many great Veins therein; of a sad green colour, and
  deeply dented about the edges, and almost devided:  From
  the middle of the Branches up to the tops of them (which
  are very long and smal) grow the Flowers round about them
  at distances in sharp pointed rough hard Husks, of a more
  red or purple~colour than Balm or Horehound, but in the
  same manner and form as the Horehounds: after which come
  smal round blackish Seed in great plenty: The Root sendeth
  forth a number of long Strings and smal Fibres, taking
  strong hold in the Ground; of a dark yellowish or brownish
  colour, and abideth as the Horehound doth; the smell of
  this being not much different from it.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
      It groweth only in Gardens with us in England.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Motherwort, is held to be of much use for the trembling
  of the Heart, and in faintings and swounings from whence
  it took the name Cardiaca.  The Pouder thereof to the
  quantity of a spoonful drunk in Wine is a wonderful help
  to Women in their Sore Travails, as also for the
  suffocations or risings of the Mother; and from these
  effects it is likely it took the name of Motherwort with
  us.  It also provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, clenseth
  the Chest of cold Flegm oppressing it, and killeth the
  Worms in the Belly: It is of good use to warm and dry up
  the cold Humors, to digest and dispers them that are
  settled in the Veins, Joynts, and Sinews of the Body, and
  to help Cramps, and Convulsions.
  {Note 224 here}
  =
@begin {m224}
  {Note 224:} Swounings, Sore Travail, Mother, Urine, Womens
  Courses, Flegm, Cold Flegm, Cramps, Convulsions,
  Melancholly, Vapors.
@end {m224}
     Venus owns the Herb, and it is under Leo, there is no
  better Herb to drive Melancholly Vapors from the Heart, to
  strengthen it, and make a merry cheerful blith soul, than
  this Herb, it may be kept in a Syrup or Conserv, therfore
  the Latins called it Cardiaca: Besides, it makes Women
  joyful Mothers of Children, and settles their Wombs as
  they should be, therfore we call it Motherwort.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h172}
@section 3 {tt}
  MOUSEAR.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Ths is a low Herb creeping upon the ground by small
  strings like the Strawberry Plant, whereby it shooteth
  forth small Roots, whereat grow upon the Ground many small
  and somwhat short Leavs set in a round form together,
  hollowish in the middle where they are broadest, of an
  hoary colour all over, and very hairy, which being broken
  do give a white Milk: From among these Leavs spring up two
  or three smal hoary Stalks about a span high, with a few
  smaller Leavs thereon; At the tops whereof standeth
  usually but one Flower, consisting of many paler yellow
  Leavs broad at the points, and a little dented in, set in
  three or four rows, the greater outermost, very like a
  Dandelyon Flower, and a little reddish underneath about
  the edges, especially if it grow in a dry ground: which
  after they have stood long in Flower, do turn into Down,
  which with the Seed is carryed away with the Wind.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Ditch Banks, and somtimes in Ditches if
  they be dry and in sandy Grounds.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about June and July, and abideth green all
  the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce hereof taken in Wine or the Decoction thereof
  drunk doth help the Jaundice although of long continuance,
  to drink thereof morning and evening, and abstain from
  other drink two or three hours after:  It is a special
  Remedy against the Stone, and the tormenting pains
  thereof; as also other Tortures and griping pains of the
  Bowels; The Decoction thereof with Succory and Centaury,
  is held very eflectual to help the Dropsie, and them that
  are inclining thereunto, and the Diseases of the Spleen.
  {Note 225 here}
  It stayeth the Fluxes of Blood either at the Mouth or
  Nose, and inward Bleedings also, for it is a singular
  Wound Herb for Wounds both inward and outward; It helpeth
  the Bloody Flux and stayeth the abundance of Womens
  Courses:  There is a Syrup made of the Juyce hereof and
  Sugar by the Apothecaries of Italy, and other places,
  which is of much account with them, to be given to those
  that are troubled with the Cough or Phtisick: The same
  also is singular good for Ruptures or Burstings.  The
  green Herb bruised and presently bound to any fresh cut or
  Wound, doth quickly soder the lips thereof.  And the
  Juyce, Decoction, or Pouder of the dried Herb, is most
  singular to stay the Malignity of spreading and fretting
  Cankers and Ulcers wheresoever, yea in the Mouth, or
  secret parts: The distilled Water of the Plant is
  available in all the Diseases aforesaid, and to wash
  outward Wounds and Sores, and to apply Tents, or Cloaths
  wet therein.
  =
@begin {m225}
  {Note 225:} Jaundice, Stone, Bellyach, Dropsie, Flux,
  Wounds, Bloody Flux, Terms stops, Cough, Phtisick,
  Ruptures, Canker, Ulcers, Spreading sores.
@end {m225}
     The Moon owns the Herb also, and though Authors cry out
  upon Alchymists for attempting to fix Quick Silver by this
  Herb and Moonwort: A Roman would not have judged a thing
  by the success, if it be to be fixed at all, 'tis by Lunar
  Influence.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h173}
@section 3 {tt}
  MUGWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Mugwort have divers Leavs lying upon the
  ground, very much devided, or cut deeply in about the
  Brims somwhat like Wormwood but much larger, of a dark
  green colour on the upper side and very hoary white
  underneath.  The stalks rise to be four or five foot high,
  having on it such like Leavs as those below, but somwhat
  smaller, branching forth very much toward the top, whereon
  are set very small pale yellowish Flowers like Buttons,
  which fall away, and after them come small Seed inclosed
  in round Heads: The Root is long and hard with many smal
  Fibres growing from it, whereby it taketh strong hold in
  the ground, but both Stalk and Leaf do die down every
  yeer, and the Root shooteth anew in the Spring.  The whol
  Plant is of a reasonable good scent, and is more easily
  propogated by the Slips, than by the Seed.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land, by
  the way sides, as also by smal Water~Courses, and in
  divers other places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Mugwort is with good success put among other Herbs that
  are boyled for Women to sit over the hot Decoction, to
  draw down their Courses, to help the Delivery of the
  Birth, and expel the Afterbirth, as also for the
  Obstructions and Inflamations of the Mother.  It breaketh
  {Note 226 here}
  the Stone, and causeth one to make water where it is
  stopped:  The Juyce thereof made up with Mirth, and put
  under as a Pessary, worketh the same effect, and so doth
  the Root also, being made up with Hogs Greas into an
  Oyntment, it taketh away Wens and hard Knots and Kernels
  that grow about the Neck and Throat, and easeth the pains
  about the Neck more effectually, if some Field Daisies be
  put with it.  The Herb it self being fresh or the Juyce
  thereof taken, is a special Remedy upon the overmuch
  taking of Opium.  Three drams of the Pouder of the dried
  Leavs taken in Wine, is a speedy and the best certain help
  for the Sciatica.  A Decoction thereof made with Chamomel
  and Agrimony, and the place bathed therewith while it is
  warm, taketh away the pains of the Sinews and the Cramp.
  =
@begin {m226}
  {Note 226:} Terms provokes, Birth, Afterbirth, Womb
  Inflamed, Wens, Kings Evil, pains in the Neck, Opium,
  Sciatica, Sinews pained, Cramp.
@end {m226}
     This is an Herb of Venus, therefore maintaineth the
  parts of the Body she rules, and Remedies the Diseases of
  the parts that are under her Signs, Taurus and Libra.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h174}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE MULBERRY~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known in the places where it groweth,
  that it needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It beareth Fruit in the Months of July and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Mulberry is of different parts; the ripe Berries by
  reason of their Sweetness and slippery moisture, opening
  the Belly, and the unripe binding it, especially when they
  are dried, and then they are good to stay Fluxes, Lasks,
  and the abundance of Womens Courses.  The Bark of the Root
  killeth the broad Worms in the Body.  The Juyce, or the
  Syrup made of the Juyce of the Berries, helpeth all
  {Note 227 here}
  Inflamations and Sores in the Mouth or Throat, and the
  Pallet of the Mouth when it is fallen down.  The Juyce of
  the Leavs is a Remedy against the biting of serpents, and
  for those that have taken Aconite: The Leavs beaten with
  Vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with
  fire.  A Decoction made of the Bark and Leavs, is good to
  wash the Mouth and Teeth when they ach.  If the Root be a
  little slit or cut, and a smal hole made in the ground
  next thereunto, in the Harvest time, it will give out a
  certain Juyce, which being hardned, the next day is of
  good use to help the Toothach, to dissolve Knots, and
  purge the Belly:  The Leavs of Mulberries are said to stay
  bleeding at Mouth or Nose, or the Bleeding of the Piles,
  or of a  Wound being bound unto the places.  A Branch of
  the Tree taken when the Moon is at the full and bound to
  the Wrist of a Womans Arm whose Courses come down too much
  doth stay them in a short space.
  =
@begin {m227}
  {Note 227:} Binding, Fluxes, Lasks, Terms stops,
  Inflamation, Uvula, sore Mouth and Throat, Toothach,
  Bleeding, Hemorrhoids, Acurious secret.
@end {m227}
     Mercury rules the Tree, therefore are its effects
  variable as his are.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h175}
@section 3 {tt}
  MULLEIN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common white Mullein hath many fair large wooly
  white Leavs lying next the ground, somwhat longer than
  broad, pointed at the ends, and as it were dented about
  the edges:  The Stalk riseth up to be four or five Foot
  high, covered over with such like Leavs, but lesser, so
  that no Stalk can be seen for the multitude of Leavs
  thereon up to the Flowers, which come forth on all sides
  of the Stalk, without any Branches for the most part, and
  are many set together in a long spike, in some of a gold
  yellow colour, in others more pale, consisting of five
  round pointed Leavs, which afterwards give smal round
  Heads, wherein is smal brownish Seed contained: The Root
  is long, white, and Woody, perishing after it hath born
  Seed.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth by the way sides, and in Lanes in many
  places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in July, or thereabouts.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     A smal quantity of the Root given in Wine, is commended
  by Dioscorides against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly: The
  Decoction thereof drunk is profitable for those that are
  Bursten, and for Cramps and Convulsions, and for those
  that are troubled with an old Cough.  The Decoction
  thereof gargled easeth the pains of the Toothach: An Oyl
  made by the often Infusion of the Flowers, is of very good
  effect for the Piles.  The Decoction of the Root in Red
  Wine, or in Water (if there be an Ague) wherein red hot
  Steel hath been often quenched, doth stay the Bloody Flux.
  {Note 228 here}
  The same also openeth Obstructions of the Bladder and
  Reins when one cannot make water.  A Decoction of the
  Leavs hereof, and of Sage, Marjerom and Camomil Flowers
  and the places bathed therewith that have Sinews stark
  with cold, or Cramps, doth bring them much eas, and
  comfort.  Three ounces of the distilled water of the
  Flowers drunk morning and evening for some daies together
  is said to be the most excellent Remedy for the hot Gout.
  {Note 229 here}
  The Juyce of the Leavs and Flowers being laid upon rough
  Warts, as also the Pouder of the dried Roots rubbed on
  doth easily take them away; but doth no good to smooth
  Warts.  The pouder of the dried Flowers is an especial
  Remedy for those that are troubled with belly~aches or the
  pains of the Chollick.  The Decoction of the Root, and so
  likewise of the Leavs is of great effect to dissolve the
  Tumors, Swellings, or Inflamation of the Throat.  The Seed
  and Leavs boyled in Wine, and applied, draweth forth
  speedily Thorns, or Splinters gotten into the Flesh,
  easeth the pains, and healeth them also.  The Leavs
  bruised and wrapped in double papers, and covered with hot
  Ashes and Embers to bake a while, and then taken forth and
  laid warm on any Botch or Boyl hapning in the Groyn or
  share, doth dissolve and heal them.  The Seed bruised, and
  boyled in Wine and laid on any Member that hath been out
  of Joynt and is newly set again, taketh away all Swellings
  and pains thereof.
  =
@begin {m228}
  {Note 228:} Flux, Ruptures, Cramp, Convulsion, Cough,
  Toothach, Hemorrhoids, Bloody Flux, Obstructions, Reins,
  Bladder, Sinews, Gout, Warts.
@end {m228}
@begin {m229}
  {Note 229:} Bellyach, Chollick, Inflamation, Thorns,
  Splinters, Boyls, Groyn, Disjunctures.
@end {m229}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h176}
@section 3 {tt}
  MUSTARD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Mustard hath large and broad rough Leavs,
  very much jagged with uneven, and unorderly gashes,
  somwhat like Turnip Leavs, but lesser and rougher:  The
  Stalk riseth to be more than a foot high, and somtimes two
  foot high, being round, rough, and branched at the top,
  bearing such like Leavs thereon as grow below, but lesser,
  and less devided; and divers yellow Flowers one above
  another at the tops; after which come smal rough pods,
  with smal lank flat ends, wherein is contained round
  yellowish Seed, sharp, hot, and biting upon the Tongue:
  The Root is smal, long, and woody, when it beareth Stalks
  and perisheth every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth with us in Gardens only, and other manured
  places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is an annual Plant, Flowring in July, and their Seed
  is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Mustard Seed hath the Vertue of Heating, discussing,
  rarefying and drawing out Splinters of Bones, and other
  things out of the Flesh.  It is of good effect to bring
  down Womens Courses, for the Falling sickness or Lethargy,
  drousie forgetful evil, to use it both inwardly and
  outwardly to rub the Nostrils, Forehead, and Temples, to
  {Note 230 here}
  warm and quicken the Spirits, for by the fierce sharpness
  it purgeth the Brain by sneezing, and drawing down Rhewm
  and other Viscuous Humors, which by their Distillations
  upon the Lungs and Chest procure coughing, and therefore  with some Honey added thereto doth much good therein.  The
  Decoction of the Seed made in Wine and drunk, provoketh
  Urine, resisteth the force of Poyson, the Malignity of
  Mushroms, and the Venom of Scorpions, or other Venemous
  Creatures, if it be taken in time: and taken before the
  cold fits of Agues, altereth, lesseneth, and cureth them.
  {Note 231 here}
  The Seed taken either by it self or with other things
  either in an Electuary or Drink, doth mightily stir up
  Bodily lust, and helpeth the Spleen and pains in the
  sides, and gnawing in the Bowels.  And used as a Gargle,
  draweth up the Pallat of the Mouth being fallen down, and
  also it dissolveth the Swellings about the Throat, if it
  be outwardly applied.  Being chewed in the Mouth, it
  oftentimes helpeth the Toothach: The outward application
  hereof upon the pained place of the Sciatia, discusseth
  the Humors, and easeth the pains, as also of the Gout, and
  other Joynt aches.  And is much and often used to eas
  pains in the sides of loyns, the shoulders or other parts
  of the Body, upon the applying thereof to rais Blisters,
  and cureth the Diseas by drawing it to the outward part of
  the Body: It is also used to help the falling of the Hair:
  The Seed bruised, mixed with Honey and applied, or made up
  with Wax, taketh away the Marks, and black and blue spots
  of Bruises or the like, the roughness or Scabbedness of
  the Skin, as also the Leprosie and lowsie evil: it helpeth
  also the crick in the Neck.  The distilled Water of the
  Herb when it is in Flower is much used to drink inwardly
  to help in any the Diseases aforesaid, or to wash the
  Mouth when the Pallat is down, and for the Diseases of the
  Throat to gargle, but outwardly also for Scabs, Itch, or
  other like Infirmities, and clenseth the Face from
  Morphew, Spots, Freckles, and other Deformities.
  =
@begin {m230}
  {Note 230:} Heats, Dries, Splinters, Thorns, Terms
  provokes, Falling sickness, Lethargy, Sneezing.
@end {m230}
@begin {m231}
  {Note 231:} Disury, Poyson, Mushroms, Venemous Beasts,
  Agues, Lust provokes, Spleen, Uvula, Sciatica, Toothach,
  Pains, Hair, Bruises, Black and blue spots, roughness,
  Leprosie, Lowsie Evil, Freckles, Wry Necks.
@end {m231}
     It is an excellent Sawce for such whose Blood wants
  clarifying and for weak Stomachs being an Herb of Mars,
  but naught for Chollerick people, though as good for such
  as are aged or troubled with cold Diseases, Aries claims
  somthing to do with it, therfore it strengthens the heart
  and resisteth poyson, let such whose Stomachs are so weak,
  they cannot digest their meat or appetite it, take of
  Mustard Seed a dram, Cinnamon as much, and having beaten
  them to Pouder ad half as much Mastich in Pouder, and with
  Gum Arabick dissolved in Rose Water, make it up into
  Troches, of which they may take one of about half a dram
  weight an hour or two before meals, let old men and women
  make much of this medicine, and they will either give me
  thanks, or manifest ingratitude.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h177}
@section 3 {tt}
  HEDG~MUSTARD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth up usually but with one blackish green
  Stalk, tough, easie to bend but not break, branched into
  diverse parts, and somtimes with divers Stalks set full of
  Branches, whereon grow long, rough, or hard rugged Leavs,
  very much torn and cut on the edges into many parts, some
  bigger, and some lesser, of a dirty green colour: The
  Flowers are smal and yellow, that grow at the tops of the
  Branches, in long Spikes, flowring by degrees, so that
  continuing long in Flower the stalks will have smal round
  Cods at the bottom, growing upright and close to the
  Stalk, while the top Flowers yet shew themselvs; in which
  are contained smal yellow Seed, sharp and strong, as the
  Herb is also: The Root groweth down slender and woody, yet
  abiding, and springing again every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth frequently in this Land by the Waies and
  Hedg sides, and somtimes in the open Fields.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth most usually about July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is singular good in all the Diseases of the Chest
  and Lungs, hoarceness of voice, and by the use of the
  Decoction therof for a little space, those have been
  recovered who had utterly lost their voice, and almost
  {Note 232 here}
  their Spirits also.  The Juyce threof made into a Syrup,
  or licking Medicine with Honey or Sugar is no less
  effectual for the same purpose, and for all other Coughs,
  Weesings, and shortness of Breath.  The same is also
  profitable for those that have the Jaundice, the Pluresie,
  pains in the Back and Loyns, and for torments in the Belly
  or the Chollick, being also used in Clysters.  The Seed is
  held to be a special Remedy against Poyson and Venom: It
  is singular good for the Sciatica, the Gout, and all
  Joynt~aches, Sores and Cankers in the Mouth, Throat, or
  behind the Ears; and no less for the hardness and Swelling
  of the Testicles, or of Womens Breasts.
  =
@begin {m232}
  {Note 232:} Breast, Lungs, Hoarceness, Cough, Shortness of
  breath, Jaundice, Pleuresie, Back, Loyns, Belly, Chollick,
  Poyson, Sciatica, Gout, Joynts, Fistulaes, Ulcers,
  Cankers, Testicles, Womens Breasts.
@end {m232}
     Mars owns this Herb also.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h178}
@section 3 {tt}
  NEP, or CATMINT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common garden Nep shooteth forth hard four square
  Stalks with a hoariness on them, a yard high or more, full
  of Branches, bearing at every Joynt two broad Leavs,
  somwhat like Balm but longer pointed, softer, whiter, and
  more hoary, nicked about the edges, and of a strong sweet
  scent.  The Flowers grow in large tufts at the tops of the
  branches, and underneath them likewise on the Stalks many
  together, of a whitish Purple colour.  The Roots are
  composed of many long strings or Fibres, fastning
  themselves strongly in the ground, and abide with green
  Leavs thereon all the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is only nursed up in our Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And it flowreth in July or thereabouts.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Nep is generally used for Women to procure their
  Courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone
  or with other convenient Herbs in a decoction to bath
  them, or sit over the hot fumes therof, and by the
  frequent use thereof it taketh away barrenness, and the
  {Note 233 here}
  wind and pains of the Mother.  It is also used in pains of
  the Head coming of any cold caus, as Catarrh's, Rhewms,
  and for swimming and giddiness thereof, and is of especial
  use for the windiness of the Stomach and Belly.  It is
  effectual for any Cramps or cold aches to dissolve the
  cold and wind that afflicteth the place, and is used for
  Colds, Coughs, and shortness of breath.  The Juyce thereof
  drunk in Wine is profitable for those that are bruised by
  any accident.  The green Herb bruised and applied to the
  Fundament, and lying there two or three hours, easeth the
  pains of the Piles.  The Juyce also being made up into an
  Oyntment, is effectual for the same purpose:  The head
  washed with a Decoction thereof, it taketh away Scabs; and
  may be effectual for other parts of the Body also.
  =
@begin {m233}
  {Note 233:} Terms provokes, Barrenness Womb, Wind, Mother,
  Cough, Rhewms, Vertigo, Cramp, Cold ach, Difficulty of
  breath, Bruises, Hemorrhoids, Scabby Heads.
@end {m233}
     It is an Herb of Venus.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h179}
@section 3 {tt}
  NETTLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that they need no Description
  at all, they may be found by the feeling in the darkest
  night.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Roots or Leavs boyled or the Juyce of either of
  them, or both, made into an Electuary with Honey or Sugar,
  is a safe and sure Medicine to open the Pipes and passages
  of the Lungs, which is the caus of wheesing and shortness
  of breath, and helpeth to expectorate tough Flegm, as also
  to raise the impostumated Pleuresie, and spend it by
  spitting; The same helpeth the swelling of the Almonds of
  the Throat, the Mouth and Throat being gargled therewith:
  The Juyce is also effectual to settle the Pallate of the
  Mouth in its place, and to heal and temper the
  Inflamations and soreness of the Mouth and Throat.  The
  Decoction of the Leavs in Wine being drunk is singular
  good to provoke Womens Courses, and settle the suffocation
  or strangling of the Mother, and all other Diseases
  thereof, as also applied outwardly with a little Mirrh.
  The same also, or the Seed provoketh Urine, and expelleth
  the Gravel and Stone in the Reins or Bladder often proved
  to be effectual in many that have taken it.  The same
  killeth the Worms in Children, easeth pains in the sides,
  and dissolveth the windiness in the Spleen, as also in the
  Body, although others think it only powerful to provoke
  Venery.  The Juyce of the Leavs taken two or three daies
  together, staieth bleeding at the Mouth: The Seed being
  drunk is a Remedy against the stinging of Venemous
  Creatures, the biting of Mad Dogs, The poysonful qualities
  of Hemlock, Henbane, Nightshade, Mandrake, or other such
  like Herbs that stupifie or dull the senses, as also the
  Lethargy, especially to use it outwardly to rub the
  Forehead and Temples in the Lethargy, and the places
  bitten or stung with Beasts, with a little Salt.  The
  distilled water of the Herb is also effectual (although
  not so powerful) for the Diseases aforesaid, as for
  outward Wounds and Sores to wash them, and to clens the
  Skin from Morphew, Lepry, and other discolourings thereof:
  {Note 234 here}
  The Seed or Leaves bruised and put into the Nostrils,
  staieth the bleeding of them, and taketh away the Flesh
  growing in them called Polipus.  The Juyce of the Leavs,
  or the Decoction of them, or of the Roots, is singular
  good to wash either old rotten and stinking sores, or
  Fistulaes and Gangrenes, and such as are fretting, eating,
  or corroding Scabs, Mainginess and Itch in any part of the
  Body, as also green Wounds by washing them therwith, or
  applying the green Herb bruised thereunto, yea although
  the Flesh were seperated from the Bones.  The same applied
  to our wearied Members refresheth them, or to places that
  have been out of Joynt being first set again,
  strengthneth, drieth and comforteth them, as also those
  places troubled with Aches and Gouts, and the Defluxion of
  Humors upon the Joynts or Sinews, it easeth the pains, and
  drieth or dissolveth the  Defluxions. An Oyntment made of
  the Juyce, Oyl, and a little Wax, is singular good to rub
  cold and benummed Members.  An handful of the Leavs of
  green Nettles, and another of Wallwort, or Danewort,
  bruised and applied simply of themselves to the Gout,
  Sciatica, or Joynt aches in any part hath been found to be
  an admirable help thereunto.
  =
@begin {m234}
  {Note 234:} Lungs, Wheezing, Shortness of breath,
  Pleuresie, Almonds of the Ears, Ears, Throat, Mouth,
  Uvula, Terms provokes, Mother, Disury, Gravel, Worms,
  Spleen, Bleeding, Venemous Beasts, Mad Dogs, Hemlock,
  Henbane, Night~shade, Mandrakes, Lethargy, Morphew,
  Leprosie, Bleeding, Polipus, Ulcers, Fistulaes, Gangrenes,
  Scabs, Itch, Wounds, Weariness, Disjunctures, Gout,
  Sciatica, Joynts.
@end {m234}
     This also is an Herb Mars claims Dominion over, you
  know Mars is hot and dry, and you know as well that Winter
  is cold and moist; then you may know as well the reason
  why Nettle tops eaten in Spring consume the Flegmatic
  superfluities in the Body of man, that the coldness and
  moisture of Winter, hath left behind.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h180}
@section 3 {tt}
  NIGHTSHADE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Nightshade hath an upright, round, green, hollow
  stalk, about a Foot or half a yard high, bushing forth
  into many Branches, whereon grow many green Leavs, somwhat
  broad and pointed at the ends, soft and full of Juyce,
  somwhat like unto Bazil, but larger, and a little unevenly
  dented about the edges at the tops of the Stalks and
  Branches, come forth three or four or more white Flowers
  made of five smal pointed Leavs apiece, standing on a
  Stalk together, one above another with yellow pointels in
  the middle, composed of four or five yellow threds set
  together which aftewards turn into so many pendulous green
  Berries of the bigness of smal Pease, full of green Juyce,
  and smal whitish round flat Seed lying within it.  The
  Root is white and a little woody when it hath given Flower
  and Fruit with many smal Fibres at it; The whol Plant is
  of a waterish insipide tast, but the Juyce within the
  Berries is somwhat viscuous, and of a cooling and binding
  quality.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth wild with us, under old Walls, and in
  Rubbish, the common paths, and sides of Hedges and Fields,
  as also in our Gardens here in England without any
  planting.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It dieth down every yeer, and ariseth again of its own
  sowing, but springeth not until the latter end of April at
  the soonest.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This Common Nighshade is wholly used to cool all hot
  Inflamations either inwardly or outwardly, being no way
  dangerous to any that shall use it, as most of the rest of
  the Nightshades are; yet it must be used moderately: The
  {Note 235 here}
  distilled water only of the whol Herb is fittest and
  safest to be taken inwardly.  The Juyce also clarified and
  taken being mingled with a little Vinegar, is good to wash
  the Mouth and Throat that is inflamed: But outwardly the
  Juyce of the Herb or Berries with Oyl of Roses, and a
  little Vinegar and Ceruss labored together in a leaden
  Morter, is very good to anoint all hot Inflamations in the
  Eyes; It doth also much good for the Shingles, Ringworms,
  and in all running fretting, and corroding Ulcers, and in
  moist Fistulaes, if the Juyce be made up with some Hens
  dung and applied thereto: A Pessary dipp'd in the Juyce,
  and put up into the Matrix stayeth the immoderate Flux of
  Womens Courses: A Cloth wet therein and applied to the
  Testicles or Cods, upon any Swelling therein giveth much
  eas, as also to the Gout that cometh of hot and sharp
  Humors.  The Juyce dropped into the Ears, easeth pains
  therin that arise of heat or Inflamation.  And Pliny
  saith, it is good for hot Swellings under the Throat.
  =
@begin {m235}
  {Note 235:} Inflamations, Eyes, Shingles, Ringworms, Terms
  stops, Testicles, Gouts, Ears.
@end {m235}
     Have a care you mistake not the deadly Nightshade for
  this; if you know it not, you may let them both alone and
  take no harm, having other Medicines sufficient in the
  Book.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h181}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE OAK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known (the timber therof being the
  Glory and Safety of this Nation by Sea) that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs and Bark of the Oak, and the Acorn Cups, do
  bind and dry very much: The inner Bark of the Tree, and
  the thin Skin that covereth the Acorn, are most used to
  stay the spitting of Blood, and the Bloody Flux: The
  Decoction of that Bark and the Pouder of the Cups, to stay
  Vomitings, spitting of blood, bleeding at Mouth  or other
  Flux of Blood in man or woman, Lasks also, and the
  involuntary Flux of Natural Seed.  The Acorns in Pouder
  taken in Wine, provoketh Urine, and resisteth the Poyson
  of Venemous Creatures.  The Decoction of Acorns and the
  Bark made in Milk and taken resisteth the force of
  Poysonous Herbs and Medicines, as also the Virulency of
  Cantharides, when one by eating them, hath his Bladder
  exulcerated, and pisseth Blood.
  {Note 236 here}
  =
@begin {m236}
  {Note 236:} Dry, Bind, Spitting Blood, Bloody Flux
  Vomiting, Venerious Acts, Disury, Poyson, Venemous Beasts,
  Cantarides, Ulcers of the Bladder, Mother, Wounds,
  Inflamation, Flux, Pestilences, Epidemical Diseases,
  Liver, Stone, Terms stops, Scabs.
@end {m236}
     Hippocrates saith, he used the fumes of Oak Leavs to
  Women that were troubled with the strangling of the
  Mother; and Galen applied them being bruised to cure green
  Wounds.  The Distilled water of the Oaken Buds before they
  break out into Leavs, is good to be used  either inward, or
  outwardly, to asswage Inflamations and stop all manner of
  Fluxes in man or woman: The same is singular good in
  Pestilential and hot burning Feavers, for it resisteth the
  force of the infection, and allayeth the heat; it cooleth
  the heat of the Liver, breaketh the Stone in the Kidneys,
  and staieth womens Courses:  The Decoction of the Leavs
  worketh the same effects.  The water that is found in the
  hollow places of old Oaks, is very effectual against any
  foul or spreading Scab.
  =
     The Distilled Water (or Decoction which is better) of
  the Leavs is one of the best Remedies that I know for the
  Whites in Women.
  =
     Jupiter owns the Tree.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h182}
@section 3 {tt}
  OATS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are also so well known that they need no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Oats fryed with Bay~Salt, and applied to the sides,
  takes away the pains of Stitches and Wind in the sides or
  Belly: A Pultis made of the Meal of Oats, and some Oyl of
  {Note 237 here}
  Bays put thereto, helpeth the Itch, and the Leprosie, as
  also the Fistulaes of the Fundament, and dissolveth hard
  Impostuhmes.  The Meal of Oats boyled with Vinegar and
  applied, taketh away Freckles and Spots in the face, or
  other parts of the Body.
  =
@begin {m237}
  {Note 237:} Stitch, wind, Itch, Leprosie, Fistulaes,
  Apostums, Freckles.
@end {m237}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h183}
@section 3 {tt}
  ONE~BLADE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This smal Plant never beareth more than one Leaf, but
  only when it riseth up with his Stalk, which thereon
  beareth another, and seldom more, which are of a blewish
  green colour, pointed, with many Ribs or Veins therein,
  like Plantane: At the top of the Stalk, grow many smal
  white Flowers, Star~fashion, smelling somwhat sweet; after
  which come smal reddish Berries when they are ripe.  The
  Root is small of the bigness of a Rush, lying and creeping
  under the upper crust of the Earth, shooting forth in
  diverse places.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in moist, shadowy, and grassy places of
  Woods, in many places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about May, and the Berries be ripe in June,
  and then quickly perisheth until the next yeer, it
  springeth from the same Root again.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Half a Dram, or a Dram at most in Pouder of the Roots
  hereof taken in Wine and Vinegar, of each equal parts, and
  the party laid presently to sweat thereupon, is held to be
  {Note 238 here}
  a Soveraign Remedy for those that are infected with the
  Plague, and have a Sore upon them, by expelling the poyson
  and infection, and defending the Heart and Spirits from
  danger.  It is a singular good Wound Herb, and is therupon
  used with other the like effects in making Compound Balms
  for the curing of Wounds, be they fresh and green or old
  and Malignant, and especially if the Sinews be hurt.
  =
@begin {m238}
  {Note 238:} Pestilence, Poyson, Epidemical Diseases,
  Wounds, Sinews cut.
@end {m238}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h184}
@section 3 {tt}
  ONIONS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that I need not spend time
  about writing a Description of them.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Vices.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Onions are Flatulent or Windy, yet they do somwhat
  provoke appetite, encreas thirst, eas the Belly and
  Bowels; provoke Womens Courses, help the biting of a mad
  Dog, and of other Venemous Creatures, to be used with
  Honey and Rue, and encreaseth Sperm, especially the Seed
  of them: They also kill the Worms in Children if they
  drink the Water fasting wherein they have been steeped all
  night.  Being roasted under the Embers and eaten with
  Honey, or Sugar and Oyl they much conduce to help an
  inveterate Cough and expectorate the tough Flegm.  The
  Juyce being snuffed up into the Nostrils, purgeth the Head
  and helpeth the Lethargy (yet the often eating of them is
  said to procure pains in the Head)  It hath been held with
  divers Country people a good preservative against
  Infection to eat Onions fasting with Bread and Salt: as
  also to make a great Onion hollow, filling the place with
  good Triacle, and after to roast it well under the Embers,
  which after taking away of the outermost skin thereof,
  being beaten together, is a Soveraign Salve for either
  Plague~Sore, or any other putrid Ulcer.  The Juyce of
  Onions is good for either scalding, or burning by fire,
  water, or Gunpouder, and used with Vinegar, taketh away
  all Blemishes, Spots, and Marks in the Skin, and dropped
  into the Ears, easeth the pains and nois of them.  Applied
  also with Figs beaten together, helpeth to ripen and break
  Impostumes and other Sores.
  {Note 239 here}
  =
@begin {m239}
  {Note 239:} Mad Dogs, Worms, Cough, Lethargy, Epidemical
  Diseases.
@end {m239}
     Leeks are like them in quality as a Pomewater is like
  an Apple: They are a Remedy against a Surfeit of Mushroms,
  being baked  under the Embers and taken and being boyled
  and applied warm helpeth the Piles; In other things they
  have the same property as the Onions, although not so
  effectual.
  =
     Mars owns them, and they have gotten this quality, to
  draw any corruption to them, for if you pill one and lay
  him upon a Dunghill, you shall find him rotten in half a
  day, by drawing putrifaction to it, then being bruised and
  applied to a Plague~Sore 'tis very probable 'twill do the
  like.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h185}
@section 3 {tt}
  ORPINE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Orpine riseth up with diverse round brittle
  Stalks, thick set with fat and fleshy Leavs without any
  order, and little or nothing dented about the edges, of a
  pale green colour; The Flowers are white or whitish
  growing in tufts, after which come small chaffy Husks,
  with Seed like dust in them.  The Roots are diverse thick,
  round white tuberous clogs; and the Plant groweth not to
  big in some places as in others where it is found.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is frequent almost in every Country of this Land,
  and is cherished in Gardens with us, where it groweth
  greater than that which is wild, and groweth in the
  shadowy sides of Fields and Woods.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about July and the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Orpine is seldom used in inward Medicines with us,
  although Tragus saith from experience in Germany that the
  distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or
  excoriations in the Stomach or Bowels, and for Ulcers in
  the Lungs, Liver, or other inward parts, as also in the
  Matrix, and helpeth all those Diseases, being drunk for
  certain daies together: And that is stayeth the sharpness
  of Humors in the Bloody Flux, and other Fluxes in the
  {Note 240 here}
  Body, or in Wounds: The Root thereof also performeth the
  same effect.  It is used outwardly to cool any heat or
  Inflamation upon any Hurt or Wound, and easeth the pains
  of them: as also to heal Scaldings or Burnings: The Juyce
  thereof beaten with some green Sallet Oyl, and anointed:
  The Leaf also bruised and laid to any green Wound in the
  Hands or Legs, doth heal them quickly; and being bound to
  the Throat, much helpeth the Quinsie.  It helpeth also
  Ruptures and Burstiness.
  =
@begin {m240}
  {Note 240:} Excoriation of Bowels, Phtisick, Womb, Bloody
  Flux, Wounds, Inflamation, Scalding, Burnings, Quinsie,
  Ruptures.
@end {m240}
     If you pleas to make the Juyce into a Syrup with Honey
  or Sugar, you may safely take a spoonful or two at a time
  (let my Author say what he will) for a Quinsie, and you
  shall find the Medicine more pleasant, and the Cure more
  speedy, than if you took a Dogs~turd which is the Learned
  Colledges vulgar Cure.
  =
     The Moon owns the Herb, and he that knows but her
  Exaltation, knows what I say is true.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h186}
@section 3 {tt}
  PARSLEY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known to be an Inhabitant in every
  Garden, that it is needless to write any Description of
  it.  The vertues of it being many are as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is very comfortable to the Stomach, and helpeth to
  provoke Urine and Womens Courses, and to break wind both
  in the Stomach and Bowels, and doth a little open the
  Body, but the Root much more, and openeth Obstructions
  both of the Liver and Spleen, and is therfore accounted
  one of the five opening Roots; Galen commendeth it against
  the Falling~sickness, and to provoke Urine mightily,
  especialy if the Roots be boyled and eaten like Parsnips.
  The Seed is effectual to provoke Urine and Womens Courses,
  to expel wind, to break the Stone, and eas the pains and
  torments thereof, or of any other part in the Body
  occasioned by Wind. It is also effectual against the Venom
  of any poysonfull Creature, and the danger that cometh to
  them that have taken Litharge, and is good against the
  Cough.  The distilled water of Parsley is a familiar
  Medicine with Nurses to give their Children when they are
  troubled with wind in the Stomach or Belly, which they
  {Note 241 here}
  call the frets, and is also much available to them that
  are of greater yeers.  The Leavs of Parsley laid to the
  Eyes that are inflamed with heat or swoln, doth much help
  them, if it be used with Bread or Meal; and being fryed
  with Butter and applied to Womens Breasts that are hard
  through the curdling of their Milk, it abateth the
  hardness quickly, and also it taketh away black and blue
  marks coming of Bruises or Falls.  The Juyce thereof
  dropped into the Ears with a little Wine easeth the pains.
  Tragus setteth down an excellent Medicine to help the
  Jaundice and Falling~sickness, the Dropsie, and Stone in
  the Kidneys, in this manner:  Take of the Seeds of
  Parsley, Fennel, Annis, and Caraways of each an ounce; of
  the Roots of Parsley, Burnet, Saxifrage, and Carawares, of
  each one ounce and a half, let the Seeds be bruised, and
  the Roots washed and cut smal: Let them lie all night in
  steep in a pottle of  { Note that page numbering skips from 92 to 189 }
  white Wine, and in the morning be
  Boyled in a close earthen Vessel until a third part or
  more be washed, which being strained and cleared; take
  four ounces thereof morning and evening first and last,
  abstaining from drink after it for three hours:  This
  openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and
  expelleth the Dropsie and Jaundice by Urine.
  =
@begin {m241}
  {Note 241:} Stomach, Disury, Terms provokes, Liver, Spleen,
  Falling~sickness, Stone, Wind, Venemous Beasts, Cough,
  Sucking Children, Eyes, Womens Breasts, Curdled Milk,
  Black and blue marks, Jaundice, Falling~sickness, Dropsie.
@end {m241}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h187}
@section 3 {tt}
  PARSNIP.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Garden kind hereof is so well known (the Root being
  commonly eaten) that I shal not trouble you with any
  Description of it.  But the wild kind being of more
  Physical use, I shall in this place describe unto you.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The wild Parsnip differeth little from the Garden kind,
  but groweth not so fair and large, nor hath so many Leavs;
  and the Root is shorter, more woody and not so fit to be
  eaten, and therefore the more Medicinable.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The name of the first sheweth the place of its growth,
  Viz° In Gardens.
  =
     The other groweth wild in divers places, as in the
  Marshes by Rochester and elswhere, and flowreth in July;
  the Seed being ripe about the beginning of August, the
  second yeer after the sowing: for if they do flower the
  first yeer the Country people call them Madneps.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden Parsnep nourisheth much, and is good and
  wholsom Nourishment, but a little windy, whereby it is
  thought to procure bodily lust: but it fatneth the Body
  much if much used. It is conducible to the Stomach and
  Reins, and provoketh Urine.  But the wild Parsnep hath a
  cutting, attenuating, clensing and opening quality
  therein:  It resisteth and helpeth the bitings of
  {Note 242 here}
  Serpents, easeth pains and Stitches in the sides, and
  dissolveth wind both in the Stomach and Bowels, which is
  the Chollick, and provoketh Urine.  The Root is often
  used, but the Seed much more.
  =
@begin {m242}
  {Note 242:} Lust provokes, Disury, Clense, Open, Venemous
  Beasts, Chollick, Disury.
@end {m242}
     The wild being better than the tame shews Dame Nature
  is the best Physitian.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h188}
@section 3 {tt}
  COW~PARSNEP.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth with three or four large spread, winged,
  rough, Leavs, lying often on the Ground, or else raised a
  little for it, with long, round, hairy footstalks under
  them, parted usually into five devisions, the two couples
  standing each against other, and one at the end, and each
  Leaf being almost round, yet somwhat deeply cut in on the
  edges in some Leavs, and not so deep in others, of a
  whitish green colour, smelling somwhat strongly: among
  which ariseth up a round crested hairy Stalk two or three
  foot high with a few Joynts and Leavs thereon, and
  branched at the top, where stand large Umbels of white,
  and somtimes reddish Flowers, and after them, flat,
  whitish, thin winged Seed, two alwaies joyned together.
  The Root is long and white with two or three long strings
  growing down into the ground, smelling likewise strongly,
  and unpleasant.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in moist Meadows, and the borders and
  corners of Fields, and neer Ditches, generally through
  this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in July, and Seedeth in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Seed hereof as Galen saith is of sharp and cutting
  quality, and is therefore a fit Medicine for the Cough and
  shortness of Breath, the Falling~sickness and the
  Jaundice.  The Root is available to all the purposes
  aforesaid, and is also of great use to take away the hard
  {Note 243 here}
  skin that groweth on a Fistula, if it be but scraped upon
  it.  The Seed hereof being drunk clenseth the belly from
  tough Flegmatick matter therein: easeth them that are
  Liver~grown, and Womens passions of the Mother, as well
  being drunk as the smoke thereof received underneath, and
  likewise raiseth such as are fallen into a deep sleep, or
  have the Lethargy, but burning it under their Nose:  The
  Seed and Root boyled in Oyl, and the Head rubbed
  therewith, helpeth not only those that are fallen into a
  Frenzy, but also the Lethargy or Drowsie evil; and those
  that have been long troubled with the Headach, if it be
  likewise used with Rue: It helpeth also the running Scab
  and the Shingles: The Juyce of the Flowers dropped into
  the Ears that run and are ful of matter, it clenseth and
  healeth them.
  =
@begin {m243}
  {Note 243:} Cough, Difficulty of breath, Falling~sickness,
  Jaundice, Fistula, Flegm, Liver, Mother, Lethargy, Frenzy,
  Headach, Scabs, Shingles.
@end {m243}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h189}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE PEACH~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Peach~tree groweth not so great as the
  Apricock~tree, yet spreadeth Branches reasonable well,
  from whence spring smaller reddish twigs, whereon are set
  long and narrow green leavs dented about the edges.  The
  Blossoms are greater than the Plum, and of a light Purple
  colour.  The Fruit round, and somtimes as big as a
  reasonable Pippin, others are smaller, as also differing
  in colours and  tasts,  as russet, red, or yellow, waterish
  or firm, with a frieze or Cotton all over, with a cleft
  therein like an Apricock, and a rugged furrowed great
  Stone within it, and a bitter Kernel within the Stone: It
  sooner waxeth old, and decayeth, than the Apricock, by
  much.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are nursed up in Gardens and Orchards through this
  Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in the Spring, and Fructifie in Autumn.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Leavs of Peaches bruised and laid on the Belly
  killeth Worms; and so they do also being boyled in Ale and
  drunk, and open the Belly likewise; and being dried is a
  safe Medicine to discuss Humors.  The Pouder of them
  strewed upon fresh bleeding Wounds, stayeth their bleeding
  and closeth them up.  The Flowers steeped all night in a
  little Wine standing warm, strained forth in the morning
  and drunk fasting, doth gently open the Belly and move it
  downwards.  A Syrup made of them as the Syrup of Roses is
  made, worketh more forcibly than that of Roses, for it
  provoketh Vomiting, and spendeth waterish and Hydropick
  Humors by the continuance thereof.  The Flowers made into
  a Conserve worketh the same effect.  The Liquor that
  droppeth from the Tree being wounded, is given in the
  Decoction of Coltsfoot, to those that are troubled with
  the Cough or shortness of breath, by adding thereto some
  sweet Wine; and putting some Saffron also therin, it is
  good for those that are hoarce or have lost their voice;
  {Note 244 here}
  helpeth all defects of the Lungs, and those that vomit or
  spit blood.  Two drams thereof given in the Juyce of
  Lemmons or of Radish, is good for those that are troubled
  with the Stone.  The Kernels of the Stones do wonderfully
  eas the pains and wringings of the Belly through wind or
  sharp Humors, and help to make an excellent Medicine for
  the Stone upon all occasions, on this manner: Take fifty
  Kernels of Peach Stones, and one hundred of the Kernels of
  Cherry Stones, a handful of Elder Flowers, fresh or dried,
  and three pints of Muscadine, set them in a closed pot
  {Note 245 here}
  into a bed of Horse dung for ten daies, which after
  distill in Glass with a gentle fire, and keep it for your
  use; you may drink upon occasion three or four ounces at a
  time.  The Milk or Cream of these Kernels being drawn
  forth with some Vervain Water, and applied to the Forehead
  and Temples, doth much help to procure rest and sleep to
  sick persons wanting it.  The Oyl drawn frm the Kernels,
  the Temples being therewith anointed doth the like:  The
  said Oyl put into Clysters easeth the pains of the wind
  Chollick, and anointed on the lower part of the Belly doth
  the like, and dropped into the Ears easeth the pains of
  them:  The Juyce of the Leavs doth the like: being also
  anointed on the Forehead and Temples, it helpeth the
  Megrim and all other pains in the Head.  If the Kernels be
  bruised and boyled in Vinegar  until they become thick,
  and appliled to the Head, it merveilously procure the Hair
  to grow again upon bald places or where it is too thin.
