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things to be kept." We see, too, that in the " New 

 Herball or Historie of Plants" of "that learned D. 

 Rembert Dodoens," a quaint old black-letter volume 

 published in 1586, the burnet is strongly commended as 

 a healer of wounds, " made into powder and dronke with 

 wine, wherein iron hath bene often quenched, and so doth 

 the herbe alone, being but only holden in a man's hand 

 as some have written. The leaues stiped in wine, and 

 dronken, doth comfort and rejoice the hart, and are good 

 against the trembling and shaking of the same." These 

 are but samples, mere surface skimmings, of some of the 

 more evident " vertues " of this lowly herb : space forbids 

 our adding more, nor, indeed is it necessary, for if our 

 readers will only consider that it is a sort of general- 

 heal-all, a more detailed catalogue becomes needless. 



