A book of the properties of Herbs called an herbal, whereunto is added the time that herbs, Flowers and Sedes should be gathered to be kept the whole year, with the virtue of the Herbs when they are stilled. Also a general rule of all manner of Herbs drawn out of an ancient book of Phisyck by W.C. ☞  
  

¶ De virtutibus herbarum e● primo de littera. A.  

¶ Agnus castus.  
This herb Agnus castus that men do call Tutsayne, and other wise Park leaves, this hath leaves somdel red like unto the leaves of Orage, and this herb hath sinews on his leaves as hath Plan●ayne, and it hath yellow flowers & beareth black beris & it groweth in dry woods, that virtue of this herb is, it will keep men & women chaste For as Discolidion & Placens do say, this herb is called Agnus castus for the knowledge & the use of this herb maketh men chaste, and this herb will open the pores of man and let out wicked humou●s and spirits of his body, this herb destroyeth the moisture of man's feed. Also the same auctor saith that if this be sudden with Fenel, in Asel it is good to destroy the dropsi. Also if this herb be sudden with smallage, and Sage, in salt water, and afterward the hinder part of a man's head be well washed therewith it healeth it and unbindeth an evil that is called lethargy. Also this herb destroyeth the foul lust of Lechery and it be drunken, or if it be borne a bout him, therefore sometime they do eat it roasted, because it shall keep them chaste, for if this herb be eaten raw, it will engender head ache. This hebbe is good to defy the hardness and stopping of the milt. Also a plaster of this herb is good to do away ache of a man's heed, that is engendered of wicked humours. This herb is hot & dry in the second degree.   

☞ Apium.  
This herb Apium, is a herb that men do call smallage, or stammarche, the virtue of this herb is this. It will make a man to piss, & open the stopping of the liver, also the seed of the herb hardeneth a man's wombs, and it draweth wicked humours of a man's body unto the head & to the stomach and the womb, and therefore it noyeth them that have the falling evil, & to women that be with child, for when it draweth such humours to the womb and engendereth that be the cause of pestilence, and therefore it is commanded of leeches that women that be with child & they that keep sucking children should not eat nor drink of this herb for dread of that falling evil, for it is hot and dry, & there be speces thereof, the joy is good for cold plasters tempered with flower, and for scalding, this herb is hot in the i degree   

¶ Anetum.  
☞ This herb Anetum that men do call Anete otherwise Dyl, this herb hath leaves like to Fenel but the seed is somdel broad as Orage seed is, the virtue of this herb is thus. It will make a man piss, also it suageth rumbling in a man's womb, and wicked winds in the womb, also it destroyeth the vexing, the seed of this herb brent and laid upon a wound it healeth soon & namely if a man be scalded in his membres or on his yard, strow the powder thereof & it shall hele, or what manner of evil that riseth in a man's yard it shallbe hole in the same manner, a plaster made with the same powder, & sheeps tallow and black soap, is good for the Emaraude this herb is hot and dry in the second degree.   

¶ Apiume risus.  
This herb Apiume risus is called Cerfoy or Che●uile, the virtue of this herb is and it be drunken with wine it shall make a man to piss well and it delivereth a man of ache in the rain & in the bladder, and it be drunken with wine it letteth out and unbindeth the wicked winds and unsloppethe the womb and the liver of all manner woodness. This herb with holdeth casting. Also a plaster made with this herb tempered with Aisel destroyeth wild fire and healeth the Canker and all other wounds, this herb is one of the Smalaches, & it is hot and dry.   

¶ Absynthium.  
☞ This herb is called Wormewode. The virtue of this herb is. It is good to comfort the her●e & cleanseth the stomach. Balien sayeth that the herb hath ii virtues one is laxative, and the other is constypulatyve. Therefore Galen sayeth that if this Herb be given to an evil, of the which the matter is not fully defied, it shall hard the stomach, and let the digestion, and if the matter be riped, it shall make a man laxayve, and easily put away the matter, if this herb be drunk with Spyconarde, it suageth the stomach and of the womb that is engendered of wicked winds. Also if this herb be tempered with honey it will ease the swelling in a man's mouth. Also it doth away the black mist in a mann●s eyes and cleareth the sight, and if this herb be powned with the gall of a Bull and afterward put into a man's eyes, it putteth away all manner impediments of the sight.   

Arthamesia.  
This herb is called Mugwort, the virtue of this herb is this. If a man bear this herb about him he shall not be weary of traveling in his way, also if this herb be powned with tallow, it healeth the sornes of a man's feet and a king also. And if it be within a house, there shall no wicked spirit abide. Also if this herb be stamped and tempered with running water it healeth the aching of a man's guts & many other evils, this herb is hot and dry in the second degree.   

Affodylius.  
This herb is called affodill, The virtue of this herb is that the leaves been good to hele the dropsy, and the leaves of the flowers begood to be drunken to hele venom of wicked beasts, also the juice of this herb and Myrrh, and Saffron tempered together in white wine & a little boiled over the fire & cleansed thorough a cloth is good to hele rinning eyes, also the rote of this herb brent to powder, is good to heal sore ears and restore them again, also take an hard cloth that is rough and wet it in the juice of the herb, and rub the morphewe therewith sitting against the soon and it shall do away the morphewe, this herb is hot and dry in the second degree.   

Aristologia longa.  
This herb men do call it Red mader, the virtue of this herb is thus. It will unbind the stopping of the liver & let pass wicked winds that be stopped with in man's body, also if it be drunken with wine it cleanseth and purgeth all men of all manner of venom that is in a man's body. Also it cleanseth and purgeth all manner of diseases that be rooted within and without in the veins, and in the teeth, that been rotten. This herb is hot and dry, and it must be gathered in harvest, there be two speces thereof.   

Aristologia rotunda.  
This herb aristologia rotunda men do call it Galingale meek, the virtue of this herb is thus as Apocras doth say, if the said herb be drunken with hot water than it is medicinable and curable for those men that bestoppped in the breast, and for the swelling evil, and for the Podagar, and for the Cramp●, this herb is hot & dry and it must be gathered in harvest and it is a spece of the reed Madder.   

¶ Abrotanum.  
This herb abrotanum men call it Sothernewode. The virtue of this herb is thus, that if they break the seed and drink it with water it healeth men that have been bitten with any venomous beast. Also this herb destroyeth worms in a man's womb, also powder of this herb meddled with barley meal unbindeth and breaketh hard postumes, also this herb brent and the ashes meddled with oil, it restoreth there as man lacketh here, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Ameos.  
¶ This herb Ameos hath leaves like unto elder, but they be less and the seed is like parsley seed, the virtue of this herb is thus, if it be tempered with honey it sle●th worms that be in a man's body, and it unbindeth the great stopping of winds, and it breaketh the stone, and it chafeth a man's stomach that is cold, it chafeth the liver & the reins, and it healeth wounds and the biting of venomous beasts, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ hallelujah.  
This herb hallelujah men call it wodsore or s●ub wort, this herb hath three leaves of the which two be round a little departed above, and it hath a white flower, but it hath no long stalks, & it is wynsore, and it is like iii leaved grass the virtue of this herb is thus. If it be roasted in the ashes in, Reed dock leaves, or in reed wort leaves, it fretteth away dead flesh of A wound, this herb groweth much in woods.   

¶ Asterion.  
☞ This herb Asterion groweth among stones and in high places, this herb showeth by night, this herb hath yellow flowers hole and round as a Kockebel, or else like to Foxegloves, the leaves of this herb be round, and blue, & they have the mark of the moan in the midst, as it were iii leaved grass, but the leaves thereof be more and they be round as a penny, and the stalk of this herb is reed and this herb seemeth as it were musk and the juice thereof is yellow. And this herb groweth in the new moon without lief and every day springeth a new lief to the end of xv. days, and after xu days it loseth every day a leaf as the moon waneth, and it springeth and waneth as doth the moon, and where that it groweth there groweth great quantity. The virtue of this herpe is thus, they that eat of the berries or of the herb in waning of the moon when he is in sygno virgins, if he have the falling evil he shallbe hold thereof, or if he bear this herb bout his neck he shallbe helped without doubt, and it hath many other good virtues.   

¶ Agrimonia.  
❧ This herb Agrimonia men call it Egrymonye. The virtue of this herb is thus, & it be eaten the herb and the root green, it healeth the aching of the womb. Also if the herb be dried and pounned to pouder● & drunk with water it is good for the same evil, also the said herb tempered with eisell is good to hele a wound that is hurt with iron, also this herb used in meats is good to hele the aching of sores in the milt & it is good for Treytes.   

☞ Auencia.  
This avencia is called Aven, the virtue of this herb is thus if it be dried and powder made thereof with wite wine warmed or else lukewarm water & give it to them that hath the fevers, & it shall help him much and ease him, also it healeth wounds & Cankers if it be drunken.   

Altea.  
This herb is called holy hocke or the wild mallow, the virtue of this herb is thus, take and stamp it & fry it with sheeps tallow and make a plaster and lay it to a podagar man, & it shall help him within three days by experiment all auctors do say and affirm that this herb sudden with Vinegar and linseed. and a plaster made thereof & laid to the side of any person, it departed and helpeth wicked gatherings that be engendered in a man's body, this herb groweth in gardens & moist places.   

¶ Amarisca.  
☞ This herb is coled Dog fenel, or Maithen, this herb is much like to Camamyle for it hath a white flower as Camamyle, but it stinketh, the virtue of this herb is good to drink the juice thereof for to hele the Canker and the pipes of the Emeralds, and there be ii speces thereof, the one hath a white flower, & the other hath a yellow flower, & it groweth in corn.   

¶ Auticula muris.  
This herb is called Mousere The virtue of this herb is, if it be drunken it helpeth the Quinsy, also the juice is good to hele all manner of wounds.   

☞ Apium Emoroidarum.  
This herb is called crowfote this herb hath leaves departed as it were Rams feet, this herb hath a long stalk in the mids, & groweth in watery places, & hath yellow flowers.   

Apium ranarum.  
This herb Apium ranarum that men call water crowfote, this herb hath yellow flowers as hath crowefote and of the same shape, but the leaves are more departed, & it hath a long stalk, and out of that one stalk groweth many stalks small by the sides, this herb groweth in watery places.   

Triplex domestica.  
This herb Atriplex domestica, men call it Orage, or medolious.   

Anabulla.  
This herb Anabulla men call Spourge.   

Acus demonis.  
This herb Acus demonis is an herb that men call Poukenel.   

Argentilla.  
This herb Argentilla that men call Argentyl, this herb hath little leaves somedeal round, and within they be ragged, as it were the leaves of Eufra●y, and it groweth moche among wheat, and there be ii speces thereof, the more and the less.   

Acus mustela.  
This herb Acus mustela is called Groundeswelye, it is good for plasters.   

Allium.  
This herb Allium is called Garleke, the virtue of this herb is this. It will unbind all wicked winds within a man's body, and it helpeth a man to make water, but it noyeth a man's eyes, because of the great binding and drinking, he that hath voluptuosly it drinketh and destroyeth the sight, and it destroyeth and healeth venom within aman. Also it healeth all cold sores as it were treacle. Also it healeth the scabs and morphews or bladders in what manner place they be in a man's body, so that it be well frotted therewith, this herb is hot and dry.   

Amsum.  
This herb is called anise, the virtue of this herb is this, it unbindeth the stopping of the liver, and of wicked winds, & of great humours and encloseth the milt, also it steereth a man to make water and to sweet, also this herb maketh a man's womb laxative if it be to hard and the seed must be parched or roasted in all manner medicines, that it will work the rather, this herb is hot and dry.    

❧ Hic incipit litiera. B.  

Et primo de Bethonia.  
BEtyn men do call this herb, the virtue of this ●erbe is this, if it be stamped and than laid to a wound in the head that is smitten with a stroke it shall heal the wound fair, and draw out the broken bones if there be any as leeches do say, also if a man's eyes do ache, take the water or the juice thereof, & it shall amend ●hem greatly. Take Betin and stamp him and temper him with water or with wine warmed and drink it ten days and it shall destroy any web in the eyes of any person. Also if your eyes be watery, eat every day a little betake, and it shall do the much good, also if you have aching ears, take the juice thereof & temper it with rose water, and warm it a little and drop it in thy ears and stop them with wool, and thou shalt be hole. Also if thou do bleed much at the nose, ●ake and stamp Betine with salt and stop thy nose there with and it will staunch. And if thou have sore tethe, with vinegar or with Aysel let it seethe well ●yl it be more than half wasted, than as hot as thou mayst suffer it sup thereof, and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold, than spite, it out and do thus oft and thou shalt be hole. Also for the cough take the juice or powder of Betyne and medyl it with honey, & make thereof a lectuary, and use it. ix. days and thou shalt be hole. And if a man may not hold his meat within him take the same me decyne and give him iii spoonful thereof with a spoonful of water. Also if a man's yard be swollen or that it be sore, take Beteyne and stamp it with white wine tempered and it shallbe hole. Also if a man be Podagat, take betake &, seethe it well in water and give to him to drink and wash his feet there with and lay the herb about his feet on a cloth, and it will amend him much. Also take and eat betake or powder thereof. & you shall not be drunken that day, all these medicines have been proved of this herb. It is hot and dry.   

