THE English physician ENLARGED: With Three Hundred, Sixty, and Nine Medicines made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until this: The Epistle will Inform you how to know This Impression from any other.  
Being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation: Containing a complete Method of physic, whereby a man may preserve his Body in Health; or Cure himself, being Sick, for three pence Charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.  
Herein is also shewed these Seven Things, viz. 1 The Way of making plasters, ointments, oils, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, fops, or Waters, of al sorts of Physical Herbs, That you may have them ready for your use at al times of the year. 2 What Planet Governeth every Herb or three( used in physic) that groweth in England. 3 The Time of gathering al Herbs, both Vulgarly, and Astologically. 4 The Way of Drying and Keeping the Herbs al the year. 5 The Way of Keeping their juices ready for use at al times. 6 The Way of Making and Keeping al kind of useful Compounds made of Herbs. 7 The Way of mixing Medicines according to Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted.  
By NICH. CULPEPER, Gent. Student in physic and astrology: Living in Spittle Fields.  
London, Printed by Peter coal in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. 1653.  
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To the READER.  
Reader,  
TAke notice, That in this Impression, published September the 5th 1653. I have made very many Additions to every Sheet in the Book: And also, That th●se Books of mine that are printed of that Letter the small Bibles are printed with, are very falsely printed; there being usually twenty or thirty gross mistakes in every Sheet, many of them such as are exceeding dangerous to such as shal venture to use them: And therfore I do hereby warn you of them, I can do no more at present; only take notice of these three Directions by which you shal be sure to know the True one from the False.  
The first Direction.] The True one hath this Title over the head of every page. in the Book, [ The English physician enlarged:] The small counterfeit one hath only this Title [ The English physician.]  
The second Direction.] The true one hath these words [ Government and virtues] following the Time of the Plants flowerings, &c. The counterfeit small one hath these words. [ virtues and Use] following the Time of the Plants flowering.  
The third Direction.] The true one is in Octavo, of a bigger Letter than the counterfeit one, which is in Twelves, of the Letter small Bibles use to be printed on. I shall now speak something to the Book itself.  
All other Authors that have written of the Nature of Herbs, gave not a bit of a Reason why such an Herb was appropriated to such a part of the Body, nor why it cured such a Disease: Truly my own Body being sickly, brought me easily into a capacity, to know that Health was the greatest of all Earthly Blessings, and truly he was never sick that doth not believe it. Then I considered, that all Medicines were compounded of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Seeds, &c. and this first set me a-work in studying the Nature of Simples, most of which I knew by sight before; and indeed all the Authors I could read gave me but little satisfaction in this particular, or none at al: I cannot build my faith upon Authors words, nor believe a thing because they say it, and could wish every Body were of my mind in this, To labour to be able to give a reason for every thing they say or do; they say Reason makes a Man differ from a Beast, if that be true, pray what are they that instead of Reason, for their judgement, quote old Authors? perhaps their Authors knew a Reason for what they wrote, perhaps they did not, what is that to us, do we know it? Truly in writing this Work first, to satisfy myself, I drew out all, the virtues of vulgar Herbs, Plants, and Trees &c. out of the best, or most approved Authors I had, or could get; and having done so, I set myself to study the Reason of them. I knew well enough, the whole world, and every thing in it, was formed of a Composition of contrary Elements, and in such a Harmony as must needs show the Wisdom and Power of a great God: I knew as well, this Creation, though thus composed of contraries, was one united Body, and Man an Epitome of it; I knew those various affections in Man in respect of Sickness and Health were caused Naturally( though God may have other ends best known to himself) by the various operations of the Microcosm; and I could not be ignorant, That as the Cause is, so must the Cure be; and therfore he that would know the Reason of the operation of Herbs, must look up as high as the Stars: I always found the Disease vary according to the various motion of the Stars; and this is enough one would think to teach a Man by the Effect where the Cause lay. Then to find out the Reason of the operation of Herbs, Plants, &c. by the Stars went I, and herein I could find but few Authors, but those as full of nonsense and contradictions as an Egg is full of meat; this being little pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two Brothers, Dr. Reason, and Dr. Experience, and took a Voyage to visit my Mother Nature, by whose advice together with the help of Dr. Diligence, I at last obtained my desires, and being warned by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our daies, to publish it to the World, I have done it.  
But you will say, What need I have written of this Subject, seeing so many Famous and Learned Men have written so much of it in the English Tongue, nay, much more than I have done?  
To this I Answer,  
1 All that have written of Herbs either in the English, or not in the English Tongue, have no ways answered my intents in this Book, for they have intermixed many, nay, very many outlandish Herbs, and very many which are hard, nay, not at all to be gotten, and what harm this may do I am very sensible of. Once a Student in physic in Sussex sent up to London to me, to buy for him such and such Medicines, and sand them down, which when I viewed, they were Medicines quoted by Authors living in another Nation, and not to be had in London for Love nor Money; so the poor man had spent much pains and brains in studying Medicines for a Disease that were not to be had: so a man reading Gerrards or Parkinsons Herbal for the Cure of a Disease, he may as like as not, light on an Herb that is not here to be had, or not without great difficulty, if possible; but in mine, all grow near him.  
2 My last, though not the least of my Reasons is, Neither Gerrard nor Parkinson, nor any that ever wrote in the like Nature, ever gave one wise Reason for what they wrote, and so did nothing else but train up young Novices in physic in the School of Tradition, and teach them just as a Parrot is taught to speak; an Author saith so, ther fore 'tis true; and if all that Authors say be true, why do they contradict one another? But in mine, if you view it with the Eye of Reason, you shall see a Reason for every thing that is written, whereby you may find the very Ground and Foundation of physic; you may know what you do, and wherefore you do it; and this shall call me Father, it being( that I know of) never done in the world before.  
I have now but two things more to writ, and then I have done.  

1 What the Profit and Benefit of this Work is.  
2 Instructions in the Use of it.   
1 The Profit and Benefits arising from it, or that may acrue to a wise man from it, are many, so many that should I sum up all the particulars, the Epistle would be as big as the Book; I shall only quote some few general Heads.  
First, The admirable Harmony of the Creation is herein seen, in the influence of Stars upon Herbs, and the Body of Man, how one part of the Creation is subservient to another, and all for the use of Man, whereby the infinite Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation appears: and if I do not admire at the simplicity of the Ranters, never trust me; Who but viewing the Creation can hold such a sottish Opinion, as that it was from Eternity, when the Mysteries of it are so clear to every eye? but that Scripture shall be verified to them, Rom. 1.20. The invisible things of Him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His Eternal Power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. And a Poet could teach them a better Lesson: 

Excideret ne tibi Divini mune●is Author  
Presentem monstrat, quaelibet Herba Deum.   

Because out of thy thoughts God should not pass,  
His Image stamped is on every Grass.    
This indeed is true, God hath stamped his Image upon every Creature, and therfore the abuse of the Creature is a great sin; but how much more doth the Wisdom and Excellency of God appear if we consider the Harmony of the Creation in the virtue and Operation of every Herb? This is the First.  
Secondly, Hereby thou maiest know what infinite knowledge Adam had in his Innocency, that by looking upon a Creature, he was able to give it a name according to his Nature, and by knowing that, thou maiest know how great thy fall was, and be humbled for it even in this respect, because hereby thou art so ignorant.  
Thirdly, Here is the right way for thee to begin the study of physic if thou art minded to begin at the right end, for here thou hast the Reason of the whole Art. I wrote before in certain Astrological Lectures which I red, and Printed, entitled, Semeiotica Uranica, what Planet caused( as a second Cause) every Disease, and how it might be found out what Planet caused it; here thou hast what Planet cures it by Sympathy and Antipathy; and this brings me to my last promise, viz.  
Instructions for the right use of the Book.  
And herein let me premise a word or two, The Herbs, Plants, &c. are now in the Book appropriated to their proper Planets. Therefore,  
First, Consider what Planet causeth the Disease: that thou maiest find in my Semeiotica.  
Secondly, Consider what part of the Body is afflicted by the Disease, and whether it lye in the Flesh, or blood, or Bones, or Ventricles.  
Thirdly, Consider by what Planet the afflicted part of the Body is governed: that my Semeiotica will inform you in also.  
Fourthly, You have in this Book the Herbs for Cure appropriated to the several Diseases, and the Diseases for your ease set down in the Margin, whereby you may strengthen the part of the Body by its like; as the Brain by Herbs of Mercury, the Breast and Liver by Herbs of Jupiter, the Heart and Vitals by Herbs of the Sun, &c.  
Fifthly, You may oppose Diseases by Herbs of the Planet opposite to the Planet that causeth them: as Diseases of Jupiter by Herbs of Mercury, and the contrary; Diseases of the Luminaries by Herbs of Saturn, and the contrary; Diseases of Mars by Herbs of Venus, and the contrary.  
Sixthly, There is a way to cure Diseases sometimes by Sympathy, and so every Planet cures his own Disease, as the Sun and Moon by their Herbs cure the Eyes, Saturn the Spleen, Jupiter the Liver, Mars the gull and Diseases of choler, and Venus Diseases in the Instruments of Generation.  
Seventhly, There was a small Treatise of mine of human virtues, printed at the latter end of my Ephemeris for the year 1651. I suppose it would do much good to young Students to peruse that with this Book.  
Eighthly, young Students would do themselves much good, and benefit themselves exceedingly in the study of physic, if they would take the pains to view the virtues of the Herbs, &c. in the Book, and compare them to these Rules, they shal to their exceeding great content find them al agreeable to them, and shal thereby see the reason why such an Herb conduceth to the Cure of such a Disease.  
Ninthly, I gave you the Key of al in the Herb Wormwood, which if because of the volubility of the Language, any think it will not fit the Lock, I have given it you again in another Herb of the same Planet in the Book, plainly without any circumstances.  
The Herb is Carduus Benedictus, which is in the Alphabetical Order in the Book, to which place I refer you.  
If you please to make use of these Rules, and them at Carduus, in the Book, you shal find them true throughout the Book, and by heeding them, you may be able to give a Reason of your judgement to him that asketh you: I assure you it gave much content to me, and for your goods did I pen it; but I must conclude, my Epistle having exceeded its Bounds already: Hereby you see what Reason may be given for Medicines, and what necessity there is for every physician to be an Astrologer, you have heard it before I suppose, but now you know it; what remains, but that you labour to glorify God in your several places, and do good to yourselves first by increasing your knowledge, and to your Neighbors afterwards by helping their infirmities; some such I hope this Nation is worthy of, and to such shal I remain a Friend: and when the Purchaser may without fear of thieving Knaves enjoy their just Proprieties in their Copies, I shal not fail to bring forth many more Books for a Common good in the English Tongue for the benefit of al my Country-men, poor or rich.  
Nich. Culpeper. Spittle Fields next door to the read lion. September, 5. 1653.   

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF ALL THE HERBS AND PLANTS.  
In this BOOK; As also what PLANET governeth every one of them.  

A  

AMara-Dulcis, it is under Mercury. 1. 2  
All-heal, it is under the Dominion of Mars, 2. 3  
Alkanet, it is under the dominion of Venus, 3. 4  
Anchusa, see Alkanet, and Venus owns it. 3. 4  
Adders Tongue, it is under the Moon in Cancer. 4  
Agremonie, it is under Jupiter and the Sign Cancer. 5. 6  
Water Agremonie, it is under Jupiter and the Sign Cancer. 7  
Ale-hoof, it is under Venus. 8  
Alexander, or Alisander, it is under Jupiter. 9  
Black Alder three, it is under Venus. 9. 10  
Common Alder three, it is under Venus. 11  
Angelica, it is under the Sun in lo. 11. 12  
Amaranthus, it is under the Dominion of Saturn. 13  
Anemone is under Mars. 14  
Garden Arrach is under the Moon. 14  
Arrach wild and stinking, it is under the Dominion of Venus, and under the sign scorpion. 15  
Arch-Angel, read, white, yellow, they are under Venus. 15. 16. 17  
Arsmart, and dead Arsmart, It is under Saturn, and the other sort under Mars. 17  
Asarabacca, it is under Mars. 18. 19  
Asparagus, and prickly asparagus, they are under Jupiter. 19. 20  
Ash three is governed by the Sun. 20  
Avens is under Jupiter. 21  
Aron, see Cuckowpint, it is under Mars. 81  
Alecost, see Costmary under Jupiter. 75  
Aparine, see Cleavers, it is under the Moon. 70  
Acanthus, see Branckursin under the Moon. 40  
Ammi, and Amios, see Bishops Weed under Venus. 34. 35    

B  

Balm, it is an Herb of Jupiter. 22  
Barberry, it is under Mars. 23  
barley, it is a notable plant of Saturn. 23  
Garden Bazel, or sweet Bazel, it is an Herb of Mars, and under the Scorpion. 24  
The Bay-Tree, it is a three of the Sun, under the sign lo. 25  
Beans are under Venus. 26  
French Beans belong to Venus. 26  
Ladies Bedstraw, it is under Venus. 27  
Beets, the read under Saturn, and the white under Jupiter. 28. 29  
Water Betony, called also Brownwort, and Bishops leaves, it is an Herb of Jupiter. 29. 30  
Wood Betony, it is appropriated to Jupiter, and the sign Aries. 30  
Beech three is under Saturn. 32  
Bilberries are under Jupiter. 32. 33  
Bifoil is a Plant of Saturn. 33  
Birch three is under Venus. 34  
Birdsfoot belong to Saturn. 34  
Bishops Weed, or Bulwort is under Venus. 34. 35  
Bistort is under Saturn. 35. 36  
One Blade is an Herb of the Sun. 37  
The Bramble, or Black berry Bush, a Plant of Venus in Aries. 37  
Blits are under the Dominion of Venus. 38  
borage and Buglos are under Jupiter. 18. 19  
Blue Bottle, and Blue Blow is under Saturn. 40  
Brankursin and Bearsbreech are under the Moon. 40. 41  
Briony is under Mars. 41. 42  
Brooklime under Mars. 43  
Butchers Broom, and Bruscus is under Mars. 43. 44  
Broom, and Broom rape are under Mars. 44. 45  
Bucks Horn plantain is under Saturn. 45  
Bucks horn is under Saturn. 46  
Bugle, or brown Bugle is under Venus. 46. 47  
Burnet is an Herb of the Sun. 48  
Butterbur is an herb of the Sun. 49  
Burdock is an Herb of Venus. 49. 50 And is also called Bardon and clotbur.  
Bitter sweet, see Amara-Dulcis, it is under Mercury. 1. 2  
Spanish Buglos, see Alkanet, Venus owns it. 3. 4  
Brusewort, see Sopewort, it is under Venus. 342  
Bearsfoot, see black Hellibore, it is under Mars. 126  
Baldmony, see Gentian, it is under Mars. 111  
Brimstonewort, see Sow Fennel an Herb of Mercury. 100  
Barba-Aron, see Cuckowpint, it is under Mars. 81  
Basionets and Butterflowers, see Crowfoot, it is under Mars. 80  
balsam Herb, see Costmary, it is under Jupiter. 75  
bulls foot, see Colts foot, it is under Venus. 72. 73  
Less-seed, Thistle see Carduus Benedictus, it is under Mars. 55  
Bipenula, see Burnet, it is under the Sun. 48  
Bastard Agremony, see Water Agremony, it is under Jupiter. 7    

C  

Cabbages and Coleworts are Herbs of the Moon. 50. 51  
The Sea-Colewort, the Moon owns it. 51  
Calamint, or Mountain Mint is an Herb of Mercury. 52  
Chamomell is under the Sun 53  
Water Caltropes, or Caltropes are under the government of the Moon. 54  
Champions wild are under the Sun. 54. 55  
Carduus Benedictus, it is an Herb of Mars. 55  
Carrots are under Mercury. 56  
Caraway is under Mercury. 57  
Celondine is an Herb of the Sun 57. 58  
The lesser Celondine is under Mars. 59. 60  
The ordinary small Centaury is a●… Herb of the Sun. 60  
The Cherry three is a three of Venus 6●…  
Winter Cherry is a Plant of Venus. 62  
Chervill Cerefolium is under Jupiter. 62  
chestnut three is under Jupiter. 64  
Sweet Chervil, and sweet Cicely are under Jupiter. 63  
Earth chestnuts, and Ciper nuts are under Venus. 64  
Chick weed is under the Moon. 65  
Cich Pease or Cicers is under Venus. 65. 66  
cinquefoil is an Herb of Jupiter. 66  
Cives-Chives, and Civet is under Mars. 68  
Clary, or Cleer-Eye is under the Moon. 68  
Wild Clary, or Christs-Eye is under the Moon. 69  
Cleavers and Clavers are under the Moon. 70  
Clowns Woundwort is under Saturn. 71  
Cocks Head is under Venus. 71. 72  
Columbines is under Venus. 72  
Coltsfoot, or Coughwort is under Venus. 72. 73  
Comfry is an Herb of Saturn. 73  
Corralwort is under the Moon. 74. 75  
Cudweed, or Cottonweed, also it is called Chafweed, Dwarf Cotton, and petty Cotton, it is an Herb of Venus. 76  
Cowslips are under Venus. 76  
Crabsclaws are under Venus. 77  
Back Cresses is under Mars. 77. 78.  
Sciatica Cresses is under Saturn. 78  
Water Cresses are under the Moon. 79  
Crosswort is under Saturn. 79. 80  
Crowfoot is an an Herb of Mars. 80  
Cuckowpint, or Pintle, or Calves foot is under the Dominion of Mars. 81  
cucumbers, or cucumbers, they are governed by the Moon. 82  
Ceterach, see Spleenwort, Saturn owns it. 346  
Carpenters Herb, see Selfheal, it is under Venus. 339. 340  
Cammoak, see Rest-Harrow, it is under the Dominion of Mars. 313  
Corn-Rose, see Poppy under the Moon. 35. 306  
Camepitys, see Ground Pine, it is under Mars. 299  
Callians, see Orchis, it is under Venus. 285  
Catmint, see Nep it is under Venus. 171  
Cuckoo-flowers, see Ladies smocks, the Moon governs it. 141  
Christmas Herb, see Black Hellibore, it is under Saturn. 126  
Cul-me-to-you, see Hearts-ease, it is under Saturn. 119  
Cranes Bill, see-Doves foot, it is under Mars. 89  
Crop, see Darnel, it is under Saturn. 84 85  
middle Consound, and middle Comfry, or Herb Carpenter, see Bugle under Venus. 46. 47  
Corn-flower, see Blue Bottle, it is under Saturn. 49  
Comin-Royall, and Ethiopian Commin Seed, for both see Bishops weed it is under Venus. 34. 35  
Clovewort, see Avens, it is under Jupiter. 21  
Catsfoot, see Alehoof, it is under Venus. 8    

D  

Daisies are governed by Venus, and under the sign Cancer. 83  
Dandelion is under Jupiter. 84  
Darnel is under Saturn. 84. 85  
Dill is under Mercury. 85  
Devils-bit is under Venus. 86  
Docks are under Jupiter. 87  
Doder of Time, and other Dodders are under Saturn. 87. 88  
Dogs grass is under Jupiter. 88. 89  
Doves foot is a Martiall Plant. 89  
Ducks meat, Cancer claims the Herb and the Moon will be Lady of it. 90  
Down, or Cotton Thistle is under Mars. 90  
Dragons is a Plant of Mars. 91  
Great round Leaved Dock, or Basterd rhubarb is governed by Mars. See 322  
There is a Dock called Garden-Patience, or Monks rhubarb, it is under Mars. 322  
Dyers Weed, see would and wield, it is under Mars. 370  
Dittander, see Pepperwort, Mars owns it. 296  
Dogs ston●s, see Orchis under Venus. 285  
Dewberry-Bush, see Goosberry Bush, it is under Venus. 117  
Dropwort, see Filipendula, it is under Venus. 101. 102  
Danewort, see Dwarf Elder, it is under Venus. 91  
Dentaria, see Corralwort, it is under the Moon. 74. 75  
Dragonwort, see Bistort under Saturn. 35. 36  
Dogs Arrach, and Goats Arrach, see Arrach wild and stinking, it is under the Dominion of Venus. 15    

E  

Elder three is under Venus 91. 92  
The Dwarf Elder is under Venus. 92  
Elm-Tree is under Saturn. 93  
Endive is under Venus. 93  
Elicompane is under Mercury. 94  
Eringo is a terrestial Plant. 95  
Eye-Bright the Sun claims Dominion over it, and is under the sign lion  
Epithimum, see Doder of Time, it is under Saturn. 87. 88  
Earth-Nuts, see Earth-Chesnuts they are under Venus. 64  
English Serpentarie is under Saturn, see Bistort. 35. 36  
Eupatorium, see Water Agremony, It is under Jupiter. 7    

F  

Fern is under Mercury. 97  
Water Fern is under Saturn. 97. 98  
Fetherfew is under Venus. 98  
Fennel is an Herb of Mercury, and under Virgo. 99  
Sow-Fennel, and Hogs Fennel is an Herb of Mercury. 100  
fig-wort is under Venus. 101  
Filipendula is under Venus. 101. 102  
The Figtree is under Jupiter. 102  
Tht yellow water Flag, or Flowrdeluce is under the Moon. 103  
Flaxweed is under Mars. 103. 104  
Fleawort is under Saturn. 104. 105  
Flixweed is under Saturn. 105. 106  
Fluellin or Luellin is a Lunar Herb. 106. 107  
Foxglove is under Venus. 108. 109  
Fumitory is under Saturn. 109  
The Furs-Bush is under Mars. 110  
Foolstons, see Orchis and. Venus. 285  
Foxstones, see Orchis, it is under Venus. 285  
Feapberrie, see Goosberry, it is under Venus. 117  
Felwort, see Gentian, it is under Mars. 111  
Frogsfoot, see Crowsfoot, it is under Mars. 80  
Freshwater Soldier, see Crabsclaws, it is under Venus. 77  
Foalsfoot, see Coltsfoot under Venus. 72. 73  
Five Fingered, or Five Leaved Grass is an Herb of Jupiter. 66  
fig-wort, see the lesser Celondine, it is under Mars. 59. 60  
Flower Gentle, Flower Velure, Florimer and Velvet Flower, see Amaranthus, it's under Saturn 13    

G  

Gentian is under Mars 111, 112  
Clove Gilli-flowers are under the dominion of Jupiter 113  
Germander is under Mercury 113  
Stinking Gladwin is under Saturn 114  
Golden Rod Venus claims it 115  
Goutwort, or Herb Gerrard, Saturn Rules it 115, 116  
Gromel three sorts, are under Venus 116  
Goosberry bush is under Venus 117  
Winter Green is under Saturn 117  
Groundsel is under Venus 118  
Garden Patience, see Monks rhubarb under Mars 322  
Goats Stones, see Orchis, under Venus 285  
Goss, see the Furf-bush undr Mars 110  
Quich Grass, or Couch Grass, see Dogs Grass under Jupiter 88, 89  
Gold Knobs, Gold Cups, see Crowfoot under Mars 80  
Goos-grass, or Goos-share, see Cleavers under the Moon 70  
Ground-nuts, see Earth Chestnuts under Venus 64  
Gill go by ground, and Gill creep by ground, see Ale-hoof, it is under Venus 8    

H  

Hercules Alheal, see Alheal, Mars hath the dominion therof 2, 3  
Hercules Woundwort, see Alheal, Mars hath the dominion therof 2, 3  
Harts-ease is Saturnine 119  
Herb of the Trinity, see Hearts-ease under Saturn 119  
Hartichokes are under Venus 119  
Harts-tongue is under Jupiter 120  
Hazel Nut is under Mercury 120  
Hawkweed is owned by Saturn 121  
Haw-thorn is under Mars 122  
Hemlock is under Saturn 122, 123  
Hemp is under Saturn 123  
Henbane is under Saturn 124  
hedge hyssop is under Mars 125, 126  
Black Hellebore is an Herb of Saturn 126  
Herb Robert is under Venus 127  
Herb Truelove is under Venus 127 128  
hyssop is under Jupiter 128  
Hops are under Mars 129  
whorehound is under Mercury 130  
Hors-tail is under Saturn 131  
Housleeks are under Jupiter 132  
Hounds-tongue is under Mercury, 132, 133  
Holly, Holm, or Hulver-bush is under Saturn 133  
Honey-suckles, see Meadow trefoil under Mercury 362  
Honey suckles, see Wood-bind under Mercury 373  
small houseleek, see Stone-Crop under the Moon 349  
Heart-trefoyl is under the Sun 362  
Heliotropium, see Turnsole under the Sun 361  
Hook-heal, see Self-heal under Venus 339, 340  
Hors-Rhadish, see Rhadish under Mars 310, 311  
Herb Two-pence, see Money-wort under Venus 162  
Hore-strange, and Hore-strong, see Hogs Fennel under Mercury 100  
Hors-hoof, see Colts-foot under Venus 72, 73  
Holy Thistle, see Carduus Benedictus under Mars 55  
Hearts-horn, Herb stella, Herb stellaria, Herb Eve, and Herb i've, see Bucks-horn under Saturn 46  
Hurt-sickle, see Blue-bottle under Saturn 40  
Herb William, see Bishops-weed under Venus. 34  
Herb Bennet, see Avens under Jupiter 21  
horse parsley, see Alexander, it is under Jupiter 9  
Haymaids, see Alehoof, it is under Jupiter 8  
Hepatorum, see Water Agrimony, it is under Jupiter 7  
Bastard Hemp, see Water Agrimony, it is under Jupiter 7  
Water Hemp is under Jupiter 7    

I  

●t. Johns-wort under the Sun, and the Sign lo 134  
Ivy is under Saturn 135  
Juniper Bush, it is a Solar Herb 136  
St. James-wort, see Ragwort under Venus 311, 312  
Juray, see Darnel under Saturn 84, 85  
Jarus, see Cuckoopint under Mars 81  
Ground Ivy, see Alehoof, it is under Venus 8    

K  

Kidney-wort is under Venus 137  
Knapweed is under Saturn 138  
Knot-grass is under Saturn 138  
Kings Claver, see Melilot 156  
Knights Pond-wort, see Crabs claws under Venus 77  
Knee-holm, Knee-holly, Knee-hulver, see Butchers Broom under Mars 43, 44    

L  

Ladies Mantle is governed by Venus 139, 140  
Lavender, Mercury owns it 140  
Lavender Cotton, Mercury governs it 141  
Ladies Smocks, the Moon governs it 141  
lettuce, the Moon owns it 141  
Water lily, white and yellow, are under the Government of the Moon 142  
lily of the Valley, Conval lily, May lily, and lily Confancy, are under Mercury 143  
White lilies are Governed by the Moon 143, 144  
Liquoris, Mercury governs it 144  
Liver-wort, its under Jupiter 145  
Loos-strif is under the Moon 145  
Loos-strife with spiked heads or flowers, is an Herb of the Moon 146  
Lovage is an Herb of the Sun 147  
Lungwort is an Herb of Jupiter 147  
Live in idleness, see Hearts-ease under Saturn 119  
Locker Goulons, see Crowfoot under Mars 80  
Lappa mayor, see Bur-dock under Venus 49, 50  
Ladies Seal, see Briony, a marshal Plant 41, 42  
Langue-de-beef, see borage and Bugloss under Jupiter. 38, 39    

M  

Moral, see Amara-dulcis, it is under Mercury 1, 2  
Madder is an Herb of Mars 148  
Maiden-hair, or Wall-Rue, or ordinary white Maiden-hair, is an Herb of Mercury 148, 149  
Golden Maiden-hair, is of Mercury 149  
meadows, and ways, are both governed by Venus 150  
Maple-Tree is under Jupiter 152  
Wild Marjoram, and Bastard Marjoram, and Grove Marjoram, are under Mercury 152, 153  
Sweet Marjoram is an herb of Mercury 153  
Marigolds are herbs of the Sun 154  
Masterwort is an herb of Mars 155  
Sweet Maudlin is an herb of Jupiter 155  
The Medlar is under Saturn 156  
Melilot, or Kings Claver is under Mercury 156  
French Mercury, Dogs Mercury, are under Venus 157, 158  
Mint is an Herb of Venus 159  
Misleto is under the Sun 160, 161  
Money-wort, Venus owns it 162  
Moonwort, the Moon owns it 162 163  
Mosses, Saturn owns them 163  
Mother-wort, Venus owns it 164  
Mous-ear the Moon owns 165  
Mugwort is under Venus 166  
Mulberry-tree, Mercury Rules 166  
Mullein Saturn owns 167  
Mustard is governed by Mars 168  
hedge Mustard, Mars owns it 169 170  
Meadow trefoil and. Mercury 362  
mithridate Mustard, see Treacle Mustard under Mars 356, 357  
Meadow-sweet, or Mead-sweet are under Venus 309  
Medick Fetch, see Cocks-head under Venus, 71  
Merrhis and Merla, see Chervil under Jupiter 62  
Macedonian parsley seed, see Alexander, it's under Jupiter 9    

N  

Nailwort 170  
Nep or Catmint is under Venus 171  
Nettles are under Mars 171  
Nightshade is under Saturn 172, 173  
Dead Nettles, see Arch-angel 15 the three sorts under Venus 17    

O  

The Oak Jupiter owns 173  
Oats 284  
One-blade is an herb of the sun 284 285  
Orchis is under Venus 285  
Onions are under Mars 285  
Orpine the Moon owns 286  
organ, Origanum, see wild Marjoram under Mercury 153  
One-berry, Herb True-love, it's under Venus 127, 128  
Osmond Royal, see Water Fern under Saturn 97, 98  
Ox-tongue, see Bugloss under Jupiter 38, 39  
Oyster-loit, see Bistort under Saturn 35, 36  
orache, and Orage, see Garden Arrach under the Moon 14  
Opopanay wort, see Aleheal, Mars owns it 2, 3  
Orchanet, see Alkanet, Venus owns it 3, 4    

P  

parsley is under Mercury 287  
Parsly-piert, or parsley break-stone 288  
Parsnep is under Venuus 288  
Cow Parsnep is under Mercury 289  
Peach-tree, Venus owns it 290  
The Pear-t●ee belong to Venus 291  
Pellitory of Spain is under Mercury 291, 292  
Pellitory of the Wall, Mercury owns it 292, 293  
Peny-royal, Venus owns it 294  
Peony, Masc.& Foemina, the Sun owns them 295  
Pepper-wort, it's a marshal Herb 296  
periwinkle, Venus owns it 297  
saint Peters Wort under the sun 297  
Pimpernel is a solar Herb 298  
Ground Pine, Mars owns it 299  
plantain is under Venus 300  
Plums are under Venus 302  
Pollipody of the Oak is an Herb of saturn 302, 303  
The Poplar three is under saturn 304  
Poppy white and black, and the wild Poppy, or Corn Rose, the Moon Rules 305, 306  
purslane is under the Moon 307  
Prim-roses is under Venus 308  
Privet, the Moon rules it 308  
Purk Leaves, see Tutsan under the Moon 363  
Prick-Maddam, see stone-Crop under the Moon 349  
Prunel, see self-heal under Venus 339, 340  
Panses, see Hearts-ease under saturn 119  
Piss-a-beds, see Dandelyon under Jupiter 84  
Priest-pintle, see Cuckoo-pint under Mars 81  
Polts, see Crowfoot under Mars 80  
Peagles, see Cowslips under Venus 76  
Pig-nuts, see Earth Chestnuts under Venus 64  
Pile-wort, see the lesser Celondine under Mars 59, 60  
Petafitis, see Butter-bur under the sun 49  
Pimpinella, see Burnet under the sun 48  
Pettigree, see Butchers Broom under Mars 43, 44  
Passion●, see Bistort under saturn 35 36  
Porcicaria, or Peach-wort, or Plumbago, see Ars-smart under Saturn and Mars 17  
Black Pot-herb, see Alexander under Jupiter 9  
Wild parsley, see Alexander under Jupiter 9  
Panay, see Albeal, Mars owns it 2, 3    

