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unless physically ; and the red skin which 

 covers the kernel, you may easily pull off. 

 And so thus have I made an apology for 

 Nuts, which cannot speak for themselves. 



HAWK-WEED. 



domini-on over this herb, therefore it is a [was the father of slander; Or are men's 



singular remedy for the liver, both to: tongues so given to slander one another, 



strengthen 't when weak, and ease it when j that they must slander Nuts too, to keep 



afflicted, you shall do well to keep it in a { their tongues in use ? If any part of the 



syrup all the year ; For though authors say 5 Hazel Nut be stopping, it is the husks and 



it is green all the year, I scarcely believe it. | shells, and no one is so mad as to eat them, 



Hart's Tongue is much commended against 



the hardness and stoppings of the spleen 



and liver, and against the heat of the liver 



and stomach, and against lasks, and the 



bloody-flux. The distilled water thereof is i 



also very good against the passions of the i 



heart, and to stay the hiccough, to help* THERE are several sorts of Hawk -weed, 



the falling of the palate, and to stay the \ but they are similar in virtues. 



bleeding of the gums, being gargled in the i; Descript.'j It has many large leaves 



T-V- ~:*u :*: j. : -~' * lying upon the ground, much rent or torn 



on the sides into gashes like Dandelion, 

 but with greater parts, more like the 

 smooth Sow Thistle, from among which 

 rises a hollow, rough stalk, two or three 

 feet high, branched from the middle up- 

 ward, whereon are set at every joint longer 

 leaves, little or nothing rent or cut, bearing 



mouth. Dioscorides saith, it is good against 

 the stinging or biting of serpents. As for 

 the use of it, my direction at the latter end 

 will be sufficient, and enough for those that 

 are studious in physic, to whet their brains 

 upon for one year or two. 



HAZEL-NUT. 



HAZEL Nuts are so well known to every 

 body, that they need no description. 



Government and virtues.] They are under 

 the dominion of Mercury. The parted 

 kernels made into an electuary, or the milk 

 drawn from the kernels with mead or; 

 honeyed water, is very good to help an old 



on them sundry pale, yellow flowers, con- 

 sisting of many small, narrow leaves, broad 

 pointed, and nicked in at the ends, set 

 in a double row or more, the outermost 

 being larger than the inner, which form 

 most of the Hawk-weeds (for there are 

 many kinds of them) do hold, which turn 



cough; and being parched, and a little j into down, and with the small brown 

 pepper put to them and drank, digests the 



distillations of rheum from the head. The 

 dried husks and shells, to the weight of two 



ish seed is blown away with the wind. The 

 root is long and somewhat great, with 

 many small fibres thereat. The whole plant 



drams, taken in red wine, stays lasks and is full of bitter-milk. 



women's courses, and so doth the red skin j Place.'] It grows in divers places about 



that covers the kernels, which is more ef- j the field sides, and the path-ways in dry 



fectual to stay women's courses. 



And if this be true, as it is, then why 

 should the vulgar so familiarly affirm, that 

 eating nuts causes shortness of breath, than 



grounds. 



Time.'] It flowers and flies away in the 

 Summer months. 



Government and virtues.] Saturn owns 



which nothing is falser ? For, how can that | it. Hawk-weed (saith Dioscorides) is cool- 

 which strengthens the lungs, cause shortness I ing, somewhat drying and binding, and 



far i therefore good for the heat of the stomach, 

 and gnawings therein ; for inflammations 

 and the hot fits of agues. The juice thereof 



of breath ? I 

 older than I 



am 



confess, the opinion is 

 I knexv tradition was 



a 



friend to error before, but never that he 



