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Urge the breast that is straitened with shortness of 

 breath, encoder sperm, and incite to venery. And the 

 scarlet-coloured beans, in regard of the glorious beauty of 

 their colour, being set near a quickset hedge, will bravely 

 adorn the same by climbing up thereon, so that they may 

 be discerned a great way, not without admiration of the 

 beholders at a distance. But they will go near to kill the 

 qoicksets by clothing them in scarlet 



BED-STRAW (LADlES\)'-( Galium Faliatre.) 



BisiDSS the common name above written, it is called 

 Cheese- rennet, because it performs the same offices ; as 

 also Qallion, Pettimugget, and Maid-hair ; and by some 

 Wild Eoaemary, 



Descrip. — This riseth up with divers small, brown, and 

 square upright stalks, a yard hi^h or more ; sometimes 

 branches forth into divers parts full of joints, and with 

 divers very fine small leaves at every one of them, little 

 or nothing rough at all ; at the tops of the branches grow 

 many long tufts or branches of yellow flowers, very thick 

 set together, from the several joints which consist of four 

 leaves a piece, which smell somewhat strong, but not un- 

 pleasant The seed is small and black like poppy seed, 

 two for the most part joined together. The root is red- 

 dish, with many small threads ^stened to it, which take 

 strong hold of the ground, and creepeth a little ; and the 

 branches leaning a Tittle down to the ground, take root at 

 the joints thereof, whereby it is easily increased. 



There is another sort of ladies' bed-straw growing fre- 

 quently in England, which beareth white flowers, as the 

 other <toth yellow ; but the branches of this are so weak, 

 that unless it be sustained by the edges, or other things 

 near which it groweth, it will lie down to the ground. 

 The leaves a little bigger than the former, and the flowers 

 not so plentiful as these, and the root hereof is also thready 

 and abiding. 



Place. — They grow In meadows and pastures, both^ wet 

 and dry, and by the hedges. 



Time. — They flower in May for the most part^ and the 

 seed is ripe in July and August. 



Oovemment arid Virtttes. — They are both herbs of 

 Venus, and therefore strengthening the parts, both inter- 

 nal and external, which she rules. The decoction of the 

 former of those being drank is good to fret and break 



