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it Appetite, and sent her daughter to taste | with many round, woody, hairy stalks from 

 these wormwoods, who finding this the J one root. Its height is four feet, 01 three at 

 least bitter, made the squeamish wench \ least. The leaves in longitude are long, in 



" : latitude narrow, in colour white, in form 

 hoary, in similitude likeSouthernwood,only 

 broader and longer; in taste rather salt than 

 bitter, because it grows so near the salt- 

 i water ; at the joints, with the leaves toward 

 that dwell far from it ; my reason is, the sea I the tops it bears little yellow flowers; the 

 (those that live far from it, know when they 5 root lies deep, -vnd is woods, 

 come near it) casts not such a smell as the j Common Wormwood I shall not describe, 

 land doth. The tender mercies of God \ for every boy that can eat an egg knows it. 

 being over all his works, hath by his eternal | Roman Wormwood; and why Roman, 

 Providence, planted Seriphian by the sea- [ seeing it grows familiarly in England ? It 



extol it to the skies, though the virtues of it: 

 never reached the middle region of the air. i 

 Its due praise is this ; It is weakest, there- i 

 fore fittest for weak bodies, and fitter for| 

 those bodies that dwell near it, than those! 



side, as a fit medicine for the bodies of those 

 that live near it. Lastly, It is known to all 

 that know any thing in the course of nature, 

 that the liver delights in sweet things, if so, 

 it abhors bitter ; then if your liver be weak, 

 it is none of the wisest courses to plague it 

 with an enemy. If the liver be weak, a 

 consum ption follows ; would you know the 

 reason ? It is this, A man's flesh is repaired 

 by blood, by a third concoction, which 

 transmutes the blood into flesh, it is well 

 I said, (concoction) say I, if I had said 

 (boiling) every cook would have understood 

 me. The liver makes blood, and if it be 

 weakened that if it makes not enough, the 

 flesh wastes ; and why must flesh always be 

 renewed ? Because the eternal God, when 



may be so called, because it is good fora 

 stinking breath, which the Romans cannot 

 be very free from, maintaining so many 

 bad houses by authority of his Holiness. 



Descript.~] The stalks are slender, and 

 shorter than the common Wormwood by 

 one foot at least ; the leaves are more finely 

 cut and divided than they are, but some- 

 thing smaller ; both leaves and stalks are 

 hoary, the flowers of a pale yellow colour ; 

 it is altogether like the common Worm- 

 wood, save only in bigness, for it is smaller; 

 in taste, for it is not so bitter ; in smell, for 

 it is spicy. 



Place.] It grows upon the tops of the 

 mountains (it seems 'tis aspiring) there 'tis 

 natural, but usually nursed up in gardens 



he made the creation, made one part of it j for the use of the apothecaries in London. 

 in continual dependency upon another ; \ Time.'] All Wormwoods usually flower 

 and why did he so ? Because himself only j in August, a little sooner or later. 



is permanent ; to teach us, That we should 

 not fix our affections upon what is transi- 

 tory, but what endures for ever. The re- 

 sult of this is, if the liver be weak, and can- 



Government and virtues.] Will you give 

 me leave to be critical a little? I must 

 take leave. Wormwood is an herb of Mars, 

 and ifPontanus say otherwise, he is beside 



not make blood enough, I would have said, the bridge ; I prove it thus : What delights 

 Sanguify, if I had written only to scholars, j in martial places, is a martial herb ; but 

 the Seriphian, which is the weakest of! Wormwood delights in martial places (foi 



about forges and iron works you may gather 

 a cart-load of it,) ergo, it is a martial herb. 



Wormwoods, is better than the best. I have 

 been critical enough, if not too much. 



PlaceJ] It grows familiarly in England, It is hot and dry in the first degree, viz. 

 by the sea-side. Hust as hot as your blood, and no hotter. It 



Descnp/.] It starts up out of the earth, { remedies the evils choler can inflict on the 



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