AND COMPLETE HERBAL. 229 
ty LOVAGE. 
Description, JT hath many long and great ftalks, with large winged leaves, 
divided into many parts like fmallage, but much larger and greater, every leaf be- 
ing cut about the edges, broadeft forwards, and {malleft at the ftalk, of a fad-green 
colour, fmooth and fhining ; from among which rife up fundry ftrong hollow green . 
. flalks, five or fix feet, and fometimes feven or eight feet, high, full of joints, bur 
_{maller leaves fet on them than grow below; and with them, toward the tops, come. 
forth long branches, bearing at their tops large umbles of yellow flowers, and after : 
them flat brownifh feed. The root groweth thick, great, and deep, {preading 
much, and enduring long, of a brownith colour on the outfide, and whitith within. . 
The whole plant, and every individual part of it, fmelleth ftrong and aromatically, . 
and is of an hot, fharp, biting, tafte. 
_ Pracs. It is ufually planted in gardens, where, if it be fuffered, it groweth huge » 
and great. 
Time. It flowereth in the end of July, and feedeth in Auguft. 
Government anv Virtues. Itis an herb of the fun, under the fign Taurus. 
‘Tf Saturn: offend the throat (as he always doth if he be the occafion of the malady, . 
and in Taurus is the genefis), this is your cure. It openeth, cutteth, and digefteth, 
humours, and mightily provoketh wonien’s courfes and urine; half a dram at a_ 
time of the dried root in powder, taken in‘wine, doth wonderfully warm a cold 
ftomach, helping digeftion, and confuming all raw and fuperfluous moifture therein; . 
eafeth all inward gripings and pains, diffolveth wind, and refifteth poifon and infec- 
tion, To drink the decoction of this herb is 4 well-known and much-praétifed re- 
medy for any fort of ague, and greatly helps the pains and torments of the body 
and bowels occafioned by cold. ue he feed is effe€ual to all the purpofes aforefaid, 
except the laft, and worketh more powerfully. The. diftilled water from the herb 
helpeth the quinfey in the throat, if the mouth and throat be gargled and wafhed 
therewith; and relieveth the pleurify being. drunk three or four times. When. 
dropped into the eyes, it taketh away the rednefs or dimne(fs of them ; it alfo taketh , 
: away fpots or freckles in the face. The leaves bruifed, and fried with a little hogs... e 
Tard, applied hot to any blotch or boil, will savickly break it. 
tp LOVE-APPLE 
7 ari is alfo called Golden Apple, Apple of Love, and in Latin Pome pee ae 
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