W INTER Sauorie . . bringeth forth very 
many branches, compassed on 
euery side with narrow and sharpe 
pointed leaues. 
Summer Sauorie groweth with a slender 
brittle stalke of a foot high, diuided into little 
branches. . . The floures stand hard to the 
branches, of a light purple, tending to white- 
nesse. 
THE VERTUES. 
Winter Sauorie. . . maketh thinne, cutteth, 
it clenseth the passages. 
Summer Sauorie . . . maketh thinne and 
doth maruellously preuaile against winde; 
therefore it is with good successe boyled and 
eaten with beanes, peason and other windie 
pulses. 
T HE leaues of garden Parsley are of a 
beautifull greene, consisting of many 
little ones fastned together, diuided 
most commonly into three parts, and also smpt 
round about the edges. . . Parsley is delighted 
with water, and therefore it naturally commeth 
vp neere to fountaines or springs. 
THE VERTUES. 
1 he leaues are pleasant in sauces and broth, 
in which besides that they giue a pleasant tast, 
they be also singular good to take away 
stoppings. . . The seeds are more profitable for 
medicine. . they be commended also against the 
cough. . . bite roots or the seeds of any of them 
boiled in ale and drunken, cast forth strong ven¬ 
om or poison, but the seed is the strongest part 
of the herbe. 
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