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of thespleen ; it procureth rest and sleep, hindcreth 

 vencry and venerous dreams, cooling heats, i)urgeth 

 the stomach, incrcaseth blood, and heipeth the diseases 

 of reins and bladder. Outwardly applied, it is singularly 

 good for all the defc61s and diseases of the eyes, used 

 with some women's milk; and used with good success in 

 fretting or creeping ulcers, especially in the beginning. 

 The green leaves bruised, and with a little salt applied 

 to any place burnt with fire, before blisters do arise, 

 heipeth them ; also inflammations, St Anthony's lire, and 

 all pushes and eruptions, hot and salt phlegm. The same 

 api)licd with meal and fair water, in manner of a poultice, 

 to any place affected with convulsions and the cranip, 

 such as are out of joint, doth give help and ease. The 

 distilled water cleansetli the skin, and takcth away 

 freckles, spots, morphew, or wrinkles in the face. 



Hawthorn. <^. (h. d. 3.) 



It is not my intention to trouble you with a description 

 of this tree, which is so well known that it iicedeth 

 none. It is ordinarily but a hedge bush, although 

 pruned and dressed, it groweth to a tree of a reasonable 

 height. 



As for the Hawthorn-Tree at Glastonbury, which is said 

 to flower yearly on Christmas-day, it rather shews the 

 superstition of those that observe it for the time of its 

 flowering, than any great wonder, since the like may be 

 found in divers other places of this land ; as in Whey- 

 street in Romney-Marsh, and near unto Nantwich in 

 Cheshire, by a place called White-Green, where it flow- 

 ereth about Christmas and May. If the. weather be frosty, 

 it tlowereth not until January, or that the hard weather 

 be over. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is a tree of Mars. The 

 seeds in the berries beaten to powder, being drank in 

 wine, arc held singular good against the stone and the 

 dropsy. The distilled water of the llower stayeth the 

 lask. The seed cleared from the down, bruised and 

 boiled in wine, and drank, U- good for inward tormenting 

 pains. If cloths and spunges be wet in the distilled 

 water, and applied to any place "wherein thorns and 



