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WF ve MULBERRY TREE: 
THIS is fo well known, where it groweth, that it needeth no defcription: 
“Time. It beareth fruit in the months of July and Augutft. 
GoverNMENT AND Virtues. Mercury rules the tree; therefore are its effects 
variable as his are. The mulberry partakes of different and oppofite qualities ; the 
ripe berries, by reafon of their fweetnefs and flippery moifture, opening the body, 
and the unripe binding it, efpecially when they are dried ; and then they are good 
to ftay fluxes, lafks, and the abundance of women’s courfes, The bark of the root 
killeth the broad worms in the body. The juice, or the fyrup made of the juice, of 
the berries, helpeth all inflammations or fores in the mouth or throat, and the pallet 
of the mouth when it is fallen down. “Lhe jutcc-or—the-teavesis ‘a remedy againft 
the biting of ferpents, and for thofe that have taken aconite ; the leaves, beaten with © 
vinegar, are good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire. A decoction made of 
the bark and leaves, is good to wafh the mouth and teeth when they ach. If the 
root bea little flit or cut, and a {mall hole made in the ground next thereunto, in 
the harveft time, it will give out a certain juice, which being hardened the next 
day, i is of. good ule to help the tooth-ach, to diffolve knots, and purge the belly. 
The leaves of mulberries are faid to ftay bleeding at the mouth or nofe, the bleed- — 
ing piles, or of any wound, being bound unto the places. A branch of the tree, 
taken when the moon is at the full, and bound to thewrift of a woman whole courfes. 
overflow, ftays them in a fhort fpace. 
| LO? MULLEIN. ...- 
Description. COMMON white mullein iA, many” fair: large, woolly, 
white leaves lying next the ground, fomewhat longer than broad, pointed at the 
ends, and dented as it were about the edges; the ftalk rifeth up to be four or five 
> feet high, covered over with fuch-like leaves, but fmaller, fo that no ftalks can be 
feen forthe quantity of leaves thereon, up to the flowers. which come forth on all 
‘fides of the ftalk, generally without any branches, and are many fet together ina 
long fpike, ‘in fome of agold yellow colour, in others more pale, confilting of five 
round pointed leaves, which afterwatds have little round heads, wherein a fmall_ 
_ brownithfeedis contained, “The root is long, white, and woody ; oe after, | Zs on 
it hath borne feed, 
Pace. Itgroweth by road-fides and lanes in many parts of the areas, 
“Pia. It howereth in July, or thereabouts, Gor . 
