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head, stomach, spleen, etc., there is no herb almost 

 of more use in the houses both of high and low, rich 

 and poor, both for inward and outward occasions, 

 outwardly for bathings among other hot herbs 

 and among other sweet herbs for strewings. In- 

 wardly in most sorts of broths, with Rosemary, as 

 also with other faseting (or rather farsing) herbs, 1 

 and to make sauce for divers sorts, both fish and 

 flesh, as to stuff the belly of a goose to be roasted 

 and after put into the sauce and the powder with 

 bread to strew on meat when it is roasted, and so 

 likewise on roasted or fried fish. It is held by divers 

 to be a speedy remedy against the sting of a bee, 

 being bruised and laid thereon. 



"The wild Thyme (Serpyllum hor tense sive 

 mains), growth upright, but yet is low, with divers 

 slender branches and small round green leaves, 

 somewhat like unto small fine Marjoram, and smell- 

 ing somewhat like unto it. The flowers grow in 

 roundels at the tops of the branches of a purplish 

 color. And in another of this kind they are of a 

 pure white color. There is another also that smelleth 

 somewhat like unto Musk, and therefore called 

 Musk Thyme, whose green leaves are not so small 

 as the former, but larger and longer." 



*Farsi, stuffing. 



