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places of this land, by the water-sides ; as j the body, and the unripe binding it, es- 

 also by small water courses, and in divers j pecially when they are dried, and then they 

 other places. 1 are good to stay fluxes, lasks, and the abun- 



Time.] It flowers and seeds in the end I dance of women's courses. The bark of 

 of Summer. j the root kills the broad worms in the body. 



Government and virtues.] This is an herb : The juice, or the syrup made of the juice of 

 of Venus, therefore maintains the parts of; the berries, helps all inflammations or sores 

 the body she rules, remedies the diseases of Jin the mouth, or throat, and palate of 

 the parts that are under her signs, Taurus j the mouth when it is fallen doAvn. The 

 and Libra. Mugwort is with good success ; juice of the leaves is a remedy against the 

 put among other herbs that are boiled for * biting of serpents, and for those that have 

 women to apply the hot decoction to draw \ taken aconite. The leaves beaten with 

 down their courses, to help the delivery of: vinegar, are good to lay on any place that 

 the birth, and expel the after-birth. As ; is burnt with fire. A decoction made of 

 also for the obstructions and inflammations i the bark and leaves is good to wash the 

 of the mother. It breaks the stone, and 1 mouth and teeth when they ache. If the 



opens the urinary passages where they 

 are stopped. The juice thereof made up 



root be a little slit or cut, and a small hole 

 made in the ground next thereunto, in the 



with Myrrh, and put under as a pessary, Harvest-time, it will give out a certain 

 works the same effects, and so does the j juice, which being hardened the next day, 

 root also. Being made up with hog's \ is of good use to help the tooth-ache, to 

 grease into an ointment, it takes away wens dissolve knots, and purge the belly. The 



and hard knots and kernels that grow about 



leaves of Mulberries are said to slay bleecl- 



the neck and throat, and eases the pains ing at the mouth or nose, or the bleeding of 

 about the neck more effectually, if some; the piles, or of a wound, being bound unto 

 Field Daisies be put with it. The herb itself j the places. A branch of the tree taken 

 being fresh, or the juice thereof taken, is at when the moon is at the full, and bound to 

 special remedy upon the overmuch taking) the wrists of a woman's arm, whose courses 

 of opium. Three drams of the powder of j come down too much, doth stay them in a 

 the dried leaves taken in wine, is a speedy 5 short space, 

 and the best certain help for the sciatica, i 

 A decoction thereof made with Camomile \ 



and Agrimony, and the place bathed there- j Descript.] COMMON White Mullein has 

 with while it is warm, takes away the pains j many fair, large, woolly white leaves, lying 

 of the sinews, and the cramp. | next the ground, somewhat larger than 



; broad, pointed at the end, and as it were 

 THE MULBERRY-TREE. \denied about the edges. The stalk rises 



THIS is so well known where it grows, j up to be four or five feet high, covered over 

 that it needs no description. jwith such like leaves, but less, so that no 



Time.] It bears fruit in the months of { stalk can be seen for the multitude of leaves 

 July and August. \ thereon up to the flowers, which come for th 



Government and virtues ] Mercury rules \ on all sides of the stalk, without any branches 

 the tree, therefore are its effects variable \ for the most part, and are many set together 

 as his are. The Mulberry is of different in a long spike, in some of a yellow colour, 

 parts ; the ripe berries, by reason of their j in others more pale, consisting of five round 

 sweetness and slippery moisture, opening * pointed leaves, which afterwards have small 



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