Q  

Queen of the Meadows, Meadow-sweet, or Mead-sweet, Venus claims them 309  
Quince-tree, Saturn owns. 309, 310    

R  

Rhadish and Horse Rhadish are under Mars 310, 311  
Ragwort is under Venus 311, 312  
Rattle-grass, read and yellow, both a●e under the dominion of the Moon 312, 313  
Restharrow, or Cammoak are under the dominion of Mars 313  
Rocket is under the Dominion of Mars 314  
Winter Rocket, or Winter Cresses is under Venus 315  
read Roses are under Jupiter, Damask Roses are under Venus, white Roses are under the Moon 315  
Rosa Solis, or Sun-dew, the Sun rules it 319  
Rosemary, the Sun governs it 319  
rhubarb, or Rhapontick, Mars claims the Rule over it 321, 322  
Garden Patience, or Monks Rhubarb, and great round leaved Dock, or Bastard rhubarb, Mars governs them 322  
Meadow Rue 324  
Garden Rue is an Herb of Sun, and under lo 324  
Rupture-wort is Saturnine 326  
Rushes are under Saturn 327  
Rye 327  
Ramp and Wake-Robin, see Cuckoopint under Mars 81  
read Fitchling, see Cocks-head under Venus 71, 72  
Rush Leeks, see Cives under Mars 68  
Ruscus, see Butchers Broom under Mars 43, 44    

S  

Saffron is an Herb of the Sun 328  
Sage is an Herb of Jupiter 328  
Wood Sage is under Venus 329, 330  
Solomons seal, saturn owns the Plant 330, 331  
Sampire is an Herb of Jupiter 331  
Sanicle is an Herb of Venus 332  
saracens consund, or saracens woundwort saturn governs 333  
sauce alone, or Jack by the hedge, its an Herb of Mercury 334  
Winterland Summer savoury, Mercury governs them 334  
Savin Mars owns 335  
The common white Saxifrage, the Moon Governs 335, 336  
Burnet Saxifrage the Moon governs 336  
Scabious three sorts, Mercury owns them 337  
Scurvy-grass under Jupiter. 338, 339  
Self-heal, and Sickle-wort under Venus 339, 340  
Service-tree under the dominion of Saturn 340, 341  
Shepherds purse under Saturn 341  
Small age is an Herb of Mercury 341  
Sopewort is under Venus 342  
Sorrel is under Venus 342  
Wood Sorrel under Venus 343  
Sow-Thistle is under Venus 344  
Southernwood is a Mercurial Plant 345  
Spignel is under Venus 345, 346  
Spleen-wort is under Saturn 346  
Star-thistle is under Mars 347  
Strawberries Venus owns 347  
Succory Jupiter Rules 348, 349  
Stone-crop, small houseleek is under the Moon 349  
Setfoyl, see Tormentil under the sun 359, 360  
Silver-weed, see wild tansy under Venus 353  
Stagger-wort, and stammer-wort, and seggram, see Rag-wort under Venus 311, 312  
Satirian, see Orchis under Venus 285  
Sengreen, see houseleek under Jupiter 132  
Setter-wort, and setter-grass, see black Hellebore under saturn 126  
Sulpher-wort, see sow-fennel under Mercury 100  
Sea-holly, see Eringo under Venus 95  
Starch-wort, see Cuckoo-pint under Mars 81  
Sweth, see Cives under Mars 68  
Saligot, see Caltrop under the Moon 54  
Sicklewort, see Bugle under Venus 46, 47  
Sanguinare and swine-Cresses, see Buckshorn under Saturn 46  
Syanus, see blue-bottle under Saturn 40  
Snakeweed, see Bistort under saturn 35, 36  
asparagus or sparage, see Asparagus it's under Jupiter 19, 20  
Serpents Tongue under the Moon in Cancer 4  
Spanish Bugloss, see Alkanet, Venus owns it 3, 4    

T  

English Tobacco, it is a marshal Plant 350  
The Tamarisk three is governed by Saturn. 351  
Garden tansy is under Venus. 352  
Wild tansy Venus, rules it. 353  
Thistles, Mars rules them. 353  
The Melancholy Thistle, it is under Capricorn, and therefore under both Saturn and Mars. 354  
Our Ladies Thistle is under Jupiter 354, 355  
The Wooly or Cotton Thistle is a plant of Mars 355  
The Fullers Thistle, or Teasle is an Herb of Venus 356  
Treacle Mustard, and mithridate Mustard are Herbs of Mars 356. 357  
The black Thorn, or Sloe-Bush 357  
Thorough-wax, or Thorough-Leaf 358  
Time 358  
Wild Time, or Mother Time is undor Venus. 359  
Tormentil or Setfoyl is an Herb of The Sun. 359. 360  
Turnsole or Hellitropium is an Herb of the Sun 361  
Meadow trefoil or Honey-suckles are under Mercury 362  
Heart trefoil is under the Dominion of the Sun 362  
Pearl-Trefoyl is under the Domini- of the Moon 363  
Tutsan, or Park Leaves are an Herb of the Sun. 363  
Three Faces in a Hood, see Hearts-ease, it is under Saturn. 119  
Throatwort, see fig-wort, it is under Venus. 101  
Cotton Thistle, see Down, it is ununder Mars 90  
Tooth-wort, Toothed Violet, Dog-teeth Violet, see Coralwort, it is under the Moon 74  
Tribus Aquaticus, Tribus Lacustris, and Tribus Macinus are Herbs of the Moon, see water Caltrops 54  
Tamus, see Briony a marshal Plant 41. 42  
Twayblade, see Bifoyl under Saturn 33  
Tanhoof, see Alehoof, it is under Venus 8    

V  

Garden Valerian is under the Government of Mercury. 363. 364  
Vervain is an Herb of Venus 365  
The Vine is under Venus 366  
Violets are under Venus. 366  
Vipers Bugloss is an Herb of the Sun 367  
Black Vine, white Vine, for both see Briony a Martiall Herb 41. 42  
Wild Vine, or Wood Vine, see Briony a Martiall Herb 41. 42    

w  

Wall-Flowers, or Winter Gilly Flowers, the Moon rules them. 368  
Walnut is a Plant of the Sun 368  
would, wield, or Dyers Weed is under Mars 370  
Wheat is under Venus 370  
The Willow three is governed by the Moon 371  
Woad is under Saturn 372  
Woodbind or Honey-suckles is a Plant of Mercury 373  
Wo●mwood is an Herb of Mars 374 375  
Whitlow Grass 170  
Willow Herb, see Loos-strif 145  
Wall-Pennyroyall, or Wall-Pennywort, see Kidny-wort, it is under Venus 137  
Wineberrybush, see Goosberrie-bush, it is under Venus 117  
Whins, see the Firsbush, it is under Mars 110  
Water-Flag, see Yellow Flower Deluce, it is under the Moon 103  
Wal-wort, see Elder three under Venus 91. 92  
Wray, see Darnel, it is under saturn 84. 85  
Wading Pondweed, see Crabclaws, and Water Sengreen, water houseleek, it is under Venus 77  
Waternuts, and Water chestnuts, see Caltrop under the Moon 54  
Water Pimpernell, see Brookline a marshal Plant 43  
Whorts and Whortlburies, see Bilberries under Jupiter 32. 33  
Wind Flower, see Anemone, and it is under Mars 14  
Woody-Nightshade, see Amara Dulcis, it is under Mercury 1. 2  
Hercules, Woundwort, see Allheal, Mars hath the dominion thereof 2. 3    

Y  

Yarrow, called also Nosebleed, Milfoyl, and Thousand Leaf, it is under the influence of Venus 379     

The CONTENTS of the DIRECTIONS for making Syrups, Conserves, oils, ointments, plasters, &c. of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, &c.  
Whereby you may have them ready for your use all the year long.  

Sect. 1 The way of gathering, drying, and preserving Simples and their juices.  

Chap. 1 Of leaves of Herbs or Trees 381  
Chap. 2 Of Flowers 382  
Chap. 3 Of Seeds Ibid  
Chap. 4 Of Roots ibid  
Chap. 5 Of Barks 383  
Chap. 6 Of juices 384    

Sect. 2 The way of making and keeping all necessary Compounds.  

Chap. 1 Of Distilled Waters 384  
Chap. 2 Of Syrups 385  
Chap. 3 Of Juleps 386  
Chap. 4 Of Decoctions 387  
Chap. 5 Of oils 388  
Chap. 6 Of Electuaries ibid  
Chap. 7 Of Conserves 389  
Chap. 8 Of Preserves 390  
Chap. 9 Of Lohochs 391  
Chap. 10 Of ointments ibid  
Chap. 11 Of plasters 392  
Chap. 12 Of Pultisses ibid  
Chap. 13 Of Troches 393  
Chap. 14 Of Pills ibid  
Chap. 15 The way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause of the Disease, and part of the Body afflicted 394     

Authors made use of in this Treatise.  

A  
Aegineta  
Aetius  
Aristotle  
Avicenna  
Averrois  
Avenaris  
Andreas Caesalpinus  
Antonius Musa   

B  
Bauhine: now printed in 3 large volumes with large Cuts.  
Bellus  
Bartholomeus Anglus  
Butler, a Manuscript   

C  
Clusius  
Cameravius   

D  
Dodoneus  
Dioscorides   

E  
Dr. Experience   

F  
Fabius Columna  
Fuchsius   

G  
Gesnar  
Galen  
Gerrard   

I  
Isidore  
Johnson   

L  
Leonicerus  
Lobel  
Lugdunensis   

M  
Mathiolus  
Mesue  
Mizaldus   

O  
Otho Brunf●lfius   

P  
Parkinson  
Pliny  
Pena  
Platearius  
Pona   

R  
Dr. Reason  
Rhasis   

S  
Serapio   

T  
Taberna Montanus  
Theophrastus  
Turner  
Tragus    

The Names of several Books Printed by Peter coal in Leaden-Hal London, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in cornhill, near the Exchange.  

Six several Books, by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in physic and Astrology. 

1 A Translation of the New Dispensatory, made by the college of Physitians of London. Whereunto is added, The Key to Galen's Method of physic.  
2 A Directory for Midwives, or a Guide for Women. Newly enlarged by the Author in every sheet, and illustrated with divers new Plates.  
3 Galen's Art of physic with a large Comment.  
4 The English physician; being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; wherein is shewed how to cure a mans self of most diseases incident to mans Body, with such things as grow in England, and for three pence charge.  
Also n the same Book is shewed, 1 The time of gathering al Herbs both Vulgarly and Astrologically. 2 The way of drying, and keeping them and their juices. 3 The way of making and keeping al manner of useful Compounds, made of those Herbs. 4 The way of mixing the Medicines according to the Cause, and mixture of the Disease, and the part of the Body afflicted.  
5 The Anatomy of the Body of Man, Wherein is exactly described the several parts of the Body of Man, illustrated with very many large Brass Plates.  
6 A New Method both of studying and practising physic.  
A Godly and Fruitful Exposition, on the first Epistle of Peter. By Mr John Rogers, Minister of the Word of God at Dedham in Essex.  
The Wonders of the Loadstone, by Mr Samuel Ward of I●swich.  
An Exposition on the Gospel of the Evangelist St. Matthew, by Mr. Ward.  
Clows chirurgery.  
Marks of Salvation.  
Christians Engagement for the Gospel, by John Goodwin.  
Great Church Ordinance of Baptism.  
Mr. Love's Case, containing his Petitions, Narrative, and Speech.  
Vox Pacifica, or a persuasive to Peace.  
Dr. Prestons Saints submission, and Satans Overthrow.  
Pious mans Practise in Parliament Time.  
A Treatise of the RICKETS, being a Disease common to Children; wherein is shewed, 1 The Essence. 2 The Causes. 3 The Signs. 4 The Remedies of the Disease. Published in latin by Dr. Glisson, Dr. bait, and Dr. Regemorter, now translated into English.  
Mr. Symsons Sermon at Westminster.  
Mr. Feaks Sermon before the Lord mayor.  
Mr. Phillips Treatise of Hel.— of Christs Geneology.  
eton on the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant, showing that they oblige not.     

Seven Books of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs lately published; As also the Texts of scripture upon which they are grounded. 

1 The Rare jewel of Christian Contentment, on Phil. 4.11. wherein is shewed, 1. What Contentment is, 2. It is an holy Art and Mystery 3. The Excellencies of it, 4. The Evil of the contrary sin of Murmuring, and the Aggravations of it.  
2 Gospel-Worship, on Levit. 10.3 Wherein is shewed, 1. The right manner of the Worship of God in general; and particularly, In Hearing the Word, Receiving the Lord Supper, and Prayer.  
3 Gospel Conversation, on Phil. 1.17. Wherein is shewed, 1. That the Conversations of Believers must be above what could be by the Light of Nature, 2. Beyond those that lived under the Law,, 3. And suitable to what Truths the Gospel holds forth. To which is added, The Misery of those men that have their Portion in this Life only, on Psal. 17.14  
4 A Treatise of Earthly-mindednesse. Wherein is shewed, 1. What E●rthly-mindedness is, 2. Th● great Evil therof, on Phil. 3. part of the 19. Vers. Also to the same Book is joined, A Treatise of Heavenly mindedness, and walking with God on Gen. 5.24. and on Phil. 3.20.  
5. An Exposition, on the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Chapters of the prophesy of Hosea.  
6 An Exposition on the eighth, ninth, and tenth Chapters of Hosea.  
7 An Exposition on the eleventh, ●… welfth and thirteenth Chaptets of Hosea, being now complete.     

Twelve several Books of Mr. William bridge, Collected into one volume, viz. 

1 The great Gospel-Mystery of the Saints Comfort and Holiness, opened and applied from Christs Priestly Office.  
2 Satans Power to Tempt; and Christs Love to, and Care of His People under Temptation.  
3 Thankfulness required in every Condition.  
4 Grace for Grace; or, the Over-flowing of Christs fullness received by all Saints.  
5 The spiritual Actings of Faith through Natural Impossibilities.  
6 Evangelical Repentance.  
7 The Spiritual-Life, and In-Being of Christ in all Believers.  
8 The Woman of Canaan.  
9 The Saints Hiding-place in time of Gods Anger.  
10 Christs Coming is at our Midnight.  
11 A Vindication of Gospel-Ordinances.  
12 Grace and Love beyond Gifts. A Congregational Church is a catholic Visible Church, By Samuel ston, in New England.  
A Treatise of politic Power, wherein seven Questions are Answered, 1. Whereof Power is made, and for what ordained; 2. Whether Kings and Governours have an Absolute Power over the People; 3. Whether Kings and Governours be subject to the Laws of God, or the Laws of their Countries; 4. How far the People are to obey their Governors, 5. Whether all the People have, be their Governours; 5. Whether it be Lawful to depose an evil Governor; 7. What Confidence is to be given to Princes.  
The Compassionate Samaritan. Dr. Sibbs on the Philippians.  
The Best and Worst Magistrate, By Obadiah Sedgwick.  
The Craft and Cruelty of the Churches Adversaries, By matthew N●wcomin.  
A Sacred Panygrick, by Stephen M●rtial.  
B●●riff. Military Discipline.  
The Immortality of Mans Soul.  
The Anatomist anatomised.  
King Charles his Case, or an Appeal to all rational men concerning his Trial.  
Mr. Owens steadfastness of the Promises:  
Mr. Oven against Mr. Baxter.  
A Vindication of Free Grace: Endeavouring to prove, 1 That we ore not elected as holy, but that we should be holy; and that Election is not of kinds, but persons. 2. That Christ did not by his death intend to save all men, and touching those whom he intended to save, that he did not die for them onely if they would believe, but that they might believe. 3 That we are not justified properly by our believing in Christ, but by our Christ believed in. 4 That, that which differenceth one man from another, is not the improvement of a Common ability restored through Christ to all men in geneeall, but a principle of Gra● wrought by the Spirit of God in th●… Elect. By John Pawson.  
Six Sermons Preached by Docto●… Hill, viz.  
1 The Beauty and Sweetness of a●… Olive Branch of Peace and Brotherly Accommodation budding.  
2 Truth and Love happily married in the Churches of Christ.  
3 The Spring of strengthenin●… Grace in the Rock of Ages Chri●… Jesus.  
4 The strength of the Saints t●… make Jesus Christ their strength.  
5 The Best and Worst of Paul.  
6 Gods eternal preparation for hi●… dying Saints.  
The Bishop of Canterburie●… speech on the Scaffold.  
The King's speech on the Scaffold.  
The Magistrates support and Burden. By Mr. John Cordel.  
The Discipline of the Church i●… New England, by the Churches an●… Synod there.  
A Relation of Bar●adoes.  
A Relation of the Repentance an●… Conversion of the Indians in New●… England, By Mr. Eliot and Mr. Ma●hew.      

Culpepers English physician Enlarged.   

THE English physician enlarged.  

Amara-dulcis.  
COnsidering divers Shires in this Nation give divers Names to one and the same Herb, and that common Name which it bears in one County, is not known in another: I shall take the pains to set down all the Names that I know of each Herb: pardon me for setting that Name first which is most common to myself; besides Amara-dulcis, some call it moral, others Bitter-sweet, some Woody-Nightshade, and others Felon-wort.  
Description.] It grows up with woody stalks even to a mans height, and sometimes higher: The leaves fall off at the approach of Winter, and spring out again of the same stalk at Spring time: the Branch is encompassed about with a whitish bark, and hath a peeth in the middle of it: the main Branch brancheth itself out into many small ones, with claspers, laying hold on what is next to them, as Vines do. It bears many leaves, they grow in no order at all, or at least wise in no vulgar order: the leaves are longish, though something broad and pointed at the ends; many of them have two little leaves growing at the end of their foot stalk, some of them have but one, and some none; the leaves are of a pale green colour: the flowers are of a purple colour, or of a perfect blue, like to Violets, and they stand many of them together in knots: the Berries are green at the first, but when they are ripe, they are very read: if you taste them, you shall find them just as the crabs which we in Sussex call Bitter-sweet, viz. sweet at first, and bitter afterwards.  
Place.] They grow commonly almost throughout England, especially in moist and shady places.  
Time.] The leaves shout out about the latter end of March, if the temperature of the air be ordinary it flowereth in July, and the seeds are ripe soon after, usually in the next month.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Planet Mercury, and a notable Herb of his also, if it be rightly gathered under his influence; it is excellent good to remove. Witchcrafts 
Witchcraft.  both in men and beasts, as also all sudden Diseases whatsoever, being tied round about the neck, it is one of the admirablist remedies for the Vertigo, 
Vertigo.  or Dissiness in the head that is, and that's the reason( as Tragus saith) the people in Germany commonly hang it about their cattels necks when they fear any such evil hath betided them. Country people commonly use to take the berries of it and having bruised them, they apply them to Felons, 
Felons.  and thereby soon rid their fingers of such troublesome guests.  

Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, difficulty of Breathing, bruises, falls, congealed blood, dropsy, yellow and black Jaundice, Women after delivery.  We have now shewed you the External use of the Herb, we shal speak a word or two of the Internal, and so conclude: Take notice that it is a Mercurial herb, and therfore of very subtle parts, as indeed all Mercurial plants are; therefore take a pound of the wood and leaves together, bruise the wood( which you may easily do, for it is not so hard as Oak) then put it in a pot, and put to it three pints of white Wine, put on the pot-lid and shut it close, then let it infuse hot over a gentle fire 12. hours, then strain it out, so have you a most excellent Drink to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, to help difficulty of breath, bruises, and falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, to help the yellow Jaundice, the dropsy, and black Jaundice, and to cleanse Women newly brought in bed: you may drink a quarter of a pint of the infusion every morning, it purgeth the body very gently, and not churlishly as some hold; and when you find good by this, remember me.   

Alheale.  
IT is called Alheal, Hercules Alheal, and Hercules Wound-wort, because it is supposed that Hercules learned the herb and its virtues from Chyron, when he learned physic of him●… some call it Panay, and others Opopanay-wort.  
Description.] Its Root is long, thick, and exceeding full o●… juice, of a hot and biting taste; the Leaves are great and large and winged almost like Ash-tree leaves, but that they are something hairy, each leaf consisting of five or six pair of such wing●… set one against the other, upon foot stalks broad below, but narrow toward the end, one of the leaves is a little deeper at the bottom than the other, of a fair, yellowish, fresh, green colour; the●… are of a bitterish taste, being chewed in the mouth; from amongst these riseth up a stalk, green in colour, round in form, great and strong in magnitude, five or six foot high in altitude, with many joints, and some leaves thereat; towards the top come forth umbels of small yellow flowers, after which are passed away, you may find whitish, yellow, short, flat seeds, bitter also in taste.  
Place.] Having given you the Description of the Herb from the bottom to the top, give me leave to tell you that there are other Herbs called by this name; but because they are strangers in England, I gave only the Description of this which is easy to be had in the Gardens of divers.  
Time.] Although Gerard say That they flower from the beginning of May to the end of December, experience teacheth them that keep it in their gardens, that it flowers not till the ●… atter end of Summer, and sheds it seeds presently after.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars; hot, biting, and choleric: and remedies what evils Mars afflicts the body of Man with by sympathy, as Vipers flesh attract poison, and the Loadston iron: It kills the worms, helps the Gout, Cramp, and Convulsion; provokes Urin, and helps all Joynt-aches, it helps all could griefs of the Head, the Vertigo Falling sickness, and Lethargy, the wind colic, obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, ston in the kidneys and Bladder, 
Worms, Gout Cramp, Convulsion provoke urin, Joynt-aches, Vertigo, Falling sickness, Leathargie, colic, obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, ston, Terms provokes, dead Birth, Sinews, Itch, Sores, Tooth ache, mad Dogs, venomous Beasts, choler.  it provokes the Terms, expels the dead Birth, it is excellent good for the grief of the Sinews, Itch, Sores, and Tooth ache, the bi●… ings of mad Dogs and venomous Beasts, and purgeth choler very gently.   

Alkanet.  
BEsides the common Name it is called Orchanet, and Spanish Bugloss, and by Apothecaries, Anchusa.  
Description.] Of the many sorts of this Herb, there is but one ●… noun to grow commonly in this Nation; of which one take ●… his Description, It hath a great and thick Root, of a reddish co●… our, long, narrow, hairy leaves, green like the leaves of Bugloss which lye very thick upon the ground, the stalks rise up compassed round about thick with leaves which are lesser and narrower then the former, they are tender and slender, the flowers are hollow, small, and of a reddish purple colour, the seed is greyish.  
Place.] It grows in Kent near Rochester, and in many places, in the West country, both in Devonshire and Cornwel.  
Time.] They flower in July and the beginning of August, and the Seed is ripe soon after, but the Root is in its prime as Carrots and Persnips are before the herb run up to stalk.  

Ulcers inflammations Burnings S. Anth. fire Morphew, leprosy, dead Child yell. Jaund spleen, gravel, venomous beasts Flux, worms, Mother, Back, Bruises, Falls, smal-pox. Measles, Wounds.  Government and virtues.] It is an Herb under the dominion of Venus, and indeed one of her darlings, though something hard to come by. It helps old Ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common Fire, and St Anthonies fire, by antipathy to Mars, for these uses, your best way is to make it into an Ointment; also if you make a Viniget of it, as you make vinegar of Roses, it helps the Morphew and leprosy, if you apply the herb to the Privities it draws forth the dead Child, it helps the yellow Jaundice, Spleen, and Gravel in the Kidneys,( Diascorides saith) it helps such as are bitten by venomous Beasts, whether it be taken inwardly, or applied to the wound: nay, he saith further, If any one that hath newly eaten it do but spit in the mouth of a Serpent the Serpent instantly dies. It stays the Flux of the Belly, kills Worms, helps the fits of the Mother; its Decoction made in Wine and drunk, strengtheners the Back, and easeth the pains therof, it helps Bruises and Falls, and is as gallant a Remedy to drive out the small Pox and Measles as any is; an ointment made of it, ts excellent for green Wounds, Pricks, or Thrusts.   

Adders Tongue, Or, Serpents Tongue.  
Description. THis small Herb hath but one Leaf, which grows with the Stalk a fingers length above the ground, being fat, and of a fresh green colour, broad like the Water plantain( but less) without any middle Rib in it: from the bottom of which Leaf on the inside, riseth up( ordinarily) one, sometimes two, or three small slender stalks, the upper half whereof is somewhat bigger, and dented with small round dents of a yellowish green colour, like the Tongue of an Adder or Serpent( only this is as useful as they are formidable) The Root continues all the year.  
Place.] It groweth in moist Meadows, and such like places.  
Time.] And is to be found in April and May, for it quickly perisheth with a little heat.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb under the Dominion of the Moon in Cancer, and therefore if the weakness of the Retentive Faculty be caused by an evil influence of Saturn, in any part of the Body governed by the Moon, or under the Dominion of Cancer, this Herb cures it by Sympathy: It cures those Diseases after specified in any part of the Body under the Influence of Saturn, by Antipathy.  
It is temperate in respect of heat, but dry in the Second Degree. The juice of the Leaves drunk with the Distilled Water of Horstail is a singular Remedy for all manner of Wounds in the Breast, Bowels, 
Wounds in the Breast, Bowels, Vomiting, Bleeding, Terms stops, Whites, Wounds, Ulcers, inflammations in Wounds.  or other parts of the Body, and is given with good success unto those who are troubled with Casting, Vomiting, or Bleeding at the Mouth or Nose, or otherwise downward. The said juice given in the distilled Water of Oaken Buds is very good for Women who have their usual Courses, or the Whites flowing down too abundantly. It helps sore Eyes. The Leaves infused or boiled in oil Omphacine, or unripe Olives, set in the Sun for certain daies, or the green Leaves sufficiently boiled in the said oil, is made an excellent green balsam, not only for green and fresh Wounds, but also for old and inveterate Ulcers, especially if a little fine clear Turpentine be dissolved therein: It also stayeth and represseth al inflammations that arise upon pains, by Hurts or Wounds.  
What parts of the Body are under each Planet and Sign, and also what Diseases may be found in my Astrological judgement of Diseases, and for the internal Work of Nature in the Body of Man, as Vital, Animal, Natural, and Procreative Spirit of Man; The Apprehension, judgement, Memory: The external Sences, viz. Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling; the virtues, Attractive, Retentive, Digestive, Expulsive, &c. under the Dominion of what Planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris for the year 1651. in both which you shal find the Chaff of Authors blown away, by the famed of Dr. Reason, and nothing but Rational Truths left for the Ingenious to feed upon.  
Lastly, To avoid blotting Paper with one thing many times, and also to ease your Purses in the price of the Book, and withal to make you studious in physic, you have at the latter end of the Book, the way of preserving all Herbs either in juice, Conserve, oil, ointment, or plaster, Electuary, Pill, or Troches.   

Agrimony.  
Description.] THis hath divers long Leaves( some greater, some smaller) set upon a Stalk, all of them dented about the edges, green above, and grayish underneath, and a little hairy withal: Among which ariseth up usually, but one strong, round, hairy, brown Stalk, two or three Foot high, with smaller Leaves set here and there upon it; at the top whereof grow many small yellow flowers one above another in long Spikes: after which come rough heads of Seeds hanging downward which will cleave to and stick upon Garments, or any thing that shall rub against them. The Root is black, long, and somewhat woody, abiding many yeers and shooting afresh every Spring, which Root, though small, hath a reasonable good scent.  
Place.] It groweth upon Banks near the sides of Hedges, or Pales.  
Time.] And it flowreth in July and August, the Seed being ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb under Jupiter, and the Sign Cancer, and strengtheners those parts under that Planet and Sign, and removes Diseases in them by Sympathy, and those under Saturn, 
cleansing, Drying, Binding, Liver, Jaundice, Inward Wounds, Inward Bruises, Bloody& troubled Urine, colic, Breast, Cough, Tertian& Quartan Agues, Bloody flux, Ulcers, Cancers, Thorns, Splinters and Nails in the flesh Members out of joint, apostemes.  Mars, and Mercury, by Antipathy. If they happen in any part of the Body governed by Jupiter, or under the Signs, Cancer, Sagitary, or Pisces, and therefore must needs be good for the Gout, either used outwardly in an oil or ointment, or inwardly in an Electuary or Syrup, or concreated juice; for which see the latter end of the Book.  
It is of a cleansing and cutting faculty without any manifest heat, moderately drying and binding; It openeth and cleanseth the Liver, helpeth the Jaundice, and is very beneficial to the Bowels, healing al inward wounds, Bruises, Hurts, and other distempers. The Decoction of the Herb made with Wine and drunk is good against the stinging and biting of Serpents, and helps them that have foul, troubled, or bloody waters, and makes them piss clear speedily; It also helpeth the colic, cleanseth the breast, and rids away the Cough. A draft of the Decoction taken warm before the Fit, first removes, and in time rids away the Tertian or Quartan Agues: The Leaves and Seed taken in Wine, stayeth the Bloody flux. Outwardly applied, being stamped with old Swines grease, it helpeth old sores, Cancers, and inveterate Ulcers; and draweth forth Thorns, Splinters of Wood, Nails, or any other such thing gotten into the flesh; it helpeth to strengthen the Members that be out of joint; and being bruised and applied, or the juice dropped in, it helpeth foul and imposthumed Ears.  
The distilled Water of the Herb is good to al the said purposes, either inward or outward, but a great deal weaker.  
It is a most admirable remedy for such whose Livers are amnoyed either by heat or could. The Liver is the Former of Blood, and Blood the Nourisher of the Body, and Agrimony a Strengthener of the Liver.  
I cannot stand to give you a Reason in every Herb why it cureth such Diseases, but if you please to peruse my judgement in the Herb Wormwood, you shal find them there; and it will be well worth your while to consider it in every Herb, you shal find them true throughout the Book.   