  =
@begin {m244}
  {Note 244:} Worms, Open, Humors, Wounds, Dropsie, Cough,
  Shortness of Breath, Vomiting.
@end {m244}
@begin {m245}
  {Note 245:} Spitting of Blood, Stone, Wind, Chollick,
  Watching, Ears, Baldness.
@end {m245}
     Lady Venus owns this Tree, and by it opposeth the ill
  effects of Mars, and indeed for Children and yong people,
  nothing is better to purge Choller, and the Jaundice, than
  the Leavs and Flowers of this Tree, being made into a
  Syrup or Conserve, let such as delight to please their
  lust regard the Fruit, but such as love their health and
  their Childrens, let them regard what I say, they may
  safely give two spoonfuls of the Syrup at a time, 'tis as
  gentle as Venus her self.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h190}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE PEAR~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that they need no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     For their Physical use they are best discerned by their
  tasts:  All the sweet or lushious sorts whether manured or
  wild, do help to move the Belly downward more or less:
  {Note 246 here}
  Those that are harsh and sowr do on the contrary bind the
  Belly as much; and the Leavs do so also.  Those that are
  moist do in some sort cool, but harsh or wild sorts much
  more, and are very good in repelling Medicines: as if the
  wild sorts be boyled with Mushroms, it maketh them the
  less dangerous.  The said Pears boyled with a little
  Honey, helpeth much the oppressed Stomach, as al sorts of
  them do, some more, some less; but the harsher sorts do
  most cool and bind, serving well to be bound to green
  wounds to cool and stay the Blood, and heal up the wound
  without further trouble or Inflamation; as Galen saith he
  hath found by experience.  And wild Pears do sooner close
  up the Lips of green Wounds than the others.
  =
@begin {m246}
  {Note 246:} Mushroms, Stomach, Inflamations, Cool, Bind,
  Wounds.
@end {m246}
     Schola Salerni adviseth to drink much Wine after Pears,
  or els (they say) they are as bad as poyson, nay and they
  curs the Tree for it too, but if a poor man find his
  Stomach oppressed by eating Pears 'tis but working hard
  and it will do as wel as drinking Wine.  The Tree belongs
  to Venus, and so doth the Apple~tree.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h191}
@section 3 {tt}
  PELLITORY OF THE WALL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with many brownish, red, tender and
  weak, clear, and almost transparent stalks about two foot
  high, upon which grow at the several Joynts, two Leavs
  somwhat broad and long, of a dark green colour, which
  afterwards turn brownish, smooth on the edges, but rough
  and hairy as the Stalks are also: At the Joynts with the
  Leavs from the middle of the Stalks upwards, wher it
  spreadeth into some branches, stand many smal pale,
  purplish Flowers, in hairy rough Heads or Husks; after
  which come smal black and rough Seed, which will stick to
  any cloth or Garment that shall touch it.  The Root is
  somwhat long with many smal Fibres thereat, of a dark
  reddish colour, which abideth the Winter, although the
  Stalks and Leavs perish and spring afresh every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth wild generally through this Land, about the
  borders of Fields, and by the sides of Walls, and among
  Rubbish; It will endure well being brought into Gardens,
  and planted on the shady side, where it will spring of its
  own sowing.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe soon
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The dried Herb Pellitory made up into an Electuary with
  Honey, or the Juyce of the Herb, or the Decoction thereof
  made up with Sugar or Honey, is a singular Remedy for any
  old or dry Cough, the shortness of breath, and Wheesing in
  the Throat.  Three ounces of the Juyce thereof taken at a
  time, doth wonderfully help stopping of the Urine and to
  expel the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder: and
  is therefore usually put among other Herbs, used in
  {Note 247 here}
  Clisters to mitigate pains in the Back, Sides, or Bowels
  proceeding of wind, stopping of Urine, the Gravel or Stone
  as aforesaid: If the bruised Herb sprinkled with some
  Muskadine be warmed upon a Tile; or in a Dish upon a few
  quick coals in a Chafing~dish, and applied to the Belly,
  it worketh the same effect.  The Decoction of the Herb
  being drunk, easeth pains of the Mother, and bringeth down
  Womens Courses; it also easeth those griefs that arise
  from Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Reins: The
  same Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good
  to gargle a sore Throat.  The Juyce held a while in the
  Mouth, easeth pains in the Teeth.  The distilled water of
  the Herb drunk with some Sugar worketh the same effects;
  {Note 248 here}
  and clenseth the Skin from Spots, Freckles, Purples,
  Wheals, Sunburn, Morphew, &c°.
  =
@begin {m247}
  {Note 247:} Old or Dry Cough, Shortness of Breath, Stone
  and Gravel, Mother, Womens Courses, Obstructions, Sore
  Throats, Teeth.
@end {m247}
@begin {m248}
  {Note 248:} Freckles, Wheals, Sunburn, Morphew, pain in the
  Ears, Impostums, burnings and Scaldings, Inflamations,
  Ulcers, Scabs, Falling of the Hair, Piles, Gout,
  Fistulaes, Green Wounds, Bruised Tendon or Muscle.
@end {m248}
     The Juyce dropped into the Ears easeth the noise in
  them, and taketh away the pricking and shooting pains
  therein:  The same or the distilled Water, asswageth hot
  and swelling Impostumes, Burnings and Scaldings by fire or
  Water, as also all other hot Tumors and Inflamations, or
  breakings out of Heat, being bathed often with wet
  Cloathes dipped therein.  The said Juyce made into a
  Liniment with Ceruss and Oyl of Roses and anointed
  therewith, clenseth foul rotten Ulcers, and stayeth
  spreading or creeping Ulcers, and the running Scabs or
  Sores in Childrens Heads: and helpeth to stay falling of
  the Hair from off the Head.  The said Oyntment, or the
  Herb applied to the Fundament openeth the Piles and easeth
  their pains; and being mixed with Goats Tallow, helpeth
  the Gout.  The Juyce is very effectual to clens Fistulaes,
  and to heal them up safely; or the Herb it self bruised,
  and applied with a little Salt.  It is likewise so
  effectual to heal any green Wound, that if it be bruised
  and bound thereto for three daies, you shall need no other
  Medicine to heal it further.  A Pultis made hereof with
  mallows, and boyled in Wine, with Wheat Bran, and Bean
  Flower, and some Oyl put thereto, and applied warm to any
  bruised Sinew, Tendon, or Muscle, doth in a very short
  time restore them to their strength, taking away the pains
  of the Bruises; and dissolveth the congealed Blood coming
  of Blows or Falls from high places.
  =
     The Juyce of Pellitory of Wall clarified and boyled
  into a Syrup with Honey, and a spoonful of it drunk every
  morning by such as are subject to the Dropsie, if
  continuing that cours through but once a week, if ever
  they have the Dropsie, let them come but to me, and I will
  cure them gratis.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h192}
@section 3 {tt}
  PENY~ROYAL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is so well known unto all (I mean the common kind)
  that it needeth no Description.
  =
     There is a greater kind than the ordinary sort found
  wild with us, which so abideth being brought into Gardens,
  and differeth not from it but only in the largeness of the
  leavs and Stalks, in rising higher, and not creeping upon
  the ground so much.  The Flowers whereof are Purple,
  growing in Rundles about the Stalk like the other.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first which is common in Gardens  groweth also in many moist and watery places of this Land.
  =
     The second is found wild in Essex in divers places by
  the High~way from London to Colechester, and thereabouts
  more abundantly than in other Countries, and is also
  planted in their Gardens in Essex.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in the latter end of Summer, about August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, That Peny~royal maketh thin, tough
  Flegm, warmeth the coldness of any part whereto it is
  apylied, and digesteth raw or corrupt matter: Being boyled
  & drunk, it provoketh Womens Courses and expelleth the
  dead Child and afterbirth, and staieth the disposition to
  Vomit, being taken in Water and Vinegar mingled together.
  And being mingled with Honey and Salt it avoideth Flegm
  out of the Lungs, and purgeth Melancholly by the Stool.
  Drunk with Wine it helpeth such as are bitten or stung
  with Venemous Beasts: and applied to the Nostrils with
  Vinegar, reviveth those that are fainting and swouning.
  {Note 249 here}
  Being dried and burnt it strengtheneth the Gums; It is
  helpful to those that are toubled with the Gout being
  applied of it self to the place until it wax red: and
  applied in a Plaister, it taketh away spots or marks in
  the Face: Applied with Salt, it profiteth those that are
  Splenetick or Liver~grown.  The Decoction doth help the
  Itch, if washed therwith: Being put into Baths for Women
  to sit therein, it helpeth the Swelling and hardness of
  the Mother.  The green Herb bruised and put into Vinegar
  clenseth foul Ulcers, and taketh away the marks and
  bruises of blows about the Eyes, and all discolourings of
  the Face by fire, yea and the Leprosie, being drunk and
  outwardly applied: Boyled in Wine with Honey and Salt, it
  helpeth the Toothach.  It helpeth the cold Griefs of the
  Joynts, taking away the pains, and warming the cold parts,
  {Note 250 here}
  being fast bound to the place after a bathing, or sweating
  in an hot hous.  Pliny addeth that Penny~royal and Mints
  together help faintings or swounings, being put into
  Vinegar, and put to the Nostrils to be smelled unto, or a
  little thereof put into the Mouth.  It easeth the Headach,
  and the pains of the breast and Belly, stayeth the gnawing
  of the Stomach, and inward pains of the Bowels; being
  drunk in Wine it provoketh Womens Courses, and expelleth
  the dead child and afterbirth: Being given in Wine it
  helpeth the Falling~sickness: Put into unwholsom or
  stinking Water that men must drink (as at Sea, and where
  other cannot be had) it maketh them the less hurtful:  It
  helpeth Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews being applied
  with Honey, Salt, and Vinegar.  It is very effectual for
  the Cough, being boyled in Milk and drunk, and for Ulcers
  or Sores in the Mouth.  Mathiolus saith, The Decoction
  thereof being drunk, helpeth the Jaundice and Dropsie, and
  all pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a cold caus,
  and that it helpeth to clear and quicken the Eyesight.
  Applied to the Nostrils of those that have the
  Falling~sickness, or the Lethargy, or put into the Mouth,
  it helpeth them much, being bruised and with Vinegar
  applied.  And applied with Barley Meal, it helpeth
  Burnings by fire, and put into the Ears, easeth the pains
  of them.
  =
@begin {m249}
  {Note 249:} Tough Flegm, Terms provokes, Dead Child &
  Afterbirth, Vomiting, Melancholly, Venemous Beasts,
  Fainting and Swouning, Gums, Gout, Marks in the Face,
  Toothach, Pains in the Joynts, Headach, pains of the Belly
  & Breast, Falling~sickness, Stinking Water, Cramps &
  Convulsions.
@end {m249}
@begin {m250}
  {Note 250:} Sore Mouth, Jaundice, Dropsie, pains of the
  Head & Sinews, Eyesight, Lethargy, Burnings.
@end {m250}
     The Herb is under Venus.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h193}
@section 3 {tt}
  PEONY, MAS° & FEMINA.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Male Peony riseth up with many brownish Stalks,
  whereon grow many fair green and somtimes reddish Leavs,
  one set against another upon a Stalk without any
  particular devision in the Leaf at all.  The Flowers stand
  at the tops of the Stalks, consisting of five or six broad
  Leavs, of a fair purplish red colour, with many yellow
  threds in the middle standing about the Head, which after
  riseth to be the Seed Vessels, devided into two, three, or
  four rough crooked Pods like Horns, which being ful ripe,
  open, and turn themselves down one edge to another
  backward, shewing within them divers round, black shining
  Seed, having also many red or Crimson grains, intermixed
  with the black, whereby it maketh a very pretty shew.  The
  Roots are great, thick, and long, spreading and running
  down reasonable deep in the Ground.
  =
     The ordinary Female Peony hath many Stalks and more
  Leavs on them than the Male: the Leavs not so large but
  nicked diversly on the edges, some with great and deep,
  others with smaller cuts and devisions, of a dark or dead
  green colour.  The Flowers are of a strong heady scent,
  most usually smaller and of a more purple colour than the
  Male, with yellow thrums about the Head as the Male hath.
  The Seed Vessels are like Horns as in the Male, but
  smaller, the Seed also is black but less shining.  The
  Roots consist of many thick and short tuberous clogs,
  fastned at the ends of long strings and all from the Head
  of the root which is thick and short, and of the like
  scent with the Male.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in Gardens; and Flower usually about May.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Root of the Male Peony fresh gathered, hath been
  found by experience to cure the  Falling~sickness; but the
  surest way is (besides hanging it about the Neck, by which
  Children have been cured) to take the Root of the Male
  Peony washed clean and stamped somwhat smal, and lay it to
  infuse in Sack for twenty four Hours, at the least, after
  strain it, and take first and last, morning and evening a
  good draught for sundry daies together before and after a
  full Moon, and this will also cure older persons, if the
  Disease be not grown too old and past cure, especially if
  there be a due and orderly preparation of the Body, with
  Posset drink made of Betony &c°.  The Root is also
  {Note 251 here}
  effectual for Women that are not sufficiently clensed
  after Childbirth, and such as are troubled with the
  Mother; for which likewise the black Seed beaten to Pouder
  and given in Wine, is also available.  The black Seed also
  taken before bed time, and in the morning, is very
  effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the
  Disease called Ephialtes or Incubus, but we do commonly
  cal it the Night~Mare; a diseas which Melancholly persons
  are subject unto; It is also good against Melanchollick
  Dreams.  The Distilled water, or Syrup made of the
  Flowers, worketh the same effects that the Root and the
  Seed do, although more weakly.  The Female is often used
  for the purposes aforesaid, by reason the Male is so
  scarce a Plant that it is possessed by few, and those
  great Lovers of rarities in this kind.
  =
@begin {m251}
  {Note 251:} Falling~sickness, Women not clensed in
  Childbirth, Mother, Ephialtes, or the Night~Mare,
  Melanchollick Dreams.
@end {m251}
     It is an Herb of the Sun, and under the Lyon,
  Physitians say Male Peony Roots are best, but Dr° Reason
  told me, male Peony was best for men, and female Peony for
  women and he desires to be judged by his brother Dr°
  Experience.  The Roots are held to be of most Vertue, then
  the Seeds next the Flowers, and last of all the Leavs.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h194}
@section 3 {tt}
  PEPPERWORT, or DITTANDER.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Pepper~wort sendeth forth somwhat long and
  broad Leavs, of a light blewish green colour, finely
  dented about the edges, and pointed at the ends, standing
  upon round hard Stalks three or four foot high, spreading
  many Branches on all sides, and having many smal white
  Flowers at the tops of them, after which follow small Seed
  in small Heads: The Root is slender running much under
  ground, and shooting up again in many places; and both
  Leavs and Root, are very hot and sharp of tast like
  Pepper, for which caus it took the name.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth Naturally in many places of this Land, as at
  Clare in Essex, neer also unto Exceter in Devonshire, upon
  Rochester common in Kent; in Lancashire and divers other
  places; but is usually kept in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in the end of June, and in July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Pliny and Paulus Aegineta say that Pepper~wort is very
  effectual for the Sciatica, or any other Gout or pain in
  the Joynts, or any other inveterate grief; the Leavs
  hereof to be bruised and mixed with old Hogs grease and
  applied to the place; and to continue thereon four hours
  in Men, and two hours in women, the place being afterwards
  {Note 252 here}
  bathed with Wine and Oyl mixed together, and then wrapped
  with Wool or Skins after they have sweat a little.  It
  also amendeth the Deformities or discolourings of the
  Skin, and helpeth to take away Marks, Scars, and Scabs, or
  the foul marks of burning with fire or iron. The Juyce
  hereof is in some places used to be given in Ale to drink
  to women with child, to procure them a speedy delivery in
  Travail.
  =
@begin {m252}
  {Note 252:} Sciatica, Gout, pains in the Joynts,
  Discolourings of the Skin, Marks & Scars by Burning,
  Speedy Delivery.
@end {m252}
     Here's another Martial Herb for you, make much of it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h195}
@section 3 {tt}
  PERIWINKLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common sort hereof hath many Branches trayling, or
  running upon the ground shooting out smal Fibres at the
  Joynts as it runneth, taking thereby hold in the ground
  and Rooteth in divers places.  At the Joynts of these
  Branches stand two small dark green shining Leavs, somwhat
  like Bay Leavs, but smaller, and with them come forth also
  the Flowers (one at a Joynt standing upon a tender
  Footstalk) being somwhat long and hollow, parted at the
  brims, somtimes into four somtimes five Leavs, the most
  ordinary sort are of a pale blue Colour, some are pure
  white, and some of a dark reddish Purple colour.  The Root
  is little bigger than a Rush, bushing in the ground, and
  creeping with his Branches far about, whereby it quickly
  possesseth a great compass, and is therfore most usually
  planted under Hedges, where it may have room to run.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Those with the pale blue, and those with the white
  Flowers grow in Woods and Orchards by the Hedg sides in
  diverse places of this Land.  But those with the Purple
  Flowers in Gardens only.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in March and April.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Periwincle is a great binder, staying bleeding both
  at Mouth and Nose, if some of the Leavs be chewed:  The
  French use it to stay Womens Courses.  Discorides, Galen,
  and Aegineta commend it against the Lask, and Fluxes of
  the Belly to be drunk in Wine.
  {Note 253 here}
  =
@begin {m253}
  {Note 253:} Stanch bleeding, Womens Courses, Flux of the
  Belly.
@end {m253}
     Venus owns this Herb, and saith that the Leavs eaten by
  man and wife together, causeth love between them.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h196}
@section 3 {tt}
  ST° PETERS~WORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
  Name.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     If Superstition had not been the Father of Tradition,
  as well as Ignorance the Mother of Devotion, this Herb as
  well as St° Johns wort had found some other name to be
  known by; but we may say of our Fore~fathers as St° Paul
  of the Athenians, I perceive that in many things you are
  too Superstitious: Yet seing it is come to that pass, that
  Custom having gotten possession pleads Prescription for
  the name, I shall let it pass, and come to the Description
  of the Herb, which take as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It riseth up with square upright Stalks for the most
  part, somwhat greater and higher than St° Johns wort (and
  good reason too, St° Peter being the greater Apostle (ask
  the Pope else) for though God would have the Saints equal,
  the Pope is of another Opinion) but brown in the same
  manner, having two Leavs at every Joynt, somwhat like, but
  larger than St° Johns wort, and a little rounder pointed
  with few or no Holes to be seen therein, and having
  somtimes some smaller Leavs rising from the Bosom of the
  greater, and somtimes a little hairy also: At the tops of
  the Stalks stand many Starlike Flowers, with yellow threds
  in the middle very like those of St° Johns wort, insomuch
  that this is hardly discerned from it but only by the
  largeness of height, the Seed being also alike in both.
  The Root abideth long sending forth new shoots every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many Groves and small low Woods, in
  divers places of this Land, as in Kent, Huntington,
  Cambridg, and Northampton shires, as also neer water
  Courses in other places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is of the same property with St° Johns wort, but
  somwhat weak, and therefore more seldom used.  Two drams
  of the Seed taken at a time in Honeyed water, purgeth
  Chollerick Humors (as saith Dioscorides, Pliny, and Galen)
  and thereby helpeth those that are troubled with the
  Sciatica: The Leavs are used as St° Johns wort, to help
  those places of the Body that have been burnt with Fire.
  {Note 254 here}
  =
@begin {m254}
  {Note 254:} Chollerick Humors, Sciatica, Burnings.
@end {m254}
     There is not a straw to chuse between this and St°
  Johns wort, only St° Peter must have it, lest he should
  lack Pot~herbs.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h197}
@section 3 {tt}
  PIMPERNEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
Discription.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Common Pimpernel hath diverse weak square Stalks lying
  on the ground beset all along with two smal and almost
  round Leavs at every Joynt one against another, very like
  Chickweed, but hath no Footstalks, for the Leavs do as it
  were compass the Stalk: The Flowers stand singly each by
  themselves at them and the Stalks, consisting of five
  round small pointed Leavs of a fine pale red colour,
  tending to an Orange, with so many threds in the middle,
  in whose places succeed, smooth round Heads, wherein is
  contained smal Seed.  The Root is smal and fibrous
  perishing every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth every where almost, as well in the Meadows
  and Cornfields, as by the Waysides, and in Gardens arising
  of it self.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth from May unto August, and the Seed ripeneth
  in the mean time and falleth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is of a clensing and attractive quality, whereby
  it draweth forth Thorns or Splinters, or other such like
  things gotten into the Flesh, and put up into the Nostrils
  purgeth the Head; and Galen saith also they have a drying
  faculty, whereby they are good to soder the lips of
  Wounds, and to clens foul Ulcers.  The distilled Water or
  Juyce is much esteemed by French Dames to clense the Skin
  from any roughness, deformity, or discolouring thereof:
  {Note 255 here}
  Being boyled in Wine, and given to drink, it is a good
  Remedy against the Plague, and other Pestilential Feavers,
  if the Party after taking it warm lie in his bed and sweat
  for two hours after, and use the same twice at least.  It
  helpeth also all stingings and bitings of Venemous Beasts
  or mad Dogs, being used inwardly and applied outwardly:
  The same also openeth the Obstructions of the Liver, and
  is very available against the Infirmities of the Reins, it
  provoketh Urine, and helpeth to expel the Stone and Gravel
  out of the Kidneys and Bladder, and  helpeth much in all
  inward Wounds and Ulcers.  The Decoction or distilled
  Water is no less effectual to be applied to all wounds
  that are fresh and green, or old filthy fretting and
  running Ulcers, which it very effectually cureth in short
  spaces.  A little Honey mixed with the Juyce and dropped
  into the Eyes clenseth them from cloudy mists, or thick
  Films which grow over them and hinder the sights:  It
  helpeth the Toothach being dropped into the Ear on the
  contrary side of the pain.  It is also effectual to eas
  the pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles.
  =
@begin {m255}
  {Note 255:} Thorns or Splinters, purgeth the Head, Wounds &
  Ulcers, Clenseth Face, Plague & Pestilential Feavers,
  Venemous Beasts, Mad Dogs biting, Obstructions, Urine,
  Stone and Gravel, Wounds & Ulcers, Clouds or Mists in the
  Eyes, Toothach, Hemorroids.
@end {m255}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h198}
@section 3 {tt}
  GROUND PINE, or CHAMEPITYS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Ground Pine groweth low, seldom rising above
  an handbreadth high, shooting forth divers smal Branches,
  set with slender smal long narrow grayish or whitish Leavs
  somwhat hairy; and devided into three parts many times
  many bushing together at a Joynt, and somtimes some
  growing scatteredly upon the Stalks, smelling somwhat
  strong like unto Rozin; the Flowers are somwhat smal and
  of a pale yellow colour growing from the Joynts of the
  Stalks all along among the Leavs, after which come small,
  long, and round Husks: The Root is smal woody perishing
  every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth more plentifully in Kent than in any other
  Country of this Land; as namely, in many places from on
  this side Dartford, along to Southfleet, Cotham, and
  Rochester, and upon Chattam down hard by the Beacon, and
  half a mile from Rochester in a Field nigh a Hous called
  Selsey.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and giveth Seed in the Summer Months.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of Ground Pine drunk, doth wonderfully
  prevail against the Strangury or any inward pains arising
  from the Diseases of the Reins and Urine, and is especial
  good for all Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and
  {Note 256 here}
  gently openeth the Body, for which purpose they were wont
  in former times to make Pills with the Pouder thereof, and
  the Purple Figs.  It marveilously helpeth all the Diseases
  of the Mother used inwardly, or applied outwardly,
  procuring Womens Courses, and expelling the dead Child and
  afterbirth, yea it is so powerful upon those Feminine
  parts that it is utterly forbidden to Women with Child, in
  that it will caus abortment or delivery before the time:
  It is as effectual also in all pains and Diseases of the
  Joynts, as Gouts, Cramps, Palseys, Sciatica, and Aches;
  {Note 257 here}
  either the Decoction of the Herb in Wine taken inwardly,
  or applied outwardly, or both for some time together, for
  which purpose the Pills made with the Pouder of Ground
  Pine, and of Hermodactils with Venice Turpentine are very
  effectual.  These Pills also are special good for those
  that have the Dropsie, to be continued for some time.  The
  same is a special good help for the Jaundice, and for
  griping pains in the Joynts, Belly, or inward parts:  It
  helpeth also all Diseases of the Brain proceeding of cold
  and Flegmatick Humors and Distillations, as also for the
  Falling~sickness.  It is an especial Remedy for the Poyson
  of the Aconites of all sorts, and other poisonful Herbs,
  as also against the stinking of any Venemous Creature:  It
  is a good Remedy for a cold Cough, especially in the
  beginning. For all this purposes aforesaid, the Herb being
  tunned up in new Drink and drunk is almost as effectual,
  but far more accetable to weak and dainty Stomachs.  The
  Distilled Water of the Herb hath the same effects, but
  more weakly.  The Conserve of the Flowers doth the like,
  which Mathiolus much commendeth against the Palsey. The
  green Herb or the Decoction thereof being applied,
  dissolveth the hardness of Womens Breasts, and all other
  hard Swellings in any other part of the Body.  The green
  Herb also applied, or the Juyce thereof with some Honey,
  not only clenseth putrid, stinking foul and Malignant
  Ulcers and Sores of all sorts, but healeth and sodereth up
  the lips of green Wounds in any part also.
  =
@begin {m256}
  {Note 256:} Strangury, Obstructions, Mother, Womens
  Courses, Dead Child and Afterbirth.
@end {m256}
@begin {m257}
  {Note 257:} Gouts, Cramps, Palseys, Sciatica, Aches &c°,
  Dropsie, poyson of the Aconites, venemous Creatures, Cold
  Cough, Palsie, Hard Breasts & hard Swellings, Ulcers & old
  Sores, Green Wounds.
@end {m257}
     Let Women forebear it if they be with Child, for it
  works violently upon the Foeminine part; and Mars owns it,
  I tell them but so.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h199}
@section 3 {tt}
  PLANTANE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This groweth so familiarly in Meadows and Fields, and
  by Pathways, and is so well known that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is in its beauty about June, and the Seed ripeneth
  shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of Plantane clarified and drunk for divers
  daies together, either of it self or in other drink
  prevaileth wonderfully against all torments or
  Excoriations in the Guts or Bowels, helpeth the
  distillations of Rhewm from the Head, and staieth all
  manner of Fluxes even Womens Courses when they flow too
  abundantly; It is good to stay spitting of  Blood, and all
  other Bleedings at the Mouth, or the making of foul or
  bloody water by reason of any Ulcer in the reins or
  Bladder, and also stayeth the too free bleeding of Wounds.
  {Note 258 here}
  It is held an especial Remedy for those that are troubled
  with the Phtisick, or Consumption of the Lungs, or Ulcers
  in the Lungs, or Coughs that come of heat.  The Decoction
  or Pouder of the Roots or Seed, is much more binding for
  all the purposes aforesaid than the Leavs.  Dioscorides
  saith, That three Roots boyled in Wine and taken helpeth
  the Tertain Ague, and four the Quartan Ague: But (letting
  pass the number as Fabulous) I conceive the Decoction of
  divers Roots may be effectual.  The Herb (but especially
  the Seed) is held to be profitable againt the Dropsie, the
  Falling~sickness, the yellow Jaundice, and stoppings of
  the Liver and Reins.  The Roots of Plantane and Pellitory
  of Spain beaten to Pouder and put into hollow Teeth,
  taketh away the pains of them:  The clarified Juyce or
  distilled Water dropped into the Eyes cooleth the
  Inflamations in them, and taketh away the Pin and Web; and
  dropped into the Ears easeth pains in them, and helpeth
  and restoreth the Hearing: The same also with Juyce of
  {Note 259 here}
  Housleek is profitable against all Inflamations and
  breakings out in the Skin, and against Burnings or
  Scaldings by fire or Water.  The Juyce or Decoction made
  either of it self or other things of like nature is of
  much use and good effect for old and hollow Ulcers that
  are hard to be cured, and for Cankers and Sores in the
  Mouth or privy parts of Man or Woman; and helpeth also the
  pains of the Piles in the Fundament.  The Juyce mixed with
  Oyl of Roses, and the Temples and Forhead anointed
  therewith, easeth the pains of the Head proceeding from
  heat, and helpeth Lunatick, and Phrenetick persons very
  much; as also the bitings of Serpents or a Mad Dog: The
  same also is profitably applied to all hot Gouts in the
  Feet or Hands, especially in the beginning.  It is also
  good to be applied where any Bone is out of Joynt to
  hinder Inflamations, Swellings and Pains that presently
  {Note 260 here}
  rise thereupon.  The Pouder of the dried Leavs taken in
  drink, killeth Worms of the Belly, and boyled in Wine
  killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers.  One part
  of Plantane Water, and two parts of the brine of Pouder'd
  Beef boyled together and clarified, is a most sure Remedy
  to heal all spreading Scabs and Itch in the Head or Body,
  and all manner of Tetters, Ringworms, the Shingles, and
  all other running and fretting Sores.  Briefly the
  Plantanes are singular good Wound Herbs to heal fresh, or
  old Wounds and Sores either inward or outward.
  =
@begin {m258}
  {Note 258:} Pains in the Guts, Distillation of Rhewm,
  Fluxes, Womens Courses, Spitting Blood or Bleeding at
  Mouth or Nose or of Wounds, phtisick, Consumption or
  Ulcers in the Lungs.
@end {m258}
@begin {m259}
  {Note 259:} Tertian Ague, Dropsie & Falling~sickness,
  Toothach, pin and web in the Eyes, pains in the Ears,
  Inflamations, Burning or Scalding, Hollow Ulcers, Cankers,
  and sore Mouth, or privy parts, Piles.
@end {m259}
@begin {m260}
  {Note 260:} pains of the Head, Lunacy & phrensie, Biting of
  Serpents, or Mad Dogs, Hot Gouts, Bones out of Joynt,
  Worms in the Belly, or in Ulcers, Scabs and Itch, Tetters,
  Ringworms, Shingles, & fretting sores, Wounds.
@end {m260}
     Its true Myzaldus and others yea almost all
  Astrologo~Physitians hold this to be an Herb of Mars, and
  they give a verisimile of a truth for it too, Viz° becaus
  it cures diseases of the Head and privities which are
  under the Houses of Mars, Aries, and Scorpio:  All
  Diseases of the Head coming of heat are caused by Mars,
  for Venus is made of no such hot mettle, or at least deals
  in inferior parts.  The truth is, it is under the command
  of Venus, and cures the Head by Antipathy to Mars, and the
  Privities by Sympathy to Venus, neither is there hardly a
  Martial Diseas but it cures, If I were to fortifie my Body
  against a Martial Diseas I would do it by this Herb as
  soon as by any, and may do it (it may be) when time shal
  serve.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h200}
@section 3 {tt}
  PLUMS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that they need no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     As there is great diversity of the kinds, so is there
  in the operations of Plums, for some that are sweet,
  moisten the Stomach and make the Belly soluble; those that
  are sowr quench thirst more and bind the Belly; the moist
  and waterish do soonest corrupt in the Stomach, but the
  firm do nourish more and offend less:  The dried Fruit
  sold by the Grocers under the name of Damask Prunes, do
  somwhat loosen the Belly, and being stewed are often used
  both in health and sickness, to rellish the Mouth and
  Stomach to procure Appetite, and a little to open the
  Body, allay Choller, and cool the Stomach: Plum~tree Leavs
  boyled in Wine, is good to wash and gargle the Mouth and
  Throat to dry the Flux of Rhewm coming to the Pallat,
  Gums, or Almonds of the Ears.  The Gum of the Trees is
  good to break the Stone.  The Gum or Leavs boyled in
  Vinegar and applied, killeth Tetters and Ringworms.
  {Note 261 here}
  Mathiolus saith, The Oyl pressed out of the Kernels of the
  Stones, as Oyl of Almonds is made, is good against the
  inflamed Piles, the Tumors or Swellings of Ulcers,
  Hoarsness of the voice, roughness of the Tongue and
  Throat, and likewise the pains in the Ears.  And that five
  ounces of the said Oyl taken with one ounce of Muscadine,
  driveth forth the Stone, and helpeth the Chollick.
  =
@begin {m261}
  {Note 261:} Open the Belly, Quench Thirst, pind the Belly,
  procure Appetite, Allay Choller, Cool the Stomach, Rhewm,
  Stone, Tetters & Ringworms, Piles, Ulcers, Hoarsness, and
  pains in the Ears, Stone, and Chollick.
@end {m261}
     All Plums are under Venus, and are like Women, some
  better, some worse.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h201}
@section 3 {tt}
  POLLIPODY of the OAK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is a smal Herb consisting of nothing but Roots and
  Leavs: bearing neither Stalk, Flower, nor Seed as it is
  thought.  It hath three or four Leavs rising from the
  Root, every one singly by it self, of about a hand length,
  which are winged, consisting of many smal narrow Leavs,
  cut into the middle rib standing on each side of the
  Stalk, large below, and smaller up to the top, not dented
  or notched on the edges at all, as the Male Fern hath; of
  a sad green colour and smooth on the upper side, but on
  the underside somwhat rough, by reason of certain
  yellowish spots set thereon: The Root is smaller than ones
  little finger lying aslope, or creeping along under the
  upper crust of the earth, browish on the outside, and
  greenish within, of a sweetish harshness in tast, set with
  certain rough Knags on each side thereof, having also much
  Mossiness or yellow hairiness upon it, and some Fibres
  underneath it, whereby it is nourished.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth as well upon old rotten stumps, or trunks of
  Trees, as Oak, Beech, Hazel; Willow, or any other, as in
  the Woods under them; and upon old Mud Wals, as also in
  Mossie, Stony, and gravelly places, neer unto Woods; That
  which groweth upon Oaks is accounted the best, but the
  quantity thereof is scarce sufficient for the common use.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It being alwaies green, may be gathered for use at any
  time.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
    Mesues (who is called the Physitians Evangelist, for the
  certainty of his Medicines, and the truth of his Opinions)
  saith, That it drieth up thin Humors, digesteth thick and
  tough, and purgeth burnt Choller, and especially tough and
  thick Flegm, and thin Flegm also, even from the Joynts;
  {Note 262 here}
  and is therfore good for those that are troubled with
  Melancholly; or Quartan Agues, especially if it be taken
  in Whey, or Honeyed Water, or in Barley water, or the
  Broth of a Chicken with Epithimum, or with Beets and
  Mallows.  It is also good for the hardness of the Spleen
  and for prickings or Stitches in the sides, as also for
  the Chollick, some use to put to it some Fennel Seeds, or
  Annis Seeds or Ginger to correct that loathing it bringeth
  to the Stomach, which is more than needeth, it being a
  safe and gentle Medicine fit for al persons at al seasons,
  which daily experience confirmith; And an ounce of it may
  be given at a time in a Decoction, if there be not Saena
  or some other strong purger put with it.   A dram or two
  of the Pouder of the dried Roots, taken fasting in a cup
  of Honeyed water, worketh gently, and for the purposes
  aforesaid.  The distilled water both of Roots and Leavs is
  much commended for the Quartan Ague, to be taken for many
  daies together, as also against Melancholly, or fearful or
  troublesom sleeps or Dreams, and with some Sugar Candy
  dissolved therein, is good against the Cough, shortness of
  breath and Wheesings, and those distillations of thin
  Rhewm upon the Lungs, which caus Phtisicks, and oftentimes
  Consumptions.  The fresh Roots beaten smal: or the Pouder
  of the dried Roots mixed with Honey and applied to any
  Member that is out of Joynt, doth much help it: Applied
  also to the Nose cureth the Diseas called Polipus, which
  is a piece of Flesh growing therein which in time stoppeth
  the passage of breath through that Nostril; And it helpeth
  those clefts or Chops that come between the fingers or
  Toes.
  {Note 263 here}
  =
@begin {m262}
  {Note 262:} Dryeth Humors, purgeth burnt Choller, Flegm,
  Melancholly, Quartan Agues, Spleen, Chollick.
@end {m262}
@begin {m263}
  {Note 263:} Troublesom sleeps, Cough, Shortness of Breath,
  and Wheesings, Lungs, phtisick, Member out of Joynt,
  pollipus or Diseas in the Nose, Chops in the Fingers or
  Toes.
@end {m263}
     And why I pray must Pollipodium of the Oak only be
  used, Gentle Colledg of Physitians, can you give me but a
  glimps of a reason for it? is it only becaus it is
  dearest? will you never leave your covetousness till your
  lives leav you? The Truth is, that which grows upon the
  Earth is best ('tis an Herb of Saturn and he seldom climbs
  trees) to purge Melancholly, if the humor be otherwise,
  chuse your Pollipodium accordingly.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h202}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE POPLAR~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     There are two sorts of Poplars which are most familiar
  with us, Viz° The Black, and the White, both which I shall
  here describe unto you.
  =
     The white Poplar groweth great and reasonable high,
  covered with a thick smooth white Bark, especially the
  Branches, having large Leavs cut into several devisions
  almost like a Vine Leaf, but not of so deep a green on the
  upper side, and hoary white underneath, of a reasonable
  good scent, the whol form representing the Leaf of
  Coltsfoot.  The Catkins which it bringeth forth before the
  Leavs, are long, and of a faint reddish colour, which fall
  away bearing seldom good Seed with them.  The Wood hereof
  is smooth, soft, and white, very finely waved, whereby it
  is much esteemed.
  =
     The Black Poplar groweth higher and straiter than the
  White, with a grayish Bark bearing broad and green leaves
  somwhat like Ivy  Leavs, not cut in on the edges like the
  White, but whol and dented, ending in a point, and not
  white underneath, hanging by slender long Footstalks,
  which with the Air are continually shaken like as the
  Aspin Leavs are: The Catkins hereof are greater than of
  the White, composed of many round green Berries as it were
  set together in a long Cluster, containing much downice
  matter, which being ripe is blown away with the wind, The
  clammy Buds hereof before they spread into Leavs, are
  gathered to make the Unguentum Populeon, and are of a
  yellowish green colour and smal, somwhat sweet, but
  strong.  The Wood is smooth, tough, and white, and easie
  to be cloven: On both these Trees groweth a sweet kind of
  Musk, which in former times was used to be put into sweet
  Oyntments.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in moist Woods and by water sides in sundry
  places of the Land, yet the white is not so frequent as
  the other.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Their time is likewise expressed before, The Catkins
  coming forth before the Leavs and ripen in the end of
  Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The White Poplar, saith Galen, is of a clensing
  property: The weight of one ounce in Pouder of the Bark
  thereof being drunk saith Dioscorides is a Remedy for
  those that are troubled with the Sciatica, or the
  Strangury: The Juyce of the Leavs dropped warm into the
  Ears easeth the pains in them: The yong clammy Buds or
  Eyes before they break out into Leavs, bruised, and a
  little Honey put to them, is a good Medicine for a dull
  Sight.  The Black Poplar is held to be more cooling than
  the White, and therefore the leavs bruised with Vinegar
  {Note 264 here}
  and applied, helpeth the Gout; The Seed drunk in Vinegar
  is held good against the Falling~sickness.  The Water that
  droppeth from the hollow places of this Tree, taketh away
  Warts, Pushes, Wheals, and other the like breakings out in
  the Body.  The yong black Poplar Buds, saith Mathiolus,
  are much used by Women to beautifie their hair, bruising
  them with fresh Butter and straining them after thay have
  been kept for some time in the Sun.  The Oyntment called
  Populeon, which is made of this Poplar, is singular good
  for all heat, or Inflamation in any part of the Body, and
  tempereth the heat of Wounds: It is much used to dry up
  the Milk in Womens Breasts, when they have weyned their
  Children.
  =
@begin {m264}
  {Note 264:} Sciatica, Strangury, pain in the Ears, Dull
  sight, Gout, Falling~sickness, Warts, Pushes & Wheals,
  Heat & Inflamations, Dryeth Womens Milk.
@end {m264}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h203}
@section 3 {tt}
  POPPY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Of this I shal describe three kinds, Viz° The White and
  Black, of the Garden, and the Erratick, wild Poppy, or
  Corn Rose.
  =
@section 4 {s}
@section 5 {tt}
  Discription.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The white Poppy hath at first four or five whitish
  green Leavs lying upon the ground, which rise with the
  Stalk, compassing it at the bottom of them, and are very
  large, much cut or torn in on the edges, and dented also
  besides: The Stalk which is usually four or five foot
  high, hath somtimes no Branches at the Top, & usually but
  two or three at most bearing every one but one Head,
  wrapped in a thin Skin, which boweth down before it be
  ready to blow, and then rising and being broken, the
  Flower within it spreadeth it self open, and consisteth of
  four very large White round Leavs, with many whitish round
  threds in the middle, set about a small round green Head,
  having a Crown, or Star~like cover at the Head thereof,
  which growing ripe becometh as large as a geat Apple,
  wherein are contained a great number of smal round Seed,
  in several partitions or devisions next unto the shell,
  the middle thereof remaining hollow and empty.  All the
  whol Plant, both Leavs, Stalks and Heads, while they are
  fresh, yong, and green, yield a Milk when they are broken,
  of an unpleasant bitter tast, almost ready to provoke
  casting, and of a strong heady smel, which being
  condensate is called Opium.  The Root is white, and woody,
  perishing as soon as it hath given ripe Seed.
  =
     The Black Poppy little differeth from the former, until
  it beareth his Flower, which is somwhat less, and of a
  black Purplish colour, but without any purple spots in the
  bottom of the Leaf.  The Head of Seed is much less than
  the former, and openeth it self a little round about the
  top under the Crown, so that the Seed which is very black
  will fall out if one turn the Head thereof downwards.
  =
     The wild Poppy, or Corn Rose, hath long and narrow
  Leavs very much cut in on the edges into many devisions,
  of a light green colour, and somtimes hairy withal; The
  Stalk is blackish and hairy also, but not so tall as the
  Garden kinds, having some such like Leavs thereon as grow
  below, parted into three or four Branches somtimes,
  whereon grow smal hairy Heads bowing down before the Skin
  break, wherein the Flower is inclosed, which when it is
  ful blown open, is of a fair yellowish red or crimson
  colour, and in some much paler, without any spot in the
  bottom of the Leavs, having many black soft threds in the
  middle compassing a smal green Head, which when it   is ripe, is not bigger than ones little finger end, wherin is
  contained much black Seed, smaller by half then that of
  the Garden.  The Root perisheth every yeer, and springeth
  again of its own sowing.  Of this kind there is one lesser
  in al the parts thereof, and differeth in nothing els.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden kinds do not naturally grow wild in any
  place, but are all sown in Gardens where they grow.
  =
     The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose is plentiful enough, and
  many times too much in the Corn Fields of all Countries
  through this Land, and also upon Ditch Banks, and by Hedg
  sides:  The smaller wild kind is also found in Corn
  Fields, and also in some other places, but not so
  plentiful as the former.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden kinds are usually sown in the Spring, which
  then Flower about the end of May, and somwhat earlier, if
  they spring of their own sowing.
  =
     The Wild kinds Flower usually from May untill July, and
  the Seed of them is ripe soon after the Flowring.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden Poppy Heads with Seeds made into a Syrup, is
  frequently and to good effect used to procure rest and
  sleep in the sick and weak, and to stay Catarth's and
  Defluxions of hot thin Rhewms from the Head into the
  Stomach, and upon the Lungs, causing a continual Cough,
  the Fore~runner of a Consumption:  It helpeth also
  Hoarsness of the Throat, and when one hath lost their
  voice, which the Oyl of the Seed doth likewise.  The black
  Seed boyled in Wine and drunk, is said also to stay the
  Flux of the Belly and Womens Courses.  The empty shels of
  the Poppy Heads are usually boyled in water and given to
  procure rest and sleep; so do the Leavs in the same
  manner; as also if the Head and Temples be bathed with the
  Decoction warm, or with the Oyl of Poppies, the green
  Leaves or Heads bruised and applied with a little Vinegar,
  or made into a Pultis with Barley Meal, or Hogs Greas, it
  cooleth and tempereth al Inflamations, as also the Diseas
  called St° Anthonies Fire.  It is generally used in
  {Note 265 here}
  Treacle and Methridate, and in all other Medicines that
  are made to procure rest and sleep, and to eas pains in
  the Head as well as in other parts;  It is also used to
  cool Inflamations, Agues, or Phrensies, and to stay
  Defluxions which caus a Cough or Consumption, and also
  other Fluxes of the Belly, or Womens Courses; It is also
  put into hollow Teeth to eas the pain, and hath been found
  by experience to eas the pain of the Gout.
  =
@begin {m265}
  {Note 265:} Procure sleep, Catarrhs and defluxions of Rhewm
  stayeth, Hoarsness, Flux of the Belly and Womens' Courses,
  Inflamations and St° Anthonies Fire, paints in the Head,
  Phrensies, Toothach, Falling~sickness, Plurisie, Surfets,
  Agues and Inflamations.
@end {m265}
     The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose (as Mathiolus saith) is
  good to prevent the Falling~sickness.  The Syrup made with
  the Flowers is with good effect given to those that have
  the Pluresie; and the dried Flowers also, either boyled in
  water, or made into Pouder and drunk either in the
  Distilled Water of them, or in some other Drink worketh
  the like effect.  The Distilled Water of the Flowers, is
  held to be of much good use against Surfets, being drunk
  evening and morning; It is also more cooling than any of
  the other Poppies, and therefore cannot but be as
  effectual in hot Agues, Phrensies, and other Inflamations
  either inward or outward, the Syrup or Water to be used
  therein, or the green Leavs used outwardly, either in an
  Oyntment, as it is in Populeon, a cooling Oyntment, or any
  other waies applied.  Galen saith the Seed is dangerous to
  be used inwardly.
