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that are troubled with weak backs, and the j safer, and easier remedy by a great deal, 

 effects thereof. The juice of the herb put I than to tear it off with a needle, 

 into ale or bear, and drank, brings down : 

 women's courses, and expels the after-birth. \ 



IT is aiso called Aperine, Goose-share, 

 WILD CLARY. ; Goose-grass, and Cleavers. 



Descript.~] The common Cleavers have 



WILD Clary is most blasphunously : divers very rough square stalks, not so big 

 called Christ's Eye, because it cures dis- j as the top of a point, but rising up to be 

 eases of the eye. I could wish for my soul, j two or three yards high sometimes, if it 

 blasphemy, igrionance, and tyranny, were; meet with any tall bushes or trees whereon 

 ceased among physicians, that they may be it may climb, yet without any claspers, or 

 happy, and I joyful. I else much lower, and lying on the ground, 



Descript.~] It is like the other Clary, but : full of joints, and at everj r one of them 

 lesser, with many stalks about a foot and j shoots forth a branch, besides the leaves 

 a half high. The stalks are square, and I thereat, which are usually six, set in a round 

 somewhat hairy; the flowers of a bluish | compass like a star, or a rowel of a spur: 

 colour ; He that knows the common Clary J From between the leaves or the joints to- 

 cannot be ignorant of this. > wards the tops of the branches, come forth 



Place.'] It grows common!} 7 in this na- very small white flowers, at every end, 

 tion in barren places ; you may find it | upon small thready foot-stalks, which after 



plentifully, if you look in the fields near 



they have fallen, there do shew two small 



Gray's Inn, and near Chelsea. j round and rough seeds joined together. 



Time."] They flower from the beginning : which, when they are ripe, grow hard 

 of June to the latter end of August. ; anc 1 whitish, having a little hole on the 



Government and virtues."] It is something i side, something like unto a navel. Both 

 hotter and drier than the garden Clary is, \ stalks, leaves, and seeds are so rough, 

 yet nevertheless under the dominion of the i that they will cleave to any thing that will 

 Moon, as well as that; the seeds of it being i touch them. The root is small and thready, 

 beat to powder, and drank with wine, is j spreading much to the ground, but dies 

 an admirable help to provoke lust. A de- i every year. 



coction of the leaves being drank, warms | Place.'] It grows by the hedge and ditch- 

 the stomach, and it is a wonder if it should | sides in many places of this land, and is so 

 not, the stomach being under Cancer, the S troublesome an inhabitant in gardens, that 

 house of the Moon. Also it helps diges- i it ramps upon, and is ready to choak what- 

 lion, scatters congealed blood in any part ; ever grows near it. 



of the body. The distilled water hereof! TimeJ] It flowers in June or July, and 

 cleanses the eyes of redness, waterishness, j the seed is ripe and falls again in the end 

 and heat : It is a gallant remedy for dim- I of July or August, from whence it springs 

 ness of sight, to take one of the seeds of it, | up again, and not from the old roots, 

 and put into the eyes, and there iet it re- Government and virtues.] It is under the 

 main till it drops out of itself, (the pain dominion of the Moon. The juice of the 

 will be nothing to speak on,) it will cleanse : herb and the seed together taken m wine, 

 the eyes of all filthy and putrified matter; ! helps those bitten with an adder, by pre- 

 and in often repeating it, will take off a -serving the heart from the venom. It is 

 film which covers the sight: a handsomer, ; familiarly taken in broth to keep them lean 



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