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Government and Virtues.'] The wild Rockets are for- 

 bidden to be used alone, in regard their sharpness fumeth 

 into the head, causing achs and pains therein, and are 

 hurtful to hot and cholerick persons, for fear of in- 

 flaming their blood, and therefore for such we may say a 

 little doth but a little harm, for angry IMars rules them, 

 and he sometimes will be rusty when he meets with fools. 

 The wild rocket is more strong and effe6tual to increase 

 sperm and venerous qualities, whereunto all the seed is 

 more effectual than tlie garden kind; it serveth also to 

 help digestion, and provokelh urine exceedingly. The 

 seed is used to cure the bitings of serpents, the scorpion, 

 and the shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expelleth 

 ■worms, and other noisome creatures that breed in the 

 belly. The herb boiled or stewed, and some sugar put 

 thereto, helpcth the cough in children, being taken often. 

 The seed also taken in drink, taketh away the ill sct'ut of 

 the arm-pils, increasefh milk iu nurses, and Avasteth the 

 spleen. The seed mixed with honey, and used on the 

 face, cleanseth the skin from morphew, and used with 

 vinegar, taketh away freckles and redness in the face, 

 or other parts; and with the gall of an ox, it mendeth 

 foul scars, black and blue spots, and the marks of the 

 small-pox. 



Winter-Rockpt, or Cresses, c?. (h. d. 3.) 



The "Winter Rocket is a different plant from the former. 



Descript-I it hath divers somewhat large sad green 

 leaves laying upon the ground, torn or cut in divers parts, 

 somewhat like unto Rocket or turnip-leaves, with smaller 

 pieces next the bottom, and broad at the ends, which so 

 abide all the V/inter, (if it spring up in Autumn, when 

 it is used to be oaten) from among which rise up divers 

 small round stalks, lull of branches, bearing many small 

 yellow liowers of four leaves a-piece, alter which come 

 small pods, with reddish seed in them. i'iie root is 

 somewhat stringy, and pcrisheth every year after the seed 

 is ripe. 



Flace.'] It groweth of its own accord in gardens and 

 fields, by the wiiy-sides, in divers places. 

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