4.78 The Kitchen Garden, 



both of them bearing many foure fquare wooddy ftalkes, in fome whiter, in others 

 redder, as the leaues are alfo, (landing by couples at the ioynts, being long, rough, and 

 wrinkled, of a ftrong fweete fent : at the tops of the ftalkes come forth the flowers, fet 

 at certaine fpaces one aboue another, which are long and gaping, like vnto the flowers 

 of Clary, or dead Nettles, but of a blewifh purple colour ; after which come fmall 

 round feede in the huske that bore the flower : the roote is wooddy, with diuers 

 ftrings at it : It is more vfually planted of the flips, pricked in the Spring time into 

 the ground, then of the feed. 



Saluia minor Jiue pinnata. Small Sage or Sage of vertue. 



The lefler Sage is in all things like vnto the former white Sage, but that his bran- 

 ches are long and (lender, and the leaues much fmaller, hauing for the moft part at the 

 bottome of each (ide of the leafe a peece of a leafe, which maketh it (hew like finns 

 or eares : the flowers alfo are of a blewifh purple colour, but lefler. Of this kinde 

 there is one that beareth white flowers. 



The Vfe of Sage. 



Sage is much vfed of many in the moneth of May fafting, with butter and 

 Parfley, and is held of moft much to conduce to the health of mans body. 



It is alfo much vfed among other good herbes to bee tund vp with Ale, 

 which thereupon is termed Sage Ale, whereof many barrels full are made, 

 and drunke in the faid moneth chiefly for the purpofe afore recited : and alfo 

 for teeming women, to helpe them the better forward in their childebea- 

 ring, if there be feare of abortion or mifcarrying. 



It is alfo vfed to be boyled among other herbes, to make Gargles or wa- 

 ters to wa(h fore mouths and throates: As alfo among other herbes, that 

 ferue as bathings, to warn mens legs or bodies in the Summer time, to com- 

 fort nature, and warme and ftrengthen aged cold (inewes, and lengthen the 

 ftrength of the younger. 



The Kitchen vfe is either to boyle it with a Calues head, and being min- 

 ced, to be put with the braines, vinegar and pepper, to ferue as an ordinary 

 fawce thereunto : Or being beaten and iuyced (rather then minced as ma- 

 nie doe) is put to a rofted Pigges braines, with Currans for fawce there- 

 unto. It is in fmall quantity (in regard of the ftrong tafte thereof) put a- 

 mong other fafting herbes, to ferue as fawce for peeces of Veale, when they 

 are farfed or ftufFed therewith, and rofted, which they call Olliues. 



For all the purpofes aforefaid, the fmall Sage is accounted to be of the 

 more force and vertue. 



CHAP. VII. 



Horminum Jativum. Garden Clary. 



THere is but one fort of Garden Clary, though many wilde, which hath foure 

 fquare ftalks, with broad rough wrinkled whitifh leaues, fomewhat vneuenly 

 cut in on the edges, and of a ftrong fweete fent, growing fome next the ground, 

 & fome by couples vpon the ftalkes : the flowers growe at certaine diftances, with two 

 fmall leaues at the ioynts vnder them, fomewhat like vnto the flowers of Sage, but 

 lefler, and of a very whitifti or bleake blew colour : the feede is of a blackifh Browne 

 colour, fomewhat flat, and not fo round as the wilde : the rootes fpread not farre, and 

 perifti euery yeare that they beare flowers and feede. It is altogether to bee fowne of 

 feed in the Spring time, yet fometimes it will rife of it owne fowing. 



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