  =
     The Herb is Lunar, and of the Juyce of it is made
  Opium, only for lucre of Money they cheat you, and tell
  you 'tis a kind of Tear, or some such like thing that
  drops from Poppies when they weep, and that is some where
  beyond the Sea, I know not where, beyond the Moon.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h204}
@section 3 {tt}
  PURSLANE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Garden Purslane (being used as a Salet Herb) is so
  well known that it needeth no Description; I shal
  therefore only speak of its Vertues, as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is good to cool any heat in the Liver, Blood, Reins,
  and Stomach, and in hot Agues, nothing better; It stayeth
  hot and Chollerick Fluxes of the Belly, Womens Courses,
  the Whites, and Gonorrhea, or running of the Reins, the
  Distillations from the Head, and pains therein proceeding
  of heat, want of sleep, or the Phrensie.  The Seed is more
  effectual than the Herb, and is of singular good use to
  cool the heat and sharpness of Urine, and the outragious
  Lust of the Body, Venerious Dreams, and the like, insomuch
  that the overfrequent use hereof, extinguisheth the Heat
  and Vertue of Natural Procreation.  The Seed bruised and
  boyled in Wine and given to Children, expelleth the Worms.
  {Note 266 here}
  The Juyce of the Herb is held as effectual to all the
  purposes aforesaid, as also to stay Vomitings; and taken
  with some Sugar or Honey, helpeth an old and dry Cough,
  shortness of Breath, and the Phtisick, and stayeth
  immoderate Thirst. The Distilled water of the Herb is used
  by many (as the more pleasing) with a little Sugar, to
  work the same effects.  The Juyce also is singular good in
  the Inflamations and Ulcers of the secret parts in man or
  woman, as also of the Bowels and Hemorrhoids, when they
  are Ulcerous, or Excoriations  in them.  The Herb bruised
  and applied to the Forehead and Temples, allayeth
  excessive heat therein, hindring rest and sleep; and
  applied to the Eyes taketh away the redness and
  {Note 267 here}
  Inflamation in them, and those other parts, where Pushes,
  Wheals, Pimples, St° Anthonies Fire and the like break
  forth, especially if a little Vinegar be put to it: And
  being laid to the Neck with as much of Galls and Linseed
  together, taketh away the pains therein, and the Crick in
  the Neck. The Juyce is used with Oyl of Roses for the said
  causes, or for blastings by Lightning, and Burnings by
  Gun~Pouder, or for Womens sore Breasts, and to ally the
  heat in all other Sores or Hurts: applied also to the
  Navels of Children that stick forth, it helpeth them:  It
  is also good for sore Mouths, and Gums that are swollen to
  fasten loos Teeth.  Camerarius saith, That the distilled
  water used by some, took away the pain of their Teeth when
  all other Remedies failed, and that the thickned Juyce
  made in Pills with the Pouder of Gum Tragacanth, and
  Arabick, being taken prevaileth much to help those that
  make a bloody water.  Applied to the Gout, it easeth pains
  thereof, and helpeth the hardness of Sinews if it come not
  of the Cramp, or a cold caus.
  =
@begin {m266}
  {Note 266:} Cooleth heat of Blood in hot Agues, Chollerick,
  Fluxes, Womens Courses, the Whites & Gonorrhea,
  Distillations, Phrensie, Heat of Urine, Lust, and Venerous
  Dreams, Worms, Vomiting, old, dry Cough, Short Breath, &
  Phtisick, Ulcers in the secret parts.
@end {m266}
@begin {m267}
  {Note 267:} Redness of the Eyes, and Inflamations, Crick,
  or pain in the Neck, Blastings by Lightning, Burning by
  Gun~pouder, Sore Breasts, Childrens Navils, Sore Mouths, &
  swollen Gums, Fastneth Teeth, Toothach, Bloody Urine,
  Gout, Cramp, & stifness of the Sinews.
@end {m267}
     'Tis an Herb of the Moon.  See Lettice.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h205}
@section 3 {tt}
  PRIMROSES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that they need no Description.
  =
     Of the Leavs of Primroses is made as fine a Salve to
  heal green Wounds as any is that I know: you shall be
  taught to make Salves of any Herb at the latter end of the
  Book, make this as you are taught there, and do not (you
  that have any Ingenuity in you) see your poor Neighbors go
  with wounded Limbs when a Halfpenny cost will heal them.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h206}
@section 3 {tt}
  PRIVET.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our common Privet is carried up with many slender
  Branches, to a reasonable height and breadth, to cover
  Arbours, Bowrs, and Banquetting Houses, and brought,
  wrought, and cut into many forms, of Men, Horses, Birds,
  &c° which though at first supported, groweth afterwards
  strong of it self: It beareth long and narrow green Leavs
  by couples, and sweet smelling white Flowers in tufts at
  the ends of the Branches, which turn into smal black
  Berries that have a Purplish Juyce within them, and some
  Seeds that are flat on the one side, with a hole or dent
  therein.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in this Land in divers Woods.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our Privet Flowreth in June and July; The Berries are
  ripe in August and September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is little used in Physick with us in these times,
  more than in Lotions to wash Sores, and Sore Mouths, and
  to cool Inflamations and dry up Fluxes.  Yet Mathiolus
  saith it serveth to all the uses for which Ciprus or the
  East Privet is appointed by Dioscorides and Galen.  He
  further saith, That the Oyl that is made of the Flowers of
  Privet infused therin, and set in the Sun, is singular
  {Note 268 here}
  good for the Inflamations of Wounds, and for the Headach
  coming of an hot caus.  There is a sweet water also
  distilled from the Flowers that is good for all those
  Diseases that need cooling and drying, and therefore
  helpeth all Fluxes of the Belly or Stomach.  Bloody
  Fluxes, and Womens Courses, being either drunk or applied,
  as also for those that void Blood at their Mouth or at any
  other place, and for Distillations of Rhewms into the Eyes
  especially if it be used with Tutiae.
  =
@begin {m268}
  {Note 268:} Lotions to wash sore Mouths & Throats, Cool
  Inflamations, Dry Fluxes, Inflamation in Wounds, Headach,
  Fluxes, & Womens Courses, Voiding Blood, Rhewm in the
  Eyes.
@end {m268}
      QUEEN of the MEADOWS, MEADOW~SWEET, or MEAD~SWEET.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Stalks of this are reddish, rising to be three foot
  high, somtimes four or five foot, having at the Joynts
  thereof large winged Leavs, standing one above another at
  distances, consisting of many and somwhat broad Leavs, set
  on each side of a middle rib , being hard, rough, or
  rugged, crumpled much like to Elm Leavs, having also some
  smaller Leavs with them (as Agrimony hath) somewhat deeply
  dented about the edges, of a sad green colour on the upper
  side, and graish underneath, of a pretty sharp scent and
  tast, somwhat like unto Burnet, and a Leaf hereof put into
  a Cup of Claret Wine giveth also a fine rellish to it: At
  the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand many tufts of
  small white Flowers, thrust thick together, which smel
  much sweeter than the Leavs: and in their places, being
  fallen, come crooked and cornered Seed; The Root is
  somwhat woody, and blackish on the outside, and  brownish within, with divers greater strings, and lesser Fibres set
  thereat, of a strong scent, but nothing so pleasant as the
  Flowers and Leavs and perisheth not, but abideth many
  yeers, shooting forth anew every Spring.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in moist Meadows, that lie much wet, or neer
  the Courses of Water.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in some place or other all the three Summer
  Months, that is, June, July, and August, and their Seed is
  ripe quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is used to stay all manner of Bleedings, Fluxes,
  Vomitings, and Womens courses, and also their Whites, It
  is said to alter and take away the fits of Quartan Agues,
  and to make a merry heart, for which purpose some use the
  Flowers, and some the Leavs.  It helpeth speedily those
  that are troubled with the Chollick, being boyled in Wine;
  {Note 269 here}
  and with a little Honey taken warm, it openeth the Belly:
  but boyled in red Wine and drunk it stayeth the Flux of
  the Belly.  Being outwardly applied, it healeth old Ulcers
  that are Cankrous or eaten, or hollow and Fistulous, for
  which it is by many much commended, as also for the Sores
  in the Mouth or secret parts.
  =
@begin {m269}
  {Note 269:} Bleedings, Fluxes, Vomitings, Womens Courses,
  and the Whites, Quartan Ague, Chollick, Opens the Belly,
  Old Ulcers healeth, Sore Mouths, or Secrets, Raise
  Blisters, Inflamation in the Eyes.
@end {m269}
     The Leavs when they are full grown being laid upon the
  Skin, will in a short time raise Blisters thereon, as
  Tragus saith.  The water thereof helpeth the heat and
  Inflamation in the Eyes.
  =
     Venus claims dominion over the Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h207}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE QUINCE~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Ordinary Quince~tree groweth often to the height
  and bigness of a reasonable Apple tree, but more usually
  lower and crooked with a rough Bark, spreading Arms and
  Branches far abroad.  The Leavs are somwhat like those of
  the Apple~tree, but thicker, harder, and fuller of Veins,
  and white on the under side, not dented at all about the
  edges.  The Flowers are large and white, somtimes dash'd
  over with a Blush: The Fruit that followeth is yellow,
  being neer ripe, and covered with a white Freez or Cotton,
  thick set on the yonger, and growing les as they grow to
  be through ripe; bunched out often times in some places,
  some being liker an Apple and some a Pear, of a strong
  heady scent, and not durable to keep, and is sowr, harsh,
  and of an unpleasant tast to eat fresh, but being scalded,
  roasted, baked, or preserved, becometh more pleasant.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It best likes to grow neer Ponds and Water~sides, and
  is frequent through this Land; and Flowreth not until the
  Leavs be come forth.  The Fruit is ripe in September or
  October.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Quince when they are green, helps all sorts of Fluxes
  in man or Woman, and Chollerick, Lasks, Castings, and
  whatsoever needeth Astriction more than any way prepared
  by fire: Yet the Syrup of the Juyce, or the Conserve, are
  much conducible much of the binding quality being consumed
  by the fire: If a little Vinegar be added, it stirreth up
  the languishing Appetite, and the Stomach given to
  casting; Some Spices being added, it comforteth and
  strengthneth the decayed and fainting Spirits, and helpeth
  the Liver oppressed; that it cannot perfect the digestion,
  and correcteth Choller and Flegm: If you would have them
  Purging, put Honey to them instead of Sugar; and if more
  Laxative, for Choller, Rubarb; for Flegm, Turbith; for
  watery Humors, Scammony, but if more forcibly to bind, use
  the unripe Quince with Roses, and Acacia, or Hypocistis,
  and some torrefied Rubarb.  To take of the crude Juyce of
  Quinces, is held a Preservative against the force of
  deadly poyson; for it hath been found most certain true,
  that the very smel of a Quince hath taken away all the
  strength of the Poyson of White Hellebore.  If there be
  need of any outward binding and cooling of any hot Fluxes;
  {Note 270 here}
  The Oyl of Quinces, or other Medicines that may be made
  thereof are very available to anoint the Belly, or other
  parts therewith: It likewise strengtheneth the Stomach and
  Belly, and the Sinews that are loosned by sharp Humors
  falling on them, and restraineth immoderate sweatings.
  The Muccilage taken from the Seeds of Quinces boyled a
  little in Water, is very good to cool the Head and heal
  the Sore Breasts of Women.  The same with a little Sugar
  is good to lenefie the harshness and hoarsness of the
  Throat, and roughness of the Tongue.  The Cotton or Down
  of Quinces boyled and applied to Plague Sores, healeth
  them up; and laid as a Playster made up with Wax, it
  bringeth hair to them that are bald, and keepeth it from
  falling if it be ready to shed.
  =
@begin {m270}
  {Note 270:} Fluxes, Lasks &c°, Provoketh Appetite, stayeth
  Vomiting, Fainting Spirits, Choller, Flegm, Poyson, Womens
  Breasts, Plague Sores, Preserveth Hair.
@end {m270}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h208}
@section 3 {tt}
  RADISH and HORSE~RADISH.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Garden Radish is so wel known that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Hors~Radish hath his first Leavs that rise before
  Winter, about a foot and a half long, very much cut in or
  torn on the edges into many parts of a dark green colour,
  with a great Rib in the middle: After these have been up a
  while, others follow, which are greater, rougher, broader,
  and longer whol, and not devided as the first, but only
  somwhat roundly dented about the edges: The Stalk when it
  beareth Flowers (which is but seldom) is great rising up
  with some few lesser Leavs thereon to three or four foot
  high, spreading at the top many smal Branches of whitish
  Flowers, made of four Leavs apiece after which come smal
  Pods like those of Shepheards~Purs, but seldom with any
  Seed in them.  The Root is great, long, white, and rugged
  shooting up divers Heads of Leavs, which may be parted for
  encreas, but it doth not creep within ground nor run above
  ground, and is of a strong sharp and bitter tast, almost
  like Mustard.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found wild in some places of this Land, but is
  chiefly planted in Gardens where it joyeth in a moist and
  shadowy place.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth but seldom, but when it doth, it is in
  July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Juyce of Hors~Radish given in drink is held to be
  very effectual for the Scurvy.  It killeth the Worms in
  Children being drunk, and also laid upon the Belly.  The
  {Note 271 here}
  Root bruised and laid to the place grieved with the
  Sciatica, Joynt~ach, or the hard Swellings of the Liver
  and Spleen doth wonderfully help them all.  The Distilled
  water of the Herb and Roots is more familiar to be taken
  with a little Sugar for all the purposes aforesaid.
  =
@begin {m271}
  {Note 271:} Scurvy, Worms, Sciatica, Liver, & Spleen.
@end {m271}
     Garden Radishes are in wantonness by the Gentry eaten
  as Sallet, but they breed but scurvy Humors in the
  Stomach, and corrupt the Blood, and then send for a
  Physitian as fast as you can, this is one caus, makes the
  {Note 272 here}
  owners of such nice Pallats so unhealthful, yet for such
  as are troubled with the Gravel, Stone, or stoppage of
  Urine, they are good Physick if the Body be strong that
  takes them, you may make the Juyce of the Roots into a
  Syrup if you pleas for that use, they purge by Urine
  exceedingly.
  =
@begin {m272}
  {Note 272:} Stone, Disury.
@end {m272}
     I know not what Planet they are under, I think none of
  all the Seven will own them.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h209}
@section 3 {tt}
  RAGWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The greater common Ragwort hath many large and long
  dark green Leavs lying on the ground, very much rent and
  torn on the sides into many pieces, from among which rise
  up somtimes but one, and sometimes two or three square or
  crested blackish or brownish Stalks three or four foot
  high, sometimes branched bearing diverse such like Leavs
  upon them at several distances unto the tops, where it
  brancheth forth into many Stalks bearing yellow Flowers,
  consisting of diverse Leaves set as a Pale or Border, with
  a dark yellow thrum in the middle, which do abide a great
  while, but at last are turned into Down, and with the smal
  blackish gray Seed are carried away with the wind.  The
  Root is made of many Fibres, whereby it is firmly fastned
  into to the ground, and abideth many yeers.
  =
     There is another sort hereof different from the former
  only in this, That it riseth not so nigh; the Leavs are
  not so finely jagged, not of so dark a green colour, but
  rather somwhat whitish, soft and woolly, and the Flowers
  usually paler.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow both in them wild in Pastures, and untilled
  grounds in many places, and oftentimes both of them in one
  Field.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Ragwort, Clenseth, Digesteth, and Discusseth.  The
  Decoction of the Herb to wash the Mouth or Throat that
  have Ulcers or Sores therein; and for Swellings, hardness,
  or Impostumations, for it throughly clenseth and healeth
  them; as also the Quinsie and the Kings Evil: It helpeth
  to stay Catarrhes, thin Rhewms & Defluxions from the Head
  into the Eyes, Nose, or Lungs.  The Juyce is found by
  experience to be singular good to heal green Wounds, and
  {Note 273 here}
  to clense and heal all old and filthy Ulcers in the
  Privities and in other parts of the Body; as also inward
  Wounds and Ulcers, and stayeth the Malignity of fretting
  or running Cankers and hollow Fistulaes, not suffering
  them to spread further.  It is also much commended to help
  Aches and pains either in the Fleshy parts or in the Nervs
  and Sinews; as also the Sciatica, or pain of the Hips or
  Huckle~Bone, to bath the  places with the Decoction of the
  Herb, or to anoint them with an Oyntment made of the Herb
  bruised and boyled in old Hogs Suet, with some Mastich and
  Olibanum in Pouder, added unto it after it is strained
  forth.
  =
@begin {m273}
  {Note 273:} Sore Mouth or Throat, Swellings and Impostumes,
  Quinsie & Kings Evil, Catarrhs & Defluxions, Green Wounds
  & Ulcers in the privy Parts, Running Cankers, & hollow
  Fistulaes, Aches & pains, Sciatica.
@end {m273}
     In Sussex we call it Ragweed.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h210}
@section 3 {tt}
  RATTLE~GRASS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Of this there are two kinds, which I shall speak of,
  Viz° The Red and yellow.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common red Rattle, hath sundry reddish hollow
  Stalks, and somtimes green rising from the Root, lying for
  the most part on the ground, yet some growing more
  upright, with many smal reddish or greenish Leavs set on
  both sides of a middle Rib finely dented about the edges:
  The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks and Branches,
  of a fine purplish red colour, like smal gaping hoods,
  after which come flat blackish Seed in small Husks, which
  lying loos therein, will Rattle with shaking.  The Root
  consists of two or three small whitish strings, with some
  fibres thereat.
  =
     The common Yellow Rattle hath seldom above one round
  green Stalk rising from the Root, about half a yard or two
  foot high, and but few Branches theron having two long and
  somwhat broad Leavs set at a Joynt, deeply cut in on the
  edges, resembling the Comb of a Cock, broadest next to the
  Stalk and smaller to the end:  The Flowers grow at the
  tops of the Stalks with some shorter Leavs with them,
  hooded after the same manner that the others are, but of a
  fair yellow colour in most, or in some paler, and in some
  more white.  The Seed is contained in large Husks, and
  being ripe will rattle or make a nois with lying loose in
  them.  The Root is small and slender perishing every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in our Meadows and Woods, generally through
  this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
    They are in Flower from Midsummer until August be past
  somtimes.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Red Rattle is accounted profitable to heal up
  Fistulaes, and hollow Ulcers and to stay the Flux of
  Humors to them, as also the abundance of Womens Courses,
  or any other Flux of Blood, being boyled in red Wine and
  drunk.
  {Note 274 here}
  =
@begin {m274}
  {Note 274:} Fistulaes, & hollow Ulcers, Womens Courses,
  Fluxes, Cough, Dim Sight.
@end {m274}
     The Yellow Rattle or Cocks Comb is held to Be good for
  those that are troubled with a Cough, or with Dimness of
  Sight, if the Herb being boyled with Beans, and some Honey
  put thereto, be drunk, or dropped into the Eyes.  The whol
  Seed being put into the Eyes draweth forth any Skin,
  Dimness, or Film from the sight without trouble or pain.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h211}
@section 3 {tt}
  REST~HARROW, or CAMMOAK.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Rest~Harrow riseth up with divers rough
  woody twigs, half a yard, or a yard high, set at the
  Joynts without order, with little roundish Leavs somtimes
  more than two or three at a place, of a dark green colour,
  without thorns while they are yong, but afterwards armed
  in sundry places with short and sharp Thorns.  The Flowers
  come forth at the tops of the twigs and Branches whereof
  it is ful, fashioned like Peas, or Broom Blossoms, but
  lesser, flatter, and somwhat closer, of a faint purplish
  colour; after which come smal Pods, containing smal, flat,
  and round Seed: The Root is blackish on the outside and
  whitish within, very tough and hard to break when it is
  fresh and green, and as hard as an Horn when it is dried,
  thrusting down deep into the ground, and spreading
  likewise, every piece being apt to grow again if it be
  left in the ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of this Land, as well in the
  Arable as wast ground.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about the beginning or middle of July, and
  the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is singular good to provoke Urine when it is
  stopped, and to break and drive forth the Stone, which the
  Pouder of the Bark of the Root taken in Wine performeth
  effectually.  Mathiolus saith, the same helpeth the
  Disease called Hiernia Carnosa, the Fleshy Rupture by
  taking the said Pouder for some Months together
  constantly, and that it hath cured some which seemed
  incurable by any other means than by cutting or burning.
  {Note 275 here}
  The Decoction thereof made with some Vinegar and gargled
  in the Mouth, easeth the Toothach, especially when it
  comes of Rhewm; and the said Decoction is very powerful to
  open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and other
  parts.  A Distilled Water made in Balneo Mariae with four
  pound of the Roots hereof first sliced smal, and
  afterwards steeped in a Gallon of Canary Wine, is singular
  good for all the purposes aforesaid and to clens the
  passages of the Urine.  The Pouder of the said Root made
  into an Electuary or Lozenges with Sugar: as also the Bark
  of the fresh Roots boyled tender and afterwards beaten
  into a Conserve with Sugar, worketh the like effect.  The
  Pouder of  the Roots strewed upon the Brims of Ulcers, or
  mixed with any other convenient thing and applied
  consumeth the hardness and causeth them to heal the
  better.
  =
@begin {m275}
  {Note 275:} Urine stopped, Stone, Fleshy Rupture, Toothach,
  Liver & Spleen Obstructed, Ulcers.
@end {m275}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h212}
@section 3 {tt}
  ROCKET.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     In regard the garden Rocket is rather used as a Sallet
  Herb than to any Physical purposes.  I shall omit it, and
  only speak of the common wild Rocket: The Description
  whereof take as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The comon wild Rocket, hath longer and narrower Leavs
  much more devided into slender cuts and jags on both sides
  of the middle Rib, than the Garden kinds have, of a sad or
  verworn green colour, from among which riseth up divers
  still Stalks two or three foot high, sometimes set with
  the like Leavs but smaller, and smaller upwards, branched
  from the middle into divers stiff Stalks, bearing sundry
  yellow Flowers on them made of four Leavs apiece, as the
  others are, which afterwards yield smal reddish Seed, in
  smal long Pods, of a more bitter and hot biting tast than
  the Garden kinds, as the Leavs are also.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found wild in divers places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about June and July, and the Seed is ripe
  in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Wild Rocket is more strong and effectual to encreas
  Sperm and Venerous qualities, whereunto also the Seed is
  more effectual than the Garden kinds:  It serveth also to
  help Digestion and provoketh Urine exceedingly.  The Seed
  is used to cure the bitings of Serpents, the Scorpion, and
  the Shrew~Mouse, and other Poysons, and expelleth Worms
  and other noisom Creatures that breed in the Body.  The
  {Note 276 here}
  Herb boyled or stewed, and some Sugar put there to,
  helpeth the Cough in Children being taken often.  The Seed
  also taken in drink taketh away the ill scent of the
  Armpits, encreaseth Milk in Nurses, and wasteth the
  Spleen.  The Seed mixed with Honey, and used on the face,
  clenseth the Skin from Spots, Morphew and other
  discolourings therein: and used with Vinegar taketh away
  Freckles and redness in the Face or other parts, and with
  the Gall of an Ox, it amendeth foul Scars, black and blew
  Spots, and the marks of the smal Pox.
  =
@begin {m276}
  {Note 276:} Increaseth Sperm & Venery, Helps Digestion,
  Provokes Urine, Biting of Serpents &c°, Cough in Children,
  Increaseth Milk, Clenseth the Face, Scars, Blue Spots,
  Marks of smal Pox.
@end {m276}
     The wild Rockets are forbidden to be used alone in
  regard their sharpness fumeth into the Head, causing ach
  and pain therein: and are no less hurtful to hot and
  Chollerick persons, for fear of inflaming their Blood, and
  therfore for such we may say, a little doth but a little
  harm.  For angry Mars rules them, and he somtimes will be
  testy when he meets with Fools.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h213}
@section 3 {tt}
  WINTER ROCKET, or CRESSES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Winter Rocket, or Winter Cresses, hath diverse somwhat
  large sad green Leavs lying upon the ground, torn or cut
  into divers parts, somwhat like unto Rocket, or Turnep
  Leavs with smaller pieces next the bottom, and broad at
  the ends which so abide all Winter (if it spring up in
  Autumn, when it is used to be eaten) from among which
  riseth up divers smal round Stalks full of branches,
  bearing many smal yellow Flowers of four Leavs apiece,
  after which come smal long Pods with reddish Seed in them:
  The Root is somwhat stringy, and perisheth every yeer
  after the Seed is ripe.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth of its own accord in Gardens and Fields by
  the way sides in diverse places, and particularly in the
  next Pasture to the Conduit~Head behind Grayes~Inne that
  brings Water to Mr° Lamb's Conduit in Holbourn.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in May, and Seedeth in June, and then
  perisheth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is profitable to provoke Urine, and helpeth the
  Strangury, and to expel Gravel and the Stone; It is also
  of good effect in the Scurvy: It is found by experience to
  {Note 277 here}
  be a singular good Wound Herb, to clense inward Wounds,
  the Juyce or Decoction being drunk, or outwardly applied
  to wash foul Ulcers and Sores, clensing them by sharpness,
  and hindring or abating the dead Flesh from growing
  therein and healing them by the drying quality.
  =
@begin {m277}
  {Note 277:} Strangury, Gravel & Stone, Scurvy, Wounds,
  Ulcers, & Sores.
@end {m277}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h214}
@section 3 {tt}
  ROSES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     I hold it altogether needless to trouble the Reader
  with a Description of any of these, sith both the Garden
  Roses, and the Wild Roses of the Bryars are well enough
  known; Take therefore the Vertues of them as followeth:  And first I shal begin with the Garden kinds.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The White and the Red Roses are cooling and drying, yet
  the White is taken to exceed the Red in both those
  properties, but is seldom used inwardly in any Medicine.
  The bitterness in the Roses when they are fresh,
  especially the Juyce purgeth Choller, and watery Humors,
  but being dried and that heat which caused the bitterness
  being consumed, they have then a binding and astringent
  quality; Those also that are not ful blown do both cool
  and bind more than those that are full blown, and the
  White Roses more than the Red.  The Decoction of Red Roses
  {Note 278 here}
  made with Wine and used, is very good for the Headach, and
  pains in the Eyes, Ears, Throat, and Gums, as also for the
  Fundament, the lower Bowels, and the Matrix, being bathed,
  or put into them.  The same Decoction with the Roses
  remaining in it is profitably applyed to the Region of the
  Heart to eas the Inflamation therin; as also St° Anthonies
  fire, and other Diseases of the Stomach.  Being dried and
  beaten to Pouder, and taken in steeled Wine or Water, it
  helpeth to stay Womens Courses.  The yellow threds in the
  middle of the red Roses (wch are erroniously called the
  Rose Seeds) being poudered and drunk in the distilled
  water of Quinces, stayeth the overflowing of Womens
  Courses, and doth wonderfully stay the Defluxions of Rhewm
  upon the Gums and Teeth, preserving them from corruption,
  and fastning them if they be loose, being washed and
  {Note 279 here}
  gargled therewith, and some Vinegar of Squils added
  thereto.  The Heads with Seed being used in Pouder or in a
  Decoction, stayeth the Lask, and spitting of Blood.   Red
  Roses do strengthen the Heart, the Stomack, and the Liver,
  and the retentive Faculties, they mitigate the pains that
  arise from Heat, asswage Inflamations, procure rest and
  sleep, stay both Whites and Reds in Women, the Gonorrhea,
  running of the Reins, and the Fluxes of the Belly; The
  Juyce of them doth purge and clens the Body from Choller
  and Flegm: The Husks of the Roses with the Beards and
  Nails of the Roses are binding and cooling, and the
  Distilled Water of either of them is good for the Heat and
  redness in the Eyes, and to stay and dry up the Rhewms and
  watering of them.  Of the Red Roses are usually made many
  Compositions all serving to sundry good uses; Viz°
  Electuary of Roses; Conserve both moist and dry, which is
  more usually called Sugar of Roses; Syrup of dryed Roses,
  and Honey of Roses; The Cordial Pouder called Diarhodon
  Abbatis, and Aromatica Rosarum; The Distilled Water of
  Roses, Vinegar of Roses, Oyntment and Oyl of Roses, and
  the Rose Leavs dried, which although no Composition, yet
  of very great use and effect.  To write at large of
  {Note 280 here}
  everyone of these would make my Book swel too big, it
  being sufficient for a Volum by it self to speak fully of
  them: But briefly; The Electuary is purging, whereof two
  or three Drams taken by it self in some convenient Liquor
  is a Purge sufficient for a weak Constitution; but may be
  encreased to six drams according to the strength of the
  Patient.  It purgeth Choller without trouble, and is good
  in hot Feavers, and pains of the Head arising from hot
  Chollerick Humors, and heat in the Eyes, the Jaundice
  also, and Joynt Aches proceeding of hot Humors.  The moist
  Conserve is of much use, both binding and Cordial, for
  until it be about two years old it is more binding than
  Cordial, and after that, more Cordial than Binding: Some
  of the yonger Conserve taken with Methridatum mixed
  together, is good for those that are troubled with
  Distillations of Rhewm from the Brain to the Nose, and
  Defluxions of Rhewm into the Eyes, as also for Fluxes, and
  Lasks of the Belly; and being mixed with the Pouder of
  Mastick is very good for the Running of the Reins, and for
  other loosness of Humors in the Body.  The old Conserve
  {Note 281 here}
  mixed with Aromaticum Rosarum is a very good Cordial
  against Faintings, Swounings, Weakness, and Tremblings of
  the Heart, strengthning both it, and a weak Stomach,
  helpeth digestion, stayeth casting, and is a very good
  Preservative in the time of Infection.  The dry Conserve
  which is called Sugar of Roses, is a very good Cordial to
  strenthen the Heart and Spirits as also to stay
  Defluxions.  The Syrup of dried Red Roses strenthneth a
  Stomack given to casting, cooleth an overheated Liver and
  the Blood in Agues, comforteth the Heart and resisteth
  putrefaction and infection, and helpeth to stay Lasks and
  Fluxes.  Honey of Roses is much used in Gargles and
  Lotions to wash Sores either in the Mouth, Throat, or
  other parts, both to clens and heal them, and to stay the
  Fluxes of Humors falling upon them; it is also used in
  Clisters both to cool and clens.  The Cordial Pouders
  called Diarhodon Abbatis and Aromaticum Rosarum do comfort
  and strengthen the Heart and Stomach, procure an Appetite,
  help Digestion, stayeth Vomiting; and is very good for
  {Note 282 here}
  those that have slippery Bowels to strengthen them, and to
  dry up their moisture.  Red Rose Water is of well known
  and familiar use in all occasions (and better than Damask
  Rose Water) being cooling and Cordial, refreshing and
  quickning the weak and faint Spirits, used either in meats
  or broths, to wash the Temples, or to smel to at the Nose,
  or to smel the sweet vapors therof out of a perfuming Pot
  or cast on a hot Fire~shovel: It is also of much good use
  against the redness and Inflamations in the eyes to bath
  them therewith, and the Temples of  the Head also against
  pain and ach for which purpose also Vinegar of Roses is of
  much good use, and to procure rest and sleep, if some
  thereof and Rosewater together be used to smel unto, or
  the Nose and Temples moistned therewith, but more usually
  to moisten a piece of Red Rose Cake cut fit for the
  purpose, and heated between a double folded Cloth, with a
  little beaten Nutmeg and Poppy Seed strewed on the side
  that must lie next to the Forehead & Temples, & so bound
  therto for al night.  The Oyntment of Roses is much used
  against heat & Inflamations in the Head, to anoint the
  forhead & temples, & being mixed with Unguentum Populeon,
  to procure rest; as also it is used for the heat of the
  Liver, of the Back and Reins, and to cool and heal Pushes,
  Wheals and other red Pimples rising in the Face or other
  parts.  Oyl of Roses is not only used by it self to coole
  any hot Swellings or Inflamations, and to bind and stay
  Fluxes of Humors unto Sores, but is also put into
  Oyntments and Plaisters that are cooling and binding, and
  restraining the Flux of Humors.  The dried Leavs of the
  Red Roses are used both inward and outwardly, both
  cooling, binding, and Cordial, for with them are made both
  Aromaticum Rosarum, Diarhodon Abbatis, and Saccharum
  Rosarum, each of whose Properties are before declared.
  Rose Leavs and Mints heated and applied outwardly to the
  Stomach, stayeth castings, and very much strengthneth a
  weak Stomach; and applied as a Fomentation to the Region
  of the Liver and Heart, doth much cool and temper them,
  {Note 283 here}
  and also serveth instead of a Rose Cake (as is said
  before) to quiet the over hot spirits and cause rest and
  sleep.  The Syrup of Damask Roses is both Simple and
  Compound, and made with Agrick.  The Simple Solutive
  Syrup, is a familiar, safe, gentle, and easie Medicine,
  purging Choller, taken from one ounce to three or four;
  yet this is remarkable herein, That the distilled Water of
  this Syrup should notably bind the Belly; The Syrup with
  Agrick is more strong and effectual, for one ounce thereof
  by it self will open the Body more than the other, and
  worketh as much on Flegm as Choller.  The Compound Syrup
  is more forcible in working on Melanchollick Humors, and
  available against the Lepry, Itch, Tetters, &c, and the
  French Diseas: Also Honey of Roses Solutive is made of the
  same infusion that the Syrup is made of, and therefore
  worketh the same effect both in opening and purging, but
  is oftener given to Flegmatick than Chollerick persons,
  and is more used in Clysters than in Potions, as the Syrup
  made with Sugar is.  The Conserve and Preserved Leavs of
  these Roses are also operative, in gently opening the
  Belly. The Simple Water of the Damask Roses is chiefly
  {Note 284 here}
  used for fumes to sweeten things, as the dried Leavs
  thereof to make sweet Pouders, and fill sweet Bags, and
  little use they are put to in Physick, although they have
  some purging quality; The wild Roses also are few or none
  of them used in Physick, but yet are generally held to
  come neer the Nature of the Manured Roses.  The Fruit of
  the wild Bryar which are called Heps being throughly ripe
  and made into a Conserve with Sugar besides the
  pleasantness of the tast doth gently bind the Belly, and
  stay Defluxions from the Head upon the Stomach, drying up
  the moisture thereof, and helpeth digestion.  The Pulp of
  the Heps dried unto a hard consistence, like to the Juyce
  {Note 285 here}
  of Liquoris, or so dried that it may be made into Pouder
  and taken in drink stayeth speedily the Whites in Women.
  The Bryar Ball is often used being made into Pouder and
  drunk to break the Stone, to provoke Urine when it is
  stopped, and to eas and help the Chollick; some appoint it
  to be burnt, and then taken for the same purpose.  In the
  middle of these Balls are often found certain white Worms,
  which being dried and made into Pouder, and some of it
  drunk, is found by experience of many to kill and drie
  forth the Worms of the Belly.
  =
@begin {m278}
  {Note 278:} Choller, & Waterish Humors, Headach, Pains in
  the Ears, Eyes, Throat & Gums, Fundament, Bowels & Matrix.
@end {m278}
@begin {m279}
  {Note 279:} St° Anthonies fire, Stomach, Womens Courses,
  Defluxions, fastneth Teeth, Lask & spitting of Blood, Heat
  & Inflamations, Rest & sleep, Whites & Reds in Women,
  Choller & Flegm, Redness & watering of the Eyes.
@end {m279}
@begin {m280}
  {Note 280:} A Purge for Choller, Hot Feavers, Pains of the
  Head, Heat of the Eyes, Jaundice, & Joynt Aches,
  Distillations, & Defluxions of Rhewm, Fluxes, & Lasks,
  running of the Reins, Faintings, Swounings & trembling of
  the Heart, Helpeth Digestion, Stayeth casting, Infection,
  Cooleth the Liver & Blood, resisteth Putrefaction, &
  Infection, sore Mouths, Throats, &c°.
@end {m280}
@begin {m281}
  {Note 281:} Comfort the Heart & Stomach, stay vomiting,
  Faint spirits, Redness of Eyes.
@end {m281}
@begin {m282}
  {Note 282:} Procure sleep, Heat of the Liver, Back & Reins,
  Pushes, Wheals & Pimples, Fluxes of Humors.
@end {m282}
@begin {m283}
  {Note 283:} Weak stomach, Purge Choller, Bind the Belly.
@end {m283}
@begin {m284}
  {Note 284:} Melanchollick, Humors, Lepry, Itch, Tetters,
  French Pox, Opens the Belly.
@end {m284}
@begin {m285}
  {Note 285:} Bind the Belly, & stay Defluxions, Whites in
  Women, Stone, provoke Urine, Chollick, Worms.
@end {m285}
     What a quarter have Authors made with Roses, what a
  racket have they kept? I shal ad, Red Roses are under
  Jupiter, Damask under Venus, and White under the Moon, and
  Province under the King of France.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h215}
@section 3 {tt}
  ROSA SOLIS, or SUN~DEW.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath diverse smal round hollow Leavs, somwhat
  greenish, but full of certain red hairs, which makes them
  seem red, every one standing upon its own Footstalk,
  reddish hairy likewise.  The Leavs are continualty moist
  in the hottest day, yea the hotter the Sun shines on them
  the moister they are, with a certain sliminess that will
  ripe (as we say) the smal hairs alwaies holding this
  moisture: Among these Leavs rise up small slender stalks,
  reddesh also, three or four fingers high, bearing diverse
  smal white Knobs one above another which are the Flowers,
  after which in the Heads are certain smal Seeds.  the Root
  is a few small hairs.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth usually on Bogs, and in wet places, and
  somtimes in moist Woods.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, and then the Leavs are fittest to
  be gathered.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Rosa Solis is accounted good to help those that have
  salt Rhewm distilling on their Lungs which breedeth a
  Consumption, and therfore   the Distilled water thereof in
  Wine is held fit and profitable for such to drink, which
  {Note 286 here}
  Water will be of a gold yellow colour: The same Water is
  held to be good for all other Diseases of the Lungs, as
  Phtisicks, Wheesing, shortness of Breath, or the Cough; as
  also to heal the Ulcers that happen in the Lungs, and it
  comforteth the Heart and fainting Spirits; The Leavs
  outwardly applied to the Skin will raise Blisters, which
  hath caused some to think it, dangerous to be taken
  inward; but there are other things which will also draw
  Blisters, yet nothing dangerous to be taken inwardly.
  There is an usual Drink made hereof with Aqua vitae and
  Spices frequently, and without any offence or danger, but
  to good purpose used in qualms and passions of the Heart.
  =
@begin {m286}
  {Note 286:} Distillations of Rhewm, Phtisick, Wheesings;
  Shortness of breath, Cough, Ulcers in the Lungs, Comfort
  the Heart, Raise Blisters.  Passions of the Heart.
@end {m286}
     The Sun rules it, and 'tis under the Sign Cancer.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h216}
@section 3 {tt}
  ROSEMARY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Our Garden Rosemary is so well known, that I need not
  here describe it.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in April and May with us, and somtimes
  again in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is an Herb of as great use with us in these daies,
  as any whatsoever, not only for Physical but Civil
  purposes.  The Physical use of it (being my present Task)
  is very much, both for inward and outward Diseases; For by
  the warming and comforting heat thereof it helpeth all
  cold Diseases, both of the Head, Stomach, Liver, and
  Belly.  The Decoction thereof in Wine helpeth the cold
  Distillations of Rhewm into the Eyes, and all other cold
  Diseases of the Head and Brain, as the Giddiness or
  swimming therein, Drowsiness, or Dulness of the mind and
  senses, like a stupidness, the dumb Palsey, or loss of
  speech, the Lethargy, and Falling~sickness, to be both
  drunk and the Temples bathed therewith.  It helpeth the
  pains in the Gums and Teeth, by Rhewm falling into them,
  {Note 287 here}
  or by putrefaction causing an evil smel from them, or a
  stinking Breath.  It helpeth a weak Memory, and quickneth
  the Senses.  It is very comfortable to the Stomach in all
  the old Griefs thereof, helping both retention of meat,
  and digestion, the Decoction or Pouder being taken in
  Wine: It is a Remedy for the windiness in the Stomach or
  Bowels, and expelleth it powerfully, as also Wind in the
  Spleen.  It helpeth those that are Livergrown, by opening
  the Obstructions thereof.  It helpeth dim Eyes, and
  procureth a cleer sight, the Flowers thereof being taken
  all the while it is Flowring, every morning fasting with
  bread and Salt.  Both Dioscorides and Galen say, That if a
  Decoction be made thereof with Water and they that have
  the yellow Jaundice do exercise their Bodies presently
  after the taking thereof, it will certainly cure it:  The
  Flowers and the Conserve made of them, is singular good to
  comfort the Heart, and to expel the contagion of the
  Pestilence; to burn the Herb in Houses and Chambers
  correcteth the Air in them: Both the Flowers and the Leavs
  are very profitable for Women that are troubled with the
  Whites, if they be daily taken.  The dried Leavs shred
  smal and taken in a Pipe like as Tobacco is taken, helpeth
  those that have any Cough or Phtisick, or Consumption, by
  warming and drying the thin Distillations which caus those
  Diseases.  The Leavs are much used in Bathings, and made
  into Oyntments or Oyls, is singular good to help cold
  benummed Joynts, Sinews, or Members.  The Chimical Oyl
  drawn from the Leavs and Flowers, is a Soveraign help for
  all the Diseases aforesaid; to touch the Temples and
  {Note 288 here}
  Nostrils with two or three drops, for all the Diseases of
  the Head and Brains spoken of before; as also to take a
  drop two or three as the caus requireth for the inward
  griefs, yet must it be done with Descretion, for it is
  very quick and piercing, and therefore but a very little
  must be taken at a time.  There is also another Oyl made
  by insolation in this manner:  Take what quantity you will
  of the Flowers, and put them into a strong Glass close
  stopped, tie a fine linnen cloth over the Mouth, and turn
  the Mouth down into another strong Glass, which being set
  in the Sun, an Oyl will distill down into the lower Glass,
  to be preserved as precious for divers uses, both inward
  and outward as a Sovereign Balm to heal the Diseases
  before mentioned, to cleer a dim sight, and to take away
  spots, marks and scars in the skin.
  =
@begin {m287}
  {Note 287:} Cold Diseases, Rhewm, swimming of the Head,
  Drowsiness, Stupidity, Dumb Palsey, Lethargy & Falling
  sickness, Toothach, stinking breath, Weak Memory.
@end {m287}
@begin {m288}
  {Note 288:} Stomach, Retention of Meat, Wind, Liver grown,
  Dim sight, Yellow Jaundice, Pestilence, Whites in Women,
  Cough, Phtisick, or Consumption, benummed Joynts, spots
  and scars in the Skin.
@end {m288}
     The Sun claims Priviledg in it and 'tis under the
  Coelestial Ram.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h217}
@section 3 {tt}
  RUBARB, or RHAPONTICK
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Do not start, and say this grows you know not how far
  off; and then ask me, How it comes to pass that I bring it
  among our English Simples: for though the name may speak
  it Forreign yet it grows with us in England, and that
  frequent enough in our Gardens, and when you have
  throughly perused its Vertues, you will conclude it
  nothing inferior to that which is brought us out of China,
  & by that time this hath been as much used as that hath
  been, the name which the other  hath gotten wil be eclipsed
  by the fame of this: Take therfore a Description at large
  of it, as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     At the first appearing out of the ground when the
  Winter is past, it hath a great round brownish head rising
  from the middle or sides of the Root, which openeth it
  self into sundry Leavs one after another, very much
  crumpled or folded together at the first, and brownish,
  but afterward it spreadeth it self and becometh smooth
  very large and almost round, every one standing on a
  brownish Stalk of the thickness of a mans Thumb, when they
  are grown to their fulness, and most of them two foot and
  more in length, especially when they grow in any moist or
  good Ground; and the Stalk of the Leaf also from the
  bottom thereof to the Leaf it self, being also two Foot,
  The breadth thereof from edg to edg in the broadest place,
  being also two foot, of a sad or dark green colour, of a
  fine tart, or sowrish tast, much more pleasant than the
  Garden or Wood sorrel.  From among these riseth up some
  but not every yeer, a strong thick Stalk, not growing so
  high as the Patience or Garden Dock, with such round Leavs
  as grow below, but smaller, at every Joynt up to the top,
  and among the Flowers which are white spreading forth into
  many Branches, and consisting of five or six small white
  Leavs apiece, hardly to be discerned from the white threds
  in the middle, and seeming to be all threds, after which
  come brownish three square Seed like unto other Docks, but
  larger whereby it may be plainly known to be a Dock.  The
  Root groweth in time to be very great, with divers and
  sundry great spreading Branches from it, of a dark,
  brownish, or reddish colour on the outside, with a pale
  yellow skin under it which covereth the inner substance or
  Root, which rind and Skin being pared away, the Root
  appeareth of so fresh and lively a colour, with
  flesh~colour'd Veins running through it, that the choicest
  of that Rubarb that is brought us from beyond the Seas
  cannot excel it: Which Root if it be dried carefully and
  as it ought (which must be in our Countrey by the gentle
  heat of a fire in regard the Sun is not hot enough here to
  do it, and every piece kept from touching one another )
  will hold his colour almost as well as when it is fresh;
  and hath been approved of and commended by those who have
  oftentimes used them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth about the beginning
  or middle of June, and the Seed is ripe in July.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Roots that are to be dried and kept all the yeer
  following, are not to be taken up before the Stalk and
  Leavs be quite withered and gone, and that is not until
  the middle or end of October; and if they be taken a
  little before the Leavs do spring, or when they are sprung
  up, the Roots will not have half so good a colour in them.
