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nor the lust of Venus be repelled by none 
but Saturn; but I am not of opinion this 
is done this way, and my reason is, because 
these vapours though in quality melan- 
choly, yet by their flying upward, seem to 
be something aerial; therefore I rather 
think it is done by sympathy; Saturn being 
exalted in Libra, in the house of Venus. 
BURNET. 
Ir is called Sanguisorbia, Pimpinella, 
Bipulo, Solbegrella, &c. The common 
garden Burnet is so well known, that it 
needs no description There is another 
sort which is wild, the description whereof 
take as follows: 
Descript.| The great wild Burnet has 
winged leaves rising from the roots like the 
garden Burnet, but not so many; yet each 
of these leaves are at the least twice as 
large as the ‘other, and nicked in the same 
manner about the edges, of a greyish colour 
on the under side; the stalks are greater, 
and rise higher, with many such leaves set 
thereon, and greater heads at the top, of a 
brownish colour, and out of them come 
small dark purple flowers, like the former, 
but greater. The root is black and long 
like the other, but great also: it has almost 
neither scent nor taste therein, like the gar- 
den kind. 
Place.] It first grows frequently in gar- 
dens. The wild kind grows in divers 
counties of this land, especially in Hunting- 
don, in Northamptonshire, in the meadows 
there: as also near London, by Pancras 
church, and by a causey-side in the middle 
of a field by Paddington. 
Time.] They flower about the end of 
June, and beginning of July, and their seed 
is ripe in August. 
_ Government and virtues.] This is an herb 
the Sun challenges domini ominion over, and is 
-& Most precious herb, little inferior to 
etony; the continual use of it ‘susan 
the body in health, and the spirit in vigour; 
for if the Sun be the preserver of life under 
God, his herbs are the best in the world to 
do it by. They are accounted to be both of 
one property, but the lesser is more effectual 
because quicker and more aromatical: It 
is a friend to the heart, liver, and other 
principal parts to a man’s body. Two or 
three of the stalks, with leaves put into a 
cup of wine, especially claret, are known 
to quicken the spirits, refresh and clear the 
heart, and drive away melancholy: It is a 
special help to defend the heart from noi- 
some vapours, and from infection of the 
pestilence, the juice thereof being taken in 
some drink, and the party laid to sweat 
thereupon. They have also a drying and 
an astringent quality, whereby they are 
available in all manner of fluxes of blood 
or humours, to staunch bleedings inward or 
outward, lasks, scourgings, the bloody-flux, 
women’s too abundant flux of courses, the 
whites, and the choleric belchings and cast- 
ings of the stomach, and is a singular 
wound-herb for all sorts of wounds, both 
of the head and body, either inward or out- 
ward, for all old ulcers, running cankers, 
and most sores, to be used either by the 
juice or decoction of the herb, or by the 
powder of the herb or root, or the water of 
the distilled herb or ointment by itself, or 
with other things to be kept. The seed is 
also no less effectual both to stop fluxes, 
and dry up moist sores, being taken in 
powder inwardly in wine, or steeled water, 
that is, wherein hot rods of steel have been 
quenched; or the powder, or the seed 
mixed with the ointments. 
THE BUTTER-BUR, OR PETASITIS. 
Descript.] Tuus rises up in February, 
with a thick stalk about a foot high, where- 
on are set a few small leaves, or rather _ 
pieces, and at the tops a long spiked head 
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