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Nettles grow in vn tilled places,& the firft in 



woods.and 



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withftanding ir groweth in ray garden. 



The fecond is more common^nd groweth of 



wi w it felfe ne'ere hedges, bufhes, brambles, and old 



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ces which notwithstanding groweth in gardens 

 9di and raoftearable grounds. 



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be ga thered in I u 1 y and Augu ft . 



*<L ( .< .IT The Names. 



It is called in Greeke av*»>. : in La tine Vrti- 

 ca, ab vrendo,of his burning and flinging quali- 

 tie j whereupon Mater faith, 



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w* immerito tiomen fitmpjijp videtur^ 

 Tafia quod exttr at digit os vrticatenentis. 



Neither without defert his name he feemes to 



As that which quickly burncs the fingers ton* 

 chingit.^. 



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Italian, Or tic a : in Spamfh, Hortiga : in trench, 

 Ortf* : in Englifli, Nettle. The firft is called in 

 l ™ lov T- Dutch »00!tlfc&e &ettlW,tnat is,Ruma»a 



gb-Dutch,|©alfC$e jf&effelayhat isjtalica vrtxaAti- 



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Fn£Z T nC ln §ardens tot h,s vertues : 1C is alfo callcd of diuers Vrtica mas . and of Diffcmdet 



*th t(e S of ^ W v £ V?f Ie ^ hich h f fa i. tl v s ra .?:; e r ° u & h > with broadet and l ™& x ieaues > a »<* 



*« S mi J f ffcr / ^ ,???*£ tbe Wllde NettIe thc maIe > and ^ • « . ^ 1 1 . fiir h. 



The I 2 • 1? d g enc,er ; Tc '" caIled lr ? En g'^>Rotnanc Nettle,Greeke Nettle.male Nettle. 

 Nettle • in r!! ^ { fi Vrtlc 4^^y and oftentimes Vrtica major, that it may differ from the third 

 batch w 8 i £f DaIe , Ncctl «?S rc " Nettlc,or common Nettle. The third is named in high- 

 !ic =inSr.f ^ l2 ^I 1 **"*" 8 . <P«*MWftC 0ttt\t%fo called of the flinging qufu. 

 «I!eth 3 ill,S T i] ^^>SmallburningNectle .but whether this be thacor nowhiU! W"y 



] mZtl •'" r* S? t,fft ' 1 m ^ Studious confid «.There is in the wild Nettle a more ftim& 

 I wie.whica.fiith he,is called C^witha Aalkemore flinging, hauing nicked Ieaues. * 



.\ ett . . % The Temperature. 



fcitdorf, 1 no ?™ P r "'r dr y' a j i " lc h °t.<carfe in the firft degree : it is of th in and fubtil parts. 

 ^Cl^t '"v^a 3t l d ^ ^ reafon k is e * treme hot > but beca »* the downe Jf?§ 

 ^«S k ft?„ 8 a S 6 finC U " e P rick ' e$ * ftin S s > and ^ring ^to the skin : for if it be ll 



ooued it ftmgeth not at all,by reafon that the ftiffenefTe of the down is fallen away. 



s, it maketh the body foluble, doing it A 



Be ' n g ftarooed InA th, • " §nt CO bnn S v ? tOU S h hlimors that fticke in the cheft. 



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^fpecrally drunke with Cute : fot (faith Galen) it bath in it a C 



buc the D le u V^r Cn ] ? at cannot bre "l 



Pleunfie j3 nd for fuch as be fick 



their necks vprighr,and for chofc that » 



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