Water-Agrimony.  
IT is called in some Countreys, Water Hemp, Bastard Hemp, and Bastard Agrimony, Eupatorium, and Hepatorium, because it strengtheners the Liver.  
Description.] The Root continues a long time, having many long, slender strings, the stalks grow up about two foot high, sometimes higher; they are of a dark purple colour; the Branches are many, growing at distances the one from the other, the one from the one side of the stalk, the other from the opposite point; the Leaves are winged, and much indented at the edges; the Flowers grow at the tops of the Branches, of a brown yellow colour, spotted with black spots, having a substance within the midst of them like that of a Daisie, if you rub them between your fingers, they smell like Rozin, or Cedar when it is burnt; the Seeds are long, and easily stick to any woollen thing they touch.  
Place.] They delight not in heat, and therefore they are not so frequently found in the Southern parts of England as in the North, where they grow frequently; you may look for them in could grounds, by pounds, and ditch sides, as also by running waters; 
Cutteth, cleanseth, Breast, Cachexia, dropsy, yellow Jaundice, Obstructions, Liver, spleen, Imposthums, Urine, terms provokes, Worms, Itch, Scabs flies, wsps.  sometimes you shal find them grow in the midst of the Waters.  
Time.] They al flower in July and August, and the seed is ripe presently after.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant of Jupiter as well as the other Agrimony, only this belongs to the celestial Sign Cancer. It healeth and drieth, cutteth and cleanseth thick and tough humors of the Breast, and for this I hold it inferior to but few Herbs that grow: It helps the Cachexia, or evil disposition of the Body; the dropsy, and yellow Jaundice; it opens obstructions of the Liver, and mollifies the hardness of the Spleen; being applied outwardly, it breaks Imposthumes, taken inwardly, it is an excellent Remedy for the third day Ague; It provokes Urine and the Terms, it kills Worms, and cleanseth the Body of sharp Humors, which are the cause of Itch, Scabs; the smoke of the Herb being burnt drives away Flies, Wasps, &c. it strengtheners the lungs exceedingly. 
Lungs, cattle.  Country people give it to their cattle, when they are troubled with the Cough, or broken winded.   

Alehoof, Or Ground-Ivy.  
SEveral Countries give it several Names, so that there is scarce an Herb growing of that bigness that hath got so many; It is called Cats-foot, Ground-Ivy, Gill go by ground, and Gill creep by ground, Tun-hoof, Hay-maids, and Alehoof.  
Description.] This well known Herb, lieth, spreadeth, and creepeth upon the ground, shooting forth Roots, at the corners of the tender jointed Stalks, set all along with two round Leaves at every joint, somewhat hairy, crumpled, and unevenly dented about the edges with round dents: at the joints likewise with the Leaves towards the end of the Branches come forth hollow long Flowers, of a bluish purple colour, with small white spots upon the Lips that hang down: The Root is small with strings.  
Place.] It is commonly found under Hedges, and on the sides of Ditches, under Houses, or in shadowed Lanes, and other wast grounds in almost every part of the Land.  
Time.] They Flower somewhat early, and abide so a great while; the Leaves continue green until Winter, and sometimes abide, except the Winter be very sharp and could.  

Inward Wounds, Pains, gripping, Wind choler, Stomach, Spleen, Belly, stoping in the Liver, Gal Plague, poison,  Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Venus, and therefore cures the Diseases she causes, by Sympathy, and those of Mars by Antipathy: You may usually find it al the year long, except the year be extreme frosty. It is quick, sharp, and bitter in taste, and is thereby found to be hot and dry; a singular Herb for all inward Wounds, exulcerated lungs, or other parts, either by itself, or boiled with other the like Herbs: And being drunk, it in short time easeth all gripping Pains, windy and choleric Humors in the Stomach, Spleen, or Belly: helps the yellow Jaundice by opening the stoppings of the gall and Liver, and melancholy by opening the stoppings of the Spleen, expelleth Venom or poison, and also the Plague, it provoketh Urin, and Womens Courses. The Decoction of it in Wine drunk for some time together, procureth ease unto them that are troubled with the Sciatica, 
Gout, Sciaticae, sore Mouth& Throat, Ulcers in the Privities, Itch, Scabs, Web in the Eye, Redness& watering of them, Ulcers, noise in the Ears Deafness.  or Hip-Gout, as also the Gout in the Hands, Knees, or Feet: and if you put to the Decoction, some Honey, and a little burnt alum, it is excellent good to gargoyle any sore Mouth or Throat, and to wash the Sores and Ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman: It speedily helpeth green Wounds, being bruised and bound thereunto: The juice of it boiled with a little Honey and Verdigreece, doth wonderfully cleanse Fistulaes, Ulcers, and stayeth the spreading or eating of Cancers and Ulcers; It helpeth the Itch, Scabs, Wheals, and other breakings out in any part of the Body. The juice of Celondine, Field daisies, and Ground-Ivy clarified, and a little fine Sugar dissolved therein, and dropped into the Eyes, is a Sovereign Remedy for all the Pains, Redness, and Watering of them; as also for the Pin and Web, Skins, and Films growing over the Sight; It helpeth Beasts as well as Men; The juice dropped into the Ears doth wonderfully help the noise and singing of them, and helpeth the Hearing which is decayed. It is good to Tun up with new Drink, for it will so clarify it in a night, that it will be the fitter to be drunk the next morning; or if any Drink be thick with removing, or any other accident, it will do the like in a few hours.   

Alexander.  
IT is also called Alisander, Horse parsley, and Wild parsley, and the black Pot-Herb; the Seed of it is that which is usually sold in the Apothecaries Shops for Macedonian Parsly-Seed.  
Description.] It is usually sown in all the Gardens in Europe, and so well known, that it needs no further Description.  
Time.] They Flower in June, and July, and the Seed is ripe in August. 
Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, provokes the Terms Afterbirth Wind, provokes Urin, biting of Serpents   
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Jupiter, and therefore friendly to Nature, for it warmeth a could Stomach, and openeth stoppings of the Liver and Spleen; it is good to move Womens Courses, to expel the After-birth, to break wind, to provoke Urine, and help the Strangury; and these things the Seeds will do likewise: if either of them be boiled in Wine, or being bruised and taken in Wine, it is also effectual against the biting of Serpents. And now you know what Alexander Pottage is good for, that you may no longer eat it out of ignorance, but out of knowledge.   

The Black Alder-Tree.  
Description. THis three seldom groweth to any great bigness, but for the most part abideth like a hedge, Bush, or three spreading into Branches, the Wood of the Body being white, and of a dark read Core, or Heart; the outward Bark is of a blackish colour, with many white spots thereon: but the inner Bark next unto the Wood is yellow, which being chewed will turn the Spittle near unto a Saffron colour. The Leaves are somewhat like those of the ordinary Alder-Tree, or the Foemale Cornel, or Dog-berry-Tree, called in Sussex Dog-wood, but blacker, and not so long. The Flowers are white, coming forth with the Leaves at the joints, which turn into small round Berries, first green, afterwards read, but blackish when they are through ripe, divided as it were into two parts, wherein is contained two small, round, and flat Seeds: The Root runneth not deep into the ground, but spreadeth rather under the upper crust of the Earth.  
Place.] This three or Shrub may be found plentifully in St. Johns Wood by Hornsey, and in the Woods upon Hamsted Heath; as also at a Wood called the old, Park in Barcomb in Sussex, near the Brooks side.  
Time.] It Flowreth in May, and the Berries are ripe in September.  
Government and virtues.] It is a three of Venus, and perhaps under the celestial Sign Cancer. The inner yellow Bark hereof purgeth downward both choler and phlegm, 
choler, phlegm,  and the watery humors of such as have the dropsy, and strengtheneth the inward parts again by binding. If the Bark hereof be boiled with Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, Hops, and some Fennel, with Smallage, Endive, and Succory Roots, and a reasonable draft taken every morning for some time together, 
Jaundice, dropsy, Cachexia, Liver, Spleen.  it is very effectual against the Jaundice, dropsy, and the evil disposition of the Body, especially if some suitable purging Medicine have been taken before to avoid the grosser excrements; It purgeth and strengtheneth the Liver and Spleen, cleansing them from such evil humors, and hardness as they are afflicted with: It is to be understood that these things are performed by the dried Bark, for the fresh green Bark taken inwardly, provoketh strong Vomithings, pains in the Stomach,, and gripings in the Belly: Yet if the Decoction may stand and settle two or three daies until the yellow colour be changed black, it will not work so strongly as before, 
Stomach weak, appetite lost, Flux, Lice Itch, Scabs toothache, Teeth loose.  but will strengthen the Stomach, and procure an Appetite to meat. The outer Bark contrariwise doth bind the Body, and is helpful for all Lasks and Fluxes thereof, but this must also be dried first, whereby it will work the better. The inner Bark hereof boiled in Vinegar, is an approved remedy to kill Lice, to cure the Itch, and take away Scabs by drying them up in a short time: It is singular good to wash the Teeth, to take away the Pains, to fasten those that are loose, to cleanse them, and keep them sound. The Leaves are good Fodder for Kine to make them give more Milk.  
If in the Spring time you use the Herbs before mentioned, and will but take a handful of each of them, and to them ad a handful of Elder Buds, and having bruised them al, boil them in a Gallon of ordinary Beer when 'tis new, and having boiled them half an hour, ad this to three Gallons more, and let them work together, and drink a draft of it every morning, half a pint, or there abouts: It is an excellent Purge for the Spring, to consume that Flegmatick quality the Winter hath left behind it, and withal keep your Body in health, and consume those evil humors which the heat of Summer will readily stir up, esteem it as a Jewel.   

The Common Alder-Tree.  
Description. GRoweth to a reasonable height, and spreads much if it like the place: It is so generally well known unto Country people, that I conceive it needless to tell them that which is no news.  
Place and Time.] It delighteth to grow in moist Woods, and watery places; flowering in April or May, and yielding ripe Seed in September.  
Government and Use.] It is a three under the Dominion of Venus, and of some watery Sign or other, I suppose Pisces, and therefore the Decoction or distilled Water of the Leaves, is excellent against Burnings, and inflammation, 
Burnings, inflammations.  either with Wounds or without, to bath the place grieved with, and especially for that inflammation in the Breast which the vulgar call an Ague.  
If you cannot get the Leaves( as in Winter 'tis impossible) make use of the Bark in the same manner.  
The Leaves and Bark of the Alder-Tree, are cooling, drying, 
Cooling, Drying, Binding, Swellings,  and binding,: The fresh Leaves laid upon swellings, dissolveth them, and stayeth the inflammations; The Leaves put under the bare feet gauled with traveling are a great refreshing to them: The said Leaves gathered while the morning due is on them, and brought into a Chamber troubled with pleas, 
pleas.  will gather them thereinto, which being suddenly cast out will rid the Chamber of those troublesome Bed-fellows.   

Angelica.  
TO writ a Description of that which is so well known to be growing in almost every Garden, I suppose is altogether needless: yet for its virtues it is of admirable use.  
In times of Heathenism when men had found out any excellent Herb, &c. they dedicated it to their gods, As the Bay-tree to Apollo, the Oak to Jupiter, the Vine to Bacchus, the Poplar to Hercules: These the Papists following as their patriarches, they dedicate them to their Saints, as our Ladies Thistle to the Blessed Virgin, St. Johns Wort to St. John, and another Wort to St. Peter, &c. Our Physitians must imitate like Apes,( though they cannot come off half so cleverly) for they Blasphemously call Pansies, or Harts-ease, an Herb of the Trinity, because it is of three colours: and a certain ointment, an ointment of the Apostles, because it consisteth of twelve Ingredients; Alas poor Fools, I am sorry for their folly, and grieved at their Blasphemy; God sand them the rest of their Age, for they have their share of Ignorance already; O! Why must ours be Blasphemous because the Heathens and Papists were Idolatrous? certainly they have red so much in old rusty Authors, that they have lost al their Divinity, for unless it were amongst the Ranters, I never red or heard of such Blasphemy: The Heathens and Papists were bad, and ours worse; the Papists giving Idolatrous Names to Herbs for their virtues sake, not for their fair looks, and therefore some called this, an Herb of the Holy Ghost, others more moderate called it ANGELICA, because of its Angelical virtues, and that Name it retains stil, and al Nations follow it so near as their Dialect will permit.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of the Sun in lo; let it be gathered when he is there, the Moon applying to his good Aspect; let it be gathered either in his hour, or in the hour of Jupiter, let Sol be angular. Observe the like in gathering the Herbs of other Plants, and you may happen to do wonders. In al Epidemical Diseases caused by Saturn, this is as good a Preservative as grows. 
poison, Pestilence, Epidemical Diseases.  It resists poison by defending and comforting the Heart, Blood, and Spirits; it doth the like against the Plague and al Epidemical Diseases if the Root be taken in powder to the weight of half a dram at a time with some good Treacle in Cardus Water, and the party thereupon laid to sweat in his Bed. If Treacle be not to be had, take it alone in Cardus, or Angelica Water. The Stalks or Roots candied and eaten fasting, are good Preservatives in time of Infection; and at other times to warm and comfort a could stomach. The Root also steeped in vinegar, 
could, Wind pleurisy, Cough, lungs, Breast, Strangury, Shortness of Breath, colic, Provokes the Terms, after birth, stoppings of the Liver and Spleen; Indigestion, surfeits, toothache  and a little of that vinegar taken sometimes fasting, and the Root smelled unto, is good for the same purpose. A water distilled from the Root simply, or steeped in Wine, and distilled in Glass, is much more effectual than the Water of the Leaves; and this Water drunk two or three spoonfuls at a time, easeth al pains and torments coming of could and wind, so as the Body be not bound: and taken with some of the Root in powder at the beginning helpeth the pleurisy, as also al other Diseases of the lungs and Breast, as Coughs, phthisic, and shortness of Breath; and a Syrup of the Stalks doth the like: It helps pains of the colic, the Strangury, and stoping of the Urine, procureth Womens Courses, and expelleth the After-birth, openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and briefly easeth and discusseth all windiness and inward swellings. The Decoction drunk before the fit of an Ague, that they may sweat( if possible) before the fit come, will in two or three times taking rid it quiter away: it helps digestion, and is a remedy for a Surfet. The juice, or the Water being dropped into the Eyes or Ears, helps dimness of sight, and deafness: The juice put into the hollow Teeth, easeth their pains. The Roots in powder made up into a plaster with a little Pitch; 
biting of mad Dogs.  and laid on the biting of a mad Dog, or any other venomous Creature, doth wonderfully help: The juice, or the Water dropped, or tents wet therein, and put into old filthy deep Ulcers, 
Ulcers, Gout, Sciatica.  Or the powder of the Root( in want of either) doth cleanse and cause them to heal quickly, by covering the naked bones with flesh. The distilled Water applied to places pained with the Gout or Sciatica, doth give a great deal of ease.  
The wild Angelica is not so effectual as the Garden, although it may be safely used to al the purposes aforesaid.   

Amaranthus.  
BEsides this common Name, by which it is best known by the Florists of our dayes, it is also called, Flower-Gentle, Flower-Velure, Floramor, and Velvet Flower.  
Description.] It being a Garden Flower, and well known to every one that keeps of it, I might forbear the Description, yet notwithstanding, because some desire it, I shal give it: It runneth up with a Stalk a cubit high, streaked, and somewhat reddish toward the Root, but very smooth, divided towards the Top with small Branches, among which stand long broad Leaves of a reddish green colour, slippery; the Flowers are not properly Flowers, but Tufts, very beautiful to behold, but of no smell, of a reddish colour; if you bruise them they yield juice of the same colour; being gathered they keep their beauty a long time; the Seed is of a shining black colour.  
Time.] They continue in flower from August till the time the Frost nip them.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Saturn, and is an excellent qualifier of the unruly actions and passions of Venus, though Mars also should join with her. The Flower dried and beaten into powder, 
Terms stops.  stop the Terms in Women, and so do almost al other read things. And by the Icon, or Image of every Herb, the Ancients at first found out their virtues: Modern Writers they laugh at them for it; but I wonder in my heart how the virtues of Herbs came at first to be known, if not by their Signatures: The Modern have them from the Writing of the Ancients, the Ancients had no Writings to have them from: 
Flux, bleeding, Whites, Running of the Reins, French pox.  but to proceed. The Flowers stop all Fluxes of Blood whether in man or woman, bleeding either by the Nose or Wound. There is also a sort of Amaranthus which bears a white Flower, which stops the Whites in women, and the running of the Reins in men, and is a most gallant Antivenerian, and a singular Remedy for the French Pox.   

Anemone.  
CAlled also Wind-flower, because they say the flowers never open but when the wind bloweth: Pliny is my Author, if it be not so, blame him: The Seed also( it it bears any at all) flies away with the wind.  
Place and Time.] They are sown usually in the Gardens of the Curious, and flowers in the Spring-time. As for Description I shal pass it, they being well known to al those that sow them.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars, being supposed to be a kind of Crowfoot. The Leaves provoke the Terms mightily being boiled, 
Terms provokes,  and the Decoction drunk. The Body being bathed with the Decoction of them, cures the leprosy. The Leaves being stamped, and the juice snuffed up the Nose, 
Head purgeth,  purgeth the Head mightily; so doth the Root being chewed in the mouth, for it procureth much spitting, and bringeth away many watery and flegmatick humors, and is therefore excellent for the Lethargy: 
lethargy.  and when al is done, let Physitians prate what they please, al the pills in the Dispensatory purge not the Head like to hot things held in the mouth: being made into an ointment, and the Eye-lids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the Eyes, 
Eyes inslamed, Ulcers.  whereby it is palpable that every stronger draweth its weaker like; the same ointment is excellent good to cleanse malignant and corroding Ulcers.   

Garden Arrach.  
CAlled also, orache, and Orage.  
Description.] It is so commonly known to every housewife, it were but labour lost to describe it.  
Time.] It flowreth and seedeth from June to the end of August.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Government of the Moon; in quality could and moist like unto her. It softeneth and looseneth the body of man being eaten, and fortifieth the expulsive faculty in him. 
Expulsive Faculty, Throat,  The Herb whether it be bruised and applied to the Throat, or boiled, and in like manner applied it matters not much, it is excellent good for swellings in the Throat, the best way I suppose is to boil it, and having drunk the Decoction inwardly, 
Yellow Jaurdice.  apply the Herb outwardly; the Decoction of it besides, is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundice. 
Yellow Jaundice.    

Arrach, wild and stinking.  
CAlled also Vulvaria from that part of the Body upon which the operation is most, also Dogs Arrach, Goats Arrach, and stinking Mother-wort.  
Description.] This hath small, and almost round Leaves, yet a little pointed, and without dent or cut, of a dusky mealy colour, growing on the slender Stalks and Branches that spread on the ground, with small flowers in clusters set with the Leaves, and small Seeds succeeding like the rest, perishing yearly, and rising again with its own sowing. It smells like old rotten fish, or something worse.  
Place.] It grows usually upon dunghills.  
Time.] They flower in June and July, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] Stinking Arrach is used as a remedy to help Women pained, and almost strangled with the Mother, 
Mother,  by smelling to it: But inwardly taken there is not a better Remedy under the Moon for that Disease. I would be large in commendation of this Herb, were I but Eloquent. It is an Herb under the Dominion of Venus, and under the Sign scorpion: It ●… s common almost upon every dunghill. The Works of God are given freely to Man, his Medicines are common and cheap, and easy to be found:( 'tis the Medicines of the college of Physiti●… ns that are so dear, and scarce to find.) I commend it for an Universal Medicine for the Womb, 
Womb,  and such a Medicine as will ●… asily, safely, and speedily cure any Disease thereof, as the fits of ●… he Mother, Dislocation, or falling out thereof; it cools the Womb being overheated.( And let me tel you this, and I will ●… el you but the truth, Heat of the Womb is one of the greatest ●… auses of hard labour in Child-birth) It makes barren Women ●… ruitful, it cleanseth the Womb if it be foul, and strengtheners it excee●… ingly; it provokes the Terms if they be stopped, and stops them ●… f they flow immoderately: You can desire no good to your Womb ●… ut this Herb will effect it; therfore if you love Children, if you ●… ove Health, if you love Ease, keep a Syrup always by you made of ●… he juice of this Herb and Sugar,( or Honey if it be to cleanse the Womb)& let such as be rich keep it for their poor neighbors, and ●… estow it as freely as I bestow my Studies upon them, or else let ●… hem look to answer it another day when the Lord shal come to make inquisitian of Blood.   

Arch-angel.  
TO put a gloss upon their practise, the Physitians call an Herb( which Country people vulgarly know by the name ●… f Dead Nettles) Arch-angel, wherein whether they savour of more Superstition or Folly, I leave to the Judicious Reader. There i● more curiosity than courtesy to my Country men used by others in the explanation, as well of the Names as Description of this so wel-known an Herb: which that I may not also be guilty of, take this short Description, first of the read Arch-angel.  
Description.] This hath divers squar stalks somewhat hairy, at the joints whereof, grow two sad green Leaves dented about the edges, opposite to one another, the lowermost upon long footstalks, but without any toward the tops which are somewhat round, yet pointed, and a little crumpled and hairy: Round about the upper joints where the leaves grow thick, are sundry gaping flowers of a pale reddish colour; after which come the Seeds, three or four in a Husk. The Root is small and thriddy, perishing every year: the whole Plant hath a strong scent, but not stinking.  
White Arch-angel hath divers square stalks, not standing streight, upright, but bending downward, whereon stand two Leaves at a joint, larger and more pointed than the other, dented about the edges, and greener also, more like unto Nettle-Leaves, but not stinging, yet hairy: At the joints with the Leaves stand larger and more open gaping white flowers, in Husks round about the stalks( but not with such a bush of leaves, as flowers set in the top, as is on the other) wherein stand small roundish black Seeds: The Root is white, with many strings at it, not growing downward, but lying under the upper crust of the Earth, and abideth many yeers increasing: This hath not so strong a scent as the former.  
Yellow Arch-angel is like the white in the Stalks and Leaves, but that the Stalks are more streight and upright, and the joints with Leaves are further asunder, having longer Leaves than the former; and the flowers a little larger and more gaping, of a fair yellow colour in most, in some paler. The Roots are like the White, only they creep not so much under the ground.  
Place.] They grow almost every where( unless it be in the middle of the street) the Yellow most usually in the wet grounds of woods, and sometimes in the drier, in divers Countries of this Nation.  
Time.] They flower from the beginning of the Spring al the Summer long.  
virtues and Use.] The archangels are somewhat hot and drier than the stinging Nettles,& used with better success for the stoping& hardness of the Spleen, than they by using the decoction of the Herb in Wine,& afterwards applying the Herb hot unto the Region of the Spleen as a plaster, 
Spleen.  or the Decoction with sponges. The flowers of the white Arch-angel are preserved, o●… conserved to be used to stay the Whites, 
Whites.  and the flowers of the read to stay the Reds in Women. It makes the heart merry, drives away melancholy, 
Melancholy, Quartan Agues, Bleeding at Nose, Swellings, Kings Evil, Gout, Sciatica, joints, Ulcers, old sores, Bruises, Burnings.  quickens the Spirits, is good against Quartan Agues, stancheth bleedings at mouth or nose, if it be stamped and applied to the nape of the Neck: The Herb also bruised, and with some Salt and vinegar, and Hogs Grease laid upon any hard tumour or swelling; or that which is vulgarly called the Kings Evil, doth help to dissolve or discuss them, and being in like manner applied, doth much alloy the pains, and give ease to the Gout, Sciatica, and other aches of the joints and Sinews: It is also very effectual to heal al green Wounds, and old Ulcers, also to stay their freting, gnawing, and spreading; It draweth forth Splinters and such like things gotten into the flesh, and is very good against bruises and burnings. But the yellow Arch-angel, is most commended for old filthy corrupt Sores and Ulcers, yea, although they grow to be hollow; and to dissolve tumours. The chief use of them is for Women, it being an Herb of Venus, and may be found in my Guide for Women.   

Ars-smart.  
THe hot Ars-smart is called also Water-Pepper, Culrage: The mildred Ars-smart is called dead Ars-smart, Porcicaria, or Peach-Wort, because the Leaves are so like the Leaves of a Peach-tree; it is also called Plumbago.  
Description of the mildred.] This hath broad Leaves set at the great read joints of the Stalks, with semicircular blackish marks on them usually, yet sometimes without: The flowers grow in long Spikes usually, either blushy or whitish with such like Seed following. The Root is long, with many strings thereat, perishing yearly; this hath no sharp taste( as another sort hath, which is quick and biting) but rather sour like Sorrel, or else a little drying, or without taste.  
Place.] It grows in watery Plashes, Ditches, and the like, which for the most part are dry in Summer.  
Time.] It flowreth in June, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] As the virtues of both these is various, so are also their Government; for that which is hot and biting, is under the Dominion of Mars, but Saturn challengeth the other, as appears by that Leaden coloured spot he hath placed upon the Leaf.  
It is of a cooling and drying quality, and very effectual for putrefied Ulcers in Man or Beast, 
Ulcers could swellings, bruises, congealed Blood, toothache, Felones, or Andicoms, Worms in 〈◇〉 Ears, F●●● tired Sorses Impostums inflammations, Wounds,  to kill Worms, and cleanse the putrefied Places: The juice thereof dropped in, or otherwise applied, consumeth al could swellings, and dissolveth the congealed Blood of bruises by stroke, salls, &c. A piece of the Root, or some of the seed bruised and held to an aching Tooth, taketh away the pain. The Leaves bruised and laid to the joint that hath a fellow thereon, taketh it away. The juice destroyeth Worms in the Ears being dropped into them: if the hot Arsmart be strewed in a Chamber, it will soon kill al the pleas; and the Herb or juice of the could Arsmart put to a Horse or other Cattels sores will drive away the fly in the hottest time of Summer; a good handful of the hot biting Arsmart put under a Horses Saddle, will make him travail the better, although he were half tired before: The mildred Arsmart is good against hot Imposthumes and inflammations at the beginning, and to heal green Wounds.  
All Authors chop the virtues of both sorts of Arsmart together, as men chop Herbs for the Pot, when both of them are of clean contrary qualities, The hot Arsmart groweth not so high, or tall, as the mildred doth, but hath many leaves of the colour of Peach leaves, very seldom or never spotted, in other particulars it is like the former, but may easily be known from it, if you will be but pleased to break a leaf of it across your tongue, for the hot will make your tongue to smart, so will not the could; if you see them both together, you may easily distinguish them, because the mildred hath far broader leaves: and our college of Physitians out of their learned care for the public good, Anglice their own gain, mistake the one for the other in their New-Master-Piece, whereby they discover, 1 Their Ignorance, 2 Their carelessness, and he that hath but half an eye, may see their pride without a pair of Spectacles. I have done what I could to distinguish them in their virtues, and when you find not the contrary name, use the could. The truth is, I have not yet spoken with Dr. Reason, nor his Brother Dr. Experience, concerning either of them both.   

Asarabacca.  
Description.] A Sarabacca hath many Heads rising from the Roots, from whence come many smooth Leaves, every one upon his own footstalk, which are rounder and bigger than Violet Leaves, thicker also, and of a darker green shining colour on the upper side, and of a paler yellow green underneath, little or nothing dented about the edges: from among which rise small, round, hollow, brown, green husks, upon short stalks about an inch long, divided at the brims into five divisions, very like the Cups or Heads of the Henbane seed, but that they are smaller: and these be all the Flowers it carrieth, which are somewhat sweet, being smelled unto, and wherein when they are ripe is contained small cornered, rough Seeds, very like the Kernels or Stones of Grapes or raisins. The Roots are small and whitish, spreading divers ways in the ground, and increasing into divers Heads: but not running or creeping under the ground as some other creeping Herbs do: They are somewhat sweet in smell, resembling Nardus, but more when they are dry, than green: and of a sharp, but not unpleasant taste.  
Place.] It groweth frequently in Gardens.  
Time.] They keep their Leaves green al Winter, but shoot forth new in the Spring, and with them come forth those Heads or Flowers which give ripe Seed about Midsummer, or somewhat after.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis a Plant under the Dominion of Mars, and therefore inimical to Nature. This Herb being drunk, not only provoketh Vomiting, 
Causeth Vomiting, choler, phlegm, Urin, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, dropsy, Jaundice, Agues.  but purgeth downward, and by Urin also, purging both choler and phlegm: if you ad to it some spikenard, with the Whey of Goats-milk, or honeyed Water, it is made more strong, but it purgeth phlegm more manifestly than choler, and therefore doth much help pains in the Hips and other parts, it being boiled in Whey, it wonderfully helpeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and therefore profitable for the dropsy and Jaundice being steeped in Wine and drunk. It helps those continual Agues that come by the plenty of stubborn humors: an oil made thereof by setting it in the Sun, with some Laudanum added to it, provoketh sweeting( the ridg of the Back being anointed therewith) and thereby driveth away the shaking fits of the Agues. It will not abide any long boiling, for it loseth its chiefest strength thereby: nor much beating, for the finer powder doth provoke Vomits and Urin, and the courser purgeth downward.  
The common use hereof, is, to take the juice of five or seven Leaves in a little drink to cause Vomitings: the Roots have also the same virtue, though they do not operate so forcibly, yet they are very effectual against the biting of Serpents, 
Serpents, Head, Memory.  and therfore is put as an ingredient both into mithridate and Venice Treacle. The Leaves and Roots being boiled in Ly, and the Head often washed therwith, while it is warm, comforteth the Head and Brain that is ill-affected by taking could, and helpeth the Memory.  
I shal desire Ignorant people to forbear the Use of the Leaves; the Roots purge more gently, and may prove beneficial in such as have Cancers, or old putrefied Ulcers, or Fistulaes upon their Bodies, to take a dram of them in powder in a quarter of a pint of white Wine in the morning. The truth is, I fancy Purging and Vomiting Medicines as little as any Man breathing doth, for they weaken Nature, nor shal never advice them to be used unless upon urgent necessity. If a physician be Natures Servant, it is his duty to strengthen his Mistris as much as he can, and weaken her as little as may be.   

Asparagus, asparagus, or sparage.  
Description. IT riseth up at first with divers whitish green scaly Heads, very brittle or easy to break while they are young, which afterwards rise up in very long and slender green stalks, of the bigness of an ordinary riding wand at the bottom of most, or bigger or lesser, as the Roots are of growth: on which are set divers branches of green leaves, shorter and smaller than Fennel to the top: at the joints whereof come forth small mossy yellowish Flowers, which turn into round Berries, green at the first, and of an excellentred colour when they are ripe, showing like Beads of coral, wherein are contained exceeding hard, black Seeds. The Roots are dispersed from a spongeous head into many long, thick, and round strings, whereby it sucketh much nourishment out of the ground, and increaseth plentifully thereby.   