  =
     I have given the precedence unto this, becaus in
  vertues also it hath the preheminence; I come now to
  describe unto you that which is called Patience, or Monks
  Rubarb; and next unto that, the great round Leav'd Dock,
  or Bastard Rubarb; for the one of these may happily supply
  in the absence of the other; being not much unlike in
  their Vertues, only one more powerful and efficacious than
  the other; and Lastly; shall shew you the Vertues of all
  the three Sorts.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h218}
@section 3 {tt}
  GARDEN PATIENCE, or MONKS RUBARB.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is a Dock, bearing the name of Rubarb, for some
  purging quality therein, and groweth up with large tall
  Stalks, set with somwhat broad and long fair green Leavs,
  not dented at all; The tops of the Stalks being devided
  into many smal Branches, bear reddish or purplish Flowers,
  and three square Seed like unto other Docks.  The Root is
  long, great and yellow like unto the wild Docks, but a
  little redder, and if it be a little dried sheweth less
  store of discoloured veins, than the next doth when it is
  dry.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h219}
@section 3 {tt}
  GREAT ROUND LEAV'D DOCK, or BASTARD RUBARB.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath divers large, round, thin, yellowish green
  Leavs, rising from the Root, a little waved about the
  edges, every one standing on a reasonable thick, and long
  brownish Footstalk; from among which, riseth up a pretty
  big Stalk about two foot high, with some such like Leavs
  growing thereon, but smaller.  At the top whereof stand in
  a long spike many smal brownish Flowers, which turn into
  hard three square shining brown Seed, like the Garden
  Patience before described.  This Root groweth greater than
  that, with many Branches or great Fibres thereat, yellow
  on the outside, and somwhat pale yellow within, with some
  discoloured veins like to the Rubarb which is first
  discribed, but much less than it, especially when it is
  dry.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place and Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These also grow in Gardens and Flower and Seed at or
  neer the same time that our true Rubarb doth, Viz° they
  Flower in June, and the Seed is ripe in July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     A dram of the dried Root of Monks Rubarb, with a
  scruple of Ginger made into Pouder and taken fasting in a
  draught or mess of warm Broth, purgeth Choller and Flegm
  downward very gently, and safely without danger: The Seed
  thereof contrarily doth bind the Belly, and helpeth to
  stay any sort of Lask or Bloody Flux.  The distilled water
  thereof is very profitably used to heal Scabs, as also
  foul Ulcerous Sores, and to allay the Inflamations of
  them: The Juyce of the Leavs or Roots, or the Decoction of
  them in Vinegar is used as a most effectual Remedy to heal
  Scabs and running Sores.
  =
     The Bastard Rubarb hath all the properties of the Monks
  Rubarb, but more effectual for both inward and outward
  Diseases.  The Decoction thereof with Vinegar dropped into
  the Ears, taketh away the pains: gargled in the Mouth,
  taketh away Toothach, and being drunk healeth the
  Jaundice.  The Seed thereof taken easeth the gnawing and
  griping pains of the Stomach, and taketh away the loathing
  thereof unto Meat: The Root thereof helpeth the ruggedness
  {Note 289 here}
  of the Nails, and being boyled in Wine helpeth the
  Swellings of the Throat, commonly called the Kings evil,
  as also the Swellings of the Kernels of the Ears: It
  helpeth them that are troubled with the Stone; provoketh
  Urine, and helpeth the dimness of the Sight.  The Roots of
  this Bastard Rubarb are used in opening and purging Diet
  Drinks with other things, to open the Liver, and to clens
  and cool the Blood.
  =
@begin {m289}
  {Note 289:} Purge Choller & Flegm, stay Lasks and bloody
  Flux, Scabs & Ulcerous Sores, Running Sores, Pains of the
  Ears, Toothach, Jaundice, pains of the Stomach & loathing
  of Meat, Kings Evil, Stone, Urine, Dim sight.
@end {m289}
     The properties of that which is called the English
  Rubarb, are the same with the former, but much more
  effectual, and hath all the properties of the true Indian
  Rubarb, except the force in purging, wherein it is but of
  half the strength thereof, and therfore a double quantity
  must be used: it likewise hath not that bitterness and
  {Note 290 here}
  astriction; in other things it worketh almost in an equal
  quality, which are these: It purgeth the Body of Choller
  and Flegm, being either taken of it self, made into Pouder
  and drunk in a draught of white Wine, or steeped therein
  all night and taken fasting, or put among other Purgers,
  as shall be thought convenient, clensing the Stomach,
  Liver, and Blood, opening Obstructions, and helping those
  griefs that come thereof; as the Jaundice, Dropsie,
  swelling of the Spleen, Tertian and day Agues, and the
  pricking pain of the sides, and also it stayeth spitting
  of Blood.  The Pouder taken with Cassia dissolved, and a
  little wash'd Venice Turpentine, clenseth the Reins and
  strengthneth them afterwards, and is very effectual to
  stay the running of the Reins or Gonorrea.  It is also
  given for the pains and swellings in the Head, for those
  that are troubled with Melancholly, and helpeth the
  Sciatica, the Gout, and the Cramp.  The Pouder of Rubarb
  taken wih a little Mummia and Madder Roots in some red
  Wine, dissolveth clotted Blood in the Body, hapning by any
  fall or bruise, and healeth burstings and broken parts as
  well inward as outward: The Oyl likewise wherein it hath
  been boyled, worketh the like effects, being anointed.  It
  is used to heal those Ulcers that happen in the Eyes and
  Eyelids, being steeped and strained; as also to asswage
  the Swellings and Inflamations; and applied with Honey, or
  boyled Wine, it taketh away all black and blue Spots or
  Marks that happen therein.  Whey, or white Wine are the
  best Liquors to steep it in, and thereby it worketh more
  effectually in opening Obstructions, and purging the
  Stomach and Liver.  Many do use a little Indian Spicknard
  as the best Correcter thereof.
  =
@begin {m290}
  {Note 290:} Liver & Blood, Choller & Flegm, Obstructions,
  Jaundice, Dropsie, Spleen, Agues, pains of the sides, &
  spitting of Blood, Running of the Reins, Swelling in the
  Head, Sciatica, Gout, Cramp, Clotted Blood, Ulcers in the
  Eyes, or Eyelids, swellings & Inflamations, Black & blue
  spots, Purge the Liver & Stomach.
@end {m290}
     Mars claims Predominancy over all these wholsom Herbs,
  you cry out upon him for an infortune, when God created
  him for your good (only he is angry with Fools) what
  dishonor is this, not to Mars, but to God Himself.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h220}
@section 3 {tt}
  MEADOW RUE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a yellow stringy Root, much
  spreading in the ground, and shooting forth new sprouts
  round about, with many Herby green Stalks two foot high,
  crested all the length of them, set with Joynts here and
  there, and many large Leavs on them as well as below,
  being devided into smaller Leavs, nicked or dented in the
  forepart of them, of a sad green colour on the upperside,
  and pale green underneath: Toward the top of the Stalk
  there shooteth forth divers short Branches, on every one
  thereof there stand two, three, or four smal round Heads
  or Buttons, which breaking the skin that incloseth them
  shew forth a tuft of pale greenish yellow threds, which
  falling away there comes in their place small three
  cornre'd Cods, wherein is contained smal, long, and round
  Seed.  The whol Plant hath a strong unpleasant scent.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of this Land; in the Borders
  of moist Meadows, and by Ditch sides.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about July or the beginning of August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith that this Herb bruised and applied
  perfectly healeth old Sores: and the distilled water of
  {Note 291 here}
  the Herb and Flowers doth the like.  It is used by some
  among other Pot~herbs  to open the Body and make it
  soluble; but the Roots washed clean, and boyled in Ale and
  drunk provoketh to the Stool more than the Leavs; but yet
  very gently.  The Root boyled in Water, and the places of
  the Body most troubled with Vermine or Lice, washed
  therewith while it is warm, destroyeth them utterly.  In
  Italy it is used against the Plague, and in Saxony against
  the Jaundice, as Camerarius saith.
  =
@begin {m291}
  {Note 291:} Old sores, Open the Body, Lice & Vermine,
  Plague, Jaundice.
@end {m291}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h221}
@section 3 {tt}
  GARDEN RUE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known, both by this name, and the Name
  Herb of Grace, that I shal not need to write you any
  further Description of it: But shall only shew you the
  Vertues of it as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, being taken
  either in Meat or Drink.  The Seed thereof taken in Wine,
  is an Antidote against all dangerous Medicines or deadly
  Poysons.  The Leavs taken either by themselves, or with
  Figs and Walnuts is called Methridates his Counter poyson,
  against the Plague and causeth all Venemous things to
  become harmless: Being often taken in Meat or Drink it
  abateth Venery, and destroyeth the ability to beget
  Children.  A Decoction made thereof with some dried Dill
  Leavs and Flowers, easeth all pains and torments inwardly
  to be drunk, and outwardly to be applied warm to the place
  grieved.  The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of
  the Chest and Sides, as also Coughs, hardness of
  breathing, the Inflamations of the Lungs, and the
  tormenting pains of the Sciatica, and the Joynts, being
  anointed or laid to the  places, as also the shaking Fits
  of Agues, to take a draught before the Fit come: Being
  boyled or infused in Oyl it is good to help the wind
  Chollick, the hardness or windiness of the Mother, and
  freeth women from the strangling or suffocation thereof,
  if the Share and the Parts thereabouts be anointed
  therewith: It killeth and driveth forth the Worms of the
  Belly, if it be drunk after it is boyled in Wine to the
  half with a little Honey: It helpeth the Gout or pains in
  the Joynts of Hands, Feet, or Knees applied thereunto: and
  with Figs it helpeth the Dropsie being bathed therewith:
  {Note 292 here}
  being bruised and put into the Nostrils it staieth the
  Bleeding thereof.  It helpeth the swelling of the Cods if
  they be bathed with a Decoction of Rue and Bay Leaves.  It
  taketh away Wheals and Pimples if being bruised with a few
  Mirtle Leavs, if it be made up with Wax and applied: It
  cureth the Morphew and taketh away all sorts of Warts, if
  boyled in Wine with some Pepper and Nitre and the places
  rubbed therewith: and with Allum and Honey, helpeth the
  dry Scab or any Tetter or Ringworm: The Juyce thereof
  warmed in a Pomegranate Shel or Rind, and dropped into the
  Ears helpeth the pains of them.  The Juyce of it and
  Fennel with a little Honey, and the Gall of a Cock put
  thereto, helpeth the dimness of the Eyesight.  An Oyntment
  made of the Juyce therof with Oyl of Roses, Ceruss, and a
  little Vinegar, and anointed cureth St° Anthonies Fire,
  and all foul running Sores in the Head; and the stinking
  Ulcers of the Nose or other parts.  The Antidote used by
  Methridates every morning fasting to secure himself from
  any Poyson or Infection, was this.  Take twenty Leavs of
  Rue, a little Salt, a couple of Walnuts, and a couple of
  Figs beaten together into a Mass with twenty Juniper
  berries, which is the quantity appointed for every day.
  {Note 293 here}
  Another Electuary is made thus; Take of Nitre, Pepper, and
  Cummin Seed, of each equal Parts, of the Leavs of Rue
  clean picked, as much in weight as all the other three
  weighed, beat them well together, and put to as much Honey
  as will make it up into an Electuary; (but you must first
  steep your Cummin seed in Vinegar twenty four hours, and
  then dry it, or rather toast it in a hot Fire~shovel, or
  in an Oven) and it is a Remedy for the pains or griefs of
  the Chest or Stomach, of the Spleen, Belly or Sides, by
  Wind or Stitches; of the Liver by Obstructions, of the
  Reins and Bladder by the stopping of Urine, and helpeth
  also to extenuate fat corpulent Bodies.
  =
@begin {m292}
  {Note 292:} Urine, Womens Courses, Poysons, Plague, Abate
  Venery, pains of the Chest & Sides, Cough, Hard breathing,
  Sciatica, & Joynt aches, Agues, Wind Chollick, Mother,
  Worms, Gout, Dropsie, Bleeding, Swelling of the Cods,
  Wheals & Pimples.
@end {m292}
@begin {m293}
  {Note 293:} Morphew & Warts, Scab, Tetter & Ringorm, Pains
  of the Ears, Dimsight, St° Anthonies fire, Running sores
  of the Head, Ulcers of the Nose, Antidote, pains of the
  Chest, Stomach, Spleen, Belly Obstructions.
@end {m293}
     What an Infamy is cast upon the Ashes of Methridates
  (or Methradates, as the Augustanes read his name) by
  unworthy people; they that deserve no good report
  themselves, love to give none to others, Viz° That that
  renowned King of Pontus fortified his Body by Poyson
  against Poyson (He cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince
  of Devils) what a sot is he that knows not if he had
  accustomed his Body to cold Poysons hot Poysons would have
  dispatch'd him, or the contrary if not, corrosions would
  have done it, the whol world is at this very time
  beholding to him for his Studies in Physick, and he that
  useth the quantity of but a Hazel Nut of that Recept every
  morning, to which his name is adjoyned shall to admiration
  preserve his Body in health, if he do but consider that
  Rue is an Herb of the Sun and under Leo, and gather it and
  the rest accordingly.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h222}
@section 3 {tt}
  RUPTURE WORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This spreadeth very many threddy Branches round about
  upon the ground, about a span long, devided into many
  other smaller parts, full of small Joynts set very thick
  together, whereat come forth two very small Leavs of a
  fresh yellowish green colour branches and all, where
  groweth forth also a number of exceeding smal yellowish
  Flowers, scarce to be discerned from the Stalks and Leavs,
  which turn into Seed as smal as the very dust: The Root is
  very long and smal, thrusting down deep into the ground:
  This hath neither smel nor tast at first, but afterward
  hath a little astringent tast, without any manifest heat,
  yet a little bitter and sharp withal.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in dry, sandy, and Rockie places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is fresh and green all the Summer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Rupture wort hath not his name in vain, for it is found
  by experince to cure the Rupture, not only in Children but
  also in Elder Persons, if the Disease be not too
  inveterate, by taking a dram of the Pouder of the dried
  Herb every day in Wine for certain daies together; Or the
  Decoction made in Wine and drunk: Or the Juyce or
  {Note 294 here}
  distilled water of the green Herb taken in the same
  manner; and helpeth all other Fluxes either in men or
  Women; Vomitings also, and the Gonorrhea or running of the
  Reins, being taken any of the waies aforesaid.  It doth
  also most assuredly help those that have the Strangury, or
  have their Urine stopped, or are troubed with the Stone or
  Gravel in their Reins or Bladder.  The same also helpeth
  much all Stitches in the Side, all griping pains in the
  Stomach or Belly, the Obstructions of the Liver, and
  cureth the yellow Jaundice likewise:  It killeth also the
  Worms in Children: Being outwardly applied it conglutineth
  Wounds notably, and helpeth much to stay Defluxions of
  Rhewm from the Head to the Eyes, Nose, and Teeth, being
  bruised green and bound thereto; Or the Decoction of the
  dried Herb, to bath the Forehead and Temples, or the Nape
  of Neck behind: It also drieth up the moisture of
  Fistulous Ulcers, or any others that are foul and
  spreading.
  =
@begin {m294}
  {Note 294:} Ruptures, Fluxes, Running of the Reins,
  Strangury, Stone or Gravel, Stitches, Yellow Jaundice,
  Worms, Wounds, Defluxions, Foul Ulcers.
@end {m294}
     They say Saturn causeth Ruptures, if he do, he doth no
  more than he can cure, if you want wit he will teach you
  though to your cost, this Herb is Saturns own, and is a
  notable Antivenerian.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h223}
@section 3 {tt}
  RUSHES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Although there are many kinds of Rushes, yet I shall
  only here insist upon those which are best known, and most
  Medicinal, as the Bulrushes, and other of the soft and
  smooth kinds; which grow so commonly in almost every place
  of this Land, and are so generally noted, that I suppose
  it needless to trouble you with any Description of them:
  Briefly then take the Vertues of them as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Seeds of these soft Rushes, saith Dioscorides and
  Galen, toasted (saith Pliny) being drunk in Wine and
  Water, stayeth the Lask and Womens Courses when they come
  down too abundantly: but it causeth Headach: It provoketh
  sleep likewise but must be given with caution, lest the
  party that takes it wake not until the Resurrection: Pliny
  saith, The Root boyled in water to the consumption of one
  third, helpeth the Cough.
  =
     Thus you see that Conveniences have their
  Inconveniences, and Vertue is seldom unaccompanied with
  some Vices.  What I have written concerning Rushes is to
  satisfie my Country~mens Question, Are our Rushes good for
  nothing? Yes, and as good let alone as taken; There are
  Remedies enough without them for every Diseas, and
  therfore as the Proverb is, I care not a Rush for them, or
  rather they will do you as much good as if one had given
  you a Rush.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h224}
@section 3 {tt}
  RYE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known in all the Countries of this
  Land, and especially to the Country people who feed much
  thereon, that if I should describe it, they would
  presently say, I might well have spared that Labor: Its
  Vertues follow.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Rye is more digesting that Wheat; The Bread and the
  Leaven thereof ripeneth and breaketh Impostumes, Boyls,
  {Note 295 here}
  and other Swellings: The Meal of Rye put between a double
  cloth, and moistned with a little Vinegar, and heated in a
  Pewter dish, set over a Chafing~dish of coals, and bound
  fast to the Head while it is hot, both much eas the
  continual pains of the Head.  Mathiolus saith, That the
  ashes of Rye straw put into Water and suffered therein a
  day and a night, and the Chops of the Hands or Feet washed
  therewith, doth heal them.
  =
@begin {m295}
  {Note 295:} Impostumes, Boyls & Swellings, Pains of the
  Head, Chops of the Hands or Feet.
@end {m295}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h225}
@section 3 {tt}
  SAFFRON.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Herb needs no Description it being known generally
  where it grows.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It grows frequently at Walden in Essex, and in Cambridg
  shire.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is an Herb of the Sun, and under the Lion, and
  therfore you need not demand a reason why it strengthens
  the heart so exceedingly; Let not abov ten grains be given
  at one time, for if the Sun which is the Fountain of Life,
  may dazle the Eyes and make them blind, a Cordial being
  taken in an immoderate quantity may hurt the Heart instead
  of helping it.  It quicken the Brain, for the Sun is
  exalted in *{astrological symbol for Aries} as well as he hath his House
  in *{astrological symbol for Leo} it help Consumption of the Lungs, help
  difficulty of breathing: it is an excellent thing in
  Epidemical Diseases, as Pestilences, smal Pox, and
  Measles: It is a notable expulsive Medicine, and a notable
  Remedy for the yellow Jaundice. My own Opinion is (but I
  have no Author for it) that Hermodactils is nothing else
  but the Roots of Saffron dried, and my reason is, that the
  Roots of all Crocus both white and yellow purge Flegm as
  Hermodactils do, and if you please to dry the Roots of any
  Crocus, neither your eye nor your tast shal distinguish it
  from Hermodactils.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h226}
@section 3 {tt}
  SAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Our ordinary Garden Sage needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in or about July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     A Decoction of the Leavs and Branches of Sage made and
  drunk, saith Dioscorides provoketh Urine, bringeth down
  Womens Courses, helpeth to expel the dead Child, and
  causeth the hairs to become black; It staieth the bleeding
  of Wounds, and clenseth foul Ulcers or Sores; The said
  Decoction made in Wine taketh away the itching ofthe Cods
  if they be bathed therwith.  Agrippa saith, That if Women
  that cannot conceive by reason of the moist slipperiness
  of their Wombs shall take a quantity of the Juyce of Sage
  with a little Salt for four daies before they company with
  their Husbands, it will help them not only to Conceive,
  but also to retain the Birth without miscarrying.  Orpheus
  saith, Three spoonfuls of the Juyce of Sage taken fasting
  with a little Honey, doth presently stay the spitting or
  casting up of Blood.  For them that are in a consumption,
  these Pills are much commended.  Take of Spicknard and
  Ginger of each two drams; of the Seed of Sage toasted at
  the fire, eight drams, of long Pepper twelve drams, all
  these being brought into fine Pouder, put thereto so much
  Juyce of Sage as may make them into a Mass for Pills,
  taking a dram of them every morning fasting, and so
  {Note 296 here}
  likewise at night, drinking a little pure Water after
  them.  Mathiolus saith, it is very profitable for all
  manner of pains of the Head coming of cold and Rhewmatick
  Humors, as also for all pains of the Joynts, whether used
  inwardly or outwardly, and therfore helpeth the
  Falling~sickness, the Lethargy, such as are dull and heavy
  of spirit, the Palsey, and is of much use in all
  Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head, and for the Diseases of
  the Chest or Breast.  The Leavs of Sage and Nettles
  bruised together, and laid upon the Impostume that riseth
  behind the Ears, doth asswage it much: The Juyce of Sage
  taken in warm water, helpeth a Hoarsness and the Cough.
  {Note 297 here}
  The Leavs sodden in Wine and laid upon the place affected
  with the Palsey helpeth much, if the Decoction be drunk
  also.  Sage taken with Wormwood is used for the bloody
  Flux.  Pliny saith, it procureth Womens Courses, and
  stayeth them coming down too fast, helpeth the stinging
  and biting of Serpents, and killeth the Worms that breed
  in the Ears and in Sores.  Sage is of excellent use to
  help the Memory, warming and quickning the senses; and the
  Conserve made of the Flowers is used to the same purpose,
  and also for all the former recited Diseases.  The Juyce
  of Sage drunk with Vinegar hath been of good use in the
  time of Plague at all times.  Gargles likewise are made
  with Sage, Rosemary, Honeysuckles, and Plantane boyled in
  Wine or Water, with some Honey and Allum put thereto, to
  wash sore Mouthes and Throats, Cankers, or the secret
  parts of man or woman as need requireth.  And with other
  hot and comfortable Herbs.  Sage is boyled to bath the
  Body or Legs in the Summer time, especially to warm cold
  Joynts or Sinews troubled with the Palsey or Cramp, and to
  comfort and strengthen the parts.  It is much commended
  against the Stitch or pains in the side coming of Wind, if
  the place be fomented warm with the Decoction thereof in
  Wine, and the Herb after the boyling be laid warm also
  thereunto.
  =
@begin {m296}
  {Note 296:} Provoke urine, Womens Courses, Expel the Dead
  Child & Afterbirth, Stanch Bleeding, Clense Ulcers &
  sores, Itching of the Cods.
@end {m296}
@begin {m297}
  {Note 297:} Help Conception & hinder Miscarriage, spitting
  Blood, Consumption, Pains of the Head & Joynts,
  Falling~sickness, Lethargy, Dulness of spirit, Palsey,
  Defluxions of Rhewm, Impostume behind the Ears, Hoarsness
  & Cough, Bloody Flux, Biting of Serpents, Worms in the
  Ears, or Sores, Quicken the senses & help Memory, Sore
  Mouths & Throats, Cankers, Palsey or Cramp, Stitch in the
  side.
@end {m297}
     Jupiter claims this, and bid me tell you it is good for
  the liver, and to breed good Blood.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h227}
@section 3 {tt}
  WOOD~SAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Wood~Sage riseth up with square hoary Stalks two foot
  high at the least, with two Leavs set at every Joynt,
  somwhat like other Sage Leavs, but smaller, softer,
  whiter, and rounder, and a little dented about the edges
  and smelling somwhat strongly: At the tops of the Stalks
  and Branches stand the Flowers on a slender long Spike
  turning themselves all one way when they blow, and are of
  a pale and whitish colour, smaller than Sage, but hooded
  and gaping like unto them: The Seed is blackish and round,
  four usually set in a husk together: The Root is long and
  stringy, with diverse Fibres thereat, and abideth many
  yeers.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Woods, and by Wood~sides, as also in
  diverse Fields and by Lanes in this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, July, and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Decoction of Wood~Sage provoketh Urine and Womens
  Courses: it also provoketh Sweat, digesteth Humors, and
  discusseth Swellings, and Nodes in the Flesh, and is
  therefore thought to be good against the French Pox.  The
  {Note 298 here}
  Decoction of the green Herb made with Wine is a safe and
  sure Remedy for those who by falls, bruises, or Blows,
  doubt some Vein to be inwardly broken, to disperse and
  avoid the congealed blood, and to consolidate the Vein; It
  is also good for such as are inwardly or outwardly
  bursten, the drink used inwardly, and the Herb applied
  outwardly: The same used in the same manner is found to be
  {Note 299 here}
  a sure Remedy for the Palsey:  The Juyce of the Herb or
  the Pouder thereof dried, is good for moist Ulcers and
  Sores in the Legs or other parts, to dry them, and caus
  them to heal the more speedily: It is no less effectual
  also in green Wounds to be used upon any occasion.
  =
@begin {m298}
  {Note 298:} Provokes Urine & Womens Courses, & Sweat.
@end {m298}
@begin {m299}
  {Note 299:} Swellings in the flesh, French Pox, Vein
  broken, Bursteness, Palsey, Ulcers & Sores, Green Wounds.
@end {m299}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h228}
@section 3 {tt}
  SOLOMONS SEAL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Solomons Seal riseth up with a round Stalk
  about half a yard high, bowing or bending down to the top,
  set with single Leavs one above another, somwhat large and
  like the Leavs of the Lilly~Convalley, or May Lilly, with
  an eye of blewish upon the green, with some ribs therein,
  and more yellowish underneath.  At the foot of every Leaf
  almost from the bottom up to the top of the Stalk come
  forth small long white and hollow pendulous Flowers,
  somwhat like the Flowers of May~Lilly, but ending in five
  long points, for the most part two together, at the end of
  a long Footstalk, and somtimes but one, and sometimes also
  two Stalks with Flowers at the Foot of a Leaf, which are
  without any scent at all, and stand all on one side of the
  Stalk: After they are past, come in their places, smal
  round Berries, green at the first, and blackish green,
  tending to blewness when they are ripe, wherein lie smal
  white hard and stony Seed: The Root is of the thickness of
  ones finger or Thumb, white and knobbed in some places,
  with a flat round circle representing a Seal, whereof it
  took the name, lying along under the upper crust of the
  Earth, and not growing downward but with many fibres
  underneath.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is frequent in diverse places of this Land, as
  namely in a Wood two miles from Canterbury, by
  Fishpool~Hill: as also in a bushy Close belonging to the
  Parsonage of Alderbury neer Clarindon, two miles from
  Salisbury; in Chesson Wood, on Chesson Hill, between
  Newington and Sittinborn in Kent, and in diverse other
  places, in Essex and other Counties.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about May, The Root abideth, and shooteth
  anew every yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Root of Solomons Seal is found by experience to be
  available in Wounds, Hurts, and outward Sores, to heal and
  close up the lips of those that are green, and to dry up
  and restrain the Flux of Humors to those that are old: It
  is singular good to stay Vomitings, and Bleedings
  wheresoever, as also al Fluxes in man or woman, whether
  the Whites or Reds in Women, or the running of the Reins
  in men; also to knit any Joynt which by weakness useth to
  {Note 300 here}
  be often out of place, or will not stay in long, when it
  is set: also to knit and joyn broken Bones in any part of
  the Body, the Roots being bruised and applied to the
  place.  Yea it hath been found by late experience that the
  Decoction of the Root in Wine, or the bruised Root put in
  Wine or other drink, and after a nights infusion strained
  forth hard and drunk, hath holpen both man and Beast whose
  Bones have been broken by any occasion, which is the most
  assured refuge of help to people of diverse Countries of
  this Land, that they can have: It is no less effectual to
  help Rupture and Burstings, the Decoction in Wine, or the
  Pouder in Broth or Drink being inwardly taken and
  outwardly applyed to the Place: The same is also available
  for inward  or outward Bruises, Falls or Blows, both to
  dispel the congealed blood, and to take away both the
  pains and the black and blew Marks that abide after the
  hurt.  The same also or the distilled water of the whol
  Plant used to the Face or other part of the Skin, clenseth
  it from Morphew, Freckles, Spots; or Marks whatsoever,
  leaving the place fresh, fair, and Lovely, for which
  purpose it is much used by the Italian Dames.
  =
@begin {m300}
  {Note 300:} Wounds & Sores, Vomiting & Bleeding, Fluxes,
  Running of the Reins, Knit Joynts, & broken Bones in man &
  beast, Ruptures, Bruises & Falls, black & blew Marks,
  Beautifie the Face.
@end {m300}
     Saturn owns this Plant for he loves his Bones well.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h229}
@section 3 {tt}
  SAMPIRE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Rock Sampire groweth up with a tender green Stalk,
  about half a yard or two foot high at the most, branching
  forth almost from the very bottom, and stored with sundry
  thick, and almost round somwhat long Leavs, of a deep
  green colour, somtimes three together, and somtimes more
  on a Stalk, and are sappy, and of a pleasant, hot, or
  spicy tast: At the tops of the Stalk and Branches, stand
  Umbels of white Flowers, and after them come large Seed
  bigger than Fennel Seed, yet somwhat alike.  The Root is
  great, white, and long, continuing many yeers, and is of a
  hot spicy tast likewise.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on the Rocks that are often moistened at the
  least, if not overflown with the Sea water.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     And it Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of July and
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is a safe Herb, very pleasant both to the tast and
  Stomach, helping digestion, and in some sort opening the
  {Note 301 here}
  Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, provoking Urine, and
  helping thereby to wash away the Gravel and Stone
  ingendred in the Kidneys or Bladder.
  =
@begin {m301}
  {Note 301:} Helps digestion, Opens Obstructions, provokes
  Urin, Expel Gravel and the Stone.
@end {m301}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h230}
@section 3 {tt}
  SANICLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The ordinary Sanicle sendeth forth many great round
  Leavs standing upon long brownish stalkes, every one
  somewhat deeply cut or divided into five or six parts, and
  some of those also cut in, somwhat like the Leaf of a
  Crowfoot, or Doves~foot, and finely dented about the
  edges, smooth, and of a dark green shining colour, and
  somtimes reddish about the brims, from among which riseth
  up smal round green Stalks without any Joynt or Leaf
  thereon, saving at the top, where it brancheth forth into
  Flowers, having a Leaf devided into three or four parts at
  that Joynt with the Flowers, which are smal and whit,
  starting out of smal round greenish yellow heads, many
  standing together in a tuft; in which afterward are the
  Seeds contained, which are smal round rough Burs, somwhat
  like the Seeds of Cleavers, and stick in the same manner
  upon any thing that they touch: The Root is composed of
  may black strings or fibres set together, at a little long
  head, which abideth with the green Leavs all the Winter
  and perish not.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found in many shadowy Woods, and other places of
  this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, and the Seed is ripe shortly
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is exceeding good to heal all green Wounds speedily,
  or any Ulcers, Impostumes, or bleedings inwardly: It doth
  wonderfully help those that have any Tumors in any part of
  their Bodies, for it represseth and dissipateth the
  Humors, if the Decoction or Juyce thereof be taken, or the
  Pouder in drink, and the Juyce used outwardly; For there
  is not found any Herb that can give such present help
  either to Man or Beast when the Disease falleth upon the
  {Note 302 here}
  Lungs or Throat, and to heal up all the putrid Malignant
  Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat, and Privities, by gargling or
  washing with the Decoction of the Leavs and Root, made in
  Water, and a little Honey put thereto.  It helpeth to stay
  Womens Courses, and all other Fluxes of Blood either by
  the Mouth, Urine or Stool, and Lasks of the Belly, the
  Ulceration of the Kidneys also, and the pains in the
  Bowels, and the Gonorrhea or running of the Reins, being
  boyled in Wine or Water, and drunk.  The same also is no
  less powerful to help any Ruptures or Burstings, used both
  inwardly and outwardly, and briefly it is effectual in
  binding, restraining, consolidating, heating, drying, and
  healing; as Comfry, Bugle, Self~heal, or any other of the
  Confounds, or Vulnerary Herbs whatsoever.
  =
@begin {m302}
  {Note 302:} Green Wounds, Ulcers, Impostums, Inward
  Bleedings, Swellings, Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat &
  Privities, Womens Courses, Fluxes of Blood, Lasks, Ulcers
  in the Kidneys, Running of the Reins, Ruptures.
@end {m302}
     This is one of Venus her Herbs to cure either Wounds,
  or what other mischiefs Mars inflicteth upon the Body of
  Man.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h231}
@section 3 {tt}
  SARAFENS CONFOUND.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth very high somtimes with brownish Stalks,
  and other whiles with green and hollow to a mans height,
  having many long and narrow green Leavs snip'd about the
  edges, somwhat like those of the Peach~Tree,  or Willow
  Leavs, but not of such a white green colour: The tops of
  the Stalks are furnished with many pale yellow Starlike
  Flowers standing in green heads, which when they are
  fallen, and the Seed ripe, which is somwhat long, smal,
  and of a yellowish brown colour wrapped in down, is
  therewith carried away with the wind: The Root is composed
  of many strings or fibres, set together at a head, which
  perish not in Winter, but abide, although the Stalks dry
  away, and no Leaf appeareth in Winter.  The tast hereof is
  strong and unpleasant, and so is the smel also.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in moist and wet grounds by Wood sides, and
  somtimes in the moist places of shady Groves, as also by
  the water side.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in July, and the Seed is soon ripe, and
  carryed away with the wind.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Among the Germans, this Wound Herb is preferred before
  all others of the same quality.  Being boiled in Wine and
  drunk, it helpeth the indisposition of the Liver, and
  freeth the Gall from Obstructions, whereby it is good for
  the yellow Jaundice, and for the Dropsie in the beginning
  of it, for all inward ulcers of the Reins, or elswhere,
  {Note 303 here}
  and inward Wounds and Bruises: And being steeped in Wine
  and then distilled, the Water thereof drunk is singular
  good to ease all gnawings in the Stomach, or other pains
  of the Body, as also the pains of the Mother: And being
  boyled in Water it helpeth continual Agues; And this said
  Water, or the Juyce or Decoction, are very effectual to
  heal any green Wound or old sore or Ulcer whatsoever,
  clensing them from corruption and quickly healing them up:
  It is no less effectual for the Ulcers in the mouth or
  Throat, be they never so foul or stinking, by washing and
  gargling them therewith; and likewise for such Sores as
  happen in the privy parts of man or Woman: Briefly
  whatsoever hath been said of Bugle or Sanicle, may be
  found herein.
  =
@begin {m303}
  {Note 303:} Obstructions, yellow Jaundice, Dropsie, Ulcers
  of the Reins, Inward Wounds & Bruises, Pains in the Body,
  Mother, Agues, Green Wounds, Old Sores or Ulcers, Ulcers
  in the Mouth or Throat, Sores in the Privy Parts.
@end {m303}
     Saturn owns this Herb, and 'tis of sober condition like
  him.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h232}
@section 3 {tt}
  SAWCEALONE, or JACK BY THE HEDG.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The lower Leavs of this are rounder than those that
  grow towards the tops of the Stalks, and are set singly
  one at a Joynt, being somwhat round and broad, and pointed
  at the ends, dented also about the edges, somwhat
  resembling Nettle Leavs for the form but of a fresher
  green colour, and not rough or pricking:  The Flowers are
  very smal and white, growing at the tops of the Stalks one
  above another, which being past, there follow smal and
  long round pods, wherein are cantained, smal round Seed
  somwhat blackish: The Root is stringy and threddy,
  perishing every yeer after it hath given Seed, and raiseth
  it self again of its own sowing: The Plant or any part
  thereof being bruised, smelleth of Garlick, but more
  pleasantly, and tasteth somwhat hot and sharp, almost like
  unto Rocket.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth under Walls, and by Hedg sides, and
  Pathwaies in Fields, in many places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, July, and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This is eaten by many Country people as Sawce to their
  Salt~fish, and helpeth well to digest the crudities and
  other corrupt Humors ingendred thereby, it warmeth also
  the Stomach, and causeth digestion:  The Juyce thereof
  boyled with Honey, is accounted to be as good as
  {Note 304 here}
  Hedg~Muster for the Cough, to cut and expectorate the
  tough Flegm.  The Seed bruised and boyled in Wine is a
  singular good Remedy for the Wind Chollick, or the Stone,
  being drunk warm; It is also given to Women troubled with
  the Mother, both to drink, and the Seed put into a Cloth
  and applied while it is warm is of singular good use.  The
  Leavs also or Seed boyled is good to be used in Clysters
  to ease the pains of the Stone:  The green Leavs are held
  to be good to heal the Ulcers in the Legs.
  =
@begin {m304}
  {Note 304:} Helps digestion, Cough, Tough Flegm, Wind
  Chollic, Stone, Ulcers in the Legs.
@end {m304}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h233}
@section 3 {tt}
  WINTER AND SUMMER SAVORY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Both these are so well known (being entertained as
  constant Inhabitants in our Gardens) that they need no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They are both of them hot and dry, especially the
  Summer kind, which is both sharp and quick in tast,
  expelling Wind in the Stomach and Bowels, and is a present
  help for the rising of the Mother procured by Wind,
  provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, and is much commended
  for Women with Child to take inwardly, and to smell often
  unto.  It cutteth tough Flegm in the Chest and Lungs, and
  helpeth to expectorate it the more easily; It quencheth
  {Note 305 here}
  the dull spirits in the Lethargy, the Juyce thereof being
  snuffed, or cast up into the nostrils: The Juyce dropped
  into the Eyes cleareth a dull sight, if it proceed of thin  cold humors distilling from the Brain: The Juyce heated
  with a little Oyl of Roses, and dropped into the Ears
  easeth them of the noise and singing in them, and of
  deafness also: Outwardly applied with white flower in
  manner of a Pultis, it giveth ease to the Sciatica, and
  Palsey'd Members, heating and warming them, and taketh
  away their pains:  It also taketh away the pain that comes
  of stinging by Bees, Wasps, &c°.
  =
@begin {m305}
  {Note 305:} Expelleth Wind, Mother, provokes Urine & Womens
  Courses, Tough Flegm, Lethargy, Dull sight, Singing in the
  Ears & Deafness, Sciatica & Palsey, stinging of Bees &c°,
  Chollick, Illiack passion.
@end {m305}
     Mercury claims the Dominion over this Herb, neither is
  there a better Remedy against the Chollick and Illiack
  passions than this Herb, keep it dry by you all the yeer
  if you love your selves, and your ease, as 'tis an hundred
  pound to a penny if you do not: keep it dry, make
  Conserves and Syrups of it for your use; and withal, take
  notice that the Summer kind is the best.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h234}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE COMMON WHITE SAXIFRAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath a few smal reddish Kernels or Roots, covered
  with some Skins lying among diverse smal blackish Fibres,
  which send forth diverse round, faint, or yellowish green
  Leavs, and grayish underneath, lying above the ground
  unevenly dented about the edges, & somwhat hairy, every
  one upon a little footstalk from whence riseth up a round
  brownish hairy green stalk, two or three foot high, with a
  few such like round Leaves as grow below, but smaller, and
  somwhat branched at the top, whereon stand pretty large
  white Flowers of five Leaves apiece, with some yellow
  threds in the middle, standing in long crested brownish
  green Husks: After the Flowers are past there ariseth
  somtimes a round hard head by, forked at the top, wherein
  is contained small blackish Seed, but usually they fall
  away without any Seed; and it is the Kernels or grains of
  the Root which are usually called the white Saxifrage
  Seed, and so used.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of our Land, as well in the
  lower moist, as in the upper dry corners of Meadows, and
  grassy sandy places; It used to grow neer Lambs Conduit,
  on the back side of Grayes~Inn.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in May, and is then gathered as well for
  that which is called the Seed, as to distil, for it
  quickly perisheth down to the ground when any hot weather
  comes.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is very effectual to clense the Reins and Bladder,
  and to dissolve the Stone ingendred in them, and to expel
  it and the Gravel by Urine, to provoke Urine also being
  stopped, and to help the Strangury: for which purposes the
  Decoction of the Herb or Roots in white Wine, or the
  Pouder of the smal Kernelly Roots which is called the Seed
  taken in white Wine, or in the same Decoction made with
  {Note 306 here}
  white Wine is most usual.  The Distilled water of the whol
  Herb, Roots, and Flowers, is most familiar to be taken: It
  provoketh also Womens Courses, and freeth and clenseth the
  Stomach and Lungs from thick and tough Flegm that troubles
  them.  There is not many better Medicines to break the
  Stone than this.
  =
@begin {m306}
  {Note 306:} Clenseth the Reins, Stone, Gravel, provoke
  Urine, Womens Courses, Tough Flegm.
@end {m306}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h235}
@section 3 {tt}
  BURNET SAXIFRAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The greater sort of our English Burnet Saxifrage
  groweth up with diverse long Stalks of winged Leavs, set
  directly opposite one to another on both sides, each being
  somwhat broad, a little pointed and dented about the
  edges, of a sad green colour.  At the tops of the Stalks
  stand Umbels of white Flowers, after which comes small and
  blackish Seed: The Root is long and whitish, abiding long.
  Our lesser Burnet Saxifrage, hath much finer Leaves than
  the former, and very smal, and set one against another,
  deeply jagged about the edges, and of the same colour as
  the former: The Umbels of Flowers are white, and the Seed
  very small, and so is the Root, being also somwhat hot and
  quick in tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These grow in most Meadows of this Land, and are easie
  to be found, being well sought for among the Grass,
  wherein many times they lie hid scarcely to be discern'd.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Flower about July, and their Seed is ripe in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These Saxifrages are as hot as Pepper, and Tragus saith
  by his experience they are more wholsom: They have the
  same properties that the Parsleys have, but in provoking
  Urine, and easing the pains thereof, or of the Wind and
  Chollick, are much more effectual; The Roots or Seed being
  used either in Pouder, or in Decoction, or any other way;
  {Note 307 here}
  and likewise helpeth the Windy pains of the Mother, and to
  procure their Courses, to break and avoid the Stone in the
  Kidneys, to digest cold, viscous, and tough Flegm in the
  Stomach, and is a most especial Remedy against all kind of
  Venom.  Castorium being boyled in the distilled water
  hereof, is singular good to be given to those that are
  troubled  with Cramps and Convulsions: some do use to
  make the Seed into Comfits (as they do Caraway Seed) which
  is effectual to all the purposes aforesaid.  The Juyce of
  the Herb dropped into the most grievous Wounds of the
  Head, drieth up their moisture and healeth them quickly.
  Some Women use the distilled Water, to take away Freckles
  or Spots in the Skin or Face: and to drink the same
  sweetned with Sugar for all the purposes aforesaid.
  =
@begin {m307}
  {Note 307:} Provoke Urine, Ease Wind & Chollick, Mother,
  Womens Courses, Stone, Tough Flegm, Venom, Cramps &
  Convulsions, Wounds in the Head, Freckles & spots.
@end {m307}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h236}
@section 3 {tt}
  SCABIOUS, THREE SORTS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Field Scabious groweth up with many hairy
  soft, whitish green Leaves, some whereof are but very
  little, if at all jagged on the edges, others very much
  rent and torn on the sides, and have threds in them, which
  upon the breaking may be plainly seen: from among which
  rise up diverse hairy green Stalks three of four foot
  high, with such like hairy green leavs on them, but more
  deeply and finely devided, branched forth a little: At the
  tops hereof which are naked and bare of Leaves for a good
  space, stand round Heads of Flowers, of a pale blewish
  colour set together in a head, the outermost wherof are
  larger than the inward, wth many threds also in the
  middle, somwhat flat at the top, as the Head with Seed is
  likewise: The Root is great, white, & thick growing down
  deep into the ground, and abideth many yeers.   There is
  another sort of Field Scabious, different in nothing from
  the former, but only it is smaller in all respects.
  =
     The Corn Scabious, differeth little from the first, but
  that it is greater in all respects and the Flowers more
  declining to Purple: And the Root creepeth under the upper
  crust of the Earth, and runneth not deep in the ground as
  the first doth.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first groweth most usually in Meadows, especially
  about London every where.
  =
     The second in some of the dry Fields about this City,
  but not so plentiful as the former.
  =
     The third, in the standing Corn, or Fallow Fields, and
  the borders of such like Fields.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June and July, and some abide Flowring
  until it be late in August, and the Seed is ripe in the
  mean time.
  =
     There are many other sorts of Scabious, but I take
  those which I have here described to be most familiar with
  us; The vertues both of these and the rest being much
  alike, take them as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Scabious is very effectual for all sorts of Coughs,
  shortness of Breath, and all other Diseases of the Breast
  and Lungs, ripening and digesting cold Flegm, and other
  tough humors, voiding them forth by Coughing and spitting:
  It ripeneth also all sorts of inward Ulcers and
  Impostumes, the Plurisie also, if the Decoction of the
  Herb dry or green, be made with Wine, and drunk for some
  time together: four ounces of the clarified Juyce of
  Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of
  Methridate, or Venice Treacle, freeth the heart from any
  infection of Pestilence, if after the taking of it, the
  party sweat two hours in their Beds; and this Medicine be
  again and again repeated if need require: The green Herb
  bruised and applied to any Carbuncle or Plague sore, is
  found by certain experience to dissolve or break it in
  three hours space.  The same Decoction also drunk, helpeth
  the pains and Stitches in the sides.  The Decoction of the
  Roots taken for fourty daies together, or a dram of the
  Pouder of them taken at a time in Whey, doth (as Mathiolus
  saith) wonderfully help those that are troubled with
  running or spreading Scabs, Tetters, or Ringworms, yea
  though they proceed of the French Pox, which he saith he
  hath tryed by experience: The Juyce or Decoction drunk,
  helpeth also Scabs and breakings out in Itch and the like:
  The Juyce also made up into an Oyntment and used, is
  effectual for the same purpose.  The same also helpeth all
  inward Wounds by the drying, clensing, and healing quality
  therin: A Syrup made of the Juyce and Sugar is very
  {Note 308 here}
  effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and so is the
  distilled water of the Herb and Flowers made in due
  season; especially to be used when the green Herb is not
  in force to be taken.  The Decoction of the Herb and Roots
  outwardly applied, doth wonderfully help al sorts of hard
  or cold Swellings, in any part of the Body; and is as
  effectual for any shrunk Sinew or Vein.  The Juyce of
  Scabious made up with the Pouder of Borax and Camphire,
  clenseth the Skin of the Face or other part of the Body,
  not only from Freckles and Pimples, but also from Morphew
  and Lepry.  The Head washed with the same Decoction
  clenseth it from Drandrif, Scurf, Sores, Itches, and the
  like, being used warm.  Tents also dipped in the Juyce or
  Water thereof not only healeth all green Wounds, but old
  Sores and Ulcers also: The Herb also bruised and applied
  doth in short time loosen, and cause to be drawn forth any
  Splinter, broken bone, Arrow head, or other such like
  thing lying in the Flesh.
