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ginning,if chey be ftamped and laid vnto them with bread : thedeco&ion thereof drunke prouo- 

 keth vrine. Galen teacheth,That the leaues of milke Trefoile haue a digefting or rafting quality 

 mixed with a waterie and teraperat faculties hauc thofeof the Mallow. 



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\Vomcn/aithO/*w^4,iftbey want milke, muft ftecpe dry milke Trefoilc in faire water, -..- 

 when it is throughly fokcd,they muft the next day mix a quart or thereabouts of the fame preffed 

 or drained forth with a little VVine,and fo let it be giuen vnto them todrinkc,and by that mcanes 

 they thcmfelucs (hall receiuc ftrcngtb,and their children comfort by aboundance of milke. 



Hrpp9a\ites reckons vp mi Ike Trefoile among thofe things that encreafe milke,in his book of the B 

 nature of women and womensdifcafes. 



Alfo Anfkomtchus of Athens in Pliny commandeth to giuc with wrnc the dry planr # and the fame C 

 likewife boiled in water, to nurfes to drinkewhen their milke is gon. 



VcmocritHS and Arifiomachus do promife that you (hall want no Bccs,if you hauc milke Trcfoifc D 

 for them to feed on : for all writers with one confent do conclude (as Galen faith) that Bees gather 

 of the floures of Milke Trefoilc very great ftorcof hony. 



Columella tcachctb,That milk Trefoile is notable good for HcnSjBces^oarsJCinc, and all kind E 

 of cartel,which quickly grow fat by eating thereof j and that it yeeldeth very great ftore of milk. 



The people ofBctica and Valentia,where there is great ftore of ^j//^x,docvf'c it very much for F 

 the Silke-wormes to hang thcirweb vpon after they haue been well fed with the leaues of Mulber- 

 ries, k? 



Milke Trefoileis likewife a maruellous remedie againft the Sciatica and all other kindesof G 

 Gouts. 



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Hisrifetb vp with little ftalks from the root,brittle, very many in number, parted into* 

 wings & branches,aboutwhich grow many leaues IcflTcr than thofeof the medow Tre- 

 foile,of colour green ; the floures about the tops of the twigs be orderly placed in man- 

 uw u&ccareSjOf colour ycllowjleffer than thofe of Broora 3 otherwifc ail alike : in their places £row 

 vp (lender cods, long, narrow, and Jeffer than the codsof Broom,roagh alfo and hairy ; in which do 

 lie little blackifii feeds : the root is Iong,and groweth deepe 3 and oftentimes creepeth aflope. 



2 The fecond kindeof baftard milke Trefoile is like vnto the former in plentifull ftalks and. 

 twigs,but that it is lower and more downy, neither doe the ftalks thereof ftand vpright,but rather 

 incline to the one fide : the leaues alfo are (bmwhat greater,buc yet letter than thofe of the medow 

 Trefoile, wholly whice,and they neucr open themfelues out,but keep alwaies fo!ded,with the mid- 

 dle rib ftanding our : the flours likewife be clofelicr joined togethcr 3 and compared as it were in- 

 to a little headland oe alfo fomething greater : the cods in like manner are a little bigger and haL 

 'y>andof a blackifh purple or murrey : the root groweth deep in the ground, beingdiuided into a 

 fcw fprigs : it oftentimes hapneth to grow inone place more hairy or downy than in another 3 the 



niorc hairy and downy it iSjthe more white and hoary it is,forthehairinefledoth alfo bring with 

 it a certain whitifh colour. 



3 The third kiodeof baftard milke Trefoile brings forth a company of yong fhoots that are 

 ftmwhat writhed and crooked,Iong leaues of a faire green colour : the floures are clofed together, 

 long^vvhite^or cIfegalbineous,fweetly fmelling,that is to fay,hauing the fmell of hony : thc^ftrub 

 « fclfe is alwaies green both Summer and Winter. X Thisgrowes fomefoot or better hi2b,w/rfc 

 fiender hoary branches,fet with leaues three {landing together vpon a very (hort flalk,and rfte mid- 

 dle Kafe is as long again as the other two ; they arc very white and hoary, and the ftours stow 



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