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taken therein. It also helpeth the bloody flux, and 

 easeth the torments that come thereby, stayeth the im- 

 moderate courses of women, and is also good for inward 

 or outward wounds, hurts or bruises, and helpeth chil- 

 dren both of burstings and worms, and being either drank 

 or injc6led, for the disease called Tenesmus, which is an 

 often provocation to the stool without doing any thing. 

 The green leaves bruised, and laid to any green wound, 

 stayeth the bleeding, and hcaleth it up quickly. The 

 juice of the herb taken in wine and milk, is, as Pliny saith, 

 a sovereign remedy against the mumps and quinsy ; and 

 further saith, that whosoever shall so take it^ shall never 

 be troubled with that disease again. 



Cowslips, or Peagles. ? . (temp.) 



Doth the wild and garden Cowslips are so well known, 

 that I will neither trouble myself nor the reader with a 

 description of them. 



Time.'] They llower in April and May. 



Government and Virtues.'] Venus lays claim to this herb, 

 and it is under the sign Aries, and our city dames know 

 \\c\\ enough the ointment or distilled water of it adds 

 beauty, or at least restores it when it is lost. The flow- 

 ers are held to be more effec'rtual thun the leaves, and the 

 roots of little use. An ointment being made with them, 

 taketh away spots and wrinkles of the skin, sun-burning 

 and freckles, and adds beauty exceedingly ; they remedy 

 all infirmities of the head coming of heat and wind, as 

 vertigo, ephialtes, false apparitions, phrensies, falling 

 sickness, palsies, convulsions, cramjis, pains in the nerves j 

 the roots ease pains in the back and bladder, and open 

 the passages of urine. The leaves are good in wounds, 

 and the liowers take away trembling. If the llowcrs be 

 not well dried, and kept in a warm place, they will soon 

 putrify and look green : have a special eye over them. If 

 you let them see the sun once a month, it will do neither 

 the sun nor them harm. 



Because they strengthen the brain and nerves, and re- 

 medy palsies, the Greeks gave them the name Paralysis. 

 The Qowers preserved or conserved, and the quautity of a 

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