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It helps digestion, quenches thirst, in- j great pools, and standing waters, and some- 

 creases milk in nurses, eases griping pains in | times in slow running rivers, and lesser 

 the stomach or bowels, that come of choler. ; ditches of water, in sundry places of this 

 Applied outwardly to the region of the land. 



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heart, liver or reins, or by bathing the said 



TimeJ] They flower most commonly 



places with the juice of distilled water, about the end of May, and their seed is 

 wherein some white Sanders, or red Roses : ripe in August. 



are put ; not only represses the heat and | Government and virtues.] The herb is 

 inflammations therein, but comforts and j under the dominion of the Moon, and there- 

 strengthens those parts, and also tempers i fore cools and moistens like the former, 

 the heat of urine. Galen advises old men* The leaves and flowers of the Water Lilies 

 to use it with spice ; and where spices are tare cold and moist, but the roots and seeds 

 wanting, to add Mints, Rochet, and such ' are cold and dry ; the leaves do cool all 

 like hot herbs, or else Citron Lemon, or ; inflammations, both outward and inward 

 Orange seeds, to abate the cold of one and \ heat of agues ; and so doth the flowers 



heat of the other. The seed and distilled 

 water of the Lettuce work the same effects 



also, either by the syrup or conserve 

 the syrup helps much to procure rest, 



in all things ; but the use of Lettuce is \ and to settle the brain of frantic per- 

 chiefly forbidden to those that are short- i sons, by cooling the hot distemperature 

 winded, or have any imperfection in the {of the head. The seed as well as the root 

 lungs, or spit blood. is effectual to stay fluxes of blood or 



i humours, either of wounds or of the belly ; 

 but the roots are most used, and more ef- 



OF these there are two principally noted 

 kinds, viz. the White and the Yellow. 



fectual to cool, bind, and restrain all fluxes 

 in man or woman. The root is likewise 



DescriptJ] The White Lily has very j very good for those whose urine is hot and 

 large and thick dark green leaves lying on \ sharp, to be boiled in wine and water, and 

 the water, sustained by long and thick j the decoction drank. The distilled water 

 foot-stalks, that arise from a great, thick, j of the flowers is very effectual for all the 

 round, and long tuberous olack root { diseases aforesaid, both inwardly taken, 

 spongy or loose, with many knobs thereon, j and outwardly applied ; and is much corn- 

 green on the outside, but as white as snow j mended to take away freckles, spots, sun- 

 within, consisting of divers rows of long; burn, and morphew from the face, or other 

 and somewhat thick and narrow leaves, j parts of the body. The oil made of the 

 smaller and thinner the more inward they j flowers, as oil of Roses is made, is profitably 

 be, encompassing a head with many yel- ; used to cool hot tumours, and to ease the 

 low threads or thrums in the middle; where, j pains, and help the sores, 

 after they are past, stand round Poppy-like j LjLy THE VALLEY 



heads, full of broad oily and bitter seed. 



The yellow kind is little different from} CALLED also Conval Lily, Male Lily, 

 the former, save only that it has fewer land Lily Confancy. 



leaves on the flowers, greater and more I DescriptJ] The root is small, and creeps 

 shining seed, and a whitish root, both with- j far in the ground, as grass roots do. The 

 in and without. The root of both is some- leaves are many, against which rises up a 

 what sweet in taste. stalk half a foot high, with many white 



Place.'] They are found growing in flowers, like little bells with turned edges 



