200 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



CHAPTER i. | ner a PP'y to a planet of the same triplicity; 



j if you cannot wait that time neither, let 

 Of Leaves of Herbs, or Trees. j her be with a fixed star of their nature. 



1. OF leaves, choose only such as are? 6 ' Having well dried them, put them up 

 green, and full of juice; pick them care-* m brown P a P er ' sewing the paper up like 

 fully, and cast away such as are any way a sack and P ress them not to hard to g e - 

 declining, for they will putrify the rest : So j * her > and kee P them m a dl T P lace near the 

 shall onehandfulbe worth ten of those you j ^ 



buy at the physic herb shops. 7 ' As for the d uration of dried herbs, 



2. Note what places they most delight .{ * ,J ust time cannot be given, let authors prate 

 to grow in, and gather them there ; for j tneir Pj easure > for > 



Betony that grows in the shade, is far better I lst * Such as g row u P on dr T grounds will 

 than that which grows in the Sun, because | keep better than such as grow on moist, 

 it delights m the shade ; so also such herbs j .J^' Such herbs as are ful1 of j ulce ' 

 as delight to grow near the water, shall be j Wl11 n , ot kee P so lo , n g as such a f are di ; ier - . 

 gathered near it, though happily you may 3dl ^ Such herbs as are well dried, will 

 find some of them upon dry ground : The kee P longer than such as are slack dried. 

 Treatise will inform you where every herb Yet you may know when they are corrupt- 

 delights to grow ed ' y tneir l ss of colour, or smell, or 



3. The leaves 'of such herbs as run up to bo ^'> and if t the y be corrupted, reason 

 seed, are not so good when they are in j ^ "J tel j. jou that they must needs corrupt 

 flower as before (some few excepted, the the bodies of those people that take them, 

 leaves of which are seldom or never used)' , 4 ' Gather a11 leav f m the hour of that 

 in such cases, if through ignorance they < P lanet that g overns them ' 



were not known, or through negligence j CHAPTER 11. 



forgotten, you had better take the top and j 



the flowers, then the leaf/ / Flowers ' 



4. Dry them well in the Sun, and not in 

 the shade, as the saying of physicians is ; 

 for if the sun draw away the virtues of the 

 herb, it must need do the like by hay, by 

 the same rule, which the experience of every 



1. THE flower, which is the beauty of the 

 plant, and of none of the least use in phy- 

 sick, grows yearly, and is to be gathered 

 when it is in its prime. 



2. As for the time of gathering them, let 



country farmer will explode for a notable \ the planetary hour, and the planet they 

 piece of nonsense. j come of, be observed, as we shewed you 



5. Such as are artists in astrology, (and \ in the foregoing chapter : as for the time of 

 indeed none else are fit to make physicians) i the day, let it be when the sun shine upon 

 such I advise ; let the planet that governs I them, that so they may be dry ; for, if you 

 the herb be angular, and the stronger the ; gather either flowers or herbs when they are 

 better ; if they can, in herbs of Saturn, let) wet or dewy, they will not keep. 

 Saturn be in the ascendant ; in the herbs of I 3. Dry them well in the sun, and keep 

 Mars, let Mars be in the mid heaven, for in | them in papers near the fire, as I shewed 

 those houses they delight; let the Moon } you in the foregoing chapter, 

 apply to them by good aspect, and let her| 4. So long as they retain the colour and 

 not be in the houses of her enemies ; if you ; smell, they are good ; either of them being 

 cannot well stay till she apply to them, let ! s gone, so is the virtue also. 