Balsaminta.  
This herb Balsaminta called horse mint or water wine or brokemynte, and also this herb doth grow in watery places, the virtue of this herb is to comfort a man's stomach and maketh a man well to defy his meat. Also y●●oyce and clarified honey, & Reed wine boiled together, & it shall do away the cold fro a man's stomach and wicked winds within him, also the juice or else the powder of the herb drunken with Red wine hot, maketh women that be with child soon and easily to be delivered of their children, This herb is hot and dry.   

Bl●ta.  
This herb Bleta is called Be●es, a●d there be ii speces thereof as Diascorides sayeth, the one is white and the other black, the virtue of this herb is this if the juice thereof be put in the nosestrylles of a man it cleanseth a man's head. Also it suageth the aching of the eyes of every person, it cleanseth the head from nyttes & from other vermin. Also it repaireth and amendeth a man's hear of his head also this herb destroyeth botches & ●ils, also Diascorides sayeth, if a man use over much of this herb that it nourisheth wicked humours in a man for it is hot.   

Borago.  
Borago is a common herb, the ver●ue of it is thus. It will cleanse the reed colour of a man. Also this herb is good to destroy the cardiacle, and the postumes that be gathered of the black colour. Also the water drunk with wine maketh a man glad and merry, this herb is hot and moist.   

Bugla.  
This herb Bugla is called Brounwort this herb hath leaves like a brown colour with a blue flower, and somewhat boistous, the virtue of this herb is thus. It will heal wounds in a man's head, and if this herb be drunken it healeth & strengtheneth the bones that be broken in the man's head this herb breaketh and destroyeth the rew●ne and the aching of the head, this herb groweth in woods much and it is hot and dry.   

Burneta.  
This herb Burneta is called burnet, the herb hath blue flowers as hath Hayhove, and small ragged leaves like Tan●ye leaves, the vertu of this herb is thus. It will destroy the great humours and laxative within a man. Also it openeth the stopping within a man's liver, & maketh a man to piss well. Also it maketh one to avoid the yellow evil. Also a portion of this herb meddled with honey and white wine helpeth & unbindeth sore stitches of the rib & in the tetes, there be two. speces thereof the one groweth on hills and the other in meadows.   

Bursa pastoris.  
This herb Bursa pastoris is called shepherds pu●s, this herb hath a small stalk and full of branches and ragged leaves & a white flower, the cods thereof be like a purse, the virtue of this herb is thus, drink it with reed wine, or with milk and it will staunch the bloody menson, it is hot and dry.   

Borago siluestris.  
This herb Borago siluestries is like to comen borage, but the leaves be somewhat smaller and it groweth in fields and in ways.   

Billire.  
This is called byller, The virtue thereof is good to ripe botches and it is hot and dry.    


Camomilla.  
This herb is called Camomyl the virtue of this herb is thus if it be drunk with wine it will break the stone, and it destroyeth the yellow evil. It helpeth the aching and the disease of the liver, if it be strained it helpeth & suageth the sores in amamnes mouth, it is good for aching in a man's head and for the megrym, this herb is hot and dry.   

Calamintum.  
This herb is called Calamint the virtue of this herb is thus, it destroyeth a man's talon, as hippocras saith, the be iii spices thereof, one that is stony, another that is of the earth, and the iii of the water and all they be hot and dry, it that is wateri maketh a man moist, it that is stony maketh a man hole if ye drink it, if he have drunk any venomous drink, this herb made in a plaster & lay it to a venemes wound it draweth out venom soon. Also who so drink the this herb iii days, it shall help him of the yellow evil. The other is earthly it is helping for lepery, the juice of this herb and it be put into the ears of a man it will slay worms in a man's head and comforteth the stomach, and helpeth to defy it, and it withdraweth casting.   

Crassula maior.  
This herb is much like unto Orpyn, the virtue of this herb is thus, if it be laid to a wound by itself it shall hele it without any other help.   

Crassula minor.  
This herb is called stonchore or Stonecroppe, the leaves of this herb be somewhat like unto Orpin and it groweth on houses and walls, the virtue of this herb is thus it will make a man to cast.   

Cicuta.  
This herb is called Hemlock or herb Benet, the virtue of this herb is thus, the juice of this herb kepeht maids tetes small, also this herb oft drunk keepeth and destroyeth the great appetite of lechery. Also the juice tempered with swines grease, destroyethe the hot Podagre, and suage the the great swelling, for it is cold and dry.   

Centaurea maior.  
This is named the more Centory or earth gall, his flowers be yellow in the crop, his virtue is if it be sodden in good wine it will hele the sickness in the liver, it draweth out wicked humours in the milt, this hath been proved, and it be sudden in water it is good to h●le a wound, if there be a canker & it be anointed there with it will make it hole, this herb is hot and dry.   

Centauria minor.  
This hebbe is the less Centory, it hath iii branches coming out of a round more with a ●eed ●lower. His virtue is this, the powder or juice thereof is good, for biting of an adder or any venemus beast if it be droken with wine and the juice is good to anoint sores therewith if ye have any venom within you, powne it small & temper it with eisell and drink it and you shall cast out all the venom within you.   

Caruo.  
This herb is called Caraway this herb hath leaves somewhat like to Fenell with a long stalk, and a round sede more than parsley seed. The virtue of this herb is to destroy wicked winds and the cough and it is good for the Frensye, and for biting of venomous beasts. Also this herb meddled is good for scabs, and Tetters. Also it restoreth hear there as it is fallen away, this herb groweth in moist places.   

❧ Celidonia.  
This herb is called Celondy or Tetterwort, his virtue is as poliminus sayeth if the birds of the swallow be blind, the dam of the birds fetcheth of this herb & healeth their eyes therewith, it is good for the canker in a man's mouth it is good for the tooth ache & to cleanse a man's head, this herb is hot and dry.   

Culamen.  
This is called Hertnote, Dylnote, Skycte or holy wort: he hath leaves like Fenell with white flowers & a small stalk it groweth in woods and meadows, his virtue is to eat away dead flesh this he●b put to a sore that lacketh hear, it will restore the hear and heal the place.   

Coleworts.  
This herb is good to cleanse fresh wounds, the canker, to nourish sinews, & to heal● sore eyes that be almost syghteles, it increaseth a woman's milk the juice tempered with Alum and Asell, it suageth the Leper, and it is good to keep a man from drunkenness it is hot & dry.   

Coliandrum.  
This herb is called Colyandrum the virtue of this herb is this, if the juice thereof be drunken with honey it will slay worms in a man's body, and hardeth a man's womb, the seed is good to do away the Fevers that come three days, this herb is hot and dry.   

Capillus veneris.  
This herb is called maiden here or waterwort. This herb hath leaves like unto fern; but the leaves be smaller, & it groweth on walls & stones & in the mids of the leaf is as it were black here, the virtue of this herb is this it will br●ke the stone, & it be drunken with wine it dstroyeeth venom and it is cold and dry.   

Crocus.  
This herb is called Saffron, the virtue of this herb is thus, it will destroy all manner of abominations of man's stomach, and will make a man to sleep, it is good for many medecynes● and namely for cooks to colour their meat their with, it groweth in gardens, and it is hot and dry.   

Centinodium.  
This herb is called sparrow tongue, the virtue of this herb is to break the stone, and it is hot and dry.   

Caprifolium.  
This herb is called wodbynd and it hath a white flower, the virtue of this herb is good to heal Cankered wounds, bladders, and akinge teeth and sores in the toes of a man● Also it is good for the swelling in a man's body that is venimed, this herb is hot & dry.   

Canabaria.  
This herb is called wild hemp or holy roppe, it is like unto hemp his virtue is if a man have the fever frete well his pounce therewith and he shallbe hold, and it groweth in watery places.   

Costus.  
This is named Cost or less Detyn, his virtue is to heal the sickness of the breast & of the longs & it will break the postume.  
Also it draweth out evil humours of a man's head, it is good for a man's stomach.   

Cepe.  
Is named an Onion, his virtue is to comfort a man's stomach it purgeth somewhat the phlegm it nessheth somewhat the womb. Also and it be stamped and tempered with honey and Aseyll, it is good for the biting of a hound, Also the juice tempered with woman's milk is good to hele the aching of ears, Also the juice tempered with any liquor is good to drink for any man that hath lost his speech. Also the juice put in the nostrils breaketh out the wicked rheum and the stoyping of a man's head.   

Columbina.  
This is named columbine, his virtue is good for him that hath the quynsy. This herb must be gathered in August.   

Cominum.  
This is called cumin, the leaves thereof be much like unto Colyandre, it hath many branches coming out of one stalk, it is strong of savour, his virtue is to destroy wicked wind and other evils, in a man's stomach, it helpeth to make water, it is hot and dry.   

Cardiaca.  
This is named cardiacle, it hath leaves like to blind nettles & it hath little cods with seed, his virtue is good for the falling evil.   

¶ Cisara.  
This is called a Frence peace, it hath leaves and cods like unto other peas but the leaves be not so great nor so long, and there be ii spices thereof.   

Camelon.  
¶ This is called a woluisshe thistle or a wild thistle. He hath white leaves great & broad & a reed flower, it groweth by ways, the virtue of this herb is if thou take this herb when the sone is in Capricorn, and the moon be new: while thou bearest it about that there shall no mischief the befall.   

Cauda pulli.  
☞ This is named Colts tail, this herb hath leaves like to wild coming, but they be not stalked like   

Cabachiss.  
☞ This is named French wortes it is hot and dry.   

Caulus gallica.  
☞ This is named wild Tansy   

Caulus agrestis.  
This is an herb that men call Gland, or kouratum, the leaves be like unto plantine but they be not so much, it hath a white flower & groweth in waters.   

Cimbaria.  
This herb men do call it Penny wort, this herb hath round leaves, if groweth on walls.   

Consolida maior.  
This is named Confery, it hath leaves like to Horshelme, but they be not so white, there be two speces thereof One with a white flower, the other with a reed, His virtue is if a man be brosen or broken with in take the roots of this herb and toast them in the ashes and let the sick eat thereof fasting iii and he shallbe hole. Also it helpeth to gather broken bones, it is hot and moist, and it beareth black seed.   

Consolida minor  
This is called daisy or Brousworte, his virtue is if it be stamped and laid to a botch, it shall hele it and break it, for it is a spice of the Confery.   

Consolida media.  
This herb is called Methyn, this herb hath long leaves and a little indented and a white flower and the flower is somewhat like to the daisy.    

¶ Hic incipit lettera D.  

Et primo de Dragantia.  
DRagaunce or Serpentine this herb is called. The virtue of this herb is this if it be stamped and drunken with wine, it doth away all manner of venom. Also it doth away the aching of ears if they be anointed therewith. Also the powder thereof blown in a man's nose, shall cleanse a man of the Rheum, and it is good to destroy the cough, and to destroy the canker and the freting of wicked winds this herb is hot and moist it must be gathered in june and july.   

Diptanum.  
This is called Detander or detain. The virtue of this herb is thus, if it be drunken it will deliver a woman of a dead child Also this herb will draw out a thorn or an iron out of a man's body, it is hot and dry.   

Dancus asinius.  
This is called Dank, his virtue is to heal the dropsy, & biting of venomous beasts. Also it openeth the stopping of the liver and of the milt. Also it unbindeth the womb and maketh it laxative it is hot and dry.   

Dens leonis.  
This herb is called Dandelyon, the virtue of this herb is, the More is good for the fever quotidian.   

Dens canis  
This is named houndest oath it hath leaves like to dandelion but they be less and the branches be not like and they drop milk.   

Daucus creticus.  
This herb hath leaves like to wild popy, but the leaves be more white, it hath a flower of purple colour and it groweth in wheat this herb is hot and dry.   

Dragancia.  
❧ This is named Drag line femell, it hath leaves like to Re●●, but it hath white spectes it hath an even stalk the length of ii cabites, and it berethe 〈◊〉 as it ●●re a cluster of Grapes, and they be yellow it groweth in moist places, the virtue is if it be stamped, and meddled with Oil and ●ut into the eyes of a man it shall do away the aching thereof. Also the more thereof and the more of the white Onion stamped therewith and tempered with honi, it healeth all wounds that the Canker hath be risen in. Also who froteth his hands with the more, if it be in May without doubt he may take adders they shall not venom him. Also the juice destroyeth the darkness about a man's eyes, if they be anointed therewith. Also if the juice be drunken with wine it destroyeth lechery, and it is moist and cold.    

¶ Hi●●ncipit littera. E.  

Et primo de Enulacampana.  
ENulacampana is called ●orshelme, the virtue 〈◊〉 ●his herb is this if a man have wagging teeth and he eat of this herb, they shall fasten again, it helpeth a man to make water if it be drunken it delivereth a woman of a dead child, it is good for the chough it hardeth a man's womb it is hot and moist.   

Endivia.  
This herb is called endive or southystle, his virtue is if the juice thereof be meddled with hot water & drunken it helpeth the stopping of the milt and of the liver. It is good to heal the pelowe evil and the fever tercian. It is good for hole postumes and for to suage great hetes of the liver & of the stomach and it is cold and moist.   

