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what long and narrow leaves, snipped about | women's minds should run a gadding 

 the edges. The stalks are two feet high, j Also a plaister made of the fruit dried he- 

 bearing at the tops many yellow flowers set ! fore they are rotten, and other convenient 

 round together and all of an equal height, | things, and applied to the reins of the back, 

 in umbels or tufts like unto tansy ; after | stops miscarriage in Avomen with child, 

 which follow small whitish seed, almost as I They are powerful to stay any fluxes of 

 big as wormseed. j blood or humours in men or women ; the 



Place and Time.'] It grows in gardens, > leaves also have this quality. The decoc- 

 and flowers in June and July. j tion of them is good to gargle and wash the 



Government and virtues.^ The Virtues j mouth, throat and teeth, when there is any 

 hereof being the same with Costmary or defluxions of blood to stay it, or of humours, 

 Alecost, I shall not make any repetition | which causes the pains and swellings. It 

 thereof, lest my book grow too big ; but I is a good bath for Avomen, that have their 

 rather refer you to Costmary for satis- j courses flow too abundant : or for the piles 

 faction. j when they bleed too much. If a poultice 



(or plaister be made with dried medlars, 

 \ beaten and mixed with the juice of red 



Descript. 1 THE Tree grows near the \ roses, whereunto a few cloves and nutmegs 

 bigness of the Quince Tree, spreading j may be added, and a little red coral also, 

 branches reasonably large, with longer and ; and applied to the stomach that is given to 

 narrower leaves than either the apple or : casting or loathing of meat, it effectually 

 quince, and not dented about the edges. I helps. The dried leaves in powder strewed 

 At the end of the sprigs stand the flowers, I on fresh bleeding wounds restrains the 

 made of five white, great, broad-pointed ; blood, and heals up the wound quickly, 

 leaves, nicked in the middle with some j The medlar-stones made into powder, and 

 white threads also ; after which comes the i drank in wine, wherein some Parsley-roots 

 fruit, of a brownish green colour, being ripe, j have lain infused all night, or a little boiled, 

 bearing a crown as it were on the top, j do break the stone in the kidneys, helping 

 which were the five green leaves ; and 1 to expel it. 

 being rubbed off, or fallen away, the head j 



of the fruit is seen to be somewhat hollow, j MELLILOT, OB KING s CLAVLR. 

 The fruit is very harsh before it is mellowed, j Descript.'] THIS hath many green stalks, 

 and has usually five hard kernels within it. ', two or three feet high, rising from a tough, 

 There is another kind hereof nothing dif- j long, white root, which dies not ever}- 

 fering from the former, but that it hath some | year, set round about at the joints with 

 thorns on it in several places, which the j small and somewhat long, well-smelling 

 other hath not; and usually the fruit is j leaves, set three together, unevently dented 

 small, and not so pleasant. \ about the edges. The flowers are yellow, 



Time and Place.'] They grow in this} and well-smelling also, made like other 

 land, and flower in May for the most part, j trefoil, but small, standing in long spikes 

 and bear fruit in September and October. } one above another, for an hand breath long 



Government and virtues.'] The fruit is old | or better, which afterwards turn into long 

 Saturn's, and sure a better medicine he j crooked pods, wherein is contained flat seed, 

 nardly hath to strengthen the retentive j somewhat brown. 



faculty ; therefore it stays women's long- \ PlaceJ] It grows plentifully in many 

 ings- The good old man cannot endure ! places of this land, as in the edge of Suffolk 



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