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{jrovernment and Virtues.^ They are both of them under 

 the dominion of the Moon. The Red Rattle is accounted 

 profitable (o heal up fistulas and hollow ulcers, and to 

 stay the flux of humours in them, as also the abundance 

 of women's courses, or any other flux of blood, being 

 boiled in red Avine and drank. 



The Yellow Rattle, or Cock's-Corab, is held to be 

 good for those that are troubled with a cough, or dim- 

 ness of sight, if the herb, being boiled with beans, and 

 some honey put thereto, be drank or dropped into the 

 eyes. The whole seed being put into the eyes, draweth 

 forth any skin, dimness or film, from the sight without 

 trouble or pain. 



Rest Harrow, c?. (//. d. 3.) 



This is also known by the name of Caramock. 



Descript.'] Common Rest Harrow riseth up with direr.- 

 rough woody twigs half a yard, or a yard high, set at the 

 joints without order, with little roundish leaves, sometimes 

 more than two or three at a place, of a dark green colour, 

 without thorns while they are young; but afterwards 

 armed in sundry places, with short and sharp thorns. The 

 lowers come forth at the tops of the twigs and branches, 

 whereof it is full fashioned like pease or broom blossoms, 

 but lesser, flatter, and somewhat closer, of a faint purplish 

 colour; after which come small pods, containing smaJL 

 flat, round seed : the root is blackish on the outside, and 

 whitish within, very rough, and hard to break when it is 

 fresh and green, and as hard as a horn when it is dried, 

 thrusting down deep into the ground, and spreading like- 

 wise, every piece being apt to grow again it it be left ia 

 the ground. 



Place.'] It groweth in many places of this land, as well 

 in the arable as waste ground. 



Time.'] It flowereth about the beginning or middle of 

 July, and the seed is ripe in August. 



Government and Firtues.] It is under the dominion of 

 Mars. It is singular good to provoke urine when it is 

 stopped, and to break and drive forth the stone, which 



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