  =
@begin {m308}
  {Note 308:} Coughs & shortness of Breath, Cold Flegm,
  Inward Ulcers & Impostumes, Plurisie, Infection, Carbuncle
  or Plague sores; Pains or stitches in the side: Scabs,
  tetters, Ringworms, Itch, inward Wounds, Cold swellings,
  Shrunk Sinews; Freckles & Pimples, Morphew & Lepry,
  Dandriff & Scurf, Green Wounds, Old sores & Ulcers,
  Splinters, Thorns, & broken Bones &c°.
@end {m308}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h237}
@section 3 {tt}
  SCURVY~GRASS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our ordinary English Scurvygrass hath many thick fat
  Leavs, more long than broad, and somtimes longer and
  narrower, somtimes also smooth on the edges, and somtimes
  a little waved, somtimes plain, smooth, and pointed,
  somtimes a little hollow in the middle and round pointed,
  of a sad green, and somtimes brownish colour, every one
  standing by it self upon a long Footstalk, which is
  brownish or greenish also: from among which rise smal
  slender Stalks, bearing a few Leaves thereon like the
  other, but longer and lesser for the most part: At the
  tops whereof grow many whitish Flowers, with yellow threds
  in the middle, standing about a green head which becometh
  the Seed Vessel, which will be somwhat flat when it is
  ripe, wherein is contained reddish Seed tasting somwhat
  hot: The Root is made of many white strings, which stick
  deeply in the mud, wherein it chiefly delighteth: yet it
  will well abide in the more upland and dryer grounds, and
  tasteth a little brackish or Salt, even there, but not so
  much as where it hath the Salt water to feed upon.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth all along the Thames side, both on the Essex
  and Kentish Shoars, from Woolwich round about the Sea
  Coasts to Dover, Portsmouth, and even to Bristol, where it
  is had in plenty: The other with round Leavs groweth in
  the Marshes in Holland in Lincolnshire, and other places
  of Lincolnshire by the Sea side.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     There is also another sort called Dutch Scurvy~Grass,
  which is most known and frequent in Gardens, which hath
  diverse fresh green, and almost round Leaves rising from
  the Root, nothing so thick as the former, yet in some rich
  ground, very large, even twice so big as in others, not
  dented about the edges, not hollow in the middle, every
  one standing upon a long Footstalk: from among these rise
  up divers long slender weak Stalks higher than the former,
  and with more white Flowers at the tops of them, which
  turn into smaller pods, and smaller brownish Seed than the
  former: The Root is white, smal, and threddy: The tast of
  this is nothing Salt at all, but hath an hot Aromatical
  spicy tast.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in April or May, and give their Seed ripe
  quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The English Scurvy~grass is more used for the Salt tast
  it beareth, wch doth somwhat open and clense; but the
  Dutch Scurvy~grass is of better effect, and chiefly used
  (if it may be had) by those that have the Scurvey,
  especially to purge and clense the Blood, the Liver, and
  the Spleen, for all which Diseases it is of singular good
  {Note 309 here}
  effect by taking the Juyce in the Spring every morning
  fasting in a cup of Drink: The Decoction is good for the
  same purpose, and the Herb tunned up in new Drink, either
  by it self or with other things, for it openeth
  Obstructions, evacuateth cold clammy and Flegmatick Humors
  both from the Liver and the Spleen, wasting and consuming
  both the swelling and hardness thereof, and thereby
  bringing to the body a more lively colour.  The Juyce also
  helpeth all foul Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth, if it be
  often gargled therewith; and used outwardly, clenseth the
  Skin from spots, marks, or Scars, that happen therein.
  =
@begin {m309}
  {Note 309:} Scurvy, Liver & Spleen, flegmatick Humors, Foul
  Ulcers & sore Mouths, Spots & Scars in the Skin.
@end {m309}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h238}
@section 3 {tt}
  SELF~HEAL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Self~heal is a small low creeping Herb,
  having many small roundish pointed Leavs somwhat like the
  Leaves of Wild Mints, of a dark green colour without any
  dents on the edges, from among which rise diverse square
  hairy Stalks scarce a foot high, which spread somtimes
  into Branches with diverse such smal Leaves set thereon,
  up to the tops, where stand brown spiked Heads, of many
  smal brownish Leaves like scales and Flowers set together,
  almost like the Head of Cassidony, which Flowers are
  gaping, and of a blewish purple, or more pale blew, in
  some places sweet, but not so in others: The Root consists
  of many strings or fibres downward, and spreadeth strings
  also, whereby it encreaseth: The smal stalks with the
  Leaves creeping upon the ground, shoot forth fibres taking
  hold of the ground, wherby it is made a great tuft in
  short time.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found in Woods and Fields every where.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in May, and somtimes in April.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     As Self~heal is like Bugle in form, so also in the
  Qualities and Vertues serving for al the purposes whereto
  Bugle is applied with good success either inwardly or
  outwardly, for inward Wounds or Ulcers wheresoever within
  the Body, for Bruises and Falls and such like hurts: if it
  be accompanied with Bugle, Sanicle, and other the like
  Wound Herbs it will be the more effectual, and to wash or
  inject  into Ulcers in the parts outwardly where there is
  {Note 310 here}
  cause to repress the heat and sharpness of Humors flowing
  to any sore Ulcer, Inflamation, Swelling or the like, or
  to stay the Flux of blood in any Wound or Part, this is
  used with good success, as also to clense the foulness of
  Sores, and cause them more speedily to be healed.  It is
  an especial Remedy for all green Wounds to soder the lips
  of them, and to keep the place from any further
  inconveniences: The Juyce hereof used with Oyl of Roses to
  anoint the Temples and Forehead, is very effectual to
  remove the Headach: and the same mixed with Honey of
  Roses, clenseth and healeth all Ulcers in the Mouth and
  Throat, and those also in the secret parts.  And the
  Proverb of the Germans, French, and others is verified in
  this, That he needeth neither Physitian nor Chyrurgion,
  that hath Self~heal and Sanicle to help himself.
  =
@begin {m310}
  {Note 310:} Inward Wounds & Ulcers, Bruises, Flux of Blood;
  Foul sores, Green wounds; Headach; Sores in the Mouth or
  Throat & secret parts.
@end {m310}
      Here is another Herb of Venus, Self~heal whereby when
  you hurt, you may heal your self, 'tis indeed a special
  Herb for inward and outward Wounds, take it inwardly in
  Syrups for inward Wounds, outwardly in Unguents and
  Plaisters for outward.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h239}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE SERVICE~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well know in the places where it grows that
  it needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth before the end of May, and the Fruit is
  ripe in October.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Services when they are mellow are fit to be taken to
  stay Fluxes, Scowring, and Castings, yet less than
  Medlars: if they be dried before they be mellow, and kept
  {Note 311 here}
  all the yeer, they may be used in Decoctions for the said
  purpose, either to drink, or to bath the parts requiring
  it: and is profitably used in that manner to stay the
  bleeding of Wounds, and at the Mouth or Nose, to be
  applied to the Forehead and Nape of the Neck.
  =
@begin {m311}
  {Note 311:} Fluxes, Scowrings & Casting: Bleeding of wounds
  or at Mouth & Nose.
@end {m311}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h240}
@section 3 {tt}
  SMALLAGE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This also is very well known, and therefore I shall not
  trouble the Reader with any Description thereof.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth naturally in wet and Marsh grounds, but if
  it be sown in Gardens it there prospereth very well.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It abideth green all the Winter, and Seedeth in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Smallage is hotter, dryer, and much more Medicinable
  than Parsley, for it much more openeth Obstructions of the
  Liver and Spleen, rarifieth thick Flegm, and clenseth it
  and the Blood withal.  It provoketh Urine and Womens
  Courses, and is singular good against the yellow Jaundice:
  {Note 312 here}
  It is very effectual against Tertian and Quartan Agues, if
  the Juyce thereof be taken; but especially made into
  Syrup.  The Juyce also put to Honey of Roses, and Barley
  Water, is very good to Gargle the Mouth and Throat of
  those that have Sores and Ulcers in them, and will quickly
  heal them: The same Lotion also clenseth and healeth all
  other foul Ulcers and Cankers elswhere if they be washed
  therewith.  The Seed is especially used to break and expel
  wind, to kill Worms and to help a stinking Breath: The
  Root is effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and is
  held to be stonger in operation than the Herb, but
  especially to open Obstructions, and to rid away an Ague,
  if the Juyce thereof be taken in Wine, or the Decoction
  thereof in Wine be used.
  =
@begin {m312}
  {Note 312:} Liver & Spleen; Urine & womens Courses, Yellow
  Jaundice, Agues; sore Mouths & Throats, Ulcers & Cankers,
  wind, worms, stinking Breath.
@end {m312}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h241}
@section 3 {tt}
  SOPEWORT, or BRUISEWORT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Root creepeth under ground far and neer, with many
  Joynts therein, of a brown colour on the outside and
  yellowish within, shooting forth in diverse places many
  weak round Stalks, full of Joynts, set with two Leaves
  apiece to every one of them on the contrary side, which
  are ribbed somwhat like unto Plantane, and fashioned like
  the common field white Campion Leaves, seldom having any
  Branches from the sides of the Stalks, but set with
  diverse Flowers at the top standing in long Husks like the
  wild Campions, made of five Leavs apiece, round at the
  ends, and a little dented in the middle, of a pale Rose
  colour, almost white, somtimes deeper, and somtimes paler,
  of a reasonable good scent.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth wild in many low and wet grounds of this
  Land, by the Brooks, and sides of running Waters.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth usually in July, and so continueth all
  August, and part of September before they be quite spent.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Country people in diverse places do use to bruise
  the Leaves of Sopewort, and lay it to their Fingers,
  Hands, or Legs when they are cut, to heal them up again.
  {Note 313 here}
  Some make great boast thereof that it is Diuretical to
  provoke Urine, and thereby to expel Gravel and the Stone
  in the reins or Kidneys: and do also account it singular
  good to avoid Hydropical waters thereby to cure the
  disease of the Dropsie: And they no less extol it to
  perform an absolute cure in the French Pox, more than
  either Sarsaparilla, Gujacum, or China can do, which how
  true it is, I leave to others to judg.
  =
@begin {m313}
  {Note 313:} Cut Fingers, provokes Urine, Expels Gravel &
  Stone, Dropsie, French Pox.
@end {m313}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h242}
@section 3 {tt}
  SORREL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Our ordinary Sorrel, which groweth in Gardens and also
  wild in the Fields, is so well known that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Sorrel is prevalent in all hot Diseases, to cool any
  Inflamation and heat of Blood in Agues Pestilential or
  Chollerick, or other sicknesses and faintings, rising from
  heat, and to refresh the overspent Spirits with the
  violence of furious or fiery fits of Agues, to quench
  Thirst, and procure an Appetite in fainting or decayd
  Stomachs: for it resisteth the putrefaction of the Blood,
  killeth Worms, and is as a Cordial to the heart which the
  Seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding,
  and thereby stayeth the hot Fluxes of Womens Courses, or
  of Humors in the Bloody Flux, or Flux of the Stomach.  The
  {Note 314 here}
  Roots also in a Decoction, or in Pouder, is effectual for
  all the said purposes.  Both Roots and Seed as well as the
  Herb is held powerful to resist the poyson of the
  Scorpion.  The Decoction of the Roots is taken to help the
  Jaundice, and to expel Gravel and the Stone in the Reins
  or Kidneys.  The Decoction of the Flowers made with Wine
  and drunk helpeth the black Jaundice, as also the inward
  Ulcers of the Body or Bowels.  A Syrup made with the Juyce
  of Sorrel and Fumitary is a Soveraign help to kill those
  sharp Humors that cause the Itch. The Juyce thereof with a
  little Vinegar serveth well to be used outwardly for the
  same cause, and is also profitable for Tetters, Ringworms
  &c°. It helpeth also to discuss the Kernels in the Throat,
  and the Juyce gargled in the Mouth helpeth the Sores
  therein.  The Leaves wrapped up in a Colewoort Leaf, and
  roasted under the Embers, and applied to a hard Impostume,
  Botch, Boyl, or Plague Sore, both ripeneth and breaketh
  it.  The Distilled water of the Herb is of much good use
  for all the purposes aforesaid.
  =
@begin {m314}
  {Note 314:} Cooleth Inflamations, & heat of Blood; Agues,
  Quench thirst, Provoke Appetite, Kill worms, Womens
  Courses; Fluxes, Poyson, Jaundice, Gravel & stone, Black
  Jaundice, Inward Ulcers; Itch, Tetters & Ringworms,
  Kernels in the Throat, sore Mouth, Impostume, Boyl or
  Plague sore.
@end {m314}
     Venus owns it, and she will never deny the Herb that
  follows.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h243}
@section 3 {tt}
  WOOD SORREL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth low upon the ground, having a number of
  Leaves coming from the Root, made of three Leaves like a
  Trefoyl but broad at the ends and cut in the middle, of a
  faint yellowish green colour, every one standing on a long
  Footstalk, which at their first coming up are close folded
  together to the Stalk, but opening themselves afterwards,
  and are of a fine sowr rellish, and yeelding a Juyce which
  will turn red when it is clarified, and maketh a
  most~dainty clear Syrup: Among these Leavs riseth up
  diverse slender weak Footstalks, with every one of them a
  Flower at the top, consisting of five small pointed Leaves
  Star fashion, of a white colour in most places, and in
  some dash'd over with a small shew of blush, on the back
  side only: After the Flowers are past follow smal round
  heads, with small yellowish Seed in them: The Roots are
  nothing but smal strings fastned to the end of a smal long
  piece, all of them being of a yellowish colour.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many places of our Land, in Woods and
  Wood sides, where they be moist and shadowed, and in other
  places not too much open to the Sun.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in April and May.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Wood Sorrel, serveth to all purposes that the other
  Sorrels do, and is more effectual in hindring the
  putrefaction of Blood, and Ulcers in the Mouth and Body,
  and in cooling and tempering heats & Inflamations, to
  quench thirst, to strengthen a weak Stomach, to procure an
  appetite, to stay Vomiting, and very excellent in any
  contagious sickness, or Pestilential Feavers.  The Syrup
  made of the Juyce is effectual in all the causes
  aforesaid, and so is the Distilled Water of the Herb also.
  {Note 315 here}
  Spunges or Linnen Cloathes wet in the Juyce and applied
  outwardly to any hot Swellings or Inflamations, doth much
  cool and help them:  The same Juyce taken and gargled in
  the Mouth, and after it is spit forth, fresh taken, doth
  wonderfully help a foul stinking Canker, or Ulcer therein.
  It is singular good in Wounds, Thrusts, and Stabs in the
  Body, to stay bleeding, and to clense and heal the Wounds
  speedily; and helpeth to stay any hot Defluxions into the
  Throat or Lungs.
  =
@begin {m315}
  {Note 315:} Ulcers, Inflamations, procure Appetite, stay
  Vomiting, Pestilential Feavers, Hot swellings, Canker or
  Ulcer in the Mouth, Wounds or scabs, Defluxions.
@end {m315}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h244}
@section 3 {tt}
  SOW~THISTLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are generally so well known that they need no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in our Gardens and manured Grounds, and
  somtimes by old Walls, the path sides of Fields and
  High~waies.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Sow~thistles are cooling and somwhat binding, and are
  very fit to cool an hot Stomach, and to ease the gnawing
  pains thereof; The Herb boyled in Wine is very helpful to
  stay the dissolutions of the Stomach: And the Milk that is
  taken from the Stalks when they are broken, given in
  drink, is beneficial to those that are short Winded and
  have a wheesing withal: Pliny saith that it hath caused
  the Gravel and Stone to be voided by Urine, and that the
  eating thereof helpeth a stinking breath: Three spoonfuls
  of the Juyce thereof taken in white Wine warmed, and some
  Oyl put thereto causeth Women in Travel to have so easie
  and speedy delivery, that they may be able to walk
  presently after: The said Juyce taken in warm drink,
  helpeth the Strangury and pains in making water.
  {Note 316 here}
  =
@begin {m316}
  {Note 316:} Pains & heat of the Stomach, short wind &
  wheesing, Gravel & Stone, stinking Breath, speedy
  Delivery, Strangury, Milk increased, Deafness & singing in
  the Ears, Inflamed Eyes, Wheals, & Blisters, Hemorrhoids,
  Cleer the Face.
@end {m316}
     The Decoction of the Leaves and Stalks, causeth
  abundance of Milk in Nurses, and their Children to be well
  coloured, and is good for those whose Milk doth curdle in
  their Breasts.  The Juyce boyled or throughly heated with
  a little Oyl of Bitter Almonds in the Pill of a
  Pomegranate, and dropped into the Ears, is a sure Remedy
  for Deafness, singings, and all other Diseases in them.
  The Herb bruised or the Juyce is profitably applied to all
  hot Inflamations in the Eyes, or wheresoever else, and for
  Wheals, Blisters, or other the like eruptions of heat in
  the Skin; as also for the heat and itching of the
  Hemorrhoids, and the heat and sharpness of Humors in the
  Secret parts of man or Woman: The distilled water of the
  Herb, is not only effectual for all the Diseases aforesaid
  to be taken inwardly with a little Sugar(which Medicine
  the daintiest Stomach will not refuse) but outwardly, by
  applying Cloathes or Spunges wetted therein: It is
  wonderful good for Women to wash their Faces therewith, to
  cleer the Skin, and give a lustre thereto.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h245}
@section 3 {tt}
  SOUTHERNWOOD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known to be an Ordinary Inhabitant in
  our Gardens, that I shall not need to trouble you with any
  Description thereof.  The Vertues are as followeth.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth for the most part in July and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, That the Seed bruised, heated in
  warm Water & drunk, helpeth those that are Bursten, or
  troubled with Cramps, or Convulsions of the Sinews, the
  Sciatica, or difficulty in making water, and bringeth down
  Womens Courses.  The same taken in Wine is an Antidote or
  Counter poyson against all deadly Poyson, and driveth away
  Serpents, and other venemous Creatures; as also the smel
  of the Herb being Burnt, doth the same.  The Oyl thereof
  anointed on the Backbone before the Fits of Agues come
  {Note 317 here}
  taketh them away: it taketh away Inflamations in the Eyes,
  if it be put with some part of a roasted Quince and boyled
  with a few crums of bread and applied.  Boyled with Barley
  Meal it taketh away Pimples, Pushes, or Wheals, that rise
  in the Face or other part of the Body.  The Seed as well
  as the dried Herb is often given to kill the Worms in
  Children: The Herb bruised and laid to, helpeth to draw
  forth Splinters, and Thorns out of the Flesh.  The Ashes
  thereof dryeth up and healeth old Ulcers that are without
  Inflamation, although by the sharpness thereof it biteth
  sore and putteth them to sore pains: as also the Sores in
  the privy Parts of man or woman.  The Ashes mingled with
  old Sallet Oyl, helpeth those that have their hair fallen
  and are bald, causing the hair to grow again either on the
  Head or Beard.  Durantes saith, That the Oyl made of
  Southernwood and put among the Oyntments that are used
  against the French Disease, is very effectual, and
  likewise killeth Lice in the Head.  The Distilled Water of
  the Herb is said to help them much that are troubled with
  the Stone, as also for the Diseases of the Spleen and
  Mother.  The Germans commend it for a singular Wound Herb,
  and therefore call it Stabwort.  It is held by all
  Writers, Antient and Modern to be more offensive to the
  stomach than Wormwood.
  =
@begin {m317}
  {Note 317:} Bursten, Cramps & Convulsions, Sciatica,
  Strangury, Womens Courses, Poyson, Agues, Inflamed Eyes,
  Pimples, Pushes & Wheals, Worms, Splinters & Thorns, Old
  Ulcers, Sores in the Privities, Baldness, French pox,
  Stone, Spleen & Mother.
@end {m317}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h246}
@section 3 {tt}
  SPIGNEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Roots of common Spignel do spread much and deep in
  the ground, many strings or branches growing from one Head
  which is hairy at the tops, of a blackish brown colour on
  the outside and white within, smelling well,a nd of an
  Aromatical tast, from whence rise sundry long stalks of
  most fine cut Leaves like hairs, smaller than Dill, set
  thick on both sides of the Stalks, and of a good scent.
  Among these Leaves rise up round stif stalks, with few
  Joynts and Leaves at them, and at the tops an Umbel of
  fine pure white Flowers, at the edges whereof somtimes
  will be seen a shew of reddish blush colour, especially
  before they be full blown, and are succeeded by smal
  somwhat round Seed, bigger than the ordinary Fennel, and
  of a browner colour, devided into two parts, and crested
  on the back, as most of the Umbelliferous Seeds are.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth wild in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and other
  Northern Countries, and is also planted in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Galen saith, The Roots of Spignel are available to
  provoke Urine and Womens Courses, but if too much thereof
  be taken it causeth Headach:  The Roots boyled in Wine or
  Water and drunk, helpeth the Strangury, and stoppings of
  the Urine, the Wind, swellings and pains in the Stomach,
  {Note 318 here}
  pains of the Mother, and all Joynt Aches.  If the Pouder
  of the Roots be mixed with Honey, and the same taken as a
  licking Medicine, it breaketh tough Flegm, and drieth up
  the Rhewm that falleth on the Lungs.  The Roots are
  accounted very effectual against the stinging or biting of
  any Venemous Creature, and is one of the Ingredients in
  Methridate, and other Antidotes for the same.
  =
@begin {m318}
  {Note 318:} Provokes Urine & Womens Courses, Strangury,
  pain in the stomach, Mother, Joynt aches; Tough flegm;
  Venemous Creatures.
@end {m318}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h247}
@section 3 {tt}
  SPLEENWORT, or CETERACH.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The smooth Spleenwort from a black, threddy and bushy
  Root, sendeth forth many long single Leaves, cut in on
  both sides into round dents, almost to the middle, which
  is not so hard as that of Pollipodie, each devision being
  not alwaies set opposite unto the other, but between each,
  smooth, and of a light green on the upper side, and a dark
  yellowish roughness on the back, folding or rolling it
  self inward at the first springing up.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth as well upon stone walls as moist and
  shadowy places about Bristol and other the West parts
  plentifully; as also on Framingham Castle, on Beckonsfield
  Church in Barkshire, at Strowde in Kent, and elswhere, and
  abideth green all the Winter.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is generally used against infirmities of the Spleen,
  it helpeth the strangury and wasteth the Stone in the
  Bladder, and is good against the yellow Jaundice and the
  Hiccough; but the use of it in Women hindreth Conception.
  Mathiolus saith, That if a dram of the dust that is on the
  back side of the Leaves, be mixed with half a dram of
  Amber in Pouder, and taken with the Juyce of Purslane or
  {Note 319 here}
  Plantane, it will help the running of the Reins speedily,
  and that the Herb and Root being boyled and taken, helpeth
  all Melanchollick Diseases, and those especially that
  arise from the French Disease.  Camerarius saith, That the
  Distilled water thereof being drunk is very effectual
  against the Stone in the Reins and Bladder: and that the
  Ly that is made of the Ashes thereof being drunk for some
  time together, helpeth Splenetick persons: It is used in
  outward Remedies for the same purpose.
  =
@begin {m319}
  {Note 319:} Spleen, Strangury, Stone, yellow Jaundice;
  Running ofthe Reins, Melancholly Diseases.
@end {m319}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h248}
@section 3 {tt}
  STAR~THISTLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Star~thistle hath diverse long and narrow
  Leaves lying next the ground, cut or torn on the edges,
  somwhat deeply, into many almost even parts, soft or a
  little woolley all over the green, among which rise up
  diverse weak stalks parted into many Branches all lying,
  or leaning down to the ground, that it seemeth a pretty
  Bush, set with diverse the like devided Leaves up to the
  tops, where severally do stand long and small whitish
  green heads, set with very sharp and long white pricks (no
  part of the Plant being else prickly) which are somwhat
  yellowish: out of the middle whereof riseth the Flower
  composed of many small reddish purple threds; and in the
  Heads after the Flowers are past, come small whitish round
  Seed lying in down, as others do.  The Root is small,
  long, and woody, perishing every yeer, and rising again of
  its own sowing.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth wild in the Fields about London in many
  places, as at Mile~end~Green, in Finsbury Fields beyond
  the Wind~mils, and many other places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth early, and Seedeth in July, and somtimes in
  August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Seed of this Star~thistle made into Pouder and
  drunk in Wine, provoketh Urine, and helpeth to break the
  Stone, and drive it forth.  The Root in Pouder and given
  in Wine and drunk, is good against the Plague or
  {Note 320 here}
  Pestilence, and drunk in the mornings fasting for some
  time together, is very profitable for a Fistula in any
  part of the Body.  Baptista Sardus doth much commend the
  distilled Water hereof being drunk; to help the French
  Disease, to open Obstructions of the Liver, and clense the
  Blood from corrupted Humors, and is profitably given
  against Quotidian or Tertian Agues.
  =
@begin {m320}
  {Note 320:} Provokes Urine, stone, plague, fistula, french
  pox, Obstructions, Agues.
@end {m320}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h249}
@section 3 {tt}
  STRAWBERRIES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known through this Land, that they
  need no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in May ordinarily, and the Fruit is ripe
  shortly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Strawberries when they are green, are cold and dry, but
  when they are ripe they are cold and moist:  The Berries
  are excellent good to cool the Liver, the Blood and the
  Spleen, or an hot Chollerick stomach, to refresh & comfort
  the fainting Spirits, & to quench Thirst: They are good
  also for other Inflamations, yet it is not amiss to
  refrain them in a Feaver, lest by their putrefying in the
  Stomach they encrease the Fits.  The Leavs and Roots
  boyled in Wine and Water and drunk, do likewise cool the
  Liver and Blood,and asswage all Inflamations in the Reins
  and bladder, provoketh Urine, and allayeth the heat and
  sharpness thereof: The same also being drunk stayeth
  the Bloody Flux, and Womens Courses, and helpeth the
  Swellings of the Spleen.  The Water of the Berries
  carefully distilled is a Soveraign Remedy and Cordial in
  the panting and beating of the Heart, and is good for the
  yellow Jaundice.  The Juyce dropped into foul Ulcers, or
  they washed therewith, or the Decoction of the Herb and
  Root, doth wonderfully clense, and help to cure them.
  {Note 321 here}
  Lotions and Gargles for sore Mouthes, or Ulcers therin, or
  in the privy Parts, or elswhere, are made with the Leaves
  and Roots hereof; which is also good to fasten loose
  Teeth, and to heal spungy foul Gums: It helpeth also to
  stay Catarrhs or Defluxions of Rhewm into the Mouth,
  Throat, Teeth, or Eyes; The Juyce or Water is singular
  good for hot and red Inflamed Eyes, if dropped into them,
  or they bathed therewith; it is also of excellent property
  for all Pushes, Wheals, and other breakings forth of hot &
  sharp Humors in the Face and Hands, or other parts of the
  Body, to bath them therewith; and to take away any redness
  in the Face, or Spots, or other Deformites in the Skin,
  and to make it cleer and smooth.  Some use this Medicine,
  Take so many Strawberries as you shall think fitting, and
  put them into a Distillatory or body of Glass fit for
  them, which being well closed, set it in a bed of Horsdung
  for twelve or fourteen daies, and afterwards distill it
  carefully and keep it for your use:  It is excellent
  water, for hot inflamed Eyes, and to take away any film or
  Skin that beginneth to grow over them, and for such other
  defects in them as may be helped by any outward Medicine.
  =
@begin {m321}
  {Note 321:} Cool the Liver, Spleen, & stomach, Quench
  Thirst, Inflamations, Provoke Urine, stay the Bloody flux
  & Womens Courses, panting of the heart, Yellow Jaundice,
  Ulcers, sore Mouths or Ulcers in thep rivities, Loos
  teeth, Catarrhs & Defluxions, Inflamed Eyes.
@end {m321}
     Venus owns the Herb.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h250}
@section 3 {tt}
  SUCCORY.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Garden Succory hath longer and narrower Leaves than
  Endive, and more cut in or torn on the edges, and the Root
  abideth many yeers: It beareth also blew Flowers like
  Endive, and the Seed is hardly distinguished from the Seed
  of the smooth or ordinary Endive.
  =
     The wild Succory hath diverse long Leaves lying on the
  ground very much cut in or torn on the edges, on both
  sides even to the middle rib ending in a point; somtimes
  it hath a red Rib down the middle of the Leaves, from
  among which riseth up a hard, round, woody stalk spreading
  into many Branches, set with smaller and lesser devided
  Leaves on them up to the tops where stand the Flowers,
  which are like the Garden kind as the Seed is also (only
  take notice that the Flowers of the Garden kind are gone
  in one Sunny day, they being so cold that they are not
  able to endure the Beams of the Sun; and therfore most
  delight in the shadow.) The Root is white, but more hard
  and woody than the Garden kind: The whol Plant is
  exceeding bitter.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This groweth in many places of our Land, in wast,
  untilled, and barren Fields.  The other only in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Garden Succory as it is more dry, and less cold than
  Endive, so it openeth more: An handful of the Leavs or
  Roots boyled in Wine or Water, and a draught thereof drunk
  fasting, driveth forth Chollerick and Flegmatick Humors;
  {Note 322 here}
  openeth Obstructions of the Liver, Gall, and Spleen,
  helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the Heat of the Reins and of
  the Urin,  the Dropsie also, and those that have an evil
  disposition in their Bodies by reason of long sickness,
  evil Diet &c° which the Greeks call ***{Greek script}
  Cachexia.  A Decoction thereof made with Wine and drunk,
  is very effectual against long lingring Agues: and a dram
  {Note 323 here}
  of the Seed in Pouder drunk in Wine before the Fit of an
  Ague, helpeth to drive it away: The Distilled Water of the
  Herb and Flowers (if you can take them in time) hath the
  properties, and is especial good for hot Stomachs, and in
  Agues, either Pestilential or of long continuance, for
  swounings and Passions of the Heart, for the heat and
  Headach in Children, and to the blood and Liver.  The said
  water or the Juyce, or the bruised Leaves applied
  outwardly, allayeth Swellings, Inflamations, St° Anthonies
  Fire, Pushes, Wheals, and Pimples, especially used with a
  little Vinegar, as also to wash pestiferous Sores.  The
  said Water is very effectual for sore Eyes that are
  inflamed with redness, and for Nurses Breasts that are
  pained by the abundance of Milk.
  =
@begin {m322}
  {Note 322:} Chollerick & flegmatick Humors, Obstructions,
  Yellow Jaundice, Hot Reins & Urine, Dropsie, Agues.
@end {m322}
@begin {m323}
  {Note 323:} passions of the Heart, Headach, Swellings &
  Inflamations, St° Anthonies fires, pushes, wheals &
  pimples, Inflamed Eyes, Too much Milk.
@end {m323}
     The wild Succory as it is more bitter, so it is more
  strengthning to the Stomach and Liver.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h251}
@section 3 {tt}
  ENGLISH TOBACCO.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a thick round Stalk about two foot
  high, whereon do grow thick fat green leaves, nothing so
  large as the other Indian kinds, somwhat round pointed
  also, and nothing dented about the edges:  The Stalk
  brancheth forth, and beareth at the tops diverse Flowers
  set in green Husks, like the other but nothing so large,
  scarce standing above the Brims of the Husks, round
  pointed also, and of a greenish yellow colour.  The Seed
  that followeth is not so bright, but larger, contained in
  the like great Heads.  The Roots are neither so great, nor
  woody, and perishing every yeer with the hard Frosts in
  Winter, but riseth generally of its own sowing.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This came from some parts of Brassile as is thought,
  and is more familier to our Country, than any of the other
  sorts, early giving ripe Seed, which the others seldom do.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth from June somtimes to the end of August, or
  later, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found by good experience to be available to
  expectorate tough Flegm from the Stomach, Chest, and
  Lungs:  The Juyce thereof made into a Syrup, or the
  distilled water of the Herb drunk with some Sugar, or
  without if you will: Or the smoke taken by a Pipe as is
  usual, but fasting.  The same helpeth to expel Worms in
  the Stomach and Belly, and to ease the pains in the Head
  or Meagrim, and the griping pains in the Bowels: It is
  {Note 324 here}
  profitable for those that are troubled with the Stone in
  the Kidneys, both to ease pains and by provoking Urine to
  expel Gravel and the Stone ingendred therein, and hath
  been found very effectual to expel windiness and other
  Humors which cause the strangling of the Mother: The Seed
  hereof is very effectual to help the Toothach, and the
  Ashes of the burnt Herb, to clense the Gums, and make the
  Teeth white.  The Herb bruised and applied to the place
  grieved with the Kings Evil (as they call it) helpeth it
  in nine or ten daies effectually: Monardus saith it is a
  Counter~poyson for the biting of any Venemous Creature;
  the Herb also being outwardly applied to the hurt place:
  {Note 325 here}
  The distilled water is often given with some Sugar before
  the Fit of an Ague to lessen them, and take them away in
  three or four times using.  If the Distilled fieces of the
  Herb having been bruised before the Distillation, and not
  distilled dry be set in warm dung for fourteen daies, and
  afterwards hung up in a Bag in a Wine Celler; that liquor
  that distilleth therefrom is singular good to use for
  Cramps, Aches, the Gout, and Sciatica, and to heal Itches,
  Scabs, and running Ulcer, Cankers, and foul Sores
  whatsoever: The Juyce is also good for all the said
  griefs, and likewise to kill Lice in Childrens Heads.  The
  green Herb bruised and applied to any green Wound, cureth
  any fresh Wound or cut whersoever: and the Juyce put into
  old Sores both clenseth and healeth them: There is also
  made hereof a singular good Salve to help Impostumes, hard
  Tumors, and other swellings by blows or falls.
  =
@begin {m324}
  {Note 324:} Tough Flegm, worms, Meagrim, pains in the
  Bowels, Gravel & Stone, wind.
@end {m324}
@begin {m325}
  {Note 325:} Mother, toothach, Kings Evil, Venemous
  Creature, Ague, Cramps & Aches, Sciatica, Itch, Scabs &
  Ulcers, Cankers & foul Sores, Lice, Fresh wound, Old
  sores, Impostums & hard Swellings.
@end {m325}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h252}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE TAMARISK TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known in the places where it grows that
  it needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about the end of May, or in June, and the
  Seed is ripe and blown away in the beginning of September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     If the Root, Leaves, or yong Branches be boyled in Wine
  or Vinegar and drunk, and applied outwardly, it is very
  powerful against the hardness of the spleen.  The Leaves
  boyled in Wine and drunk is good to stay the bleeding of
  the Hemorrhoidal Veins, the spitting of Blood, and Womens
  too abounding Courses, and helpeth the Jaundice, the
  {Note 326 here}
  Chollick, and  the bitings of all Venemous Serpents, except
  the Asp.  The Bark is as effectual if not more to all the
  purposes aforesaid, and both it and the Leaves boyled in
  Wine, and the Mouth and Teeth washed therewith helpeth the
  Toothach; being dropped into the Ears easeth the pains,
  and is good for the redness and watering of the Eyes.  The
  said Decoction with some Honey put thereto is good to stay
  Gangrenes and fretting Ulcers, and to wash those that are
  subject to Nits and Lice.  The Wood is very effectual to
  consume the Spleen, and therefore to drink out of Cups and
  Cans made thereof is good for Splenetick persons.  The
  {Note 327 here}
  Ashes of the Wood are used for all the purposes aforesaid,
  and besides doth quickly help the Blisters raised by
  Burnings or Scaldings, by fire or water.  Alpinus and
  Veslingius do affirm, That the Aegyptians do with as good
  success use the Wood hereof to cure the French Disease, as
  others do Lignum Vite, or Gujacum; and give it also to
  such as are possessed with Lepry, Scabs, Pushes, Ulcers,
  or the like, and is available also to help the Dropsie,
  arising from the hardness and Obstruction of the Spleen,
  as also for Melancholly, and the black Jaundice that
  ariseth thereof.
  =
@begin {m326}
  {Note 326:} Spleen, Hemorrhoids, spitting Blood, womens
  Courses, Jaundice & Chollick, Venemous Serpents.
@end {m326}
@begin {m327}
  {Note 327:} Toothach, Pain in the Ears, watering Eyes,
  Gangrenes & Ulcers, Nits & Lice, Spleen, Burning &
  Scalding, French Pox, Lepry & Scabs, Dropsie, Melancholly,
  Black Jaundice.
@end {m327}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h253}
@section 3 {tt}
  GARDEN TANSIE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
      This also is so well known, that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Thee Decoction of the common Tansie, or the Juyce drunk
  in Wine is a singular Remedy for all the griefs that come
  by stopping of the Urine, helpeth the Strangury and those
  that have weak Reins and Kidneys:  It is also very
  profitable to dissolve and expel Wind in the Stomach,
  Belly, or Bowels, to procure Womens Courses, and expel
  windiness in the Matrix.  If it be bruised and often
  smelled unto, as also applied to the lower part ofthe
  Belly, it is very profitable for such Women as are given
  to miscarry in Childbearing, to caus them to go out their
  full time:  It is used also against the Stone in the
  Reins, especially to men.  The Herb fried with Eggs (as is
  accustomed in the Spring time) which is called a Tansie,
  helpeth to digest, and carry downward those bad Humors
  that trouble the Stomach: The Seed is very profitably
  given to Children for the Worms, and the Juyce in Drink is
  as effectual.  Being boyled in Oyl it is good for the
  sinews shrunk by Cramps, or pained with cold, if thereto
  applied.
  =
     Dame Venus was minded to pleasure Women with Child by
  this Herb, for there grows not an Herb fitter for their
  uses than this is, it is just as though it were cut out
  for the purpose, the Herb bruised and applied to the Navil
  staies miscarriage, I know no Herb like it for that use;
  {Note 328 here}
  boyled in ordinary Beer, and the Decoction drunk, doth the
  like, and if her Womb be not as she would have, this
  Decoction will make it as she would have it, or as least
  as she should have it; let those Women that desire
  Children love this Herb, 'tis their best Companion, their
  Husband excepted.  Also it consumes the Flegmatick Humors,
  the cold and moist constitution of Winter most usually
  infects the Body of Man with, and that was the first
  reason of eating Tansies in the Spring, as last the world
  being over run with Popery, a Monster called Superstition
  perks up his head, and as a just Judgment of God obscures
  the bright beams of Knowledg by his dismal looks
  (Pysitians seeing the Pope and his Imps selfish they began
  to be so too) and now forsooth Tansies must be eaten only
  on Palm and Easter Sundaies, and their neighbor daies; as
  last Superstion of the time was found out, but the Vertue
  of the Herb hidden, and now 'tis almost, if not
  altogether, left off: Surely our Physitians are beholding
  to none so much as they are to Monks and Fryars, for want
  of eating this Herb in Spring, make people sickly in
  Summer, and that makes work for the Physitian.  If it be
  against any man or womans Conscience to eat a Tansie in
  the Spring, I am as unwilling to burden their consciences
  as I am that they should burden mine, they may boyl it in
  Wine and drink the Decoction, it will work the same
  effect.
  =
@begin {m328}
  {Note 328:} Disury, Strangury, Reins, Kidneys, wind, Womb,
  Miscarriage, Stone, Stomach, Worms, Cramps.
@end {m328}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h254}
@section 3 {tt}
  WILD TANSIE, or SILVERWEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This also is so well known that it needeth no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth almost in every place.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Wild Tansie stayeth the Lask, and all Fluxes of Blood
  in men or women, which some say it will do if the green
  Herb be worn in the Shoos, so it be next the Skin, and
  'tis true enough that 'twil stop the Terms if worn so, and
  the Whites too for ought I know.  It stayeth also spitting
  or Vomiting of Blood.  The  Pouder of the dried Herb taken
  in some of the distilled Water helpeth the Whites in
  women, but more especially if a little Coral and Ivory in
  Pouder be put to it: It is also much commended to help
  Children that are bursten and have a Rupture being boyled
  in Water and Salt.  Being boyled in Wine and drunk , it
  easeth the griping pains of the Bowels, and is good for
  the Sciatica and Joynt Aches.  The same boyled in Vinegar
  with Honey and Allum, and gargled in the Mouth, easeth the
  pains of the Toothach, fastneth loose Teeth, helpeth the
  Gums that are sore, and setleth the pallat of the Mouth in
  its place when it is fallen down: It clenseth and healeth
  the Ulcers in the Mouth or secret parts, and is very good
  for inward Wounds, and to close the lips of green Wounds;
  {Note 329 here}
  as also to heal old, moist, corrupt running Sores in the
  Legs or elswhere: Being bruised and applied to the Soles
  of the Feet, and the Hand~wrests, it wonderfully cooleth
  the hot fits of Agues, be they never so violent.  The
  distilled water clenseth the skin of all disclourings
  therein, as Morphew, Sunburnings &c° as also Pimples,
  Freckles, and the like; and dropped into the Eyes or
  cloaths wet therein and applied, taketh away the heat, and
  Inflamations in them.
  =
@begin {m329}
  {Note 329:} Flux, Terms stops, Spitting Vomiting of Blood,
  Whites, Ruptures, Belly~ach, Sciatica, Joynts, toothach,
  Loos teeth, Gums, Ulcers in the Mouth, wounds, Sore Legs,
  pimples, Freckles, Sunburning.
@end {m329}
     Now Dame Venus hath fitted women with two Herbs of one
  name, one to help Conception, the other to maintain
  beauty, and what more can be expected of her? What now
  remains for you but to love your Husbands, and not to be
  wanting to your poor Neighbors.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h255}
@section 3 {tt}
  THISTLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Of these there are many kinds growing here in England,
  which are so well known that they need no Description:
  Their difference is easily known by the places where they
  grow: Viz°
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Some grow in Fields, some in Meadows, and some among
  the Corn: others, on Heaths, Greens, and wast grounds in
  many places.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They all Flower in July and August, and their Seed is
  ripe quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     All these Thistles are good to provoke Urine, and to
  amend the stinking smell thereof; as also the rank smel of
  the Armpits, or of the whol Body, being boyled in Wine and
  {Note 330 here}
  drunk; and are said also to help a stinking breath and to
  strengthen the Stomach.  Pliny saith that the Juyce bathed
  on the place that wanteth hair, it being fallen off, will
  cause it to grow again speedily.
  =
@begin {m330}
  {Note 330:} Disury, Ill smel, stinking Breath, Stomach.
@end {m330}
     Sure Mars rules it, it is such a prickly business.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h256}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE MELANCHOLLY THISTLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a tender single hoary green Stalk,
  bearing thereon four or five long hoary green Leaves,
  dented about the edges, the points whereof are little or
  nothing prickly, and at the top usually but one Head, yet
  somtimes from the bosom of the upper most Leaf there
  shooteth forth another smaller Head, scaly and somwhat
  prickly; with many reddish Purple Thrums or Threds in the
  middle, which being gathered fresh will keep the colour a
  long time, and fadeth not from the Stalk in a long time,
  while it perfecteth the Seed, which is of a mean bigness
  lying in the Down: The Root hath many long Strings fastned
  to the Head, or upper part, which is blackish and
  perisheth not.
  =
     There is another sort little differing from the former,
  but that the Leaves are more green above and more hoary
  underneath; and the Stalk being about two foot high
  beareth but one large scaly Head, with threds and Seeds as
  the former.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in many moist Meadows of this Land, as well
  in these Southern, as in the Northern parts.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower about July, or August, and their Seed
  ripeneth quickly after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Their Vertues are but a few, but those not to be
  despised, for the Decoction of the Thistles in Wine being
  drunk, expels superfluous Melancholly out of the Body, and
  make a man as merry as a Cricket, superfluous Melancholly
  causeth care, fear, sadness, despair, envy, and many evils
  more besides, but Religion, teacheth to wait upon Gods
  Providence, and cast our care upon Him, who careth for us;
  what a fine thing were it if men and women could live so?
  {Note 331 here}
  and yet seven yeers care and fear makes a man never the
  wiser, nor a farthing the richer.  Dioscorides saith, the
  Root born about one doth the like, and removes all
  diseases of Melancholly.  Modern Writers laugh at him, let
  them laugh that wins, my Opionin is, that 'tis the best
  Remedy against all Melancholly Diseases that grow, they
  that please may use it: 'tis under Capricorn, and
  therefore under both Saturn and Mars, one rids Melancholly
  by Sympathy, the other by Antipathy.
  =
@begin {m331}
  {Note 331:} Melancholly.
