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e& Of Reits or féa-gral[eyandWallwort, Of the wild Vine, andWormewood. 
He fea-weed that looketh red, named in Latine Alga, is very proper for the pricke and 
{ting of Scorpions. 
Touching Wallwort,it hath leaves carying a ftrong and ftinking {mell with them : thee 
ftems be rough and parted into joints : the feed blacke like to that of the Ivie, fave that the ber- 
ries containing the famebe foft. This hearbe delighteth in fhadie,coole,rough,and waterie pla- 
ces, Being given to the full quantitie of one Acetabulum, itis fingular for the inward maladies 
which be proper to women. . i : 
The wild Vine,called by the Greekes Ampe los-Agria,is an hearbe (asI have fufficiently de- 
fcribed alreadie in my Treatife of Vines planted and well ordered by mans hand) which purteth 
forth hard leaves of Afh-colour, long braunches and winding rods clad with a thicke skin, and 
thefame bee red, refembling the flower Phlox,which in the chapter and difcourfe of Violets, I 
called lovis Flamma; and afeed it beareth much like unto the graines within a Pomegranat. 
The root boiled in three cyaths of water and two cyaths of the wine comming out of the Ifland 
Coos, ts 2 gentle emollitive of the bellie, and maketh the bodiefoluble, in which regard it is 
_ given with good fuccefle to fuch as be in adtopfie:A very good hearbe for women,as well tore- 
* Veruptifsime in 
u/u eff. Some 
read Vetus fine 
u/s eff, that is, 
lf this drink’be 
ftale, and not 
_ufed prefently, 
itis good tor 
nothing, 
ctifie the infirmities of the matrice, as alfo to fcoure and beautifie the skin of their face. Moreo- 
ver, tor the Sciatica it is good to ftamp it leafe andall,and to annoint the greeved place with the 
juice thereof, | : 
As for Wormewood,there be many kinds thereof. One isnamed Santonicum of a cittie in _ 
Fraunce called Saints: another, to wit Ponticum, taketh that name of thekingdome Pontus ; 
where the (heepe feed fat with it, which is the caufe that they bee found without gall: neither is 
there a better Wormewood than it : much bitterer than that of Italie,& yetthe marrow or pith 
within of that Ponticke Wormewood, is fweetto ours, Meet and requifit it isthat I {hould fee 
downe the vertues and properties thereof, an hearbe (I muitneeds fay)as common as any, and 
moft readic at hand, howbeit,few or none fo good and wholefome : to fay nothing of theefpe- 
ciall account which the people of Rome maketh of it about their holy facrificesand folemni- 
ties :forin thofe feaftivall holydaies named Latinz, at whattime as thereis held a great run- 
ning with chariots for the beft game,hee that firft attaineth to the goale and winneth the prife, 
hath a dranght of Wormewood prefented unto him. And I beleeve verely, that our forefathers 
and aunceftours devifed this honourable reward, forthe good health of that victorious chariot- 
tict, as judging him worthieto live ftill. And in truth,a right comfortable hearbe itis forthe fto- 
macke,and doth mightily ftrengthen it: In which regard, there is an artificiall wine that cartieth 
the ftrength and taft theteof,named Abfinthites,according as I have fhewed heretofore, Moreo- 
ver, there 1s an ordinarie drinke made of the decoétion of Wormewood boiled in water: For 
the right making whereof, take fix drams weight of the leaves and {prigs together, feeththem in 
three fextars of raine water, andin the end putthereto afinall quantitie of falc; which done, - 
the liquor oughito {land a day anda night afterwards to coole in the open aire, and then isi to 
bee uled : Certes,there is not a decodtion of any hearbe of *fo great antiquitieas it,and knowne 
to have beencufed fo long. Moreover, the infufion of Wormewood isin great requeft, anda 
common drinke: for fo we ufe to call the liquor wherein it lay fteeped a certainetime. Nowthis 
would be confidered,that be the proportion of water what it will, the faid infufion ought to ftand 
ry 
clofe covered for three daies together. Seldome or neveris there any ufe of Wormewood bea- . — 
ten to pouder, ne yet of the juice drawne by way of expreffion, And yet thofe that preffe forth 
a juice, take the Wermewood when the feed upon it beginneth to {well and wax full,and being 
newly gathered, letit lie foaking in water three daies together: but if it were drie before,to fteep 
it a whole feven-night : which done, they fet it over the fire ina brafen pan, with this proporti- 
on, namely, ten hemines of the hearbe, to five and fortie fextars of water, and fuffer it to boile - 
unull a third part of the liquor be confumed : after this the deco&tion muftrun through a ftrai- | 
ner, with hearbeand all well prefled : then oveig' tobeefetupon the fire againe, and fuffe- 
redto feel gently and leifurely to the height oftonfiftence of honey, much afterthe order of 
the {yrrup made of Centaurie the lefle. Bue when allis done, thisjuleb or {yrrup of WWorme- 
. , wood 
