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Government and virtues. ,] It is an herb of I berries mixed with the juice of mulberries, 

 the Sun, and therefore cordial ; half a dram, j do bind more effectually, and hdp all fret- 

 or a dram at most, of the root hereof in | ting and eatingsores and ulcers wheresoever, 

 powder taken in wine and vinegar, of each j The distilled Avater of the branches, leaves, 

 a little quantity, and the party presently j and flowers, or of the fruit, is very pleasant 

 aid to sweat, is held to be a sovereign Jin taste, and very effectual in fevers and hot 

 remedy for those that are infected with the j distempers of the body, head, eyes, and 

 plague, and have a sore upon them, by ex- 1 other parts, and for the purposes aforesaid, 

 pelling the poison, and defending the heart | The leaves boiled in lye, and the head 

 and spirits from danger. It is also accounted { washed therewith, heals the itch and 

 a singular good wound herb, and therefore \ running sores thereof, and makes the hair 

 used Avith other herbs in making such balms \ black. The powder of the leaves strewed 



as are necessary for curing of wounds, i 

 either green or old, and especially if the 

 nerves be hurt. 



on cankers and running ulcers, wonderfully 

 helps to heal them. Some use to conden- 

 sate the juice of the leaves, and some the 



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THE BRAMBLE, OR SLACK-BBHKT BUSH. 



j all (he year, for the purposes aforesaid. 



IT is so well known that it needs no ; 

 description. The virtues thereof are as'j 

 follows: ! DescriptJ] OF these there aie two sorts 



Government and virtues. ,] It is a plant cfs commonly known, viz. white and red, 



Venus in Aries. If any ask the reason 

 why Venus is so prickly ? Tell them it is 

 because she is in the house of Mars. The 



The white has leaves somewhat like to 

 Beets, but smaller, rounder and of a whitish 

 green colour, every one standing upon a 



buds, leaves, and branches, while they are! small long footstalk : the stalk rises up two 

 green, are of a good use in the ulcers and; or three feet high, with such like leaves 

 putrid sores of the mouth and throat, and j thereon; the flowers grow at the top in long 

 of the quinsey, and likewise to heal other i round tufts or clusters, wherein are con- 

 fresh wounds and sores ; but the flowers \ tained small and round seed ; the root is 

 and fruits unripe are very binding, and so j very full of threads or strings, 

 profitable for the Woody flux, lasks, and ; The red Elite is in all things like the 

 are a fit remedy for spitting of blood. 1 white, but that his leaves and tufted heads 

 Either the decoction of the powder or of! are exceeding red at first, and after turn 

 the root taken, is good to break or drive : more purple. 



forth gravel and the stone in the reins and j There are other kinds of Elites which 

 kidneys. The leaves and brambles, as | grow different from the two former sorts 

 well green as dry, are exceeding good lotions j but little, but only the wild are smaller in 

 for sores in the mouth, or secret parts, j every part. 



The decoction of them, and of the dried j Place.'] They grow in gardens, and wild 

 branches, do much bind the belly and are : in many places in this land, 

 good for too much flowing of women's ! Time.'] They seed in August and Sep- 



courses; the berries of the flowers are a 

 powerful remedy against the poison of the 

 most venomous serpents ; as well drank as 



tember. 



Government and virtues.'] They are all 

 of them cooling, drying, and binding, serv- 



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outwardly applied, helps the sores of the j ing to restrain the fluxes of blood in either 

 fundament and the piles; the juice of the? man or woman, especially the red ; which 



