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hrienefs or color of the Leaves, from the ordinary 
email S.ai!e of Virtue, but that it has not Ears Jo 
Tlenfly is that has ; but the chiefeft d,fference\ 
'<ha as Vinners are red, and that the Plant in 
both its fatal! and tafle is like unto Wormwood. 
X. The Seventh, or party colored Sage, lots 
kind, a rows with Roots, Branches and Leaves 
very like unto our ffft or common Sage but fome- 
sahat (mailer: the chief difference conjlfis in the co- 
lor of the Leaves, being diverjly Marked and Spot- 
ted, with -Mhfe and red among the Careen, f or 
upon one Branch you Shall have the Leaves Jede- 
-rally Marked one from another, as the one half of. 
Pe Leaf -white, and the other half green, with Red 
fhadowed over them bothu, or more white than green, 
with fane red in it, cither parted, or Jhadowed or 
dajht here and there : Or more green than white 
and red therein, either in the middle, or end of 
the Leaf 1 or more or le.fi. ported, or ftnped with 
white and red in ■ the Green ■ or elje Jometimes 
wholly Green, the whole Branch together,; as Ma- 
ture is p/eafed to exhibit the Varieties. Shis man- 
ner of Growing, nfmg from one and the fame 
Plant, bccaufc it is Jo much Variable, is she titore 
de/eSable and Voidable. . . 
XI The Eighth, or Speckled Sage. This in 
Its Roots, Stalks, Branches, Leaves, Blowers, Seed, 
form and manner of growing as alfo irt its >nag- 
nitude U very like the laft dejenbed, being really a 
Species thereof ; but in this kind the Reaves are 
L-ckled as it were, partly with white and green-, 
f ut it has not the beauty of the former, beeaufe 
that has three colors evidently to be difeerned in 
every Leaf almofl , the red adding a fuperabound- 
,„g beauty to the ref -, whereas this is only Spotted 
with two colours white and green. The two laft, 
or Seventh and eighth kinds, are only different Sorts 
of the firfi or common kind before declared . 
YAV The Places. Thefirft, fecond, third, fourth, 
fifth and fixth grow naturally in Spain and Italy * 
and all of them, as alfo the feventh and eighth 
are now Natives of England , and grow and flou- 
ritti admirably in our Gardens. , , . 
XIII. The Times. Almolt all tliefe feveral kinds 
of Sage Flower in July, and have ripe Seed in Au- 
guj], or not long alter their times of Howering. 
But’the Sage of Virtue , tho’ molt commonly and 
in many places, it yields no Seed at all, yet in 
fome Countries and in Come Years it does : how- 
ever its defeft ol Seed is fupplyed, in its increafe 
by ferting of flips in the proper feafon. 
XIV. The Qualities. Sage is faid to be hot and 
dry in the third Degree, Altringent, Anodyn, Car- 
minative, Digeftive, Difcufllve, Diuretick, and 
Traumatick: Cephalick, Neurotick, Stomatick, 
Hyfterick. Arthruick, Emmenagogick, Sudonfick, 
Alexipharmick and Analeptick. 
XV. The Specification. It is good againlt a V er- 
tigo, Lerhar-gy, Headach, from a cold Caufe, Pal- 
fie, Convulfions, fpitting Blood, weaknefs of the 
Nerves, Bairennefs in Men or Women, Poifon, the 
bi tings of Serpents and other Venomous Creatures, 
the Plague, and other Malign and Peftilential Dif- 
eafes. Catarrhs, Rheumatifms, &c. 
XVI. The Preparations. You may have there- 
. The Green Leaves. 2. The Juice. 3. The 
• An Infufion in Wine or Water. $. A 
The Virtues . 
from, 1 
Efience. 
Puuder 
ment. 7 
gar if m. 
Tintlure . 
of the Leaves. 6. An Oil , or Oint- 
. A Cataplafm. 8. Pills. 9. A Gar- 
id. A dijlilled Water. 11 . A Spirituous 
12. An Acid Tintture. 13. An Oily 
Tintlure. 14. A Spirit. 15. A diflil/ed Oil. 16. 
