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of them in wine be drank. It lielpclli also to staj- tliin, 

 hot, bharp ^alt liistiilations from the hiad upon tho 

 Inn^s, causing a consuinplion. The leaves bruised wtih 

 some pepper, and drank in wine, helps much tlie wind 

 colick, Tlie leaves bruised and boiled in wine, stayct'i 

 the heat of lust in man or woman, and quite extinguish- 

 eth it, if it be long used : The seed is also of the ^ama 

 eircct. Water that is gathered from the Willow, Mhcii 

 it floweret.!, the bark being slit, and a vessel fitting to 

 receive it, is very good for redness and dimness of sight, 

 or tilms that grow over the eyes, and stay the rheums 

 that fall into them; to provoke urine, being stopped, 

 if it be drank; to clear tiie face and skin from spots and 

 discolourings. Galen saith, The flowers have an ad- 

 niirable faculty in drying up humours, being a medi- 

 cine without any sharpness or corrosion ; you may boil 

 them in white wine, and drink as much as you will, so 

 you drink not yourself drunk. The bark works the 

 same elfict, if used in the same manner, and the tree hath 

 always a bark upon it, though not always flowers ; the 

 burnt ashes being mixed with vinegar taketh away Marts, 

 corns and superfluous flesh, being applied to the place. 

 The dccodion of the leaves or bark u\ wine, takes away 

 scurf and dandrilf by washing the place with it. It is a 

 fine cool tree, the boughs of which are very convenient 

 to be placed in the chamber of one sick of a lever. 



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Till? is sowed in fields for the benefit of it, where those 

 that sow it, cut it three times a year. 



Time.'} It flowers iu June, but it is long after before 

 the seed is ripe. 



Government and Virtues.^ It is a cold and dry plant of 

 Saturn. Some people aftirm the plant to be destructiTe 

 to bees, and fluxes them, which if it be, 1 cannot help it. 

 I should rather think, unless bees be contrary to other 

 creatures, it [)OSscsseth them with the contrary disease, 

 the herb being exceeding dry and binding. However, if 

 any bees be diseased thereby, the cure is, to set urine by 

 them, but set it in a vessel, that they cannot drown theni- 

 Sflvts, which may be remedied, if you put pieces of 