¶ Eruca.  
¶ This herb is named Skyrwyte, This herb hath leaves like to Byllerin but they be not so long & it hath a greater more, his virtue is the leaves be good to heal a man's mouth, if it be holden long therein. Also the juice of this herb sodden & afterward drunken it destroyeth the black colour. Also this herb oft used stirreth a man to lechery and to make water, Also the more stamped and meddled with oil and honey cleanseth aman●es chin if it be anointed therewith. Also the juice thereof drunken delivereth men and women of the cough, for it is hot and dry.   

Eufrasia.  
This herb is called Eufrasy● it is good for eyes and hath a little ragged leaf.   

Ehullus.  
This herb is called walwort, it hath leaves like to Elder leaves it hath a long stalk, the virtue of this herb is good to destroy the dropsy, scabs and ●etters and it draweth ●waye wicked humours out of a man, this herb is hot and dry.   

Edera.  
This herb is called ivy, this herb is like to brain, the virtue there of is. If it be sodden in wine, till it be thick, & then lay it all hot to a botch and it shall break it. Also if y● have any aching in the head take the juice thereof & oil of roses & white wine & meddle it together & anoint thyhead therewith and thou shallbe hold thereof.   

Edera terrestris.  
This is an earth ivy, it hath leaves like to Catmynt but they be not so much, and hath a ready flower, the virtue of this is if it be sudden in swines grease, it is a good ointment for all manner aches.   

Enforbium.  
This is called ●lary, this her be hath leaves like to Sauge but the leaves be brother & ●ounder, his virtue is if he be put in pottage it will make the flesh tender.   

Elleboras albus.  
This Pellyter of spain, or lung wort. This herb hath leaves much like to pedelion, but they be not so much slit without and it hath a flower as it were a Parsneb, his virtue is if he be put into the nostrils of a man, it will make him to sneeze. Also it healethe scab, the morphewe, and tetters. Also it purgethe a man of wicked colours of the phlegm, and of the Emeralds if he be laid to the place that is diseased. Also for the tooth ache it is good if it be sodden in A sell and keep it as hot as he may suffer in his mouth and it good to purge a man's stomach and womb. Also the powder thereof put in gruel shall slay worms and the juice meddled with milk slayeth flies, it is hot and dry.   

¶ Elleborus niger.  
¶ This is called Pedelyon his leaves be much like to lung wort but they be not so white, & it hath a broad flower & a black rote, his virtue is if it be made in powder it will destroy and slay rats & this herb is hot and dry.   

☞ Epatica.  
¶ This herb is called liverwort, his virtue is to destroy & cleanse the hardness of the liver. Also if it be meddled with fresh grease it will hele wounds and it is good to hele the fever quartain.   

Erpina  
This herb is named Foxgloves.   

❧ Ebulus minor.  
☞ This is the less Walwort. It is somewhat like to Walwort and the leaves be a little red.    

¶ Hic incipit li●tera. F.  

Et primo de Flammula.  
FLammula is called Sperewort or Launcell it is much like to a spear and in the crop of the stalk cometh many fair & small branches and it hath a white flower and it groweth in waters, his virtue is if a man have the fevers and the pounces of him anointed therewith he shallbe hold, & it is good to break botches and biles and it is hot and dry.   

☞ Fumus terre.  
❧ This herb is called Fumitory or earth Gall, his virtue is to comfort a manes stomach. Also it giveth a man appetite to meat and it helpeth a man to make water, & it openeth the liver, and it clerethe a man's blood. Also if any drink thereof with whei, it destroyeth scabs, itches, bladders, and wicked humours, it is hot and dry,   

Fumicretum.  
¶ This is called Fumicrete, this herb hath is a long stalk, and it hath leaves like to three leaved grass and it hath ●oddes, his virtue is if it sodden in water it maketh a man laxative without any peril and is hot and dry.   

Fragra.  
This is called Strauberye, the virtue of this herb is good for bleared men. Also it is good to destroy the web in a man's eyes. Also the juice of it meddled with honey & drunken healeth the milt.   

Fabaria maior.  
This herb is called Brock●lēpe, this herb hath leaves like unto Benstede, & it groweth in waters   

Fabaria minor.  
This is the less Brockelempe it hath leaves in manner long and somewhat round like to mints This is good to lay to a place that is brosed or to be welling if it be fried with sheeps tallow.   

Filix.  
This herb is named fern, of his be iii speces. The first is Pompody the second is Osmunde and it groweth in dyches and woods, and it hath a great more, as pynapples, it is good to heal broken bones. The third is Euferne, and it groweth in walls, & Polpody groweth in Okes, it is good to make a man laxative. This fern groweth in woods, it is good to heal the Podager. And it maketh sinews strong.   

Filipendula.  
This herb is called dropwor● the virtue of it will destroy the wicked winds about a man's liver and his milt and it is good to destroy the stone, it is hot and dry.   

Feniculum.  
This herb is called Fenel or Fenkel, the virtue of this herb is this, if the seed be dried it is good and comforteth the stomach it openeth the stopping of the reins of the bladder. Also the juice is good to do away the web of the eyes of a man, and it be drunken with wine, and water, it is good to do a way all manner of venom. Also the juice dropped in the ears of a man, it will slay worms in a man. And also if it be drunken with wine it will break the dropsy and all manner swelling, and keepeth him from casting, and if it be drunken with wine and water, it maketh a woman's milk to increase. Also if it be meddled with oil it is good to hele a man's yard that is swollen. And this herb is hot & dry.   

Faxinus.  
This herb is named Hertwod, his virtue is if he be powned and laid to a sore, it will heal it.   

Feniculus poeticus.  
This is called wormesede. It is good to destroy worms in a man's body, this herb is hot & dry.   

Febrifuga.  
This named Fetherfoye, his virtue is to comfort a man's stomach it is good to assuage the axes cotidian, the cramp, and to temper it that cometh of cold stomachs Also it is good to lay to a sore that is bitten with venomous bests I● will hele it shortly and it be laid thereto. Also if it be tempered with eisell it will do a way the Morphewe. Also if it be stamped and laid to a wound in the which be broken bones, it shall bring the broken bones together and heal them & the rote thereof is good to stop the bloody mension. And this herb is hot and dry.   

Filago.  
This herb is called Feldwort or Hore wort it is a little herb, & it groweth in wheat.   

Flamenula.  
This is called the less Sper●worte, this herb hath small leaves like grass, but it is sharp like a spear and it groweth in fields, his virtue is it a head be cut it will heal it anon.    

Hic incipit littera. G.  

et primo de gratia dei maior.  
GRatia dei maior, this herb is called the more Gratia dei.   

Granum.  
This is Gromel or Lyche wale the virtue thereof is good for the stone, and for all evils in the bladder. This herb is hot and dry.   

Genestula.  
This herb men do call it Genestre or broom it hath leaves like to Spyngeruell, and it hath a yellow flower his virtue is to knit bones and sinews together.   

Gencianus.  
This herb that men do call Felworte or Balmoyne, his virtue is if it be drunken with water and and honey it helpeth the swelling in a man's body, in his stomach & it is god for venomous beasts, & it delivereth a woman of a dead child, it is hot and dry.   

Galanga.  
This is named Galingale, the virtue of this herb is thus, it comforteth the stomach & maketh him well to degeste his meat, and unbindeth and letteth out wicked winds of a man's body.   

Granum solis agrestis.  
This is called wild Gromel, it is somewhat like to other Gromell, but the sede thereof is somewhat grey it groweth in dyches, & it is good for the stone.   

Gladiolus.  
This herb is called Gladon, the virtue of it is good to make a man to cast.    

❧ Hic incipit littera. H.  

Et primo de herba cruciata.  
HErba Cruciata is a herb that men call Cronworte this herb hath little leaves and asmal stalk with white flowers, and it is like to a cross, this is good to heal wounds.   

Herba cristofori masculi.  
This is called Cristofer, the male it hath leaves like to the Crousope, but they be more whit and not fully so long, it hath yellow flowers, his virtue is to heal the epilence and the frenzy.   

Herba Cristofori femini.  
This is named Cristofer female it hath leaves like to herb Peter, but they be not in all so white and it groweth much by the water's side it hath a long stalk.   

Herba walteri.  
This is herb walter, it hath leaves like to parsley and the leaves be somewhat chick fat and thender.   

Herba Rob●rti.  
This is named herb Robert, it hath leaves like to herb Benet and it hath small flowers like to purple colour, and it hath a strong savour, his virtue is to he'll wounds, the powder of it will slay cankers.   

Herba Martis.  
This is called Mortagon. It hath leaves like to the capital letter. M. and some branches hath, ix leaves and some ten and some more.   

Hastucaregia.  
This is named Wooderoso if the more thereof be stamped & drunken with wine, it will heal a sore in the mouth. Also the sede stamped and drunken with strong eisell will staunch the flix and make the womb hard.   

Herb Petri.  
❧ This is named the Couslope   

Herba johannis.  
This is called saint johannes wort the virtue of it is thus, if it be put in a man's house, there shall come no wicked spirit therein.    

Hic incipit littera. I.  

Et primo de jusqbiamus.  
IUquiamus is called Henbane, his virtue is good for the gout, & namely those that come of melancoli. Also the seed thereof and the seed of Humlocke meddled together & a candle made thereof, or brent upon a tile stone, and let the smoke go up into a man's mouth in especial among the teeth, and it will slay worms. Also the roots be good for the tooth ache, Also the juice thereof is good for all wounds. Also it swagethe the cough and the hot postume, and the hot Podager. Also the seed of this herb should be gathered in the month of August. This herb is cold and dry.   

Isopus.  
This herb is called Isope, his virtue is if a man take the juice thereof, and put it in his mouth, it will heal all manner of evils in the mouth. Also it slayeth worms in a man's womb & maketh it nessh Also if it be drunken green or in powder it maketh a man well coloured it is hot and dry.   

Ireos.  
This herb is called Save, it hath leaves much like unto the flowerdelyce, and it hath a white flower, it groweth in water, the virtue of it is good to heal the aching of sinews. Also if it be drunken with wine or ale, it will destroy wicked humours in a man's breast and the cough. Also it destroyeth the cramp, it healeth the biting of venomous beasts. Also if a woman have a dead child within her it will deliver her without peril, it is hot and dry.   

☞ Iris.  
This herb is called Flowerdelyce, this is like to an herb that is called Save, almost in all features, but the flower is more India blue, this herb groweth in water and gardyns. It is of the same virtue that Save is of.   

jarus.  
This herb is named Cockopyntell this herb hath leaves like Mercury, & a flower like to Dragaunte, and it is bitter and pricking upon the tongue, his virtue is if a man have any swelling upon the tongue or any swelling about his ears, take the herb and seethe it with Tuberosetatibus in wine and oil and with common & make a plaster thereof and lay it to his ●ares & it will make him hole. Also take the knobs of the rote, and dry them and cleanse them, and they have virtue to make a man laxative if it be constypulatyve. Also if thou will make thy face white & clear take the powder of the roots and lay it in rose water, and set it against the son, till it be consumed, do so twice or thrice, than rub thy face with the powder or what other place thou wilt, to frete away the super●luite of the flesh This herb is hot and dry.   

jasia nigra.  
This is called Madefelon or bulwede or knapwede.   

jasia alba.  
This is called Golegras or wild ●ansy, it is good for cleansing of a man's limbs.   

Ipia maior.  
This is named Pympernel, it hath leaves like to Cheken meat i● is good to heal wounds and to destroy venom and to he'll a man of the postume & to heal sore eyes   

Ipia minor.  
This herb is called Cheken meat.   

¶ Ia●metus rusticus.  
¶ This herb is called Blewche time or andode or Ka●bowe.    

Hic incipit littera. L.  

Et primo de herba Lanisticum.  
LOuage this herb is called, his virtue is much in the sede the more thereof is good to bedronken with wine to heal a manes stomach, & for other cuylles within a man, and for to make good deg●sstyon, it is hate and dry.   

Lingua ceruina.  
This is called Hertis' tongue, the virtue of it is good to ripe a postume & break it if it be sudden with oil of Roses and a plaster made thereof and if it be drunken with wine or ale, it will harden a man's womb and it is hot and dry.   

Lilium.  
This is called the Lylie, the virtue of this is if it be stamped with tallow & oil and a plaster made thereof and laid to a place there as the postume is, it shall ripe it & make it to break. Also take a great quantity of the roots and the seed of the Dock, & the more of Lovache and put all these in wine, and oil, the space of ix days and afterward seethe it and cleanse it, and do thereto wax and make thereof an ointment, and that is good to hele the sore & the hardness of the milt. Also the juice thereof is good to hele the venom of adders. Also lay the juice thereof to a wound that is bitten and it will hele it, also take the roots and roast them and temper them with oil of olive, and lay it to a place that is brent, and it will heal it. Also this herb is good for many other things and diseases if it be drunken with ale, wine or water. Also it healeth and comforteth much a man's sinews. The virtue of this herb is in the moor, and this herb is hot and dry.   

Ligustum.  
This herb is called Primrose, this herb is good to pottage. Also the juice put in a man's nose it will destroy Megrym.   

Lingua bovis.  
❧ This is called langdebefe the virtue of this herb is good to do away the red colour of a man. Also if it be drunken it doth away the cardiacle and other wicked humours in a man's longs. Also the juice of this herb drunken with hot water, maketh a man to have a good mind and good wit, this must be gathered in june or july, it is hot and dry.   

