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joram; Wild Marjoram, and Grove Mar- 1 dry places of this land; but it is not my 

 joram. j purpose to insist upon them. The garden 



Descript] Wild or field Marjoram hath kinds being most used and useful, 

 a root which creeps much under ground,! Time,~\ Theyflower in the end of Summer, 

 which continues a long time, sending up \ Government and virtues."] It is an herb of 

 sundry-brownish, hard, square stalks, with j Mercury, and under Aries, and therefore is 

 small dark green leaves, very like those of { an excellent remedy for the brain and other 

 Sweet Marjoram, but harder, and some- 1 parts of the body and mind, under the do- 

 what broader; at the top of the stalks stand j minion of the same planet. Our common 

 tufts of flowers, of a deep purplish red \ Sweet Marjoram is warming and comfor- 

 colour. The seed is small and something | table in cold diseases of the head, stomach, 

 blacker than that of Sweet Marjoram. | sinews, and other parts, taken inwardly, or 



Place] It grows plentifully in the bor- i outwardly applied. The decoction thereof 

 ders of corn fields, and in some copses. j being drank, helps all diseases of the chest 



Time.] It flowers towards the latter end} which hinder the freeness of breathing, and 

 of the Summer. I is also profitable for the obstructions of the 



Government and virtues.] This is also i liver and spleen. It helps the cold griefs 

 under the dominion of Mercury. It i of the womb, and the windiness thereof, and 



strengthens the stomach and head much, ; 

 there being scarce a better remedy growing i 



the loss of speech, by resolution of the 

 tongue. The decoction thereof made with 



for such as are troubled with a sour humour \ some Pellitory of Spain, and long Pepper, 

 in the stomach; it restores the appetite j or with a little Acorns or Origanum, being 

 being lost; helps the cough, and consump- ; drank, is good for those that cannot make 

 tion of the lungs; it cleanses the body of \ water, and against pains and torments in 

 choler, expels poison, and remedies the in- \ the belly ; it provokes women's courses, if 

 firmities of the spleen ; helps the bitings of| it be used as a pessary. r Being made into 

 venomous beasts, and helps such as have j powder, and mixed with honey, it takes 

 poisoned themselves by eating Hemlock, j away the black marks of blows, and bruises, 

 Henbane, or Opium. It provokes urine and being thereunto applied ; it is good for the 

 the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and i inflammations and watering of the eyes, 

 the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaun- 5 being mixed with fine flour, and laid unto 

 dice. The juice being dropped into the ! them. The juice dropped into the ears, 

 ears, helps deafness, pain and noise in the ! eases the pains and singing noise in them, 

 ears. And thus much for this herb, be- jit is profitably put into those ointments 

 tween which and adders, there is a deadly 5 and salves that are warm, and comfort the 

 antipathy. | outward parts, as the joints and sinews ; 



| for swellings also, and places out of joint. 

 1 The powder thereof snuffed up into the nose 



SWEET Marjoram is so well known, 5 provokes sneezing, and thereby purges the 

 being an inhabitant in every garden, that it j brain ; and chewed in the mouth, draws 

 is needless to write any description thereof, forth much phlegm. The oil made thereof, 

 neither of the Winter Sweet Marjoram, or 5 is very warm and comfortable to the joints 

 Pot Marjoram. I that are stiff, and the sinews that are hard, 



Place.] They grow commonly in gar to molify and supple them. Marjoram is 

 dens; some sorts grow wild in the bor- much used in all odoriferous water, pow- 

 ders of corn fields and pastures, in sun- ders, &c. that are for ornament or delight. 