@end {m331}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h257}
@section 3 {tt}
  OUR LADIES THISTLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath diverse very large and broad Leaves lying on
  the ground, cut in, and as it were crumpled, but somwhat
  hairy on the edges, of a white green shining colour,
  wherein are many lines and strakes of a milky white
  colour, running all over, and set with many sharp and
  stiff prickles all about; Among which riseth up one or
  more strong, round, and prickly stalks, set full of the
  like Leaves up to the top, where at the end of every
  Branch, cometh forth a great prickly Thistle like head,
  strongly armed with pricks, and with bright purple Thrums
  rising out of the middle of them; after they are past, the
  Seed groweth in the said heads, lying in a great deal of
  soft white Down, which is somwhat flattish and shining,
  large and brown.  The Root is great, spreading in the
  ground, with many strings, and smal fibres fastned
  thereto.  All the whol Plant is bitter in tast.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It frequent on the Bank of almost every Ditch.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     If Flowreth and Seedeth in June, July, and August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Our Ladies Thistle is thought to be as effectual as
  Carduus Benedictus for Agues, and to prevent and cure
  infection of the Plague, as also to open Obstructions of
  the Liver and Spleen, and thereby is good against the
  Jaundice; It provoketh Urine, breaketh and expelleth the
  Stone, and is good for the Dropsie: It is effectual also
  for the pains in the sides and many other inward pains and
  gripings: The Seed and distilled water are held powerful
  to all the purposes aforesaid; and besides, it is often
  applied both inwardly to drink, and outwardly with
  Cloathes or Spunges to the Region of the Liver to cool the
  distemperature thereof, and to the Region of the Heart,
  against swounings and passions of it.
  {Note 332 here}
  =
@begin {m332}
  {Note 332:} Agues, Plague, Obstructions, Liver, Spleen,
  Stone, Dropsie, Stitches in the side, Liver, Blood.
@end {m332}
     It clenseth the blood exceedingly, and in Spring if you
  please to boyl the tender Plant, (but cut off the
  Prickles, unless you have a mind to choak your self) it
  will change your blood as the season changes, and that's
  the way to be safe, as to change as the times change is
  the way to live secure, and that Flatterers and
  Weather~cocks know wel enough.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h258}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE WOOLLEY, or COTTON THISTLE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many large Leaves lying on the ground,
  somwhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a
  green colour on the upper side, but covered over with a
  long hairy Wool or Cottony Down, set with most sharp and
  cruel pricks; from the middle of whose heads of Flowers
  come forth many purplish crimson threds, and somtimes
  white, although but seldom: The Seed that followeth in
  these white downy heads is somwhat large, long, and round,
  resembling the Seed of Ladies Thistle, but paler: The Root
  is great, and thick, spreading much, yet usually dieth
  after Seed time.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth on diverse Ditch Banks, and in the
  Cornfields and High~wayes, generally throughout the Land;
  and is often found growing in Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth and beareth Seed about the end of Summer,
  when other Thistles do Flower and Seed.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides and Pliny write, That the Leavs and Roots
  hereof taken in drink, helpeth those that have a Crick in
  their Neck, that they cannot turn it unless they turn
  their whol Body.  Galen saith, That the Root and Leaves
  hereof are good for such persons that have their Bodies
  drawn together by some Spasm or Convulsion, or other
  Infirmities, as the Rickets (or as the Colledg of
  Physitians would have it, the Rachites, about which name
  they have quarrel'd sufficiently) in Children; being a
  Disease that hindereth their growth, by binding their
  Nerves, Ligaments, and whol structure of their Body.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h259}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE FULLERS THISTLE, or TEASEL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known that it needeth no Description,
  being used by the Cloath~workers.
  =
     The wild Teasel is in all things like the former but
  that the prickles are smal, soft, and  upright, not hooked
  or stiff;  and the Flowers of this are of fine blush or
  pale Carnation colour, but of the Manured kind whitish.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first groweth being sown in Gardens or Fields for
  the use of Cloathworkers: The other neer Ditches and Cills
  of water in many places of this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in July, and are ripe in the end of August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, That the Root bruised and boyled in
  Wine until it be thick, and kept in a brazen Vessel or
  Pot, ond after spread as a Salve and applied to the
  Fundament, doth heal the clefts thereof, as also Cankers
  and Fistulaes therein, as also taketh away Warts and Wens:
  The Juyce of the Leaves dropped into the Ears, killeth
  Worms in them.  The distilled water of the Leaves dropped
  into the Eyes, taketh away redness and mists in them that
  hinder the sight; and is often used by women to preserve
  their beauty, and to take away redness and Inflamations,
  and all other heat or discolourings.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h260}
@section 3 {tt}
  TREACLE MUSTARD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This riseth up with a hard round stalke about a foot
  high, parted into some branches, having divers soft green
  leaves somewhat long and narrow set thereon, waved, but
  not cut in on the edges, broadest towards the ends, and
  somewhat round pointed : The flowers are white that grow
  at the tops of the branches, spike fashion one above
  another, after which come large round pouches, parted in
  the middle with a furrow, having one blackish brown seed
  in either side, somewhat sharp in tast, and smelling of
  Garlick, especially in the fields where it is naturall,
  but not so much in gardens: The roots are small and
  threddy, perishing every yeare.  And here give me leave to
  adde Methridate Mustard, although it may seem more
  properly by the name to belong to the Alphabet M.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h261}
@section 3 {tt}
  METHRIDATE MUSTARD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This groweth higher then the former, spreading more and
  longer branches, whose leaves are smaller and narrower,
  sometimes unevenly dented about the edges; the Flowers are
  smal and white, growing on long branches, with much
  smaller and rounder seed vessels after them, and parted in
  the same manner, having smaller browne seeds then the
  former, and much sharper in taste: The root perisheth
  after seed time, but abideth the first winter after the
  springing.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow in sundry places of this Land, as halfe a
  mile from Hatfield by the river side under a hedge as you
  go to Hatfield, and in the street of Peckham on Surry
  side.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They flowre and seed from May to August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     These Mustards are said to purge the body both upwards
  and downwards, and procureth Womens Courses so abundantly,
  that it suffocateth the birth: It breaketh inward
  Imposthumes being taken inwardly, and used in Glisters,
  helpeth the Sciatica, and seed applied outwardly doth the
  same.  It is an especiall ingredient unto Methridate and
  Treacle, being of it selfe an Antidote resisting poyson,
  venome, and putrefaction: It is also availeable in many
  causes for which the common Mustard is used, but somwhat
  weaker.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h262}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE BLACK~THORNE, or SLOE~BUSH.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well knowne, that it needeth no description.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in every place and Countrey, in the hedges
  and borders of fields.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It flowreth in Aprill, and sometimes in March, but
  ripeneth the fruit after all other plums whatsoever, and
  is not fit to be eaten until the Autumne frost have
  mellowed it.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     All the parts of the Sloe~Bush are binding, cooling,
  and drying, and all effectuall to stay bleeding at the
  nose and mouth, or any other place; the Lask of the belly,
  or stomach, or the Bloody Flux, the two much abounding of
  womens Courses, and helpeth to ease the paines in the
  sides, bowels, and guts, that come by over~much scowring,
  to drink the decoction of the barke of the roots, or more
  usually the decoction of the Berries either fresh or
  dried.  The Conserve is also of very much use, and most
  {Note 333 here}
  familiarly taken for the purposes aforesaid: But the
  distilled water of the Flowers first steeped in Sack for a
  night, and drawne there from by the heat of Balneum
  Angliceabaths, is a most certaine remedy tried and
  approved to ease all manner of gnawings in the stomach,
  the sides and bowels,  or any griping pains in any of them,
  to drink a smal quantity when the extremety of pain is
  upon them: The Leaves also are good to make Lotions, to
  gargle and wash the Mouth and Throat, wherein are
  Swellings, Sores, or Kernels and to stay the Defluxions of
  Rhewm to the Eyes or other parts, as also to cool the heat
  and Inflamations in them, and to ease hot pains of the
  Head, to bath the Forehead and Temples therewith.  The
  simple distilled water of the Flowers is very effectual
  for the said purposes, and is the condensate Juyce of the
  Sloes.  The distilled water of the green Berries is used
  also for the said effects.
  =
@begin {m333}
  {Note 333:} Binds, cools, dries Bleeding, Flux, Bloody
  Flux, grawings in bowels and stomach, Sore Mouth & Throat,
  Headach.
@end {m333}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h263}
@section 3 {tt}
  THOROUGHWAX.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Throughwax sendeth forth one straight round
  Stalk, and somtimes more, two foot high and better, whose
  lower Leaves being of a blewish green colour are smaller
  and narrower than those up higher, and stand close
  thereto, not compassing it; but as they grow higher, they
  do more and more encompass the Stalk, until it wholly (as
  it were) pass through them, branching toward the top into
  many parts, where the Leaves grow smaller again, every one
  standing singly, and never two at any Joynt: The Flowers
  are very smal and yellow, standing in tufts at the heads
  of the Branches, where afterwards grow the Seed, smal and
  blackish, many thick thrust together: The Root is smal,
  long, and woody, perishing every yeer after Seed time, and
  rising again plentifully of its own sowing.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is found growing in many Corn Fields, and Pasture
  grounds in this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in July, and the Seed is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Thoroughwax is of a singular good use, for all sorts of
  Bruises and Wounds either inward or outward, and old
  Ulcers and Sores likewise, if the Decoction of the Herb
  with water or Wine be drunk, and the places washed
  therwith, or the Juyce or green Herb bruised or boyled
  either by it self, or with other Herbs in Oyl or Hogs
  Grease, to be made into an Oyntment to serve all the yeer:
  {Note 334 here}
  The Decoction of the Herb, or the Pouder of the dried Herb
  taken inwardly, and the same or the green Leaves bruised
  and applied outwardly, is singular good to cure Ruptures
  and Burstings, especially in Children, before it be two
  old.  Being also applied with a little Flower and Wax to
  Childrens Navils that stick forth it helpeth them.
  =
@begin {m334}
  {Note 334:} Bruises, Wounds, Ulcers, Ruptures, Navils
  sticking out.
@end {m334}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h264}
@section 3 {tt}
  TORMENTIL.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many reddish slender weak Branches rising
  from the Root, lying upon the ground, or rather leaning
  than standing upright, with many short Leaves that stand
  closer to the Stalks than Cinkfoyl doth (which this is
  very like) with the Footstalk encompassing the Branches in
  several places, but those that grow next to the ground are
  set upon long Footstalks, each whereof are like the Leaves
  of Cinkfoyl, but somwhat longer and lesser, and dented
  about the edges, many of them devided but into five
  Leaves, but most of them into sevens whence it is also
  called Setfoyl; yet some may have six and some eight,
  according to the fertility of the Soyl: At the tops of the
  Brancbes stand diverse smal yellow Flowers consisting of
  five Leaves, like those of Cinkfoyl, but smaller.  The
  Root is smaller than Bistort, somwhat thick, but blacker
  without, and not so red within, yet somtimes a little
  crooked, having many blackish fibres thereat.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth as well in Woods and shadowy places, as in
  the open Champion Country, about the borders of Fields in
  many places of this Land, and almost in every Broom Field
  in Essex.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth all the Summer long.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Tormentil is most excellent to stay all kind of Fluxes
  of Blood or Humors, in man or woman, whether at Nose,
  Mouth, Belly, or any Wound in the Veins or elswhere: The
  Juyce of the Herb or Root taken in drink, not only
  resisteth all Poyson and Venom of any Creature, but of the
  Plague it self, and Pestilential Feavers, and contagious
  Diseases, as the Pox, Measels, Purples, &c° expelling the
  Venom and Infection from the Heart by sweating, if the
  green Root be not at hand to be had, the Pouder of the dry
  Root is as effectual a dram thereof being taken every
  morning: The Decoction likewise of the Herbs and Roots
  made in Wine and drunk worketh the same effect; and so
  doth the distilled water of the Herb and Root being
  steeped in Wine for a night, and then distilled in Balneo
  Mariae.  This Water thus distilled taken with some Venice
  Treacle, and the party presently laid to sweat will
  certainly (with Gods help) expel any Venom or poyson, or
  the Plague, Feaver, &c° for it is an ingredient of
  especial respect in all Antidotes or Counterpoysons.
  There is not found any Root more effectual to  help any Flux of the Belly, Stomach, Spleen, or Blood than this, to
  be taken inwardly, or applied outwardly.  The Juyce taken
  doth wonderfully open Obstructions of the Liver and Lungs,
  and thereby in short space helpeth the yellow Jaundice.
  {Note 335 here}
  Some use to make Cakes hereof as well to stay all Fluxes,
  as to restrain all Chollerick Belchings, and much
  vomitings with Loathings in the Stomach: The Pouder of the
  dried Root made up with the white of an Egg and baked upon
  a hot Tile will do it.
  =
@begin {m335}
  {Note 335:} Flux, Bleeding, Veins cut, terms stops,
  Feavers, Pestilence, Smal pox, Measels, Purples, Poyson,
  Spleen, Blood Inflamed, Liver, Lungs, Yellow Jaundice.
@end {m335}
     Andreus Valesius is of opinion, That the Decoction of
  this Root is no less effectual to cure the French Pox,
  than Guajacum, or China and 'tis not unlikely, because it
  so mightily resisteth putrefaction: Lobel saith, That
  Rondelitius used it as Hermodactils for Joynt~aches: The
  Pouder also, or Decoction to be drunk, or to sit therein
  as a Bath is an assured Remedy against abortion in Women,
  if it proceed from the over Fluxibility or weakness of the
  inward retentive faculty: as also a Plaister made
  therewith and Vinegar applyed to the Reins of the Back,
  doth much help not only this but also those that cannot
  hold their Water, the Pouder being taken in the Juyce of
  Plantane; and it is also commended against the worms in
  Children.  It is very powerful in Ruptures and Burstings:
  {Note 336 here}
  as also for Bruises and Falls, to be used as well outward
  as inwardly.  The Root hereof made up with Pellitory of
  Spain and Allum, and put into an hollow Tooth, not only
  asswageth the pain, but staieth the Flux of Humors which
  caused it, Tormentil is no less effectual and powerful a
  Remedy for outward Wounds, Sores, and Hurts, than for
  inward, and is therefore a special Ingredient meet to be
  used in all Wound drinks, Lotions, and Injections for foul
  corrupt rotten Sores and Ulcers, of the Mouth, Secrets, or
  other parts of the Body.  And to put either the Juyce or
  Pouder of the Root into such Oyntments, Plaisters, and
  such things that are to be applied to Wounds and Sores: it
  also dissolveth all Knots, Kernels, and hardness gathered
  about the Ears, the Throat, and Jaws and the Kings Evil if
  the Leaves and Roots be bruised and applied thereto: The
  same also easeth the pains of the Sciatica or Hip~gout by
  restraining the sharp Humors that flow thereto. The Juyce
  of the Leaves and Roots used with a little Vinegar, is
  also a special Remedy against the running Sores of the
  Head or other parts, Scabs also and the Itch, or any such
  eruptions in the Skin proceeding of Salt and sharp Humors.
  The same also is effectual for the Piles or Hemorrhoids if
  they be washed and bathed therwith, or with the Distilled
  water of the Herb and Roots: It is found also helpful to
  dry up any sharp Rhewm that distilleth from the Head into
  the Eyes causing, redness, pain, waterings, Itchings, or
  the like, if a little prepared Tutia, or white Amber be
  used with the Distilled water hereof:  Many Women use this
  Water as a secret to help themselves and others when they
  are troubled with the too much flowing of the Whites or
  Reds, both to drink it, and inject it with a Syringe.  And
  there's enough, only remember, the Sun challengeth the
  Herb.
  =
@begin {m336}
  {Note 336:} French pox, Miscarriage, Diabetes, Worms,
  Ruptures, toothach, Wounds, Sores, Hurt, Gout, Scabby
  Heads.
@end {m336}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h265}
@section 3 {tt}
  TURNSOLE, or HELIOTROPIUM.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The greater Turnsole riseth up with one upright Stalk
  about a foot high or more, deviding it self almost from
  the bottom into diverse smaller Branches of a hoary
  colour: at each Joynt of the Stalk and Branches grow two
  smal broad Leaves somwhat white or hoary also: At the tops
  of the Stalks and Branches stand many small white Flowers
  consisting of four and somtimes five very small Leaves,
  set in order one about another, upon a smal crooked spike
  which turneth inwards like a bowed finger, opening by
  degrees as the Flowers blow open; after which in their
  places come smal corner'd Seed, four for the most part
  standing together.  The Root is smal and threddy perishing
  every yeer, and the Seed shedding every yeer, raiseth it
  again the next Spring.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth and Seedeth with us
  in England, notwithstanding it is not natural to this
  Land, but to Italy, Spain, and France, where it groweth
  plentifully.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, That a good Handful of this, which
  is called the greater Turnsole, boyled in Water and drunk,
  purgeth both Choller and Flegm: And boyled with Cummin and
  drunk, helpeth the Stone in the Reins, Kidneys, or
  {Note 337 here}
  Bladder, provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, and causeth
  an easie and speedy delivery in Childbirth.  The Leaves
  bruised and applied to places pained with the Gout, or
  that have been out of joynt and newly set are full of pain,
  do give much ease.  The Seed, and the Juyce of the Leaves
  also being rubbed with a little Salt upon Warts, Wens, and
  other hard Kernels in the Face, Eyelids, or any other part
  of the Body, will by often using take them away.
  =
@begin {m337}
  {Note 337:} Choller, Flegm, Stons, Disury, Terms provokes,
  Gout, Warts, Wens, Disjunctures.
@end {m337}
     'Tis an Herb of the Sun, and a good one too.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h266}
@section 3 {tt}
  MEADOW TREFOYL, or HONEYSUCKLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known, especially by the name of
  Honeysuckles, White and Red, that I need not describe
  them.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They grow almost everywhere in this Land.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dodoneus saith, The Leaves and Flowers are good to ease
  the griping pains of the Guts, the Herb being boyled and
  used in a Clyster: If the Herb be made into a Pultis and
  applied to Inflamations, it will ease them.  The Juyce
  dropped into the Eyes is a familier Medicine with many
  Country people to take away the Pin and Web (as they call
  it) in the Eyes, it also allayeth the Heat and
  bloodshooting of them: Country people do also in many
  {Note 338 here}
  places drink the Juyce hereof against the biting of an
  Adder, and having boyled the Herb in water, they first
  wash the place with the Decoction, and then lay some of
  the Herb also to the hurt place.  The Herb also bruised
  and heated between two Tiles, and applied hot to the
  share, causeth them to make water who had it stop'd
  before: It is held likewise to be good for Wounds, and to
  take away Scars.  The Decoction of the Herb and Flowers
  with the Seed and Root taken for some time, helpeth Women
  that are troubled with the Whites.  The Seed and Flowers
  boyled in Water, and after made into a Pultis with some
  Oyl and applied, helpeth hard Swellings and Impostumes.
  {Note 339 here}
  =
@begin {m338}
  {Note 338:} Belly~ach, Inflamations, Pin & Web, Eyes,
  Venemous Beast.
@end {m338}
@begin {m339}
  {Note 339:} Disury, Wounds, Scars, Whites, Swellings,
  Apostums.
@end {m339}
     Of Trefoyl or three leaved Gras, there are very many
  sorts described by Authors, but one I have found out which
  I never red of, the Leaf is but small and it beareth a
  small yellow Flower, in the midst of each Leaf of the
  Herb, is a perfect picture of a Heart in red colour, it
  grows plentifully in a Field between Longford and Bow;
  also I found one Root in the High~way between Chadwel and
  Rumford in Essex, as also another in the High~way between
  Horn~Church and Upminster in the same County, the tast is
  somthing more hot and spicy than the tast of the rest is.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h267}
@section 3 {tt}
  TUTSAN, or PARK LEAVES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many brownish shining round Stalks, crested
  all the length thereof, rising to be two and somtimes
  three foot high, branching forth even from the bottom,
  having diverse Joynts, and at each of them two fair large
  Leaves standing, of a dark blewish green colour on the
  upper side, and of a yellowish green underneath, turning
  reddish towards Autumn, but abiding on the Branches all
  the Winter: At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand
  large yellow Flowers, and Heads with Seed, which being
  greenish at the first, and afterwards reddish, turn to be
  of a blackish purple colour when they are through ripe,
  with smal brownish Seed within them, and then yield a
  reddish Juyce or Liquor, of a reasonable good scent,
  somwhat resinous, and of an harsh or stiptich tast, as the
  Leaves also and the Flowers be, although much less, but do
  not yield such a cleer Claret Wine Liquor as some say it
  doth: The Root is brownish, somwhat great, hard, and
  woody, spreading well in the ground.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth in many Woods, Groves, and Woody Grounds, as
  Parks and Forrests, and by Hedg sides in many places of
  this Land, as in Hampsted Wood, by Ratley in Essex, in the
  Wild of Kent, and in many other places needless to recite.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth later than St° Johns, or St° Peters wort.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Tutsan purgeth Chollerick Humors as St° Peters~wort is
  said to do, for therein it worketh the same effects, both
  to help the Sciatica and Gout, and to heal burnings by
  fire: It stayeth also the bleeding of Wounds, if either
  the green Herb be bruised, or the pouder of the dry be
  applied thereto.  It hath been accounted and certainly is
  {Note 340 here}
  a Soveraign Herb to heal any Wound or Sore either
  outwardly or inwardly, and therfore alwaies used in
  Drinks, Lotions, Balms, Oyls, Oyntments for any sort of
  green Wound, or old Ulcers and Sores, in all which the
  continual experience of former Ages hath confirmed the use
  thereof to be admirable good, though it be not so much in
  use now as when Physitians and Chirurgeons were so wise as
  to use Herbs more than now they do.
  =
@begin {m340}
  {Note 340:} Choller, Sciatica, Gout, Burning, Bleeding,
  Wounds, Ulcers.
@end {m340}
     It is an Herb of Saturn and a most noble Antivererian.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h268}
@section 3 {tt}
  GARDEN VALERIAN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath a thick short grayish Root lying for the most
  part above ground, shooting forth on all sides other such
  like small pieces or Roots, which have all of them many
  long and great strings or fibres under them, in the
  ground, whereby it draweth nourishment.  From the Heads of
  these Roots spring up many green Leaves, which at first
  are somewhat broad and long without any devision at all in
  them, or denting on the edges, but those that rise up
  after are more and more devided on each side, some to the
  middle Rib, being winged, as made of many Leaves together
  on a Stalk, & those upon the Stalk in like manner are more
  devided, but smaller towards the top than below: The Stalk
  riseth to be a yard high or more, somtimes branched at the
  top, wth many smal whitish Flowers, somtimes dash'd over
  at the edges with a pale purplish colour, of a little
  scent: which passing away there followeth small brownish
  white Seed that is easily carried away with the wind.  The
  Root smelleth more strong than either Leaf or Flower, and
  is of more use in Medicine.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is generally kept with us in our Gardens.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June and July, and continueth Flowring
  until the Frosts pull it down.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, That the Garden Valerian hath a
  warming Faculty, and that being dryed and given to drink,
  it provoketh Urine and helpeth the Strangury: The
  Decoction therof taken doth the like also, and taketh away
  pains of the sides, provoketh Womens Courses and is used
  in Antidotes.  Pliny saith, That the Pouder of the Root
  given in drink, or the Decoction thereof taken, helpeth
  all stoppings and stranglings in any part of the Body,
  whether they proceed of pains in the Chest or sides, and
  taketh them away.  The Root of Valerian boyled with
  Liquoris, Raisons, and Annis Seed, is singular good for
  those that are short winded, and for those that are
  troubled with the Cough, and helpeth to open the passages,
  and to expectorate Flegm easily.  It is given to those
  {Note 341 here}
  that are bitten or stung by any Venemous Creature, being
  boyled in Wine.  It is of especial Vertue against the
  Plague, the Decoction thereof being drunk, and the Root
  being used to smell unto; It helpeth also to expel the
  wind in the Belly.  The green Herb with the Root taken
  fresh, being bruised and applied to the Head taketh away
  the pains and prickings therein, staieth Rhewms and thin
  Distillations, and being boyled in white Wine, and the
  drop thereof put into the eye, taketh away the dimness of
  the sight, or any Pin or Web therein: It is of excellent
  property to heal any inward Sores or Wounds, as also for
  outward Hurts or Wounds, and draweth any Splinter or Thorn
  out of the Flesh.
  =
@begin {m341}
  {Note 341:} Disury, Strangury, Stitch, terms provokes,
  breast, short wind, Cough, Flegm, Pestilence, Wind,
  Headach, Eyes, Pin and Web, Wounds, Splinters, thorns.
@end {m341}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h269}
@section 3 {tt}
  VERVAIN.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common Vervain, hath somwhat long and broad Leaves
  next the ground deeply gash'd about the edges and some
  only deeply dented or cut all alike, of a blackish green
  colour on the upper side, and somwhat gray underneath: The
  Stalk is square branched into several parts, rising about
  two foot high, especially if you reckon the long spike of
  Flowers at the tops of them, which are set on all sides
  one above another, and somtimes two or three together,
  being small and gaping, of a Purplish blew colour, and
  white intermixt; after which come small round Seed in
  small and somwhat long Heads: The Root is small and long,
  but of no use.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth generally throughout this Land in diverse
  places by the Hedges and way sides, and other wast
  grounds.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth about July, and the Seed is ripe soon
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Vervain is hot and dry, bitter, opening Obstructions,
  clensing, and healing, It helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the
  Dropsie, and the Gout, the defects of the Reins and Lungs,
  and generally, all inward pains and torments of the Body,
  the Leaves being boyled and drunk; The same is held to be
  good against the bitings of Serpents, and other Venemous
  Beasts; and against the Plague, and both Tertian and
  Quartane Agues, killeth and expelleth Worms in the Belly,
  and causeth a good colour in the Face and Body,
  strengthneth as well as correcteth the Diseases of the
  Liver and Spleen, is very effectual in all Diseases of the
  Stomach and Lungs, as Coughs, shortness of Breath and
  Wheesings, and is singular good against the Dropsie, to be
  drunk with some Peony Seeds, bruised and put thereto; and
  is no less prevalent for the defects of the Reins and
  Bladder, to clense them of those Humors that ingender the
  Stone, and helpeth to break the Stone and to expel Gravel:
  {Note 342 here}
  It consolidateth and healeth also all Wounds both inward
  and  outward, and stayeth bleedings, and used with some
  Honey healeth all old Ulcers and Fistulaes in the Legs or
  other parts of the Body, as also those Ulcers that happen
  in the Mouth; or used with old Hogs grease it helpeth the
  Swellings and pains of the secret parts in man or Woman,
  as also for the Piles and Hemorrhoids: Applied with some
  Oyl of Roses and Vinegar unto the Forehead and Temples, it
  easeth the inveterate pains and ach of the Head, and is
  good for those that are Frenetick.  The Leaves bruised, or
  the Juyce of them mixed with some Vinegar doth wonderfully
  clense the Skin, and taketh away Morphew, Freckles,
  Pustulaes, and other such like Inflamations and
  deformities of the Skin in any part of the Body.  The
  distilled water of the Herb when it is in his full
  strength, dropped into the Eyes, clenseth them from Films,
  Clouds, or mists that darken the sight, and wonderfully
  strengtheneth the Optick Nerves; The said Water is
  very powerful in all the Diseases aforesaid either inward
  or outward, whether they be old corroding Sores, or green
  Wounds.
  =
@begin {m342}
  {Note 342:} Obstructions, Clensing, Healing, Yellow
  Jaundice, Venemous Beasts, Pestilence, Agues, Worms,
  Cough, shortness of Breath, Wheesing, Stone, Gravel,
  Reins, Bladder.
@end {m342}
     This also is an Herb of Venus, and an excellent Herb
  for the Womb, to strengthen it and remedy all the cold
  griefs of it, as Plantane doth the hot, the Herb bruised
  and hung about the Neck helps the Headach.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h270}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE VINE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Leaves of the English Vine (I do not intend to send
  you to the Canaries for a Medicine) being boyled make a
  good Lotion for sore Mouths, being boyled with Barley Meal
  into a Pultis, it cools Inflamations of Wounds, the
  droppings of the Vine when 'tis cut in the spring, which
  Country people call Tears, being boyled into a Syrup with
  {Note 343 here}
  Sugar and taken inwardly, is excellent to stay Womens
  longings after every thing they see, which is a Disease
  many Women with Child are subject too; the Decoction of
  Vine Leaves in white Wine doth the like: also the Tears of
  the Vine drunk, two or three spoonfuls at a time, breaks
  the Stone in the Bladder: This is a very good Remedy, and
  it is discreetly done to kill a Vine to cure a Man, but
  the Salt of the Leaves is held to be better.
  =
@begin {m343}
  {Note 343:} Sore Mouth, Inflamations, Womens Longing,
  Stone, Teeth black.
@end {m343}
     The Ashes of the burnt Branches will make Teeth that
  are as black as a coal to be as white as snow if you do
  but every morning rub them with it.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h271}
@section 3 {tt}
  VIOLETS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These, both Tame and Wild, are so well known that they
  need no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower until the end of July, but are best in
  March and the beginning of April.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     All the Violets are cold and moist while they are fresh
  and green, and are used to cool any heat or distemperature
  of the Body, either inwardly or outwardly, as inflamations
  in the Eyes, in the Matix or Fundament, in Impostumes,
  also and hot Swellings, to drink the Decoction of the
  Leaves or Flowers made with Water or Wine, or to apply
  them Pultis wise to the grieved place, it likewise easeth
  pains in the Head, caused through want of sleep;  or in
  any place arising of heat, being applied in the same
  manner, or with Oyl of Roses.  A dram weight of the dried
  Leaves of the Flowers of Violets (but the Leaves more
  strongly) doth purge the Body of Chollerick Humors, and
  asswageth the heat being taken in a draught of Wine or any
  other Drink: The Pouder of the purple Leaves of the
  Flowers only pick'd and dried, and drunk in Water is said
  to help the Quinsie, and the Falling~sickness in Children,
  especially in the beginning of the Disease. The Flowers of
  the White Violets ripeneth and dissolveth Swellings.  The
  Herb or Flowers while they are fresh, or the Flowers when
  they are dry, are effectual in the Plurisie, and all
  Diseases of Lungs, to lenefie the sharpness of hot Rhewms,
  and the Hoarsness of the Throat, the heat also, and
  sharpness of Urine, and all pains of the Back, or Reins
  {Note 344 here}
  and the Bladder: It is good also for the Liver and the
  Jaundice, and in al hot Agues to cool the Heat and quench
  the Thirst: But the Syrup of Violets is of most use and of
  better effect, being taken in some convenient Liquor; and
  if a little of the Juyce or Syrup of Lemmons be put to it,
  or a few drops of the Oyl of Vitriol, it is made thereby
  the more powerful to cool the heat and to quench the
  Thirst, and giveth to the drink a Clarret Wine colour, and
  a fine tart rellish, pleasing the tast.  Violets taken, or
  made up with Honey doth more clense than cool, and with
  Sugar contrary~wise.  The dryed Flowers of Violets are
  accounted among the Cordial Drinks, Pouders, and other
  Medicines especially where cooling Cordials are necessary:  The green Leaves are used with other Herbs, to make
  Plaisters and Pultisces for Inflamations and Swellings,
  and to ease pains wheresoever, arising of heat, and for
  the Piles also, being fried with Yolks of Eggs and applied
  therto.
  =
@begin {m344}
  {Note 344:} Inflamations, Eyes, Womb, Head~ach, Watching,
  Choller, Quinsie, Falling~sickness, Swellings, Pleuresie,
  Flegm, Hoarseness, Throat, Back, Reins, Bladder, Thirst,
  Heart.
@end {m344}
     Tansies or Heartsease are like unto Violets in all
  their operations but somwhat hotter and dryer, yet very
  temperate, and by viscuous Juyce therein doth somwhat
  mollifie, yet less than Mallows: It is conducing in like
  manner as Violets to the hot Diseases of the Chest and
  Lungs: for Agues, Convulsions, and Falling~sickness in
  Children.  The Decoction helpeth Itch and Scabs being
  bathed therwith: It is said also to soder green Wounds,
  and to help old Sores, the Juyce or distilled Water
  thereof being drunk.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h272}
@section 3 {tt}
  VIPERS BUGLOSS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     This hath many long rough Leaves lying on the ground,
  from among which rise up diverse hard round Stalks, very
  rough, as if they were thick set wth prickles or hairs,
  wherein are set such like long rough hairy or prickly sad
  green Leavs, somwhat narrow; the middle Rib for the most
  part being white.  The Flowers stand at the tops of the
  Stalks, branched forth into many long spiked Leaves of
  Flowers, bowing or turning like the Turnsole, all of them
  opening for the most part on the one side, which are long
  and hollow, turning up the Brims a little, of a Purplish
  Violet colour in them that are fully blown, but more
  reddish while they are in the Bud, as also upon their
  decay and withering; but in some places of a paler purple
  colour, with a long pointel in the middle, feathered or
  parted at the top: After the Flowers are fallen the Seeds
  growing to be ripe, are blackish, cornered and pointed
  somwhat like unto the Head of a Viper.  The Root is
  somwhat great and blackish, and woolly, when it groweth
  toward Seed time; and perisheth in the Winter.
  =
     There is another sort little differing from the former,
  only in that it beareth white Flowers.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The first groweth wild almost every where.  That with
  white Flowers, about the Castle Walls of Lewes in Sussex.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in Summer, and their Seed is ripe quickly
  after.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is an especial Remedy against the biting of the
  Viper, and of all other Venemous Beasts or Serpents, as
  also against poyson and poysonful Herbs.  Dioscorides and
  others say, That whosoever shall take of the Herb or Root
  {Note 345 here}
  before they be bitten, shall not be hurt by the poyson of
  any Serpent.  The Roots or Seeds are thought to be most
  effectual to comfort the heart, and expel Sadness, or
  cause less Melancholly, it tempers the Blood, and allayeth
  the hot Fits of Agues: The Seed drunk in Wine procureth
  abundance of Milk in Womens Brests.  The same also being
  taken easeth the pains in the Loyns, Back, and Kidneys:
  The distilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower, or
  his chiefest strength, is excellent to be applied either
  inwardly or outwardly for all the Griefs aforesaid.  There
  is a Syrup made hereof very effectual for the comforting
  of the Heart, and expelling Sadness and Melancholly.
  =
@begin {m345}
  {Note 345:} Venemous Beasts, Poyson, Heart, Sadness,
  Melancholly, Agues, Milk, Loyns, Back, Kidneys.
@end {m345}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h273}
@section 3 {tt}
  WALL~FLOWERS, or WINTER GILLY~FLOWERS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Garden kinds are so well known that they need no
  Description.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common single Wall~Flowers which grow wild abroad,
  hath sundry smal long, narrow, and dark green Leaves, set
  without order upon smal round whitish woody Stalks which
  bear at the tops diverse single yellow Flowers one above
  another, every one having four Leaves apiece, and of a
  very sweet scent: after which come long Pods containing
  reddish Seed.  The Root is white, hard and threddy.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth upon old Church Walls, and old Walls of many
  Houses, and on other stone Walls in diverse places.  The
  other sorts in Gardens only.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     All the single kinds do Flower many times in the end of
  Autumn, and if the Winter be mild, all the Winter long,
  but especially in the Months of February, March, and
  April, and until the heat of the Spring do spend them: But
  the double kinds continue not Flowring in that manner all
  the yeer along, although they Flower very early somtimes,
  and in some places very late.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Galen in his seventh Book of Simple Medicines saith,
  That the yellow Wall~flowers worketh more powerfully than
  any of the other kinds. and is therefore of more use in
  {Note 346 here}
  Physick; It clenseth the Blood and freeth the Liver and
  Reins from Obstructions, provoketh Womens Courses,
  expelleth the Secondine  and dead Child, helpeth the
  hardness and pains of the Mother, and of the Spleen also,
  stayeth Inflamations and Swellings, comforteth and
  strengthneth any weak part, or out of Joynt: helpeth to
  clense the Eyes from mistiness and Films on them, and to
  clense foul and filthy Ulcers in the Mouth or any other
  part, and is a singular Remedy for the Gout, and all Aches
  and Pains in the Joynts and Sinews.  A Conserve made of
  the Flowers is used for a Remedy both for the Apoplexie
  and Palsey.
  =
@begin {m346}
  {Note 346:} Obstructions, Liver, Terms provokes,
  Afterbirth, Dead Child, Spleen, Weakness, Disjuncture,
  Gout, Sinews, Apoplexy, Palsey.
@end {m346}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h274}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE WALNUT TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     This is so well known, that it needeth no Description.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Blossometh early, before the Leaves come forth, and
  the Fruit is ripe in September.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Bark of the Tree, doth bind and dry very much, and
  the Leaves are much of the same temperature, but the
  Leaves when they are older, are heating and drying the
  Second Degree, and harder of digestion than when they are
  fresh, which by reason of their sweetness are more
  pleasing and better digesting in the Stomach, and taken
  with sweet Wine they move the Belly downwards; but being
  old, they grieve the Stomach, and in hot Bodies cause
  Choller to abound, and the Headach, and are an enemy to
  those that have the Cough: But are less hurtful to those
  that have colder Stomachs, and are said to kill the broad
  Worms in the Belly or Stomach.  If they be taken with
  Onions, Salt, and Honey, they help the biting of a Mad
  Dog, or the Venom or infectious poyson of any Beast &c°.
  {Note 347 here}
  Oneus Pompeius found in the Treasury of Methridates King
  of Pontus, when he was overthrown, a Scrowl of his own
  Hand~writing, containing a Medicine against any Poyson and
  Infection, which is this: Take two dry Walnuts, and as
  many good Figgs, and twenty Leaves of Rue bruised and
  beaten together with two or three Corns of Salt, and
  twenty Juniper Berries, which taken every morning fasting,
  preserveth from danger of Poyson or Infection, that day it
  is taken.  The Juyce of the outer green Husks, boyled up
  with Honey, is an excellent gargle for sore Mouths, the
  Heat and Inflamations in the Throat and Stomach: The
  Kernels when they grow old are more Oyly, and therfore not
  so fit to be eaten, but are then used to heal the Wounds
  of the Sinews, Gangrenes, and Carbuncles; The said Kernels
  being burned, are then very astringent, and will then stay
  Lasks and Womens Courses, being taken in red Wine; and
  stay the falling of the Hair and make it fair, being
  anointed with Oyl and Wine; The green Husks will do the
  like being used in the same manner.  The Kernels beaten
  with Rue and Wine, being applied, helpeth the Quinsie; and
  bruised with some Honey and applied to the Ears, easeth
  the pains and Inflamations of them: A piece of the green
  Husk put unto a hollow Tooth, easeth the pains.  The
  Catkins hereof taken before they fall off, dried and given
  a dram thereof in pouder with white Wine, wonderfully
  helpeth those that are troubled with the rising of the
  Mother.  The Oyl that is pressed out of the Kernels, is
  very profitably taken inward like Oyl of Almonds, to help
  the Chollick, and to expel wind very effectually, an ounce
  or two thereof may be taken at a time.  The yong green
  Nuts taken before they be half ripe and preserved with
  Sugar, are of good use for those that have weak Stomachs,
  or Defluxions thereon.  The distilled water of the green
  {Note 348 here}
  Husk before they be half ripe, is of excellent use to cool
  the heat of Agues, being drunk an ounce or two at a time,
  as also to resist the Infection of the Plague, if some
  thereof be also applied to the Sores thereof: The same
  also cooleth the heat of green Wounds and old Ulcers, and
  healeth them being bathed therewith: The distilled Water
  of the green Husks being ripe when they are shelled from
  the Nuts, being drunk with a little Vinegar, is also found
  by experience to be good for those that are infected with
  the Plague, so as before the taking therof of a Vein be
  opened.  The said Water is very good against the Quinsin
  being gargled and bathed therewith, and wonderfully
  helpeth Deafness, the Noise, and other pains in the Ears.
  The Distilled water of the yong green Leaves in the end of
  May performeth a singular cure on foul running Ulcers and
  Sores, to be bathed with wet Cloathes or Spunges applied
  to them evening and morning.
  =
@begin {m347}
  {Note 347:} Binds, Dries, Worms, Poyson, Epidemical
  Diseases.
@end {m347}
@begin {m348}
  {Note 348:} Inflamation in the Throat, wounds of the
  Sinews, Gangrenes, Carbuncles, Flux, Terms stops,
  Baldness, Quinsie, Toothach, Mother, Chollick, Wind,
  Agues, Deafness, Ears.
@end {m348}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h275}
@section 3 {tt}
  WOLD, WELD, or DYERS WEED.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The common kind groweth bushing with many Leaves, long,
  narrow, and flat upon the ground, of a dark, blewish,
  green colour, somwhat like unto Woad, but nothing so
  large, a little crumpled and as it were round pointed
  which do so abide the firt yeer: And the next Spring from
  among them rise diverse round Stalks two or three foot
  high, beset with many such like Leaves thereon, but
  smaller, and shooting forth some smal Branches,  which with the Stalks carry many smal yellow Flowers in a long spiked
  Head at the tops of them where afterwards come the Seed,
  which is small and black inclosed in Heads that are
  devided at the tops into four parts.  The Root is long,
  white, and thick, abiding the Winter:  The whol Herb
  changeth to be yellow after it hath been in Flower a
  while.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It groweth every where by the way sides in moist
  grounds as well as dry, in Corners of Fields and by Lanes:
  and somtimes all over the Field; in Sussex and Kent they
  call it Greenweed.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is in Flower about June.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Mathiolus saith, That the Root hereof cutteth tough
  Flegm, digesteth raw Flegm, thinneth gross Humors,
  dissolveth  hard Tumors, and openeth Obstructions.  Some
  {Note 349 here}
  do highly commend it against the bitings of Venemous
  Creatures, to be taken inwardly and applyed outwardly to
  the hurt place; as also for the Plague or Pestilence.  The
  People in some Countries of this Land do use to bruise the
  Herb and lay it to Cuts or Wounds in the Hands or Legs to
  heal them.
  =
@begin {m349}
  {Note 349:} Flegm, Humors, Tumors, Venemous Beasts,
  Pestilence, Worms.
@end {m349}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h276}
@section 3 {tt}
  WHEAT.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The several kinds hereof are so well known unto almost
  all people that it is altogether needless to write any
  Description thereof.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Dioscorides saith, That to eat the Corns of green Wheat
  is hurtful to the Stomach, and breedeth Worms.  Pliny
  saith, That the Corns of Wheat toasted upon an Iron Pan
  and eaten, is a pleasant Remedy for those that are chilled
  with cold.  The Oyl pressed from Wheat between two thick
  Plates of Iron or Copper heated, healeth all Tetters and
  Ringworms being used warm, and hereby Galen saith he hath
  known many to be cured.  Mathiolus commendeth the same Oyl
  to be put into hollow Ulcers to heal them up, and it is
  also good for Chops in the Hands or Feet, and to make a
  rugged Skin smooth.
  {Note 350 here}
  =
@begin {m350}
  {Note 350:} Cold, Tetters, Ringworms, Ulcers, Chops in the
  Hands & Feet, Mad Dogs, Eyes, Kings Evil.
@end {m350}
     The green Corns of Wheat being chewed, and applied to
  the place bitten by a mad Dog, healeth it: Slices of Wheat
  Bread soaked in Red Rose~water, and applied to the Eyes
  that are hot, red, and inflamed, or blood~shotten, helpeth
  them.  Hot Bread applyed for an hour at a time three daies
  together, perfectly healeth the Kernels in the Throat
  commonly called the Kings Evil.   The Flower of Wheat
  mixed with the Juyce of Henbane, stayeth the Flux of
  Humors to the Joynts being laid theron: The said Meal
  boyled in Vinegar helpeth the shrinking of the Sinews
  saith Pliny; and mixed with Vinegar and Honey boyled
  together, healeth all Freckles, Spots, and Pimples on the
  Face.  Wheat Flower, mixed with the Yolk of an Eg, Honey,
  and Turpentine, doth draw, clense, and heal, any Boyl,
  Plague Sore, or foul Ulcer.  The Bran of Wheat Meal
  steeped in sharp Vinegar, and then bound in a Linnen
  Cloth, and rubbed on those places that have the Scurf,
  Morphew, Scabs, or Leprosie, wil take them away, the Body
  being first well purged and prepared.  The Decoction of
  the Bran of Wheat or Barley, is of good use to bath those
  places that are Bursten by a Rupture: and the said Bran
  boyled in good Vinegar, and appled to swollen Breasts,
  helpeth them, and stayeth all Inflamations; it helpeth
  also the bitings of Vipers (which I take to be no other
  but our English Adder) and all other Venemous Creatures.
  {Note 351 here}
  The Leaves of Wheat Meal applied with some Salt, taketh
  away hoarness of the Skin, Wharts, and hard Knots in the
  Flesh.  Starch moistned with Rosewater and laid to the
  Cods taketh away their Itching.  Wafers put in Water and
  drunk, stayeth the Lask and Bloody Flux, and is profitably
  used both inward and outwardly for the Ruptures in
  Children: Boyled in Water unto a thick Gelly and taken, it
  stayeth spitting of Blood: and boyled with Mints and
  Butter it helpeth the hoarsness of the Throat.
  =
@begin {m351}
  {Note 351:} Sinews, Pestilence, Scabs, Leprosie, Venemous
  Beasts, Cods, Hoarceness.
@end {m351}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h277}
@section 3 {tt}
  THE WILLOW~TREE.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     These are so well known that they need no Description:
  I shall therefore only shew you the Vertues thereof.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Both the Leaves, Bark, and the Seed are used to stanch
  bleeding of Wounds, and at Mouth and Nose, spitting of
  Blood, and all other Fluxes of Blood in man or woman, and
  to stay Vomiting, and provocation thereunto, if the
  Decoction of them in Wine be drunk.  It helpeth also to
  stay thin, hot, sharp, salt Distillations from the Head
  upon the Lungs causing a Consumption: The Leaves bruised
  with some Pepper and drunk in Wine, much helpeth the wind
  Chollick.  The Leaves bruised and boyled in Wine and drunk
  staieth the heat of Lust in man or woman, and quite
  extinguisheth it, if it be long used; The Seed is also of
  the same effect.  The Water that is gathered from the
  Willow when it flowreth, the Bark being slit, and a
  fitting Vessel set to receive it, is very good for redness
  and dimness of Sight, for films that grow over the Eyes,
  and stay the Rhewms that fall into them, to provoke Urin  being stopped if it be drunk and to cleer the Face and
  Skin from Spots and Discolourings.  Galen saith, The
  {Note 352 here}
  Flowers have an admirable faculty in drying up Humors,
  beeing a Medicine without any sharpness or corrosion:  You
  may boyl them in white Wine, and drunk as much as you will
  (So you drink not your self drunk.)  The Bark work the
  same effects, if used in the same manner, and the Tree
  hath alwaies Bark upon it though not alwaies Flowers: The
  Burnt ashes of the Bark, being mixed with Vinegar taketh
  away Warts, Corns, and Superfluous Flesh being applied to
  the place.  The Decoction of the Leaves or Bark in Wine,
  takes away Scurf or Dandriff by washing the place with it:
  'Tis a fine cool Tree, The Boughs of which are very
  convenient to be placed in the Chamber of one sick of a
  Feaver.
