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ment made of the same liquor, hog's -grease, 

 nitre, and vinegar boiled together. The 

 roots may be preserved with sugar, and 

 taken fasting, or at other times, for the same 

 purposes, and for consumptions, the stone, 

 and the lask. The seed is much commended 

 to break the stone, and cause it to be ex- 

 pelled by urine, and is often used with 

 other seeds and things to that purpose. 



CABBAGES AND COLEWORTS. 



I SHALL spare labour in writing a des- 

 cription of these, since almost every one 

 that can but write at all, may describe 

 them from his own knowledge, they being 

 generally so well known, that descriptions 

 are altogether needless. 



Place. .] They are generally planted in 

 gardens. 



TimeJ] Their flower time is towards the 

 middle, or end of July, and the seed is 

 ripe in August. 



Government and virtues] The Cabbages 

 or Coleworts boiled gently in broth, and 

 eaten, do open the body, but the second 

 decoction doth bind the body. The juice 

 thereof drank in wine, helps those that are 

 bitten by an adder, and the decoction of the 

 flowers brings down women's courses : 

 Being taken with honey, it recovers hoarse- 

 ness, or loss of the voice. The often eating 

 of them well boiled, helps those that are 

 entering into a consumption. The pulp of 

 the middle ribs of Coleworts boiled in al- 

 mond milk, and made up into an electuary 

 with honey, being taken often, is very pro- 

 fitable for those that are puffy and short 

 winded. Being boiled twice, an old cock 

 boiled in the broth and drank, it helps the 

 pains and the obstructions of the liver and 

 spleen, and the stone in the kidneys. The 

 juice boiled with honey, and dropped into 

 the corner of the eyes, clears the sight, 

 by consuming any film or clouds beginning 

 to dim it; it also consumes the cankers 

 growing therein. They are much com- 



mended, being eaten before meat to keep 

 one from surfeiting, as also from being 

 drunk with too much wind or quickly to 

 make a man sober again that was drunk be- 

 fore. For (as they say) there is such an 

 antipathy or enmity between the Vine and 

 the Coleworts, that the one will die where 

 the other grows. The decoction of Cole-* 

 worts takes away the pain and ache, and 

 'allays the swelling of sores and gouty 

 legs and knees, wherein many gross and 

 watery humours are fallen, the place being 

 bathed therewith warm. It helps also old 

 and filthy sores, being bathed therewith, 

 and heals all small scabs, pushes, and 

 wheals, that break out in the skin. The 

 ashes of Colewort stalks mixed with old 

 hog's-grease, are very effectual to anoint 

 the sides of those that have had long pains 

 therein, or any other place pained with 

 melancholy and windy humours. This was 

 surely Chrysippus's God, and therefore he 

 wrote a whole volume on them and their 

 virtues, and that none of the least neither, 

 for he would be no small fool ; He appro- 

 priates them to every part of the body, and 

 to every disease in every part : and honest 

 old Cato (they say) used no other physic. 

 I know not what metal their bodies were 

 made of; this I am sure, Cabbages are 

 extremely windy, whether you take them as 

 meat or as medicine : yea, as windy meat 

 as can be eaten, unless you eat bag-pipes or 

 bellows, and they are but seldom eaten in 

 our days ; and Colewort flowers are some- 

 thing more tolerable, and the wholesomer 

 food of the two. , The Moon challenges the 

 dominion of this herb. 



THE SEA COLEWORTS. 



Descript.~\ THIS has divers somewhat 

 long and broad large and thick wrinkled 

 leaves, somewhat crumpled about the edges, 

 and growing each upon a thick footstalks 

 very brittle, of a greyish green colour, 

 from among which rises up a strong thick 