Lingua serpentis maior.  
This is calley Adder's tongue, this herb hath leaves like to Affodyl, but they be more green, and also more sharp in the end, this must be gathered in Apryll.   

Lengua serpentes minor.  
This is called the less Addertong, this herb hath leaves somewhat like to Pygyll, and it hath a yellow flower and out of the stalk cometh many branuches and it groweth in woods.   

Lingua canis  
This is is called hundestonge, it is good to destroy the couge & the possume, & it will type a boche   

Lingua hiccina.  
This is called Buck●shorn of Swyneskerce this herb hath leaves faltered as it were an hearts horn, and groweth creeping by the ground, and it hath a little white flower, it groweth in watery places.   

Lupinus.  
This is called Lupyne, this herb hath leaves like to five leaved grass, the Lupine hath. vi● leaves and it hath a white flower, and a white seed that is somewhat like and it beareth cods somewhat like unto bean cods, the virtue of this herb is thus, if a man have worms in his womb, take the sed● and make meal thereof and the juice of wormwood and honey and make a cake thereof and eat it and it unbyndethe the stoping of the liver & of the milt. Also it is good to destroy the dropsy. Also take the same meal & the juice of Arsmerte and make thereof past and lay it to thy ears and it shall kill the worms within them, or if thou make a cake & heat it, it will do the same Also if thou will take the juice of Lekes and temper it with the meal and put it in thy ears, it shall cleanse them fro all wicked humours and stinking. Also take the same meal and temper it with oil and it will break and ripe all manner of postumes, this herb is hot and dry.   

Labrum veneris.  
This is called Southystel, the virtue of this herb is this, if a man have a hot fever, take the juice thereof & temper it with hot water and let him drink it and he shallbe hole. Also if a man have venom within him, take this herb and dry it and make powder thereof and do the powder in good wine and let slym drink it and it will cast up all the venom, it is hot & dry.   

Lavendula.  
This is called Lavender, if this be sudden in water give that water to a man that hath the palsy and it will hele him, it is hot and dry.   

Lactuca.  
This herb is called lettuce or stoup wort, the virtue of this herb is thus. If it be eaten raw, or sudden it engendereth good blood. Also this herb sudden with a lyttl A●sell and Saffron and than drunken, it helpeth a man that is stopped in the liver and in the mill. Also if a man may not sleep, take the seed of this herb and stamp it to powder and temper it which woman's milk and make a plaster thereof on lint, and lay it to the temples of thy head, and thou shalt sleep well, or else drink the powder thereof with milk.  
Also take the seed & temper it with oil of Roses, and make a plaster and lay it to the stomach, and it is good to destroy the hot postume Also drink the juice of this herb or powder of the seed for it is good to hele the flux. But who that useth this herb overmuch, it will destroy their sight, this herb is cold and somewhat moist.   

Lactuca siluatica.  
This is call●d wild lettuce, this herb hath leaves like to the thysbell, and they be sharp & keen and it hath a flower of purple colour and it groweth in Fields and in whe●e, This herb is hot and dry.   

Lactuca leporina.  
This herb is called Harchys●ell this herb hath leaves like to Sowthystell, but the leaves be not so endered, it droppeth milk, the virtue of this herb is thus, if a hare eat of this herb in Summer when he is mad he shallbe hold also take this herb and lay it to a man's side when he sleepeth or else that he know not thereof, and it will hele him of the fevers.   

¶ lolium.  
This herb is called Cockle this herb hath virtue if it be drunken with Raddysshe and a little salt, it is good to hel● the Canker or other wounds in peril. Also it is good to comfort the stomach and the liver. Also it will unbind worms in a man's stomach. Also it helpeth a man to make water, and it is good for sore eyes. Also subtumigation thereof will make a woman to bear her child without any peril or harm. Also it will assuage the great pains of aching of the liver it is hot and dry.   

Lapacium rubeum.  
This is called the reed Dock, if the a man take the juice thereof & hold it in his mouth, it will assuage the tooth ache. Also if a man have the kings evil, take this herb & seth it in wine and strain it and give him to drink and he shallbe hole if he use it oft. Also if a man rub him with the juice, it doth away evil ytchynges. Also this herb is good to deliver winds that be stopped in a man's stomach balking. Also this herb is good to make scabs and botches ripe. Also it is good to make a man to have a hard womb, it is hot and dry.   

¶ Linum.  
This is called Flex, it is good if a man take the seed thereof & seth it in water, it maketh a man laxative, and it is good to make a plaster thereof for aching sores. Also there is another spece thereof that is called Custula, it is named in english dodure, and it groweth among Flexe, the virtue of this is good to purge a man of the colour Also if it be taken and a great quantity thereof sodden in Myrrh and oil together, and a plaster made thereof, it is good for the reins & for the breast, and for other aching limbs.   

Lauriola.  
This is called Laurel, it will make a man laxative & it is good to purge a man of phlegm and of the colour, it is good for a man that may not eat, for if the juice thereof be put in his ears, or if the said herb be stamped and a suppository be made thereof and laid on cotton it will hele, it is hot and dry.   

Liquiritia.  
¶ This is named Lycoryse, the ●oote of this herb is sweet and it moisteth the kindly heat of a man and it is good for the cough. Also if it be sodden in water, it will destroy a man's thirst. Also it maketh a man's breast, his throat & his longs, moist and in good temper. This is cold and moist.   

☞ Lappa.  
This is called Clote, or Burrs   

Lappa ameria.  
❧ This is called a clote.    

¶: De littera. M.  

et primo de Millefolio minore,  
millfoil the less this herb is called. There is no difference of kind nor virtue between milfoly the less, and mylfoly the more, save the more groweth in gardens, & the less in wild place they be both of one strength his virtue shallbe declared in millfoil the more following by letter.   

Mercurialis.  
☞ This is called Mercury, his virtue is good if a man have akinge in his womb, give him to drink the juice and he shallbe hold, it will cleanse the stomach and the seed will do the same. Also the juice tempered with white wine is good to heal sore eyes, and if a worm or other venom have bitten a man. take the juice and warm it, and wash it. Also if there be any worms c●open into a man's ea●es, take the juice and warm it and put it into his ears and he shallbe hole This herb is hot and dry.   

Menta.  
☞ This herb is called Mint, his virtue is if it be oft eaten, it will slay worms in a man's womb Also if a man have botches or other rennynges or swelling in his head, take this herb and stamp it and lay it to the sore and it will hele it. Also if a man's tooth or the flesh of the tooth ache or stink, take this herb & seethe it in white wine and in Aylell, and take the liquor & wash his mouth therewith, than take the powder of the herb and tube well his tethe therewith, & he shall have a sweet smelling mouth Also take thou this herb & Aisell and make sauce, and it will make the to have a talon to thy meet, also when there shallbe given any medicine to destroy venom, it will be good to be given with the juice of this herb, for it hath many virtues and namely for venim, there be many spices thereof and it is hot and dry.   

Menta romana.  
This is named white Mint, the virtue thereof is the juice, it will slay worms in a man's womb. Also the juice will slay worms in the nostrils of a man. Also the powder thereof cast in a man's meat, it shall make him well to defy his meat.   

Malua.  
This herb is called Malow the virtue of it is good if the leaves be stamped and laid to a man's stomach it will break a hot postume in the beginning, or else meddle thy herb with fre●she swines grease and lay it on a hot tile and lay it all hot to the postume & it shall ripe it and break it. Also it is good to destroy the hardness of a man's liver and milt. Also it will make a man laxative, and it is good for plasters, it is cold and moist.   

¶ morel or night shadow.  
¶ This herb is cold & dry in the two. degree, the leaves, the branches & the fruit thereof be right good and best when they be green, they be good for stopping of the Spleen and the liver, & best for the jandesse to drink the juice of it with a little rhubarb. Also for a postume in the stomach, in the bowels or in the liver seth the juice thereof with barley water and drink it.   

¶ mastic.  
☞ This gumm is hot & dry, in the second degree It is a gum of a tree growing in a part of the country of Grece in the latter end of Vere the men of that country slit the trees and than make the ground clean about and lay clothes round about the trees, or some other cunning to keep the gum from the ground in closing of it, to know which is best to take, the best is white and clear, the whit colour is next the best & that is meddled with earth & somewhat da●ke, the best mastic he hath virtue of constraining, comforting cleansing & losing of humours descendind fro the head above to the eyes and to the teeth, and for the deseses of the temples made of and ascending wind fro the stomach to the head. Take powder of mastic, with white sweet wine and the white of an egg & meddle them well together and ye will ye may put in frankincense and plaster it to the themples. Also seethe mastic in water and drink it & it will comfort well the stomach, and make good digestion, and it comforteth and relaxeth the stomach and put to it Fenel sede, and it putteth out wind out of the stomach Also a plaster made of mastic and Bole Armoniake & the white of an egg and vinegar and lay it on the fork of the stomach or breast it will constrain well the choleric vanity. Also seth mastic in rain water and drink it with warm water and this medicine is good for the Flux of the womb that cometh of a sharp lax that was taken before to stop him. And boil mastic in rain water, or Rose-water with two or three cloves and drink it warm and that comforteth the vomit and the Flux of the womb that cometh of sharpness and violence of the medicine. Also mastic must have but little boiling for hurting of his virtue & it should be given warm, for it constraineth more when that it is given warm, Than when it is over much hot.   

Magerum.  
This herb is hot and dry in the second degree, the flowers and leaves be used in medicines, it should be gathered in summer when it flowreth, and dry it in the shadow, It may be kept a year, it hath virtue of comforting, of losing, if consuming, and of cleansing. If the powder of it be drunk in wine, or else boil the powder of it in wine & it will heat well a stomach. Also it comforteth the digestion. Also take the leaves and flowers of marjoram and powne them a little & make them hot in a pan, and lay it to the grievance and it taketh away the disease in the stomach that cometh of wind. Also for the rewm in the head, take this herb & bind it warm about thy head. Also it drieth the mother and consumeth the superfluity of it.   

Millefolium mayor, or yarrow.  
☞ King Achilles found this her be, & with it he healed his men that were wounded with iron, for wounds stamp this herb with swine's grease, and plaster it to the wound and it shall hele it, and the same is good for an ache in the breast or side it is good for them that may not piss, take the juice of this herb and vinegar & drink it, and marvelously it helpeth a wound that hath token cold. Stamp this herb in butter and lay it to the wound and it will heal it well. Also to digest the stomach or that lieth there in, take the juice of it and meddle it with water and honey and drink it warm. Also for diseases in the body take the powder and meddle it with wine or with good ale and drink it and it helpeth much. Also it is good for heart breiming. Also for the head ache stamp this herb and plaster it to the head. Also for biting of a wood dog, stamp this herb with the grains of where au● it healeth it. Also for him that may not hold his meat, stamp this herb with wine and drink it warm.   

Motherwort or Mugwort,  
❧ This herb in latin is called Artemesia, and it is hot and dry in the iii degree, this herb helpeth a woman to conceive a child, and clen●ethe the mother and maketh a woman to have her flowers and to destroyeth the Emeroydes on this manner, first they must be gathered, them take powder of Motherwort and of Horehound together and straw it on the paps. Also if a child be dead in the Mother's womb take Motherwort & stamp it small & make a plaster thereof and lay it to her womb all cold, and with the grace of god she shall have have deliverance with out peril, It is good for the stone and the gravel in the reins of a man or of a woman, if a mon bear this herb upon him there shall no venomous best grieve him. It is good for the yellow yaundes and if it be drunken with wine, for, it comforteth the stomach & maketh a man or woman to have good colour.   

Maces.  
This spice is hot & dry in the ii degree maces be rinds or husks it groweth about the Nutmeg as the rind groweth about the Hazel mutte, it may be kept ten year in his virtue it is comforting, dissolving, and consuming, the knowledge of fine maces is thus, it should be in colour like to fine gold or else like to gold, that silver is gilt with, the which hath a sharp tallage with a bitterness, & it looketh like to earth, & it is to be refused, for it hath no sharp savour, for a cold stomach that may not defy nor degeste well, take maces and boil them in wine and drink it, Also a good plaster the which is best for a feeble stomach, make ●ouder of mastic and of maces and medele them with oil of roses and wax and make a plaster thereof & lay it on the stomach of the seek person. Also to cleanse the brain of superfluous humours, take a quantity of Maces and chew them well in thy mouth and hold them there a while, and that shall lose the fumosite of humours that rise up to the brains and purge the superfluite of it. Also for feebleness of the stomach & the liver of a cold cause and for the colic, and for the diseases of the spiritual membres, or phlegm, boil maces in the juice of Fenell and in the end of the boiling, put in a little wine, than strain it and drink it for it is the best remedy for the foresaid diseases. And for the ache of the heart, use powder of maces in thy meats and drinks.   

