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in the bowels. The powder of the root taken in drink, 

 drivefh forth the worms in the body. The juice, or dis- 

 tilled water of the herb, is tiredtiial for green wounds, or 

 old sores, aiul cleansetii the body inw;irJly, and the seed 

 ontwardly from sores, scurf, itch, pimpks, freckles, mor- 

 phew, or other detormitios thereof, especially if a little 

 vitriol be dissolved therein. 



Dock. %. (temp. d. 3.) 



Many kinds of these are so we!l knowsi, that I shall not 

 trouble you with a description ot tsiem. My book grows 

 big too fast. 



Government and yirtuesJ^ All Docks are under Jupiter, 

 of which the red Dock, which is commonly called Blood- 

 wort, cleanseth the blood, and strengthens the liver ; 

 but the yellow Dock root is best to bo taken when either 

 the blood or liver is affected by choler. All of them leave 

 a kind of cooling (but not all alike) drying quality, the 

 former being most cold ; and the bloociy-worts most 

 drying. Of the Burdock 1 have spoken already by itself. 

 The seed of most of the other kinds, whether the gardens 

 or fields, do stay lasks and lluxes of all sorts, the loathing 

 of the stomach through choler, and is helpful for those 

 that spit blood. The roots boiled in vinegar hclpeth 

 the itch, scabs, breaking out of the skin, if it be bathed 

 therewith. The distilled water of the herb and roots 

 have the same virtue, and cleanseth the skin from freckles, 

 morphews, and all other spots and discolourings therein. 



All Docks being boiled with meat, make it boil the 

 sooner; besides Blood-wort is exceeding strengthening 

 to the liver, and procures good blood, being as whole- 

 some a pot-herb as any grows in a garden; yet such is 

 the nicety of our times (forsooth) that women will not 

 put it into a pot, because it makes the pottage black ; 

 (pride and ignorance a couple of monsters in the creation) 

 preferring nicety before health. 



Dodder. ^ . 



DoDDEU of Thyme, Epithymum and other Dodders. 

 Descrlpt.'] This first from seed giveth roots in the 



