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Place.| It grows in many places of this 
land, as well in the arable as waste ground. 
Time.| It flowers about the begining or 
middle of July, and the seed is ripe in 
August. 7 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of Mars. It is singularly good 
to provoke urine when it is stopped, and to 
break and drive forth the stone, which the 
powder of the bark of the root taken in wine 
performs effectually. Matthiolus saith, 
The same helps the disease called Hernia 
Carnosa, the fleshy rupture, by taking the 
said powder for three months together con- 
stantly, and that it hath cured some which 
seemed incurable by any other means than 
by cutting or burning. The decoction 
thereof made with some vinegar, gargled in 
the mouth, eases the tooth-ache, especially 
when it comes of rheum; and the said de- 
coction is very powerful to open obstruc- 
tions of the liver and spleen, and other 
parts. A distilled water in Balneo Marie, 
with four pounds of the root hereof first 
sliced small, and afterwards steeped in a 
gallon of Canary wine, is singularly good 
for all the purposes aforesaid, and to 
cleanse the urinary passages. The powder 
of the said root made into an electuary, or 
lozenges, with sugar, as also the bark of 
the fresh roots boiled tender, and after- 
wards beaten to a conserve with sugar, 
works the like effect. The powder of the 
roots strewed upon the brims of ulcers, or 
mixed with any other convenient thing, 
and applied, consumes the hardness, and 
causes them to heal the better. 
ROCKET. 
In regard the Garden Rocket is rather 
used as a sallad herb than to any physical 
‘purposes, I shall omit it, and only speak 
of the common wild Rocket. The descrip- 
/ tion whereof take as follows. 
facen tn the foes, or lle pe and ¥ 
has longer and narrower leaves, much more 
divided into slender cuts and jags on both 
sides the middle rib than the garden kinds 
have; of a sad green colour, from among 
which rise up divers stalks two or three 
feet high, sometimes set with the like leaves, 
but smaller and smaller upwards, branched 
from the middle into divers stiff stalks, 
bearing sundry yellow flowers on them, 
made of four leaves a-piece, as the others 
are, which afterwards yield them small red- 
dish seed, in small long pods, of a more 
bitter and hot biting taste than the garden . 
kinds, as the leaves are also. 
Place.| It is found wild i in divers places 
of this land. 
Time.| It flowers about June or July, 
and the seed is ripe in August. 
Government and virtues.| The wild Roc- 
kets are forbidden to be used alone, in re- 
gard their sharpness fumes into the head, 
causing aches and pains therein, and are 
less hurtful to hot and choleric persons, for 
fear of inflaming their blood, and therefore 
for such we may say a little doth but a 
little harm, for angry Mars rules them, and 
he sometimes will be restive when he meets 
with fools. The wild Rocket is more strong 
and effectual to increase sperm and vene- 
rous qualities, whereunto all the seed is 
more effectual than the garden kind. It 
serves also to help digestion, and provokes 
urine exceedingly. The seed is used to cure 
the biting of serpents, the scorpion, and the 
shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expels 
worms, and other noisome creatures that 
breed in the belly. The herb boiled or 
‘strewed, and some sugar put thereto, helps 
the cough in children, being taken often. — 
The seed also taken in drink, takes away 
the ill scent of the arm-pits, increases milk _ 
in nurses, and wastes the spleen. The seed _ 
mixed with honey, and used on the face, — 
cleanses the skin from morphew, and used 
with vinegar, takes away freckles and 
