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nor the lust of Venus 



2iius be repelled by none the bod} 7 in health, and the spirits in vigour 

 I am not of opinion this for if the Sun be the preserver of life unde! 



but Saturn ; but I am not of opinion 



is done this way, and my reason is, because i 



these vapours though in quality melan-i 



preserver of life under 

 God, his herbs are the best in the world to 

 do it by. They are accounted to be both of 



choly, yet by their flying upward* seem to i one property, but the lesser is more effectual 

 be something aerial; therefore I rather think I because quicker and more aromatic : It 

 it is done by antipathy ; Saturn being : is a friend to the heart, liver, and other 

 exalted in Libra, in the house of Venus. \ principal parts of a man's body. Two or 



I three of the stalks, with leaves put into a 



BURNET. | cup of wine, especially claret, are known 



i to quicken the spirits, refresh and cheer the 



IT is called Sanguisorbia, Pimpinella, > heart, and drive away melancholy : It is a 

 Bipulo, Solbegrella, &c. The common \ special help to defend the heart from noi- 

 garden Bin-net is so well known, that it; some vapours, and from infection of the 

 needs no description. There is another sort ! pestilence, the juice thereof being taken in 

 which is wild, the description whereof take ; some drink, and the party laid to sweat 

 as follows. | thereupon. They have also a drying and 



Descript.] The great wild Burnet has an astringent quality, whereby they are 

 winged leaves arising from the roots like the j available in all manner of fluxes of blood 

 garden Burnet, but not so many ; yet each \ or humours, to staunch bleedings inward or 

 of these leaves are at the least twice as i outward, lasks, scourings, the bloody-flux, 

 large as the other, and nicked in the same j women's too abundant flux of courses, the 

 manner about the edges, of a greyish colour whites, and the choleric belchings and cast- 

 on the under side ; the stalks are greater, j ings of the stomach, and is a singular 

 and rise higher, with many such leaves set j wound-herb for all sorts of wounds, both 

 thereon, and greater heads at the top, of a I of tne head and body, either inward or out- 

 brownish colour, and out of them come I ward, for all old ulcers, running cankers, 

 small dark purple flowers, like the former, j and most sores, to be used either by the 

 but greater. The root is black and long -juice or decoction of the herb, or by the 

 like the other, but great also : it has almost j powder of the herb or root, or the water of 

 neither scent nor taste therein, like the gar- j the distilled herb or ointment by itself, or 

 den kind. I with other things to be kept. The seed is 



Placed] It first grows frequently in gar- j also no less effectual both to stop fluxes, 

 dens. The wild kind grows in divers ! and dry up moist sores, being taken in 

 counties of this land, especially in Hunting- j powder inwardly in wine, or steeled water, 

 don, in Northamptonshire, in the meadows ; that is, wherein hot rods of steel have been 

 there : as also near London, by Pancras j quenched ; or the powder, or the seed 

 churrh,and by a causeway-side in the middle \ mixed with the ointments, 

 of afield by Paddington. 



TimeJ] They flower about the end ofj THE BUTTER-BUR, OR PETASITIS. 

 June, and beginning of July, and their seed \ 

 is ripe in August. Descript.~] THIS rises up in February, 



Government and virtues."] This is an herb \ with a thick stalk about a foot high, where- 

 the Sun challenges dominion over, and is | on are set a few small leaves, or rather 

 a most precious herb, little inferior to j pieces, and at the tops a long spiked head; 

 Betony ; the continual use of it preserves | flowers of a blue or deep red colour, ac- 



