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rind and skin being pared away, the root 

 appears of so fresh and lively a colour, 

 with fresh coloured veins running through 

 it, that the choicest of that Rhubarb that is 



of the stalks being divided into many small 

 branches, bear reddish or purplish flowers, 

 and three-square seed, like unto other 

 Docks. The root is long, great and yellow, 



brought us from beyond the seas cannot j like unto the wild Docks, but a little redder; 

 excel it, which root, if it be dried carefully, ( and if it be a little dried, shews less store of 



discoloured veins than the other does when 



it is dry. 



and as it ought (which must be in our 

 country by the gentle heat of a fire, in re- 

 gard the sun is not hot enough here to do 

 it, and every piece kept from touching one 

 another) will hold its colour almost as well 

 as when it is fresh, and has been approved 

 of, and commended by those who have 

 oftentimes used them. 



Place.~\ It grows in gardens, and flowers i 

 about the beginning and middle of June, i 

 and the seed is ripe in July. j rises up a pretty big stalk, about two feet 



Time.'] The roots that are to be dried $ high, with some such high leaves growing 

 and kept all the year following, are not to I thereon, but smaller ; at the top whereof 

 be taken up before the stalk and leaves be j stand in a long spike many small brownish 

 quite turned red and gone, and that is not j flowers, which turn into a hard three square 

 until the middle or end of October, and if j shining brown seed, likethe garden Patience 

 they be taken a little before the leaves do \ before described. The root grows greater 

 spring, or when they are sprung up, the j thau that, with many branches or great 



fibres thereat, yellow on the outside, and 



GREAT ROUND-LEAVED DOCK, OR BAS- 

 TARD RHUBARB. 



DescriptJ] THIS has divers large, round 

 thin yellowish green leaves rising from the 

 root, a little waved about the edges, everv 

 one standing upon a reasonably thick and 

 long brownish footstalk, from among which 



roots will not have half so good a colour in 

 them. 



I have given the precedence unto this, 

 because in virtues also it hath the pre-emi- 

 nence. I come now to describe unto you 

 that which is called Patience, or Monk's 



I somewhat pale ; yellow within, with some 

 j discoloured veins like to the Rhubarb which 

 \ is first described, but much less than it, 

 especially when it is dry. 



Place and Time.~] These also grow in 



Rhubarb ; and the next unto that, the great j gardens, and flower and seed at or near the 



round-leaved Dock, or Bastard Rhubarb, 

 for the one of these may happily supply in 

 the absence of the other, being not much 

 unlike in their virtues, only one more 

 powerful and efficacious than the other. 



same time that our true Rhubarb doth, viz. 

 they flower in June, and the seed is ripe in 

 July. 



Government and virtues.'] Mars claims 

 predominancy over all these wholesome 



And lastly, shall shew you the virtues of all \ herbs : You cry out upon him for an un- 



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the three sorts. 



GARDEN-PATIENCE, OR 

 BARB. 



MONK S RHU- 



^ fortunate, when God created him for your 

 _ | good (only he is angry with fools.) What 

 ' dishonour is this, not to Mars, but to God 

 4 himself. A dram of the dried root of 

 Descript.'] THIS is a Dock bearing the j Monk's Rhubarb, with a scruple of Ginger 

 name of Rhubarb for some purging quality i made into powder, and taken fasting in a 

 therein, and grows up with large tall stalks, j draught or mess of warm broth, purges 

 set with somewhat broad and long, fair, j choler and phlegm downwards very gently 

 green leaves, not dented at all. The tops { and safely without danger. The seed 



