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it Appetite, and sent her daughter to taste] with many round, woody, hairy stalks from 

 these wormwoods, who finding this the; one root. Its height is four feet, 01 three at 

 least bitter, made the squeamish wench \ least. The leaves in longitude are long, in 

 extol it to the skies, though the virtues ofitj latitude narrow, in colour white, in form 

 never reached the middle region of the air. | hoary, in similitude likeSouthernwood,only 

 Its due praise is this; It is weakest, there- j broader and longer; in taste rather salt than 

 fore fittest for weak bodies, and fitter for: bitter, because it grows so near the salt- 

 those bodies that dwell near it, than those* water; at the joints, with the Jeaves toward 

 that dwell far from it ; my reason is, the sea j the tops it bears little yellow flowers; the 

 (those that live far from it, know when they i root lies deep, ^nd is woods, 

 come near it) casts not such a smell as the j Common Wormwood I shall not describe, 

 land doth. The tender mercies of God 1 for every boy that can eat an egg knows it. 

 being over all his works, hath by his eternal | Roman Wormwood; and why Roman, 

 Providence, planted Seriphian by the sea- \ seeing it grows familiarly in England? It 

 side, as a fil medicine for the bodies of those I may be so called, because it is good for a 

 that live near it. Lastly, It is known to all ] stinking breath, which the Romans cannot 



that know any thing in the course of nature, 

 that the liver delights in sweet things, if so, 

 it abhors bitter ; then if your liver be weak, 

 it is none of the wisest courses to plague it 



be very free from, maintaining so many 

 bad houses by authority of his Holiness. 



Descript.~] The stalks are slender, and 

 shorter than the common Wormwood by 



with an enemy. If the liver be weak, a } one foot at least ; the leaves are more finely 

 consumption follows ; would you know the 1 cut and divided than they are, but some- 

 reason ? It is this, A man's flesh is repaired | thing smaller; both leaves and stalks are 

 by blood, by a third concoclion, which \ hoary, the flowers of a pale yellow colour ; 

 transmutes the blood into flesh, it is well it is altogether like the common Worm- 



I said, (concoction) say I, if I had said 

 (boiling) every cook would have understood 



wood, save only in bigness, for it is smaller: 

 in taste, for it is not so bitter; in smell, for 



me. The liver makes blood, and if it be it is spicy. 



weakened that if it makes not enough, the j Place!] It grows upon the tops of the 

 flesh wastes ; and why must flesh always be 1 mountains (it seems 'tis aspiring) there 'tis 

 renewed ? Because the eternal God, when | natural, but usually nursed up in gardens 

 he made the creation, made one part of it I for the use of the apothecaries in London. 

 in continual dependency upon another;,' TimeJ] All Wormwoods usually flower 

 and why did he so ? Because himself only i; in August, a little sooner or later. 



is permanent ; to teach us, That we should 

 not (ix our affections upon what is transi- 

 tory, but what endures for ever. The re- 



Government and virtues,] Will you give 

 me leave to be critical a little? I must 

 take leave. Wormwood is an herb of Mars, 



suit of this is, if the liver be weak, and can- ; and if Pontanus say otherwise, he is beside 

 not make blood enough, I would have said, ! the bridge ; I prove it thus : What delights 

 Sanguify, if I had written only to scholars, ;in martial places, is a martial herb; but 

 the Seriphian, which is the weakest of! Wormwood delights in martial places (foi 

 Wormwoods, is better than the best. I have \ about forges and iron works you may gather 

 oeen critical enough, if not too much. |a cart-load of it,) ergo, it is a martial herb. 



Place.] It grows familiarly in England, | It is hot and dry in the first degree, viz. 

 by the sea-side. | just as hot as your blood, and no hotter. It 



Dwcnp/.] It starts up out of the earth, ' { remedies the evils choler can inflict on the 



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