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rind and skin being pared away, the root 

 appears of so fresh and lively a colour, 



of the stalks being divided into many smaii 

 branches, bear reddish or purplish flowers, 



wilh fresh coloured veins running through j and three-square seed, like unto other 

 it, that the choicest of that Rhubarb that is j Docks. The root is long, great and yellow, 

 brought us from beyond the seas cannot ; like unto the wild Docks, but a little redder; 

 excel it, which root, if it be dried carefully, j and if it be a little dried, shews less store of 

 and as it ought (which must be in our j discoloured veins than the other does when 

 country by the gentle heat of a fire, in re- j it is dry. 

 Hard the sun is not hot enough here to do j 



, ,, ,. | GREAT ROUND-LEAVED DOCK, OR BAS- 



it, and every piece kept from touching one : 



u \ -ii I u . 1 1 ll TARD RHUBARB. 



another) will hold its colour almost as well j 



as when it is fresh, and has been approved ; JDeteript.] THIS has divers large, round 



of, and commended by those who have 

 oftentimes used them. 



Placed] It grows in gardens, and flowers 

 about the beginning and middle of June, 

 and the seed is ripe in July. 



thin yellowish green leaves rising from the 

 root, a little waved about the edges, every 

 one standing upon a reasonably thick and 

 long brownish footstalk, from among which 

 rises up a pretty big stalk, about two feet 



Time.'] The roots that are to be dried } high, with some such high leaves growing 

 and kept all the year following, are not to f thereon, but smaller ; at the top whereot 

 be taken up before the stalk and leaves be j stand in a long spike many small brownish 

 quite turned red and gone, and that is not [flowers, which turn into a hard three square 

 until the middle or end of October, and ifj shining brown seed, I ike the garden Patience 

 they be taken a little before the leaves do j before described. The root grows greater 

 spring, or when they are sprung up, the j than that, with many branches or great 

 roots will not have half so good a colour in > fibres thereat, yellow on the outside, arid 

 them. i somewhat pale ; yellow within, with some 



I have given the precedence unto this, j discoloured veins like to the Rhubarb which 

 because in virtues also it hath the pre-emi- j is first described, but much less than it, 

 nence. I come now to describe unto you j especially when it is dry. 

 that which is called Patience, or Monk's \ Place and Time.'] These also grow in 

 Rhubarb ; and the next unto that, the great j gardens, and flower and seed at or near the 

 round-leaved Dock, or Bastard Rhubarb, | same time that our true Rhubarb doth, vi/. 

 for the one of these may happily supply in j they flower in June, and the seed is ripe in 

 the absence of the other, being not much j July. 



unlike in their virtues, only one more j Government and virtues.^ Mars claims 

 powerful and efficacious than the other. | predominancy over all these wholesome 

 And lastly, shall shew you the virtues of all herbs : You cry out upon him for an un- 

 the three sorts. j fortunate, when God created him for your 



GARDEN-PATIENCE, OR MONK'S 1UI n . { good (only he is angry with fools.) What 



| dishonour is this, not to Mars, but to God 

 | himself. A dram of the dried root of 



Descript.] THIS is a Dock bearing the | Monk's Rhubarb, with a scruple of Ginger 

 iirirne of Rhubarb for some purging quality j made into powder, and taken fasting in a 

 therein, and grows up with large tall stalks, j draught or mess of warm broth, purges 

 set with somewhat broad and long, fair, choler and phlegm downwards very gently 

 green leaves, not dented at all. The tops j and safely without danger. The seed 



