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that are troubled with weak backs, and the 

 effects thereof. The juice of the herb put 

 into ale or beer, and drank, brings down 

 women's courses, and expels the after-birth. 



WILD CLARY. 



most blasphemously 

 because it cures dis- 



safer, and easier remedy by a great deal, 

 than to tear it off with a needle. 



CLEAVERS. 



WILD Clary is 

 called Christ's Eye, 



eases of the eye. I could wish for my soul, 

 blasphemy, ignorance, and tyranny, were 

 ceased among physicians, that they may be 

 happy, and I joyful. 



Descript.] It is like the other Clary, but 

 lesser, with many stalks about a foot and 

 a half high. The stalks are square, and 

 somewhat hairy; the flowers of a bluish 

 colour ; He that knows the common Clary 

 cannot be ignorant of this. 



Placed] It grows commonly in this nation 

 in barren places; you may find it plentifully, 

 if you look in the fields near Gray's Inn, 

 and near .Chelsea. 



Time.'] They flower from the beginning 

 of June to the latter end of August. 



Government and virtues.^ It is something ' 



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hotter and drier than the garden Clary is, 

 yet nevertheless under the dominion of the 

 Moon, as well as that ; the seeds of it being 

 beat to powder, and drank with wine, is 

 an admirable help to provoke lust. A de- 

 coction of the leaves being wlrank, warms 

 the stomach, and it is a wonder if it should 

 not, the stomach being under Cancer, the 

 house of the Moon. Also it helps diges- 

 tion, scatters congealed blood in any part 

 of the body. The distilled water hereof 

 cleanses the eyes of redness, waterishness 

 and heat : It is a gallant remedy for dim- 

 ness of sight, to take one of the seeds of it, 

 and put into the eyes, and there let it re- 

 main till it drops out of itself, (the pain 

 will be nothing to speak on,) it will cleanse 

 the eyes of all filthy and putrified matter ; 

 and in often repeating it, will take off a 

 film which covers the sight : a handsomer, 



IT is also called Aperine, Goose-shade, 

 Goose-grass, and Cleavers. 



Descript.] The common Cleavers have 

 divers very rough square stalks, not so big 

 as the top* of a point, but rising up to be 

 two or three yards high sometimes, if it 

 meet with any tall bushes or trees whereon 

 it may climb, yet without any claspers, or 

 else much lower, and lying on the ground, 

 full of joints, and at every one of them 

 shoots forth a branch, besides the leaves 



thereat, which are usually six, set in a round 

 compass like a star, or a rowel of a spur : 

 From between the leaves or the joints to- 

 wards the tops of the branches, come forth 

 very small white flowers, at every end 

 upon small thready foot-stalks, which after 

 they have fallen, there do shew two small 

 round and rough seeds joined together 

 which, when they are ripe, grow hard 

 and whitish, having a little hole on the 

 side, something like unto a navel. Both 

 stalks, leaves, and seeds are so rough, 

 that they will cleave to any thing that will 

 touch them. The root is small and thready 

 spreading much to the ground, but die 

 every year. 



Place.~\ It grows by the hedge and ditch- 

 sides in many places of this land, and is so 

 troublesome an inhabitant in gardens, that 

 it ramps upon, and is ready to choak what 

 ever grows near it. 



Time.~\ It flowers in June or July, and 

 the seed is ripe and falls again in the end 

 of July or August, from whence it springs 

 up again, and not from the old roots. 



Government and virtues.'] It is under the 

 dominion of the Moon. The juice of the 

 herb and the seed together taken in wine, 

 helps those bitten with an adder, by pre- 

 serving the heart from Jhe venom. It is 

 familiarly taken in broth to keep them lean 