Pate fates or Pawers. 17. An Elixir. 18. A 
C fi.rve of the Flowers. 
XVII. The Green Leaves. They are ufually 
eaten in the Spring as a Sallet, with a little 
Vinegar, Salt, and Pepper, with good Butter 
and Bread-, fo eaten it ltrengthens the Stomach, 
expells Wind, comforts the Bowels, and relifts 
Poifon, and is profitable for fuch as are_ Dull 
and Drowfie, and apt to be afflifted with Vapors 
from the Spleen or Womb. 
XVllI. The Juice. It flops the Bleeding of 
Wounds, and cleanles foul putrid Sores and Ul- 
cers. Agrippa fays, that if it be taken with a 
little Salt by Childing Women, . for fome days 
before they accompany with their Husbands, 
whofe Wombs are too moifl and ilippery, and 
are unfruitful by reafon of that default, that it 
will help them to conceive ^ and fuch as have 
conceived, and are fubject often to mifearry up- 
on any fmall occafion, it will prevent the Abor- 
tion, and caufe them the better to retain the fruit 
in the Womb, and alfo make it the more lively. 
Therefore in Cyprus and JEgypt , after a great 
Plague, Women were ordered to drink the Juice 
of Sage, to caufe them to be the more fruitful. 
And Orpheus fays, that three Spoonfuls of the 
Juice of Sage, fweetned with a little Honey, and 
taken falling, does prefently flop the Spitting 
or Vomiting of Blood. Matthiolus fays, that it 
is very profitable for all manner of Pains of the 
head coming of Cold, and Rheumatick humors, 
as alfo for all pains of the Joints, whether ufed 
inwajrilv or outwardly j and for fuch as have the 
FSff^^Sicknefs, Lethargy, or droufieEvil, and 
fuch as are dull and heavy of fpirit, and for thofe 
who have the Palfie, or are troubled with De- 
fluxions of their Rheum upon the Lungs, as alfo 
for other Difeafes of the Thorax or Breft. Diof- 
corides fays that it provokes Urine, brings down 
the Courfes, and forces away the dead Child. 
Pliny fays that it provokes Womens Courfes ; and 
yet that it flops them, when they come down too 
fail i helps the flinging and bitings of Serpents, 
and kills Worms breeding in the Ears, as alfo in 
Putrid Sores or Ulcers. 
XIX. The Ejjence. It has all the Virtues of 
the Juice, and is more potent to all thofe Intenti- 
ons i befides which, it is of good ufe in the Plague 
it felf, and againft all Malign and Peftilential Dif- 
eafes, being taken Morning and Evening, and at 
other times as the Phyfician ftiall advife, from a 
fpoonful to 3 fpoonfulls, according to Age and 0- 
ther Accidents, in any proper Vehicle. 
XX. The Infufion or Decoflion in Wine or Wa- 
ter. They have all the Virtues of the Juice or 
Efience, but much inferiour to them in Potency, 
and therefore may be given from a quarter of a 
Pint to half a Pint at a time, as the occafion may 
require ; and may be ufed Ordinarily, infuled in 
Water, after the manner of Tea, by which many 
have found very good Effefts. Bathed upon the 
Cods it abates their Itching. 
XXI. The Pouder of the Leaves. Taken tp a 
Dram, it reftifies the evil difpofition of the Sto- 
mach, coriefts and expels Wind, is good againft 
Scrophula or Struma ^ and outwardly applyed flops 
the bleeding of Wounds, and alfo cleanfes and 
drys up old Putrid and running Sores or Ulcers. 
It alfo flops the immoderate Flux of the Courfes, 
and flays Vomiting. 
XXII. The Oil or Ointment. They are Anodyr, 
or eafers of Pain, difeufs Tumors in their fitft ap- 
pearance, 
