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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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obferue mother Bembies rules, to take iuft fo many knots or Iprigs, and no more, left it fallout fo 
that itdo you no good, if you catch no harm by it. Many odde old wines fables are written of Ver 
uaine tending to witchcraft and forcerie, which you may read elfewhere, for 1 am not willing to 
trouble your eares with reporting fuch trifles, as honeft eares abhorre to heare. 
Archtgenes maketh a garland of Veruaine for the head-ache, when the caufe of the infirmitie 
proccedeth ofheat. 
The herbe ftamped with oile of rofes and V inegcr, or the deco.ftion of it made in oile of rofes, 
keepeth the haires from filling, being bathed or annointed therewith . 
It is a remedie againft putrified ?lccrs,it healeth vp wounds, and perfectly cureth Fiftulaes, it p 
ivaftethaway old fwellings,and taketh away the heat ofinflammations. 
The decodHon of the roots and leaues fwageth the tooth-ache, and/afteneth them, and healeth q 
the vlcers of the mouth. 
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They report faith Pliny, that if the dining roome be fprinckledwith water in which the herbe pj 
hath becne fteeped,the guefts will be the merrier, which alfo Diofcoricles mentioneth. 
Moft of the latter Phylitions do glue the iuice or decoftion hereof to them that hath the plague j 
but thefe men are deceiued.not only in that they looke for fome truth from the father of falfhoo'd 
and leafings, but alfo becaufe in Head ofa good and fure remedie they minifter no remedy at all 
for it is reported, that the Diuell did reueale it as a fecret and diuine medicine. 
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Chap, 247 . Of Scabious. 
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Common Scabious. 
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t 2 Scabiefi minor ,fiue Columbaria. 
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