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The isjtcbcn (garden. 
TheVfeof Dragons. 
The chiefe vfe whcreunto Dragons are applyed, is, that according to an 
old receiuedcuflome and tradition (and notthciudgeraent of any learned 
Author) the diftilled water is giuen with Mithridatum or T reaklc to cxpell 
noy forae and peftilentiall vapours from the heart. 
Chap. LIX. 
Hut*. Garden Rue, or Herbe Grace. 
G Arden Rue or Herbe Grace growcth vp with hard whitifh wooddy (hikes, 
w hereon are fet diuers branches of leaues, being diuidcd into many fmall ones, 
which are fomcwhatthicke and round pointed, of a blewiih greene colour ; 
the flowers (land at the tops of the ftalkes confiding of foure fmall yellow leaues, with 
a greene button in the middle,and diuers fmall yellow threds about it,which growing 
ripe, containe within them fmall blacke fccde : the rootc is white and wooddy, fprea- 
dingferre in the ground. ThcVfeofRllf . 
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The many good properties whereunto Rueferueth, hath I thinke infor- 
mer times caufed theEnglilh name of Herbe Grace to be giuen vnto it. For 
without doubt it is a moll wholefome herbe, although bitter and flrong,and 
could our dainty ftomackes brooke the vfe thereof, it would worke admi- 
rable effcas being carefully andskilfully applyed, as time and occafion did 
require : but not vndifcreetly or hand ouer head, as many vfe to doc that 
haue no skill. Somedocrippevpabeaderowleof the vermes of Rue, as 
Macer the Poet and others, in whom you (hall finde them fet downe, to bee 
good for the head,eyes,breaft,liuer, heart, fpleene,&c. In fome places they 
vfe to boy le the leaues of Rue, and keep them in pickle, to eate them as Sam- 
pirc for thehelpe ©f weakceyes. It is very auaileable in gliders ordrinkes 
againft the winde or the collicke, and to procure vrine that is flayed by the 
paines therof.The diftilled water is often vfed for the fame purpofes afore- 
faid : but beware of the too frequent or ouermuch vfe thereof, becaufe it 
heatcth exceedingly, and wafteth nature mightily. 
Chap. LX. 
Ctrd»m Benidichis. The Bleffcd Thiftle. 
C Arduus benedidtus or the blefTed Thiftle, hath many weaketender branches !y- 
ingforthemoftpartontheground, whereon arefet long and narrow leaues, 
much cut in or waued about the edges, hairy or rough in handling, yet without 
any hard or fharpe thornes or prickles at all, that the tendereft hand may touch them 
withoutharme : but thofe that grow toward the toppcs of the ftalkes are fomewhat 
more prickly,and the heads which grow on the tops of the feuerall branches are fome- 
what (harpe, fet with prickles like a Thiftle : the flower is yellow, and the feede lying 
within the woolly or flocky doune like to all other thiftles, are blackifh, long and 
round, with a few haires on the head of them : the roote is white, and perifheth euery 
ycare after it hath giuen feede. 
TheVfeof theblefled Thiftle. 
The diftilled water hereof is much vfed to he drunke againft agues ofall 
fortes, eyther peftilentiall or humorali, of long continuance or of Mfe: 
but < 
