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herb boiled and drunk, purKeth choleric and groea humouw, 

 And helpeth the Bciatica : It openeth obstructions of the 

 liTer, ^all, and spleen, helpeth the jaundice, and easeth 

 the pains in the sides, ana hardness of the spleen, used 

 outwardly, and is given with very good effect in a^es. It 

 helpeth those that have the dropsy, or the green sickness, 

 being much used by the Italians in powder for that pur- 

 pKwe : it killeth the worms in the belly, as is founa by 

 experience ; the decoction thereof, viz. the tops of the 

 •talks, with the leaves and flowers, is good against the 

 colic, and to bring down women's courses, helpeth to void 

 the dead birth, and easeth pains of the mother, and is 

 very effectual in all old pains of the joints, as the gout, 

 cramps, or convulsions. A dram of the powder thereof 

 taken in wine, is a wonderful good help against the biting 

 of an adder : the juice of the herb with a little honey put 

 to it, is good to clear the eyes from dimness, mist, and 

 clouds that offend or hinder the sight. It is singular good 

 both for green and fresh wounds, as also for old ulcers 

 and sores, to close up the one and cleanse the other, and 

 ixirfectly to cure them both, although they are hollow or 

 fistulous ; the green herb especially being bruised and laid 

 thereto : the decoction thereof dropped into the eara. 

 deaoseth them from worms, cleansetn the foul ulcers and 

 spteediDg scabs of the head, and taketh away all freckles, 

 flpota and marks in the skin, being washed with it ; the 

 herb is so safe you cannot fail in the using of it, only giv- 

 ing it inwardly for inward diseases : it Is veiy wholesome, 

 but not very toothsome. 



There is, besides these, another small centaury, which 

 besreth a yellow flower ; in all other respects it is like 

 the former, save that the leaves are bigger, and of a darker 

 ^^reen, and the stalk passeth through the midst of them 

 as it doth the herb thorowan. They are all of them, as I 

 told you, under the government of the Sun ; yet this if 

 Jon observe it, you shall find an excellent truth : in dis- 

 eases of the blood, use the red centaury ; if of choler, 

 OSS the yellow ; but if phlegm or water, yoa will find ths 

 white best 



CHERRY-TREE (THE. )--(Pfunf« Cercmu.) 



I suppoes there are few but know this tree for its fruit a 

 «ake : and therefore I shall spare writing a descri|»tion 

 thereof. 



