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and stringy, with divers fibres thereat, and i one, and sometimes also two stalks and 

 abides many years. I flowers at the foot of a leaf, which are with- 



P/ace.] It grows in woods, and by j out any scent at all, and stand on the top 

 wood-sides ; as also in divers fields and j of the stalk. After they are past, come in 

 bye-lanes in the land. \ their places small round berries great at the 



Time.'] It flowers in June, July, and \ first, and blackish green, tending to blueness 

 August. | when they are ripe, wherein lie small, 



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Government and virtues.'] The herb is 

 under Venus. The decoction of the Wood 

 Sage provokes urine and women's courses: 



white, hard, and stony seeds. The root is 

 of the thickness of one's finger or thumb, 

 white and knotted in some places, a flat 



It also provokes sweat, digests humours, \ round circle representing a Seal, whereof it 

 and discusses swellings and nodes in the ! took the name, lying along under the upper 

 flesh, and is therefore thought to be good ! crust of the earth, and not growing down- 

 against the French pox. The decoction \ ward, but with many fibres underneath, 

 of the green herb, made with wine, is a safe \ Place.'] It is frequent in divers places of 



and sure remedy for those who by falls, 

 bruises, or blows, suspect some vein to be 

 inwardly broken, to disperse and void the 



this land ; as, namely in a wood two miles 

 from Canterbury, by Fish-Pool Hill, as also 

 in Bushy Close belonging to the parsonage 



congealed blood, and to consolidate the | of Alderbury, near Clarendon, two miles 

 veins. The drink used inwardly, and the j from Salisbury : in Cheffon wood, on Ches- 

 herb used outwardly, is good for such as | son Hill, between Newington and Sitting- 

 are inwardly or outwardly bursten, and is { bourn in Kent, and divers other places in 

 found to be a sure remedy for the palsy, i Essex, and other counties. 

 The juice of the herb, or the powder there- 1 Time.'] It flowers about May: The 

 of dried, is good for moist ulcers and sores j root abides and shoots a-new every year, 

 in the legs, and other parts, to dry them, i Government and virtues."] Saturn owns 

 and cause them to heal more speedily. It i the plant, for he loves his bones well. The 

 is no less effectual also in green wounds, to , root of Solomon's Seal is found by experience 

 be used upon any occasion. 5 to be available in wounds, hurts, and out- 



ward sores, to heal and close up the lips of 

 those that are green, and to dry up and 



SOLOMON S SEAL. 



DescriptJ] THE common Solomon's 



restrain the flux of humours to those that 



Seal rises up with a round stalk half a yard i are old. It is singularly good to stay 

 high, bowing or bending down to the | vomitings and bleeding wheresoever, as 

 ground, set with single leaves one above | also all fluxes in man or woman ; also, to 

 another, somewhat large, and like the leaves \ knit any joint, which by weakness uses to 

 of the lily-convally, or May-lily, with an \ be often out of place, or will not stay in 

 eye of bluish upon the green, with some pong when it is set; also to knit and join 

 ribs therein, and more yellowish under- \ broken bones in any part of the body, the 

 neath. At the foot of every leaf, almost! roots being bruised and applied to the 

 from the bottom up to the top of the stalk, j places ; yea, it hath been found by expe- 

 come forth small, long, white and hollow | rience, an-d the decoction of the root in 

 pendulous flowers, somewhat like the; wine, or the bruised root put into wine or 

 flowers of May-lily, but ending in five long! other drink, and after a night's infusion, 

 points, for the most part two together, at the | strained forth hard and drank, hath helped 

 end of a long foot-stalk, and sometimes but both man and beast, whose bones hath been 



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