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Willow, when it flowers, the bark being | fit of it, where those that sow it, cut it three- 

 slit, and a vessel fitting to receive it, is very j times a year. 



good for redness and dimness of sight, or \ Time.] It flowers in June, but it is long 

 films that grow over the eyes, and stay the j after before the seed is ripe, 

 iheums that fall into them; to provoke? Government and virtues.] It is a cold and 

 urine, being stopped, if it be drank; to clear \ dry plant of Saturn. Some people affirm 

 the " 

 ings 

 admirable faculty in drying up humours, 



face and skin from spots and discolour- j the plant to be destructive to bees, and 

 3. Galen saith, The flowers have an I fluxes them, which, if it be, I cannot help 



it. I should rather think, unless bees be 



being a medicine without any sharpness or I contrary to other creatures, it possesses them 

 corrosion ; you may boil them in white i with the contrary disease, the herb being 

 wine, and drink as much as you will, so; exceeding dry and binding. However, if 

 you drink not yourself drunk. The bark J; any bees be diseased thereby, the cure is, 

 works the same effect, if used in the same 5 to set urine by them, but set it in a vessel, 

 manner, and the Tree hath always a bark ! that they cannot drown themselves, which 

 upon it, though not always flowers; the j may be remedied, if you put pieces of cork 

 burnt ashes of the bark being mixed with j in it. The herb is so drying and binding, 

 vinegar, takes away warts, corns, and ithat it is not fit to be given inwardly. An 

 superfluous flesh, being applied to the place. ; ointment made thereof stanches bleeding. 

 The decoction of the leaves or bark in wine, ; A plaister made thereof, and applied to the 

 takes away scurfFand dandriff by washing | region of the spleen which lies on the left 

 the place with it. It is a fine cool tree, the i side, takes away the hardness and pains 

 boughs of which are very convenient to \ thereof. The ointment is excellently good 

 be placed in the chamber of one sick of a | in such ulcers as abound with moisture, and 

 fever. I takes away the corroding and fretting 



| humours : It cools inflammations, quenches 

 ?St. Anthony's fire, and stays defluxion of 



Descript] IT hath divers large leaves, j the blood to any part of the body, 

 long, and somewhat broad withal, like those i 



,. TV i . .1 , WOODBINE, OR HONEY-SUCKLES 



of the greater plntain, but larger, thicker, ; 



of a greenish colour, somewhat blue withal. $ IT is a plant so common, that every one 

 From among which leaves rises up a lusty t that hath eyes knows it, and he that hath 

 stalk, three or four feet high, with divers j none, cannot read a description, if I should 

 leaves set thereon ; the higher the stalk \ write it. 



rises, the smaller are the leaves ; at the top ! Time. They flower in June, and the 

 it spreads divers branches, at the end of | fruit is ripe in August, 

 which appear very pretty, little yellow | Government and virtues.] Doctor Tra-p 

 flowers, and after they pass away like other \ dition, that grand introducer of errors, that 

 flowers of the field, come husks, long and \ hater of truth, lover of folly, and the mortal 

 somewhat flat withal ; in form they resem- j foe to Dr. Reason, hath taught the common 

 ble a tongue, in colour they are black, and j people to use the leaves or flowers of this 

 they hang bobbing downwards. The seed ; plant in mouth-water, and by long con- 

 contained within these husks (if it be a little ; tinuance of time, hath so grounded it in the 

 chewed) gives an azure colour. The root is > brains of the vulgar, that you cannot beat it 

 white and long. i out with a beetle: All mouth-waters ought 



Place.] It is sowed in fields for the bene- 1 to be cooling and drying, but Honey 



