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snppcr two hour?, •when you go to bed. But M'hether 

 this (Iocs it by sympathy or antipathy, is some doubt in 

 astrology. I know there is a great antipathy bctwcea 

 Saturn and Venus in matter of procreation ; yea, such a 

 one, that the barrenness of Saturn can be removed by 

 none but Venus ; nor the lust of Venus be repelled by 

 none but Saturn; but I am not of opinion this is done 

 this way, and my reason is, because these vapours, though 

 in quality melancholy, yet by their flying upwards, seem 

 to be something aerial ; therefore I rather tliink it is done 

 by sympathy; Saturn being exalted in Libra, in the house 

 of Vacuus. 



Burnet. O (temp. d. 1.) 



It is called Sanguiforbia, Pimpinella, Bipula Solbegrel- 

 la, &c. The common garden Burnet is so well known 

 that it needeth no description, — There is another sort 

 ■which is wild, the description whereof take as followeth, 



Descript.'} The great wild Burnet hath winded leaves 

 rising from the roots like the garden Burnet, but not so 

 many; yet each of these leaves are at the least twice as 

 large as the other, and nicked in the same manner about 

 the edges, of a greyish colour on the under side ; the 

 stalks are greater, and rise higher, with many such like 

 leaves set thereon, and greater heads at the top, of a 

 brownish colour, and out of them come small dark pur- 

 ple flowers like the former, but greater. The root is 

 black and long like the other, but great also. It hath 

 almost neither scent nor taste therein, like the garden 

 kind. 



Place.'] The first grows frequently in gardens. The 

 wild kind groweth in divers counties of this island, 

 especially in Huntingdon and Northamptonshires, in 

 the meadows there ; as also near London, by Pancras 

 church, and by a causey-side in the middle of a field by 

 Paddingtou. 



Time.'] They flower about the end of June, and be- 

 ginning of July, and their seed is ripe in August. 



Government and Firtucs.'] This is an herb the Sun chal- 

 Icngeth dominion over, and is a most precious herb, 

 little inferior to Betony 3 the continual use of itprcserreg 

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