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little honey taken warme, it doth open the belly; but boyled m red wine and drunke, it ftayeth the flux of the 
belly &c it helpeth the Bottcs in horles as you heard before ; being outwardly applyed it healeth old V lcers.that 
are cancrou-or eating,and hollow or fiftulous.which many have uled and much commended;as alio forthefores 
in the month and ferret parts-.the leaves when they arefulhgrorVne being layd upon the skinr.e.will alter a (mall 
time raile bliflcrs thereon as Tmgm faith : the water thereof helpeth the heatc and inflammation in the eyesithe 
fe'-de as Camernrim faith being taken .caufeth paines in the head; and becaule bothflowers and herbes are of t fo 
nleafiiw a fweete lent,many doe much delight therein,to have it layd in their Chambers,Parlars,&c.and Queene 
SI Zjftbtrth of famous memory,did more delire it then any other fweet herbe to drew her Chambe s withall: a leate 
or two hereof layd in a cup of wine,will give as quick and as fine a rellifh thereco.as Burnet will,as 1 iayd before. 
Chip, I. IX. 
Fotcnt'iUa. Wilde Tanfeji. 
.•vjne-n,! Ilde Tanfey crcepeth upon the ground, taking route at the foynts, every where round abode 
'Pyfy 1 i --.i_„.Ann»rli t-har ir. will nilirUlv f.ikp nn n ort’ar minnaflp. fl-tonr-inor f/vrt-I-i 
wii 
IldeTantey crcepetn upon rue giumiu, « “»■ ivj'.o, "i.c.e iuwu «it 
BVAVOOWW) t i ie p i 5ce where it groweth, that it will quickly take up a great compafle, fhooting forth 
&Wfc//4 fundty winged leaves made of many, let on both (ides of a middle ribbe.fome (mailer, being fet 
P'ife among the greater, fomewhat like unto 4 pw«»;orMedefwectc, and likealio unto Tanfey, from 
w hence it tooke the name; for it partaketh in forme with them all, and denied about the edges. 
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Fotouiia. VV'Uc Tandy. 
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but of a faire greene colour on the upper fide, and of a hi-, 
ver fhining white colour underneath : it beareth no • alk, 
but the flowers every one of them by it felfe ft and upona 
fmall fhort footeftalke, rifing from the j'oynts with the 
leaves, which confift of five fmall yellow round pointed 
leaves, very like unto thole of Cinkefoilc, or Five leaved 
grafle : the prime roote fhooteth downeward like the 
Cinkefoile. 
. The Place. 
If groweth almoft every where vvilde abroad in meft 
places* 
TheTime. 
It flow reth in June and Inly. 
The Names, 
It is called PotentiHa ah exirmjs viribus qttibui pallet y and 
Argentina a foliomm argenteo Jplendore, fome take it to bee 
Stephanomchs of Pliny , lib, 26. c. 13. others referre it to 
Argemone : It is alfo called Tanacetum/ylvfftrc, or a £ re ft e 2 
as TZrunfalfiws doth. Tabcrmontanui callcth it Anferina , 
Gefner in hortis Germanist Argemone altera : and fo doth 
Tragus y and withall faith, it might be called alfo Millifo- 
lium majuf, and fome Agrimoniajyivejlritf. the Italians call 
it PotentUla , the French Argentine fauuage y the Germanes 
Cjrenfich and Gcnferich, the Dutch Ganferuke , wee in 
lipj Silverweedc,and wilde Tanfey. 
T he p ertues. 
Wilde Tanfey, is cold, and dry, and binding Withall, 
fo that it ftayeth the laske,and all fluxes of blood in men or 
women, and fome fay it will doc fo if the greene herbs 
be but worne in the fhoocs, fo as it be next the skinne, it 
ftayeth alfo fpittings or vomitings of blood; the powder 
of the dryed herbe taken in lome of the diftilled water, fa 
helpeth the whites in women, but more efpecially if a 
little Coralland Ivory in powder be put to it: it is alio 
much commended tohelpe children that are burden, and 
have a Rupture .-being boyled in water and fait; it is alfo '• ... r .y , , , ... 
faid to be good for thofe that have bin bruifed by any fall,or the like,to difiblve the blood, & as .it is laid doth help 
ro break the done- being boyled in wine anddrunke, it eafeth the griping paines oftthcbowels, and ls.goodfor 
the Sciatica and Joynt aches: the fame boyled in Vinegar with Hony and Allome & gargled in the mouth ealeth 
the paines of the toothach, faftnethloofe teeth,, and the gums that are fore and ippngic, and fetleth the Vvttla 
or Pallareofthe mouth when it is fallen downe; it elenfeth and healeth thole V leers that are therein, or 111 the 
lecrec parts, and is Angular good alfo for inward wounds, and to confoiidate or elofe the lips of greene wounds, 
as alfo to heale the old'moyft and corrupt running fores, in the legges or elfcwhere : being bruifed and applyed 
ro the foies of the feete, and to the wrefts of the hands,it wonderfully cooleth the hot fits of Agues,be they never 
fo violent.‘the diftilled water elenfeth the skinne of alldifcolounngs therein,as morphew,£unbiiming,&c. as alfo 
pimples freckles and the like, and dropped into the eyes, or V/et cloathes applyed unto them, taketh away the 
heat and inflammations in them. 
