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of hard labour in child-birth. It makes { White A reliance! hath divers square 

 barren Avomen fruitful. It cleanseth the \ stalks, none standing straight upward, but 

 womb if it be foul, and strengthens it ex- | bending downward, whereon stand two 

 ceedingly ; it provokes the terms if they be? leaves at a joint, larger and more pointed 

 stopped, and stops them if they flow immode- ; than the other, dented about the edges, and 

 rately; you can desire no good to your i greener also, more like unto Nettle leaves, 

 womb, but this herb will affect it ; there- but not stinking, yet hairy. At the joints, 

 fore if you love children, if you love health, * with the leaves, stand larger and more open 

 if you love ease, keep a syrup always by I gaping white flowers, husks round about 

 you, made of the juice of this herb, and { the stalks, but not with such a bush of leaves 

 sugar, (or honey, if it be to cleanse the 'as flowers set in the top, as is on the other, 

 womb) and let such as be rich keep it fori wherein stand small roundish black seeds: 

 their poor neighbours ; and bestow it as ; the root is white, with many strings at it, 

 freely as I bestow my studies upon them, or | not growing downward but lying under the 

 else let them look to answer it another day, i upper crust of the earth, and abides inanj 

 when the Lord shall come to make inquisi- { years increasing; this has not so strong a 

 tion for blood. J scent as the former. 



Yellow Archangel is like the White ir. 

 ! the stalks and leaves ; but that the stalks 



To put a gloss upon their practice, the ; are more straight and upright, and the joints 

 physicians call an herb (which country peo- with leaves are farther asunder, having Ion- 

 pie vulgarly know by the name of Dead | ger leaves than the former, and the flowers 

 Nettle) Archangel ; whether they favour > a little larger and more gaping, of a fail 

 more of superstition or folly, I leave to the | yellow colour in most, in some paler. The 

 judicious reader. There is more curiosity : roots are like the white, only they creep not 

 than courtesy to my countrymen used by ; so much under the ground, 

 others in the explanation as well of the i Place.'] They grow almost every where, 

 names, as description of this so well known > (unless it be in the middle of the street) the 

 herb; which that I may not also be guilty of, j yellow most usually in the wet grounds ot 

 take this short description: first, of the Red : woods, and sometimes in the dryer, in divers 

 Archangel. This is likewise called Bee 5 counties of this nation. 

 Nettle. TimeJ] They flower from the beginning 



Descript.] This has divers square stalks, j of the Spring all the Summer long, 

 somewhat hairy, at the joints whereof grow > Government and virtues.'] The Archangels 

 two sad green leaves dented about the edges, i are somewhat hot and drier than the sting- 

 opposite to one another to the lowermost ; ing Nettles, and used with better success 

 upon long foot stalks, but without any to- j for the stopping and hardness of the spleen, 

 ward the tops, which are somewhat round, | than they, by using the decoction of the 

 yet pointed, and a little crumpled and { herb in wine, and afterwards applying the 

 hairy ; round about the upper joints, where j herb hot into the region of the spleen as a 

 the leaves grow thick, are sundry gaping ; plaister, or the decoction with spunges. 

 flowers of a pale reddish colour; after which 5 Flowers of the White Archangel are pre- 

 corne the seeds three or four in a husk, i served or conserved to be used to stay the 

 The root is small and thready, perishing i whites, and the flowers of the red to stay 

 every year ; the whole plant hath a strong i the reds in women. It makes the heart 

 but not stinking. J merry, drives away melancholv, quickens 



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