Menta.  
¶ This is named the reed mint it is hot and dry in the ii degree, and there be, two. other mints, but I mean house mints, the which properly is said garden mints, for that most commonly is in medicines both green & dry, for great wholesomeness it should be dried in a shadow place, & so it will be kept a year in great virtue, to dissolve or lose to consum of his proper quality and to comfort of his sweat savour, for the stinking of the mouth and filth in the gums and of the teeth wash thy mouth and gums with vinegar that mints besodenin, and after rub him with the powder of mints or with dry mints to provoke the appeti●e, when an impediment of the stomach that cometh of cold humours being in the mouth of the stomach make a salve of Mints and vinegar with a little Synamun and pepper and use it well against vomits that cometh of feebleness of the stomach or of cold causes. seethe mints in Sauge water & vinegar and dype it to and lay it on the mouth of the stomach with the mints that be sodden therein. Also give to the patient to eat of the same Mints for the syncopyne and feebleness in Fevers, and with out fevers, or of medicine, or of what cause it be, stamped Mints with vinegar and a little wine if the patient be without Fever, and if he be with Fever, stamp Mints with ●ynege● alone, than make a toast of sour bread and toast it well till it be almost brent than put it in that liquor and let it lie there in till it be well soaked, than put it in to his nose and rub his lips, gums, teeth and temples therewith and bind it to the pulse veins of his arms. and let the patient eat the moistness that is left and swallow it in. For to cleanse the mother, take the tender crops of Mints and seth them in water or wine and plaster it to the share, and to the reins against the congeling in a womamns breast take the small stalks of mine eyes and seethe them in wine & oil and plaster it about the tetes Also be it known that when any medicine should be given a against venom it should be given with the juice of mints for mints have a manner of strength of drawing out of venom, or else it should be with wine that mints hath bensodden in, for stopping of the splen and the liver and of the ways of the urine of a cold humour and of a hot without Fever, Take the juice of mints alone, or mints sudden in wine, or the juice of mints meddled with honey, and give it to the patient. To slay worms in the belly, take the juice of mints and drink it, & thou shalt be hole Also the juice of mints fleeth worms in thy ears. For a tetter take the juice of mints and put thereto brimstone and vinegar and meddle them well together, & anoint the tetter therewith and thou shalt be hole. For a wound in the head, stamp mints and lay them on the wound. etc. For pain in the side take mints and seth them in old wine or ale & with it stamp xviii grains of Pepper and drink it in the night, there be but little difference between this mint and the roman mint, this is the garden mint.    

¶ N. littera  

et primo de nux muscata.  
nutmeg is hot & dry in the ii degree, the best groweth in ynde and in the time of his ripinge, it is gathered and vii year it may be kept, they that be plain & heavy after their kind be best to be chosen. Also when they be broken they fall not to powder, but they have a sweet and sharp savour, if they lack any of these aforesaid, they be not good for medicines, he hath virtue of comforting by his sweet savour, or coldness and feebleness of digestion of the stomach, take in the morning half a Nutmige or a hole Nutmeg and eat it. Also for a cold stomach that is feeble of digestion and for the liver give him wine that the Nutmegs is boiled in. Also for the same boil Nutmegs, and mastic in wine and drink it, this is good for the diseases in the stomach, and in the bowels to break in wind. Also in the recovering of a sickness to comfort the spiritual members boil Nutmegs and mastic in wine and drink it. Also take a Nutmeg and smell to it, and it will comfort the spiritual membres.   

❧ Napo.  
This is named navew, it desireth ground that is fatty, and sandy, it groweth best in such ground. The property of the navews is he changeth and turneth into rape, and after that it turneth into navew. The best do grow in ground well donged and turned Also it proveth well in places that stubble of corn hath been in the same year. If they grow to thick pluck some up here and there, so that the other may prove that better and those that ye pluck up set them in void places. They should be sown in the end of july and in August, the best savoured navews be they that be long & straight and not over great nor branches in the roots, bu● a straight root, Also of navews may be made a passing good meat with a little salt and vinegar, honey and mustard and with sweet spices and it may be made without spices navews be hot in the second degree and they nourish much, but they be hard of digestion, they make the flesh soft & windy but less wind than rapes. Therefore when ye seth them in water, cast that water away, and seth them in another water and so his hard substance is tempered by that, and so menely between good and evil they engender noryshing, for they that be thus sodden be not hard of digestion, they make one windy, and they make stopping of veins and of poors but yet they be profitable if they be sodden twice and both the waters to be cast away, & they to be sodden with the third with fat flesh.    

❧ Hic incipit littera. O.  

et primo de Olibano.  
OLibanum is called Frankincense, This is hot and dry in the iii degree, it is gum of a tree in Ind, the cleneste is the best Also there be trees of that kind growing in Bama●ke, but not so clear nor good, for it is darker of colour, therefore it is to be refused in medicine, it hath virtue of comforting by his sweet savour Also of closing and constraynyng for the toothache that cometh of superfluity of humours of the head and specially by the veins, make a plaster of powder of frankincense with wine & the white of an egg, meddle them together and plaster them about the temples, Also to stop the ways of the veins above, take Frankincense and chew it well in thy mouth and that shall stop and let the flux of humours coming down to the nostrils. Take pills of frankincense & swallow them down in the morning, then boil frankincense in wine and at even drink that when thou goest to bed. Also these py●les be good to help the digestion of the stomach, and good against sore bolkinges. Also to the comforting and cleansing of the Meryce, and helping of conception in the receiving the fume of frankincense beneath. Also boil powder of it in wine and when it is me●ely warm dip a cloth in it and lay it so warm to the share of the patient, and greatly it comforteth the Matrice.    

Hic incipit littera. P.  

Et primo de Pruna.  
ALL plumines be cold & moist, some be white some be black & some be red. They that be black and some what hard be the best, they be called Damsons, and when they be ripe gather them and slet them & spring vinegar upon them, and so they may be kept● in a vessel of wood a year, and first when they be cu● they must be laid in the son xv days to dry, these Damsons have virtue of coldness and cleansing of the inward parts wherefore they be good in fevers that be sharp & for costyfenes of the belie that cometh of dryness or of Colorike humours drying, if it be new give it him to eat, if it be dry boil it in water & give the pacyente to drink thereof, this is good for the Fever tertian, for stopping of the liver, for the yaundes and sharp fevers it soteth the belly, it is good for default of appetite, and for many other diseases.   

☞ Pepper.  
¶ This is called Pepper, it is hot and dry in the four degree. There be three manners of Pepper. Black white, and long. Diascorydes and Constantyne sayeth that they be fruits of tres growing in Ind and some say that Pepper is made black with brenning in the fire for when it is gathered there be a great multitude of serpents about it, & therefore they put it in the fire to burn the serpents that be about it, the Sarysyns dry it in an oven because it shall not increase in another land. But of all the peppers, the black is the best and the most wholesome. Take pepper and put it in to the nostrils & it will make the to sneeze, and seethe pepper and figs in wine and drink it, and it will cleanse the spiritual membres of tough humours, and it is good for the pose that is taken of cold. Also for the same eat powder of pepper with figs. Also powder of pepper put in a man's meat comforteth the digestion of the stomach also put long pepper in a roasted apple and eat it, and it shall comfort the digestion. Also powder of Pepper will fret away dead flesh or proud flesh, & long, Pepper comforteth more than black. Also black Pepper hath virtue of losing, comforting, and of drawing, i● cleanseth the spiritual membres of cold phlegm & vicious humours and best when the powder of it is eaten with figs for he hath great strength of heating and comforting the stomach provoking appetite, but to sanguine and Colorike people, it is not good to use pepper, for it drieth & burneth blood and it engendereth lepry and other evil sickness. Plato sayeth that Pepper is foul to see in sight, with out black, & within with a sharp savour and a sweet odour, little in quantity and much in virtue.   

Pympernell.  
This herb is good to hele wounds and to destroy venom, and to hele a postume and sore eyes.   

Pulegium.  
❧ This is named Puleol royal it is hot and dry in the iii degree In the time of flowering it should be gathered, and it may be kept in his virtue a year, when it shall be used in medicines, take the leaves with the flowers and stripe them fro the stalk, and it hath virtue of losing and consuming, for the cold humours in the head take powder of it and heat it well in a Skellet, and all hot bind it to the grievance without any liquor. Also for a great cold taken in the head, and for a tough humour or a watery humour make a garg●rysme, seethe ●ulyoll royal & ●rye figs in a tart vinegar, & take a good spoonful thereof as hot as ye may suffer it, and hold it in thy mouth till it be almost cold, than put it out and take as much more, and do so three or four times and that shall purge thy head well of phlegm. also seethe it in wine and drink it and it is good for the disease of the stomach & guts, and for cold causes, or for wind in the stomach. Also it is good for tough phlegm in the breast, if thou take powder of it, and meddle it with clarified honey and make a lectuarye thereof and use to eat thereof, or take the herb thereof & boil it with wine, honey or water and use to drink thereof. Also for the black colour drink the juice of it, or boil it with wine & thou shalt be hole. Also for a itching bile, lay this herb in water, and use to wash the itching therein warm & thou shalt be hole. Also for ache take this herb all green and stamp it & plaster it to the ache and it will ease it. Also against the cough boil this herb in wine and drink it lukewarm and this will make one to piss well. For the disease in the belly stamp this herb with common and water and lay it hot to the navel and lightly it shall be hole, for the diseases in the liver stamp this herb and temper it with water and vinegar and drink the juice thereof, and thou shallbe hole. For an ache in the legs or arms take the leaves of elders & Pulioll royal of every like much and stamp them together well and plaster it to the grevannce, and it is good for the fever tercian, if thou take the branches of this herb & wrap it in a good lock of wool and give it to the patient and let him smell thereto, before the fever come on him, and that shall do him great ease. For the head ache take this herb & bind it fast round about thy head and anon it ceasethe the ache. Also if a woman have a dead child in her womb stamp this herb and give her to drink with old wine, and she shallbe delivered of it, by the grace of God.  
For the cramp drink the juice with vinegar fasting and it will put it away.   

Pencedanum vel Feniculus porcinus.  
☞ This herb is call maysh Hogs fenel or maiden weed this herb is hot and dry in the iii degree when this herb is gathered for medicines the root is better than the herb when the roots be gathered they may be kept all a year, it hath a purging virtue, it is good for the strangulyon or the flix and good for stopping of the spleen & the liver, boil this herb in wine or water and give it to the patient to drink. Also seethe it in oil and wine and plaster it to the share & it will help the strangulion or the flux. Also the same plaster is good for hardness of the splen it molyfieth that. Also against the cold humours of the spiritual membres give him to drink water with barley and this herb sodden together and if it be a fervent cold humour than seethe the Barley and the herb in wine, and give it to the pacyente to drink with licoricde.   

Petrocilium.  
This is called perslye, this is hot and moist in the third degree It multiplieth greatly man's blood and doth away the Tysyke, it helpeth well to destroy the Fever tertian, it is good for the side and the dropsy, it comforteth the heart and the stomach, and it is good in pottage and to stop chickens.   

Peritorium.  
This herb is called peritory & it is hot and dry, the virtue of this herb is thus. If a man have an evil stomach or else aching within him, take this herb and seethe it in thy pottage and eat thereof and thou shalt do well. Also this herb is good to hele one of the stone, if he be bathed with it.   

¶ Pastinaca.  
This is called a perseneppe, it is hot and moist in the second degree. There be two manner of persneppes, the one is the Persneppe of the garden, and the other is the wild persneppe. They be more used to meat than to medicine his virtue is to engendre thick blood & much, wherefore it stirreth the lust of the body if it be much used therefore it is good for amam that is newly recovered out of his great sickness to use to eat of it a while. Also they be good to be eaten raw or sodden for the melancholy humours green and not dry. To make a serope to stir the lust of the body and for to comfort thee, digestion take roots of Parsneppes & seethe them well in water, than take them o●t and cast away the water, and the roots that be in gobbets, boil them again in water than put thereto honey well clarified and let them boil unto the thickness of honey, and continually stir it, that it cleave not to the vessel and in the middle of the boiling, put in almonds if ye have them, in the end of the boiling, put in gynger, galengale, and a little pepper & nutmegs & other sweet savoured spices. Also Parsneppes may be so wen in December, Ianuarye, and March, in fat ground deep doluen and lose ground and best digged, and they be somewhat windy. Boil them in two waters but cast away the first water. Also there is Parseneppes that is somewhat red, the which may be eaten both raw & sudden, & with them and navews together ye may make a very good meat and fair and read in colour the which be sodden as Parsneppes be.   

Plantago.  
☞ This is called Plantain, it is cold and dry in the ii degree, for head ache take plantain & bind it about thy neck, & the ache shall go out of thy head. Also for diseases in the body, seethe this herb in good liquor what ye will and use to drink it and it shall cleanse the maw & the other inwards. Also for him that bleedeth at the nose give him to drink the juice of it and it shall cease lightly. Also if the body of any man be wexen hard. stamp this herb with grece and make a plaster of it & lay it on the hardness and lightly it shallbe soft and make it hole. Also for biting of a serpent, take this herb and drink it with wine. Also for the disease in the mouth take the juice of this herb & hold it long in thy mouth and eat the leaves of this he●b for him that may not well piss seethe this herb and drink it. Also for a rotten humour in the breast and about the heart take the juice of this herb the weight of ten d. and meddle it with honey and give him to eat a spoonful at one time and that shall purge the breast, for ache in the r●te take this herb with vinegar and drink it. Also it healeth wounds and cleanseth the filth out of wounds. Also it swadgeth ran keling and staunchethe the mentions both with drink and with plasters made with powder of Armoniake and of sandragoune and Barley meddled with the white of eggs made in a plaster & laid to the sore for the Canker and the pain in the gums, take the juice thereof and meddle it with honey and vinegar and powder of Alum and that shall slay the Canker in the mouth. Also for the fevers, stamp iii roots of plantain, & temper it with water and give it him to drink that hath the fevers and he shallbe hold, for the jaundice stamp plantain and Lettyse together & temper them with vinegar and make a plaster there of and lay it to thy right side & use it till thou be hole, and it is good for the biting of an adder, drink the juice of it & lay the substance of the herb to the sore, for the same hang the rote of plantain about the neck of the patient and marvelously it helpeth, for the potager, and for the disease in the sinews stamp the leaves of it with a little salt and plaster it well thereto, and marvelously it helpeth.   