Prickly Asparagus, asparagus, or sparage.  
Description.] IT groweth usually in Gardens, and some of it grows wild in Apleton Meadow in Gloucester-shire, where the poor people do gather the Buds, or young Shoots, and sel them cheaper than our garden Asparagus is sold at London.  
Time.] They do for the most part Flower, and bear their Berries late in the year, or not at al, although they are housed in Winter.  
Government and virtues.] They are both under the Dominion of Jupiter. The young Buds, or Branches, boiled in ones ordinary broth, maketh the belly soluble and open, and boiled in white Wine, 
Belly, Strangury, Disury Gout, Sciatica, Eyes toothache.  provoketh Urin being stopped, and is good against the Strangury, or difficulty of making water, it expelleth the gravel and ston out of the Kidne●s, and helpeth pains in the Reins: And boiled in white wine or Vinegar, it is prevalent for them that have their Arteries loosened, or are troubled with the Hip-Gout, or Sciatica. The Decoction of the Roots boiled in wine and taken, is good to clear the sight, and being held in the mouth easeth the toothache: and being taken fasting several mornings together stirreth up bodily Lust in Man or Woman( whatsoever some have written to the contrary.) The garden Asparagus nourisheth more than the wild, yet hath it the same effects in al the aforementioned Diseases. The Decoction of the Roots in white wine, and the Back and Belly bathed therwith, 
Reins, Bladder, Mother, Cramp, colic, Convulsion  or kneeling or lying down in the same, or sitting therein as a Bath, hath been found effectual against pains of the Reins and Bladder, pains of the Mother and colic, and generally against al pains that happen to the lower parts of the Body, and no less effectual against stiff and benumned Sinews, or those that are shrunk by Cramps and Convulsions, and helpeth the Sciatica.   

Ash-tree.  
THis is so well known, that time will be misspent in writing a Description of it; and therfore I shal only insist upon the virtues of it.  
Government and virtues.] It is governed by the Sun, and the young tender Tops with the Leaves taken inwardly, and some of them outwardly, applied, 
Adders& Vipers biting, dropsy, ston, Jaundice, leprosy, scabs, scald Heads, Stitches, ston, Disury ●rickets.  are singular good against the biting of the Viper, Adder, or any other venomous Beast: and the Water distilled therefrom, being taken a small quantity every morning fasting, is a singular Medicine for those that are subject to a dropsy, or to abate the greatness of those who are too gross or fat. The Decoction of the Leaves in white Wine, helpeth to break the ston and expel it, and cureth the Jaundice. The Ashes of the Bark of the Ash made into Ly, and those Heads bathed therewith which are Leprous, Scabby, or scaled, they thereby cured. The Kernels within the Husks commonly called ash keys prevaileth against Stitches& pains in the sides proceeding of wind, and avoideth away the ston by provoking Urin.  
I can justly except against none of al this, save only the first, viz. That Ash-tree Tops and Leaves are good against the biting of Serpents and Vipers, and I suppose this had its rise from Gerard or Pliny, both which hold that there is such an Antipathy between an Adder and an Ash-tree, that if an Adder be compassed round with Ash-tree leaves, she will sooner run through the fire than through the leaves, the contrary to which is the truth, as both my eyes are witness: the rest are virtues something likely, only if it be in winter when you cannot get the leaves, you may safely use the bark instead of them, the Keys you may easily keep al the year, gathering them when they are ripe.   

Avens, called also Clovewort, and Herb bennet.  
Description] THe ordinary Avens hath many long, rough, dark green, winged Leaves rising from the Root, every one made of many Leaves set on each side of the middle Rib, the la●gest three whereof grow at the ends and are snip'd or denied round about the edges: the other being small pieces, sometimes two, and sometimes four, standing on each side of the middle rib underneath them: among which do rise up divers rough or hairy stalks about two foot high, branching forth with leaves at every joint, not so long as those below, but almost as much out in on the edges, some into three parts, some into more: On the tops of the branches stand small pale yellow Flowers consisting of five leaves, like the Flowers of Cynkfoil, but larger in the middle, whereof standeth a small green Head, which when the Flower is fallen groweth to be rough and round, being made of many long greenish purple seeds( like grains) which will stick upon your clothes: the Root consists of many brownish strings or fibres, smelling somewhat like unto Cloves, especially those which grow in the higher, hotter, and drier grounds, and in the freer and clear air.  
Place.] They grow wild in many places under Hedg-sides, and by the Path-wayes in fields, yet they rather delight to grow in shadowy than in Sunny places.  
Time.] They Flower in May and June for the most part, and their seed is ripe in July at the furthest.  
Government and virtues.] It is Governed by Jupiter, and that gives hopes of a wholesome healthful Herb. It is good for the Diseases of the Chest or Breast, 
Breasts, Stitches, Wind, Belly, stomach, inward wounds, heart could, brain, obstructions, colic, Fluxes, Ruptures, spots and marks in the Face, Plague, poison, Indigestion.  for pains and Stitches in the sides, and to expel crude and raw humors from the Belly an Stomach by the sweet savour and warming quality: it dissolveth the inward congealed blood happening by fals or bruises, and the spitting of Blood, if the Roots either green or dried, be boiled in Wine and drunk, as also al maner of inward wounds or outward if they be washed or bathed therewith. The Decoction also being drunk comforteth the Heart, and strengtheneth the Stomach, and a could Brain, and therefore is good in the Spring time to open Obstructions of the Liver, and helpeth the wind colic: it also helpeth those that have Fluxes, or are bursten, or have a rapture: it taketh away spots or marks in the Face, being washed therwith, The juice of the fresh Root or powder of the dried Root hath the same effect with the Decoction. The Root in the Spring time steeped in Wine doth give it a delicate savour and taste, and being drunk fasting every morning comforteth the Heart, and is a good Preservative against the Plague, or any other poison: it helpeth Digestion, and warmeth a could Stomach, and openeth the Orations of the Liver and Spleen.  
It is very safe, you need have no Dose prescribed; and is very fit to be kept in every bodies house.   

Balm.  
THis Herb is so well known to be an inhabitant almost in every Garden that I shal not need to writ any Description thereof, although the virtues thereof which are many, may not be omitted.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Jupiter, and under Cancer, and strengtheners Nature much in al its actions: let a Syrup made with the juice of it and Sugar,( as you shal be taught at the latter end of the Book) be kept in every Gentlewomans house, to relieve the weak stomachs and sick Bodies of their poor sickly neighbors, as also the Herb kept dry in the house that so with other convenient Simples you may make it into an Electuary with Hony according as the Disease is, and as you shal be taught at the latter end of the Book. 
Mind, Heart, Faintings, Swonings, Melacholy, Indigestion, Obstruction of the Brain, Heart, Arteries, Venemous-Beasts, Mad Dogs Terms, provokes, toothache, bloody flux mushrooms dificulty of breathing, Gout, Liver Spleen Woman in Child-bed, Fainting in travail, boils.  The Arabian Physitians have extolled the virtues hereof to the Skies, although the Greeks thought it not worth mentioning. Serapio saith, It causeth the Mind and Heart to become merry, and reviveth the Heart fainting into swoonings, especially of such who are overtaken in their sleep, and driveth away al troublesone cares and thoughts out of the Mind arising from melancholy, or black choler: which Avicen also confirmeth. It is very good to help Digestion, and open Obstructions of the Brain: and hath so much purging quality in it( saith Avicen) as to expel those melancholy vapours from the Spirits and Blood which are in the Heart and Arteries, although it cannot do so in other parts of the Body. Dioscorides saith, That the Leaves steeped in Wine, and the Wine drunk, and the Leaves externally applied, is a remedy against the sting of Scorpions, and the bitings of Mad Dogs, and commendeth the Decoction thereof for Women to bath or sit in to procure their Courses: it is good to wash aching teeth therwith, and profitable for those that have the bloody-Flux. The Leaves also with a little Nitre taken in Drink, are good against a furset of mushrooms, helps the gripping pains of the Belly, and being made into an Electuary, it is good for them that cannot fetch their breath: used with Salt, it takes away Wens, Kernels, or hard Swellings in the Flesh or Throat: it cleanseth foul Sores, and easeth pains of the Gout: It is as good for the Liver and Spleen. A tansy or Cawdle made with eggs, and the juice thereof while it is young, putting to it some Sugar and rose-water is good for Women in Child-bed, when the After-birth is not thoroughly avoided, and for their Faintings upon, or after their sore travail. The Herb bruised and boiled in a little Wine and oil, and laid warm on a boil, will ripen and break it.   

Barberry.  
THe Shrub is so well known to every Boy and Girl that hath but attained to the age of seven years, that it needs no Description.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns the Shrub, and presents it to the use of my Country-men to purge their Bodies of choler. The inner Rind of the Barberry-tree boiled in white-Wine, 
choler, Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworm yell-jaund boils, argues Burning, Scaldings, Apetit lost Hair.  and a quarter of a pint drunk each morning, is an excellent Remedy to cleanse the Body of choleric Humors, and free it from such Diseases as choler causeth, such be Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, yellow Jaundice, Boiles, &c. It is excellent for hot Agues, Burnings, Scaldings, heat of Blood, heat of the Liver, Bloody-flux, for the Berries are as good as the Bark, and more pleasing, they get a man a good Stomach to his Victuals, by strengthening the attractive faculty, which is under Mars, as you may see more at large in the latter end of my Ephemeris for the year 1651. The Hair washed with the Ly made of the Ashes of the three and water, 'twill make it turn yellow, viz. of Mars his own colour. The Fruit and Rind of the Shrub, the Flowers of Broom and of Heath, or Furz, cleanse the Body of choler by Sympathy, as the Flowers, Leaves, and Bark of the Peach-tree do by Antipathy: because there are under Mars, that under Venus.   

barley.  
THe continual usefulness hereof, hath made al in general so acquainted herewith, that it is altogether needless to describe its several kinds hereof plentifully growing, being yearly sown in this Land. The virtues whereof take as followeth.  
Government and virtues.] It is a notable Plant of Saturn, if you view diligently its effects by sympathy and Antipathy, you may easily perceive a Reason of them, as also why Barly-Bread is so humoursome for melancholy People. barley in al the Parts and Compositions thereof( except Malt) is more cooling than Wheat, and a little cleansing: and al the Preparations therof, as barley-water and other things made therof, 
fevers, Agues, Stomach, Apostums, inflammations, spleen, Ears, Throat, Neck, Kings-Evil, leprosy, Flux, Gout, Itch Eyes.  do give great nourishment to persons troubled with fevers, Agues, and heats in the Stomach. A Pultice made of Barly-meal or Flower, boiled with Vinegar and Hony, and a few dry Figs put into them, dissolveth al hard Imposthums, and aswageth inflammations being thereto applied: And being boiled with Melilot and Chamomel-flowers, and some Linseed, Fenugreek, and Rue in powder, 
Ears, Throat, Neck, Kings-Evil, leprosy, Flux, Gout, ltch Eyes.  and applied warm, it easeth the pains in the side and Stomach, and windiness of the Spleen. The Meal of barley and Fleawort boiled in Water, and made into a Pultis with Honey and oil of lilies, applied warm, cureth swellings under the Ears, Throat, Neck, and such like: and a plaster made thereof with Tar, Wax, and oil, helpeth the Kings-Evil in the Throat: boiled with sharp vinegar into a Pultis and laid on hot, helpeth the leprosy: Being boiled in read Wine with Pomegranate Rinds and myrtles, stayeth the Lask or other flux of the Belly: boiled with vinegar and a Quince, it easeth the pains of the Gout. barley flower, white Salt, Honey and vinegar mingled together, taketh away the Itch speedily and certainly: The Water distilled from the green barley in the end of May is very good for those that have Defluxions of humors fallen into their Eyes, and easeth the pains being dropped into them: or white Bread steeped therein and bound on to the Eyes, doth the same.   

Garden Bazil, Or, Sweet Bazil.  
Description.] THe greater ordinary Bazil riseth up usually with one upright Stalk diversely branching forth on all sides, with two Leaves at every joint, which are somewhat broad and round, yet pointed, of a pale green colour, but fresh, a little snipped about the edges, and of a strong heady scent: The flowers are small and white standing at the tops of the Branches, with two small Leaves at the joint, in some places green, in others brown, after which come black Seed. The Root perisheth at the approach of Winter, and therefore must be new sown every year.  
Place.] It only groweth in Gardens.  
Time.] It must be sowed late, and flowers in the heat of Summer, being a very tender Plant.  
Government and virtues.] This is the Herb which al Authors are together by the Ears about, and rail at one another like Lawyers: Galen and Dioscorides hold it not fitting to be taken inwardly: and Chrysippus rails at it with down-right Billings gate-Rhetorick. Pliny, and the Arabian Physitians defend it.  
For mine own part I presently found that Speech true; Non nostrum inter nos tantas componere lights.  
And away to Dr. Reason went I, who  told me it was an Herb of Mars, and under the Scorpion, and perhaps therefore called Basilicon, and then no marvel if it carry a kind of virulent quality with it: Being applied to the place bitten by a venomous Beast, 
venomous Beasts, Bees, Wasps. Hornets.  or stung by a Wasp or Hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it; Every like draws his like. Mizaldus affirms, That it being laid to rot in in Hors-dung it will breed venomous Beasts. And Hollerius a French physician affirms upon his own knowledge, That an acquaintance of his by common smelling to it, had a Scorpion bread in his Brain. something is the matter this Herb and Rue will not grow together, no, nor near one another: And we know Rue is as great an enemy to poison as any grows.  
To conclude: It expelleth both Birth and After-birth; and as it helps the deficiency of Venus in one kind, so it spoils all her actions in another. I dare writ no more of it.   

The Bay-Tree.  
THis is so well known that it needs no description; I shal therefore only writ the virtues thereof, which are many,  
Government and virtues] I shal but only ad a word or two to what my friend hath written, viz. That it is a three of the Sun, and under the celestial Sign lo, 
Witchcraft  and resisteth Witchcraft very potently, as also al the evil old Saturn can do to the Body of Man, and they are not a few, for it is the Speech of one, and I am mistaken if it were not Mizaldus, That neither Witch nor Devil, Thunder not Lightning will hurt a Man in the place where a Bay-Tree is. Galen saith, That the Leaves or Bark do dry and heal very much, and the Berries more than the Leaves: The Bark of the Root is less sharp and hot, but more bitter, and hath some astriction withal, whereby it is effectual to break the ston, 
ston, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, dropsy, poison, Jaundice, Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Terms provokes, Cause Delivery, Afterbirth Eyes, Lungs, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Megrim, Wind, vertigo, Disury, Mother Worms, joints, Nerves, Arteries, Stomach, Belly, Womb, Ears, Marks in the skin, Itch, Scabs.  and good to open obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and other inward parts, which bring the dropsy, Jaundice, &c. The Berries are very effectual against al poison of venomous Creatures, and the stings of Wasps and Bees, as also against the Pestilence, or other infectious Diseases, and therefore is put into sundry Treacles for that purpose: They likewise procure Womens Courses; and seven of them given to a Woman in sore travail of Child-birth, do cause a speedy delivery, and expel the After-birth; and therefore not to be taken by such as have not gone out their time lest they procure Abortment, or cause labour too soon: They wonderfully help al could and rhumatick Distillations from the Brain to the Eyes, Lungs, or other parts: And being made into an Electuary with Honey, do help the Consumption, old Coughs, shortness of Breath, and thin rheums; as also the Megrim: they mightily expel wind and provoke Urin; help the Mother, and kill the Worms: The Leaves also work the like effects. A Bath of the Decoction of the Leaves and Berries, is singular good for Women to sit in that are troubled with the Mother, or the Diseases therof, or the stoppings of their Courses, or for the diseases of the Bladder, pains in the Bowels by wind,& stoping of urin: A decoction likewise of equal parts of Bay-berries, Cummin-seed, hyssop, Origanum, and Euphorbium, with some Honey, and the Head bathed therewith doth wonderfully help Distillations and rheums, and settleth the palate of the Mouth into its place. The oil made of the Berries is very comfortable in al could Griefs of the joints, Nerves, Arteries, Stomach, Belly, or Womb, and helpeth Palsies, Convulsions, Cramps, Aches, trembling and profaneness in any part, weariness also, and pains that come by sore traveling: Al griefs and pains likewise proceeding from Wind, either in the Head, Stomach, Back, Belly, or Womb, by anointing the parts affencted therewith: And pains in the Ears are also cured by dropping in some of the oil, or by receiving into the Ears the warm fume of the Decoction of the Berries through a Funnel. The oil takes away marks of the Skin and Flesh by bruises, fals, &c. and dissolveth the congealed Blood in them: It helpeth also the Itch, Scabs, and Wheals in the Skin.   

Beans.  
BOth the Garden and Field Beans are so well known that it saveth me labour of writing any Description of them: Their virtues followeth.  
Government and virtues.] They are Plants of Venus; and the distilled Water of the flowers of Garden Beans is good to cleanse the Face and Skin from spots and wrinkles, 
Spots, ston, Disury, inflammation, Womens Breasts, Felons, or Andicoms, Boils, bruises, Ears, Eyes,  and the Meal or Flower of them, or the small, doth the same. The Water distilled from the green Husks is held to be very effectual against the ston, and to provoke Urine. Bean flower is used in Pult●ises to assuage inflammations rising upon Wounds, and the swelling of Womens Breasts caused by the curding of their Milk, and represseth their Milk: The flower of Beans and Fenugreek mixed with Honey, and applied to Felons, boils, Bruises, or blue marks by blows, or the Imposthumes in the Kernels of the Ears, helpeth them al: And with Rose Leaves, frankincense, and the white of an Egg being applied to the Eyes, helpeth them that are swollen, or do water, or have received any blow upon them if used with Wine. If a Bean be partend in two, the skin being taken away, and laid on the place where a Leech hath been set that bleedeth too much, 
Leeches.  it stayeth the bleeding. Bean flower boiled to a Pultis with Wine and vinegar and some oil put thereto, ceaseth both pain and swelling of the Cods: 
cods swelled, flux, Pain, Sinews, Sciatica, Gout.  The Husks boiled in Water to a consumption of a third part thereof, stayeth a Lask: and the Ashes of the Husks made up with old Hogs grease, helpeth the old pains, Contussons and Wounds of the Sinews, the Sciatica, and Gout. The Field Beans have al the afore mentioned virtues as the Garden Beans.  
Beans eaten are extreme windy meat; but if after the Dutch fashion, when they are half boiled you hask them, and then stew them( I cannot tel you how, for I never was Cook in al my life) they are wholesomer Food.   

French Beans.  
Description.] THis French or Kidney Bean ariseth up at first but with one Stalk, which afterwards divideth its self into many Arms or Branches, but also weak, that if they be not sustained with sticks or poles, they will lye fruitless upon the ground: at several places of these Branches grow forth long footstalks, with every one of them three broad round and pointed green Leaves at the end of them, towards the top, whereof come forth divers Flowers made like unto Pease Blossoms, of the same colour for the most part that the fruit will be of, that is to say, white, yellow, read, blackish, or of a deep purple, but white is most usual; after which come long and slender flat Pods, some crooked, some strait, with a string as it were running down the Back thereof, wherein are contained flattish round fruit made to the fashion of a Kidney; the Root is long, and spreadeth, with many strings annexed to it, and perisheth every year.  
There is also another sort of French Beans commonly growing with us in this Land, which is called the Scarlot flowered Bean.  
This ariseth up with sundry Branches as the other, but runs up higher to the length of Hop-poles, about which they grow twining, but turning contrary to the Sun, having Footstalks with three Leaves on each as on the other: The Flowers also are in fashion like the other, but many more set together, and of a most Orient Scarlet colour. The Beans are larger than the ordinary kind, of a deep purple colour, turning black when it is ripe and dry: The Root perisheth also in Winter.  
Government and virtues.] These also belong to Dame Venus, and being dried and beat to powder are as great strengthners of the Kidneys as any are; neither is there a better Remedy than it, a drachm at a time taken in white Wine to prevent the ston, or to cleanse the Kidneys of gravel or stoppage. 
Disury, Shortness of Breath, Incite to Venery.  The ordinary French Beans are of an easy digestion, they move the Belly, provoke Urine, enlarge the Breast that is straightened with shortness of Breath, engender Sperm, and incite Venery.  
And the Scarlet coloured Beans in regard of the glorious beauty of their colour, being set near a a Quick-set hedge, will bravely adorn the same by climbing up thereon, 
A gallant show.  so that they may be discerned a great way, not without admiration of the beholder at a distance. But they will go near to kill the Quick-sets by clothing them in Scarlet.   

Ladies-Bedstraw.  
BEside the common Name above written it is called Cheese-Rennet, because it performs the same office; as also Gallion, Pettimugget, and Maids-Hair, and by some wild Rosemary.  
Description.] This ariseth up with divers small, brown, and square upright stalks, a yard high, or more, sometimes branched forth into divers parts, full of joints, and with divers very fine small Leaves at every one of them, little or nothing rough at all: At the tops of the Branches grow many long tufts or branches of yellow Flowers very thick set together, from the several joints which consists of four small Leaves a piece, which smell somewhat strong, but not unpleasant: The seed is small and black like Poppy seed, two for the most part joined together: The Root is reddish with many small thirds fastened unto it, which take strong hold of the ground, and creepeth a little: And the Branches leaning a little down to the ground, take root at the joints thereof, whereby it is easily increased.  
There is also another sort of Ladies Bedstraw growing frequently in England, which beareth white Flowers as the other doth yellow; but the Branches of this are so weak that unless it be sustained by the Hedges, or other things near which it groweth, it will lye down on the ground; the Leaves a little bigger than the former, and the Flowers not so plentiful as those; and the Root hereof is also thriddy, and abiding.  
Place.] They grow in Meadows and Pastures both wet and dry, and by the Hedges.  
Time.] They flower in May for the most part, and the seed is ripe in July and August.  
Government and virtues.] They are both Herbs of Venus, and therefore strengthen the parts both internal and external which she rules. The Decoction of the former of these being drunk is good to fret and break the ston, 
ston, Disury, Bleeding, Wounds,  provokes Urine, stayeth inward bleedings, and healeth inward Wounds: The Herb or Flower bruised and put up into the Nostrils, stayeth their bleeding likewise: The Flowers and the Herb being made into an oil by being set in the Sun, and changed after it hath stood ten or twelve daies; or into an ointment being boiled in Axungia or Sallet-Oyl, with some Wax melted therein after it is strained; either the oil made thereof, 
Burnings, gauled feet, Weariness, stiffness of joints, scabs, itch.  or the ointment do help Burnings with fire, or Sc●lding with water: The same also, or the Decoction of the Herb and Flower is good to bath the Feet of Travellers and lackeys whose long running causeth weariness and stiffness in their Sinews and joints: If the Decoction be used warm, and the joints afterwards anointed with the ointment, it helpeth the dry Scab, and the Itch in Children: And the Herb with the white Flower is also very good for the Sinews, Arteries, and joints to comfort and strengthen them after travail, could, and pains.   

Beets.  
Description.] THere are two sorts of Beets which are best known generally, and whereof I shall principally treat at this time, viz. The white and read Beets, and their virtues.  
The common white Beet hath many great Leaves next the ground somewhat large, and of a whitish green colour: The stalk is great, strong, and ribbed, bearing great store of Leaves upon it, almost to the very top of it: The flowers grow in very long tufts, small at the ends, and turning down their heads, which are small, pale, greenish, yellow burrs, giving cornered prickled Seed. The Root is great, long, and hard, and when it hath given seed of no use at all.  
The common read Beet differeth not from the white, but only it is lesser, and the Leaves and the Roots are somewhat read: The Leaves are differently read, in some only with read strakes or veins, some of a fresh read, and others of a dark read. The Root hereof is read, spongy, and not used to be eaten.  
Government and virtues.] The Government of these two sorts of Beets are far different; the read Beet being under Saturn,& the white under Jupiter, therfore take the virtues of them apart, each by himself. 
Clens, digest, Disury, Obstructions of the Liver and spleen, Vertigo, venomous Beasts, Burning, St. Anthonies fire, Wheals, Blisters, Chilblains, Kibes, Itch, Dandriff, Scabs, Ulcers, Cankers, Baldness.  The white Beet doth much loosen the Belly, and is of a cleansing digesting quality, and provoketh Urine: The juice of it openeth obstructions both of the Liver and Spleen, and is good for the Headaches and swimmings therein, and turnings of the Brain; and is effectual also against al venomous creatures:& applied upon the Temples, stayeth inflammations in the Eyes; it helpeth burnings being used without oil,& with a little alum put to it, is good for St. Anthonies fire. It is also good for al Wheals, bushes, Blisters and Blains in the Skin: The Herb boiled and laid upon Chilblains or Kibes, helpeth them: The Decoction thereof in Water and some vinegar healeth the Itch, if bathed therewith, and cleanseth the Head of Dandriff, Scurf, and dry Scabs, and doth much good for freting and running Sores, Ulcers, and Cankers in the Head, Legs, or other parts, and is much commended against Baldness and shedding of Hair.  
The read Beet is good to stay the Bloody flux, Womens Courses, 
Flux, terms stops, Whites, stinking breath, Noise in the Ears, Smell lost.  and the Whites, and to help the yellow Jaundice. The juice or the Root put into the Nostrils, purgeth the Head, helpeth the noise in the Ears, and the toothache; the juice snuffed up the Nose helps a stinking breath it the cause lies in the Nose, as many times it doth, if any bruise have been there, as also want of smell coming that way.   

Water-Betony.  
CAlled also Brown-Wort, and in York shire, Bishops Leaves.  
Description.] First of the Water-Betony, which riseth up with square, hard, greenish stalks, sometimes brown, set with broad, dark green Leaves, denied about the edges with notches, somewhat resembling the Leaves of the Wood-Betony, but much larger, two for the most part set at a joint. The Flowers are many, set at the tops of the stalks and branches, being round bellied, and open at the Brims and divided into two parts, the uppermost being like a hood, and the lowest like a lip hanging down, of a dark read colour, which passing away, there comes in their places small round Heads with small points, in the ends, wherein lye small and brownish Seeds: The Root is a thick Bush of strings and threads growing from an Head.  
Place.] It groweth by Ditch sides, Brooks, and other Water-courses generally through this Land, and is seldom found far from the Waters sides.  
Time.] It flowreth about July, and the seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] Water-Betony is an Herb of Jupiter in Canter, and is apropriated more to Wounds and Hurts in the Breast than Wood-Betony which follows. It is an excellent Remedy for sick Hogs. It is of a cleansing quality; the Leaves bruised and applied are effectual for all old and filthy Ulcers; 
Ulcers,  and especially if the juice of the Leaves be boiled with a little Honey, and tents dipped therein, and the sores dressed therewith: as also for Bruises 
Bruises,  or Hurts whether inward or outward. The distilled Water of the Leaves is used for the same purposes; as also to bath the Face or Hands spotted or blemished, or discolored by Sunburning. 
Sunburning.   
I confess I do not much fancy distilled Waters, I mean such Waters as are distilled could, some virtue of the Herb they may happily have( it were a strange thing else) but this I am confident of, that being distilled in a pewter Stil, as the vulgar and apish fashion is, both chemical oil and Salt is left behind, unless you burn them, and then al is spoiled, Water and al, which was good for as little as can be by such a Distillation. You have the best way of Distillation in my Translation of the London Dispensatory. The college of Physitians having as much skill in Distillations as an Ass hath in reading Hebrew.   

Wood-Betony.  
Description.] THe Common or Wood-Betony hath many Leaves rising from the Root, which are somewhat broad and round at the ends, roundly dented about the edges, standing upon long Footstalks, from among which rise up small, square, slender, but yet upright hairy stalks, with some Leaves thereon, two apiece at the joints, smaller than the lower, whereon are set several spiked Heads of flowers like Lavender, but thicker and shorter for the most part, and of a reddish or purple colour, spotted with white spots both in the upper and lower part: The Seeds being contained within the Husks that hold the flowers are blackish, somewhat long and uneven. The Roots are many white thriddy strings; the stalk perisheth, but the Root with some Leaves thereon, abides al the Winter. The whole Plant is somewhat small.  
Place.] It groweth frequently in Woods, and delighteth in shady places.  
Time.] And it flowreth in July, after which the Seed is quickly ripe, yet in its prime in May.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is apropriated to the Planet Jupiter, 
Epidomical diseases, witch-craft, Appetite, Indigestion, stomach, belching Jaundice, falling sickness, palsy, convulsion, shrinking of the sinews, gout, dropsy, frenzy, cough, could, shortness of breath, Agues of al sorts sore Eyes, worms, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, stitches, Pains in the back and belly, terms provokes, mother, Childbirth, ston, toothache, venomous Beasts, mad-dogs, weariness bleeding at mouth& nose, pissing& spitting of blood, Ruptures, bruises, wounds, Veins and sinews cut, ulcers, fistulaes, boils, Ears.  and the Sign Aries. Antonius Musa physician to the Emperor Augustus Caesar, wrote a peculiar Book of the virtues of this Herb; and amongst other virtues, saith of it, That it preserveth the Lives and Bodies of men free from the danger of Epidemical Diseases, and from Witchcrafts also: It is found by daily experience to be good for many diseases; It helpeth those that loathe, or cannot digest their Meat, those that have weak stomachs, or sour belchings, or continual rising in their stomach, using it familiarly either green or dry; either the Herb, the Root, or the Flowers in Broth drunk, or Meat, or made into Conserve, Syrup, Water, Electuary, or powder, as every one may best frame themselves unto, or as the time or season requireth, taken any of the aforesaid ways, it helpeth the Jaundice, Falling sickness, the palsy, Convulsions, or shrinking of the Sinews, the Gout, and those that are inclined to Dropsies, those that have continual Pains in their Head, although it turn to frenzy. The powder mixed with pure Honey is no less available for al sorts of Coughs or Colds, Wheesing, or shortness of Breath, Distillations of thin Rhewm, upon the Lungs, which causeth consumptions. The Decoction made with Mead and a little Penyroyal, is good for those that are troubled with putrid Agues, whether Quotidian, Tertian, or Quartan, and to draw down and evacuate the blood and humors that by falling into the Eyes do hinder the sight: The Decoction thereof made in Wine and taken, killeth the Worms in the Belly, openeth obstructions both of the Splleen and Liver, cureth stitches and Pains in the back, or sides, the torments and gripping pains of the bowels, and the wind colic: and mixed with Honey purgeth the belly, helpeth to bring down Womens Courses, and is of especial use for those that are troubled with the falling down of the Mother, and pains thereof, and causeth an easy and speedy delivery of Women in Childbirth: it helpeth also to break and expel the ston either in the Bladder or Kidneys. The Decoction with Wine, gargled in the Mouth, easeth the toothache. It is commended against the stinging or biting of venomous Serpents or Mad Dogs, being used inwardly, and applied outwardly to the place. A dram of the powder in Betony taken with a little Honey in some vinegar, doth wonderfully refresh those that are overwearied by travail; it stayeth bleedings at the Mouth or Nose, and helpeth those that piss or spit blood, and those that are bursten or have a rapture, and is good for such as are bruised by any fall, or otherwise. The green Herb bruised, or the juice applied to any inward hurt, or outward green Wound in the Head or Body will quickly heal and close it up; as also any Veins or Sinews that are cut; and will draw forth any broken Bone, or Splinter, Thorn, or other thing gotten into the flesh: It is no less profitable for old Sores, or filthy Ulcers, yea, though they be fistulous and hollow, but some do advice to put a little Salt to this purpose: Being applied with a little Hogs Lard, it helpeth a Plague-sore, and other Boyl●… and bushes: The fumes of the Decoction while it is warm received by a funnel into the Ears, easeth the pains of them, destroyeth the worms, and cureth the running sores in them: The juice dropped into them doth the same. The Root of Betony is displeasing both to the taste and stomach, whereas the Leaves and Flowers by their sweet and spicy taste, are comfortable both in Meat and Medicine.  
These are some of the many virtues Antony Musae an expert Physitia●…( for it was not the practise of Octavius Caesar to keep Fools about him) apropriates to Betony; It is a very precious Herb that's certain, and mos●… fitting to be kept in a mans house both in Syrup, Conserve, oil, ointment, and P●aister. The Flowers are usually Conserved.   

