4. 8 6 The Kitchen Garden. 



fmaller vp to the toppe, where it is diuided into diuers fmall branches, whereon grow 

 purplifh flowers, and three fquare darke red feede, like vnto others : the roots are not 

 great, but fomewhat long, and very red, abiding many yeares, yet fometimes fpoiled 

 with the extremitie of winter. 



The Vfe of Blood- worte. 



The whole and onely vfe of the herbe almoft, ferueth for the pot, among 

 other herbes, and, as I faid before, is accounted a moft efpeciall one for that 

 purpofe. The feede therof is much commended for any fluxe in man or wo- 

 man, to be inwardly taken, and fo no doubt is the roote, being of a ftipticke 

 qualitie. 



CHAP. XVI. 



Oxalis Jiue Acetofa. Sorrell. 



SOrrell muft needes bee reckoned with the Dockes, for that it is fo like vnto them 

 in all things, and is of many called the fower Docke. Of Sorrels there are ma- 

 ny forts, but I mall not trouble you with any other in this place, then the com- 

 mon Garden Sorrell, which is moft knowne, and of greateft vfe with vs ; which hath 

 tender greene long leaues full of iuice, broade, and bicorned as it were, next vnto the 

 ftalke, like as Arrach, Spinach, and our Englim Mercuric haue, of a fharpe fower tafte : 

 the ftalkes are (lender, bearing purplifh long heads, wherein lye three fquare mining 

 browne feede, like, but lefler then the other : the root is fmaller then any of the other 

 Dockes, but browne, and full of firings, and abideth without decaying, hauing greene 

 leaues all the winter, except in the very extremitie thereof, which often taketh away 

 all or moft of his leaues. 



The Vfe of Sorrell. 



Sorrell is much vfed in fawces, both for the whole, and the ficke, cooling 

 the hot liuers, and ftomackes of the ficke, and procuring vnto them an ap- 

 petite vnto meate, when their fpirits are almoft fpent with the violence of 

 their furious or fierie fits ; and is alfo of a pleafant relifh for the whole, in 

 quickning vp a dull ftomacke that is ouer-loaden with euery daies plenty of 

 difhes. It is diuers waies drafted by Cooks, to pleafe their Mafters rtomacks. 



CHAP. XVII. 

 Bugloffum luteum,Jiue Lingua Bouis. Langdebeefe. 



VNto this place may well bee referred our ordinary Borage and Bugloffe, fet 

 forth in the former Booke, in regard of the properties whereunto they are 

 much employed, that is, to ferue the pot among other herbes, as is fufficiently 

 knowne vnto all. And yet I confeffe, that this herbe (although it bee called Bugloffum 

 luteum y as if it were a kind of Bugloffe) hath no correfpondency with Bugloffe or Bo- 

 rage in any part, fauing only a little in the leafe ; & our Borage or Bugloffe might more 

 fitly, according to the Greeke name, bee called Oxe tongue or Langdebeefe ; and this 

 might in my iudgement more aptly be referred to the kinds of Hieratium Hawkeweed, 

 whereunto it neereft approacheth : but as it is commonly receiued, fo take it in this 

 place, vntill it come to receiue the place is proper for it. It hath diuers broad and long 

 darke green leaues, lying vpon the ground, very rough in handling, full of fmall haires 

 or prickes, ready to enter into the hands of any that handle it ; among which rifeth 



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