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dominion over this herb, therefore it is a j was the father of slander ; Or are men's 

 singular remedy for the liver, both to j tongues so given to slander one another, 

 strengthen *!; when weak, and ease it when 5 that they must slander Nuts too, to keep 

 afflicted, you shall do well to keep it in a! their tongues in use? If any part of the 

 syrup all the year; For though authors say I Hazel Nut be stopping, it is the husks and 

 it is green all the year, I scarcely believe it. | shells, and no one is so mad as to eat them 

 Hart's Tongue is much commended against j unless physically ; and the red skin which 

 the hardness and stoppings of the spleen j covers the kernel, you may easily pull off 

 and liver, and against the heat of the liver j Anil so thus have I made an apology for 

 and stomach, and against lasks, and the j Nuts, which cannot speak for themselves, 

 bloody-flux. The distilled water thereof is 

 also very good against the passions of the 



heart, and to stay the hiccough, to help 



THERE are several sorts of Hawk -weed, 



the falling of the palate, and to stay the \ but they are similar in virtues. 



bleeding of the gums, being gargled in the 

 mouth. Dioscorides saith, it is good against 



Descript.~\ It has many large leaves 

 lying upon the ground, much rent or torn 



the stinging or biting of serpents. As Tor on the sides into gashes like Dandelion, 

 the use of it, my direction at the latter end j but with greater parts, more like the 

 will be sufficient, and enough for those that | smooth Sow Thistle, from among which 

 are studious in physic, to whet their brains rises a hollow, rough stalk, two or three 

 upon for one year or two. j feet high, branched from the middle up- 



$ ward, Avhereo-n are set at every joint longer 



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| leaves, little or nothing rent or cut, bearing 



HAZEL Nuts are so well known to every ton them sundry pale, yellow flowers, con- 

 body, that they need no description. j sisting of many small, narrow leaves, broad 

 Government and virtues^ They are under | pointed, and nicked in at the ends, set 

 the dominion of Mercury. The parted j in a double row or more, the outermost 

 kernels made into an electuary, or the milk j being larger than the inner, which form 

 drawn from the kernels with mead or > most of the Hawk-weeds (for there are 

 honeyed water, is very good to help an old ; many kinds of them) do hold, which turn 

 cough; and being parched, and a little j into down, and with the small brown- 



pepper put to them and drank, digests the; 

 distillations of rheum from the head. The 



ish seed is blown away with the wind. The 

 root is long and somewhat great, with 



dried husks and shells, to the weight of two j many small fibres thereat. The whole plan* 

 drams, taken in red wine, stays lasks and > is full of bitter-milk. 



women's courses, and so doth the red skin j Placed] It grows in divers places about 

 that covers the kernels, which is more ef- the field sides, and the path-ways in dry 



fectual to stay women's courses. 



And if this be true, as it is, then why 



grounds. 



Time.'] It flowers and flies away in thft 



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should the vulgar so familiarly affirm, that \ Summer months. 



eating nuts causes shortness of breath, than j Government and virtues.^ Saturn owns 



which nothing is falser? For, how can that jit. Hawk-weed (saith Dioscorides) is cool- 



which strengthens the lungs, cause shortness 

 of breath ? I confess, the opinion is far 

 oJder than I am ; I knew tradition was a 

 friend to error before, but never that he 



ing, somewhat drying and binding, and 

 therefore good for the heat of the stomach, 

 and gnawings therein ; for inflammations 

 and the hot fits of agues. The juice thereof 