The Beech-Tree.  
IN treating of this three, you must understand that I mean the grea●… Mast Beech; which is by way of distinction from that other small roug●… sort, called in Sussex, the small Beech; but in Essex, Hornbeam.  
I suppose it needless to describe it, being already so well known to m●… Country-men.  
Place.] It groweth in Woods amongst Oaks, and other Trees, and i●… Parks, Forrests, and chaces, to feed dear; and in other places to fatte●… Swine.  
Time.] It bloometh in the end of April, or beginning of May for th●… most part, and the fruit is ripe in September.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant of Saturn, and therfore performs his qualities and properties in these operations: Th●… Leaves of the Beech-Tree are cooling and binding, 
Cools, Binds, Hot swellings, householdstuff, Scabs, Tetters.  and therfor●… good to be applied to hot swellings to discuss them: The Nu●… do much nourish such beasts as feed thereon: The Water th●… is found in the hollow places of decaying Beeches, will cure bo●… Man and Beast of any Scurf, Scab, or running Tetters, if the be washed therewith. You may boil the Leaves into a Pultis or make an ointment of them when time of year serves.   

Bilberries; called also by some, Whorts, and Whortleberries.  
Descriptions.] OF these I shal only speak of two sorts, which are commonly known in England, Viz. The Black, and the read Bilberries. And first of the Black.  
This small Bush creepeth along upon the ground, scarce rising half a yar●… high, with divers small dark green Leaves set on the green Branches, not a●…waies one against another, and a little dented about the edges: At the foo●… of the Leaves come forth small, hollow, pale, blushy coloured flowers, th●… brims ending in five points, with a reddish thread in the middle, whic●… pass into small round Berries of the bigness and colour of Juniper Berries, bu●… of a purple sweetish sharp taste; the juice of them giveth a purplish col●… to their Hands and Lips that eat and handle them, especially if they break them. The Root groweth a sloop under ground, shooting forth in sundry places as it creepeth. This loseth its Leaves in Winter.  
The read Bilberry, or Whortle-bush, riseth up like the former, having sundry harder Leaves, like the Box-tree Leaves, green and round pointed standing on the several branches, at the tops whereof only, and not from the sides as in the former, come forth divers round Flowers of a pale read colour, after which succeed round, reddish, sappy Berries when they are ripe, of a sharp taste. The Root runneth in the ground as the former, but the Leaves of this abide al the Winter.  
Place.] The first groweth in Forrests, on the Heaths, and such like barren places: The read grows in the North parts of this Land, as Lancashire, Yorkshire, &c.  
Time.] They Flower in March and April, and the Fruit of the Black is ripe in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of Jupiter, it is pitty they are used no more in physic then they are. The Black Bilberries are good in hot Agues, and to cool the heat of the Liver and stomach: 
Agues, Stomach, Liver, Vomiting, Apetit lost, Cough, Phtisick, Fulxes.  they do somewhat bind the Belly, and stay Vomitings and Loathings: the juice of the Berries made into a Syrup, or the Pulp made into a Conserve with Sugar, is good for the purposes aforesaid, as also for an old Cough or an Ulcer in the Lungs or other Diseases therein. The read Whorts are more binding and stop Womens Courses, spitting of Blood, or any other Flux of Blood or Humors, being used aswell outwardly, as inwardly.   

Bifoyl, or Twayblade.  
Description.] THis small Herb from a Root somewhat sweet, shooting downward many long strings, riseth up a round green stalk bare or naked next the ground for an inch, two or three to the middle therof, as it is in age or growth, as also from the middle upward to the flowers, having only two broad Plantan-like Leaves( but whiter) set at the middle of the stalk one against another, and compasseth it round at the bottom of them.  
Place.] It is an usual Inhabitant in Woods, Copses, and in many other places in this Land.  
There is another sort grows in wet Grounds and Marshes, which is somewhat differing from the former: It is a smaler Plant, and greener, having sometimes three Leaves; the Spike of flowers is less then the former, and the Roots of this do run or creep in the ground.  
They are much and often used by many to good purpose for Wounds both green and old, 
Wounds, Ruptures.  and to consolidate or knit Rupturs, and well it may, being a plant of Saturn.   

The Birch-tree.  
Description.] THis groweth a goodly tal strait three, fraught with many Boughs and slender Branches bending downward; the old ones being covered with a discolored chapped Bark, and the younger being browner by much: The Leaves at the first breaking out are crumpled, and afterward like the Beech Leaves, but smaler and greener, and dented about the edges: It beareth small short Catkins, somewhat like those of the Hazel-nuttree, which abide on the branches a long time, until growing ripe they fall on the ground, and their Seed with them.  
Place.] It usually groweth in Woods.  
Government and virtues.] It is a three of Venus. The juice of the leaves while they are young, or the distilled Water of them, or the Water that comes out of the three, being bored with an Augur and distilled afterwards: 
stone, sore Mouths.  any of these being drunk for some time together, is available to break the ston in the Kidneys or bladder, and is good also to wash sore Mouths.   

Birds-Foot.  
THis small Herb groweth not above a span high, with many Branches spread on the ground, set with many wings of small Leaves: The Flowers grow upon the Branches, many small ones of a pale yellow colour, being set at a head together, which afterwards turn into so small jointed Cods well resembling the Claws of small Birds, whence it took its name.  
There is another sort of Birds-foot in al things like the former, but a little larger: the Flowers of a pale whitish read colour, and the Cods distinct by joints like the other, but a little more crooked, and the Roots do carry many small white knots or kernels amongst the strings.  
Place.] These grow on Heaths, and many open untilled places of this land.  
Time.] They flower and seed in the end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] They belong to Saturn, and are of a drying binding quality, and thereby very good to be used in Wound-drinks, 
Dry, Bind, Wounds, Stane, Ruptures.  as also to apply outwardly for the same purpose. But the latter Birds-foot is found by experience to break the Stones in the Back or kidneys, and drive them forth, if the Decoction thereof be taken; and it wonderfully helpeth the rapture, being taken inwardly, and outwardly applied to the place.  
Al Salts have best operation upon the ston, as ointments and plasters have upon Wounds: and therefore you may make a Salt of this for the ston, the way how to do so may be found in my Translation of the Londo● Dispensatory, and it may be I may give you again in plainer terms at the latter end of this Book.   

Bishops-weed.  
BEsides the Common Name Bishops-weed, its usually known by the greek Name Ammi and Amios, some call it Aethiopian Commin-seed, and others Commin-royal, as also Herb-william, and Bulwore.  
Description.] Common Bishops-weed riseth up with a round strait stalk, sometimes as high as a man, but usually three or four foot high, beset with divers small, long, and somewhat broad Leaves, cut in some places, and dented about the edges, growing one against another, of a dark green colour, having sundry branches on them, and at the top small umbels of white flowers, which turn into small round brown seed, little bigger then Parsly-seed, of a quick hot scent and taste: The Root is white and stringie, perishing yearly after it hath seeded, and usually riseth again of its own sowing.  
Place.] It groweth wild in many places in England and Wales, as between Greenheath and Gravesend.  
Government and virtues.] It is hot and dry in the third degree, of a bitter taste and something sharp withal, it provokes Lust to purpose: 
Disury, Terms provokes, wind colic, venomous Beasts, Cantharides, black and blew Spots, High colour, Mother.  I suppose Venus owns it. It digesteth Humors, provoketh Urin and Womens Courses, dissolveth Wind: and being taken in wine, easeth pains& gripping in the Bowels, and is good against the biting of Serpents: It is used to good effect in those medicines which are given to hinder the poisonful operations of Cantharides upon the passage of the Urin: Being mixed with Hony, and applied to black and blue marks, coming of blows or bruises, it takes them away: and being drunk or outwardly applied, it abateth an high colour, and makes it pale: and the Fumes thereof taken with Rozen, or raisins, cleanseth the Mother.   

Bistort, or Snakeweed.  
IT is called Snakeweed, english Serpentary, Dragonwort, Oysterloit, and Passions.  
Description.] This hath a thick, short, knobbed Root, blackish without, and somewhat reddish within, a little crooked or turned together, of an harsh astringent taste, with divers black threads hanging there, from whence spring up every year divers Leaves standing upon long footstalks, being somewhat broad and long like a Dock-Leaf, and a little pointed at the ends, but that it is of a bluish green colour on the upper side, and of an Ash colour gray, and a little purplish underneath, with divers Veins therein; from among which rise up divers small and slender stalks, two foot high, and almost naked, and without Leaves, or with very few, and narrow, bearing a spiky bush of pale flesh-colour'd Flowers, which being past, there abideth small seed, somewhat like unto Sorrel-seed, but greater.  
There are other sorts of Bistort, g● wing in this Land, but smaller, both in height, root, and stalks, and especially in the leaves, The Root blackish without,& somewhat whitish within, of an austere binding taste as the former.  
Place.] They grow in shadowy moist Woods, and at the foot of hills, but are chiefly nourished up in Gardens. The narrow Leaved Bistort groweth in the North, in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland.  
Time.] They flower about the end of May, and the seed is ripe about the beginning of July.  
Government and virtues.] It belongs to Saturn, and is in operation could and dry. Both the leaves and Roots hare a powerful faculty to resist al poison: The Root in powder taken in drink, expelleth the Venom of the Plague, 
poison, Plague, small pox, measles, Purples, Epidemical Diseases, Inward Bleeding, Flux, Vomiting, Ruptures, Jaundice, venomous Beasts, Ulcers, Abortion, Worms, Diabites, Running of the Reins, Wounds, Bleeding, Matrix, Terms, stops, toothache, Head, Cankers, Gums inflammations Almonds of the Ears.  the small Pox, measles, Purples, or any other infectious Disease, driving it out by sweeting: The Root in powder, or the Decoction thereof in Wine being drunk, stayeth al manner of inward bleedings or spittings of Blood, and any Fluxes in the body of either Man or Woman, or Vomitings. It is also very available against Ruptures, or Burstings, or al bruises of Fals, dissolving the congealed Blood, and easeth the pains that happen thereupon, it also helpeth the Jaundice. The Water distilled from both Leaves and Roots, is a singular Remedy to wash any place bitten or stung by any venomous Creature; as also for any of the purposes before spoken of. And is very good to wash any running Sores or Ulcers. The Decoction of the Root in Wine being drunk, hindereth Abortion or Miscarriage in Child-bearing. The Leaves also kill the Worms in Children, and is a great help for them that cannot keep their water, if the juice of plantain be added thereto, and outwardly applied, much helpeth the gonorrhoea, or running of the Reins. A dram of the powder of the Root taken in the Water thereof, wherein some read hot Iron or Steel hath been quenched, is also an admirable help thereto, so as the Body be first prepared and purged from the offensive Humors. The Leaves, Seed, or Roots are al very good in Decoctions, Drinks, or Lotians, for inward or outward Wounds or other Sores. And the powder strewed upon any cut or wound in a Vein, stayeth the immoderate bleeding thereof: The Decoction of the Roots in Water whereupon some pomegranate Plls and Flowers are added, injected into the Matrix, stayeth the access of Humors to the Ulcers thereof, and bringeth it to its right place, being fallen down, and stayeth the immoderate flux of the Courses. The Root hereof with Pellitory of Spain, and burnt alum of each a little quantity, beaten small& made into Past, with some Hony, and a little piece thereof put into an hollow tooth, or held between the Teeth, if there be no of hollowness in them, stayeth the defluction of Rhewm upon them which causeth pains, and helps to cleanse the Head, and avoid much offensive Water. The distilled Water is very effectual to wash Sores or Cankers in the Nose or any other part, if the powder of the Root he applied thereunto afterwards. It is good also to fasten the Gums, and to take away the Heat and inflammations that happen in the Jaws, Almonds of the Throat or Mouth, if the Decoction of the leaves, Roots, or Seeds be used, or the juice of them; but the Roots are most effectual to al the purposes aforesaid.   

One-Blade.  
Description.] THis small Plant never heareth more than one Leaf, but only when it riseth up with its stalk which thereon beareth another, and seldom more, which are of a bluish green colour, broad at the bottom, and pointed with many ribs or veins like plantain: At the top of the stalk grow many small white Flowers star-fashion, smelling something sweet: after which come small reddish Berries when they are ripe. The Root is small, of the bigness of a Rush, lying and creeping under the upper crust of the Earth, shooting forth in div●rs places.  
Place.] It grows in moist shadowy, grassie places of Woods in many places of this Realm.  
Time.] It flowereth about May, and the Berries be ripe in June, and then quickly perisheth until the next year it springeth from the same again.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis an Herb of the Sun, and therfore Cordial. Half a dram, or a dram at most of the Roots hereof in powder, taken in Wine and Vinegar of each a like quantity, and the party presently laid to sweat, is held to be a sovereign Remedy for those that are infected with the Plague, and have a sore upon them, by expelling the poison and defending the Heart and Spirits from danger: 
Pestilence, Wounds, Nerves, Sinews Hurt.  It is also accounted a singular good Wound-Herb, and therfore used with other Herbs in making such Balms as are necessary for the Curing of Wounds, either green or old, and especially if the Nerves or Sinews be hurt.   

The Bramble, or Black-berry-bush.  
THis is so well known that it needeth no Description. The virtues therof are as followeth.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant of Venus in Aries: You shal have some Directions at the latter end of the Book for the gathering of al Herbs and Plants, &c. If any ask the Reason why Venus is so prickly? Tel them 'tis because she is in the house of Mars. The Buds, Leaves, and Branches while they are green, are of a good Use in the Ulcers and putrid sores of the Mouth and Throat, 
Ulcers, Sores, quinsy, Wou●ds, Flux, Bloody flux sp●●ting Blood, Gravel, ston, Secrets, Terms s●ops, poison venomous Beasts, fundament Piles, fevers, Head, Eyes, Itch Scabby Heads,  and for the quinsy: and likewise to heal other fresh Wounds and Sores: but the Flowers and Fruit unripe are very binding, and so profitable for the Bloody-flux, Lasks, and are a fit Remedy for spitting of blood. Either the Decoction or powder of the Root being taken, is good to break or drive forth Gravel, and the ston in the Reins and Kidnyes. The leaves and Brambles aswell green as dry, are excellent good Lotions for sores in the Mouth or secret parts: The Decoction of them, and of the dried Branches, do much bind the Belly, and are good for the too much flowing of Womans Courses: The Berries or the Flowers are a powerful Remedy against the poison of the most venomous Serpents, as well drunk as outwardly applied, helpeth the sores of the Fundament,& the Piles. The juice of the Berries mixed with the juice of Mulberries, do bind more effectually, and help freting and eating sores and Ulcers wheresoever. The Distilled Water of the Branches, leaves, and Flowers, or of the Fruit, is very pleasant in taste, and very effectual in fevers and hot distempers of the Body, Head, eyes, and other parts, and for al the purposes aforesaid. The Leaves boiled in Ly, and the Head washed therwith, healeth the Itch, and the running sores thereof, and maketh the Hair black. The powder of the Leaves strewed on Cankers and running Ulcers, doth wonderfully help to heal them. Some use to Condensate the juice of the Leaves, and some the juice of the Berries, to keep for their use al the year, for the purposes aforesaid.   

Blites.  
Description.] OF these there are two sorts commonly known, viz. white and read: the White hath leaves somewhat like unto Beets, but smaller, rounder, and of a whitish green colour, every one standing upon a small long footstalk: the stalk riseth up two or three foot high, with such like leaves thereon: the Flowers grow at the top in long round tufts or clusters, wherein are contained small and round seed: the Root is very full of threads or strings.  
The read Blite is in at things like the White, but that his leaves and tufted heads are exceeding read at first, and after turn more purplish.  
There are other kind of Blites, which grow wild, differing from the two former sorts but little, only the wild are smaler in every part.  
Place.] They grow in Gardens, and wild in many places of this Land.  
Time.] They seed in August and September.  
Government and virtues.] They are al of them cooling, drying, and binding, serving to restrain the Fluxes of blood in either man or woman, especially the read; which also stayeth the overflowing, of womens Reds, 
Reds and Whites in Women.  as the white Blite stayeth the Whites in Women: It is an excellent secret, you cannot well fail in the use: they are al under the Dominion of Venus.  
There is one other sort of wild Blites, like the other wild kinds, but having long and spike heads of greenish Seed, seeming by the thick setting together to be al Seed.  
This sort the Fishes are delighted with, and it is a good and usual Bait; for Fishes will bite fast enough at them, if you have but wit enough to catch them when they bite.   

borage, and Bugloss.  
THese are so well known to be inhabitants in every Garden; that I hold it needless to describe them.  
To these I may ad a third sort, which is not so common, nor yet so well known, and therefore I shall give you its Name and Description.  
It is called Langue-de-beef; but why they should call one Herb by the name Bugloss, and another by the name Langue-de-beef, is to me some question, seeing one signifies Ox-tongue in Greek, and the other signifies the same in French.  
Description.] The Leaves thereof are smaller than those of Bugloss, but much rougher, the stalk rising up about a foot and half high, and is most commonly of a read colour, the Flowers stand in scaly rough heads, being composed of many small yellow Flowers, not much unlike to those of Dandelyon, and the Seed flieth away in Down as that doth: you may easily know the Flowers by their taste, for they are very bitter.  
Place.] It groweth wild in many places of the Land, and may be plentifully found near London, as between Redrif and Debtford, by the Ditchsides: its virtues are held to be the same with borage and Bugloss, only this is something hotter.  
Time.] They flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] They are all three Herbs of Jupiter, and under lo, all great Cordials, great strengthners of Nature. They are very Cordial. The Leaves or Roots are to very good purpose used in Putrid and Pestilential fevers, 
fevers, Pestilence, poison, venomous Beasts, Milk in Nurses, Melancholy, ill blood Yellow Jaundice, Itch, ringworms, Tetters, Scabs, weakness by long sickness, Consumption, Swooning, inflammations, ulcers, sore mouths& Throat, Cough, phlegm.  to defend the Heart, and help to resist and expel the poison, or the venom of other Creatures; the Seed is of the like effect; and the Seed and Leaves are good to increase Milk in Womens Breasts: The Leaves, Flowers, and Seed, all, or any of them are good to expel Pensiveness and melancholy: it helpeth to clarify the Blood and mitigate heat in fevers. The juice made into a Syrup prevaileth much to all the purposes aforesaid, and is put with other cooling, opening, cleansing Herbs, to open obstructions, and help the yellow Jaundice, and mixed with Fumitory, to cool, cleanse, and temper the Blood, thereby it helpeth the Itch, Ringworms, and Tetters, or other spreading Scabs or Sores. The flowers Candied, or made into a Conserve are helping in the former causes, but are chiefly used as a Cordial, and is good for those that are weak with long sickness, and to comfort the Heart and Spirits of those that are in a consumption, or troubled with often swoonings, or passions of the Heart: The Distilled Water is no less effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, and helpeth the redness and inflammation of the Eyes being washed therewith: The dried Herb is never used, but the green; yet the Ashes thereof boiled in Mead, or honeyed Water is available against inflammations and Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat, to wash and gargoyle it therewith. The Roots of Bugloss are effectual being made into a licking Electuary, for the Cough, and to condensate thin phlegm, and thewmatick distillations upon the lungs.   

Blue-bottle.  
IT is called, Syanus, I suppose from the colour of it; Hurt-sickle; because it turns the edge of the Sickles that reap the Corn; Blew-blow, Corn-flower, and Blue-bottle.  
Description.] I shall only describe that which is commonest, and in my opinion most useful: Its Leaves spread upon the ground, being of a whitish green colour, somewhat cut on the edges like those of Corn Scabious, amongst which riseth up a stalk divided into divers branches, beset with long Leaves of a greenish colour, either but very little indented, or not at al: The flowers are of a blue colour, from whence it took its Name, consisting of an innumerable company of small flowers, set in a scaly head, not much unlike those of Knapweed: The Seed is smooth, bright, and shining, wrapped up in a woolly mantle: The Root perisheth every year.  
Place.] They grow in Corn fields, amongst al sorts of Corn, Pease, Beans, and Tares excepted; if you please to take them up from thence, and transplant them in your Garden, especially toward the full Moon, they will grow more double than they are, and many times change colour.  
Time.] They flower from the beginning of May to the end of Harvest.  
Government and virtues.] As they are naturally could, dry, and binding, so are they under the Dominion of Saturn. The powder or dried Leaves of the Blue-bottle, 
Bruises, Broken, Veins, poison, Plague, Epidemical Diseases, Wounds, Ulcers, inflammations in the Eyes.  or Corn-flower, is given with good success to those that are bruised by a fall, or have broken a Vein inwardly, and voided much blood at the mouth, being taken in the Water of plantain, Horstail, or the greater Comfry: it is a Remedy against the poison of the Scorpion, and resisteth al Venoms and poisons. The Seed or Leaves taken in Wine is very good against the Plague, and al infectious Diseases, and is very good in Pestilential fevers. The juice put into fresh or green Wounds, doth quickly solder up the Lips of them together, and is very effectual to heal al Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth: The juice dropped into the Eyes, taketh away the heat and inflammation in them. The distilled Water of the Herb hath the same properties, and may be used for all the effects aforesaid.   

Brank-Ursine.  
BEside the common Name Brank-Ursine, it is also called Bears-breech, and Acanthus, though I think our English Names to be more proper, for the Greek word Acanthos signifies any Thistle whatsoever.  
Description.] This Thistle shooteth forth very many large, thick, sad, green smooth Leaves upon the ground with a very thick and juycy middle Rib: The Leaves are partend with sundry deep gashes on the edge; the Leaves remain a long time before any stalk appears; afterwards ariseth up a reasonable big stalk three or four foot high, and bravely decked with flowers from the middle of the stalk upwards, for on the lower part of the stalk there is neither Branch nor Leaf; the flowers are hooded and gaping, being white in colour, and standing in brownish Husks with a small long undivided Leaf, under each Leaf; they seldom seed in our Country: its Roots are many, great and thick, blackish without, and whitish within, full of a clammish sap, a piece of them if you set it in the Garden, if you defend them from the first Winters could, will grow and flourish.  
Place.] They are only nursed up in Gardens in England, where they will grow very well.  
Time.] It flowreth in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] It is an excellent Plant under the Dominion of the Moon: I could wish such as are studious would labour to keep it in their Gardens. The Leaves being boiled and used in Clysters are excellent good to mollify the belly, and make the passages slippery: The Decoction drunk inwardly is excellent good for the Bloody flux. 
Bloody flux, Fractures, dislocations Kings Evil. Burnings, Ruptures, Cramp, Gout, Disury, hectic fever, Radical moisture.  The Leaves being bruised, and rather boiled and applied like a Pultis, are exceeding good to unite broken bones, and strengthen joints that have been put out. The Decoction of either Leaves or Roots being drunk, and the decocted Leaves applied to the place, is excellent good for the Kings Evil that is broken and runneth, for by the influence of the Moon it reviveth the ends of the Veins which are relaxed; there is scarce a better Remedy to be applied to such places as are burnt with fire than this is, for it fetcheth out the fire, and heals it without a scar: This is an excellent Remedy for such as are bursten, being either taken inwardly, or applied to the place: in like manner used it helps the Cramp and the Gout; it is excellent good in hectic fevers, and restores Radical moisture to such as are in Consumptions.   

Briony, or Wild Vine.  
IT is called Wild Vine, and Wood Vine, Tamus, our Ladies Seal; the white is called White Vine by some, and the black, Black Vine.  
Description.] The common white Briony groweth ramping upon the Hedges, sending forth many long rough very tender Branches at the beginning, with many very rough broad Leaves thereon, cut( for the most part) into five partitions, in form very like a Vine Leaf, but smaller, rougher, and of a whitish or hoary green colour, spreading very far, spreading and twining with his small claspers( that come forth at the joints with the Leaves) very far on whatsoever standeth next to it: At the several joints also( especially towards the top of the Branches) cometh forth a long Stalk bearing many whitish flowers, together in a long tuft, consisting of five small Leaves apiece, laid open like a Star: after which come the Berries, separated one from another more than a Cluster of Grapes, green at the first, and very read when they are through ripe, of no good scent, but of a most loathsome taste, provoking Vomit: The Root groweth to be exceeding great, with many long Twines or B●anches, growing from it of a pale whitish colour on the outside, and more white within, and of a sharp, bitter loathsome taste.  
Place.] It groweth on Banks, or under Hedges, through this Land; the Roots lye very deep.  
Time.] It flowreth in July and August, some earlier, and some later than others.  
Government and virtues.] They are furious marshal Plants. The Roots of Briony purge the Belly with great violence, 
Falling-sickness, Vertigo, phlegm, Palsies, Convulsion Cramp, stitches, Dropsies, gravel, ston, Obstructions, Womb, mother, Dead Child, After-birth, Cough, shortness of breath, Sores, Cankers, gangrenes, tetters, ring-worms, black spots Freckles, Morphew, leprosy, Broken Bones, splinters, thorns, Whitlows or Nail-Wheals, or Andicoms.  troubling the Stomach, and burning the Liver, and therefore not rashly to be taken, but being corrected is very profitable for the Diseases of the Head, as Falling-sickness, Giddiness, and Swimmings, by drawing away much phlegm and Rhewmatick humors that oppress the Head, as also the joints and Sinews, and is therefore good for Palsies Convulsions, Cramps, and Stitches in the sides, and the dropsy; and in provoking Urine it cleanseth the Reins and kidneys from Gravel and ston, by opening the Obstructions of the Spleen, and consumeth the hardness and swellings thereof. The Decoction of the Root in Wine drunk once a week at going to bed, cleanseth the Mother, and helpeth the rising thereof, expelleth the dead Child, and Afterbirth, but is not to be used by Women with Child, for fear of abortion; a dram of the Root in powder taken in white Wine bringeth down their Courses. An Electuary made of the Roots and Honey, doth mightily cleanse the Chest of rotten phlegm, and wonderfully help an old strong Cough, those that are troubled with shortness of Breath, and is very good for them that are bruised inwardly, to help to expel the clotted or congealed Blood. The Leaves, Fruit, and Root, do cleanse old and filthy sores, are good against al freting and running Cankers, Gangrenes, and Tetters, and therefore the Berries are by some Country People called Tetter-Berries. The Root cleanseth the Skin wonderfully from all black and blue spots, freckles, morphew, leprosy, foul scars, or other deformity whatsoever: as also all running scabs, and manginess are healed by the powder of the dried Root, or the juice thereof, but especially by the fine white hardened juice: The distilled water of the Roots worketh the same effects, but more weakly. The Root bruised and applied of itself to any place where the Bones are broken, helpeth to draw them forth, as also splinters and thorns in the flesh; and being applied with a little Wine mixed therewith, it breaketh boils, and helpeth whitlows on the joints.  
For all these latter beginning at Sores, Cankers, &c. apply it outwardly, and take thy advice along with you, you shal find in my Translation of the London Dispensatory, among the Preparations at latter end, a Medicine called Eoecula Brioniae, take that and use it, you have the way there how to make it, and mix that with a little Hogs-Grease or other convenient ointment, and use it at your need.  
As for the former Diseases, where it must be taken inwardly, it purgeth very violently, and needs an abler hand to correct it than most Country people have, therefore it is a better way for them( in my opinion) to let the simplo alone, and take the Compound Water of it, mentioned in my Dispensatory, and that is far more safe, being wisely corrected.   

Brooklime, or Water-Pimpernel.  
Description.] THis sendeth forth from a creeping Root, that shooteth forth strings at every joint as it runneth, divers and sundry green stalks, round and sappy with some branches on them, somewhat broad, round, deep green, and thick Leaves set by couples thereon: from the Bosom whereof shoot forth long Footstalks, with sundry small blue flowers on them, that consist of five small round pointed Leaves apiece.  
There is another sort nothing differing from the former, but that it is greater, and the flowers of a paler blue colour.  
Place.] They grow in small standing Waters, and usually near Water-cresses.  
Time.] And flower in June and July, giving Seed the next Month after.  
Government and virtues.] It is a hot and biting marshal Plant. 
Blood purgeth, ill humors, scurvy, Disury, ston, Terms provokes, Dead Child, Swellings, inflammations.  Brooklime and Watercresses are generally used together in Diet Drinks with other things, serving to purge the Blood and Body from ill humors that would destroy health, and are helpful for the Scurvy: They do also provoke Urine, and help to break the ston and pass it away; they procure Womens Courses, and expel the dead Child. Being fried with Butter and vinegar, and applied warm, it helpeth al manner of tumours or Swellings, and inflammations.  
Such drinks ought to be made of sundry Herbs according to the Malady offending, I shal give a plain and easy Rule at the latter end of this Book.   

Butchers-Broom.  
IT is called Ruscus, and Bruscus, Knee-holm, Knee-holly, Knee-hulver, and Pettigree.  
Description.] The first shoots that sprout from the Root of Butchers-Broom are thick, whitish, and short, somewhat like those of Asparagus, but greater: these rising up to be a foot and an half high, are spread into divers Branches, green and somewhat crested with the roundness, tough and flexible, whereon are set somewhat broad and almost round hard leaves, sharp and prickly pointed at the ends, of a dark green colour, two for the most part set at a place, very close or near together; about the middle of the Leaf on the back or lower side from the middle Rib, breaketh forth a small whitish green flower consisting of four small round pointed Leaves standing upon little or no Footstalk, and in the place whereof cometh a small round Berry, green at the first, and read when it is ripe, wherein are two or three White, hard, round Seeds contained: The Root is thick, white, and great at the head, and from thence sendeth forth divers thick, white, long, tough strings.  
Place.] It groweth in Copses, and upon Heaths, and wast Grounds, and oftentimes under or near the Holly-bushes.  
Time.] It shooteth forth his young Buds in the Spring, and the Berries are ripe in, or about September: The branches or leaves abiding green al the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis a Plant of Mars, being of a gallant cleansing and opening quality. The Decoction of the Roots made with Wine, 
Obstructions, Disury Gravel, stone, strangury, Terms provokes, Yellow-Jaundice, headache, phlegm, Broken Bones, Dislocations.  openeth Obstructions, provoketh Urin, helpeth to expel Gravel and the stone, the stranguary, and Womans Courses, as also the yellow Jaundice, and the headache: and with some Honey or Sugar put thereunto, cleanseth the breast of phlegm, and the Chest of much clammy humors gathered therein. The Decoction of the Roots drunk, and a Pultis made of the Berries and leaves being applied are effectual in knitting and consolidating broken Bones, or parts out of joint. The common way of using it, is to boil the Roots of it and parsley, and Fennel, and Smallage in white Wine, and drink the Decoction, adding the like quantity of Grass-roots to them: the more of the Roots you boil the stronger will the Decoction be, it works no ill effects, yet I hope you have wit enough to give the strongest Decoction to the strongest Bodies.   

