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pox and measles than saffron. The juice of Marigold 

 leaves mixed with vinegar, and any hot swelling bathed 

 •with it, instantly giveth ease, and assuagelh it. Tlvc 

 flowers, either green or dried, are much used in possets, 

 broths, and drink, as a comforter of the heart and spi- 

 rits, and to expel any malignant or pestilential quality 

 which might annoy them. A plaister made with the 

 dry llowers in powder, hog's-grcase, turpentine, and 

 rosin, applied to the breast, strengthens and succours the 

 heart infinitely in feverSj whether pestilential or not pes- 

 tilential. 



Mastcrwoit. <?. (h. d. 3.) 



This is not much known, being only cultivated in 

 gardens. 



Descript.'] Common Masterwort hath divers stalks of 

 winged leaves divided into sundry parts, three for the most 

 part standing together at a small foot-stalk on both sides 

 of the greater, and three likewise at the end of the stalk, 

 somewhat broad, and cut in on the edges into three or 

 more divisions, all of them dented about the brims, of a 

 dark green colour, somewhat resembling the leaves of 

 Angelica, but that these grow lower to the ground, and 

 «n lesser stalks ; among which rise up two or three short 

 stalks about two feet high, and slender, with such like 

 leaves at the joints which grow below, but with lesser 

 and fewer divisions, bearing umbels of white flowers, ai d 

 after them thin, flat blackish seeds, bigger than Dill-seeds. 

 The root is somewhat greater, and growing rather side- 

 Tways than down deep in the ground, shooting forth sundry 

 heads, which taste sharp, biting on the tongue, and is the 

 hottest and sharpest part of the plant, and the seed next 

 unto it being somewhat blackish on the outside, and 

 smelling well. 



Flace.'] It is usually kept in gardens w ith us in England. 



Time.'\ Itflowerethand seedeth aboat the end of August. ' 



Government and Virtnes.] It is an herb of Mars. The 

 lOOt of Masterwort is hotter than pepper, and very avail- 

 able in cold griefs and diseases, both of the stomach and 

 body, dissolving very powerfully upwards and down- 



•wards. It is also used in a Ucco^^li^n with wine against 



