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THE SERVICE-TREE. 
Ir is so well known in the place where 
it grows, that it needs no description. 
Time.] It flowers before the end of May, 
and the fruit is ripe in October. 
Government and virtues.] Services, when 
they are mellow, are fit to be taken to stay 
fluxes, scouring, and casting, yet less than 
medlers. If they be dried before they be 
mellow, and kept all the year, they may be 
used in decoctions for the said purpose, 
either to drink, or to bathe the parts re- 
quiring it; and are profitably used in that 
manner to stay the bleeding of wounds, 
and of the mouth or nose, to be applied to 
the forehead and nape of the neck; and are 
under the dominion of Saturn. 
SHEPHERD’S PURSE. 
Ir is called Whoreman’s Permacety, 
Shepherd’s Scrip, Shepherd’s Pounce, Toy- 
wort, Pickpurse, and Casewort. 
Descript.| The root is small, white, and 
perishes every year. The leaves are small 
and long, of a pale green colour, and deeply 
cut in on both sides, among which spring 
up a stalk which is small and round, con- 
taining small leaves upon it even to the top. 
The flowers are white and very small; after 
which come the little cases which hold the 
seed, which are flat, Eee in the form of 
a heart. 
Place.] They are bone in this nation, 
almost by every path-side. 
Time.| They flower all the Summer long; 
nay some of them are so fruitful, that they 
flower twice a year. 
Government and virtues.| It is under the 
dominion of Saturn, and of a cold, dry, and 
binding nature, like to him. It helps all 
fluxes of blood, either caused by inward or 
outward wounds; as also flux of the belly, 
and bloody flux, spitting blood, and bloody 
_ urine, stops the terms in women; being | 
bound to the wrists of the hands, and 
the soles of the feet, it helps the yellow 
jaundice. The herb being made into a poul- 
tice, helps inflammations and St. Anthony’s 
fire. The juice being dropped into the ears, 
heals the pains, noise, and matterings 
thereof. A good ointment may be made of 
it for all wounds, especially wounds in the 
head. 
SMALLAGE. 
Tus is also very well known, and there- 
fore I shall not trouble the reader with any 
description thereof. 
Place.|] It grows naturally in dry and 
marshy ground; but if it be sown in gar- 
dens, it there prospers very well. 
Time.| It abides green all the Winter, 
and seeds in August. 
Government and virtues.|] It is an herb 
of Mercury. Smallage is hotter, drier, and 
much more medicinal than parsley, for it 
much more opens obstructions of the liver 
and spleen, rarefies thick phlegm, and — 
cleanses it and the blood withal. It pro- 
vokes urine and women’s courses, and is 
singularly good against the yellow jaundice, 
tertian and quartan agues, if the juice 
thereof be taken, but especially made up 
into a syrup. The juice also put to honey 
of roses, and barley-water, is very good to 
gargle the mouth and throat of those that 
have sores and ulcers in them, and will 
quickly heal them. The same lotion also 
cleanses and heals all other foul ulcers and _ 
cankers elsewhere, if they be washed there- _ 
with. The seed is especially used to break — 
and expel wind, to kill worms and to help _ 
a stinking breath. The root is effectual to _ 
all the purposes aforesaid, and is held to _ 
be stronger in operation than the herb, but — 
especially to open obstructions, and to ric 
away any ague, if the juice thereof be tak 
in wine, or "the decoction thereof : 
