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form or impression you will give it." That fresh elder flowers, 

 hung in a vessel of new wine and pressed every evening for 

 seven nights together, " giveth to the wine a very good relish 

 and a smell like Muscadine." That the moth mullein is of no 

 use except that it will attract moths wherever it is laid. That 

 if pennyroyal is put into " unwholesome and stinking waters 

 that men must drinke (as at sea in long voyages) it maketh them 

 the less hurtful/' And to conclude, it is from Parkinson we 

 learn that " Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie did more desire 

 medowsweet then any other sweete herbe to strewe her chambers 

 withall." 



