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ment made of the same liquor, hog’s grease, 
nitre, and vinegar boiled together. The 
roots may be preserved with sugar, and 
taken fasting, or at other times, for the same 
purposes, and for consumptions, the stone, 
and the lask. The seed is much commended 
to break the stone, and cause it to be ex- 
pelled by urine, and is often used with 
other seeds and things to that purpose. 
CABBAGES AND COLEWORTS, 
I sua spare a labour in writing a des- 
cription of these, since almost every one 
that can but write at all, may describe 
them from his own knowledge, they being 
generally so well known, that descriptions 
are altogether needless. 
Place.| They are generally planted in 
gardens. 
Time.] Their flower time is towards the 
middle, or end of July, and the seed is 
ripe in August. 
Government and virtues.] The Cabbages 
or Coleworts boiled gently in broth, and 
eaten, do open the body, but the second 
decoction doth bind the body. The juice 
thereof drank in wine, helps those that are 
bitten by an adder, and the decoction of the 
flowers brings down women’s courses: 
Being taken with honey, it recovers hoarse- 
ness, or loss of the voice. The often eating 
of them well boiled, helps those that are 
entering into a consumption. The pulp of 
the middle ribs of Coleworts boiled in al- 
mond milk, and made up into an electuary 
with honey, being taken often, is very pro- 
fitable for those that are purfy and short 
winded. Being boiled twice, an old cock 
boiled in the broth and drank, it helps the 
pains, and the obstructions of the liver and 
spleen, and the stone in the kidneys. The 
juice boiled with honey, and dropped into 
the corner of the eyes, cleareth the sight, 
by consuming any film or cloud beginning 
to dim it; it also consumes the canker 
growing therein. They are much com- 
mended, being eaten before meat to keep 
one from surfeiting, as also from being 
drunk with too much wine, or quickly to 
make a man sober again that is drunk be- 
fore. For (as they say) there is such an 
antipathy or enmity between the Vine and 
the Coleworts, that the one will die where 
the other grows. The decoction of Cole- 
worts takes away the pain and ache, and 
allayeth the swellings of sores and gouty 
legs and knees, wherein many gross and 
watery humours are fallen, the place being 
bathed therewith warm. It helps also old 
and filthy sores, being bathed therewith, 
and heals all small scabs, pushes, and 
wheals, that break out in the skin. The 
ashes of Colewort stalks mixed with old 
hog’s grease, are very effectual to anoint 
the sides of those that have had long pains 
therein, or any other place pained with 
melancholy and windy humours. This was 
surely Chrysippus’s God, and therefore he 
wrote a whole volume of them and their 
virtues, and that none of the least neither, 
for he would be no small fool: He appro- 
priates them to every part of the body, and 
to every disease in every part; and honest 
old Cato (they say) used no other physic. 
I know not what metal their bodies were 
made of; this I am sure, Cabbages are 
extremely windy, whether you take them as 
meat or as medicine: yea, as windy meat 
as can be eaten, unless you eat bag-pipes or 
bellows, and they are but seldom eaten in 
our days; and Colewort flowers are some- 
thing more tolerable, and the wholesomer 
food of the two. The Moon challenges the 
dominion of the herb. 
THE SEA COLEWOBRTS. 
Descript.| Tuts has divers somewhat 
long and broad large and thick wrinkled — 
leaves, somewhat crumpled about the edges, — 
and growing each upon a thick footstalk, 
very brittle, of a greyish green colour, © 
from among which rises up a strong thick _ 