  =
@begin {m352}
  {Note 352:} Stanch Bleeding, Spitting of Blood, Fluxes of
  Blood, Vomiting, Distillations on the Lungs, Wind
  Chollick, Heat of Lust, Dimness of sight, & other Diseases
  in the Eyes, Cleer the Face, Dry up Humors, Warts, Corns &
  superfluous flesh, Scurf or Dandriff, Feaver.
@end {m352}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h278}
@section 3 {tt}
  WOAD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It hath diverse large Leaves, long, and somwhat broad
  withal, like to those of the greater Plantane, but larger,
  thicker, of a greenish colour and somwhat blew withal:
  From among which Leaves riseth up a lusty Stalk three or
  four foot high, with diverse Leaves set thereon; The
  higher the Stalk riseth, the smaller are the Leaves, at
  the top it spreadeth into diverse Branches, at the ends of
  which appear pretty little yellow Flowers, and after they
  pass away like other Flowers of the Field, come Husks,
  long, and somwhat flat withal, in form they resemble a
  Tongue, in colour they are black, and they hang bobbing
  downwards.  The Seed contained within these Husks (if it
  be a little chewed) gives an Azure colour. The Root is
  white and long.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is sowed in Fields for the benefit of it, where
  those that sow it cut it three times a yeer.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowreth in June, but is long after before the Seed
  is ripe.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Some People affirm the Plant to be destructive to Bees,
  which if it be I cannot help it: They say it possesseth
  Bees with a Flux, but that I can hardly beleeve, unless
  Bees be contrary to all other Creatures, I should rather
  think it possesseth them with the contrary Disease, the
  Herb being exceeding drying and binding.  However, if any
  Bees be diseased thereby, the cure is to set Urine by
  {Note 353 here}
  them, but set it in such a Vessel that they cannot drown
  themselves, which may be remedied if you put pieces of
  Cork in it.  I told you before the Herb was drying and
  binding, and so drying and binding that it is not fit to
  be given inwardly.  An Oyntment made thereof stancheth
  Bleeding: A Plaister made thereof and applied to the
  Region of the Spleen (and I pray you take notice, that the
  Spleen lies on the left side) takes away the hardness and
  pains thereof: The Oyntment is excellent good in such
  Ulcers as abound with moisture, and takes away the
  corroding and fretting Humors: It cools Inflamations,
  quencheth St° Anthonies fire, and stayeth Defluxions of
  Blood to any part of the Body.
  =
@begin {m353}
  {Note 353:} Bleeding, Spleen, Ulcers, Inflamations, St°
  Anthonies fire, defluxions of Blood.
@end {m353}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h279}
@section 3 {tt}
  WOODBINE, or HONEY~SUCKLES.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     The Plant is so common that everyone that hath Eyes
  knows them, and he that hath none cannot reade a
  Description if I should write it.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     They Flower in June, and the Fruit is ripe in August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Doctor Tradition, that grand Introducer of Errors, that
  Hater of Truth, that Lover of Folly, and that mortal Foe
  to Doctor Reason, hath taught the common People to use the
  Leaves and Flowers of this Plant in Mouth Waters, and by
  long continuance of time hath so grounded it in the Brains
  of the Vulgar that you cannot beat it out with a Beetle:
  All Mouth Waters ought to be cooling and drying, but
  Honeysuckles are clensing, consuming, and digesting, and
  therefore no waies fit for Inflamations, Thus Doctor
  Reason.  Again, If you please we will Leave Dr° Reason a
  while and come to Dr° Experience, a learned Gentleman, and
  his Brother; Take a Leaf and chew it in your Mouth, and
  you will quickly find it likelier to cause a sore Mouth or
  Throat than to cure it.  Well then, if it be not good for
  this, What is it good for?  'Tis good for somthing: For
  God and Nature made nothing in vain: It is an Herb of
  Jupiter and apropriated to the Lungs, the Coelestial Crab
  claims Dominion over it; neither is it a Foe to the Lyon:
  If the Lungs be afflicted by Mercury, this is your Cure:
  It is fitting a Conserve made of the Flowers of it were
  kept in every Gentlewomans House; I know no better cure
  for an Asthma than this; Besides, It takes away the evil
  of the Spleen, provokes Urine, procures speedy Delivery to
  Women in Travail, helps Cramps, Convulsions and Palseys,
  {Note 354 here}
  and whatsoever griefs comes of cold or stopping: If you
  please to make use of it in an Oyntment, it will cleer
  your Skin of Morphew,  Freckles, and Sunburning, or
  whatsoever else discolours it, and then the Maids will
  love it.  I have done, when I have told you what Authors
  say, and cavelled a little with them, They say the Flowers
  are of more effect than the Leaves, and that's true; but
  they say, The Seeds are of least effect of all: But Dr°
  Reason told me, That there was a Vital Spirit in every
  Seed to beget its like; and Dr° Experience told me, That
  there was a greater heat in a Seed than there was in any
  other part of a Plant, and withal, That Heat was the
  Mother of action, and then judg if old Dr° Tradition (who
  may well be honor'd for his Age, but not for his Goodness)
  have not so poysoned the World with his Errors before I
  was born, that it was never well in its wits since, and
  there is great fear it will die mad.
  =
@begin {m354}
  {Note 354:} Lungs afflicted, Asthma, Spleen, provokes Urine
  & speedy Delivery in Childbirth, Cramps, Convulsions &
  Palseys, Freckles & Sunburning.
@end {m354}
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h280}
@section 3 {tt}
  WORMWOOD.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     Three Wormwoods are familiar with us; One I shall not
  descrabe, another I shall describe, and the Third be
  Critical at.  And I care not greatly if I begin with the
  last first.
  =
     Sea Wormwood hath gotten as many Names as vertues (and
  perhaps one more) Seriphion, Santonicon, Belgicum,
  Narbonense, Xantomicum, Misnense, and a matter of twenry
  more, which I will not blot Paper withal: A Papist got the
  Toy by the end, and he called it Holy Wormwood; and in
  truth I am of Opinion, Their giving so much holiness to
  Herbs is the Reason there remains so little in themselves.
  =
     The Seed of this Wormwood is that which usually Women
  give their Children for the Worms: Of all Wormwoods that
  grow here, this is the weakest; I but Doctors commend it,
  and Apothecaries sell it, the one must keep his Credit,
  and the other get Money, and that's the key of the work.
  The Herb is good for somthing, because God made nothing in
  vain; Will you give me leave to weigh things in the
  Ballance of Reason; Then thus, The Seeds of the common
  Wormwood are far more prevalent than the Seed of this, to
  expell Worms in Children, or People of ripe age: Of both,
  some are weak, some are strong.  The Seriphian Wormseed is
  the weakest, & happily may prove to be fittest for weakest
  Bodies (for it is weak enough in all conscience) Let such
  as are strong take the common Wormseed, for the other will
  do but little good.  Again, neer the Sea many people live,
  and Seriphium grows neer them, and therfore is more
  fitting for their Bodies because nourished by the same
  Air; and this I had from Dr° Reason.  In whose Body Dr°
  Reason dwels not, dwels Dr° Madness, and he brings in his
  Brethren, Dr° Ignorance, Dr° Folly, and Dr° Sickness, and
  these together make way for Dr° Death, and the latter end
  of that man is worse than the beginning.  Pride was the
  cause of Adam's Fall, Pride begate a Daughter, I do not
  know the Father of it unless the Divil, but she christned
  it, and call'd it Appetite, and sent her Daughter to tast
  these Wormwoods, who finding this the least bitter, made
  the sqeamish Wench extol it to the Skies, though the
  Vertues of it never reached to the middle Region of the
  Air.  Its due praise is this; It is weakest, therefore
  fitter for weak Bodies, and fitter for those Bodies that
  dwel neer it than those that live far from it: my reason,
  is The Sea (as those that live far from it know when they
  comt neer it) casteth not such a smel as the Land doth:
  The tender Mercies of God being over all his Works, hath
  by his eternal Providence planted Seriphium by the Sea
  side, as a fit Medicine for the Bodies of those that live
  neer it.  Lastly, It is known to all that know any thing
  in the Course of Nature, That the Liver delights in sweet
  things; if so, it abhors bitter, then if your Liver be
  weak, it is none of the wisest courses to plague it with
  an Enemy: if the Liver be weak a Consumption follows;
  Would you know the Reason?  'tis this, A mans Flesh is
  repaired by Blood, by a third concoction which transmutes
  Blood into Flesh ('tis well I said «Conction» for if I had
  said «Boyling» every Cook would have understood me.)  The
  Liver makes Blood, and if it be weakned that it makes not
  enough the Flesh wasteth, and why must Flesh alwaies be
  renewed?  Because the eternal God when he made the
  Creation, made one part of it in continual dependency upon
  another: And why did he so?  Because Himself is only
  Permanent, to reach us, That we should not fix our
  affections upon what is transitory, but upon what endures
  for ever.  The result of all is this, If the Liver be weak
  and cannot make Blood enonough (I would have said
  «Sanguifie» if I had written only to Schollers) The
  Seriphian which is the weakest of Wormwoods is better than
  the best.  I have been Critical enough, if not too much.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It grows familiarly in England by the Sea side.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It starts up out of the earth with many round woody
  hoary Stalks from one Root, its height is four foot high,
  or three at the least.  The Leaves in Longitude are long,
  in Latitude narrow, in Colour white, in Foam hoary, in
  Similitude like Southernwood, only broader and longer, in
  Tast, rather salt than bitter, because it grows so neer
  the Salt Water: At the joynts with the Leaves toward the
  tops it  bears little yellow Flowers.  The Root lies deep
  and is woody.
  =
@end {sD}
     Common Wormwood I shall not describe, for every Boy
  that can eat an Eg knows it.
  =
     Romane Wormwood; And why Romane, seeing it grows
  familiarly in England?  It may be it was so called because
  'tis special good for a stinking Breath, which the Romans
  cannot be very free from maintaining so many Baudy Houses
  by Authority of his Holiness.
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     The Stalks are slenderer and shorter than the common
  Wormwood by one foot at least; the Leaves are more finely
  cut and devided than they are but somthing smaller; both
  Leaves and Stalks are hoary; the Flowers of a pale yellow
  colour, it is altogether like the common Wormwood, save
  only in bigness, for 'tis smaller; in tast, for 'tis not
  so bitter, in smell, for it is spicy.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
     It groweth upon the tops of the Mountains (it seems
  'tis aspiring) there 'tis Natural; but usually nursed up
  in Gardens for the use of the Apothecaries in London.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
     All Wormwoods usually Flower in August, a little sooner
  or later.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
     Will you give me leave to be Critical a little? I must
  take leave; Wormwood is an Herb of Mars, and if Pontanus
  say otherwise he is beside the Bridg.  I prove it thus:
  What delights in Martial places is a Martial Herb, But
  Wormwood delights in Martial places, (for about Forges and
  Iron Works you may gather a Cart load of it) Ergo it is a
  Martial Herb.  It is hot and dry in the first degree, Viz°
  Just as hot as your Blood and not hotter:  It remedies the
  evils Choller can inflict on the Body of man by Sympathy.
  It helps the evils Venus and her wanton Girls produce, by
  Antipathy; and it doth somthing else besides; It clenseth
  the Body of Choller (and who dares say Mars doth no good?)
  It provokes Urine, helps Surfets, Swellings in the Belly;
  it causeth an Appetite to meat, because Mars rules the
  Attractive faculty in Man: The Sun never shone upon a
  better Herb for the yellow Jaundice than this is:  Why
  should men cry out so much upon Mars for an Infortune (or
  Saturn either?) Did God make Creatures to do the Creation
  a mischief? This Herb testifies that Mars is willing to
  cure all the Diseases he causes; the truth is, Mars loves
  no Cowards, nor Saturn Fools, nor I, either.  Take the
  Flowers of Wormwood, Rosemary, and black Thorn, of each a
  like quantity, half that quantity of Saffron, boyl this in
  Renish Wine, but put not in the Saffron till it is almost
  boyled; This is the way to keep a Mans Body in health,
  appointed by Camerarius in his Book intituled, Hortus
  Medicus, and 'tis a good one too.  Besides all this,
  {Note 355 here}
  Wormwood provokes the Terms.  I would willingly teach
  Astrologers, and make them Physitians (if I knew how) for
  they are most fitting for the Calling, if you will not
  beleeve me, ask Dr° Hippocrates, and Dr° Galen, a couple
  of Gentlemen that our Colledg of Physitians keep to vapor
  with, not to follow.  In this one Herb I shall give the
  Pattern of a Rule to the Sons of Art, rough cast, yet as
  neer the Truth as the men of Benjamin could throw a stone;
  whereby my Brethern of the Society of Astrologers may know
  by a penny how a shilling is coyned: (as for the Colledg
  of Physitians they are too stately to learn, and too proud
  to continue, They say a Mouse is under the Dominion of the
  Moon, and that's the reason they feed in the night: The
  House of the Moon is Cancer: (Rats are of the same nature
  with Mice but that they are a little bigger.)  Mars
  receives his fall in Cancer, Ergo Wormwood being an Herb
  of Mars is a present Remedy for the biting of Rats and
  Mice.  Mushroms (I cannot give them the title of Herba,
  Frutex, or Arbor) are under the Dominion of Saturn (and
  take them one time with another they do as much harm as
  good:) if any have poyson'd himself by eating them,
  Wormwood an Herb of Mars cures him, because Mars is
  exalted in Capricorn the Hous of Saturn, & this it doth by
  Sympathy as it did the other by Antipathy.  Wheals,
  Pushes, black & blew Spots coming eitheir by bruises or
  beatings, Wormwood an Herb of Mars helps becaus Mars (as
  bad as you love him, & as ill as you hate him) will not
  break your Head, but he'l give you a Plaister.  If he do
  but teach you to know your selves, his Courtesie is
  greater than his Discourtesie: The greatest Antipathy
  between the Planets is between Mars and Venus, one is hot,
  the other cold, one Diurnal, the other Nocturnal; one dry,
  the other moist, their Houses are opposite, one Masculine
  the other Feminine, one publick the other private, one is
  valiant, the other effeminate, one loves the light, the
  other hates it, one loves the Field, the other the Sheets;
  then the Throat is under Venus, the Quinsie lies in the
  Throat and is an Inflamation there: Venus rules the Throat
  (it being under Taurus her Sign) Mars eradicates all
  Diseases in the Throat by his Herbs (of which Wormwood is
  one) and send them to Aegypt on an errand never to return
  more; this by Antipathy.  The Eyes are under the
  Luminaties, the right Eye of a Man, and the left Eye of a
  Woman, the Sun claims Dominion over:  The left Eye of a
  Man, and the right Eye of a Woman, are the priviledg of
  the Moon, Wormwood an Herb of Mars cures both; What
  belongs to the Sun by Sympathy becaus he is exalted in his
  House; but what belongs to the Moon by Antipathy, because
  he hath  his Fall in hers.  Suppose a man be bitten or
  stung by a martial Creature, imagine a Wasp, a Hornet or
  Scorpion, Wormwood an Herb of Mars gives you a present
  cure:  Then Mars as Chollerick as he is, hath learned that
  Patience, to pass by your evil speeches of him, and tells
  you by my Pen, That he gives you no Affliction but he
  gives you a Cure;  You need not run to Apollo nor
  Aesculapius; and if he were so Chollerick as you make him
  to be, he would have drawn his Sword for Anger to see the
  ill conditions of those people that can spy his Vices and
  not his Vertues.  The enternal God when he made Mars, made
  him for a publick good, and the Sons of Men shall know it
  in the latter end of the world.  Et caelum Mars solus
  habet.  You say Mars is a Destroyer, mix a little Wormwood
  an Herb of Mars with your Ink, and neither Rats nor Mice
  will touch the Paper is written with it, and then Mars is
  a Preserver.  Astrologers say Mars causeth Scabs and Itch,
  and the Virgins are angry with him, because wanton Venus
  told them he deforms their Skin: But quoth Mars, my only
  desire is they should know themselves; my Herb Wormwood
  will restore them to the beauty they formerly had, and in
  that I will not come an inch behind my opposite Venus; for
  which doth the greatest evil, he that takes away an innate
  beauty, and when he hath done knows how to restore it
  again; or she that reaches a company of wanton Lasses to
  paint their Faces?  If Mars be in the Virgin in a
  Nativity, they say he usually causeth the Chollick ('tis
  well God hath set some body to pul down the Pride of Man)
  He in the Virgin troubles none wth the Chollick but them
  that know not themselves (for who knows himself may easily
  know all the world:) Wormwood an Herb of Mars is a present
  cure for it: and whether it be most like a Christian to
  love him for his good, or hate him for his evil, judg ye.
  I had almost forgotten that Charity thinks no evil, I was
  once in the Tower and viewed the Wardrobe, and there was a
  great many fine Cloathes (I can give them no other title,
  for I was never neither Linnen or Woollen Draper) yet as
  brave as they looked, my opinion was, the Moaths might
  consume them (yea Henry the eighth his Codpiece) Moaths
  are under the Dominion of Mars, his Herb Wormwood being
  laid amongst Cloathes will make a Moath scorn to meddle
  with the Cloath, as much as a Lyon scorns to meddle with a
  Mouse, or an Eagle a Fly.  You say Mars is angry, and 'tis
  true enough, he is angry with my Country~men for being
  such Fools to be led by the Noses by a Colledg of
  Physitians, as they lead Bears to Paris~Garden.
  Melancholly men cannot endure to be wrong'd in point of
  good name, and that hath sorely troubled old Saturn,
  because they called him the greatest Infortune:  In the
  Body of Man he rules the Spleen (and that makes Covetous
  men so Splenetick.)  The poor old man lies crying out of
  his left side, Father Saturn's angry, Mars comes to him,
  come Brother, I confess thou art evil spoken of, and so am
  I, thou knowest I have my exaltation in thy House, I'le
  give him an Herb of mine, Wormwood, to cure the poor man;
  Saturn consented, but spoke but little, and so Mars cured
  him by Sympathy.  When Mars was free from War (for he
  loves to be fighting, and is the best friend a Soldier
  hath) I say when Mars was free from War he called a
  Councel of War in his own Brain to know how he should do
  poor sinful man good, (desiring to forget his abuses in
  being called an Infortune) He musters up his own Forces
  and places them in Battalia, Oh, quoth he, why do I hurt a
  poor silly Man or Woman?  His Angel Answers him, Tis
  because they have offended their God (Look back to Adam)
  Well, saies Mars, though they speak evil of me, I'le do
  good to them; Death's cold, my Herbs shall heat them, They
  are full of ill Humors (else they would never have spoken
  ill of me) my Herb shall clense them and dry them: They
  are poor weak Creatures, my Herb shall strengthen them;
  they are dul witted, my Herb shall fortifie their
  Apprehensions; and yet amongst Astrologers, all this doth
  not deserve a good word; Oh, the Patience of Mars.
  =
@begin {m355}
  {Note 355:} Choller, Venery, Provokes Urine, Helps Surfets,
  Swellings, Appetite lost, Yelloow Jaundice, Preserve
  Health, Terms provokes, Biting of Rats & Mice, Mushroms
  wheals, Pushes, Black & blew Spots, Quinsie, Eyes, Biting
  or stinging by Venemous Beasts, Spleen, French Pox,
  Surfet, Stinking Breath, Dull Brain, Weak Sight.
@end {m355}
@begin {ltv}
  {»}Faelix qui potuit verum cognoscere causas÷
  {»}Inque domus superum scandere cura fuit.
  =
@end {ltv}
@begin {env}
  {»}O happy he that can the Knowledg gain,÷
  {»}To know th' eternal God made nought in vain.
  =
@end {env}
  To this I add,
  =
@begin {env}
  {»}I know the reason causeth such a Dearth÷
  {»}Of Knowledg, 'tis, becaus men love the Earth.
  =
@end {env}
     The other day Mars told me he met with Venus, and he
  asked her what the Reason was that she accused him for
  abusing Women, he never gave them the Pox, in the Dispute
  they fell out, and in anger parted, and Mars told me that
  his brother Saturn told him, that an Antivenerial Medicine
  was the best against the Pox.  Once a Month he meets with
  the Moon, Mars is quick enough of speech, and the Moon not
  much behind hand (neither are most Women) The Moon looks
  much after Children, and Children are much troubled with
  the Worms, she desired a Medicine of him, he bad her take
  his own Herb Wormwood: He had no sooner parted with the
  Moon but he met with Venus, and she was as drunk as a
  Bitch, Alas poor Venus quoth he, What, thou a Fortune and
  be drunk? I'le give thee an Antipathetical Cure, take my
  Herb Wormwood, thou shalt never get a  Surfet by drinking.
  A poor silly Countryman hath got an Ague and cannot go
  about his business, he wishes he had it not, and so do I,
  but I'le tell him a Remedy whereby he may prevent it.
  Take the Herb of Mars Wormwood, and if Infortunes will do
  good what will Fortunes do?  Some say the Lungs are under
  Jupiter, and if the Lungs, then the breath, and yet a man
  somtimes gets a stinking breath, and yet Jupiter is a
  Fortune forsooth; up comes Mars to him, Come Brother
  Jupiter, thou knowest I sent thee a couple of Trines to
  thy Houses last night, the one from Aries, and other from
  Scorpio, give me thy leave by Sympathy to cure the poor
  man by drinking a draught of Wormwood Beer every morning.
  The Moon was weak the other day, and she gave a man to
  terrible mischiefs, a dull Brain, and a weak sight, Mars
  laies by his Sword and comes to her, Sister Moon saith he
  This man hath anger'd thee, but I beseech thee take notice
  he is but a Fool, prithee be patient, I will with my Herb
  Wormwood cure him of both Infirmities by Antipathy, for
  thou knowest, thou and I cannot agree; with that the Moon
  began to quarrel; Mars (not delighting much in Womens
  Tongues) went away, and did it whether she would or no.
  =
     He that reades this and understands what he reades, he
  hath a Jewel more worth then a Diamond: He that
  understands it not, is as little fit to give Physick.
  There lies a Key in these words, which will unlock (if it
  be turned by a wise hand) the Cabbinet of Physick:  I have
  delivered it so plainly as I durst; 'tis not upon Wormwood
  only that I wrote, but upon all Plants, Trees, and Herbs:
  He that understands it not, is unfit (in my Opinion) to
  give Physick.  This shall live when I am dead; and thus I
  leave it to the World, not caring a Halfpenny whether they
  like or dislike it.  The Grave equals all men, and
  therefore shall equal me  with the Princes, until which
  time the Eternal Providence is over me; then the ill
  tongue of a pratling Priest, or of one who hath more
  Tongue than Wit, or more Pride than Honesty, shall never
  trouble me.  Wisdom is justified of her Children; and so
  much for Wormwood.
  =
# ======================================================================
@section 2 {h281}
@section 3 {tt}
  YARROW.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {tt}
  Description.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It hath many long Leaves spread upon the ground and
  fine cut, and devided into many smal parts, Its Flowers
  are white but not all of a whiteness, and staied in Knots,
  upon diverse green Stalks which rise from amongst the
  Leaves.
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {tt}
  Place.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It is very frequent in all Pastures.
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {tt}
  Time.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     It Flowers late even in the latter end of August.
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {tt}
  Vertues and Use.
  =
@section 5 {txs}
     An Oyntment of them cures Wounds and is most fit for
  such as have Inflamations, it being an Herb of Dame Venus;
  It stops the Terms in Women being boyled in white Wine and
  the Decoction drunk, as also the Bloody Flux; the Oyntment
  of it is not only good for green Wounds, but also for
  Ulcers and Fistulaes, especially such as abound with
  moisture; It staies the shedding off of Hair, the Head
  being bathed with the Decoction of it; inwardly taken, it
  helps the retentive faculty of the Stomach, it helps the
  running of the Reins in men, and the whites in women, and
  helps such as cannot hold their water; and the Leaves
  chewed in the Mouth ease the Toothach; and these Vertues
  being put together shew the Herb to be drying and binding.
  Achilles is supposed to be the first that left the Vertues
  of this Herb to posterity, having learned them of his
  Master Chyron the Centaure, and certainly a very
  profitable Herb it is in the Camp, and perhaps therfore
  called Militaris.
  =
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# Recipes
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@section 1 {rx}
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@section 2 {dir}
@section 3 {tt}
  DIRECTIONS.
  =
@section 3 {tx}
     Having in diverse places of this Treatise promised you
  the way of making Syrups, Conserves, Oyls, Oyntments, &c°
  of Herbs, Roots, Flowers &c° wherby you may have them
  ready for your use at such times when otherwise they
  cannot be had; I come now to perform what I promised, and
  you shall find me rather better than worse than my word.
  =
     That this may be done Methodically, I shall devide my
  Directions into two grand Sections, and each Section into
  several Chapters, and then you shall see it look with such
  a Countenance as this is.
  =
@section 4 {tct}
@section 5 {s1}
@section 6 {tt}
  SECT° 1. Of gathering, drying, and keeping Simples and their Juyces.
  =
@section 6 {chlst}
  {»}CHAP° 1. Of Leaves of Herbs &c°.÷
  {»}CHAP° 2. Of Flowers.÷
  {»}CHAP° 3. Of Seeds.÷
  {»}CHAP° 4. Of Roots.÷
  {»}CHAP° 5. Of Barks.÷
  {»}CHAP° 6. Of Juyces.÷
  =
@section 5 {s2}
@section 6 {tt}
  SECT° 2. Of making and keeping Compounds.
  =
@section 6 {chlst}
  {»}CHAP° 1. Of Distilled Water.÷
  {»}CHAP° 2. Of Syrups.÷
  {»}CHAP° 3. Of Juleps.÷
  {»}CHAP° 4. Of Decoctions.÷
  {»}CHAP° 5. Of Oyls.÷
  {»}CHAP° 6. Of Electuaries.÷
  {»}CHAP° 7. Of Conserves.÷
  {»}CHAP° 8. Of Preserves.÷
  {»}CHAP° 9. Of Lohochs.÷
  {»}CHAP° 10. Of Oyntments.÷
  {»}CHAP° 11. Of Plaisters.÷
  {»}CHAP° 12. Of Pultisses.÷
  {»}CHAP° 13. Of Troches.÷
  {»}CHAP° 14. Of Pills.÷
  {»}CHAP° 15. The way of fitting Medicines to Compound Diseases.÷
  =
@end {tct}
  All of these in order.
  =
@section 2 {s1}
@section 3 {tt}
  SECT° 1.
  The way of gathering, drying. And preserving
  Simples and their Juyces.
  =
@section 3 {bd}
@section 4 {c1}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 1.
  Of Leaves of Herbs or Trees.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Of Leaves, chuse only such as are green and full of
  Juyce, pick them carefully, and cast away such as are any
  way declining, for they will putrifie the rest, so shall
  one handful be worth ten of those you buy in Cheap~side.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Note in what place they most delight to grow in, and
  gather them there, for Bettony that grows in the shadow is
  far better than that which grows in the Sun, because it
  delights in the shadow; so also such Herbs as delight to
  grow neer the Water, though happily you may find some of
  them upon dry ground, the Treatise will inform you where
  every Herb delights to grow.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. The Leaves of such Herbs as run up to Seed, are not so
  good when they are in flower as before (some few excepted,
  the Leaves of which are seldom or never used) in such
  cases, if through ignorance they were not known, or
  through negligence forgotten, you had better take the top
  and the Flower than the Leaf.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Dry them well in the Sun, and not in the shadow as the
  swinge of Physitians is, for if the Sun draw away the
  Vertues of Herbs, it must needs do the like by Hay by the
  same Rule, which the experience of every Country Farmer
  will explode for a notable piece of non~sense.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. Such as are Artists in Astrology (and indeed none else
  are fit to make Physitians) such I advise, let the Planet
  that governs the Herb be Angular, and the stronger the
  better, if they can in Herbs of Saturn, let Saturn be in
  the Ascendent, in the Herbs of Mars,let Mars be in the
  Mid~heaven, for in those Houses they delight, let the Moon
  apply to them by good Aspect, and let her not be in the
  Houses of their Enemies: If you cannot well stay till she
  apply to them, let her apply to a Planet of the same
  Triplicity, if you cannot wait that time neither, let her
  be with a fixed Star of their Nature.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. Having well dryed them put them up in brown Papers,
  sewing the Paper up like a Sack, and press them not too
  hard together, and keep them in a dry place neer the fire.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. As for the duration of dryed Herbs, a just time cannot
  be given, let Authors prate their pleasures: For,
  =
      First, Such as grow upon dry grounds will keep better
  than such as grow on moist.
  =
      Secondly, Such Herbs as are full of Juyce will not
  keep so long as such as are dryer.
  =
      Thirdly, Such Herbs as are well dryed will keep longer
  than such as are ill dried.
  =
      Yet this I say, by this you may know when they are
  corrupted, viz° By their loss of colour, or smell, or
  both, and if they be corrupted, reason will tell you that
  they must needs corrupt the Bodies of those people that
  take them.
  =
@section 5 {tx8}
  8. Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that
  governs them.
  =
@section 4 {c2}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 2.
  Of Flowers.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. The Flower which is the beauty of the Plant, and of
  none of the least use in Physick, groweth yeerly, and is
  to be gathered when it is in its prime.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. As for the time of gathering them, let the Planetary
  hour, and the Planet that rules the Plant they come of, be
  observed, as we shewed you in the foregoing Chapter; as
  for the time of the day let it be when the Sun shines upon
  them that so they may be dry, for if you gather either
  Herbs or Flowers when they are wet or dewy, they will not
  keep, and this I forgot before.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Dry them well in the Sun, and keep them in Papers neer
  the fire, as I shewed you in the foregoing Chapter.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. So long as they retain their colour and smel they are
  good, either of them being gone so is the Vertue also.
  =
@section 4 {c3}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 3.
  Of Seeds.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. The Seed is that part of the Plant which is endewed
  with a vitall faculty to bring forth its like, and it
  contains potentially the whol Plant in it.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. As for place let them be gathered from the plants
  where they delight to grow.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Let them be full ripe when they are gathered, and
  forget not the Coelestial Harmony before mentioned, for I
  have found by experience that their Vertues are twice as
  great at such times than at others:  There is an appointed
  time for every thing under the Sun.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. When you have gathered them dry them a little, and but
  a little in the Sun before you lay them up.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. You need not be so careful of keeping them so neer the
  fire as the other before mentioned, because they are
  fuller of Spirit, and therefore not so subject to corrupt.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. As for the time of their duration 'tis palpable they
  will keep good many yeers, yet this I say, they are best
  the first yeer, and this I make appear by a good argument,
  They will grow soonest the firt yeer they be set,
  therefore then are they in their prime, and 'tis an easie
  matter to renew them yeerly.
  =
@section 4 {c4}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 4.
  Of Roots.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Of Roots chuse such as are neither rotten nor
  wormeaten, but proper in their tast, colour, and smell,
  such as exceed neither in softness nor hardness.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Give me leave to be a little critical against the
  Vulgar received Opinion, which is, That the Sap falls down
  into the Root in Autumn, and rises again in Spring, as men
  go to Bed at night and rise in the morning; and this idle
  tale of untruth is so grounded in the Heads not only of
  the Vulgar but also of the Learned, that a man cannot
  drive it out by Reason: I pray let such Sap~mongers answer
  me to this Argument, If the Sap fall into the Root in the
  fall of the Leaf, and lie there all the Winter, then must
  the Root grow only in the Winter, as experience
  witnesseth, but the Root grows not at all in the Winter,
  as the same experience teacheth, but only in the Summer.
  Ergo,
  =
      If you set an Apple Kernel in the Spring, you shall
  find the Root to grow to a pretty bigness in that Summer,
  and be not a whit bigger next Spring: What doth the Sap do
  in the Root all that while?  pick straws? For God's sake
  build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a
  rotten Post.
  =
      The truth is, when the Sun declines from the Tropick
  of Cancer, the Sap begins to congeal both in Root and
  Branch, when he toucheth the Tropick of Capricorn and
  ascends to us ward, it begins to wax thin again, and by
  degrees as it congealed: But to proceed.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. The dryer time you gather your Roots in the better
  they are, for they have the less excrementitious moisture
  in them.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the
  Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a
  string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any
  where.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. Such Roots as are great will keep longer than such as
  are small, yet most of them will keep a yeer.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. Such Roots as are soft it is your best way to keep
  them alwaies neer the fire, and take this general Rule, If
  in Winter time you find any of your Roots, Herbs or
  Flowers begin to grow moist, as many times you shall,
  especially in the Winter time (for 'tis your best way to
  look to them once a month) dry them by a very gentle fire,
  or if you can with convenience keep them neer the fire,
  you may save your self the labor.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. It is in vain to dry such Roots as may commonly be
  had, as Parsly, Fennel, Plantane &c° but gather them only
  for present need.
  =
@section 4 {c5}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 5.
  Of Barks.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Barks which Physitians use in Mediscines are these
  sorts, of Fruits, of Roots, of Boughs.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. The Barks of Fruits is to be taken when the Fruit is
  full ripe, as Orrenges, Lemmons, &c° but because I have
  nothing to do with Exoticks here, I shall pass them
  without any more words.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if
  it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then
  they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you
  please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks
  only for present use.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. As for the Bark of Roots, 'tis this, and thus to be
  gotten, Take the Roots of such Herbs as have a pith in
  them, as Parsly, Fennel, &c° slit them in the middle, and
  when you have taken out the pith (which you may easily and
  quickly do) that which remains is called (though somthing
  improperly) the Bark and indeed is only to be used.
  =
@section 4 {c6}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 6.
  Of Juyces.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Juyces are to be pressed out of Herbs when they are
  yong and tender, and also out of some Stalks, and tender
  tops of Herbs and Plants, and also out of some Flowers.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Having gathered your Herb you would preserve the Juyce
  of, when it is very dry (for otherwise your Juyce will not
  be worth a Button) bruise it very wel in a stone Mortar
  with a wooden Pestle, then having put it into a Canvas Bag
  (the Herb I mean, not the Mortar for that will yield but
  little Juyce) press it hard in a press, then take the
  Juyce and clarifie it.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. The manner of clarifying of it is this, put it into a
  Pipkin or Skillet, or some such thing and set it over the
  fire, and when the Scum riseth, take it off, let it stand
  over the fire till no more Scum rise, then have you your
  Juyce clarified, cast away the Scum as a thing of no use.
  =
@section 2 {s2}
@section 3 {tt}
  SECT° 2.
  The way of making and keeping all Necessary Compounds.
  =
@section 3 {bd}
@section 4 {c1}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 1.
  Of Distilled Waters.
  =
@section 5 {tx0}
  Hitherto we have spoken of Medicines which consist in
  their own Nature, which Authors vulgarly call Simples,
  though somthing improperly, for indeed and in truth,
  nothing is Simple but the pure Elements; all things else
  are compounded of them: We come now to treat of the
  Artificial Medicines, in the front of which (because we
  must begin somewhere) we place distilled Waters; In which
  consider,
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits,
  and Roots.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. We treat not here of strong Waters but of cold, as
  being to act Galen's Part and not Paracelsus.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their
  greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. The vulgar way of Distillation which people use,
  because they know no better, is in a Peuter Still, and
  although Distilled Waters are the weakest of all
  Artificial Medicines, and good for little unless for
  mixtures of other Medicines, yet this way distilled they
  are weaker by many degrees than they would be, were they
  distilled in Sand: If I thought it not impossible to teach
  you the way of distilling in Sand by writing, I would
  attempt it.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. When you have distilled your Water put it into a
  Glass, and having bound the top of it over with a Paper
  pricked full of holes, that so the excrementitious and
  fiery vapors may exhale (which indeed are they that cause
  that setling in distilled Waters called the Mother, which
  corrupts the Waters and might this way be prevented) cover
  it close and keep it for your use.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. Stopping distilled Waters with a Cork makes them
  musty, and so will a Paper also if it do but touch the
  Water, your best way then  is to stop them with a Bladder,
  being first wet in Water, and bound over the top of the
  Glass.
  =
     Such cold Waters as are distilled in a Peuter Still (if
  well kept) will endure a yeer, such as are distilled in
  Sand, as they are twice as strong, so will they endure
  twice as long.
  =
@section 4 {c2}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 2.
  Of Syrups.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a Liquid form, composed of
  Infusion, Decoction and Juyce; and 1. for the more
  grateful tast, 2. for the better keeping of it, with a
  certain quantity of Honey or Sugar; hereafter mentioned
  boiled to the thickness of new Honey.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. You see at the first view then that this Aphorism
  devides it self into three Branches, which deserve
  severally to be treated of, viz°
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. Syrups made by Infusion.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. Syrups made by Decoction.
  =
@section 7 {i3}
  {»}3. Syrups made by Juyce.
  =
@end {its}
      Of each of these (for your Instruction sake kind
  Country men and women) I speak a word, or two or three
  apart.
  =
     First, Syrups made by Infusion are usually made of
  Flowers, and of such Flowers, as soon lose both colour and
  strength by boyling, as Roses, Violets, Peach~Flowers &c°
  my Translation of the London Dispensatory will instruct
  you in the rest: They are thus made, having picked your
  Flowers clean, to every pound of them ad three pound (or
  three pints, which you will for it is all one) of Spring
  Water made boyling hot by the fire, first put your Flowers
  in a Peuter Pot with a cover, then powr the Water to them,
  then shutting the Pot, let it stand by the fire to keep
  hot twelve hours, then strain it out (in such Syrups as
  purge, as Damask Roses, Peach~Flowers, &c° the usual and
  indeed the best way is to repeat this Infusion, adding
  fresh Flowers to the same Liquor diverse times that so it
  may be the stronger) having strained it out, put the
  Infusion into a Peuter Bason, or an Earthen one well
  glassed, and to every pint of it, ad two pound of fine
  Sugar, which being only melted over the fire without
  boyling, and scummed, will produce you the Syrup you
  desire.
  =
     Secondly, Syrups made by Decoction are usually used of
  Compounds yet may any Simple Herb be thus converted into
  Syrup; Take the Herb, Root, or Flower you would make into
  Syrup and bruise it a little, then boyl it in a convenient
  quantity of Spring Water, the more water you boyl it in
  the weaker will it be, a handful of the Herb, Root, &c° is
  a convenient quantity for a pint of Water; boyl it till
  half the water be consumed, then let it stand till it be
  almost cold, and strain it (being almost cold) through a
  woollen cloth, letting it run out at leisure without
  pressing, to every pint of this Decoction ad one pound of
  Sugar and boyl it over the fire till it come to a Syrup,
  which you may know if you now and then cool a little of it
  in a spoon, scum it all the while it boyls, and when it is
  sufficiently boyled, whilst it is hot strain it again
  through a woollen cloth, but press it not; thus have you
  the Syrup perfected.
  =
      Thirdly, Syrups made of Juyces are usually made of
  such Herbs as are full of Juyce, and indeed they are
  better made into a Syrup this way than any other; the
  Operation is thus, having beaten the Herb in a stone
  Mortar with a wooden Pestle, press out the Juyce and
  clarifie it as you were taught before in the Juyces, then
  let the Juyce boyl away till a quarter of it (or neer
  upon) be consumed, to a pint of this ad a pound of Sugar,
  and boyl it to a Syrup, alwaies scumming it, and when it
  is boyled enough, strain it through a woollen cloth as we
  taught you before, and keep it for your use.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. If you make Syrups of Roots that are any thing hard,
  as Parsley, Fennel, and grass Roots &c° when you have
  bruised them, lay them in steep some time in that Water
  which you intend to boyl them in, hot, so will the Vertue
  the better come out.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Keep your Syrups either in Glasses or stone Pots, and
  stop them not with Cork, nor Bladder, unless you would
  have the Glass break and the Syrup lost; and as many
  Opinions as there are in this Nation, I suppose there are
  but few or none of this, only bind a Paper about the
  Mouth.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. All Syrups if well made will continue  a yeer, with
  some advantage yet of all, such as are made by Infusion
  keep the least while.
  =
@section 4 {c3}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 3.
  Of Juleps.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Juleps were first invented as I suppose in Arabia, and
  my reason is because the word Juleb is an Arabick word.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. It signifies only a pleasant Potion, and was vulgarly
  used (by such as were sick and wanted help, or such as
  were in health, and wanted no money) to quench thirst.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Now a daies 'tis commonly used,
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. To prepare the Body for Purgation.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. To open Obstructions and the Pores.
  =
@section 7 {i3}
  {»}3. To digest tough Humors.
  =
@section 7 {i4}
  {»}4. To qualifie hot distempers &c°.
  =
@end {its}
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. It is thus made (I mean Simple Juleps for I have
  nothing to say to Compounds here; all Compounds have as
  many several Idea's as men have crotchets in their Brain)
  I say Simple Juleps are thus made: Take a pint of such
  distilled Water as conduceth to the cure of your
  distemper, which this Treatise will plentifully furnish
  you withal, to which add two ounces of Syrup conducing to
  the same effect (I shall give you Rules for it in the last
  Chapter) mix them together and drink a draught of it at
  your pleasure; If you love tart things ad ten drops of Oyl
  of Vitriol to your pint and shake it together, and it will
  have a fine grateful tast.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it
  is in vain to speak of their duration.
  =
@section 4 {c4}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 4.
  Of Decoctions.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. All the difference between Decoctions and Syrups made
  by Decoction is this, Syrups are made to keep, Decoctions
  only for present use, for you can hardly keep a Decoction
  a week at any time, if the weather be hot, not half so
  long.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Decoctions are made of Leaves, Roots, Flowers, Seeds,
  Fruits, or Barks, conducing to the cure of the Disease you
  make them for;  in the same manner are they made as we
  shewed you in Syrups.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Decoctions made with Wine last longer than such as are
  made with Water, and if you take your Decoction to clense
  the passages of Urine, or open Obstructions, your best way
  is to make it with white Wine instead of Water, because
  that is most penetrating.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Decoctions are of most use in such Diseases as lie in
  the Passages of the Body, as the Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys,
  Passages of Urine, and Bladder, because Decoctions pass
  quicker to those places than any other form of Medicines.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any
  Syrup fit for the occasion you take it for which is
  better, you may and no harm done.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. If in a Decoction you boyl both Roots, Herbs, Flowers,
  and Seeds together, let the Roots boyl a good while first,
  because they retain their Vertue longest, then the next in
  order by the same Rule; viz°
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. the Barks,
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. the Herbs,
  =
@section 7 {i3}
  {»}3. the Seeds,
  =
@section 7 {i4}
  {»}4. the Flowers,
  =
@section 7 {i5}
  {»}5. the Spices if you put any in, because their vertue
  {»}comes soonest out.
  =
@end {its}
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. Such things as by boyling cause sliminess to a
  Decoction, as Figs, Quince Seeds, Linseed &c° your best
  way is, after you have bruised then, to tie them up in a
  linnen rag, as you tie up a Calves Brains, and so boyl
  them.
  =
@section 5 {tx8}
  8. Keep all Decoctions in a Glass close stopped, and in
  the cooler place you keep them, the longer will they last
  ere they be sowr.
  =
     Lastly, The usual Dose to be given at one time, is
  usually two, three, four, or five ounces, according to the
  age and strength of the Patient, the season of the yeer,
  the strength of the Medicine, and the quality of the
  Disease.
  =
@section 4 {c5}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 5.
  Of Oyles.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Oyl Olive, which is commonly known by the name of
  Sallet Oyl, I suppose because it is usually eaten with
  Sallets by them that love it; If it be pressed out of ripe
  Olives, according to Galen is temperate, and exceeds in no
  one quality.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Of Oyls, some are Simple, and some are Compound.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Simple Oyuls are such as are made of Fruits or Seeds,
  by expression, as Oyl of sweet and bitter Almonds,
  Linseed, and Rapeseed Oyl  &c° of which see my
  Dispensatory.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Compound Oyls are made of Oyl of Olives and other
  Simples, imagine Herbs, Flowers, Roots, &c°.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. The way of making them is this, having bruised the
  Herbs or Flowers you would make your Oyl of, put them in
  an Earthen pot, and to two or three handfuls of them, powr
  a pint of Oyl, cover the pot with a paper, and set it in
  the Sun, about a Fortnight or less according as the Sun is
  in hotness; then having warmed it very well by the fire,
  press out the Herbs &c° very hard in a press, and ad as
  many more Herbs to the same Oyl, bruised (the Herbs I mean
  not the Oyl in like manner, set them in the Sun as before,
  the oftner you repeat this the stronger will your Oyl be;
  at last when you conceive it strong enough, boyl both
  Herbs and Oyl together till the Juyce be consumed which
  you may know by its leaving its bubling, and the Herbs
  will be crisp, then strain it, whilst it is hot, and keep
  it in a stone or Glass Vessel for your use.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. As for Chymical Oyls, I have nothing to say in this
  Treatise.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. The General use of these Oyls is for pain in the
  Limbs, roughness of the Skin, the Itch &c° as also for
  Oyntments and Plaisters.
  =
@section 5 {tx8}
  8. If you have occasion to use it for Wounds or Ulcers,
  in two ounces of Oyl, dissolve half an ounce of
  Turpentine, the heat of the fire will quickly do it, for
  Oyl it self is offensive to Wounds, and the Turpentine
  qualifies it.
