eg CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Government anv Viatues. It is fomething hotter and drier than the garden 
clary, yet neverthelefs under the dominion of the Moon, as weliias that. the feeds of it 
being beaten to powder and drank in wine is an admirable help to:provoke luft; a 
decoction of the leaves being drank, warms the ftomach, and ’tis a wonder if it thould. 
not, the {tomach being Cancer the houfe of the Moon; It alfo helps digeftion, feat- 
ters congealed blood in any-part of the body, and helps dimnefs of fight ;. the-diltilled _ 
water thereof cleanfeth the eyes’ of rednefs, waterifanefs and. heat; *tis. a gallant re. - 
medy for dimnefs of fight, to take one of the feeds.of it and put into the eye, and 
there let it remain till ic drops out of iefelf, the pain will be nothing to {peak of : it 
will cleanfe the eyes of all filthy. and putrified matters, and in often repeating of ir, will 
take of a film which covereth the fight, a handfomer, fafer, and eafier. remedy agreat 
deal than to tear itoff with aneedle, _ ss | 
(he pp CLEAVE Rs. 
IT is alfo called aparine, goofe-fhare, goofe-grafs, and cleavers, 
Description, The common.cleavers hath. divers very rough fquare. ftalks, not fo 
dig.as the.tag of a point, but rifing up. to be two or three yards hich fometimes, if it 
meets with anyetall bufhes or trees whereon it may climb, yet without any clafperss 
orelfemuch lower, and lying upon the ground full of joints, and at every one of them. 
fhootethforth a branch,, be des the leaves thereat, which are ufually fix, fet ina round 
-Gompats like a ftar, or the rowel of a {pur : from between the leaves of the joints to» 
_ Wards the tops of the branches, come forth very fmall white flowers atevery end upon 
mall thready footftalks,. which after they are fallen, there do thew two fmall, round, 
rough feeds, which when they are ripe; grow hard and whitifh, having alittle hole‘on 
the fide fomewhat like untoa navel, Both ftalks, leaves, and feeds are fo rough, that. 
they will cleave unto any thing that fhall touch them. Its root is {mall and very 
thredd min Y> 
{preading much in ghe ground, but dieth evely War. = igs. 
? in many places of this land, and 
dominion of the. Moon. The 
broth to 
keep 