Portum.  
❧ This is called a leek, it is hot and dry in the ii degree, it desireth lou●e ground and fat and well dunged in that they shall best profit in hot places and temperate. They may be sown in Decembre in temperate places & cold. They may be sown in january, February & March, when the ground is well digged and dyghte, and it may be sown by itself or meddled with other sedes of herbs in good fat ground well digged and turned above it with good dung, this seed would be sown somewhat thick and when they be somewhat sprung take up the greatest lekes & plant them in forowes, but take a way none of their root when ye set them in the forowes, but when ye set them with a dyble, than cut a way the roots almost up to the leek head & away the uppermost of the leaves they may be planted in julie, August, September & October, they be much profitable in March, and in Apryll next following, but in your planting you shall not seek after fate soft ground for menely ground that is best & that ground that is almost dry is best, there is two manner at setting of lekes, one is in forowes, as is the manner in Bonony and the forowe must be fro the other a span large, and the lekes must be set in the forowe iiii. fingers breed each fro other, & when ye mnke next forowe cast the earth on the lekes and tread it down softly with thy foot. The two. manner is thus when the ground is well digged & raked than make holes with a great dyble & every hole fro other a large span more in which the lekes must be set in, but fill not thy holes nor put earth on them but let them be void, three weeks when weeds grow among them pull them up & keep them clean fro weeds. divers auctors say that the Lekes that be thus planted be better than any other, or they may be well planted among great onions & when the onions be taken away, weed the leek and you shall find them fair and good and when ye pluck up, leave some in a place, & leave some for seed, the which seed may be kept three year, and it be hanged up in the hulles, Lekes be best sudden, or iii times washed before they be eaten. For a wound take lekes and stamp them well with honey, and lay it to the wound, and it will heal it, for the cough take the juice of lekes use to drink it, for the same take the juice of lekes & meddle it with woman's milk and use to drink it, & it will cleanse the longs of all vices.   

¶ Fracturas sotidat duritiasque relaxat.  
vulnusque appositum ceto cum sale claudit.   

☞ Diretrum.  
This is called Pellyter, it is hot & dri in the iii degree, the rote is used in medicines, five year he may be kept in his virtue, & know ye well that his sharpness is not known, it should be powned & held in the mouth, He hath virtue of losing & drawing & of consuming. To make a gargarism take pelleter & figs & boil them in vinegar or sweet wine & it will cleanse the brain of superflute of flume also if it be chewed in the mouth it helpeth the palsy in the tongue. Also for the palsy & podagar stamp it & seethe it in wine & oil & plaster it to the greuance this plaster helpeth much therefore if thou may have green peliter stamp it & lay it soaking in wine xv. days, & after boil it well & put thereto wax & oil for this is the best ointment for all the foresaid disease   

❧ Papaver.  
This is called Popy, it is cold and dry, There is two manners of them. The white poppy is cold and moist and it is good to cause one to sleep. The seed thereof well gathered may be kept ten year, it hath virtue of cleansing. It is put in medicines with a determination as the seed may be received of white popy or black. For to provoke a slepe● make ye a plaster of each of them or one of them with woman's milk and the white of an egg and lay it to the temples. The woman of Salerne gave to young chyldred the poppy but they would give them no black poppy for it made them to much heavy. Also for a hot postume in the beginning and for chafing of the liver take the seed of white poppy or else the herb of it and stamp it and meddle it with oil of Roses and plaster it to the grievance. Also for dryness in fever e●yke, and in other fevers take & heat oil of violet meddled with powder of poppy seed, and anoint the small of the back therewith.   

☞ Pollipodium.  
This is called pollipodye, it is hot in the four degree and dry in the second degree. This Pollypodye is fern that groweth upon Okes or on walls, or stones but the pollypodye that groweth on oaks is the best. Gather the roots of it and lay it a day in the son, chose that is green, and that which appeareth dry when it is broken it is to be refused, he hath virtue of dissolving of drawing of purging phlegm & specially melancholy, wherefore commonly he is put in boiling and to sleumatyke and melancholious hole men, he is given to preserve their health, and know well that in the boiling of polypody should be put in some thing to exclude & put out ventuosyte as Anise sede fenell sede, or Coming or else all these a foresaid sedes for they exclude out much wind and unbind the humours. Also for the E●tidian and for Ilica passio and to keep a man's health, do thus stamp half an ounce of polypody or an ounce if ye will have it much laxative, than boil it with Prunes and vyolettes in Fenell water or Anise, in a great quantity than strain it and give it the patient at morning and evening. Also stamp it & seethe it in water with Fenell sede and with water, & make a broth with a chekin therein with sweat savoured spices & give the patient to eat. Also make a drink thereof after this manner stamp it & boil it in wine & after put more wine thereto and so make up your drink with sweet savoured spices   

Pionium.  
This is called Pyony, it is hot and dry in the second degree, so saith hippocras & Galyen the good philosophers, they say that the root thereof groweth to divers medicines and it will last ten years, and it is cold for the palsy, dry the rote and drink powder with Caster sodden in wine. Also the same is good for the Stone. Also if a man be costive and may not go to the draft, take and strow the powder thereof on Cotten and put it in to his fundament, and drink the powder in white wine. Also for a man or woman that hath the falling evil eat it and drink it in wine. Also hang the rote about his neck and it will save him without doubt within xu days. Also it helpeth the sores in the mouth. Also if thou seethe it in wine, it helpeth the spleen. Also drink Pyony with water & honey and do thereto powder of Colyander and this is good for the stomach, for the milt and for gravel in the reins. Also it is good for women for diverse diseases, Also seethe it in white wine and give a woman to drink thereof & it will hele her bledder & make her to piss the stone, and it will hele her of the Marris. Also Pyony sede when it is black it maketh deliverance of the bed of the child in her womb and at every time when he shall use to drink it, she must drink xv. sedes an time.    

☞ Q. Littera.  

Et primo de Qui●quefolia.  
QUynckfolie is cold & dry in the second degree, this herb is good for ache in a man's limbs & for ache of the head, mouth, tongue, and throat, that be sore, take & seethe this herb in wine & give the patient to drink thereof three days, first and last and he shallbe hole. Also stamp it, and drink the juice of it in ale & it will cease the aching and the gnawing of a man or woman. Also if a man bleed sore at the nose, give him to drink the juice of it with wine, and anoint his head well with the juice of this haveth, and anon the blood shall staunch. For to slay a Canker, seth it in wide and the grease of a swine and make a plaster thereof and lay it on the Canker and it shall slay it, Also take powder of quyncke foil and meddle it with honey and there with rub thy mouth, tongue, and throat, and the cheeks within and it will purge it well. Also for poison and biting of a serpent take the juice of the Quynckefoyle, and drink it with wine & merueloslye it resisteth venom.    

Hic incipit littera. R.  

and first of Rybeworte.  
RYbeworte is good for the fever quartain, take the juice of this herb and drink it two hours before ye think the disease shall come to you and by the grace of God it shall go from you.   

Rednetle.  
¶ Take Red Netels, and stamp them small & seethe them in an earthen pot with a portion of white wine till half be wasted, and give the patient to drink first and last warm, and lay the herbs to the fundament, as hot as the patient may suffer it, and use this medicine till he be hole.   

¶ Rosa.  
❧ This is the red Rose, it is cold in the first degree and dry in the second degree. Dry roses and green roses be used in medicines, and of green roses be made many confections. Also dry roses be put in medicines, when a receit of roses is made, for they be soon made in powder of roses is made Mell roset, Sugar roset, syrup of Roses alectuary of Roses, water of Roses and oil of roses. Mell roset is made thus, take fair purified honey, & new red roses the white ends of them clipped away than chop them small and put them into the honey and boil them menely together, to know when it is boiled enough, ye shall know it by the sweet odour and the colour ruff five years he may be kept in his virtue, by the roses he hath virtue of comforting, & by the honey he hath virtue of cleansing. In winter & in summer, it may be given competently to feeble sick slumatyke melancholy, and Colorike people● also Mulsa is made of water and mell roset, and it may be given after the three day that it cometh out of the bath for to cleanse toe stomach of cold humour give him mell roset with water that fennel sede is boiled in putting therein iii grains of salt, if the sick may take it this should be the quantity of roses and honey. In vii pound of honey put a pound of Roses, Sugar roset is made thus. Take new gathered Roses and stamp them right small with Sugar than put it in a glass and thirty. days let it stand in the son and stir it well and meddle it well together & so it may be kept three years in his virtue. The quantity of Sugar & Roses should be thus in four pound of Sugar a pound of Roses, he hath virtue of constraynynge and comforting of the flux in the wome. Take Sugar roset and powder of mastic of every one a dram, and meddle them well together and give it to the sick oft, than give him rose-water that mastic and cloves be sodden in. Syrup of Roses is made thus, some do take roses dight, as it is before said and boil them in water, and in the water strained they put Sugar and make a syrup thereof, and some do make it better for they put roses in a vessel having a straight mouth & they put to the roses hot water, and they let it stand a day and a night and of that water putting to it Sugar they make syrup and some do put more of roses in the foresaid vessel & more of hot water, and let it stand as is before said and so they make a reed water, and make thereof a syrup. And some do stamp new Roses and then strain out the juice of it and Sugar therewith they make syrup and this is the best making of syrup & know it well that syrup made of fresh and new Roses, first somewhat meanli they lax, in the end they bind, but syrup made of dry Roses first and last they bind Syrup of Roses hath virtue of comforting and constraining against the flux of the womb and the vomit, give it to him with rain water or with rose water in a fever. After letting of blood give it him with cold water. Also the same for the Sincopyne. Oil of roses is made thus, some boil Roses in oil and keep it. Some do fill a glass with Roses & oil and they boil it in a cauldron full of water & this oil is good, some stamp fresh roses with oil and they put it in a vessel of glass, and set it in the son x. days and this oil is good against chafing of the liver, if it be anointed therewith. Also it is good for the disease in the head that cometh of heat, anoint the forehead and the temples with oil of roses. The water of Roses hath virtue of comforting and constraining against the flux of the womb and vomit. Also give him rose-water boiled with mastic and cloves it is best against the flux and feebleness of virtue, if it come of a flux by a sharp medicine. Also rose water is good for the Syncopyne and the Cardiacle give it him to drink & spring the water on his face and the water is good for eyes and in ointments for the face, for it taketh away the wemmes and the superfluity and straineth not the skin. Also dry Roses put to the nose to smell do comfort the brain and the herb and quencheth the spirit. Also against the flux of the womb of colour give him Roses boiled in rain water. Also a plaster made of roses and the white of an egg and vinegar & dip a sponge in it and lay it on the mouth of the stomach against the syncopyne, give him to drink water that roses have been boiled in, and give him powder of roses in a rear egg to make oil of roses, take ii li. of oil a li and an half of roses and put all in a glass, and put the glass in a Caud●ron full of water and hang it therein and boil it till the third part be wasted, and after strain it through a linen cloth & keep it for your use, for this oil is losing and serveth for many things. Some do put rose water in a glass and they put roses with there dew thereto, & they make it to boil in water, than they set it in the son till it be reed, and this waier is best, this hath virtue of comforting and constraining and for the flux of the womb, and against the vomit.   

Rosemary.  
¶ This herb is hot and dry, take the flowers and put them in a linen cloth and so boil them in fair clean water to the half and cool it, & drink it for it is munch worth against all evils in the body. Take the flowers and make powder thereof and bind it to the right arm in a linen cloth and it shall make the linght and merry Also eat the flowers with honey fasting with sour bread & there shall rise in the none evil swellings. Also take the flowers and put them in a chest among your clothes, or among books and moughtes shall not hurt them, boil the flowers in goats milk and than let them stand all a night under the air fair covered after y● give him to drink thereof that hath the tysyke & it shall deliver him, boil the leaves in white wine and wash thy face therewith thy beard and thy brows & there shall honorne grow out, and thou shall have a fair face. Put the leaves under thy beds head & thou shallbe delivered of all evil dreams, Break the leaves small to powder and lay them on a canker and it shall slay it. Take the leaves and put them into a vessel of wine and it shall preserve it fro tartness and evil savour, and if thou sell that wine thou shalt have good luck in the sale. If thou be feeble with unkynely sweet, take and boil the leaves in clean water and when the water is cold, do thereto as much of white wine, and than make therein sops & eat well thereof, and thou shall recover appetite. If thou have the flux byole the leaves in strong eisell and bind them in a linen cloth and bind it to the womb and anon the flu●e shall withdraw. If thy legs be blown with the gout, boil the leaves in water, and than take the leaves and bind them in a linen cloth about thy legs and it shall do the good. Take the leaves and boil thē●n strong Aysel and bind them in a cloth to thy stomach, & it shall deliver the of all evils, If thou have the cough, drink the water of the leaves boiled in white wine, and it will heal the Take the rind of Rosemary and make powder thereof and drink it for the pose and it shall help thee, Take the tember thereof and burn it to coals and make powder thereof and than put it in a linen cloth, & rub thy tethe therewith, and if her be any worms therein it shall slay them & keep thy tethe from evils. Also make the a box of the wood & smell to it and it shall preserve thy youth. Also pu● thereof in thy doors or in thy house and thou shalt be without danger of adoers and other venomous serpents. Make the a barrel thereof and drink thou of the drink that standeth therein and thou need not to fear no poison that shall hurt the and if thou set it in thy garden keep it honestli for it is much profitable. Also if a man have lost his smelling of the air, or else he may not draw his breath make fire of the wood & take his breath therewith and give it him to ease and he shallbe hole.   

