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green leaves by the couples, and sweet! (as Agrimony hath) somewhat deeply dented 

 smelling white flowers in tufts at the end of j about the edges, of a sad green colour on 

 the branches, which turn into small black j the upper side, and greyish underneath, 

 berries that have a purplish juice with them, \ of a pretty sharp scent and taste, somewhat 

 and some seeds that are flat on the one Hike unto the Burnet, and a leaf hereof put 

 side, with a hole or dent therein ; into a cup of claret wine, gives also a fine 



Place.'] It grows in this land, in divers ; relish to it. At the tops of the stalks and 

 woods. i branches stand many tufts of small white 



Time] Our Privet flowers in June and j flowers thrust thick together, which smell 

 July, the berries are ripe in August and \ much sweeter than the leaves ; and in their 

 September. j places, being fallen, come crooked and 



Government and virtues] The Moon is j cornered seed. The root is somewhat 

 ladvofthis. It is little used in physic with : woody, and blackish on the outside, and 

 us in these times, more than in lotions, to \ brownish within, with divers great strings, 

 wash sores and sore mouths, and to cool land lesser fibres set thereat, of a strong scent, ' 

 inflammations, and dry up fluxes. Yet j but nothing so pleasant as the flowers and 

 Matthiolus saith, it serves all the uses for i leaves, and perishes not, but abides many 

 which Cypress, or the East Privet, is ap-j years, shooting forth a-new every Spring, 

 pointed by Dioscorides and Galen. Hej Place] It grows in moist meadows 

 further saith, That the oil that is made of 1 that lie mostly wet, or near the courses ol 

 the flowers of Privet infused therein, and j water. 



set in the Sun, is singularly good for the in- : Time.'] It flowers in some places or 

 flammations of wounds, and for the head- ; other all the three Summer months, that is, 

 ache, coming of a hot cause. There is a- June, July, and August, and the seed is 

 sweet water also distilled from the flowers, ! ripe soon after. 



that is good for all those diseases that need \ Government and -virtues.] Venus claims 

 cooling and drying, and therefore helps all \ dominion over the herb. It is used to stay 

 fluxesof the belly or stomach, bloody-fluxes, jail manner of bleedings, fluxes, vomitings, 

 and women's courses, being either drank or land women's courses, also their whites: 

 applied ; as all those that void blood at the j It is said to alter and take away the fits of 

 mouth, or any other place, and for distilla-i the quartan agues, and to make a merry 

 tions of rheum in the eyes, especially if it \ heart, for which purpose some use the 

 be used with them. I flowers, and some the leaves. It helps 



| speedily those that are troubled with the 



QUEEN OF THE MEADOWS, ME ADO w \ cholic ; being boiled in wine, and with a 

 SWEET, OR MEAD SWEET. \ little honey, taken warm, it opens the belly ; 



* but boiled in red wine, and drank, it stays 



Descript] THE stalks of these are red- \ the flux of the belly. Outwardly applied, 

 dish, rising to be three feet high, sometimes | it helps old ulcers that are cankerous, or 

 four or five feet, having at the joints thereof | hollow fistulous, for which it is by many 

 large winged leaves, standing one above ;much commended, as also for the sores in 

 another at distances, consisting of many I the mouth or secret parts. The leaves when 

 and somewhat broad leaves, set on each | they are full grown, being laid on the skin, 

 side of a middle rib, being hard, rough, or | will, in a short time, raise blisters thereon, 

 rugged, crumpled much like unto elm leaves, \ as Tragus saith. The water thereof helps 

 having also some smaller leaves with them | the heat and imflammation in the eyes. 



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