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of any Missclto briiised, anil the juice drawn forth and 

 dropped in the oars that have imposthumes ia them, doth 

 help and ease them within a few days. 



Moneywort. ?. (c. d. I.) 



This is likewise called Herb Two-pence. 



Descript.'] The common Moneywort scndeth forth 

 from a small thieudy root, divers long, weak, and 

 slender branches, lying and running upon the ground 

 two or three feet long or more, set with leaves two at a 

 joint one against another at equal distances, which are 

 almost round, but pointed at the ends, smooth, and of a 

 good green colour. At the joints with the leaves from 

 the middle forward come forth at every point sometimes 

 one yellow flower, and sometimes two, standing each on a 

 small foot-stalk, and made of five leaves, narrow-pointed 

 at the end, with some yellow threads in the middle, which 

 being past, there stand in their place small round heads 

 of seed. 



Place.'] It groweth plentifully in almost all places of 

 this land, commonly in moist grounds by hedge-sides, and 

 in the middle of grass-fields. 



Time.'] They flower in June and July, and their seed is 

 ripe quickly after. 



Government and Virtues.] Venus owns it. Moneywort 

 is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether 

 they be lasks, bloody-fluxes, the flowing of women's 

 courses. Bleeding inwardly or outwardly, and the weak- 

 ness of the stomach that is given to casting. It is very 

 good also for the ulcers or excoriations of the lungs, or 

 other inward parts. It is exceeding good for all wounds, 

 either fresh or green, to heal them speedily, and for all 

 ulcers that are of a spreading nature. For all which 

 purjjoses the juice of the herb, or the powder drank in 

 water wherein hot steel hath been often quenched ; or 

 the deco6tion of the green herb, in wine, or water, 

 drank; or used to the outward place, to wash or bathe 

 them, or to have tcuts dipped therein and put into them, 

 are efTcdual, 



