COMMON CHERUILL 
GREAT SAGE 
T HE leaues of Cheruill are slender, and 
diuersly cut, something hairy, of a 
whitish greene . . . the stalkes be short, 
slender, round, and hollow within . . . the 
floures be white, and grow vpon scattered tufts 
. . . The root is full of strings. 
THE VERTUES. 
The leaues of sweet Cheruill are exceeding 
good, wholesome and pleasant among other 
sallad herbs, giuing the taste of Anise seed vnto 
the rest. . . The seeds eaten as a sallad whiles 
they are yet green, with oile, vinegar, and pep¬ 
per, exceed all other sallads by many degrees, both 
in pleasantnesse of taste, sweetnesse of smell, 
and wholsomnesse for the cold and feeble 
stomacke. The roots are likewise most excel¬ 
lent in a sallad. 
T HE Great Sage is very full of stalkes, 
foure square, of a wooddy substance, 
parted into branches, about the which 
grow broad leaues, long, wrinkled, rough, 
whitish. . . the floures stand forked in the tops 
of the branches. . . of a purple blew colour. 
THE VERTUES. 
Sage is singular good for the head and 
braine, it quickneth the sences and memory, 
strengthneth the sinewes, restoreth health to 
those that haue the palsie vpon a moist cause, 
takes away shaking or trembling of the mem¬ 
bers; and being put vp into the nosthrils, it 
draweth thin flegme out of the head. 
It is likewise commended against the spitting 
of bloud, the cough, and paines of the sides, 
and bitings of Serpents. 
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