Ruta.  
¶ This is called rue, this is hot and dry in the ii degree, the leaves and the sedes be used in medicines the sedes may be kept ten year and the leaves a year, he hath virtue of purging, dissolving and consuming, for the head ache take the juice of rue and heat it and put it into his nosethrylle for it purgeth out fleum and clensenth the brain, the juice sudden with wine is good for the same. For feebleness of sight put rue in a pot with ale and let the patient use to drink of it. For stopping of the splen and liver, the stranguris & the flux, seth Rew in wine with roots of Fenell, or powder of rue, with the juice of Fenell, and drink it warm. Also for and ache or freting, stamp rue with powder of Coming and plaster it to the grievance. Also against venom, drink the juice of rue. For biting of venomous best or worm, plaster rue to the biting. For feebleness of eye sight still water of rue, and roses, together and put thereof in your eyes Also an ointment for sore eyes, stamp rue and Fenell together of each like much by weight and meddle them with honey, and Eufrose and it is good oyment for eyes. Take rue, cumin, and Pepper, of each like much by weight, and grind them small together and meddle them with honey and vinegar and it is good for the ache in the breast and in the reins.    

☞ Hic incepit liriera. S.  

Et primo de Sinapio.  
SImapum is called mustard, it is hot and dry, in the meddle of the iii degree, and not the herb, but the seed, is put in medicines. five year he may be kept in his virtue. He hath virtue losing, of drawing, of making thine, and of consuming. For the palsy of the tongue take and chew the seed in your mouth, and hold it under the tongue and it shall do you good. Also for the palsy in other membres seethe the seed in wine and lay it to the sore place and is best in the beginning of the disease. Also take the powder of it, and put it into your nostrils and it will make you to sneeze and it cleanseth the brain and superfluite flume. Also seethe it in wine and figs & hold it warm in your mouth till it be all most cold than take as much and do so .v. or vi times a day asmuch another day & this is good for an old pose of chough and flumy humour in the the head Also for stopping of the splen and the liver seethe the seed in water with roots of Fenel, than strain it and put thereto honey and give it to the sick to drink. For hardness of the splen seethe the herb of it in wine & plaster it to the grievance for to ripe and break a postume, stamp this herb well with hogs grease and lay it to the postume. Also for Strangury take the herb of this and seethe it in oil and wine and plaster it to the grievance, and it will louse it. Also for the Ciaticaand for other old sores take mustard seed and the third part of crumbs of white breed, and figs, honey, and vinegar, after as the ache of the sore requireth the more of the figs and the honey that is there the more sharper is the strength of the seed, and the more bread and vinegar that is in it, the more weaker is the seed, but I say not that ye shall put this confection to all sores but to great and old sores. His virtue if if he be eaten it sharpeth a man's wit, it cleanseth the belly, it breaketh the stone it purgeth the urine menstrosite, and comforteth the stomach.   

¶ smallage.  
Take Smalage sede Rewe sede, Pepper and salt and grind them well together and temper them with wine and drink it, for it is good for cold and wicked humours in the stomach and comforteth the stomach the liver and the longs, it is good for wounds. For rankeling and to cease the brenning and akinge, and to bring them to their kind again. Also it is good to drink for the fever tercian.   

Saluia.  
Sage is hot in the first degree and dry in the second degree the leaves only be taken in medicines both green and dry, he may be kept a year, there be two manners of Sages, the garden and the wild Sage, if thou wilt have Sage in for medicines take the leaves of garden Sage, for that consumeth more and comforteth more than the other doth. For the palsy, seethe the leaves of sage in wine & use to drink it. For the same seethe the leaves in wine & plaster it to the grievance, also it is good to put in sauce, for the strangury, the flux, & the matrice it cleanseth, seethe the leaves in water & let the patient set over it & receive the hot fume of it and it shall do him much good. Also it is good for venom or poison, seethe Sage in ale or wine and use to drink it iii days and thou shalt be hole, by the grace of god. for the stomach drink the juice of sage with water and honey, & it is good to cleanse a man's body to use it both ripe and green, it will make a man's body clean, therefore who that useth to eat of this herb, or drink it, it is marvel that any inconvenience should grieve them that use it, If ye have an ytchinge on you, wash it well with the juice of this herb & it shall slay itching. Also drink sage with wine & a little worm wooed and it shall cease the ache under the sides, the womb and the stomach, it is good for the palsy and dropsy.   

☞ Sytureia.  
This is called savoury, it is hot and dry in the four degree, seethe it in wine or water, and drink it and it purgeth the reins, the bladder, the menstruosity in the bowels, it purgeth the longs, and loseth great humours and compellethe and putteth him out by the mouth by spyting, therefore he is brenning and styrrethe him that useth lechery, therefore it is forbid to use it much in meats. Soak it in vinegar or wine and drink it and it shall make the have a meek stomach. Also when it flowereth it should be gathered and dried & powder made thereof. Also take the powder of savoury & boil it which clarified honi & use to eat thereof, or boil it in wine, & drink it, and it will lose cough flum in the breast. Also for fretting in thy belly drink powder of it in warm wine and thou shallbe hole. Also if ye take the less savoury it hath the same virtue & strength that the other savoury hath. Also make gruel with water and fluwer, and powder of savoury & eat thereof & that shall cleanse all the spiritual membres of a man.   

Saxfrage.  
☞ This is hot and dry in the iii degree, for the stone, seethe the rote of it in wine and drink it. Also it is good for the disease of the colic & the strangury, and the powder of it be eaten with an egg, it is good for the same. It may be keep in his virtue iii year.   

Scabiosa.  
This is called Scabias', it is hot and dry in the iii degree, to dri it there is no profit in it, for scabs take juice of it, vinegar and oil, and boil them together till they we●e thick, and keep it for it is good for scabs. For the emeralds seethe them in water, than set over it and take the flume of it and use it & thou shallbe hole, stamp it and seethe it wine & that drink, is good to destroy humours in the stomach, and drink it every day fasting with Eurose & thou shal● be hole, and thou shall never have the pestilence breeding within the while thou do use it. For the liver stamp it and seethe it in wine and drink it.   

¶ Sothernwode.  
This herb is good for the cough and for biting in the belly and in the breast, and for disease in the bones, and good for them that may not well piss take the seed of this herb and stamp it and drink it with water, & it is good for all the aforesaid. Also for the desseases in the side, stamp this herb with betake and drink it and it helpeth well. Also for the biting of a serpent and for venom, stamp this herb and drink it with wine, and it is good. Also for the cold fever stamp this herb with wine and drnycke it and thou shalt be hole.   

sengreen.  
This is cold and moist in the third degree the juice of this herb and also the same herb is right necessary for many diseases, stamp this herb with grease and plaster it to the disease & marvelously it helpeth. For disease and darkness of eyes, stamp this herb and put of the juice in the sore eyes For chafing of the liver take the juice of it and vinegar & dip a cloth therein, and plaster it to the grievance. For biting or scalding make an ointment of the juice of this herb and oil of Roses, and wax, but lay it not to till after the three first days, but first anoint it with grease and such other. Also for a disease of a hot cause this herb is good to be laid thereto.   

Stycheworte.  
❧ This is called Stycheworte or birollong this is hot & moist in the first degree, the virtue of this herb is, it is good to hele wounds & sore eyes   

Scamony.  
Scamony is hot and dry in the iii degree the leaves only be best in medecenes it may be kept a year in his virtue or two for need. For the disease in the stomach boil leaves of it in wine, & drink it. Also the aforesaid drink is good for the belly, & for the strangury, and flux. Also astewe made with boiling of it in water, or wine is good for the for said, if it be boiled in oil & plaster it to the aforesaid, for it is better.   

Sene.  
❧ Seen is hot & dry in the four degree, it groweth in that other side the see and most about Babylon: the best be the flowers and the branches of it, It is good for many diseases as the falling evil: for the Sinacop, for the splen, for the emeralds, and for the quartain, syrup made of it boiled in water and sugar, is good for all the aforesaid. Syrup made with the juice of Borage is good for the foresaid. Also D●ascorides commandeth to make Exmel of the aforesaid with boiling of vinegar and honey and it will be good for the aforesaid, And this herb may be kept ten year.   

❧ Selondyne.  
This is hot and dry in the four degree, & Galen saith that it is good for sore eyes, take the juice of selondyne and boil them well together in a pan & when it is cold anoint the eyes therewith. Take Selondine and wring out the juice & meddle it with white wine and anoint thy visage therewith & it shall do away frekeles of the visage, the juice of selondine & goats dung meddled together small in a mortar, than if thou lay it to a canker in a woman's pap, it shall slay the canker. Also take the juice of selondyne & powder of brimstone and meddle them well together & it will help to do away the Morphew And seethe the rote in wine, & when the pot is taken down let him hold his mouth open over it that the breath may go into his body, & that shall slay the canker in the mouth, it is good for him that hath drunken venom with his own stolen & that will save him   

❧ Savayne.  
¶ This is hot and dry in the second degree, it is good to slay worms in the womb and to bring them out if it be sudden in wine & given to the patient to drink. It is good with butter or grease to make an ointment for the scab that runneth to hele it & dry it up, and it is good for the head ache, if it be stamped and tempered with vinegar and make a plaster thereof and lay it in the temples and upon the mould of thy hende.   

❧ Scabiose.  
This is cold and moist in the two. degree, stamp it and seethe it in wine and that drink is good for the liver. And it will destroy wicked humours in the stomach, and drink it every day fasting with Eurose & thou shalt never have postume bredinge within the as long as thou dost use this medicine.    

¶ Littera. T.  

Et primo de Tapsu ba●basto.  
This is called Molen, it is cold and dry. It is good for the emeralds & it be sodden in wine and scummed clean. Also it is good to wash the grievance therewith, it is good Also for the flux in the belly.   

Town cresses.  
This herb is hot and dry in the iii degree, the seed will endure good five year. It is good to staunch the flux & the mention, if thou take the seed and bruise it in a mortar of brace & give the sick to drink thereof three days every day penny weight at once with reed wine warmed and in those three days he shallbe staunched, or else he shall die, of that evil, it is good for the palsi and for the male flank, take the sede and seethe it with wine & do it in a pocket & bind it to the side there as the grievance is. Also it is good for him that may not well piss, take that seed & seth it in wine & oil olive & bind it to thy share. It is good for a man's fundament that goeth out, if it be take of cold, than it must be put in again and straw the powder on the fundament thy rain with Honey and than strow the powder above with the powder of Comen or powder of Calafyne, for all these be kindly for it. Also take the stalks of town Cresses, and burn them and there shall no venomous beast ne worm abide the savour nor smell thereof but he shall die or fly away    

Littera. U.  

Et primo de herba Uiole.  
VIolet is cold in the first degree, and moist in the second. For blast in the eyes, take the roots of Violets and stamp them with Myrrh & Saffron and at night lay it to the sore eyes. Also for wound in the head stamp the leaves of Violets with honey and vinegar, and plaster it to the wound and it shall bele it. And for them that may not sleep for sickness seethe this herb in water and at even let him soak well his feet in the water to the ankles, when he goeth to bed bind of this herb to his temples & he shall sleep well by the grace of God. Take Violets Myrrh and Saffron, & make a plaster and lay to the sore eyes that be swollen and it shall cease aching & bate the swelling.   

Uua suavis.  
This is called the sweet Raysen, it is hot and moist it hath virtue of cleansing, scouring or smothing. Raysens eaten or boiled in wine is good for the cold cough seethe them in wine and they be good to plaster on the cold postume and good for a cold stomach.   

Ueruayne.  
Ueruayne it hot and dry in the second degree. It is good against all manner of evils, of venom if the patient drink it & tempered with wine and stamp the herb & lay it on every manner of biting of venomous best, and it will draw out the venom and save the sore, who that useth it, it will make good breath and do a way stink of the mouth. Also who that hath the fever tercyan take iii roots, and three crops of the same herb and stamp them & temper them with fair clean water and give it to the patient to drink Also who that hath the fever quartain, let him take the same drink Also it is good for the stomach, the liver, & longs. Also take veruayne betake, & Saxfrage & of every of them like much and stamp them with wine tempered, and this is good for them that hath the stone. Also they that bear vervain upon them they shall have love and grace of great masters and they shall grant him his asking of his asking be good and rightful.    

