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green leaves by the couples, and sweet 1 (as Agrimony hath) somewhat deeply dented 

 smelling white flowers in tufts at the end of ^ about the edges, of a sad green colour on 

 the branches, which turn into small black i the upper side, and greyish underneath, 



berries that have a purplish juice with them, i 



of a pretty sharp scent and taste, somewhat 



and some seeds that are flat on the one ! like unto the Burnet, and a leaf hereof put 

 side, with a hole or dent therein ; into a cup of claret wine, gives also a fine 



Place.] It grows in this land, in divers ! relish to it. At the tops of the stalks and 

 woods. ! branches stand many tufts of small white 



Time.] Our Privet flowers in June and i flowers thrust thick together, which smell 

 July, the berries are ripe in August and { much sweeter than the leaves ; and in their 

 September. ( places, being fallen, come crooked and 



Government and virtues.] The Moon is j cornered seed. The root is somewhat 

 ladvoflhis. It is little used in physic with j woody, and blackish on the outside, and 

 us m these times, more than in lotions, to j brownish within, with divers great strings, 

 vash sores and sore mouths, and to cool land lesser fibres set thereat, of a strong scent, 

 .nflammations, and dry up fluxes. Yet { but nothing so pleasant as the flowers and 



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vrtatthiolus saith, ;t serves all the uses for 

 which Cypress, or the East Privet, is ap- 

 pointed by Dioscorides and Galen. He 



leaves, and perishes not, but abides many 

 years, shooting forth a-new every Spring. 

 Place] It grows in moist meadows 



further saith, That the oil that is made of: that lie mostly wet, or near the courses ol 



the flowers of Privet infused therein, and \ water. 



set in the Sun, is singularly good for the in- ; Time] It flowers in some places or 



flammations of wounds, and for the head-; other all the three Summer months, that is, 



ache, coming of a hot cause. There is a j June, July, and August, and the seed is 



sweet water also distilled from the flowers, > ripe soon after. 



that is good for all those diseases that need { Government and virtues] Venus claims 



cooling and drying, and therefore helps all j dominion over the herb. It is used to stay 



fluxesof the belly or stomach, bloody-fluxes, jail manner of bleedings, fluxes, vomitings, 



and women's courses, being eithet drank or I and women's courses, also their whites: 



applied ; as all those that void blood at the It is said to alter and take away the fits of 



mouth, or any other place, and for distilla- 

 tions of rheum in the eyes, especially if it 



the quartan agues, and to make a merry 

 heart, for which purpose some use the 



be used wilh them. \ flowers, and some the leaves. It helps 



(speedily those that are troubled with the 



QUEEN OF THE MEADOWS, ME ADO w j cholic ; being boiled in wine, and with a 



little honey, taken warm, it opens the belly; 

 but boiled in red wine, and drank, it stays 

 the flux of the belly. Outwardly applied, 



cankerous, or 



SWEET, OR MEAD SWEET. 



Descript] THE stalks of these are red- 



dish, rising to be three feet high, sometimes { it helps old ulcers that are cankero 

 four or five feet, having at the joints thereof i hollow fistulous, for which it is by many 

 Jarge winged leaves, standing one above! much commended, as also for the sores in 

 another at distances, consisting of many ! the mouth or secret parts. The leaves when 

 and somewhat broad leaves, set on each j they are full grown, being laid on the skin, 

 side of a middle rib, being hard, rough, or { will, in a short time, raise blisters thereon, 

 rugged, crumpled much like unto elm leaves, I as Tragus saith. The water thereof helps 

 having also some smaller leaves with them j the heat and imflammation in the eyes. 



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