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adder and an Ash-tree, that if an adder be j tne most part, and their seed is ripe in July 

 encompassed round with Ash-tree leaves, $ at the farthest. 



she will sooner run through the fire than j Government and virtues^] It is governed 

 through the leaves : The contrary to which \ by Jupiter, and that gives hopes of a whole- 

 is the truth, as both my eyes are witnesses. \ some healthful herb. It is good for the dis- 

 The rest are virtues something likely, only i eases of the chest or breast, for pains, and 

 if it be in Winter when you cannot get the | stitches in the side, and to expel crude and 

 leaves, you may safely use the bark instead j raw humours from the belly and stomach, 

 of them. The keys you may easily keep \ by the sweet savour and warming quality 

 all the year, gathering them when they are j It dissolves the inward congealed blood 

 ripe. | happening by falls or bruises, and the spit- 



5 ting of blood, if the roots, either green or 



AVENS, CALLED ALSO COLEWORT, AND 5 i i u 'l J J 1 i 



\ dry, be boiled in wine and drank ; as also 

 \ all manner of inward wounds or outward, 



Descript.~\ The ordinary Avens hath \ if washed or bathed therewith. The de- 

 many long, rough, dark green, winged jcoction also being drank, comforts the heart, 

 leaves, rising from the root, every one made j and strengthens the stomach and a cold 

 of many leaves set on each side of the rnid-| brain, and therefore is good in the Spring 

 die rib, the largest three whereof grow at 1 time to open obstructions of the liver, and 

 the end, and are snipped or dented round \ helps the wind cholic ; it also helps those 

 about the edges ; the other being small j that have fluxes, or are bursten, or have a 

 pieces, sometimes two and sometimes four, 5 rupture ; it takes away spots or marks in 

 standing on each side of the middle rib i the face, being washed therewith. The 

 underneath them. Among which do rise j juice of the fresh root, or powder of the 

 up divers rough or hairy stalks about two dried root, has the same effect with the 

 feet high, branching forth with leaves at | decoction. The root in the Spring-time 

 every joint not so long as those below, but j steeped in wine, gives it a delicate savour 

 almost as much cut in on the edges, some : and taste, and being drank fasting every 

 into three parts, some into more. On the { morning, comforts the heart, and is a 

 tops of the branches stand small, pale, yel- s good preservative against the plague, or 

 low flowers, consisting of five leaves, like; any other poison. It helps indigestion, 

 the flowers of Cinquefoil, but large, in the I and warms a cold stomach, and opens 

 middle whereof stand a small green herb, \ obstructions of the liver and spleen, 

 which when the flower is fallen, grows to j It is very safe : you need have no dose 

 be round, being made of many long green- j prescribed ; and is very fit to be kept in 

 ish purple seeds (like grains) which will | every body's house, 

 stick upon your clothes. The root consists ; 

 of many brownish strings or fibres, smelling j 



somewhat like unto cloves, especially those j THIS herb is so well known to be an in- 

 which grow in the higher, hotter, and drier j habitant almost in every garden, that I shall 

 grounds, and in free and clear air. | not need to write any description thereof, 



P/ace.] They grow wild in many places j although its virtues, which are many, may 

 under hedge's sides, and by the path-ways \ not be omitted. 



in fields ; yet they rather delight to grow in ; Government and virtues^] It is an herb of 

 shadowy than sunny places. ! Jupiter, and under Cancer, and strengthens 



Time.~\ They flower in May or June for 1 nature much in all its actions. Let a syrup 



