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in juice, conserve, oil, ointment or plaster, electuary 
pills or troches.” 
“ Agrimony is an herb under Jupiter, and the sign 
Cancer ; and strengthens those parts under the planet 
and sign, and removes diseases in them by sympathy, 
if they happen in any part of the body governed 
by Jupiter, or under the signs Cancer, Saggitary, or 
Pisces, and therefore must needs be good for the gout, 
either used outwardly in oil or ointment, or inwardly 
in an electuary, or syrup, or concerted juice.” He 
anticipates the incredulous reader, and says: “I can- 
not stand to give you a reason in every herb, why it 
cureth such diseases; but if you please to peruse my 
judgment in the herb Wormwood, you shall find 
them there, and it will be well worth your while to 
consider it in every herb, you shall find them true 
throughout the book.” 
Upon this hint we turn to Wormwood, where we 
find the following :—*“ Will you give me leave to be 
critical a little? I must take leave: Wormwood is 
an herb of Mars, and if Pontanus say otherwise he is 
beside the bridge; I prove it thus: What delights in 
martial places is a martial herb; but Wormwood 
delights in martial places (for about forges and iron- 
works you may gather a cartload of it), ego it is a 
martial herb.” ‘The sun never shone upon a better 
herb for the yellow jaundice than this: why should 
men cry out so much upon Mars for an infortunate 
(or Saturn either)? Did God make creatures to do 
the creation a mischief? This herb testifies that 
Mars is willing to cure all diseases he causes; the 
truth is Mars loves no cowards, nor Saturn fools, 
