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and ftrengthens it exceedingly ; it provokes the terms if they be ftopped, and. {tops 
them.if they flow immoderately: you can defire no good to your womb but this 
herb will effeét it; therefore if you love children, if you love health, if you love 
. eafe, keep a fyrup always by you made of the juice of this herb and fugar, or honey 
if it be to cleanfe the womb; and let fuch as be rich keep it for their poor neigh- 
bours, and beftow it as freely as I beftow my ftudies uponthem, or elfe let them 
look to.anfwer it another day when the Lord fhall.come to make inquifition 
of blood, | 
Lb BR CARS ANS Hb: 
TO put a glofs.upon their practice, the phyficians call an herb, which country 
people vulgarly know by the name of deadnettles, archangel, wherein whether | 
they favour of more fuperftition or folly, I leave to the judicious reader. There is 
more curiofity than courtely to my countrymen ufed by others in the explanation as — 
well of the names as defcription of this well known herb: which, that I may not 
alfo be guilty of, take this fhort defcription ; firft, of the red archangel. 
 Descrtprion. This hath divers {quare ftalks, fomewhat hairy, at the joints — 
White archangel hath divers {quare ftalks, none ftanding upright, but bending 
nt, larger and more pointed than the 
7 the white in the ftalks and leaves, but that the ftalks are ; 
an ue Joints with leaves are farther afunder, having 
‘the Rowers a little larger and more gaping, of # 
ler. The roots are like the white, only they 
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