Hic incipit littera. W.  

Et primo de Watercresses.  
WAter cresses be hot & dri in the second degree seth them in water, by themself and drink it or seethe it in flesh and sup of the broth, and it will cleanse well the inward membres. Also it is good against the Strangulion and the flix of the same.   

Wild neppe or wodbynd.  
¶ This herb beareth a flower like to the Hop, and after the flower he beareth a green bury, and it hath a great rote, the virtue of the herb is most in the root, it is good for sinews that be shrunken or cut to make them sople and to have their owen course in their proper kind Go to the rotofe wild Neppe, that is like wodbind and make a hole in the mids of the rote than than cover it well again that no air go out nor that no rain go in nor water, powder nor the son come not to much to it, let it stand so a night & a day, than after that go to it, & thou shalt find therein a certain liquor take out that liquor with a spoon and put it into a clean glass and do so every day as long as thou findest aught in the hole & this must be done in the month of Apryll or may, than anoint the sore therewith against the fire than wet a linen cloth in the same liquor and lap it about the sore and it shallbe hole in short space, on warantyse by the grace of God. For the gout a sovereign medicine. Take the rote of wild Neppe, and the rote of the wild Dock sudden by itself and cut them in thine pieces & pair away the utter ●inde and cut them in quarters, than boil them in clean water ii or iii hours, than stamp them in a mortar as small as can be, them put thereof a quantity of soot of a chymny, and temper them with the milk of a cow, that the herb is of one colour, than take the piss of a man that is fasting and make a plaster thereof, and boil it together and as hot as ye may suffer lay it to the grievance a day, and a night and so do nine times, & it shall heal the on warantyse, by the grace of God.   

Wormewode.  
☞ This is hot & dry in the second degree, it is good for worms in the womb if it be stamped, & the juice wrong out & mingled with sweet milk, and given to the patient to drink, & seethe this herb in wine and make a plaster to the womb, Make powder of wormwood, Centory, Bettayne, of each like, much by weight and meddle all well together, and the powder will slay worms in the womb both when it is eaten in pottage and drunken. Also for the milt that is swollen of a cold matter, seethe it in wine & let the sick drink thereof, and that shall heal him, & make a plaster of the substance of the herb & lay it all hot to thy womb against the grievance. Also temper wormwood & temper it with vinegar and with roasted sour bread, ground therewith, & with the juice of Mints, and the juice of plantain, of ever ych like much, and fry them well together, than make a plaster & lay it to the mouth of the stomach and this shall staunch breaking or casting. For worms in a man's ears be it serpent, or erewyke, take the juice of wormwood & put it in the ear. Also for the dropsy seth it in wine and give the sick to drink at morning and evening and it shall help him.    

¶ The virtues of Waters stilled.  
WAter of wormwood, for the stomach, liver & the spleen, for worms in the body, for the jaundyce, & drunckennes, and for the sight.  
Water of Sentory, for Appetite for the liver & the Milt, worms, and Sauceflewme.  
Water of Mugwort, for the matrice.  
Water of Dyttayne, for poison, Uenome and Pestilence.  
Water of Fumitory, for the Morphew, Lepry, Scab, Dropsy, liver, Spleen, Costyfnes and the Matrcie.  
Water of Ysope, for the Cough Lungs, breast, the stomach, for the Pose and the guts.  
Water of Whorehound, for the Cough, lungs, breast and colica passio.  
Water of balm, for the Mother, the Matrice liver, and spleen  
Water of Calamint, Mugwort, Ysope, Brookmynt, Fumytorye, & balm of each a like much, and of Wormwood, a les part. These are good waters for the Matrice, & for the retaining the flowers.  
Water of Calamynt, is good for the stomach.  
Water of plantain for the flix and hot dropsy.  
Water of Fenel is good for a sweling, and for sore Eyen.  
Water of endive for the dropsi, liver jaundice and Stomach.  
Water of Borage, for the stomach, Colica passio, and other sickness of the body.  
Water of Saugle, is good for the palsy.  
Water of Bytayne, is good for the hearing and for all manner of sickness in the body, for right as mustered is sauce for most kind of meats: so is Bytayne to all other herbs.   

¶ The time of gathering Sedes Flowers Herbs and Roots.  
SEdes should be gathered when they be fully ripe, and the moistness thereof sonthing dried away.  
Flowers should be taken when they begin to fall or fade.  
Herbs should be gathered when they be full of moistness, before they begin to shrink.  
Roots should be gathered when the leaves faule.  
Fruits should be gathered and taken at their full greatness before they faule, and the heavier, and the sadder, that the fruits be: the better they are. And those that be great & light: be not so good. And they be better that be gathered infaire wether than they be that be gathered in foul or rainy wether.  
Herbs that grow in the Fields: be better than those that grow in gardeines● And those that grow on the hills be best. And commonli field herbs be smaller than town herbs.  
Many herbs there be that have a special time to be gathered in, in which time, if they be gathered: they have their virtue in full strength, more than they should have, if they were gathered in any other time. Some help, whensoever they be gathered, & some be nought, if they be not gathered in their due time ☞ Bytayne, shall principally be gathered in August, which the seeds & roots with the juice. And it shallbe dried in the shadow, or in the sō●e, for need. For medicen, it may be gathered in any time: but ever that is better that is gathered, without moisture, & before the Son rising.  
Swine grass, may be gathered when so ever you need.  
Camomile, shallbe gathered in april  
Perytory, should be gathered in june, before the Son rise.  
Red Dock, may be gathered when need is. Langdebefe shallbe gathered in june and july.  
Peniwort, shallbe gathered in the beginning of winter.  
Germander, shallbe gathered in Lammas Moon.  
Dragance, shallbe gathered in june and july.  
Columbine, shallbe gathered in Lammas moon.  
Adder's tongue, shallbe gathered in April.  
Pedelion, shallbe gathered after the mid day, when ye list.  
Groundsil, shallbe gathered after mid day.  
Walwort shallbe gathered when ye will.  
Violet shallbe gathered in March, and in this month should Sugar Violet be made and syrup, also Oil of Roses, of Camomyl, of lilies, and of Chesboll heads, that is called Popy. And Rosemary flo●res, in may.  
centaury when it beginneth to flourish.  
Organ in the month of june. Calamint in the month of june,  
Hearts tongue, in November,  
Aristologia rotunda in harvest, & the other in the same time.  
garlic when ye will, wild garlic when it flourisheth.  
Agnus Castus, when it flourisheth.  
Gourds in th'end of September or in October, when they be ripe, they should be dried in such a place that the Son may come to them all the day.  
Wild Neppe berries should be gathered when they be yellow.  
Cucumbers should gathered when the Fruit is ripe, & the fruit should be laid under Uynes, where as the son hath not his full strength, upon it, and in a moist place that it may rot, for than should the seed be good and full of Kernelles.  
citrul should be gathered when the fruit is ripe and it should be dried, in a dry place in the son.  
Water of Calamynt, should be gathered when it flowereth and dried in the shadow, and it willbe good a year & no longer.  
Saffron, should be gathered before the Son rise.  
Dodour groweth among Flax, should be gathered in summer when it beginneth to flower, & it may be kept three year.  
Drauke should be gathered when it floryshith and should be dried in the shadow and will last a year.  
Elebor, should be gathered in harvest time.  
Fenyl, should be gathered in the beginning of harvest, and a year it may be kept, and the roots of fennel, should be gathered in the beginning of the year, and will endure a year.  
Baldemonye, otherwise called Gencyane, should be gathered in the last end of the year, and may be kept four years, the Roots of it is used. And for to know it: one is, it is right bitter, for the less bitter it is, the worse it is, another is, it is somewhat yellow, and not clean yellow, but sad.  
Galyngall that is called in physic, Syperus, it may be gathered in each time of the year. The best time is in the end of Vere, it must be laid iii days in the son, that the moisture thereof rot it not lytely, and then keep it in the shadow.  
Flower Deluce, should gathered in th'end of Vere, and dried in the son, and it will last ii year.  
Sisalido, is the Root of Philipendula, and that serveth to medycen, and shallbe taken out of the earth, in the end of harvest.  
avence leaves serveth more to medicens then the Roots, the virtue of it is best, whiles it is green, and his virtue is to dissolve, consume and open.  
Take Grapes before they be ripe, and wring the youce out of them, and than dry them in the Son, and make powder of them. That powder is good to be used in meats for castting that cometh of choleric humours and for the flyx.   

¶ A general rule of all manner of herbs.  
IT is a general Rule, that from the eight: kalends of the month of Aprell: unto the month of july, all manner of leaves of herbs be best, and from the viii kalends of july unto the viii kalends of October: the stalks have most virtue. And from the viii kalends of October: unto the viii kalends of Aprell: all manner of Roots of Herbs be in their full strength.  
Finis.   

¶ Here beginneth the table of this book.  

AGnus castus  
Apium.  
Auetum.  
Apumeresus.  
Absentium.  
A●tamasa.  
Affodillus.  
Aristologialou.  
Aristolegia rot.  
Abrotinum.  
Ameos.  
hallelujah.  
Asterion.  
Agrimonia.  
Auentia.  
Altea.  
Amarisca.  
Auricula muris  
Apium emo.  
Apium canarus  
Axtiplex do.  
Anabula.  
Acus demonis.  
Argentila.  
Acus mustela.  
Allium.  
Amusm.   

B.  
¶ Betonia.  
Bl●●om●●te  
Bete.  
Borago.  
Bugla.  
Burneta  
Bursa pastoris.  
Borago sy●ues.  
Byllyre.   

C.  
¶ Camamilla.  
Calamintum.  
Crassula maior  
Crassula minor  
Citura.  
Centauriama.  
Centaurinmi  
Cura  
Celidonia.  
Culamen.  
Coleworts.  
Coliandrum  
Capillus ●e●e.  
Corcus●  
Centonodium  
Caprifolium  
Canabaria.  
Costus.  
Cepe.  
Columbina.  
Cominum.  
Cardiaca.  
Cerasa.  
Camelon.  
Cauda pulli.  
Cabochis,  
calvus gallican  
calvus agrestis.  
Cimbaria.  
Consolida maior  
Consolida minor.  
Consolida m●d.   

D  
Diaptanum.  
Dragantia ma  
Dancus arininus.  
Dens leonis.  
Dens canis.  
Dens creticus.  
Dragantia fe.   

E  
Elena campana.  
Endua.  
Eruca.  
Enfrasia.  
Ebulos  
Edera.  
Ederaterrestris.  
Euforbium.  
Elleborus albus  
Elleborus niger.  
Epatica.  
Erpina.  
Epulus minor   

F  
Flaminula.  
Fumus terre.  
Fumicretum.  
Fragra.  
Fabaria magor.  
Fabaria minor.  
Filix.  
Filipendula.  
Finiculum.  
Faxinus.  
Finiculus poet  
Febrifuga.  
Filago.  
Flaminula mium.   

G  
Gracia die ma.  
Granum.  
Genestula.  
Gencianus  
Galanga.  
Granum solis agitu●  
Gladiolus.   

H  
Herba crutiata.  
Herba Christofory masculi.  
Herba Christofori femi ni  
Herba wal●eri  
Herba Robarti  
Herba Marcia.  
Hastuca regia  
Herba Petri  
Herba johannes.   

I  
jusquiamus  
Isopus  
Ireos  
Iris.  
jarus  
jasia alba  
jasia nigra  
Ipia maior  
Ipia minor  
jacenitus rusti.   

L  
Lanisticum.  
Langua cecui  
Liliium.  
Ligustum  
Lingua bovis  
Lingus serpents mayor.  
Lingua serpentis mi.  
Lingua Canis  
Lingua Hercina  
Lupinus  
Labrum veneris  
Lavendula,  
Lactuca  
Lactuca Siluat  
Lactuca Lepo  
lolium.  
Laparium rust  
Linum.  
Lauriola.  
Licorisa.  
Lappa.   

M  
¶ Millefol●um  
Mercurialis.  
Menta.  
Menta romana  
Malua.  
Morel or nyght-shadowe.  
mastic.  
Magerum.  
Millefolium maor yarrow.  
Motherwort or  
Mogwort.  
Maces.  
Meuta rubea.   

N.  
Nux muscata.  
Napus   

O  
¶ Olibanum.   

P  
¶ Pruna.  
Pepper.  
Pinpernella.  
Pul●gium  
Peucedanum vel●. Feniculus por  
Peorocilium.  
Peritorium.  
Pastina●a.  
Plantago.  
Porrum.  
Pireteum.  
Papaver  
Polipodium  
Pienium.   

Q  
Quinque folium   

R  
¶ Rybworte.  
Reed nettle.  
Rose rube●.  
Rosemary.  
Ruta.   

S  
¶ Sinapium.  
smallage.  
salva.  
Statureia.  
Saxfrage.  
Scabioso.  
Sothernewode.  
Sin green  
Stitch wort  
Scamony,  
Sene.  
Selondine,  
savin.  
Scabiosa.   

T  
¶ Tapsu barba.  
Town cresses.   

U  
¶ Uyolet.  
Uua suavis.  
Ueruayne.   

W  
¶ Water cresses.  
Wild neppe.  
Wormewode.   
FINIS.   

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