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troubled with weak backs, and the effects 
thereof. The juice of the herb put into ale 
or beer, and drank, brings down women’s 
courses, and expels the after-birth. 
WILD CLARY. 
Witp* Clary is most blasphemously 
called Christ’s Eye, because it cures dis- 
eases of the eye. I could wish from my soul, 
blasphemy, ignorance, and tyranny, were 
ceased among physicians, that they may be 
happy, and I joyful. 
Descript.] It is like the other Clary, but 
lesser, with many stalks about a foot and 
a half high. The stalks are square, and 
somewhat hairy; the flowers of a blush 
colour; He that knows the common Clary 
cannot be ignorant of this. 
Place.| It grows commonly in this na- 
tion in barren places; you may find it 
plentifully, if you look in the fields near 
Gray’s Inn, and the fields near Chelsea. 
Time.| They flower from the beginning 
of June to the latter end of August. 
Government and virtues.| It is something 
hotter and drier than the garden Clary is, 
yet nevertheless under the dominion of the 
Moon, as well as that; the seeds of it being 
beat to powder, and drank with wine, is 
an admirable help to provoke lust. A de- 
coction of the leaves being drank, warms 
the stomach, and it is a wonder if it should 
not, the stomach being under Cancer, the 
house of the Moon. Also it helps diges- 
tion, scatters congealed blood in any part 
of the body. The distilled water hereof 
cleanses the eyes of redness, waterishness, 
and heat: It is a gallant remedy for dim- 
ness of sight, to take one of the seeds of it, 
and put into the eyes, and there let it re- 
main till it drops out of itself, (the pain 
will be nothing to speak on,) it will cleanse 
the eyes of all filthy and putrified matter; 
and. in often repeating it, will take off a 
film which covers the sae a oor ; 
safer, and easier remedy by a great deal, 
than to tear it off with a needle. 
CLEAVERS. 
It is also called Aperine, Goose-share, 
Goose-grass, and Cleavers. 
Descript.| The common Cleavers have 
divers very rough square stalks, not so big 
as the top of a point, but rising up to be 
two or three yards high sometimes, if it 
meet with any tall bushes or trees whereon 
it may climb, yet without any claspers, or 
else much lower, and lying on the ground 
full of joints, and at every one of them 
shoots forth a branch, besides the leaves 
thereat, which are usually six, set in a round 
compass like a star, or a rowel of a spur: 
From between the leaves or the joints to- 
wards the tops of the branches, come forth 
very small white flowers, at every end, 
upon small thready foot-stalks, which after 
they have fallen, there do shew two small 
round and rough seeds joined together like 
two testicles, which, when they are ripe, 
grow hard and whitish, having a little hole 
on the side, something like unto a navel. 
Both stalks, leaves, and seeds are so rough, 
that they will cleave to any thing that will 
touch them. The root is small and thready, 
spreading much to the ground, but dies 
every year. | 
Place.] It grows by the hedge and ditch- _ 
side in many places of this land, and is so 
troublesome an inhabitant in gardens, that ~ 
it ramps upon, and is ready to choak what- 
ever grows near it. 
Time. ] It flowers in June or July, and 
the seed is ripe and falls again in the end 
of July or August, from whence it springs 
up again, and not from the old roots. = 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of the Moon. The juice of the 
herb and the seed together taken in wine, - 
helps those bitten with an adder, by | pre- 
serving the heart from the venom. — ; 
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