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fields, and waste grounds in very many \ Hyssop boiled with rue and honey, and 

 places of this land, and abundantly in the \ drank, helps those that are troubled with 

 woods, copses, and other places about \ coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing and 

 Chislehurst and Maidslone in Kent. j rheumatic distillation upon the lungs ; taken 



Time.'] They spring up in the middle of! also with oxymel, it purges gross humours 

 April or May, and are in flower soon after. ; by stool ; and with honey, kills worms in 

 The berries are ripe in the end of May, ; the belly; and with fresh and new figs 

 and in some places in June. J bruised, helps to loosen the belly, and more 



Government and virtues.] Venus owns it; I forcibly if the root of Flower-de-luce and 

 the leaves or berries hereof are effectual to cies^es be added thereto. It amends and 



expel poison of all sorts, especially that of 



cherishes the native colour of the body, 



the aconites; as also, the plague, and other spoiled by the yellow jaundice; and being 

 pestilential disorders; Matthiolus saith, that 5 taken with figs and nitre, helps the dropsy 

 some that have lain long in a lingering sick- and spleen; being boiled with wine, it is 



ness, and others that by witchcraft (as it 

 was thought) were become half foolish, by 

 taking a dram of the seeds or berries hereof 

 in powder every day for 20 days together, : 



good to wash inflammations, and takes 

 away the black and blue spots and marks 

 that come by strokes, bruises, or falls, being 

 applied with warm water. It is an excellent 



were restored to their former health. The \ medicine for the quinsy, or swellings in 

 roots in powder taken in wine eases the j the throat, to wash and gargle it, being 

 pains of the cholic speedily. The leaves i boiled in figs; it helps the tooth-ache, being 

 are very effectual as well for green wounds, 5 boiled in vinegar and gargled therewith, 

 as to cleanse and heal up filthy old sores j The hot vapours of the decoction taken by 

 and ulcers; and is very powerful to discuss i a funnel in at the ears, eases the inflam ma- 

 all tumours and swellings in the privy I tions and singing noise of them. Being 

 parts, the groin, or in any part of the body, j bruised, and salt, honey, and cummin seed 

 and speedily to allay all inflammations, j put to it, helps those that are stung by 

 The juice of the leaves applied to felons, or 4 serpents. The oil thereof (the head being 

 those nails of the hands or toes that have j anointed) kills lice, and takes away itching 

 imposthumes or sores gathered together at > of the head. It helps those that have the 

 the roots of them, heals them in a short J falling sickness, which way soever it be 

 space. The herb is not to be described for J applied. It helps to expectorate tough 

 the premises, but is fit to be nourished in j phlegm, and is effectual in all cold griefs 

 every good woman's garden. : or diseases of the chests or lungs, being 



; taken either in syrup or licking medicine, 

 | The green herb bruised and a little sugar 



HYSSOP is so Avell known to be an inha-jput thereto, doth quickly heal any cut or 

 bitant in every garden, that it will save me! green wounds, being thereunto applied, 

 labour in writing a description thereof. The 1 

 virtues are as follow. HOPS. 



Government and virtues.] The herb is \ 



Jupiter's, and the sign Cancer. It strengthens \ THESE are so well known that they need 

 ali the parts of the bod}' under Cancer and j I no description ; I mean the manured kind, 

 Jupiter; which what they may be, is found > which every good husband or housewife is 

 amply described in my astrological judg- \ acquainted with. 



ment of diseases. Dioscorides saith, that ' Descript] The wild hop grows up as the 



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