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told that tlicre it did grow, I ftill per lifted it was not true : but when I did behold this great quan- 
tide ofVVormwoodjit was nothing elfe but common Amos. How many Apothecaries haue been 
deceiued,hovv many they haue robbed of their money, and how many children haue been nothing 
the better for tak ing it, I refer it to the iudgement of the fimpIeft,confidering their owne report, to 
haue fold many hundreth pounds weight ofitjthe more to their (hame be it fpoken, and the leiTe 
wit or skill in the Apothecaries : therefore haue I fet dovyne this as a caueat vnto thole that buy 
of thefe feeds,firft to tafte and trie the fame before they giue it to their children, or commit it to 
any other vfe. $ Certainely our Author was either mifinformed, or the people of thefe times were 
very fimple.for I dare boldly fay there is Hot any Apothecary, or fcarce any other fo fimple as to be 
thus deceiued now. h 
<0 The 'time. 
It fldureth and bringeth forth his feed in Iuly and Augufti 
• Thi Namei. 
The French men call it Barbotine -, the Italians, Semen S{cn,t • whereupon alfo the Latinenartie 
SemeMtnaCame :the feed iscalledcuerywhcreSemeti fartffum ■ Holy-feed ; and Semen contra Lam- 
hricos: in Englifli,VVormfecd ; the herb it felfe is alfo called VVonnfeed,or wormfeed-wort:fome 
iameit Semen Zedoarisi, Zedoariefeede,becaufeithatha Imell fomewhat refembling that of Ze- 
doaric. 
The Temper attire. 
The feed is very bitter, and for that caufe of nature hot and drie. 
The Virtues. 
It is good againfl wormes of the belly and entrailes, taken any way, and better alfo if a little 
Rubarbe bee mixed withall, for fo the wormes are not onely killed, but likewife they are driuen 
downebythe fiege, which thing muft alwaiesbe regarded. 
The feed mixed with a little /tloe fuccotrina, and brought to the forme of a plaifter, and applied B 
to the nauell of a childe doth the like. 
C h a f. 452,. Offorreine and Idaflard IVarmeivoods. 