Broom, and Broomrape.  
TO spend time in writing a Description hereof is altogether needless, it being so generally used by al the good Huswives almost through this Land to sweep their Houses with, and therefore very well known to al sorts of people.  
The Broomrape springeth up on many places from the Roots of the Broom( but more often in fields, as by Hedg-sides, and on Heaths.) The Stalk whereof is of the bigness of a finger or thumb, above two foot high, having a show of leaves on them, and many flowers at the top, of a deadish, yellow colour, as also the stalks and leaves are.  
Place.] They grow in many places of this Land commonly, and as commonly spoil al the Land they grow in.  
Time.] And flower in the Summer Months, and give their seed before Winter.  
Government and virtues.] The juice, or Decoction of the young branches, or seed, or the powder of the seed taken in drink, purgeth downward, and draweth Flegmatick and watery Humors from the joints, whe●by it helpeth the dropsy, 
phlegm, joints, dropsy, sides, spleen Bladder, kidneys, ston, Disury, black Jaundice, Agues. toothache, Wind, Stitches, Lice,  Gout, Sciatica, and the pains in the Hips and joints: It also provoketh strong Vomits, and helpeth the pains of the Sides, and swellings of the Spleen, cleanseth also the Reins, or kidneys and Bladder of the ston, provoketh Urin abundantly, and hindereth the growing again of the ston in the Body. The continual use of the powder of the leaves and Seed, doth cure the black Jaundice: The Distilled water of the Flowers is profitable for al the same purposes: It also helpeth surfeits, and altereth the Fits of Agues, if three or four ounces therof, with as much of the water of the lesser Centaury, and a little Sugar put therein be taken a little before the Fit cometh, and the party be laid down to sweat in their bed. The oil or Water that is drawn from the ends of the green sticks heated in the fire, helpeth the toothache. The juice of the young branches made into an ointment of old Hogs greas and anointed, or the young branches bruised and heated in oil or Hogs-greas, and laid to the sides pained by wind, as in stitches, or the spleen, easeth them in once or twice using it: The same boiled in oil, is the safest and surest medicine to kill Lice in the Head or Body of any: and is an especial Remedy for joynt-aches and swollen knees that come by the fasling down of Humors.  
The Broomrape also is not without his virtues.  
The Decoction therof in Wine is thought to be as effectual to avoid the stone in the kidneys and Bladder, and to provoke Urin, as the Broom it sel●: 
ston, Disury, Green wounds,  The juice thereof is a singular good help to cure as well green Wounds, as old and filthy Sores, and malignant Ulcers. The insolate oil wherein there hath been three or four Repetitions of infusion of the top stalks with flowers strained and cleared, cleanseth the skin from al manner of spots, marks, and freckls that arise either by the heat of the sun, or the malignity of humors. As for the Broom, and Broomrape, Mars owns them, and it is exceeding prejudicial to the Liver, I suppose by reason of the Antipathy between Jupiter and Mars, therfore if the Liver be dissaffected, administer none of it.   

Bucks-horn plantain.  
Descript.] THis being sown of seed, riseth up at the first with small, long, narrow, hairy, dark green leaves like grass, without any division or gash in them; but those that fellow, are gashed in on both sides the leaves into three or four gashes, and pointed at the ends, resembling the knags of a Bucks-horn( whereof it took the name) and being well grown round about the Root upon the ground, in order one by another, thereby resembling the form of it star: from among which rise up divers hairy stalks, about a hand breadth high, bearing every one a small long spiky head like to those of the common plantain, having such like bloomings and seed after them. The Root is single, long, and small, with divers strings at it.  
Place.] They grow in dry sandy grounds, as in Tuttle-fields by Westminster, and divers other places of this Land.  
Time.] They flower and seed in May, June, and July, and their green leaves do in a manner abide fresh al the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Saturn, and is of a gallant drying and binding quality. This boiled in Wine and drunk, and some of the leaves applied to the hurt place, 
venomous Beasts, ston, Stomach, Vomiting, Bleeding, Pissing blood, flux bloody Flux, Agues, Eyes,  is an excellent Remedy for the biting of the Viper or Adder, which I take to b● one and the same: The same being also drunk helpeth those th●… are troubled with the ston in the Reins or kidneys by coolin● the heat of the parts afflicted strengthening them: as also we●… stomachs that cannot retain but cast up their Meat. It stayeth a●… bleedings at Mouth and Nose, bloody Urin, or the bloody Flux, and stoppeth the Lask of the Belly and Bowels: The Leav●… hereof bruised and laid to their sides that have an Ague, suddenly easeth the Fit: and the leaves and Roots beaten with some Bay-salt and applied to the Wrists, worketh the same effects. The Herb boiled in Ale or Wine, and given for some mornings and evenings together, stayeth the distillations of hot and sharp rheums falling into the Eyes from the Head, and helpeth al sorts of sore Eyes.   

Bucks-horn.  
IT is called also Harts-horn, Herba-stella, and Herba-stellaria, Sanguinanaria, Herb-eve, and Herb-ivy, and Wort-cresses and Swins-cresses.  
Description.] They have many small and weak straggling branches trailing here and there upon the ground: the leaves are many; small, and jagged, not much unlike to those of Bucks-horn plantain, but much smaller, and not so hairy: The flowers grow amongst the leaves in small rough whitish clusters, the seeds are small and brownish, of a hotish taste.  
Place.] They grow in dry, barren, and sandy grounds.  
Time.] They flower and seed when the rest of the Plantans do.  
Government and virtues.] This is also under the Dominion of Saturn, the virtues are held to be the same of Bucks-horn plantain, and therfore by al Authors, it is joined with it, but besides those, it is most certainly found out, 
Bleeding, Warts,  That the leaves being bruised, and applied to the place, stop Bleeding, the herb being bruised, and applied to Warts, will make them consume and wax away in a short time.   

Bugle.  
BEsides the Name Bugle, it is called middle-Consond, and middle-Comfry, brown-Bugle, and of some sickl-Wort, and herb-Carpenter, though in Sussex we call another herb by that name.  
Description.] This hath larger leaves than those of the Self-heal, but else of the same fashion, or rather a little longer, in some green on the upper side, and in others more brownish, dented about the edges, somewhat hairy, as the square stalk is also, which riseth up to be half a yard high sometimes, with the leaves set by couples: from the middle almost whereof upwards stand the flowers together, with many smaller and browner leaves than the rest on this stalk below, set at distances, and the stalk bare between them, among which Flowers are also small ones of a bluish, and sometimes of an Ash colour, fashioned like the Flowers of the Ground-ivy, after which come small, round, blackish seed. The Root is composed of many string, and spreadeth upon the ground in divers parts round about.  
The White-flowered Bugle differeth not in form or greatness from the former, saving that the leaves and stalks are always green and never brown, like the other, and that the Flowers therof are white.  
Place.] They grow in Woods, wet Copses, and Fields generally throughout England; but the white flowered Bugle is not so plentiful as the other.  
Time.] They flower from May until July, and in the mean time perfect their Seed. The Roots and leaves next thereunto upon the ground abiding all Winter.  
Government and virtues] This Herb is belonging to Dame Venus, if the virtues of it make you in love with it,( as they will if you be wise) keep a Syrup of it to take inwardly, and an ointment and plaster of it to use outwardly always by you.  
The Decoction of the leaves and Flowers made in Wine and taken dissolveth the congealed Blood in those that are bruised inwardly by a Fall or otherwise, 
Bruises, Falls, Wounds, Scabs, Ulcers, Liver-grown, gangrenes, Fistulaes, Sore Mouths, Gums, Sores in the secrets broken bones,  and is very effectual for any inward Wounds, Thrusts or Stabs into the Body or Bowels, and is an especial help in all Wound-drinks, and for those that are Liver-grown( as they call it.) It is wonderful in curing all manner of Ulcers and Sores whether new and fresh, or old and inveterate, yea, Gangrenes and Fistulaes also, if the leaves bruised be applied, or their juice used to wash and bath the places. And the same made into a Lotion with some Honey and alum, cureth all sores of the Mouth or Gums be they never so foul, or of long continuance; and worketh no less powerfully and effectually for such Ulcers and Sores as happen in the secret parts of Men or Women: Being also taken inwardly, or outwardly applied, it helpeth those that have broken any Bone, or have any Member out of joint. An ointment made with the leaves of Bugle, Scabious and Sanicle bruised and boiled in Hogs Greas, until the Herbs be dry, and then strained forth into a Pot, for such occasions as shal require it, is so singular good for al sorts of hurts in the Body, that none that know its usefulness will be without it.  
The truth is, I have known this Herb cure some Diseases of Saturn, of which I thought good to quote one. Many times such as give themselves much to drinking are troubled with strange Fancies, strange sights in the night time, 
Mares, strange Sights in the night.  and some with voices, as also with the disease Ephialtes or the mere. I take the Reason of this to be( according to Fernelius) a melancholy vapour made thin by excessive drinking strong liquour, and so flies up and disturbs the Fancy, and breeds imaginations like its self, viz. fearful and troublesome: These I have known cured by taking only two spoonfuls of the Syrup of this Herb, after Supper two hours when you go to bed. But whether this do it by Sympathy or Antipathy is some question; all that know any thing in astrology, know that there is a great Antipathy between Saturn and Venus in matter of Procreation, yea, such an one, that the barrenness of Saturn can be removed by none but Venus, nor the lust of Venus be repelby none but Saturn; but I am not yet of opinion this is done this way: and my reason is, because these vapours though in quality melancholy, yet by their flying upward seem to be something Aërial, therfore I rather think it is done by sympathy, Saturn being exalted in Libra the house of Venus.   

Burnet.  
IT is also called Sanguiforba, Pimpinella, Bipenula, Solbastrella, &c. The common Garden Burnet is so well known, that it needeth no description. There is another sort which is wild, the description whereof take as followeth.  
Descript.] The great wild Burnet, hath winged leaves rising from the roots like the Garden Burnet, but not so many, yet each of these leaves are at the least twice as large as the other, and nicked in the same manner about the edges, of a grayish colour on the underside: the Stalks are greater and rise higher, with many such like leaves set thereon, and greater heads at the tops of a brownish green colour, and out of them come small, dark, purple Flowers, like the former, but greater. The Root is black and long, like the other, but greater also: It hath almost neither scent nor taste therein, like the garden kind.  
Place.] The first grows frequently in Gardens. The Wild kind groweth in divers Countries of this Land, especially in huntingdon and Northampton-shires in the Meadows there: as also near London by Pancras-Church, and by a Causey-side in the middle of a Field by Paddington.  
Time.] They flower about the end of June and beginning of July, and their Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] This is an Herb the Sun challengeth dominion over, and is a most precious Herb, little inferior to Betony: The continual use of it preservs the Body in health, and the Spirits in vigour: for if the Sun be the preserver of Life under God, his Herbs are the best in the World to do it by. They are accounted to be both of one property, 
Heart, Liver, melancholy Pestilence, epidemical Diseases, Bleeding, Stoppeth Terms,& Whites, Belching, Vomiting, Wounds, Ulcers, Cankers, Sores, Fluxes,  but the lesser is more effectual, because quicker, and more Aromatical: It is a friend to the Heart, Liver, and other the principal parts of a mans Body. Two or three of the Stalks with leaves put into a Cup of Wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the Spirits, refresh and cheer the Heart, and drive away melancholy: It is a special help to defend the Heart from noisome vapours, and from infection of the Pestilence, the juice therof being taken in some Drink, and the party laid to sweat thereupon. They have also a drying, and an astringent quality, whereby they are available in al manner of Fluxes of blood or Humors, to staunch bleedings inward or outward, Lasks, Scourings, the Bloudy-flux, Womens too abundant Courses, the Whites, and the choleric Belchings and Castings of the Stomach: and is a singular Wound-herb for al sorts of Wounds both of the Head and Body, either inward or outward: for al old Ulcers, or running Cankers, and moist Sores, to be used either by the juice, or Decoction of the Herb, or by the powder of the Herb or Root, or the Water of the distilled Herb, or ointment by itself, or with other things to be kept. The seed is also no less effectual both to stop Fluxes and dry up moist Sores, being taken in powder inwardly, in Wine or steeled Water, that is, wherein hot Gads of Steel have been quenched. Or the powder of the seed mixed with the ointments.   

The Butter-Bur, or Petasitis.  
Descript.] THis riseth up in February, with a thick Stalk about a foot high, whereon are set a few small leaves, or rather pieces, and at the tops, a long spiked head of Flowers, of a blushy, or deep read colour, according to the soil wherein it groweth: and before the stalk with the flowers have abidden a month above ground, will be withered and gon, blown away with the Wind; and the leaves will begin to spring, which being full grown are very large and broad, being somewhat thin and almost round, whose thick read foot stalks, about a foot long, stand towards the middle of the leaves: The lower part being divided into two round parts, close almost one to another, and of a pale green colour, and hoary underneath. The Root is long and spreading under ground, being in some places no bigger than ones finger, in others much bigger, blackish on the out-side, and white within, of a bitter and unpleasant taste.  
Place and Time.] They grow in low and wet grounds by Rivers and Waters-sides: Their Flowers( as is said) rising and decaying in February and March, before the leaves which appear in April.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Sun, and therfore is a great strengthener of the Heart, and cheer of the Vital Spirits. 
Plague, epidemical diseases, poison, Mother Wheezing, Difficulty of breathing, Disury, terms provoks, Flat and broad Worms, Blemishes of the skin  The Roots hereof are by long experience found to be very available against the Plague and Pestilential fevers, by provoking Sweat: if the powder therof be taken in Wine, it also resisteth the force of any other poison. The Root hereof taken with Zedoary and Angelica, or without them, helps the rising of the Mother: The Decoction of the Root in Wine, is singular good for those that Wheeze much, or are short-winded. It provoketh Urin also and Womens-courses, and killeth the Flat and broad worms in the Belly. The powder of the Root doth wonflerfully help to dry up the moisture of sores that are hard to be cured, and taketh away al spots and blemishes of the skin. It were well if Gentlewomen would keep this Root preserved, to help their poor neighbors: It is fit the Rich should help the poor, for the poor cannot help themselves.   

The Bur-Dock.  
THey are also called Personata Bardona, and Lappa mayor, great burr Bur-dock, and clot-Bur. It is so well known, even to the little Boys, who pull of the burrs, to throw and stick upon one another, that I shal spare to writ any Description of it.  
Place.] They grow plentifully by Ditches and Water-sides, and by the highways almost every where through this Land.  
Government and virtues.] Venus challengeth this herb for her own, and by its Leaf or Seed you may draw the Womb which way you please, either upward by applying it to the Crown of the Head, in case it fall out: or downward in fits of the Mother, by applying it to the sols of the Feet: Or if you would stay it in its place, apply it to the Navel, and that is one good way to stay the Child in it. See more of it in my Guid for Women. The burr leaves are cooling, moderately drying, and discussing withal, whereby it is good for old Ulcers and Sores: A dram of the Roots taken with Pine Kernels, helpeth them that spit foul, mattery, and bloody phlegm: The leaves applied on the places troubled with the shrinking of the Sinews or Arteries, 
Cools, dries, Ulcers, Sores, phlegm, Sinews, Arteries, venomous Beasts, Mad-Dogs Disury, Bladder, Sciatica, Burning, Sores, Cankers, Consumption, ston, Flux,  give much ease: The juice of the leaves or rather the Roots themselves given to drink with old Wine, doth wonderfully help the bitings of any Serpents: And the Root beaten with a little salt and laid on the place, suddenly easeth the pain therof, and helpeth those that are bit with a mad-Dog. The juice of the leaves taken with Hony, provoketh Urin, and remedieth the pain of the Bladder. The Seed being drunk in Wine forty dayes together, doth wonderfully help the Sciatica. The leaves bruised with the White of an Egg, and applied to any place burnt with Fire, taketh out the Fire, gives sudden ease, and heals it up afterwards. The Decoction of them fomented on any freting Sore or Canker, stayeth the corroding quality, which must be afterwards anointed with an ointment made of the same liquour, Hogs-grease, Nitre, and Vinegar, boiled together. The Roots may be preserved with Sugar, and taken fasting, or at other times for the said purposes, and for Consumptions, the ston, and the Lask. The Seed is much commended to break the ston, and cause it to be expelled by Urin,& is often used with other seeds& things to that purpose.   

Cabbages, and Coleworts.  
I Shal spare a labour in writing a Description of these, sith almost every one that can but writ at al may describe them from his own knowledge, they being generally so well known that Descriptions are altogether needless.  
Place.] These are generally planted in Gardens.  
Time.] Their flowering time is towards the middle or end of July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] The Cabbages or Coleworts boiled gently in Broth and eaten, do open the Body, but the second Decoction doth bind the Body. The juice therof drunk in Wine, helpeth those that are bitten by an Adder, 
venomous Beasts, Terms provokes, Hoarfness, Consumption, Obstructions, ston, Sight, Canker, surfeits, Swellings, Gout, Sores, Scabs, Wheals, melancholy, Wind.  and the Decoction of the Flowers bringeth down womens Courses. Being taken with Hony, it recovereth hoarseness or loss of the voice. The often eating of them well boiled, helpeth those that are entering into a Consumption. The Pulp of the middle Ribs of Coleworts boiled in Almond-milk and made up into an Electuary with Hony, being taken often, is very profitable for those that are pursy and short-winded. Being boiled twice, and an old Cock boiled in the Broth, and drunk, it helpeth the pains and Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and the ston in the kidneys. The juice boiled with Hony, and dropped into the corner of the Eye, cleareth the sight, by consuming any Film or cloud beginning to dim it; it also consumeth the Canker growing therein. They are much commended being eaten before meat to keep one from surfeiting, as also from being drunk with too much Wine, or quickly make a man sober again that is drunk before. For( as they say) there is such an Antipathy or enmity between the Vine and the Colewort, that the one will die where the other groweth. The Decoction of Coleworts taketh away the pain and ache, and allayeth the swellings of swollen and gouty Legs and Knees, wherein many gross and watery humors are fallen, the place being bathed therwith warm: It helpeth also old and filthy sores being washed therwith, and healeth al small scabs, bushes, and wheals that break out in the skin. The ashes of Colewort stalks mixed with old Hogs-grease, are very effectual to anoint the sides of those that have had long pains therein, or any other place pained with melancholy and windy humors. This was surely Chrysippus his god, and therfore he wrote a whole volume of them and their virtues, and that none of the least neither, for he would be no small Fool, he apropriates them to every part of the Body, and to every Disease in every part: and honest old Cato( they say) used no other physic, I know not what metals their Bodies were made of, this I am sure, Cabbages are extreme windy, whether you take them as Meat, or as Medicine, yea as windy meat as can be eaten, unless you eat Baggipes or Bellows, and they are but seldom eaten in our daies, and Colewort-flowers are something more tolerable, and the wholesomer food of the two. The Moon challengeth the Dominion of the Herb.   

The Sea Colewort.  
Description. THis hath divers somewhat long and broad, large thick wrinkled leaves, somewhat crumpled upon the edges, growing each upon a several thick Footstalk very brittle, of a grayish green colour. From among which riseth up a strong thick stalk, two foot high and better, with some leaves thereon to the top, where it brancheth forth much; and on every Branch, standeth a large bush of pale whitish Flowers, consisting of four leaves apiece: The Root is somewhat great, and shooteth forth many branches under ground, keeping the green Leaves all the Winter.  
Place.] They grow in many places upon the Sea Coasts, as well on the Kentish, as Essex Shores; as at Lidd in Kent, Colechester in Essex, and divers other places, and in other Countries of this Land.  
Time.] They Flower and Seed about the time that other kinds do.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon claims the Dominion of these also. The Broth, or first Decoction of the Sea Colewort, doth by the sharp, 
Sores, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings, inflammations.  nitrous, and bitter qualities therein, open the Belly and purge the Body, it cleanseth and digesteth more powerfully than the other kind: The Seed hereof bruised and drunk, killeth Worms. The leaves or the juice of them applied to Sores or Ulcers cleanseth and healeth them, and dissolveth Swellings, and taketh away inflammations.   

Calamint, Or Mountain Mint.  
Description.] THis is a small Herb seldom rising above a foot high, with square, hoary, and woody Stalks, and two small hoary leaves set at a joint, about the bigness of Marjoram, or not much bigger, a little dented about the edges, and of a very fierce or quick scent, as the whole Herb is: The Flowers stand at several spaces of the Stalks from the middle almost upwards, which are small and gaping like to those Mints, and of a pale blushy colour; after which follow small, round, blackish Seeds: The Root is small and woody, with divers small sprigs spreading within the ground, and death not, but abideth many yeers.  
Place.] It groweth on Heaths, and Upland dry grounds, in many places of this Land.  
Time.] They Flower in July, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mercury, and a strong one too, therfore excellent good in all afflictions of the Brain. The Decoction of the Herb being drunk, 
Terms provokes, Disury, Ruptures, Convulsions, Cramps, Shortness of breath, Jaundice, Vomiting, Worms, leprosy, Serpents, Black and blue, Marks, Scars, Sciatica, Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen, Teriian Agues, gull, Cough, Bowels, Spleen.  bringeth down Womens Courses and provoketh Urin: It is profitable for those that are Bursten, or troubled with Convulsions or Cramps, with shortness of Breath, or choleric torments and pains in their Bellies or Stomachs; it also helpeth the yellow Jaundice, and stayeth Vomiting, being taken in Wine; taken with Salt and Honey, it killeth all manner of Worms in the Body: it helpeth such as have the leprosy, either taken inwardly, drinking Whey after it, or the green Herb outwardly applied: It hindereth conception in Women: being either burned, or strewed in the Chamber, it driveth away venomous Serpents. It takes away black and blue marks in the Face, and maketh black Scars become well coloured, if the green Herb( not the dry) be boiled in Wine, and laid to the place, or the place washed therwith. Being applied to the Hucklebone, by continuance of time, it spendeth the humors which caused the pain of the Sciatica. The juice dropped into the Ears killeth the Worms in them: The leaves boiled in Wine and drunk, provoketh sweat, and openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen; it helpeth them that have a Tertian Ague( the Body being first purged) by taking away the could Fits. The Decoction hereof with some Sugar put thereto afterwards, is very profitable for those that be troubled with the overflowing of the gull, and that have an old Cough, and that are scarce able to breath by the shortness of their wind: That have any could distemper in their Bowels, and are troubled with the hardness of the Spleen, for all which purposes, both the powder called Diacalaminthes, and the Compound Syrup of Calamint( which are to be had at the Apothecaries) are most effectual.  
Let not Women be too busy with it, for it works very violently upon the feminine parts.   

camomile.  
THis is so well known every where that it is but lost time and labour to describe it. The virtues whereof are as followeth:  
A Decoction made of camomile and drunk, taketh away all pains and Stitches in the Sides. 
Stitches in the Side. Agues, Liver, Spleen, Weariness, Sinews, Swellings, colic, ston, Belly-ach, could, ache, Jaundice, dropsy, Brain, Cramp, Stitch in the Side.  The Flowers of camomile beaten and made up into balls with oil driveth away all sorts of Agues; if the party grieved be anointed with that oil taken from the Flowers, from the Crown of the Head to the sole of the Foot, and afterwards laid to sweat in his bed, and that he sweat well: This is Nichessor an Egyptians Medicine. It is profitable for all sorts of Agues that come either from phlegm or melancholy, or from an inflammation of the Bowels being applied when the humors causing them shall be concocted; and there is nothing more profitable to the sides and Region of the Liver and Spleen than it. The bathing with a Decoction of camomile taketh away weariness, easeth pains to what part of the Body soever they be applied: it comforteth the Sinews that are over strained, mollifieth al Swellings: It moderately comforteth al parts that have need of warmth, digesteth and dissolveth whatsoever hath need thereof by a wonderful speedy property. It easeth all the pains of the colic and ston, and al pains and torments of the Belly, and gently provoketh Urin. The Flowers boiled in Posset Drink provoketh Sweat, and helpeth to expel Colds, Aches, and Pains, wheresoever, and is an excellent help to bring down Womens Courses. A Syrup made of the juice of camomile with the Flowers and white Wine, is a Remedy against the Jaundice and dropsy. The Flowers boiled in a Ly, are good to wash the Head, and comfort both it and the Brain. The oil made of the Flowers of camomile is much used against all hard swellings, pains, or aches, shrinking of the Sinews, or Cramps, or pains in the joints, or any other part of the Body; being used in Clysters, it helpeth to dissolve wind and pains in the Belly; anointed also, it helpeth Stitches and pains in the Sides.  
Nichessor saith the Egyptians dedicated it to the Sun because it cured Agues; and they were like enough to do it, for they were the arr●ntest Apes in their Religion that ever I red of. Bacchinus, Pena, and Lob●l, commend the Syrup made of the juice of it and Sugar taken inwardly, to be excellent for the Spleen. Also this is certain, that it most wonderfully breaks the ston: some take it in Syrup or Decoction, others inject the juice of it into the Bladder with a Syringe; my opinion is, That the Salt of it taken half a dram in a morning, in a little White or Rhenish Wine, is better than either: that it is excellent for the ston appears by this, which I have seen tried, viz. That a ston that hath been taken out of the Body of a Man being wrapped in camomile will in time dissolve, and in a little time too.   

Water-Caltrops.  
THey are called also, Tribulus Aquaticus, Tribulus Lacustris, and Tribulus Macinus, Caltrops, Saligot, Water Nuts, and Water chestnuts,  
Descript.] As for the greater sort, or Water-Caltrop, it is not found here, or very rarely; two other sorts there are which I shall here describe: The first hath a long, creeping, and jointed Root, sending forth tufts at each joint, from which joints arise long, flat, slender, knotted Stalks even to the top of the Water, divided towards the top into many branches, each carrying two Leaves on both sides, being about two inches long, and half an inch broad, thin, and almost transparent, they look as though they were torn, the Flowers are long, thick, and whitish, set together almost like a bunch of Grapes, which being gone there succeed for the most part four sharp pointed grains, altogether containing a small white Kernel in them.  
The second differs not much from this, save that it delights in more clear Water, its Stalks are not flat but round, its Leaves are not so long, but more pointed; as for the place we need not determine, for their Name sheweth they grow in the Water.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of the Moon, 
inflammations, cankers, mouth, throat, gums, Almonds of the Ears, Kings Evil, ston, Gravel, venomous Beasts, poison.  and being made into a Pultice, is excellent good for hot inflammations, and swellings, cankers, sore mouths and throats, being washed with the Decoction, it cleanseth and strengtheneth the neck and throat much, and helps those swellings, which when people have, they say the Almonds of the Ears are fallen down; it is excellent good for the rankness of the Gums, a safe and present Remedy for the Kings Evil; they are excellent good for the ston and gravel, especially the Nuts being dried; they also resist poison, and bitings of venomous Beasts.   

Campions Wild.  
Description.] THe white wild Campion hath many long and somewhat broad dark green leaves, lying upon the ground with divers Ribs therein, somewhat like plantain, but somewhat hairy, broader, and not so long: The hairy Stalks rise up in the middle of them three or four foot high, and sometimes more, with divers great white joints at several places thereon, and two such like leaves thereat up to the top, sending forth branches at several joints also; all which bear on several footstalks white flowers at the tops of them, consisting of five broad pointed Leaves, every one cut in on the end unto the middle, making them seem to be two apiece, smelling somewhat sweet, and each of them standing in large green striped hairy Husks, large and round below next to the stalk: The Seed is small and grayish in the hard Heads that come up afterwards: The Root is white and long, spreading divers fangs in the ground.  
The read wild Campion groweth in the same manner as the white, but his leaves are not so plainly Ribbed, somewhat shorter, rounder, and more woolly in handling: The Flowers are of the same form and bigness, but in some of a pale, in others of a bright read colour, cut in at ends more finely, which maketh the leaves seem more in number than the other. The Seed and the Roots are alike: The Roots of both sorts abiding many ye●rs.  
There are forty five kinds of Campions more, those of them which are of Physical uses having the like virtues with these above described, which I take to be the two chiefest kinds.  
Place.] They grow commonly through this Land by Fields, Hedg-sides, and Ditches.  
Time.] They flower in Summer, some earlier than others, and some abiding longer than others.  
Government and virtues.] They belong unto Saturn, and it is found by experience that the Decoction of the Herb, 
Bleeding inward& outward, Disury, Gravel, choler, venomous Beasts, Plague, Sores, Ulcers, Cankers, Fistulaes.  either the White or read being drunk, doth stay inward bleedings; and applied outwardly it doth the like: And being drunk helpeth to expel the Urin being stopped, and Gravel or the ston in the Reins or kidneys. Two drachms of the Seed drunk in Wine, purgeth the Body of choleric Humors, and helpeth those that are stung by Scorpions, or other venomous Beasts; and may be as effectual for the Plague: It is of very good use in old Sores, Ulcers, Cankers, Fistulaes, and the like, to cleanse and heal them, by consuming the moist humors falling into them, and correcting the putrefaction of Humors offending them.   

Carduus Benedictus  
IT is called Carduus Benedictus, or blessed Thistle, or holy Thistle; I suppose the name was put upon it by some that had little Holiness in themselves.  
I shal spare a labour in writing a Description of this, sith almost every one that can but writ at all may describe them from his own knowledge.  
Place.] It groweth plenitfully in Gardens.  
Time.] They flower in August, and seed not long after.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mars, and under the Sign Aries: Now in handling this Herb, I shall give you a rational Pattern of all the rest, and if you please to view them throughout the Book, you shall to your content find it true. It helps swimmings and giddiness of the Head, 
Vertigo, yell-jaund.  or the Disease called Vertigo, because Aries is in the House of Mars. It is an excellent Remedy against the yellow Jaundice, 
Attractive faculty, Tetters, Ringworms, Plague-sores, boils, Itch, mad Dogs, venomous Beasts.  and other Infirmities of the gull, because Mars governs choler. It strengtheners the attractive faculty in man, and clarifies the blood, because the one is ruled by Mars. The continual drinking the Decoction of it helps read Faces, Tetters, and Ringworms, because Mars causeth them. It helps Plague-sores, boils, and Itch, the bitings of mad Dogs, and venomous Beasts, all which infirmities are under Mars. Thus you see what it doth by Sympathy.  

