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joram; Wild Marjoram, and Grove Mar-? dry places of this land; but it is not ray 

 joram. j purpose to insist upon them. The garden 



Dfscripi.'] Wild or field Marjoram hath kinds being most used and useful, 

 a root which creeps much under ground,! Time.~] They flower in the end of Summer, 

 which continues a long time, sending up j Government and virtues^] It is an herb of 

 sundry-brownish, hard, square stalks, with | Mercury, and under Aries, and therefore is 

 smalt dark green leaves, very like those of$an excellent remedy for the brain and other 

 Sweet Marjoram, but harder, and some- j parts of the body and mind, under the do- 

 what broader; at the top of the stalks stand minion of the same planet. Our common 

 tufts of flowers, of a deep purplish red { Sweet Marjoram is warming and comfor- 

 colour. The seed is small and something ! table in cold diseases of the head, stomach, 

 blacker than that of Sweet Marjoram, $ sinews, and other parts, taken inwardly, or 



Place.'] It grows plentifully in the bor- \ outwardly applied. The decoction thereof 

 ders of corn fields, and in some copses. \ being drank, helps all diseases of the chest 



Time.'] It flowers towards the latter end j which hinder the freeness of breathing, and 

 of the Summer. ! is also profitable for the obstructions of the 



Government and virtues.'] This is also i liver and spleen. It helps the cold griefs 

 under the dominion of Mercury. It i of the womb, and the windiness thereof, and 



strengthens the stomach and head much, i 

 there being scarce a better remedy growing; 



the loss of speech, by resolution of the 

 tongue. The decoction thereof made with 



for such as are troubled with a sour humour 1 some Pellitory of Spain, and long Pepper, 

 in the stomach; it restores the appetite > or with a little Acorns or Origanum, being 

 being lost ; helps the cough, and consump- 1 drank, is good for those that cannot make 

 lion of the lungs; it cleanses the body of {water, and against pains and torments in 

 choler, expels poison, and remedies the in- j the belly; it provokes women's courses, if 

 firmities of the spleen ; helps the failings of|it be used as a pessary. r Being made into 

 venomous beasts, and helps such as have | powder, and mixed with honey, it takes 

 poisoned themselves by eating Hemlock, | away the black marks of blows, and bruises, 



Henbane, or Opium. It provokes urine and 



being thereunto applied ; it is good for the 



the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and i inflammations and watering of the eyes, 

 the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaun-5 being mixed with fine flour, and laid unto 

 dice. The juice being dropped into the! them. The juice dropped into the ears, 

 ears, helps deafness, pain and noise in the I eases the pains and singing noise in them, 

 ears. And thus much for this herb, be- 1 It is profitably put into those ointments 

 i-ween which and adders, there is a deadly land salves that are warm, and comfort the 

 antipathy. \ outward parts, as the joints and sinews ; 



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{ The powder thereof snurred up into the nose 



SWEET Marjoram is so well known, provokes sneezing, and thereby purges the 

 being an inhabitant in every garden, that it | brain ; and chewed in the mouth, draws 

 is needless to write any description thereof, | forth much phlegm. The oil made thereof, 

 neither of the Winter Sweet Marjoram, orhs very warm and comfortable to the joints 

 Pot Marjoram. j that are stiff, and the sinews that are hard, 



Place.] They grow commonly in gar itornolify and supple them. Marjoram is 

 dens; ^some sorts grow wild in the bor- j much used in all odoriferous water, pow- 

 ers of corn fields and pastures, ia M. n-i ders, &c. thatare for ornament or delight- 



