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and shadowy woods, and in the lower parts j together in a pith or umbie, each upon a 

 of the fields and meadows. : small foot stalk, which after they have been 



Time.'] It tiowers about July, and the i blown upon a good while, do fall away, 

 seed will be ripe about a month after the \ and in their places appear small-, round, 

 flowers are fallen. J chaffy heads like buttons, wherein are the 



Government and virtues.] Some Latin ; chaffy seeds set and placed. The root 

 authors call it Cervicaria. because it is ap- \ consists of many small, black, tuberous 

 propriated to the neck ; and we Throat- \ pieces, fastened together by many small, 

 wort, because it is appropriated to the Hong, blackish strings, which run from one 

 throat. Venus owns the herb, and the \ to another. 

 Celestial Bull will not deny it; therefore Place] It grows in many places of this 



a better remedy cannot be for the king's 

 evil, because the Moon that rules the dis- 



land, in the corners of dry fieMs and mea- 

 dows, and the hedge sides. 



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ease is exalted there. The decoction of the | Time.] They flower in June and July, 



herb taken inwardly, and the bruised herb i 

 applied outwardly, dissolves clotted and 



and their seed is ripe in August. 



Government and virtues.] It is under the 



congealed blood within the body, coming {dominion of Venus. It effectually opens 

 by any wounds, bruise, or fall ; and is no \ the passages of the urine, helps the stran- 

 less effectual for the king's evil, or any i guary ; the stone in the kidneys or bladder, 

 other knobs, kernels, bunches, or wens j the gravel, and all other pains of the blad- 

 growing in the flesh wheresoever ; and for I der and reins, by taking the roots in pow- 

 the haemorrhoids, or piles. An ointment! der, or a decoction of them in white wine, 

 made hereof may be used at all times when j with a little honey. The roots made into 

 the fresh herb is not to be had. The dis- \ powder, and mixed with honey in the form 

 tilled water of the whole plant, roots and | of an electuary, doth much help them 

 all, is used for the same purposes, and dries I whose stomachs are swollen, dissolving and 



up the superfluous, virulent moisture of 

 hollow and corroding ulcers ; it takes away 

 all redness, spots, and freckles in the face, 

 as also the scurf, and any foul deformity 

 therein, and the leprosy likewise. 



FILIPENDULA, OR DROP-WORT. 



breaking the Avind which was the cause 

 thereof; and is also very effectual for all 

 the diseases of the lungs, as shortness of 

 breath, wheezing, hoarseness of the throat, 

 and the cough ; and to expectorate tough 

 phlegm, or any other parts thereabout. 



THE FIG-TREE. 



Descript] THIS sends forth many leaves, 5 



some larger, some smaller, set on each side \ To give a description of a tree so well 

 of a middle rib, and each of them dented known to every body that keeps it in his 

 about the edges, somewhat resembling wild garden, were needless. They prosper very 



Tansy, or rather Agrimony, but harder in 



well in our English gardens, yet are fitter 



handling; among which rise up one or | for medicine than for any other profit 

 more stalks, two or three feet high, with the 1 which is gotten by the fruit of them, 

 leaves growing thereon, and sometimes also ; Government and virtues.] The tree 



under the dominion of Jupiter. 



is 



The milk 



that issues out from the leaves or branches 

 where they are broken off, being dropped 

 threads in the middle of them, standing upon warts, takes them away. The de- 



divided into other branches spreading at the 

 top into many white, sweet-smelling flowers, 

 consisting of five leaves a-piece, with some 



