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Of LeavM of Herbsj or Trees. 



L Of leaves choose only such as are green and full of juice ; 

 pick them carefully, and cast away such as are declining, 

 tor ihey will putrify all the rest. So shall one handlul bo 

 worth ten of those you buy in Cheapside. 



2. Note what places they most delight to grow in, and 

 gather them there ; for betony that grows in the shade is far 

 better than that growing in the sun, because it delights in 

 the shade ; so al:^ such herbs as delight to grow near the 

 water, shall be gathered near it, though haply you may find 

 some of them upon dry ground. The treatise will inform 

 you where ever>' herb delights to grow, 



3. The leaves of such herbs as run up to seed are not so 

 good when they are in tlower as before, (some few excepted, 

 the leaves of which are seldom or never used) in such cases, 

 if through ignorance they were not known, or through neg- 

 ligence forgotten, you had better take the top aad the liowers 

 than the leaf. 



4. Dry them well in the sun, and not in the shade, as the 

 saving of the physician is ; for if the eon draw away the 

 virtues of the herb, it must needs do the like by hay, by the 

 same rule, which the experience of every country larmer will 

 explode for a notable piece of non.sense. 



6. Such as are astrologers ^and indeed none else are fit to 

 make physicians) such I advise ; let the planet that gove^s 

 the herb be angular, and the stronger the better; if they can, 

 in herbs of Saturn, let Saturn be in the ascendant; in the 

 herb of Mars, let Mars be in the Mid-heaven, for in those 

 houses they delight; let the Moon apply to them by good 

 aspect, and let her not be in the houses of her enemies ; if 

 you cannot well stay till she apply to them, let her apply to 

 a planet of the same triplicity ; if you cannot wait that time 

 neither, let her l>e with a fixed star of their nature. 



G. Having well dried them, put them up in brown paper, 

 ■ewing the paper up like a sack, and press them not too 

 hard U)gether, and Keep them in a dry place near the fire. 



7. As for the duration of dried herbs, a just time cannot b« 

 given, let authors prate at their pleasure ; for, 



Ist, Such as grow upon dry grounds will keep better than 

 inch af grow on moist. 



2dly. Such herbs as are full of juice will not keep so long 

 M such as are dryer. 



Sdly. Such herbs as are well dried, will keep longer than 

 fftich as are Hlack dried. Yet yoa may know when tDey are 

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