AG T he ord.ring of the Kichen Garden. 
led eyther by it felfe,or with other herbes in oyleorhogs fuet, doe make an excellent 
falueter greene wounds, and allo to clenfe old vicets or fores ; the iuice of thegreene 
leages drunke in zle, ora dryed leafe fteeped in wine orale for a night, and the wiae or 
ale drunke in the morning, prouoketh to caft, but the dryed leafe much ftronger then 
thegreene : they arefowen of feede, but the Indian kinde is more tender, and will not 
abide a winter with vs abroade. Spurge that vfually groweth in Gardens, is aviolent 
purger, and therefore it is needfull to be very carefull how it is vfed : the {eede ismore 
ordinarily vfed then any other part ofthe plant, which purgeth by vomiting in fome, 
and both vpwards and downwards in many ; the iuice of the herbe, but efpecially the 
many places of this Land, yet isplantedin Gardens = it is accounted an excellent. 
wound herbero confolidate, and binde, infomuchthat many vie it with good fuccefle — 
altogether of the rootes, for I could neuer finde it {pring from the feede, it is fo ftrong. 
_Comfty likewife is found growing wilde in many laces by ditch fides, and in moilt 
much curiofitie : itis vfually Pts of the top heads, when the lower reotes(which 
_arethe Licoris that is vfed )and tl 
dinary drinke or beuerage of Licoris,boyled in water as our viuallale or beere is with 
malt, which fermented with barme inthe famemanner,andtunned vp,feruethinftcad 
thercof,as Lam credibly informed:It is ocherwife inamanner wholly {pent for colds, 
coughes and rheumes, to expectora re flegme,’ but vfed in diners formes, asin inice, in — 
deco@ions, fyrmups, roules, trochifces, and the greené ordryed rooteof itfelfe, 
~ And thefe are the moft ordinary Phyficall herbes that are vied tobe plantedin gar- 
dens tor the vfe of any Country familie, that is (as I faid before) farre remote fiom 
Phyfitians or Cbirurgions abidings, that they may vfe as occafion feructh forthem- 
felues ortheir neighbours, and by a little care and paines in the applying may doc2 
great deale of good, and fometimes to them that hauenot wherewith tofpend on 
them(elues, much leffe on Phyfitians or Chirurgions, or ifthey haue,may oftentimes 
receine Jeffe good at their hands then at others that are taught by experience in theit 
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