The Kitchen Garden. 477 



The Vfe of Hyflbpc. 



t lyllope is much vied in Ptifans and other drinkcs, to help to expectorate 

 rlegme. It is many Conn trey peoples medicine tor a cut or greene wound, 

 being bniil'ed with fugar and applyed. I finde it is alfo much commended 

 againft the tailing ikkenefle, efpecially being made into pils after the man- 

 ner before rehearfed. It is accounted a fpeciall remedy againft the rting or 

 biting of an Adder, if the place be rubbed with HyfTope, bruifed and mixed 

 with honey, fait and cummin feede. A decoclion thereof with oyle, and 

 annointed, taketh away the itching and tingling of the head, and vermine 

 alfo breeding therein. An oyle made of the herbe and flowers, being an- 

 nointed, doth comfort benummed finewes and ioynts. 



CHAP. V. 

 Pulegium. Pennyroyall. 



PErmyroyall alfo is an herbe fo well knowne, that I (hall not neede to fpend much 

 time in the defer! ption of it : hauing many weake round ftalkes, diuided into 

 fundry branches, rather leaning or lying vpon the ground then (landing vpright, 

 whereon are fet at feuerall ioynts, fmall roundifh darke greene leaues : the flowers are 

 purplifh that grow in gardens, yet fome that grow wilde are white, or more white then 

 purple, fet in roundles about the tops of the branches ; the ftalkes fhoote forth fmall 

 fibres or rootes at the ioynts, as it lyeth vpon the ground, thereby fattening it felfe 

 therein, and quickly increafeth, and ouer-runneth any ground, efpecially in the fhade 

 or any moift place, and is replanted by breaking the fprouted ftalkes, and fo quickely 

 groweth. 



Other forts of Pennyroyall are fit for the Phyficke Garden, or Garden of Simples. 



The Vfe of Pennyroyall. 



It is very good and wholefome for the lunges, to expell cold thin flegme, 

 and afterwards to warme and dry it vp : and is alfo of the like propertie as 

 Mintes, to comfort the ftomacke, and ftay vomiting. It is alfo vfed in wo- 

 mens baths and warnings : and in mens alfo to comfort the finewes. It is yet 

 to this day, as it hath beene in former times, vfed to bee put into puddings, 

 and fuch like meates of all forts, and therefore in diuers places they know 

 it by no other name then Pudding-graffe. 



The former age of our great Grandfathers, had all thefe hot herbes in 

 much and familiar vfe, both for their meates and medicines, and therewith 

 preferued themfelues in long life and much health : but this delicate age of 

 ours, which is not pleafed with any thing almoft, be it meat or medicine, that 

 is not pleafant to the palate, doth wholly refufe thefe almoft, and therefore 

 cannot be partaker of the benefit of them. 



CHAP. VI. 



Salvia. Sage. 



Here are two efpeciall kindes of Sage nourfed vp in our Gardens, for our or- 

 dinary vfe, whereof I intend to write in this place, leauing the reft to his fit- 

 ter place. Our ordinary Sage is reckoned to bee of two forts, white and red, 



both 



