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ANGELICA.— ^^n^rfuw Arehangdusa,) 



To write a description of that which is so well known to 

 be growing almost in every garden, I suppose is altogether 

 ne^less ; yet for its virtues it is of admirable use. 



In time of heathenism, when men had found out any ex- 

 eellent herb, they dedicated it to their god, as the bay- 

 tree to Apollo, the oak to Jupiter, the vine to Bacchus, the 

 poplar to Hercules. These the papists following as the pa- 

 triarchs, they dedicated to their saints ; as our lady*s 

 thistle to the Blessed Virgin, St. John's wort to St. John, 

 %nd another wort to St. Peter, &c. Our physicians must 

 imitate like apes, though they cannot come off half so 

 cleverly, for they blasphemously call tansies, or heart's 

 ease, an herb for the Trinity ^ because it is of three colours ; 

 and a certain ointment an ointment of the Apoetlee, be- 

 cause it consists of twelve ingredients. Alas ! I am sorry 

 for their folly, and grieved at their blasphemy. God send 

 them wisdom the rest of their age, for they have their 

 share of ignorance already. Oh ! why must ours be blas- 

 phemous, because the heathens and papists were idola- 

 trous I Certainly they have read so much in old rusty 

 aothora, that they have lost all their divinity, for unless 

 it were amongst the ranters, I never read 6r heard of such 

 blasphemy, llie heathens and papists were bad, and ours 

 worse ; the papists giving names to herbs for their vir- 

 tue's sake, not for their fair looks ; and therefore some 

 call this an herb of the Holy Ghost ; others more mo- 

 derate called it Angelica, because of its angelical virtues, 

 and that name it retains still, and all nations follow it ao 

 near as their dialect will permit 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is an herb of the Sun in 

 Leo ; let it be gathered when he is there, the Moon ap- 

 pljnng to his good aspect ; let it be gathered either in hia 

 nour, or in the hour of Jupiter : let Sol be angular : ob- 

 serve the like in gathering the herbs of other p^nets, and 

 yon may happen to do wonders. In all epidemical diseases 

 caoaed by Saturn, that is as good a preservative as grows. 

 It resists poison by defending and comforting the nearL 

 blood, and spirits ; it doth the like against the plague and 

 all epidemical diseases, if the root be taken in powder to 

 the weight of half a drachm at a time, with some |food 

 treacle in Carduus water, and the party thereupon laid to 

 ■weai in his bed ; if treacle be not to be had, takeitalona 