French Pox, strengtheners memory, Deafness, quartan Agues adust choler, Urine.  By Antipathy to other Planets, It cures the French Pox by Antipathy to Venus who governs it. It strengtheners the Memory, and cures Deafness by Antipathy to Saturn who hath his Fall in Aries which he Rules the Head. It cures Quartan Agues, and other Diseases of melancholy and adust choler by Sympathy to Saturn, Mars being exalted in Capricorn. Also it provokes Urin, the stoping of which is usually caused by Mars, or the Moon.   

Carrots.  
THe Garden kind are so well known that they need no Description; but because they are of less Physical use than the wild kind( as indeed almost in all Herbs the Wild are most effectual in physic, as being more powerful in operation than the Garden kinds) I shall therfore briefly describe the wild Carrot.  
Description.] It groweth in a manner altogether like the Tame, but that the leaves and Stalks are somewhat whiter and rougher: The Stalks bear large tufts of white Flowers, with a deep purple spot in the middle, which are contracted together when the Seed begins to ripen, that the middle part being hollow and low, and the outer Stalks rising high, maketh the whole Umbel to show like a Birds nest. The Root is small, long, and hard, unfit for meat, being somewhat sharp and strong.  
Place.] The Wild kind groweth in divers parts of this Land plentifully by the Fields sides, and in untilled places.  
Time.] They Flower and Seed in the end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] Wild Carrots belong to Mercury, and therfore breaketh Wind, and removeth Stitches in the sides, provoketh Urin, 
Wind, Stitches, provokas Urin and the Terms, ston, dropsy, colic, Barrenness Ulcers.  and Womens Courses, and helpeth to break and expel the ston: The Seed also of the same worketh the like effect, and is good for the dropsy, and those whose Bellies are swollen with wind; helpeth the colic, the ston in the Kidneys, and the rising of the Mother, being taken in Wine, or boiled in Wine and taken; and helpeth conception. The leaves being applied with Honey to running Sores or Ulcers, doth cleanse them.  
I suppose the Seeds of them perform this better than the Roots; And though Galen commend Garden Carrots highly, to break wind; yet experience teacheth, that they breed it first; and we may thank Nature for expelling it, not they: The Seeds of them expel Wind indeed, and so mend what the Root marreth.   

Caraway.  
Descript. IT beareth divers stalks of fine cut leaves lying upon the ground somewhat like to the leaves of Carrots, but not bushing so thick, of a little quick taste in them, from among which riseth up a square stalk not so high as the Carrot, at Whose joints are set the like leaves, but smaller and finer, and at the top small open tufts or umbels of white Flowers, which turn into small blackish seed smaller than the Annis-seed, and of a quicker and botter taste. The Root is whitish, small, and long, somewhat like unto a Parsnip, but with more wrinkled Bark, and much less, of a little hot and quick taste, and stronger than the Parsnip, and abideth after Seed-time.  
Place.] It is usually sown with us in Gardens.  
Time.] They flower in June and July, and seed quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] This is also a Mercurial Plant. Caraway Seed hath a moderate sharp quality whereby it breaketh Wind, and provoketh Urin, 
Wind, Disury, Indigestion Head, Stomach, Bowels, Mother, Black and blue spots, Bruises, colic,  which also the Herb doth. The Root is better food than the Parsnip, and is pleasant and comfortable to the Stomach, helping digestion. The Seed is conducing to all the could griefs of Head and Stomach, the Bowels or Mother, as also the wind in them, and helpeth to sharpen the Eye-sight. The powder of the Seed put into a Pultis, taketh away black and blue spots of blows and bruises. The Herb itself, or with some of the Seed bruised and fried, laid hot in a bag or double cloth to the lower parts of the Belly, easeth the pains of the wind Cholleck.  
The Roots of Caraways, eaten as men eat Parsnips, strengthen the Stomachs of ancient people exceedingly, and they need not make a whole meal of them neither, and are fit to be planted in every ones Garden.  
Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a Spoonful of them eaten in the morning fasting, and as many after each meal is a most admirable Remedy for such as are troubled with wind.   

Celondine.  
Descript.] THis hath divers tender, round, whitish, green Stalks, with greater joints than ordinary in other Herbs, as it were Knees, very brittle and easy to break, from whence grow Branches with large tender long leaves, much divided into many parts, eaih of them cut in on the edges, set at the joints on both sides of the Branches, of a dark bluish green colour on the uper side like Columbines, and of a more pale, bluish green underneath, full of a yellow sap, when any part is broken, of a bitter taste, and strong scent. At the tops of the Branches which are much divided, grow gold yellow flowers of four leaves apiece, after which come small long Pods, with blackish Seed therein. The Root is somewhat great at the head, shooting forth divers other long Roots and small Strings, reddish on the outside, and yellow within, full of a yellow sap therein.  
Place.] It groweth in many places by old Walls, by the Hedges, and way sides in untilled places; and being once planted in a Garden, especially in some shady place, it will remain there.  
Time.] They flower all the Summer long, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time.  
Government and virtues.] This is an Herb of the Sun, and under the celestial lion, and is one of the best cures for the Eyes that is. All that know any thing in astrology, know as well as I can tel them, That the Eyes are subject to the Luminaries; let it then be gathered when the Sun is in lo, and the Moon in Aries applying to his Trine; let lo arise, then may you make it into an oil or ointment which you please to anoint your sore Eyes withal: I can prove it both by my own experience, and the experience of those to whom I have taught it, That most desperate sore Eyes have been cured by this only Medicine; And then I pray, is not this far better than endangering the Eyes by the art of the Needle? for if this do not absolutely take away the Film, it will so facilitate the work that it may be done without danger. 
Obstructions of the Liver and gull, yellow, jaundice, dropsy, pestilence, Eyes, Ulcers, Tetters, Ringworms, Cancers, warts, Belly, Bowels, Mother Worms Terms stops, toothache, Itch, beauty lost.  The Herb or Roots boiled in white Wine and drunk, a few aniseeds being boiled therewith, openeth Obstructions of the Liver and gull, helpeth the yellow Jaundice: and the often using it, helps the dropsy and the Itch, and those that have old Sores in their Legs, or other parts of the Body. The juice thereof taken fasting, is held to be of singular good use against the Pestilence: The Distilled Water with a little Sugar, and a little good Treacle mixed therwith( the party upon the taking being laid down to sweat a little) hath the same effect. The juice dropped into the Eyes cleanseth them from films and cloudiness which darken the sight, but it is best to alloy the sharpness of the juice with a little Breast-milk: It is good in old filthy corroding, creeping Ulcers wheresoever, to stay their malignity of freting and running, and to cause them to heal the more speedily: The juice often applied to Tetters, Ringworms, or other such like spreading Cancers, will quickly heal them, and rubbed often upon Warts will take them away. The Herb with the Roots bruised and heated with oil of camomile, and applied to the Navel, taketh away the gripping pain in the Belly and Bowels, and all the pains of the Mother: and applied to Womens Breasts stayeth the overmuch flowing of their Courses. The juice or Decoction of the Herb gargled between the Teeth that ache, easeth the pain: and the powder of the dried Root, laid upon an aching, hollow, or loose Tooth, will cause it to fall out. The juice mixed with some powder of Brimstone, is not only good against the Itch, but taketh away all discolorings of the Skin whatsoever: And if it chance that in a tender Body it causeth any Itching or inflammation, by bathing the place with a little Vinegar it is helped.  
Another il-favor'd trick have Physitians got to use to the Eye, and that is worse than the Needle; which is, To eat away the Film by corroding or gnawing Medicines. This I absolutely protest against.  
1. Because the Tunicles of the Eye are very thin, and therfore soon eaten asunder.  
2. The Callus or Film that they would eat away, is seldom of an equal thickness in every place, and then the Tunicle may be eaten asunder in one place, before the Film be consumed in another, and so be a readier way to extinguish the sight, than to restore it.  
It is called Chelidonium from the Greek word {αβγδ}, which signifies a Swallow, because they say, That if you prick out the Eyes of young Swallows when they are in the Nest, the old ones will recover their eyes again with this Herb. This I am confident, for I have tried it, That if you mar the very Apple of their Eyes with a Needle, she will recover them again but whether with this Herb or no, I know not.  
Also I have red( and it seems to me somewhat probable) That the Herb being gathered, as I shewed before, and the Elements drawn apart from it by the art of the alchemist, and after they are drawn apart, rectified, the earthy quality still in rectifying them, added to the Terra damnata( as alchemists call it) or Terra sacratissima( as some philosophers call it) the Elements so rectified are sufficient for the Cure of all Diseases, the humour offending being known, and the contrary Element given: It is an Experience worth the trying, and can do no harm.   

The lesser Celondine, usually known by the name of Pilewort, and fig-wort.  
I Wonder what ailed the Ancients to give this the name of Celondine which resembles it neither in nature or form: It acquired the Name of Pilewort from its virtues, and it being no great matter where I set it down, so I do set it down at al, I humor'd D. Tradition so much as to set it down here.  
Description.] This Celondine then, or Pilewort ( which you please) doth spread many round, pale, green leaves set on weak and trailing Branches, which lye upon the ground, and are fat, smooth, and somewhat shining, and in some places( though seldom) marked with black spots, each standing on a long footstalk, among which rise small yellow Flowers, consisting of nine or ten small narrow leaves, upon slender Footstalks very like unto a Crowfoot, whereunto the Seed also is not unlike, being many small ones set together upon a Head. The Root is made of many small Kernels like grain of Corn, some twice as long as others, of a whitish colour, with some fibres at the end of them.  
Place.] It groweth for the most part in the moist corners of Fields, and places that are near Water-sides, yet will abide in drier grounds, if they be but a little shadowed.  
Time.] It Flowreth betimes about March, or April, is quiter gone in May, so as it cannot be found until it spring again.  
Government end virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars, and behold here another Verification of that Learning of the Ancients, viz. That the virtue of an Herb may be known by its signiture as plainly appears in this, for if you dig up the Root of it, you shal perceive the perfect image of that Disease which they commonly call the Piles. It is certain by good experience, 
hemorrhoids, Kings-Evil.  That the Decoction of the leaves and Roots doth wonderfully help the Piles and Hemorrhoids, as also Kernels by the Ears and Throat called the Kings Evil, or any other hard Wens or tumours.  
Here's another Secret for my Country men and Women, a couple of them together, Pilewort made into an oil ointment or plaster, readily cures both the Piles or Hemrrhoids, and the Kings Evil, If I may lawfully call it the Kings Evil now there is no Keng, the very Herb born about ones Body next the skin, helps in such Diseases, though it never touch the place grieved, let good people make much of it for these uses, with this I cured my own Daughter of the Kings Evil, broken the Sore, drew out a quarter of a pint of Corruption, and Cured it without any Scar at al, and in one Weeks time.   

The Ordinary small Centaury.  
Descript.] THis groweth up most usually but with one round and somewhat crested stalk, about a foot high, or better, branching forth at the top into many sprigs, and some also from the joints of the stalks below: The Flowers that stand at the tops as it were in an umbel or tuft, are of a pale read, tending to a Carnation colour, consisting of five, sometimes six small leaves, very like those of St. Johns Wort, opening themselves in the day time, and closing at night: after which come Seed in little short Husks in form like unto Wheat corns: The leaves are small and somewhat round. The Root small and hard, perishing every year: The whole plant is of an exceeding bitter taste.  
There is another sort in al things like the former, save only it beareth white Flowers.  
Place.] They grow ordinarily in Fields, Pastures, and Woods, but that with the white Flowers, not so frequent as the other.  
Time.] They flower in July, or thereabouts, and Seed within a Month after.  
Government and virtues.] They are al under the Dominion of the Sun, as appears in that their flowers open and shut as the Sun either sheweth. 
choler, Sciatica, Obstructions, Liver, gull, Spleen, Agues, dropsy, green sickness, colic, terms provokes, joints, Gout, Sciatica, Cramp, Convulsion, venomous Beasts, Eyes, Wounds, Ulcers, Ears, Scabby Heads, Freckls, Spots,  or hideth his face. This Herb boiled and drunk, purgeth choleric and gross humors, and helpeth the Sciatica: It openeth Obstructions of the Liver, gull, and Spleen, helping the Jaundice, and easing the pains in the sides, and hardness of the Spleen, used outwardly, and is given with very good effect in Agues: It helpeth those that have the dropsy, or the green-Sickness, being much used by the Italians in powder for that purpose. It killeth the Worms in the Belly as is found by experience. The Decoction therof( viz.) the tops of the stalks with the leaves and Flowers, is good against the colic, and to bring down Womens Courses, helpeth to avoid the dead birth, and easeth pains of the Mother, and is very effectual in al old pains of the joints, as the Gout, Cramps, or Convulsions. A dram of the powder therof taken in Wine, is a wonderful good help against the biting and poison of the Adder. The juice of the Herb with a little Hony put to it, is good to clear the Eyes from dimness, mists, and clouds that offend or hinder the sight: It is singular good both for green and fresh Wounds, as also for old Ulcers and Sores, to close up the one, and cleanse the other, and perfectly to cure them both, although they be hollow or fistulous: the green Herb especially being bruised and laid thereto. The Decoction therof dropped into the Ears, cleanseth them from Worms, cleanseth the foul Ulcers and spreading Scabs of the Head, and taketh away al Freckls, Spots, and Marks in the Skin, being washed therwith. The Herb is so safe you cannot fail in the using of it, only give inwardly for inward Diseases; use it outwardly for outward Diseases: 'tis very wholesome, but not very toothsome.  
There is besides these another small Centaury, which beareth a yellow Flower, in al other respects it is like the former, save that the leaves are bigger, and of a darker green, and the stalk passeth through the midst of them, as it doth in the Herb Thorowax. They are al of them as I  told you under the Dominion of the Sun: yet this if you observe it, you shal find an excellent truth; In Diseases of blood, use the read Centaury; if of choler, use the yellow; but if of phlegm, or Water, you will find the White best.   

The Cherry-Tree.  
I Suppose there are few but know this three, for his Fruits sake, and therfore shal spare the writing a Description therof.  
Place.] For the place of its growth, it is afforded room in every Orchard.  
Government and virtues.] It is a three of Venus. Cherries, as they are of different tastes, so they are of divers qualities: The sweet pass through the stomach and belly more speedily, but are of little Nourishment. The tart, 
Appetite lost, Fl●gm Gross Humors, Cool, provoke Urin, Cough, hoarseness, Sight, Gravel, Wind,  or sour, are more pleasing to an hot stomach, procuring Appetite to meat, and help to cut tough phlegm and gross Humors: but when these are dried, they are more binding the Belly than when they are fresh, being Cooling in hot Diseases, and welcome to the Stomach, and provoke Urin. The Gum of the Cherry-tree dissolved in Wine, is good for a could Cough, and hoarseness of the Throat, mendeth the colour in the Face, sharpeneth the Eye-sight, provoketh Appetite, and helpeth to break and expel the ston: The Black Cherries bruised with the stones, and distilled, the Water therof is much used to break the ston, expel Gravel, and break the Wind.   

Winter-Cherries.  
Descript.] THe Winter-Cherry hath a running or creeping Root in the Ground of the bigness many times of ones little Finger, shooting forth at several joints in several places, whereby it quickly spreadeth a great compass of ground: The Stalk riseth not above a yard high, whereon are set many broad, and long green leaves, somewhat like Nightshade but larger: at the joints whereof come forth whitish Flowers made of five leaves a piece, which after turn into green Berries, enclosed with thin skins, which change to be reddish, when they grow ripe, the Berry likewise being reddish, and as large as a Cherry, wherein are contained many flat and yellowish seeds lying within the pulp: which being gathered and strung up, are kept all the year, to be used upon occasion.  
Place.] They grow not naturally in this Land, but are cherished in Gardens for their virtues.  
Time.] They flower not until the middle or latter end of July, and the Fruit is ripe about the end of August, or beginning of September.  
Government and virtues.] This also is a Plant of Venus. They are of great use in physic: The leaves being Cooling may be used in inflammations, but not opening as the Berries and Fruit are, which by drawing down the Urin, 
inflammations, Disury, ston, G●avel, Ulc●rs in the Reins, and Bladder, pissing Blood, sharpness of Urins. A precious Receipt.  provoke it to be avoided plentifully when it is stopped, or grown hot, sharp, and painful in the passage: it is good also to expel the ston and Gravel out of the Reins, kidneys, and Bladder, helping to dissolve the ston, and avoiding it by greet or gravel sent forth in the Urin: it also helpeth much to cleanse inward Impostumes or Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder, or in those that avoid a bloody or foul Urin. The distilled Water of the Fruit, or the leaves together with them, or the Berries green or dry, distilled with a little Milk, and drunk morning and evening with a little Sugar, is effectual to al the purposes afore specified, and especially against the heat and sharpness of the Urin. I shal only mention one way amongst many others which might be used for ordering the Berries to be helpful for the Urin and the ston, which is thus, Take three or four good handfuls of the Berries either green and fresh, or dried, and having bruised them, put them into so many Gallons of Beer or Ale when it is new tunned up: This Drink taken daily, hath been found to do much good to many; both to ease the pains, and expel urin, and the ston, and to cause the ston not to engender. The Decoction of the Berries in Wine or Water is the most usual way; but the powder of them taken in Drink, is more effectual.   

Chervil.  
IT is called Cerifolium, Myrrhis, and Mirrla, Chervil, sweet-Chervil, and sweet-Cicily.  
Descript.] The Garden Chervil doth at first somewhat resemble parsley, but after it is better grown the leaves are much cut in and jagged, resembling Hemlocks, being a little hairy, and of a whitish green colour, sometimes turning reddish in the Summer with the stalks also; It riseth little above half a foot high, bearing white Flowers in spoked tusts, which turn into long and round Seed pointed at the ends, and blackish when they are ripe; of a sweet taste, but no smell, though the Herb itself smelleth reasonable well: The Root is small and long, and perisheth every year, and must be sown anew in the Spring for Seed, and after July for Autumn salad.  
The wild Chervil groweth two or three foot high, with yellow stalks and joints, set with broader and more hairy leaves, divided into sundry parts nicked about the edges, and of a darker green colour, which likewise grow reddish with the stalks; at the tops whereof stand small white tufts of Flowers, and afterwards smaller and longer seed: The Root is white, hard, and enduring long. This hath little or no scent.  
Place.] The first is sown in Gardens for a Sallat-Herb. The second groweth wild in many of the Meadows of this Land, and by the Hedg-sides, and on Heaths.  
Time.] They flower and seed early, and thereupon are sown again in the end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] The Garden Chervil being eaten, 
Stomach, Clotted Blood, Bruises, Falls, Disury, ston, pleurisy, Sides, Swellings, black and blue spots.  doth moderately warm the Stomach, and is a certain Remedy( saith Tragus) to dissolve congealed or clotted Blood in the Body, or that which is clotted by bruises, fals, &c. The juice or distilled Water therof being drunk, and the bruised leaves laid to the place, being taken either in meat or drink, it is held good to provoke Urin, to expel the ston in the kidneys, to sand down Womens Courses, and to help the pleurisy and prickings of the Sides.  
The wild Chervil bruised and applied, dissolveth Swellings in any part of the Body, and taketh away the Spoots and Marks of congealed Blood by bruises or blows, in a little space.   

Sweet Chervil, or, Sweet Cicely.  
Descript.] THis groweth very like the greater Hemlock, having large spread leaves, cut into divers parts, but of a fresher green colour than the Hemlock, tasting as sweet as the aniseed. The Stalk riseth up a yard high or better being crested or hollow, having the like leaves at the joints, but lesser; and at the tops of the Branched Stalks, Umbels or Tufts of white Flowers; after which come large and long crested, black shining Seed, pointed at both ends, tasting quick, yet sweet and pleasant. The Root is great and white, growing deep in the ground, and spreading sundry long Branches therein, in taste and smell stronger than the leaves or Seed, and continuing many yeers.  
Place.] This groweth in Gardens.  
Government and virtues.] These are all three of them of the Nature of Jupiter, and under his Dominion. This whole Plant, besides its pleasantness in Sallats, 
could Stomach, Wind, phlegm, lungs, Phtisick, Pestilence, Terms provokes, After-birth, Appetite lost, Ulcers, Epidemical Diseases.  hath also his Physical virtues. The Root boiled and eaten with oil and Vinegar,( or without oil) doth much please and warm an old and could Stomach, oppressed with wind or phlegm, or those that have the Phtisick or Consumption of the Lungs. The same drunk with Wine, is a preservative from the Plague; it provoketh Womens Courses, and expelleth the After-birth, procureth an appetite to meat, and expelleth Wind. The juice is good to heal the Ulcers of the Head and Face. The candied Roots hereof are held as effectual as Angelica to preserve from infection in the time of a Plague, and to warm and comfort a could weak Stomach.  
It is so harmless you cannot use it amiss.   

Chestnut three.  
TO describe a three so commonly known, were as vain as tell a man he had gotten a Mouth; therfore take the Government and virtues of them thus.  
The three is absolutely under the Dominion of Jupiter, and therfore the fruit must needs breed good blood, and yield commendable nourishment to the Body, yet if eaten over much, they make the Blood thick, procure headache, and bind the body; the inner skin that covereth the Nut, is of so binding a quality, that a scruple of it being taken by a man, or ten grains by a child, 
Elux,  soon stops any flux whatsoever: The whole Nut being dried and beaten into powder, and a drachm taken at a time is a good remedy to stop the Terms in Women: 
Terms, stops, Cough, spitting blood.  If you dry Chestnuts, and beat them into powder( only the Kernel I mean) both the Bark being taken away, beat them into powder, and make the powder up into an Electuary with Honey, so have you an admirable Remedy for the Cough and spitting blood.   

Earth-Chestnuts.  
THey are called Earth-Nuts, Earth-Chestnuts, Ground-Nuts, Cipper-Nuts, and we in Sussex call them Pig-nuts: A Description of them were needless, for every Child knows them.  
Government and virtues.] They are something hot and dry in quality under the Dominion of Venus, 
Lust provokes, Disury, spitting blood, pissing blood.  they provoke Lust exceedingly, and stir up to those sports she is Mistris of; the Seed is excellent good to provoke Urin, and so also is the Root, but it doth not perform it so forcibly as the Seed doth. The Root being dried and beaten into powder, and the powder made into an Electuary is as sigular a Remedy for spitting and pissing blood as the former Chestnuts was for Coughs.   

Chickweed.  
Descript.] THis is generally known to most People, I shall therefore not trouble you with the Description thereof; nor myself with setting forth the several kinds; sith but only two or three are consideable for their usefulness.  
Place.] These are usually found in moist and watery places, by Wood sides, and elsewhere.  
Time.] They flower about June, and their Seed is ripe in July.  
Government and virtues.] It is a fine soft pleasing Herb, under the Dominion of the Moon, It is found to be as effectual as purslane to all the purposes whereunto it serveth, except for meat only. The Herb bruised, or the juice applied( with clothes or sponges dipped therein) to the Region of the Liver, 
Hot Liver, Apostums, swellings, read Face, Wheals, bushes, Itch, Scabs Cramp, Convulsion, palsy, read Eyes, Hemorrhoids, Ulcers,  and as they dry to have fresh applied, doth wonderfully temper the heat of the Liver; and is effectual for all Imposthums and Swellings wheresoever; for all redness in the Face, Wheals, bushes, Itch, Scabs, the juice either simply used, or boiled with Hogs Grease and applied; the same helpeth Cramps, Convulsions, and Palsies: The juice or distilled Water is of much good use for al heat and redness in the Eyes to drop some therof into them; as also into the Ears to ease pains in them, and is of good effect to ease the pains, the heat, and sharpness of Blood in the Piles, and generally all pains in the Body that arise of heat; it is used also in hot and virulen● Ulcers and Sores in the privy parts of Man or Woman, or on the Legs, or elsewhere. The Leaves boiled with Mash-Mallows, and made into a Pultis with Fenugreek, and Lin-seed, applied to Swellings or Imposthums ripeneth and breaketh them, or swageth the swellings, and easeth the pains: It helpeth the Sinews 
Sinews.  when they are shrunk by Cramps or otherwise, and to extend and make them pliable again, by this Medicine. boil an handful of Chickweed, and a handful of read Rose leaves dried, but not distilled, in a quart of Muscadine until a fourth part be consumed; then put to them a pint of oil of Trotters, or Sheeps-feer; let them boil a good while, still stirring them well; which being strained, anoint the grieved place therewith, warm against the fire, rubbing it well in with ones hand, and bind also some of the Herb( if you will) to the place, and with Gods blessing it will help with three times dressing.   

Cich-Pease, or Cicers.  
Descript.] THe Garden sorts, whether read, black, or white, brings forth Stalks a yard long, whereon do grow many small and almost round leaves, dented about the edges, set on both sides of a middle Rib: at the joints come forth one or two Flowers upon short Foot-stalks, Peas fashion, either white or whitish, or purplish read, lighter or deeper according as the Peas that follow will be, that are contained in small, thick, and short Pods, wherein lye one or two Peas more usually, a little pointed at the lower end, and almost round at the Head, yet a little cornered or sharp. The Root is small, and perisheth yearly.  
Place and Time.] They are sown in Gardens, or the Fields, as Peas, being sown later than Peas, and gathered at the same time with them, or presently after.  
Government and virtues.] They are both under the Dominion of Venus. They are no less windy than Beans, but nourish more, they provoke Urine, 
Disury, Seed increase, ston, Costivness, Terms, provokes, pain in the sides, Obstruction, ston, Open, Digest, Dissolve.  and are thought to increase Sperm, they have a cleansing faculty, whereby they break the stones in the Kidneys: To drink the Cream of them being boiled in Water is the best way: it moveth the Belly downward, provoketh Womens Courses, and Urin, and increaseth both Milk and Seed. One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of French Barley, and a small handful of Marsh-Mallow Roots, clean washed and cut, being boiled in the broth of a Chicken, and four ounces taken in the morning, and fasting two hours after is a good Medicine for a pain in the sides. The white Cicers are used more for Meat than Medicine, yet have they the same effects, and are thought more powerful to increase Milk and Seed.  
The wild Cicers are so much more powerful than the Garden kinds, by how much they exceed them in heat and dryness, whereby they do more open Obstructions, break the ston, and have all the properties of cutting, opening, digesting, and dissolving, and this more speedily and certainly than the former.   

cinquefoil, or Five Leaved Grass; Called in some Countries, Five fingered Grass.  
Descript.] THis spreadeth and creepeth far upon the ground, with long slender strings like Strawberries, which take Root again and shooteth forth many leaves made of five parts, and sometimes of seven, dented about the edges and somewhat hard: The stalks are slender leaning downward, and bear many small yellow Flowers thereon, with some yellow threads in the middle, standing about a smooth green head; which when it is ripe is a little rough, and containeth small brownish Seeds. The Root is of a blackish brown colour, seldom so big as ones little finger, but growing long with some threads thereat; and by the small strings it quickly spreadeth over the ground.  
Place.] It groweth by Wood sides, hedge sides, the Pathwaies in Fields, and in the borders and corners of them almost through all this Land.  
Time.] It flowreth in Summer, some sooner, some later.  
Government and virtues.] This is an Herb of Jupiter, and therefore strengtheners the parts of the Body that he rules; let Jupiter be angular and strong when it is gathered, and if you give but a scruple( which is but twenty grains of it) at a time, either in white Wine or white Wine Vinegar, you shall very seldom miss the cure of an Ague, 
Agues.  be it what Ague soever in three Fits, as I have often proved to the admiration both of myself and others; let no man despise it because it is plain and easy, the ways of God are all such, 'tis the ungodliness and impudence of Man that made things hard, and hath( by so doing) made sport for all the Devils in Hell, and grieved the good Angels, and when you read this, your own Genius, if you be any thing at al acquainted with it, may dictate to you many as good conclusions both of this and other Herbs. 
inflammation, fevers, Pestilence, Sore Mouths, Ulcers, Cankers, Fistulaes, Quinsy, yellow, Jaundice, falling-sickness, Flux, Terms stops, Whites, Bloody Flux, toothache, hoarseness, Cough, palsy of the hands, Knots in the flesh, St. Anthonies fire, Shingles, scabs, itch, joints pained, sciatica, rupturs Gouts, Bruises, Falls, Bleeding.  It is an especial Herb used in all inflammations and fevers whether infectious or Pestilential; or among other Herbs to cool and temper the Blood and Humors in the Body; As also for all Lotions, Gargles, Injections, and the like for sore Mouths, Ulcers, Cankers, Fistulaes, and other corrupt, foul, or running Sores. The juice hereof drunk about four ounces at a time for certain daies together, cureth the quinsy, and the yellow Jaundice, and taken for thirty daies together cureth the Falling-sickness. The Roots boiled in Milk and drunk, is a most effectual remedy for all Fluxes in Man or Woman, whether the Whites, or Reds, as also the Bloody flux. The Roots boiled in Vinegar, and the Decoction therof held in the Mouth, easeth the pains of the toothache. The juice or Decoction taken with a little Honey, helpeth the hoarseness of the Throat, and is good for the Cough of the lungs. The Distilled Water of both Roots and leaves is also effectual to all the purposes aforesaid; and if the Hands be often washed therein, and suffered at every time to dry in of itself without wiping it will in short time help the palsy, or shaking in them. The Root boiled in Vinegar, helpeth all knots, kernels, hard swellings, and lumps growing in any part of the Flesh, being thereto applied, as also all inflammations, and St. Anthonies fire, all Imposthumes, and painful Sores, with heat and putrefaction; the Shingles also, and all other sorts of running and foul Scabs, Sores, and Itch. The same also boiled in Wine, and applied to any joints full of pain ache, or the Gout in the Hands or Feet, or the Hip-gout, called the Sciatica, and the Decoction thereof drunk the while, doth cure them, and easeth much pains in the Bowels. The Roots are likewise effectual to help Ruptures or Burstings, being used with other things available to that purpose, taken either inwardly, or outwardly, or both; as also for Bruises, or Hurts by Blows, Falls, or the like, and to stay the bleeding of Wounds in any part inward or outward.  
Some hold that one Leaf cures a Quotidian, three a Tertian, and four a Quartan Ague, and a hundred to one if it be not Dioscorides, for he is full of such whimseys. The truth is, I never stood so much upon the number of the leaves, nor whether I gave it in powder or Decoction: If Jupiter were strong and the Moon applying to him, or his good aspect at the gathering of it, I never knew it miss the desired effects.   

Cives.  
THey are also called Rush Leeks, Chives, Civet, and Sweth.  
Temperature and virtues.] I confess I had not added these had it not been for a Letter I received of a Country Gentleman, who certified me that amongst other Herbs I had left these out; they are indeed a kind of Leeks, hot and dry in the fourth degree as they are, and also under the Dominion of Mars; if they be eaten raw( I do not mean raw opposite to roasted or boiled, but raw opposite to a chemical Preparation) they sand up very hurtful vapours to the Brain, causing troublesome sleep and spoiling the eyesight, yet of them prepared by the Art of the alchemist may be made an excellent remedy for stoppage of Urine. 
Disury.    

