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fmaller vp to the toppe, where it is diuided into diuers fmall branches, whereon grow 
purpiidi flowers, and three fquare darke red feede, like vnto others : the roots are no: 
great, but fotnewhar long, and very red, abiding many yeares,yct fometimes fpoiled 
with the c-xtremitie of winter. 
TheVfcof Blood-wortc. 
The whole and onely vfe of the herbe almoft/erueth for the pot,amon<» 
other herbes, and, as I faid before, is accounted a mod efpeciall one for that 
purpofe.The feede therof is much commended for any fluxe in man or wo- 
man,to be inwardly taken, and fo no doubt is the roote, being ofaftiptickc 
qualitie. 
Chat. XVI. 
Oxalu fiue Aceto/d. Sorrell. 
S Orrell mud needes bee reckoned with the D®cke$, forthat it isfo like vnto them 
in all things, and is of many called the fowcr Docke. Of Sorrels there are ma- 
ny forts, but I (hall not trouble you with any othcrin this place, then the com- 
mon Garden Sorrell, which is moft knovrne, and of greateft vfe with vs ; which hath 
tender greene long Ieaues full of iuice, broade, and bicorned as it were, next vnto the 
ftalke,like as Arrach, Spinach, and our Englifli Mercurie haue,ofa (harpe fowcr tafte : 
the (hikes are (1 ender, bearing purplifh long heads, wherein lye three fquare (hining 
browne feede, like, but letter then the other : the root is fmaller then any of theother 
Dockes, but browne, and full of ftrings, and abideth without decaying,hauing greene 
Ieaues all the winter, except in the very extremitie thereof, which often takethaway 
all or moft of his Ieaues. 
The Vfe of Sorrell. 
Sorrell is much vfedin fawces, both forthe whole, and the ficke, cooling 
the.hot liuers, and ftomackes of the ficke, and procuring vnto them an ap- 
petite vnto meate, when their fpirirs are almoft fpent with the violence of 
their furious or fierie fits } and is alfo of a pleafant rellifh for the whole, in. 
quickning vpa dull ftomacke that is ouer-loaden with euery daies plenty of 
dillres.lt is diuers waies drefled by Cooks, to pleafe their Maftcrs ftomacks. 
C hap. XVII. 
Buglejfum luteum, Jiue Ltnguu noun, Langdebeefe. 
V Ntothis place may well bee referred our ordinary Borage and Bugloffe, fet 
forth in the former Boofce, in regard of the properties whereunto they are 
much employed, that is, toferuethe pot among other herbes, as is fufficiently 
knowne vnto all. And yet I confe(Te, that this herbe (although it bee called "Buglejfum 
luteum, as if it were a kind of Bugloffe) hath no corrcfpondency with Bugloffe or Bo- 
rage in any part, failing only a little in theleafe; & our Borage or Bugloffe might more 
fitly, according to the Greeke name, bee called Oxe tongue dr Langdebeefe; and this 
might in my mdgement more aptly be referred to the kinds of Hieratium Hawkeweed, 
whereunto it neereft a pproacheth : but as it is commonly receiued, fo rake it in this 
place, vntill i t come to receiue the placcis proper for it. It hath diuers broad and long 
darke green Ieaues, lying vponthe ground, very rough in handling, full of fmall haircs 
or prickes, ready to enter into the hands of any that handle it 3 among which rifeth 
vp 
