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trees it Grows upon, havivie no root of its own; but why that fhould have more 
virtue that grows upon the oak is not fo eafily determinable, unlefs becaufe itis 
rareft and hardeft to be come at. Clufius afferts, that that which grows upon pear- 
trees is equally efficacious with the other forts, provided it doth not touch the 
ground after it is gathered ; and alfo faith, that, being hung about the neck, it re- 
medies witchcraft. Both the leaves and berries of mifletoe are of a hot and dry na- 
ture, and of fubtle parts. Bird-lime, made thereof, doth mollify hard knots, tu- 
mours, and impofthumes ; ripening and difcuffing them; draweth forth thick as 
weil as thin humours from the remote parts of the body, digefting and feparating 
them ; and, being mixed with equal parts of rofin and wax, mollifies the hardnefs of 
the fpleen, and healeth old ulcers and fores; being mixed with fandarac and orpi- 
- ment, with quick-limeand wine lees added thereto, it draws off foul nails from 
the flefh. Mathiolus faith, that the mifletoe of the oak (being the beft), made into 
powder, and given in drink to thofe that have the falling ficknefs, doth affuredly 
heal them ; provided it be taken forty days together. Some hold it fo highly in 
eftimation, that it is termed Agnuum fanfle crucis, or wood of the holy crofs, believ- 
ing it to help the falling ficknefs, apoplexy, and palfy, very {peedily, not only when 
taken inwardly, but applied externally, by hanging it about theneck. Tragus — 
faith, that by bruifing the green wood of any mifletée,-and dropping the juice fo 
drawn therefrom into the ears of thofe who are troubled with impofthumes, it 
healeth the fame in a few days. 
The powder of it alfocures apleurify, and forces the courfes, Some think the 
- mifletoe that grows on the hafel-tree is better for the falling ficknefs, and other dif- 
bs eafes of the head, than that which grows on the oak, Henricus ab Steers thinks it 
oo snot grow on hafel-trees till they are about an hundred years old. A young 
dy, having been long troubled with the falling. ficknefs, for which the had taken 
ry thing prefcribed for her by the moft famous doctors, without effect, but 
rather worfe, having eight or ten dreadful fits ina day, was cured only by 
der of true mifletoe, given, as much as would lie ona fixpence, early i in the 
black cherry-water, or in beer, for fome days near the full moon. 
EY-WORT, OR HERB- .TWOPENCE. 
Description. THEcommonmoney-wort fendeth forth froma fmall chready 
root, divers long, d flender, branches, lying and running upon the ground, 
two or three feet | re, fet with leaves two ata joint, one again{t another at 
equal diftances, which are round, but jointed at the ends, fmooth, and of @ 
good greencolour. At the joints, with the leaves from the middle forward, i 
; for 
