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Government and virtues.~\ It is a notable j two leaves at every joint, which are some- 

 plant of Saturn : if you view diligently its ; what broad and round, yet pointed, of a 

 effects by sympathy and antipathy, you | pale green colour, but fresh ; a little snipp- 

 may easily perceive a reason of them; as |ed about the edges, and of a strong healthy 

 also why barley bread is so unwholesome \ scent. The flowers are small and white, 

 for melancholy people. Barley in all the $ and standing at the tops of the branches, 

 parts and compositions thereof (except; with two small leaves at the joints, in some 

 malt) is more cooling than wheat, and a lit- 5 places green, in others brown, after which 

 tie cleansing : And all the preparations j come black seed. The root perishes at 

 thereof, as barley-water and other things j the approach of Winter, and therefore must 

 made thereof, give great nourishment to { be new sown every year, 

 persons troubled with fevers, agues, and! P/ace.] It grows in gardens, 

 heats in the stomach : A poultice made of \ Time.~\ It must be sowed late, and flowers 

 barley meal or flour boiled in vinegar and j in the heart of Summer, being a very tender 

 honey, and a few dry figs put into them, j plant. 



dissolves all imposthumes, and assuages? Government and virtues. ~\ This is the herb 

 inflammations, being thereto applied. And ; which all authors are together by the ears 

 being boiled with melilot and camomile- j about, and rail at one another (like lawyers.) 

 flowers, and some linseed, fenugreek, and | Galen and Dioscorides hold it not fit to be 

 rue in powder, and applied warm, it eases ; taken inwardly ; and Chrysippus rails at it 

 pains inside and stomach, and windiness I with downright Billingsgate rhetoric; Pliny, 



of the spleen. The meal of barley and 

 fleawort boiled in water, and made a poul- 

 tice with honey and oil of lilies applied 



and the Arabian physicians, defend it. 



For my own part, I presently found 

 that speech true; 



warm, cures swellings under the ears, f Ar , , ,.. 



, , .p,., , , . \Nonnostnum inter "ios tantas componere litcs. 



throat, neck, and such like ; and a plaister 



made thereof with tar, with sharp vinegar ; And away to Dr. Reason went I, who told 

 into a poultice, and laid on hot, helps the | me it was an herb of Mars, and under the 

 leprosy ; being boiled in red wine with j Scorpion, and perhaps therefore called 

 pomegranate rinds, and myrtles, stays j Basilicon, and it is no marvel if it carry 

 the lask or other flux of the belly; boiled; a kind of virulent quality with it. Being 

 with vinegar and quince, it eases the pains 5 applied to the place bitten by venomous 

 of the gout; barley-flour, white salt, honey, j beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it 

 and vinegar mingled together, takes away j speedily draws the poison to it ; Every like 

 the itch speedily and certainly. The water \ draws his like. Mizaldus affirms, that, 

 distilled from the green barley in the end of j being laid to rot in horse-dung, it will breed 

 May, is very good for those that have de- i venomous beasts. Hilarius, a French phy- 



fluctions of humours fallen into their eyes, 

 and eases the pain, being dropped into 

 them : or white bread steeped therein, and 



sician, affirms upon his own knowledge, 

 that an acquaintance of his, by common 

 smelling to it, had a scorpion bred in his 



bound on the eyes, does the same. i brain. Something is the matter ; this herb 



and rue will not grow together, no, nor near 

 one another : and we know rue is as great 



GARDEN BAZIL, OR SWEET BAZTL. 



Deseript.~\ THE greater or ordinary Bazil 

 rises up usually with one upright stalk, 

 diversly branching forth on all sides, with 



an enemy to poison as any that grows. 



To conclude: It expels both birth and 

 after-birth ; and as it helps the deficiency 