  =
@section 4 {c6}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 6.
  Of Electuaries.
  =
@section 5 {tx0}
     Physitians make more a quoil than needs behalf about
  Electuaries: I shall prescribe but one general way of
  making them up, as for the Ingredients you may vary them
  as you please, and according as you find occassion by the
  last Chapter.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. That you may make Electuaries when you need them, it
  is requisite that you keep alwaies Herbs, Roots, Seeds,
  Flowers &c° ready dried in your House, that so you may be
  in readiness to beat them into pouder when you need them.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Your better way is to keep them whol than beaten, for
  being beaten they are the more subject to lose their
  strength, because the Air soon penetrates them.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. If they be not dry enough to beat into pouder when you
  need them, dry them by a gentle fire till they are so.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Having beaten them, sift them through a fine Tiffany
  Searce, that so there may be no great pieces found in your
  Electuary.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. To an ounce of your Pouder, ad three ounces of
  clarified Honey, this quantity I hold to be sufficient; I
  confess Authors differ about it: If you would make more or
  less Electuary, vary your proportions accordingly.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. Mix them well together in a Mortar, and take this for
  a truth, you cannot mix them too much.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. The way to clarifie Honey is to set it over the fire
  in a convenient vessel till the scum arise, and when the
  scum is taken off it is clarified.
  =
@section 5 {tx8}
  8. The usual Dose of Cordial Electuaries is from half a
  dram to two drams, of purging Electuaries from half an
  ounce to an ounce.
  =
@section 5 {tx9}
  9. The manner of keeping them is in a pot.
  =
@section 5 {tx10}
  10. The time of taking them, is either in the morning
  fasting, and fasting an hour after them, or a night going
  to bed three or four hours after supper.
  =
@section 4 {c7}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 7.
  Of Conserves.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. The way of making Conserves is two~fold, one of Herbs
  and Flowers, and the other of Fruits.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Conserves of Herbs and Flowers are thus made, If you
  make your Conserves of Herbs, as of Scurvy~grass,
  Wormwood, Rue, or the like, take only the Leaves and
  tender tops (for you may beat your heart out before you
  can beat the Stalks small) and having beaten them, waigh
  them, and to everie pound of them ad three pound of Sugar,
  beat them verie well together in a Mortar, you cannot beat
  them too much.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Conserves of Fruits, as of Barberries, Sloes, and the
  like is thus made; First scald the Fruit, then rub the
  pulp through a thick hair Sieve made for the purpose,
  called a pulping Sieve, you may do it for a need with the
  back of a Spoon, then take this Pulp thus drawn, and ad to
  it its waight of Sugar and no more, put it in a Peuter
  Vessel, and over a Charcoal fire stir it up and down till
  the Sugar be melted, and your Conserve is made.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of
  keeping of them is in Earthen pots.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. The Dose is usually the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time
  morning and evening, or (unless they be purging) when you
  please.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. Of Conserves, some keep many yeers, as Conserves of
  Roses, others but a yeer, as Conserves of Borrage,
  Bugloss, Cowslips and the like.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. Have a care of the working of some Conserves presently
  after they are made, look to them once a day and stir them
  about; Conserves of Borrage, Bugloss, and Wormwood have
  gotten an excellent faculty at that sport.
  =
@section 5 {tx8}
  8. You may know when your Conserves are almost spoiled by
  this, you shall find a hard crust at top with little holes
  in it as though Worms had been eating there.
  =
@section 4 {c8}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 8.
  Of Preserves.
  =
@section 5 {tx0}
     Of Preserves are sundry sorts, and the Operations of
  all being somthing different we will handle them all
  apart.
  =
     There are preserved with Sugar,
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1.Flowers.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2.Fruits.
  =
@section 7 {i3}
  {»}3.Roots.
  =
@section 7 {i4}
  {»}4.Barks.
  =
@end {its}
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Flowers are but very seldom preserved, I never saw any
  that I remember save only Cowslip Flowers, and that was a
  great fashion in Sussex when I was a boy; It is thus done,
  first, take a flat Glass, we call them jarr Glasses, strew
  in a lain of fine Sugar, on that a lain of Flowers, on
  that another lain of Sugar, on that another lain of
  Flowers, do so til your Glass be full, then tie it over
  with a paper, and in a little time you shall have very
  excellent and pleasant Preserves.
  =
     There is another way of Preserving Flowers, namely with
  Vinegar and Salt, as they pickle Capers and Broom Buds,
  but because I have little skill in it my self I canot
  teach you.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Fruits, as Quinces and the like are preserved two
  waies.
  =
     First, Boyl them well in Water, and then pulp them
  through a Sieve as we shewed you before; then with the
  like quantity of Sugar boyl the Water they were boyled in
  to a Syrup, viz° a pound of Sugar to a pint of Liquor, to
  every pound of this Syrup ad four ounces of the Pulp, then
  boyl it with a very gentle fire to the right consistence,
  which you may easily know if you drop a drop of it upon a
  Trencher, if it be enough it will not stick to your
  fingers when it is cold.
  =
     Secondly, Another way to preserve Fruits is this, First
  pare off the rind, then cut them in halves and take out
  the Core, then boyl them in Water till they are soft, If
  you know when Beef is boyled enough you may easily know
  when they are; then boyl the Water with its like waight of
  Sugar into a Syrup, put the Syrup into a Pot, and put the
  boyled Fruit as whol as you left it when you cut it into
  it, and let it so remain till you have occasion to use it.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Roots are thus preserved, First, scrape them very
  clean, and clense them from the Pith if they have any, for
  some Roots have not, as Eringo and the like, boyl them in
  Water till they be soft as we shew you before in the
  Fruits, then boyl the Water you boyled the Roots into a
  Syrup as we shewed you before, then keep the Roots whol in
  the Syrup till you use them.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. As for Barks we have but few come to our hands to be
  done, and those of those few that I can remember, are
  Orrenges, Lemmons, Citrons, and the outer Bark of Walnuts
  which grows without the Shell, for the Shels themselves
  would make but scurvy Preserves, there be they I can
  remember, if there be any more put them into the number.
  =
     The way of Preserving these is not all one in Authors,
  for some are bitter, some are not, such as are bitter, say
  Authors, must be soaked in warm Water, often times changed
  till their bitter tast be fled, but I like not this way,
  and my reason is, because I doubt when their bitterness is
  gone, so is their Vertues also; I shall then prescribe one
  commmon way, namely the same with the former, viz° First
  boyl them whol till they be soft, then make a Syrup with
  Sugar and the Liquor you boyled them in, and keep the
  Barks in the Syrup.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. They are kept in Glasses or glassed Pots.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. The preserved Flowers will keep a yeer if you can
  forbear eating of them, the Roots and Barke much longer.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. This Art was plainly and cleerly at first invented for
  delicacy, yet came afterwards to be of excellent use in
  Physick; For,
  =
      First, Hereby Medicines are made pleasant for sick and
  queazy Stomachs, which else would loath them.
  =
@section 5 {tx8}
  8.{was 2.} Hereby they are preserved from decaying a long time.
  =
@section 4 {c9}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 9.
  Of Lohochs.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. That which the Arabians call Lohoch, and the Greeks
  Eclegma, the Latins call Linetus, and in plain English,
  signifies nothing else but a thing to be licked up.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Their first invention was to prevent and remedy
  afflictions of the Breast and Lungs, to clense the Lungs
  of Flegm, and make it fit to be cast out.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. They are in Body thicker than a Syrup, and not so
  thick as an Electuary.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. The manner of taking them is often to take a little
  with a Liquoris stick and let it go down at leisure.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. They are easily thus made, make a Decoction of any
  pectoral Herbs, the Treatise will furnish you with enough,
  and when you have strained it, with twise its waight of
  Honey or Sugar, boyl it to a Lohoch; If you are molested
  with tough Flegm, Honey is better than Sugar, and if you
  ad a little Vinegar to it you will do well, if not, I hold
  Sugar to be better than Honey.
  =
@section 5 {tx6}
  6. It is kept in Pots and will a yeer and longer.
  =
@section 5 {tx7}
  7. Its use is excellent for roughness of the Windpipe,
  Inflamations of the Lungs, Ulcers in the Lungs,
  difficultie of Breath, Asthmaes, Coughs and distillation
  of Humors.
  =
@section 4 {c10}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 10.
  Of Oyntments.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Various are the waies of making Oyntments which
  Authors have left to posteritie, which I shall omit and
  quote one which is easiest to be made, and therefore most
  beneficial to people that are ignorant in Physick, for
  whose sakes I write this; It is thus done.
  =
     Bruise those Herbs, Flowers, or Roots you would make an
  Oyntment of, and to two handfuls of your bruised Herbs ad
  a pound of Hogs Grease tryed, or clensed from the skins,
  beat them very well together in a stone Mortar with a
  wooden Pestle, then put it in a stone Pot (the Herbs and
  Grease I mean, not the Mortar) cover it with a paper, and
  set it either in the Sun or some other warm place three,
  four, or fivs daies, that it may melt, then take it out
  and boyl it a little, then whilst it is hot, strain it
  out, pressing it out very hard in a Press, to this Grease
  ad as many more Herbs bruised as before, let them stand in
  like manner  as long, then boyl them as you did the former, if you think your
  Oyntment be not strong enough you may do
  it the third and fourth time; yet this I tell you, the
  fuller of Juyce your Herbs are, the sooner will your
  Oyntment be strong, the last time you boyl it, boyl it so
  long till your Herbs be crisp and the Juyce consumed, then
  strain it, pressing it hard in a Press, and to every pound
  of Oyntment, ad two ounces of Turpentine, and as much Wax,
  because Grease is offensive to Wounds as well as Oyl,
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Oyntments are vulgarly known to be kept in Pots, and
  will last above a yeer, above two yeer.
  =
@section 4 {c11}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 11.
  Of Plaisters.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. The Greeks made their Plaisters of diverse Simples and
  put Mettals in most of them if not in all, for having
  reduced their Mettals into Pouder they mixed them with
  that fatty substance, whereof the rest of the Plaister
  consisted.  whilst it was yet hot, continually stirring it
  up and down lest it should sink to the bottom, so they
  continually stirred it till it was stiff, then they made
  it up in rolls, which when they need for use they could
  melt by the fire again.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. The Arabians made up theirs wih Meals, Oyl, and Fat,
  which needed not so long boyling.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. The Greeks Emplasters consisted of these Ingredients,
  Mettals, Stones, diverse sorts of Earths, Feces, Juyces,
  Liquoiris, Seeds, Roots, Herbs, Excrements of Creatures,
  Wax, Rozin, Gums.
  =
@section 4 {c12}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 12.
  Of Pultisses.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. Pultisses are those kind of things which the Latins
  call Cataplasmata, and our learned Fellows that if they
  can read English thats all, call them Cataplasms, because
  'tis a crabbed word few understand; it is indeed a very
  fine kind of Medicine to ripen Sores,
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. They are made of Herbs and Roots fitted to the Disease
  and Member afflicted, being chopped smal and boyled in
  Water almost to a Jelly, then by adding a little Barley
  Meal or Meal of Lupines, and a little Oyl or rough Sheep
  Suet, which I hold to be better, spread upon a cloath and
  applied to the grieved place.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Their use is to ease pains, to break Sores, to cool
  Inflamations, to dissolve hardness, to ease the Spleen, to
  concoct Humors, to dissipate Swellings.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. I beseech you take this Caution along with you, Use no
  Pultissees (if you can help it) that are of a heating
  Nature; before you have first clensed the Body, because
  they are subject to draw the Humors to them from every
  part of the Body.
  =
@section 4 {c13}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 13.
  Of Troches.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. The Latins call them Placentule, or little Cakes (and
  you might have seen what the Greeks call them too, had not
  the last Edition of my London Dispensatory been so
  hellishly printed, that's all the Commonwealth gets by one
  Stationer's printing anothers Coppies, viz° To plague the
  Country with false Prints, and disgrace the Author) ***{Greek script}
  they are usually little round flat Cakes, or you may make them square if you will.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. Their first invention was, that Pouders being so kept
  might resist the intromission of Air and so endure pure
  the longer.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. Besides, they are the easier carried in the Pockets of
  such as travel; many a man (for example) is forced to
  travel whose Stomach is too cold, or at least not so hot
  as it should be, which is most proper, for the Stomach is
  never cold till a man be dead; in such a case 'tis better
  to carry Troches of Wormwood or of Galanga, in a Paper in
  his Pocket and more convenient behalf than to lug a
  Gall~pot along with him.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. They are thus made, At night when you go to bed, take
  two drams of fine Gum Tragacanth, put it into a Gally~pot,
  and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilled Water
  fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to
  it, cover it, and the next morning you shall find it in
  such a Jelly as Physitians call Mussilage, with this you
  may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into
  Past, and that Past into little Cakes called Troches.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. Having made them, dry them well in the shadow and keep
  them in a Pot for your use.
  =
@section 4 {c14}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° 14.
  Of Pills.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. They are called Pilulae because they resemble little
  Balls, the Greeks call them Catapotia.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. It is the Opinion of Modern Physitians that this way
  of making up Medicines was invented only to deceive the
  Pallat, that so by swallowing them down whol, the bitterness
  of the medicine might not be perceived or at  least it might not be unsufferable, and indeed most of
  their Pills though not all are very bitter.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. I am of a clean contrary Opinion to this, I rather
  think they were done up in this hard form that so they
  might be the longer in digesting, and my Opinion is
  grounded upon Reason too, not upon Fancy nor Hear~say; The
  first invention of Pills was to purge the Head, now as I
  told you before, such Infirmities as lay neer the
  passages, were best removed by Decoctions, because they
  pass to the grieved part soonest, so here, if the
  infirmity lie in the Head or any other remote part, the
  best way is to use Pills, because they are longer in
  digestion, and therefore the better able to call the
  offending Humor to them.
  =
@section 5 {tx4}
  4. If I should tell you here a long Tale of Medicines
  working by Sympathy and Antipathy, you would not
  understand a word of it, they that are fit to make
  Physitians may find it in the Treatise:  All Modern
  Physitians know not what belonged to a Sympathetical Cure,
  no more than a Cookoo knows what belongs to Flats and
  Sharps in Musick, but follow the vulgar road, and call it
  a hidden quality because 'tis hid from the Eyes of Dunces,
  and indeed none but Astrologers can give a reason of it,
  and Physick without Reason is like a Pudding without Fat.
  =
@section 5 {tx5}
  5. The way to make Pills is very easie, for with the help
  of a Pestle and Mortar and little diligence, you may make
  any Pouder into PiIls, either with Syrup or the Jelly I
  told you of before.
  =
@section 4 {c15}
@section 5 {tt}
  Chap° ult°.
  The way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause of
  the Disease and part of the Body afflicted.
  =
@section 5 {tx0}
     This being indeed the Key of the Work, I shall be
  somthing, the more dilligent in it: I shall deliver my self thus;
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. To the Vulgar.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. To such as study Astrology, or such as study
  {»}Physick Astrologically.
  =
@end {its}
  First to the Vulgar: Kind souls I am sorry it hath been
  your hard mishap to have been so long trained in such
  Egyptian darkness, even darkness which to your sorrows may
  be felt; the vulgar road of Physick is not my practice,
  and I am therefore the more unfit to give you advice; and
  I have now published a little Book which will fully
  instruct you not only in the knowledg of your own Bodies
  but also in fit Medicines to remedy each part of it when
  afflicted, mean season take these few Rules to stay your
  Stomachs.
  =
@section 5 {tx1}
  1. With the Disease regard the Cause and part of the Body
  afflicted, for example, suppose a Woman be subect to
  miscarry through wind, thus do,
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. Look «Abortion» in the Table of Diseases, and
  {»}you shall be directed by that how many Herbs
  {»}prevent miscarriage.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. Look «Wind» in the same Table, and you shall see
  {»}how many of those Herbs expell wind.
  =
@end {its}
  These are the Herbs Medicinal for your Grief.
  =
@section 5 {tx2}
  2. In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body
  afflicted.
  =
@section 5 {tx3}
  3. In mixed Diseases there lies some difficulty, for
  somtimes two parts of the Body are afflicted with contrary
  Humors the one to the other, somtimes one part is
  afflicted with two contrary Humors, as somtimes the Liver
  is afflicted with Choller and Water, as when a man hath
  both a Dropsie and the yellow Jaundice, and this is
  usually mortal.
  =
      In the former, suppose the Brain be too cold and
  moist, and the Liver too hot and dry, thus do,
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. Keep your Head outwardly warm.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. Accustom your self to smell of hot Herbs.
  =
@section 7 {i3}
  {»}3. Take a Pill that heats the Head at night going
  {»}to bed.
  =
@section 7 {i4}
  {»}4. In the morning take a Decoction that cools the
  {»}Liver, for that quickly passeth the Stomach,
  {»}and is at the Liver immediately.
  =
@end {its}
    You must not think (Courteous People) that I can
  spend time to give you examples of all Diseases, these are
  enough to let you see so much light as you without Art are
  able to received, If I should set you to look upon the Sun
  I should dazle your eyes and make you blind.
  =
     Secondly, To such as study Astrology (who are the only
  men I know that are fit to study Physick, Physick without
  Astrology, being like a Lamp without Oyl) you are men I
  exceedingly respect, and such Documents as my Brain can
  give you at present (being absent from my study) I shall
  give you, and an example to shew the proof of them.
  =
@begin {its}
@section 7 {i1}
  {»}1. Fortifie the Body with Herbs of the Nature of
  {»}the lord of the Ascendent, 'tis no matter
  {»}whether he be a Fortune or an Infortune in this
  {»}case.
  =
@section 7 {i2}
  {»}2. Let your Medicine be somthing Antipathetical to
  {»}the lord of the sixth.
  =
@section 7 {i3}
  {»}3. Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of
  {»}the Sign ascending.
  =
@section 7 {i4}
  {»}4. If the lord of the Tenth be strong, make use of
  his Medicines.
  =
@section 7 {i5}
  {»}5. If this cannot well be, make use of the Medicines
  {»}of the light of time.
  =
@section 7 {i6}
  {»}6. Be sure alwaies fortifie the grieved part of the
  {»}body by Sympathetical Remedies.
  =
@section 7 {i7}
  {»}7. Regard the Heart, keep that upon the Wheels
  {»}because the Sun is the Fountain of Life, and
  {»}therefore those Universal Remedies Aurum
  {»}potabile, and the Phylosophers Stone, cure all
  {»}Diseases by only fortifying the Heart.
  =
@end {its}
     But that this may appear unto you as cleer as the
  Sun when he is upon the Meridian, I here quote you an
  Example, which I performed when I was as far off from my
  study as I am now, yet am I not ashamed the world should
  see how much or little of my Lesson I have learned without
  Book.
  =
     On July, 25. 1651. there came a Letter to me out of
  Bedfordhsire, from a Gentleman (at that time) altogether
  to me unknown, though since well known, who was a Student
  both in Astrologie and Physick: The words which are these;
  =
@begin {let1}
  Mr° Culpeper,
  =
        My Love remembred unto you, although I know you not
  by face; yet because I do much respect that pretty little
  Lark, you so lately let fly into the world, which you call
  Semeiotica Uranica, which I have lately taken into my
  Cage; I am therefore imboldned to write unto you in the
  behalf of a Neighbors Wife, who is taken with a very
  violent Disease which began in the lowr parts of her Body,
  but is now ascended upwards, and tormenteth her in her
  Breast, Throat, Tongue, and Lips: This Disease took
  possession of her (as she relateth to me) about a
  fortnight before Michaelmas last, but the certain day and
  hour she is not able to nominate; she sent for me, and
  enquired whether she were not under an ill Tongue or not,
  or of what nature the Disease was: I have sent you the
  enclosed Scheam, I could find but one testimony of
  Fascination or Witchcraft, which was one Sign possessing
  the Cusps of the Twelfth and First Houses, which to me
  holds forth no more than a strong suspition of it by the
  Querent; However I am confident there is a natural Disease
  which hurts much, because the Lord of the Sixt, which
  usually gives signification of Natural Diseases, is now
  placed in the Ascendent; but at present I forbear to make
  any large discours of mine own Opinions, being desirous
  that you would endeavor your Skill in this Cure, for there
  is not a Doctor of them all far or near that have been so
  skilful to find out the Disease, much less to effect the
  Cure.  Sr° I expect your Answer; mean time bid you
  farewel, and remain yours in Affection, &c°.
  =
@begin {ttfig}
  The inclosed Scheam.
  =
  ***{Image of Scheme}
  =
@end {ttfig}
@end {let1}
  My Answer to the Letter, was to this effect.
  =
@begin {let2}
  Sir,
  =
       I received yours, July 25. wherein I find your
  enclosed Scheam, and (I suppose) the nature of the
  Disease, and have sent you such an Answer as I could,
  being far from my Study, which I entreat you to take in
  good part, being Fastinanti calamo Conscripta.  As for the
  ignorance of your Country Doctors, they wanting the true
  Judgment of Astrology, is to me no waies admirable; I
  perceive you to be a yong man by the time of your Genesis,
  which you also sent me, beware whom you trust with that,
  he that knows your Nativity knows when ill Directions
  operate, and if he be an Enemy, knows when to do you a
  mischief; If Cecil had not had Essex his Nativity, he had
  never gotten his Head off, but to instruct you being a
  yong Student, I shall give you my Judgment Methodically.
  =
@begin {ps}
@section 8 {g1}
@section 9 {tt}
  Diacritica.
  =
@section 9 {tx}
       You say you can find no Arguments of Witchcraft, but
  only one Sign possessing the Cusps of both Twelth and
  Ascendent, but if you had regarded the Propinquity of
  Venus to Saturn you would have made another of that, yet
  do not I think she is bewitched, because of other more
  prevalent testimonies; the Moon passing from the beams of
  Mars to the beams of Venus may seem to give some suspition
  of Honesty, and the Disease to come that way, which is
  encreased by Mars his being in the Ascendent in Scorpio,
  and the Dragons Tail upon the Cusp, yet I can hardly
  beleeve this, for Cauda in a humane Sign usually gives
  Slanders and not Tales of Truth, 'tis a hundred to one if
  she suffer not in point of good name by the vulgar (this
  was too true) Besides, the neerness of Venus to Saturn may
  well shew trouble of mind, and it being in the ninth
  House, pray enquire whether she have not been troubled
  about some tenents in Religion (the trouble of mind was
  true, but it was about a stranger, which the ninth House
  also signifies.)
  =
@section 8 {g2}
@section 9 {tt}
  Diagnostica.
  =
@section 9 {tx}
     Venus, Lady of the Twelfth, and Ascendent, and Kigth,
  shews her alwaies to be her own foe in respect of Health;
  and truly I beleeve the original of the Disease was a
  Surfet either by eating moist Fruits, or else by catching
  wet in travelling; Venus with Saturn who is in square to
  the Ascendent troubles her Breast with tough Flegm and
  Melancholly: Besides, there being a most forcible
  reception between the Moon and Venus from fruitful Signs,
  I question whether she be not with Child or not, the Moon
  being in the fifth House, Mars is lord of the Disease,
  really in the Scorpion, and accidentally in the Ascendent,
  together with Aries on the sixt, shew the Disease keeps
  his Court in the Womb, and accidentaly afflicts the Head
  from thence, so that heat of the Womb must needs be cause
  of the present distemper, and Mars in a moist Sign in the
  first neer the second may well denote heat, and breaking
  out about her Face and Throat.
  =
@section 8 {g3}
@section 9 {tt}
  Prognostica.
  =
@section 9 {tx}
     Whether she be curable or not, or how or when the
  Disease will end is our next Point; Truly I can see no
  danger of death the Moon being strong in her hain, and
  applying by Trine with a strong reception to the Lady of
  the Ascendent; yet this is certain, Mars strong in a fixed
  Sign will maintain the Disease stoutly, her hopes will be
  but smal when Venus comes to the Body of Saturn, viz°
  August 2. for she will be overpressed with Melancholly,
  the time I suppose of her Cure may be (if good courses be
  taken) when Mars leaves the Sign he is in, and comes to
  the place where the Body of Jupiter is, or at least then
  it may turn to another Disease more propitious; the Sun
  strong in the Tenth shews she may be cured by Medicine,
  and he being exalted in the seventh, and caput there, I do
  not know but you are as likely a man to do it as any.
  =
@section 8 {g4}
@section 9 {tt}
  Indications Curative.
  =
@section 9 {tx}
      It is confessed here that the Sun being exceeding
  strong in the tenth House, should naturally signifie the
  curative Medicine, and as true that the evils of Mars,
  viz° heat in the Womb, and a salt humor in the blood ought
  to be removed before you meddle with the tough Flegm in
  the Breast, but yet seeing the Disease seems rather to
  participate of offending heat than any other Simple
  quality, you must have a care of hot Medicines lest you go
  about ignem oleo extinguere, the Medicines must  1. be
  cool, 2. strengthning the Womb,  3. repressing the vapors,
  4. of the nature of Sol and Venus.
  =
@section 8 {g5}
@section 9 {tt}
  Therapeutice.
  =
@section 9 {tx}
     To this intent, I first commend unto you stinking
  Arrach, a pattern whereof I have sent you enclosed, you
  may find it upon Dunghils, especially such as are made of
  Horse dung: It is cold and moist, an Herb of Venus in the
  Scorpion; Also Ros Solis an Herb of the Sun and under the
  Coelestial Crab, may do very well, and the better because
  Venus is in Cancer: It grows upon Bogs in untilled places,
  and is in flower about this time, it grows very low, with
  roundish green leaves full of red hairs, and is fullest of
  dew when the Sun is hottest, whence it took its name; to
  these you may ad Tansie, which I take to be an Herb of
  Venus in Libra, and Lettice if you please which is an Herb
  of the Moon, Mars having his fall in Cancer they are all
  harmless, you may use them according to your own
  descretion: also Orpine, another Herb of the Moon is very
  good in this case.
  =
     Sir, I wish you well, and if you esteem of my Lark
  above his deserts, I pray trim his Feathers for him
  (correct the Errors by the Errata) else will he make but
  unpleasing Musick.  Thus remain yours, &c°.
  =
@end {let2}
     I the rather chose this Figure to judg of, because none
  should have just occasion to say of us Astologers that we
  do as Physitians vulgar practice is, when they judg of
  Piss; first pump what they can out of the Querent, and
  then judg by his words; of which I will rehearse you one
  merry story, and so I will conclude the Book.
  =
     A Woman whose Husband had bruised himself, took his
  Water, and away to the Doctor trots she; the Doctor takes
  the Piss and shakes it about, How long hath this party
  been ill (saith he) Sr° saith the Woman, He hath been ill
  these two daies, This is a mans water quoth the Doctor
  presently, this he learned by the word HE; then looking on
  the water he spied blood in it, the man hath had a bruise
  saith he, I indeed saith the woman, my Husband fell down a
  pair of stairs backwards, then the Doctor knew well enough
  that what came first to danger must needs be his back and
  shoulders, said, the Bruise lay there; the woman she
  admired at the Doctors skil, and told him, that if he
  could tell her one thing more she would account him the
  ablest Physitian in Europe; well, what was that? How many
  Stairs her Husband fell down, this was a hard Question
  indeed, able to puzle a stronger Brain than Mr° Doctor
  had, to pumping goes he, and having taken the Urinal and
  given it a shake or two, enquires whereabout she lived,
  and knowing well the place, and that the Houses
  thereabouts were but low built Houses, made answer (after
  another view of the urine for fashion sake) that probably
  he might fall down some seven or eight stairs; ah, quoth
  the woman, now I see you know nothing, my Husband fell
  down thirty; thirthy! quoth the Doctor, and snatching up
  the Urinal, is here all the water saith he? no saith the
  woman, I spilt some in putting of it in, look you there
  quoth Mr° Doctor, there were all the other stairs spilt.
  =
     Yet mistake me not, I do not deny but such whose daily
  experience is to judg Waters, and usually judg a hundred
  in a day may know somthing by them: If any thing may be
  known by Urine, I am sure it may by Art, put them both
  together, vis unita fortior.  Thus I take my leave of you;
  be diligent and I am yours.
  =
@begin {sgn}
  Nich° Culpeper.
@end {sgn}
  =
#######################################################################
# Alphabetical index 
#
@section 1 {ix}
@section 2 {c1}
@section 3 {tt}
  AN ALPHABETICAL CATALOGUE OF THE DISEASES SPECIFIED IN THIS TREATISE:
  Together with the Page where to find the cure.
  =
@section 3 {bd}
@section 4 {sA}
@section 5 {lb}
  A
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Abortion 17÷
  Adders 19÷
  Afterbirth 3,5,11,20,32,34,41,43,50,53,67,86,192,195,212,234÷
  Aconitum 195÷
  Agues 2,5,6,8,10,11,15,16,22,26,27,30,34,37,47,49,50,54,55,58,62,66,
    73,75,77,81,88,196,199,201,209,210,215,219,220,223,224,227,232,
    234,235÷
  Andicomes 7,12,20÷
  Apostumes 2,11,32,49,54,58,65,71,91,231÷
  Appetite lost  3,10,14,16,31,32,196,201,220,239÷
  Arteries 10,12,25,61÷
  St° Anthonies fire 14,34,37,45,62,63,70,78,199,205,210,224,237÷
  Almonds of the Ears 17,89÷
  Ach 27,195,202, 205,210,222,224÷
  Adust Choller 44÷
  Adust Melancholly 57÷
  Asthma 67,237÷
  Apoplexy 72,81,83,235÷
  Baldness 14,47,190÷
  Barrenness 28,72,89÷
  Belly 2,8,27,59,77,78,85,87,192,201,206,220,226,231÷
  Belching 14,24÷
  Binding 2,3,15,17,38,53,62,86,196,206,228÷
  Beauty 29,38,47,59÷
  Breath 12,13,14,24,26,36,48,51,66,67,76,89,189,190,199,217,221,226÷
  Bleeding 1,6,13,15,17,24,28,53,54,65,67,68,71,72,84,86,194,196,200,220,
    213,219,228,229,231÷
  Blood 18,21,36,39,44,45,69,205,209,212,230÷
  Bloody Flux 2,10,17,34,35,37,53,54,56,59,60,61,71,92,228÷
  Black and Blew Spots 17,20,24,26,41,53,54,56,59,60,61,71,92,228÷
  Bowels 1,40,92÷
  Bees 216÷
  Black Jaundice 22÷
  Bladder 8,22,25,31,38,50,52,73÷
  Blisters 14÷
  Breast 1,2,3,8,10,41,55,78,88,192÷
  Back 34,38÷
  Brain 8,10,27,49, xx÷
  Burning 3,5,7,13,14,25,28,37,42,47,68,69,78,92,192,193,194,200,231÷
  Birth 50,86÷
  Bruises 7,12,14,15,222,32,34,37,42,43,50,52,76,78,88,89÷
  Boyls 10,12,41,220,221÷
  Bees 11÷
  Breasts 8,12,53,61,82,89,194,200,201÷
  Broken Bones 20,21,37,49,50,52,54,84,xx÷
  =
@section 4 {sB}
@section 5 {lb}
  B
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Cachexia 38,42÷
  Cancers 2,29,36,53÷
  Cantharides 17÷
  Cankers 17,24,25,28,33,42,48,53,54,56,60,86,88,196,212,219,220÷
  Childbirth 12,14,52,237÷
  Chops 5,82,197,236÷
  Clensing 2,13,51,56,189,194,214÷
  Chincough 78÷
  Chollick 2,5,9,27,28,45,47,49,50,61,62,64,65,72,87,189,190,197,210,
    215,235,236÷
  Cough 2,4,12,15,16,18,19,34,36,41,48,50,53,54,58,62,63,66,67,73,75,76,
    86,87,88,89,91,92,189,190,213,214,210,212,215,232÷
  Choller 2,3,8,10,28,30,37,41,46,50,54,57,64,69,72,77,81,82,194,
    196,199,210,214,215,209,223,230,233,239÷
  Cold 4,15,27,79,89,236÷
  Chilblains 64÷
  Cods 13,45,64,65,77,210,236÷
  Congealed blood 7÷
  Cools 9,15,25,53,62,190,196,199,214,220,223,228÷
  Convulsion 9,15,19,26,30,38,48,54,58,59,62,72,78,85,87,192,221÷
  Cramp 9,19,26,27,30,38,48,54,58,59,62,72,78,85,86,87,89,192,195,209,212,221÷
  Consumption 18,25,42,46,67÷
  Corns 68,237÷
  Clotted blood 33,43,209÷
  Costiveness 33÷
  Corrosion 53÷
  Curdled milk 92÷
  =
@section 4 {sD}
@section 5 {lb}
  D
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Dandriff 14,43,78÷
  Dead child 21,53,79,192,195,212,235÷
  Deformity 50,52,193÷
  Deafness 2,64,216,217,221,235÷
  Diabets 17,230÷
  Digests 33÷
  Dissolves 33÷
  Disury 8,9,12,13,15,21,22,24,25,26,28,31,32,37,39,
    41,42,45,47,49,50,52,53,55,57,58,59,61,62,66,67,70,75,76,
    89,90,92,201,226,231÷
  Dislocations 21÷
  Dogs 66÷
  Dropsie 3,8,9,11,20,22,27,28,30,46,49,53,55,58,62,63,66,70,78,
    79,85,92,190,192,195,196,209,210,215,225,227÷
  Dimness of Sight 49,81,197,202,207,209,215÷
  Dulness 39,213÷
  Drying 2,4,15,62,90,197,198,235÷
  Drunkenness 69÷
  Dreams 72,82,199÷
  Disjunctures 87,89,235÷
  =
@section 4 {sE}
@section 5 {lb}
  E
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Ears 2,10,12,14,18,31,35,47,52,68,70,82,89,190,197,205,235÷
  Errwigs 64÷
  Epidemical Diseases 4,14,20,24,32,75,91÷
  Eyes 6,8,10,11,12,18,31,34,41,45,47,51,53,56,63,68,73,77,81,
    205,215,223,224,236,239÷
  =
@section 4 {sF}
@section 5 {lb}
  F
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Fainting 5,10,72,192÷
  Falling~Sickness 18,20,33,38,56,58,61,66,72,77,79,83,92,192,195÷
  Falls 21,32,34,52,78÷
  Felones 7,12÷
  Fatness 51÷
  Flegm 3,5,8,19,21,22,25,31,32,40,50,58,67,69,79,81,85,189,
    192,197,209,215,217,224÷
  Fleas 2,7÷
  Feavers 10,54,65,79,229÷
  Fistulaes 21,28,33,45,53,55,71,88,189,203÷
  Flux 2,3,5,9,10,12,14,21,25,33,37,8,44,53,54,56,60,67,69,71,
    72,75,84,85,194,199,201,209,213,225,328,229÷
  Forgetfulness 57÷
  Freckles 5,20,31,39,41,44,53,75,76,88,191,226,238÷
  Frenzy 18,38,73,198÷
  French Pox 49,64,66,206,230÷
  Fundament 17,41,52÷
  =
@section 4 {sG}
@section 5 {lb}
  G
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Gall 2,27,42,44,45,64÷
  Gangrenes 20,23,37,42,71,89÷
  Gauls 13÷
  Gnats 50÷
  Gout 2,5,7,8,10,11,12,15,25,34,37,39,41,48,54,55,59,63,
    64,79,89,90,191,192,193,196,198,200,209,230,231÷
  Gums 17,23,192,205,226÷
  Guts 195÷
  Gravel 17,20,21,28,31,52,57,59,79,82,89,191,194,
    204,211,214,216,220÷
  Griping 2÷
  Groyn 66,87÷
  =
@section 4 {sH}
@section 5 {lb}
  H
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Headach 21,47,54,58,72,85,189,192,205,209,224,232÷
  Head  28,34,72÷
  Heart 9,10,47,205,233÷
  Hemorrhoids 30,33,52,54,55,86,89,195,224÷
  Horses tired 7÷
  Hortnets 11÷
  Hoarceness 25,31,34,73,233÷
  Humors  31,75,81,82,190,194,197,206,236÷
  Hypochondria 42,44÷
  Hiccough 43÷
  =
@section 4 {sI}
@section 5 {lb}
  I
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Jaundice 2,3,8,9,10,11,15,26,27,44,55,57,63,85,88,189,220,223,230÷
  Jaws 41÷
  Joynts 7,12,13,22,37,59,88,207,220,222,226÷
  Illiack Passion 216÷
  Inflammations 1,4,5,7,12,17,20,21,26,31,34,37,45,47,53,54,
    62,63,64,67,68,71,72,73,74,77,89,82,90,91,92,190,191,199,220,223,233÷
  Impostumes 7,83,191,214,220÷
  Itch 2,3,11,12,29,32,41,44,57,59,66,196,206÷
  Indigestion 9,10,28,72,75÷
  =
@section 4 {sK}
@section 5 {lb}
  K
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Kings Evil 7,11,30,35,52,56,59,70,75,78,86,202÷
  Kidneys 70,225÷
  =
@section 4 {sL}
@section 5 {lb}
  L
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Leprosie 9,11,26,42,47,52,53,83,88,91÷
  Lethargy 39,51,72,87,91,192,207,212,215÷
  Liver 3,5,10,11,13,15,27,29,30,38,41,42,49,57,61,66,74,
    76,78,92,189,202,203,209,219,227,230÷
  Lice 3,210÷
  Lechery 63÷
  Loathing of meat 44÷
  Loosness 5,43÷
  Loose teeth 48÷
  Longings 80÷
  Lungs 3,11,32,53,68,75,197,230,237÷
  Lust provokes 189÷
  Lust stops 199÷
  =
@section 4 {sM}
@section 5 {lb}
  M
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Mare 23,193÷
  Madness 57,193÷
  Mad~dogs 5,10,15,25,47,57,82,89,91÷
  Meazles 17,229÷
  Megrim 12,224÷
  Melancholly 5,6,10,24,26,42,50,57,58,76,81,82,85,192,193,197,206,
    226,234÷
  Memory 8,49,57,212÷
  Mother 6,9,12,15,17,24,28,29,43,48,50,79,85,89,90,191,193,215,223,235÷
  Mineral Vapors 58÷
  Mind 10÷
  Milk in Nurses 18,50,72,77,234÷
  Milk in cattel 36÷
  Mouth 16,18,23,33,59,78,192,196,200,205,215,219,220,229,233÷
  Morphew 20,42,43,44,47,48,62,66,73,88,191,210,233÷
  Muscles 37,78,191÷
  Miscarriage 80,212,225÷
  Mushroms 88,190,239÷
  =
@section 4 {sN}
@section 5 {lb}
  N
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Navil 200÷
  Nails in the Flesh 2÷
  Nepples 54÷
  Nerves 12,17,37÷
  Nightshade eaten 89÷
  Noise in the Ears 2,14,64,66,78÷
  Nits 225÷
  Nose 6,15,68,196÷
  --Noli me tangere, se Polipus.÷
  =
@section 4 {sO}
@section 5 {lb}
  O
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Obstructions 3,9,10,11,15,20,21,28,29,30,37,42,44,
    49,51,53,56,57,66,69,78,87,189,185,210,215,223,227÷
  Opening 33,42,51,189,190,201,214÷
  Opium 51,86÷
  =
@section 4 {sP}
@section 5 {lb}
  P
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Pain 2,12,15,35,37,43,63,82,192,195,199,205,209,210,211,221÷
  Palsey 15,20,32,34,38,47,51,58,67,72,76,83,216,217÷
  Piles 17,37,41,70,80,191,196÷
  Pissing Blood 15,22,67÷
  Pin and Web 63,231,232÷
  Plague 2,4,9,17,18,19,20,24,32,33,41,42,43,48,57,68,65,69,
    79,91,194,201,210,217,220,223,232,236÷
  Pleuresy 4,32,33,54,75,77,88,89,197,217,233÷
  Poyson 2,4,9,11,17,18,19,20,41,43,48,58,65,67,77,79,88,90,91,
    194,201,210,220,221,229,234,235÷
  Phthisick 16,32,37,62,71,73,77,92,196,197,199,207÷
  Purples 17,54,229÷
  Pushes 37,206,221,223,239÷
  Pimples 39,43,53,57,67,206,210,217,224÷
  Polipus 41,53,89,197÷
  Privities 2,37,65÷
  =
@section 4 {sQ}
@section 5 {lb}
  Q
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Quartan Agues 2,49,197÷
  Quotidian Agues 49÷
  Quinsie 33,38,75,92,202,233,239÷
  Quikens the Sences 212÷
  =
@section 4 {sR}
@section 5 {lb}
  R
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Raw Humors 43÷
  Rhewm 38,39,40,71,81,89,195,196,199,200,205,207,212÷
  Reds 19,205÷
  Red Faces 67,70÷
  Reins 9,49,50,52,66,86,216,223,225÷
  Rickets 9÷
  Ringworms 10,19,20,29,63,66,68,74,82,196,210,217,220,236÷
  Roughness of the Skin 74÷
  Running of the Reins 18,74,209,211,213,214,222÷
  Ruptures 9,15,17,26,34,36,37,38,40,45,47,50,59,71,92,211,213,214,226,229÷
  =
@section 4 {sS}
@section 5 {lb}
  S
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Scaldheads 9÷
  Scaldings 5,10,47,68,69,78,92,191÷
  Scabs 2,3,9,10,12,14,15,19,23,25,34,39,44,53,57,59,66,189,191÷
  Scars 39,218,231÷
  Sciatica 2,5,7,8,12,25,30,34,36,39,51,55,59,61,64,69,70,88,
    89,198,202,220,226÷
  Scurff 14,15,39,41,52,76,78,217÷
  Serpents 3,8,26,50,82÷
  Seed encreaseth 33,49÷
  Scurvy 20,39,202,226÷
  Sides 22,32,55,67÷
  Stifness 13÷
  Shingles 34,189,196÷
  Smelling 14÷
  Smal Pox 17÷
  Sneezing 55÷
  Sores 20,23,24,25,26,28,55,71,76,82,215,220,230÷
  Spitting blood 18,36,37,44,48,69,90,196,212÷
  Splinters 2,20,34,42,59,63,232÷
  Spleen 2,3,6,8,10,11,13,15,26,27,30,42,50,57,58,59,61,62,66,69,72,
    77,78,81,83,88,202,220,221,227,230,235,237÷
  Spots 5,9,12,20,38,39,41,48,52,62,73,75,218÷
  Stitches 9,15,20,22,27,28,91,212,227,232÷
  Stomach 2,3,5,11,12,15,16,23,32,37,40,48,50,55,62,66,68,
    72,78,80,190,209,220÷
  Stoppings 45÷
  Surfets 25,74,239÷
  Swellings 4,7,21,25,26,27,32,34,37,41,42,43,65,69,82,202,220,224,
    231,233,239÷
  Strangury 4,8,21,49,52,60,67,73,198,221,232÷
  Stone 9,11,12,13,15,16,17,20,21,22,25,27,28,31,36,39,45,47,48,49,
    60,63,65,67,70,78,80,84,85,91,190,191,202,203,221,214,215,216,221,227÷
  Sunburning 14,38,47,73,191,226÷
  Swoonings 10,44,85÷
  Sinews 12,15,25,27,33,51,55,61,64,87,200÷
  =
@section 4 {sT}
@section 5 {lb}
  T
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Teeth loose 3,59÷
  Teeth 52,191,200,233÷
  Tertian Agnes 2÷
  Terms stops 1,14,18,24,33,53,54,59,62,65,66,67,74,
    86,91,194,195,219,203,225,235÷
  Terms provokes 11,15,21,24,25,28,33,34,41,43,48,50,55,57,58,59,66,76,
    81,85,86,87,89,92,192,210,213,215,221,230,232,239÷
  Tetters 15,29,66,67,74,196,290,220,236÷
  Thorns 2,20,34,49,52,78,217,232÷
  Thirst 196,22,233÷
  Throat 2,41,43,191,205,213,219,220,221,229,233,235÷
  Toothach 3,7,8,14,18,22,34,55,192,196,200,203,225÷
  Travail in Women 36,77÷
  Trembling 72÷
  =
@section 4 {sV}
@section 5 {lb}
  V
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Venemous beasts 11,13,18,25,30,47,48,50,51,55,59,
    61,66,67,69,71,88,89,192,236,240÷
  Vertigo 12,13,20,38,50,72÷
  Vipers 9÷
  Veins 36,71÷
  Ulcers 5,7,15,18,19,20,25,26,28,31,33,38,39,41,43,45,47,52,
    53,55,60,65,75,76,79,80,86,89,90,194,196,201,203,210,211,
    214,215,217,220,221,226,229,236÷
  Venery  9,73,82,90,189,219,204÷
  Vomiting 1,8,17,22,24,26,36,45,72,82,90,190,192,219,201,
    220,225,236÷
  =
@section 4 {sW}
@section 5 {lb}
  W
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Watching 68÷
  Warts 29,82,87,230÷
  Weariness 13,15÷
  Wens 230÷
  Wind 12,32,43,48,50,51,63,79,81,82,89,91,215,232,235÷
  Witchcraft 14,65÷
  Whites 1,7,14,18,34,37,74,205,206,207÷
  Whitloes 20÷
  Worms 5,7,24,29,43,54,69,91,202,211,215,225÷
  Womb 17,20,50,89,233÷
  Wounds 1,2,7,9,15,17,20,22,23,24,26,31,35,36,37,38,39,
    43,45,47,50,52,56,60,65,69,74,75,79,80,84,85,90,190,
    191,200,204,213,214,215,217,219,220,224,229,230÷
  Wry Necks 46÷
  Wrinkles 62÷
  =
@section 4 {sY}
@section 5 {lb}
  Y
  =
@section 5 {pgs}
  Yellow Jaundice 10,21,49,53,57,61,66,67,74,76,207,211,215,223,239÷
  =
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