304. 
14. To take away a wen. Make pow- 
der of unslacked lyme,and mixe it with blacke 
sope, and annoynt any wen therewith ; and 
the wen will fall-away.”—This specific ap- 
plication of quicklime, is still in use; and is, 
to a certain degree, infallibly salutary. 
“19. To preserve the teeth from rotting. 
=-—-‘< In the morning, if salt be holden in the 
mouth, under the tongue, untill it melt, or 
consume into water, andthe teeth being rub- 
bed therewith, it will preserve the teeth safe 
and sound 5 and it will keep-them from rot- 
ting 3 and that they shall not be worm eat- 
en.”——This, also, is an admirable receipt, the 
best, or almost the best, application yet 
known, to cleanse and preserve the teeth. 
25. To make aumber clearer and better.—= 
© Any kinde of aumber being sodden in the 
grease of a sowe that gives sucke to young 
pigges, is not onely, thereby, the clearer, but 
alsey much the better.’——We know, that 
hog’s Jard may be actually employed with ad- 
vantage, to clear amber. 
30. Dockes make toughe fleshe to bee ten- 
dér.—'* Al kind of docks have this propertie, 
that what flesh or méat is sod therewith, 
though they be never saolde, hard, or tough, 
they will become tender and meet to be eaten. 
Hereupon it comes, that they were so used, 
in the old time, so that, thereby, the meate 
was more sooner concoct, and easelier dis- 
gested. ’—This information is curious. It 
instructs us, that dock weeds were used as 
pot-herbs, in tlie oldest Engiish cookery. Ie 
states the principle upon which meats are 
stewed with herbs. 
empliffed too, in the preparation of that good 
eld English dish, Bubble and Squeak. , 
35, Oyle keepes wine from corrupting. — 
«< If oyle bee Pees upon wige, or any other 
licour, it makes that the same shall not waxe 
wustie, nor bee corrupted. For, it excludes 
er drives forth all ayre that may breede cor- 
ruption.”#—Here is a curious fact in physics, 
with the philosophical principle upon which 
it depends. 
36. The coales of 2 birch-teee healeth 
woundes.=** The coales of a birch-tree, 
mede in powder, and put into a wounde or 
great sore, healeth it perfectly, without any 
other, thing.’”—We know, that the birch. 
tree affords some of the best and purest char- 
coal ; that carbon and carbonic acid are ever 
powerfully detergent and antiseptic ; and that 
on this very principle, powdered charcoal is 
now employed, with. great benefit, to purify 
foul teeth and scorbutic gums. 
40. To helpe them that cannot holde their 
water.—-‘ A flaine mouse rosted, or made in 
powder, and-drunk at one time, doth per- 
fectly helpe such as cannot holde or keepe 
their water.’—This remedy, I remember to 
have been given with good effect, to a little 
boy troubled with incontinency of urine ; 3 it 
was administered by his grandmother, at the 
recommendation of some of her neighbours. 
This was in aremote part of the south-west 
. 
Searce Tracis, Ke. 
It is, in some sort, ex-: 
[ Nov. 1, 
of Scotland. - The fostrgm is still in credit 
among ye peasantry, in both Scotland and 
Englan 
71. To make teeth as white as ivorie. 
—‘* A medicine, made of a little honéy, and 
of a cecal made of a vine, which never bare 
grapes; if the teeth be o’ten rubbed-there- 
with, doth go cleanse them, and make thera 
so whi te, that they will be judged to be of 
ivorie.’—-It is certain, that a mixture of - 
honey with the purest charcoal cannot fail 
to prove an admirable cleanser for the teeth. 
#9. To joygne broken glasses and broken 
cups.—* The white of an egge, well and 
long beaten, mixed with quick-lime, will 
joyne broken glasses, and broken earthen 
cups, and make them holde fast and sure! 
together. But, it would be the better, ifa 
litle of very old cheese be wel mixed there- 
with.’? This is stiil one of our best cements. 
The following is sufficiently ludicrous.—< 
82. A strange way to loose a man that is 
enchanted or bewitched. If a matryed 
man bee let or hindered through inchant- 
ment, sorcery, or witcheraft,- ane the acte 
of generation, let him make water through 
his marlage-ring ; ; and he shall be loosed from 
the same.” —It is prob-ble, this spell-undoing 
charm operates in no other way, than did 
that which is mentioned by honest Mon; 
tagne. 
‘€ Two Bookes of Epigrammes, ada Epi- 
taphs: dedicatéd to two top-branches 
of Gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, bas 
ronet; and Walliam Davenport, esq. 
Written by Thomas Bancroft.” Ato. 
London, 1658. 
The following may serve as fair specis 
mens of the collection. 
Book I..13.. to JAMES SHIRLEY. 
‘é James, thou and I did spend some precious 
yeeres 
At Katherine- Hall ; since when, we some 
times feele é 
In our poetick braines (as plaine appears) 
A whirling tricke,- then caught from 
Katherine’s wheel. 
16. AN EPITAPH ON MISTRIS* 
‘ ENV VETOR eee 
‘¢ Gentle friends, with teares forbeare 
To drowne a withered flower here ; 
That, in spring of nature’s pride, 
Drank the morning déw and died. 
Death may teach ysu, here to live, 
And a friendly call doth give 
To this humble house of mine, x 
Here’s the inne, and this the signe.” 
185. To WILLIAM LILLY. 
‘* Grande school-master, some livelier twigs 
of bayes, 
Shall sticke thy kom’ that merit’st ample 
praise: 
For though the lawrell never lilly beare; 
Yet sucha LILLY may the /awrell weare.’? 
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