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Garden Rue. ©. in ^. (?i. 3. d. L) 



Gardf.n Rue is so well knoAvn by this name, and the 

 name Herb of Grace, that 1 shall not need to write any 

 further doscriptionj but shall only shew you the virtue 

 of it, as followeth, 



Government and virlucs.'] It is an herb of the Sun, 

 and under Leo. It provoketh urine and women's courses, 

 being taken either in meat or drink. The seed thereof 

 taken in wine, is an antidote against all dangerous me- 

 dicines or deadly poisons. The leaves taken by them- 

 selves, or with figs and walnuts, is called jVIithridate's 

 counter-poison against the plague, and causeth all veno- 

 mous things to become harmless; being often taken iu 

 meat and drink, it abateth venery and destroyeth the abi- 

 lity to get children. A decoction made thereof with 

 some dried dill leaves and flowers, easeth all pains and 

 torments inwardly to be drank, and outwardly applied 

 warm to the place grieved. The same being drank, help- 

 cth the pains of the chest and sides, as also coughs and 

 hardness of breathing, the inflammation of the lungs, 

 and the tormenting pains of the sciatica and joints, being 

 anointed, or laid to the places ; also the sliaking fits of 

 aguc!, to lake a draught before the fit comes; boiled or 

 infused in oil, it helps the wind colic, the hardiness and 

 windiness of the mother, and freeth women from the 

 strangling or sufiTocation thereof, if the share and the 

 parts thereabouts be anointed therewith ; it killeth and 

 driveth forth the worms of the belly, if it be drank after 

 it is boiled in wine to the half, with a little honey, it 

 helpeth the gout or pains in the joints, hands, feet or 

 knees, applied thereunto ; and with figs it helpeth the 

 dropsy, being bathed therewith ; bruised and put into 

 the nostrils, it stayeth the bleeding thereof; it helpeth 

 the swelling of the privities, if they be bathed with a 

 decoction of Rue and bay leaves. It taketh away wheals 

 and pimples, if being bruised with a few myrtle leaves, 

 it be made up with wax, and applied. It cureth the mor- 

 phew, and taketh away all sorts of warts, if boiled in 

 Avine with some pepper and nitre, and the place rubbed 

 therewith; and with almond and honey, helpeth the dry 



