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joram; Wild Marjoram, and Grove Mar- 
joram. 
Descript. ] Wild or field Marjoram hath 
a root which creeps much under ground, 
which continues a long time, sending up 
sundry-brownish, hard, square stalks, with 
small dark green leaves, very like those of 
Sweet Marjoram, but harder, and some- 
what broader; at the top of the stalks stand 
tufts of flowers, of a deep purplish red 
colour. The seed is small and something 
blacker than that of Sweet Marjoram. 
Place.] It grows plentifully in the bor- 
ders of corn fields, and in some copses. 
Time.] It flowers towards the latter end 
of the Summer. 
Government and virtues.| This is also 
under the dominion of Mercury. It 
strengthens the stomach and head much, 
there being scarce a better remedy growing 
for such as are troubled with a sour humour 
in the stomach; it restores the appetite be- 
ing lost; helps the cough, and consumption 
of the lungs; it cleanses the body of choler, 
expels poison, and remedies the infirmities 
of the spleen; helps the bitings of veno- 
mous beasts, and helps such as have poi- 
soned themselves by eating hemlock, hen- 
bane, or opium. It provokes urine and the 
terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the 
Scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice. 
The juice being dropped into the ears, helps 
deafness, pain and noise in the ears. And 
thus much for this herb, between which 
and adders, there is a deadly antipathy. 
SWEET MARJORAM. 
Sweet Marjoram is so well known, being 
an inhabitant in every garden, that it is 
‘Needless to write any description thereof, 
neither of the Winter Sweet Marjoram, or 
Pot Marjoram. 
Place.| They grow commonly in gar- 
_ dens; some sorts grow wild in the borders 
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, of corn fields and pastures, in sundry places 
of this Tana; but it is not my purpose to 
insist upon them. The garden kinds being 
most used and useful. 
Time.| They flower in the end of Sum- 
mer. 
Government and virtues.| It is an herb 
of Mercury, and under Aries, and therefore 
is an excellent remedy for the brain and 
other parts of the body and mind; under the 
dominion of the same planet. Our common 
Sweet Marjoram is warming and comfort- 
able in cold diseases of the head, stomach, 
sinews, and other parts, taken inwardly or 
outwardly applied. —The decoction thereof 
being drank, helps all diseases of the chest 
which hinder the freeness of breathing, and 
is also profitable for the obstructions of the 
liver and spleen. It helps the cold griefs 
of the womb, and the windiness thereof, and 
the loss of speech, by resolution of the 
tongue. The decoction thereof made with 
some pelitory of Spain, and long pepper, 
or with a little acorns or origanum, being 
drank, is good for those that cannot make 
water, and against pains and torments in 
the belly; it provokes women’s courses, if 
it be used as a pessary. Being made into 
powder, and mixed with honey, it takes 
away the black marks of blows, and bruises, 
being thereunto applied; it is good for the 
inflammations and watering of the eyes, 
being mixed with fine flour, and laid unto 
them. The juice dropped into the ears, 
eases the pains and singing noise in them. 
It is profitably put into those ointments 
and salves that are warm, and comfort the 
outward parts, as the joints and sinews; 
for swellings also, and places out of joint. 
The powder thereof snuffed up into the nose 
provokes sneezing, and thereby purges the 
brain; and chewed in the mouth, draws 
forth much phlegm. The oil made thereof, 
is very warm and comfortable to the joints — 
that are stiff, and the sinews that are hard, 
to molify and supple them. Marjoram is — 
much used in all odoriferous waters, pow- 
| ders, &c, that are for ornament or delight. 
