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TZ he Places and Time. 
The two firft grow more frequently in Medowes then any of the reft, yet thie 
be others that grow chere alfo, fome in one Countrey, and fome in another . . The 
third proweth in a Field between Long ford and Bow, as alfo beyond. Southwarke 
in the right way from Londox to Croyden, and the parts adjacent ; The eighth. in 
Mr. Stonchoufe his Orchard at Darfield. The feventeenth groweth in divers 
and Moorith places. The /af groweth in divers Countrey Gardens, as wellasia 
the Gardens of the curious, who alfo entertain divers of the other —— pe 2 
flower and flourifh from May to Auguft. 
\. The Temperature. 
Medow Trefoile both Leaves and Flowers, are thought by fome to hin 
and dinding; but others thinke them to be.ofa digefing and (uppurating ‘ane 
and chere:t is no doubt but the reft doin fome fort follow the Temperature of en 
The Vertues and Signature. 
The Decodtion of Medow Trefoile, with ist 
fome time helpeth Women that are troubled with the prbites, and confequently 
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lowers, Seeds and Roots taken foc e 
the extraordinary over-flowing of their ordisary courfes, it being more thenproe 
bable, that what is availeablefor the f-/?. is profitable for the fecond, becaufe 
the firft is harder to be cured. The Deco@ion of the Leaves and Fiowershaving 
fome Honey put thereto, and ufed ina Clyfter, eafeth the fretting paines of the 
Guts, and bringeth forth tough and flimy humors, that cleave to the Gues, The 
faid Leaves boyled witha little. Barvewes reafe,andufed asa Pultis, taketh away os 
het fwellings and in 
one! and applyed, isa familiar Medicine with divers, to take away the Pss an 
Inflammation of them when they are bloud-fhotten, The faid Juice is @ 
and made i into anqyntmenct. The herbe™ alfo brui | heate 
Tiles, and applyed hot to the Share, caufeth them to wake Water who 
flopped before. Icis held likewife to be good for wonnds, and to ; 
Scarres The Burgundy Trefosle called alfo Fannm ioreandiaeia B 
Orits cooling property,as alfo that whofe Oyle,as Avicen faith, 
| fied ap eres of the Heart. An Oyledrawn out from che Seed, 
- as itis done from Almonds, is {aid to be good for the Stone. In thofe Count 
, ae et r mrhe cafier to be expedtorate or {pit 
an ms ao in no fo eminent 3 Sigaatare ae sting 
Web, (as they call it) in the Eyes, by Signature s and fo it ceafech the pa _ : ‘ 
to be very available againft the iting of an Adder being drank, the herbe alfo a 
being boiled in Water, and che place wafhed with the decoaion, -and then fome — 
_of the herbe laid to the hurt-place alfo, and fois the iste boiled in. Swines ereafe ae 
ick Fodder, is conceived by: divers to be that which Rye 2 
March Trefiile be the = Sane of Diofcorides, as fome fuppofe it tobechea ~ 
od thereof is good againft the Congh and other griefes of the Breaff, © 
for, as Galen faith, it cleanfeth-and cutteth tong and a ole aaa and 
; The juice, efpecially of that which is fpoted 
ves, being ftrained and dropped into the yes, or mixed with a tittle a 
where it roweth plentiful, itis found fo powerfallto fatten (atrle, that they 
are faine to be ftinted, left they fhould grow fo fat, that fuffocation fhould enforce 
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