of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 
ning up of the skin and flefh from the naileroots. They reprefle the exceeding flux of womens 
monthly fleurs :th¢ matrice and tiwill if they be fliptand falne out of the bodice, they reduce in- 
to their place againe. In fumme, for the eyes, for the fores and infirmities of the mouth,and na- 
tural] parts ferving for generation, they be foveraigne, 
f Cure LL. rei 
an yce:alfothat a ftaffe made thereof, ifa man doe fling it at any beaft whatfoever, although it 
chaunceto light fhort for default of {trength in his arms who Aung it,will notwithftanding etch 
forward and roll from the place where it fell upon the earth,and approch neareto the beaftafore- . 
faid ; of fo admirable a nature is this Holly tree. | 
The fume or fmoke of any Yeugh tree, killeth mice and rats . Neither hath Nature produced 
brambles for nothing els but to pricke and do hurt; for fuch is her bountie,thatthe beries which 
they beare are mans meat, befides many other medicinable properties: for they have a deficca- 
tive and afttingent vertue, and ferve as a moft appropriat remedie for the gumbs, the inflamma- 
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