Clary, Or more properly, Cleer-Eye.  
Descript.] OUr ordinary Garden Clary hath four square Stalks, with broad, rough, wrinkled, whitish, or hairy green leaves, somewhat evenly cut in on the edges, and of a strong sweet scent, growing some near the ground, and some by couples upon Stalks: The Flowers grow at certain distances with two small leaves at the joints under them, somewhat like unto the Flowers of Sage, but smaller, and of a whitish blue colour: The Seed is brownish, and somewhat flat, or not so round as the wild, the Roots are blackish and spread not far, and perish after the Seed time: It is usually sown, for it seldom riseth of its own sowing.  
Place.] This groweth in Gardens.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June and July, some a little later than others, and their Seed is ripe in August, or thereabouts.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Moon: The Seed is used to be put into the Eyes 
Eyes,  to clear them from Moats, or other such like things gotten within the Lids to offend them, 
Swellings, Splinters. Thorns, inflammations, boils, Felons, Head, Brain, Lust provokes, Back, Terms provokes,  as also to clear them from white or read spots in them. The Muccilage of the Seed made with Water, and applied to tumours or swellings, disperseth and taketh them away, as also draweth forth splinters, thorns, or other things gotten into the flesh. The leaves used with Vinegar either by itself or with a little Honey, doth help hot inflammations, as also boils, Felons, and the hot inflammations that are gathered by their pains, if it be applied before they be grown too great. The powder of the dried Root put into the Nose, provoketh sneezing, and thereby purgeth the Head and Brain of much Rhewm and Corruption. The Seed or leaves taken in Wine provoketh to Venery. It is of much use both for Men and Women that have weak Backs, to help to strengthen the Reins, used either by itself or with other Herbs conducing to the same effect, and in Tansies often: The fresh leaves dipped in a Batter of Flower, eggs, and a little Milk, and fried in Butter, and served to the Table, is not unpleasant to any, but exceeding profitable for those that are troubled with weak Backs, and the effects thereof. The juice of the Herb put into Ale or Beer, and drunk, bringeth down Womens Courses, and expelleth the After-birth. 
Afterbirth   
It is an usual course with many men when they have gotten the running of the Reins, or Women the Whites, then run to the Bush of Clary; Maid bring hither the frying Pan, fetch me some Butter quickly, then to eating fried Clary, just as Hogs eat Acorns, and this they think will cure their Disease( forsooth) whereas when they have devoured as much Clary as will grow upon an Acre of ground, their Backs are as much the better as though they had pissed in their shoes, nay perhaps much wors.  
We will grant that Clary strengtheners the Back, but this we deny, That the cause of the running of the Reins in Men, or the Whites in Women lies in the Back( though the Back may sometimes be weakened by them) and therfore the Medicine is as proper, as for me when my to is sore, to lay a plaster to my Nose.   

Wild Clary.  
WIld Clary is most blasphemously called Christs-Eye, because it cures Diseases of the Eyes: I could wish from my very soul, Blasphemy, Ignorance, and Tyranny were ceased amongst Physitians that they might be happy, and I joyful.  
Descript.] It is like the other Clary, but lesser, with many stalks about a foot and an half high; the stalks are square, and something hairy; the Flowers of a bluish colour. He that knows the common Clary cannot be ignorant of this.  
Place.] It grows commonly in this Nation, in Barren places; you may find it plentifully if you look in the Fields near Grays-Inn, and the Fields near Chelsy.  
Time.] They flower from the beginning of June to the latter end of August.  
Government and virtues.] It is something hotter and drier than the Garden Clary is, yet nevertheless under the Dominion of the Moon, as well as that the Seeds of it being beaten to powder and drunk with Wine is an admirable help to provoke Lust: 
Lust provoketh, congealed Blood, could stomach, sore Eyes, Films in the Eyes, Indigestion.  A Decoction of the leaves being drunk warms the stomach, and 'tis a wonder if it should not, the stomach being Cancer the House of the Moon; also it helps digestion, scatters cungealed blood in any part of the Body, and help dimness of sight; the Distilled water thereof cleanseth the Eyes of redness, waterishness and heat, 'tis a gallant Remedy for dimness of sight, to take one of the Seeds of it, and put into the Eye, and there let it remain while it drops out of itself, the pain of it will be nothing to speak on; it will cleanse the Eyes of all filthy and putrefied matters, and in often repeating of it, will take off any Film which covereth the sight; a handsomer, safer, and easier Remedy a great deal than to tear it off with a needle.   

Cleavers.  
It is also called Aparine, Goos-share, Goos-grass, and Clavers.  
Descript.] THe common Cleavers hath divers very rough square stalks, not so big as the Tag of a Point, but rising up to be two or three yards high sometimes, if it meet with any tall Bushes or Trees whereon it may climb( yet without any claspers) or else much lower, and lying upon the ground full of joints, and at every of them shooteth forth a Branch, besides the leaves thereat, which are usually six, set in a round compass like a Star, or the Rowel of a Spur: from between the leaves at the joints towards the tops of the Branches, come forth very small white Flowers, every one upon a small threddy Footstalk, which after they are fallen, there do show two small, round, rough seeds, joined together like two Testicles, which when they are ripe grow hard and whitish, having a little hole on the side somewhat like unto a Navel. Both Stalks, leaves, and Seeds are so rough that they will cleav to any thing shall touch them. The Root is small and very threddy, spreading much in the ground, but death every year.  
Place.] It groweth by the hedge and Ditch sides in many places of this Land, and is so troublesome an Inhabitant in Gardens, that it rampeth upon, and is ready to choke what ever grows next it.  
Time.] It flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe and falleth again in the end of July or August, from whence it springeth up again, and not from the old Roots.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Moon. The juice of the Herb, and the Seed together taken in Wine, helpeth those that are bitten with an Adder, 
venomous Beasts, Heart, Fatness, yellow Jaundice, Flux, bloody flux, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings, King I Evil, pain in the Ears.  by preserving the Heart from the Venom; It is familiarly taken in Broth to keep them lean and lank that are apt to grow fat. The distilled Water drunk twice a day helpeth the yellow Jaundice, and the Decoction of the Herb in experience sound to do the same, and stayeth Lasks and bloody Fluxes. The juice of the leaves, or they a little bruised and applied to any bleeding Wound, stayeth the bleeding. The juice is also very good to close up the lips of green Wounds; and the powder of the dried Herb strewed thereupon doth the same, and likewise helpeth old Ulcers: Being boiled with Hogs Greas, it healeth al sorts of hard swellings or kernels in the throat, being anointed therwith. The juice dropped into the Ears taketh away the pains of them.  
It is a good remedy in the Spring, eaten( being first chopped small and boiled well) in Water-gruel, to cleans the Blood, and strengthen the Liver, thereby keeping the Body in Health, and fitting it for that change of Season that is coming.   

Clowns Woundwort.  
Descript.] IT groweth up sometimes to three or four foot high, but usually about two foot, with square, green, rough stalks, but slender, jointed somewhat far asunder, and two very long, and somewhat narrow, dark green leaves, bluntly dented about the edges, thereat ending in a long point. The Flowers stand toward the tops compassing the Stalks at the joints with the leaves and end likewise in a spiked top, having long and much open gaping hoods of a purplish read colour, with whitish spots in them, standing in somewhat rough Husks, wherein afterwards stand blackish round Seeds. The Root is composed of many long strings, with some tuberous long Knobs growing among them, of a pale yellowish or whitish colour, yet at some times of the year these knobby Roots in many places are not seen in the Plant: The whole Plant smelleth somewhat strongly.  
Place.] It groweth in sundry Countries of this Land, both North and West, and frequently by Path sides in the Fields near about London, and within three or four miles distance about it, yet usually grows in or near Ditches.  
Time.] It flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe soon after.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Planet Saturn. 
Wounds, Ulcers, Blood, Cancers, Bloody flux, Vessels broken Ruptures, spitting, pissing,& Vomiting Blood, Veins swelled, Muscles cut.  It is singularly effectual in all fresh and green Wounds, and therfore beareth not this name for nought. And is very available in stanching of Blood, and to dry up the fluxes of Humors in old freting Ulcers, Cancers, &c. that hinder the healing of them.  
A Syrup made of the juice of it is inferior to none for inward Wounds, Ruptures of Veins, bloody Flux, Vessels broken, spitting, pissing, or vomiting Blood: Ruptures are excellently and speedily, even to admiration, cured by taking now and then a little of the Syrup, and applying an ointment or plaster of the Herb to the place. Also if any Vein be swelled, or Muscle cut, apply a plaster of this Herb to it, and if you ad a little Comfry to it, it will not do amiss: I assure thee the Herb deservs Commendations though it have gotten but a Clownish name, and whoever reads this( if he try it as I have done) will commend it as well as I.  
I have done, only take notice, That it is of a dry Earthy quality.   

Cocks-Head, read Fitchling, or Medick Fetch.  
Descript.] THis hath divers weak, but rough Stalks, half a yard long, leaning downward, beset with winged, leaves, longer and more pointed than those of Lentils, and whitish underneath; from the tops of these stalks arise up other slender stalks, naked without Leaves unto the tops, where there grow many small Flowers in manner of a Spike, of a pale reddish colour, with some blueness among them: after which rise up in their places, round, rough, and somewhat flat Heads. The Root is tough and somewhat woody, yet liveth, and shooteth anew every year.  
Place.] It groweth under Hedges, and sometimes in the open Fields, in divers places of this Land.  
Time.] They flower all the Months of July and August, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean while.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Venus. 
Knots and Kernels in the Flesh, Strangury, Milk in cattle.  It hath power to sacrify and digest, and therfore the green leaves bruised and laid as a plaster disperseth Knots, Nodes, or Kernels in the Flesh; and if when it is dry it be taken in Wine, it helpeth the Strangury: and being anointed with oil, it provoketh Sweat. It is a singular food for cattle, to cause them to give store of Milk, and why then may it not do the like being boiled in the ordinary drink of Nurses.   

Columbines.  
THese are so well known, growing in almost every Garden, that I think I may save the expense of time in writing a Description of them.  
Time.] They flower in May, and abide not for the most part when June is past, perfecting their Seed in the mean time.  
Government and virtues.] It is also an Herb of Venus. The leaves of Columbines are commonly used in Lotions with good success for sore Mouths and Throats: 
Sore mouths& throats, Obstructions, yellow Jaundice, Womens travail, ston.  Tragus saith, That a dram of the Seed taken in Wine with a little Saffron, openeth obstructions of the Liver, and is good for the yellow Jaundice, if the party after the taking therof be laid to sweat well in his Bed: The Seed also taken in Wine causeth a speedy Delivery of Women in Child-birth, if one draft suffice not, let her drink a second, and it is effectual. The Spaniards use to eat a piece of the Root hereof in a morning fasting, many daies together, to help them being troubled with the ston in the Reins or Kidneys.   

Coltsfoot.  
CAlled also Cough-wort, Foals-foot, Hors-hoof, and Bulls-foot.  
Descript.] This shooteth up a slender stalk with small yellowish Flowers somewhat early, which fall away quickly; and after they are past, come up somewhat round leaves, sometimes dented a little about the edges, much lesser, thicker, and greener, than those of Butter-bur, with a little down or freeze over the green Leaf on the uper side, which may be rubbed away, and whitish or mealy underneath. The Root is small and white, spreading much under ground, so that where it taketh, it will hardly be driven away again, if any little piece be abiding therein; and from thence springeth fresh leaves.  
Place.] It groweth as well in wet grounds, as in drier places.  
Time.] And Flowreth in the end of February, the leaves beginning to appear in March.  
Government and virtues.] The Plant is under Venus. The fresh Leaves, or juice, or a Syrup made therof is good for a hot dry Cough, 
Cough, Wheesing, shortness of breath, Agues, inflammations, Swelling, St. Anthonies fire, Burnings, choleric bushes, piles, inflammations in the Privities.  for wheezings and shortness of breath. The dry leaves are best for those that have thin rheums, and Distilla●ions upon the Lungs, causing a Cough, for which also the dried leaves taken as Tabaco, or the Root, is very good. The distilled Water hereof simply, or with Elder Flowers and Nightshade, is a singular Remedy against al hot Agues, to drink two ounces at a time, and apply clothes wet therein to the Head and Stomach; which also doth much good being applied to any hot Swellings or inflammations; it helpeth St. Anthonies Fire, and Burnings, and is singular good to take away Wheals, and small bushes that arise through heat; As also the burning heat of the Piles, or privy parts, clothes wet therein being thereunto applied.   

Comfry.  
Descript.] THe common great Comfry hath divers very large and hairy green leaves lying on the ground, so hairy or prickly that if they touch any tender part of the Hands, Face, or Body, it will cause it to itch: The Stalk that riseth up from among them being two or three foot high, hollow and cornered, is very hairy also, having many such like leaves as grow below, but lesser and lesser up to the top. At the joints of the Stalks, it is divided into many branches with some leaves thereon, and at the ends stand many Flowers in order one above another, which are somewhat long and hollow like the finger of a Glove, of a pale whitish colour, after which come small black Seed. The Roots are great and long, spreading great thick Branches under ground, black on the outside and whitish within, short or easy to break, and full of a glutinus or clammy juice of little or no taste at all.  
There is another sort in al things like this, save only it is somewhat less, and heareth Flowers of a pale purple colour.  
Place.] They grow by ditches and Water sides, and in divers Fields that are moist, for therein they chiefly delight to grow: The first generally through al the Land, and the other but in some several places.  
By the leave of my Authors, I know the first grow often in dry places.  
Time.] They flower in June and July, and give their Seed in August.  
Government and virtues.] This is also an Herb of Saturn, and I suppose under the Sign Capricorn, could, dry, and earthy in quality: What was spoken of Clowns Woundwort, 
Spitting& pissing Blood, Inward ●●unds& bruises, Phtisick, Bloody Flux, Terms, stops, Whites, laws cut Muscles cut, sharp Humors, Wounds, Ruptures, broken Bones, Knotted Breasts, Hemorrhoids, inflammation, gout, Pained joints, gangrenes.  may be said of this. The great Comfry helpeth those that spit blood, or make a bloody Urin: The Root boiled in Water or Wine, and the Decoction drunk, helpeth al inward hurts, bruises, and wounds, and the Ulcers of the Lungs, causing the phlegm that oppresseth them to be easily spit forth; It stayeth the defluxions of Rhewm from the Head upon the Lungs, the Fluxes of Blood or humors by the Belly, Womens immoderate Courses, as well the Reds 〈…〉 the Whites; and the running of the Reins happening by what cause soever. A Syrup made therof is very effectual for al those inward Griefs and Hurts; and the distilled Water for the same purpose also, and for outward Wounds and Sores in the Fleshy or Sinewy part of the Body wheresoever; as also to take away the fits of Agues, and to alloy the sharpness of Humors. A Decoction of the Leaves hereof is available to all the purposes, though not so effectual as of the Roots. The Roots being outwardly applied, helpeth fresh wounds or cuts immediately, being bruised and laid thereunto; and is especial good for Ruptures and broken bones: yea it is said to be so powerful to consolidate and knit together; that if they be boiled with dissevered pieces of flesh in a pot, it will join them together again. It is good to be applied to Womens Breasts that grow sore by the abundance of Milk coming into them: as also to repress the overmuch bleeding of the Hemorrhoids to cool the inflammation of the parts thereabouts, and to give ease of pains. The Roots of Comfry taken fresh, beaten small, and spread upon Leather, and laid upon any place troubled with the Gout, do presently give ease of the pains; and applied in the same manner giveth ease to pained joints, and profiteth very much for running and moist Ulcers, Gangreans, Mortifications, and the like, for which it hath by often experience been found helpful.   

Corralwort.  
IT is called by some Toothwort, Toothed Violet, Dog-teeth Violet, and Dentaria.  
Descript.] Of the many sorts of this Herb, two of them may be found growing in this Nation; the first of which shooteth forth one or two winged leaves upon long brownish Footstalks, which are doubled down at their first coming out of the ground: when they are fully opened they consist of seven leaves, most commonly of a sad green colour, dented about the edges, set on both sides the middle Rib one against another, as the leaves of the Ash-tree: the stalk beareth no leaves on the lower half of it, the uper half beareth sometimes three or four, each consistfng of five leaves, sometimes but of three: on the top stand four or five flowers upon short footstalks, with long husks; the flowers are very like the flowers of stock Gilliflowers, of a pale purplish colour, consisting of four leaves apiece, after which come small Cods which contain the Seed: the Root is very smooth, white, and shining, it doth not grow downward, but creepeth along under the uper crust of the ground, and consisteth of divers small round knobs, set together: toward the top of the stalk there grow some single leaves, by each of which cometh a small round cloven Bulb, which when it is ripe, if it be set in the ground it will grow to be a Root.  
As for the other Corralwort which groweth in this Nation, 'tis more scarcy than this, being a very small Plant not much unlike Crowfoot, therfore some think it to be one of the sorts of Crowfoot: I know not where to direct you to it, and therfore I shall forbear the Description.  
Place.] The first groweth near Mayfield in Sussex, in a Wood called High-reed, and in another Wood there also, called Fox holes.  
Time.] They flower from the latter end of April to the middle of May, and before the middle of July they are gone and not to be found.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Moon. 
Disury, gravel, ston, sides, Bowels, wounds in the Breast and Lungs, rapture, fluxes, Wounds and Ulcers.  It cleanseth the Bladder and provoketh Urin, expels Gravel, and the ston, it easeth pains in the sides and bowels; it is excellent good for inward wounds, especially such as are made in the Breast or Lungs by taking a dram of the powder of the Root every morning in Wine; the same is excellent good for Ruptures, as also stop fluxes: an ointment made of it, is excellent good for wounds and Ulcers, for it soon dries up the watery humour which hinders the Cure.   

Costmary, or Alecost, or balsam Herb.  
THis is so frequently known to be an Inhabitant in almost every G●den, That I suppose it needless to writ a Description thereof.  
Time.] It flowreth in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Jupiter. The ordinary Costmary as well as Maudlin provoketh Urin abundantly, 
Disury, Womb, choler, phlegm, putrefaction, Corruption, Obstructions, Quotidian Agues, Stomach, Liver, headache, Rhewm, raw humors, Cachexia, Worms, Ulcers.  and moisteneth the hardness of the Mother; it gently purgeth choler and phlegm, extenuating that which is gross, and cutting that which is tough and gluttonous, cleanseth that which is foul, and hindereth putrefaction and corruption, it dissolveth without Attraction, openeth Obstructions, and healeth their evil effects, and is a wonderful help to all sorts of day Agues. It is astringent to the stomach, and strengtheneth the Liver and al the other inward parts, and taken in Whey, worketh the more effectually. Taken fasting in the morning, it is very profitable for the pains of the Head that are continual, and to stay, dry up, and consume al thin rheums, or distillations from the Head into the stomach, and helpeth much to digest raw humors that are gathered therein. It is very profitable for those that are fallen into a continual evil disposition of the whole body called Cachexia, being taken especially in the beginning of the disease: It is an especial friend and help to evil, weak, and could Livers. The Seed is familiarly given to Children for the Worms, and so is the Infusion of the Flowers in white Wine, given them to the quantity of two ounces at a time: It maketh an excellent salue to cleans and heal old Ulcers, being boiled with oil Olive, and Adders Tongue with it: and after it is strained, to put a little Wax, Rozin, and Turpentine to bring it into a convenient Body.   

Cudweed, or Cottonweed.  
BEsides Cudweed and Cottonweed, it is called Chafweed, Dwarf Cotton and Petty Cotton.  
Descript.] The common Cudweed riseth up but with one Stalk sometime, and sometimes with two or three, thick set on all sides with small, long, and narrow whitish or wooly leaves, from the middle of the Stalk almost up to the top; with every Leaf standeth a small Flower, of a dun or brownish yellow colour, or not so yellow as others: in which Heads after the Flowers are fallen come small Seed wrapped up with the down therein, and is carried away with the Wind. The Root is small and threddy.  
There are other sorts hereof, which are somewhat lesser than the former, not much different, save only that as the stalk and leaves are shorter, so the Flowers are palet, and more open,  
Place.] They grow in dry, barren, sandy, and gravelly Grounds, in most places of this Land.  
Time.] They flower about July, some earlier, some later, and their Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] Venus is Lady of it. The Plants are all astringent, or binding and drying, and therefore profitable for defluxions of Rhewm from the Head, 
●ind, dry, Fluxes, Terms ill stopped, Ruptures, Worms, Tenasmus, Woands, Bleeding, Ulcers, quinsy.  and to stay fluxes of Blood wheresoever. The Decoction being made into read Wine and drunk, or the powder taken therein; it also helpeth the Bloody Flux, and easeth the torments that come thereby, stayeth the immoderate Courses of Women, and is also good for inward or outward Wounds, Hurts, and Bruises, and helpeth Children both of Burstings and the Worms; and the disease called Tenasmus, which is an often provocation to the stool, and doing nothing, being either drunk or injected: The green leaves bruised and laid to any green wound stayeth the bleeding, and healeth it up quickly: The Decoction or juice thereof doth the same, and helpeth al old and filthy Ulcers quickly: The juice of the Herb taken in Wine and Milk is( as Pliny saith) a sovereign Remedy against the Mumps and quinsy; and further saith, That whosoever shal so take it, shal never be troubled with that disease again.   

Cowslips, or, Peagles.  
BOth the Wild and Garden Cowslips are so well known, that I will neither trouble myself nor the Reader with any Description of them.  
Time.] They flower in April and May.  
Government and virtues.] Venus lays claim to the Herb as her own, and it is under the Sign Aries, and our City Dames know well enough the ointment or Distilled Water of it, adds Beauty, or at least restores it when it is lost. The Flowers are held to be more effectual than the leaves, 
Spots, Wrinkles, Sunburn.  and the Roots of little use. An ointment being made with them, taketh away spots, and wrinkles of the Skin, Suburning and Freckles, 
Head, heat, wind Beauty adds, vertigo, Ephialtes, Convulsion, Cramp, Back, Bladder, Wounds, trembling, Frenzy, Falling-sickness, palsy.  and adds Beauty exceedingly; They remedy al infirmities of the Head coming of Heat and Wind, as Vertigo, Ephialtes, fals apparitions, frenzies, Falling-sickness, Palsies, Convulsions, Cramps, Pains in the laws: The Roots eas pains in the Back and Bladder, and open the passages of Urin: The leaves are good in Wounds, and the flowers take away trembling: If the Flowers be not well dried and kept in a warm place, they will soon putrifie and look green, have a special eye over them: if you let them see the Sun once a Month, it will do neither the Sun nor them harm.  
because they strengthen the Brain and Nerves, and remedy Palsies, the Greeks gave them the name Prralisis; The flowers preserved or conserved, and the quantity of a Nutmeg eaten every morning, is a sufficient Dose, for inward Diseases, but for Wounds, Spots, Wrinkles, and Sunburning, an ointment is made of the leaves and Hogs greas.   

Crabs-Claws.  
THey are called Water Sengreen, Knights Pondwort, Water houseleek, Wading Pondweed, and Fresh water Soldier.  
Description.] It hath sundry long narrow Leaves with sharp prickles on the edges of them, also very sharp pointed; the stalks which bear flowers seldom grow so high as the leaves, bearing a forked head like a Crabs Claw, out of which comes a white flower consisting of three leaves, with divers yellowish hairy threads in the middle: it taketh Root in the mud in the bottom of the Water.  
Place.] It grows plentifully in the Fens in Linconshire.  
Time.] It flowers in June, and usually from thence till August.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis a Plant under the Dominion of Venus, and therfore a great strengthener of the Reins; it is excellent good in that inflammation which is commonly called St. 
Reins, St. Anthonies Fire, inflammations and Swellings in Wounds, kidneys bruised pissing blood, Terms stops.  Anthonies fire, it assuageth al inflammations and Swellings in Wounds, and an ointment made of it is excellent good to heal them: there is scarce a better Remedy growing than this is, for such as have bruised their kidneys, and upon that account pissing blood: a drachm of the powder of the Herb taken every morning is a very good Remedy to stop the Terms.   

Back-Cresses.  
Descript.] IT hath long leaves deeply cut and jagged on both sides not much unlike wild Mustard; the Stalks be small, very limber, though very tough, you may twist them round as you may a Willow before they break: The Flowers be very small and yellow; after which comes small Cods which contain the Seed.  
Place.] It is a common Herb, grows usually by the way sides, and sometimes upon mud walls about London, but it delights most to grow amongst stones and rubbish.  
Time.] It Flowers in June and July, and the Seed is ripe in August and September.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis under the Dominion of Mars, 
Brain, rheums, Lungs, cough yell. Jaund. Sciatica, inflammations in the Breast and Testicles.  and is a Plant of a hot and biting nature: The truth is, the Seed of Banck-Cresses strengthen the Brain exceedingly, being in performing that office little inferior to Mustard Seed, if at al: they are excellent good to stay those rheums which fall down from the Head upon the Lungs: You may beat the Seed into powder if you please, and make it up into an Electuary with Honey, so have you an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premises, but also for the Cough, yellow Jaundice and Sciatica. The Herb boiled into a Pultice, is an excellent Remedy for inflammations both in Womens Breasts and Mens Testicles.   

Sciatica-Cresses.  
Descript.] THese are of two kinds; The first riseth up with a round Stalk about two foot high, spread into divers Branches, whose lower leaves are somewhat larger than the uper, yet al of them cut, or torn on the edges, somewhat like Garden-Cresses, but smaller: The flowers are small and white, growing at the tops of the Branches, where afterwards grow Husks, with small brownish Seed therein, very strong and sharp in taste, more than the Cresses of the Garden: The Root is long, white and woody.  
The other hath the lower leaves whole, somewhat long and broad, not torn at al, but only somewhat deeply dented about the edges towards the ends, but those that grow up higher are lesser. The Flowers and Seed are like the former, and so is the Root likewise: and both Root and Seed as sharp as it.  
Place.] These grow by the way sides in untilled places, and by the sides of old walls.  
Time.] They Flower in the end of June, and their Seed is ripe in July.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Saturnine Plant. The leaves, but especially the Roots taken fresh in the Summer time, beaten and made into a Pultis or salue, with old Hogs Greas, and applied to the place pained with the Sciatica, 
Sciatica, Gout, headache, rheums, Spleen, Scars, leprosy, Scurf, Scabs.  to continue thereon four hours if it be on a Man, and two hours on a Woman; the place afterwards bathed with Wine and oil mixed together, and then wrapped with wool or Skins after they have sweat a little, will assuredly cure not only the same Disease in the Hips, Hucklebone, or other of the joints, as the Gout in the Hands or Feet, but all other old Griefs of the Head( as inveterate rheums) and other parts of the Body that is hard to be cured: And if of the former Griefs any part remain; the same Medicine after twenty daies is to be applied again. The same is also effectual in the Diseases of the Spleen: and applied to the Skin it taketh away the the blemishes thereof, whether they be Scars, leprosy, Scabs, or Scurf: which although it exulcerate the part, yet that is to be helped afterwards with a salue made of oil and Wax.  
Esteem of this as another Secret.   

Water-Cresses.  
Descript.] OUR ordinary Water-Cresses spreadeth forth with many weak, hollow sappy Stalks, shooting out fibres at the joints, and upwards, long, winged leaves, made of sundry broad, sappy, and almost round leaves, of a brownish green colour. The flowers are many and white, standing on long Footstalks, after which come small yellow Seed, contained in small long pods like Horns: The whole Plant abideth green in the Winter, and tasteth somewhat hot and sharp.  
Place.] They grow( for the most part) in the small standing Waters, yet sometimes in small Rivulets of running Water.  
Time.] They Flower and Seed in the beginning of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb under the Dominion of the Moon. They are more powerful against the Scurvy, and to cleanse the Blood and Humors than Brooklime is, 
Scurvy, Blood, humors, ston Disury, terms provokes, Ulcers, frenkls, Pimples, spots, dullness, lethargy.  and serve in al the other uses in which Brooklime is available, as to break the ston, and provoke Urin, and Womens Courses. The Decoction thereof cleanseth Ulcers by washing them therewith. The leaves bruised, or the juice, is good to be applied to the Face, or other parts troubled with Freckles, Pimples, Spots, or the like, at night, and washed away in the morning. The juice mixed with Vinegar, and the fore part of the Head bathed therwith, is very good for those that are dull and drowsy, or have the Lethargy.  
Water-cress Pottage is a good Remedy to cleanse the Blood in the Spring, and help Headaches, and consume the gross Humors Winter hath left behind, those that would live in health may use it if they please, if they will not I cannot help it: If any fancy not Pottage, they may eat the Herb as a Sallat.   

Crosswort.  
Descript.] THe common Crosswort groweth up with square hairy brown Stalks, little above a foot high, having four small broad and pointed hairy, yet smooth green leaves, growing at every joint, each against other, across ways, which hath caused the name: Toward the tops of the Stalks at the joints with the leaves in three or four rows upwards, stand small, pale yellow Flowers; after whith come small blackish, round Seed, four for the most part set in every Husk. The Root is very small and full of fibres, or thirds, taking good hold of the ground, and spreading with the Branches a great deal of ground, which perish not in Winter, although the leaves die every year, and spring again anew.  
Place.] It groweth in many moist grounds, as well Meadows, as untille●… places about London. In Hamsted Church-yard, at weigh in Kent, and sundry other places.  
Time.] It flowreth from May al the Summer long in one place or other as they are more open to the Sun; the Seed ripeneth soon after.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Saturn. 
Wounds, inward& outward, phlegm, Obstructions, Stomach, Bowels, Ruptures.  This is a singular good Wound Herb, and is used inwardly, not only to stay bleeding of Wounds, but to consolidate them, as it doth outwardly any green Wounds, which it quickly sodereth up and healeth. The Decoction of the Herb in Wine, helpeth to expectorate phlegm out of the Chest, and is good for Obstructions in the Breast, Stomach, or Bowels, and helpeth a decayed Appetite; It is also good to wash any Wound or Sore with, to cleanse and heal it: The Herb bruised, and then boiled and applied outwardly for certain daies together, renewing it often, and in the mean time, the Decoction of the Herb in the Wine taken inwardly every day, doth certainly cure the rapture in any, so as it be not too inveterate; but very speedily if it be fresh and lately taken.   

Crowfoot.  
MAny are the Names this furious biting Herb hath obtained, almost enough to make up a Welch-mans pedigree, if he fetch it no further than John of Gaunt or William the conqueror, for it is called Frogs-foot, from the Greek Name {αβγδ}, Crowfoot, Gold Knobs, Gold Cups, King Kob, Bassinets, Troll Flower, Polts, Locker Goulons, and Butter-Flowers.  
Abundance are the sorts of this Herb, that to describe them all would tyre the patience even of Socrates himself; but because I have not yet attained to the Spirit of Socrates, I shall but describe the most usual.  
Descript.] The most common Crowfoot hath many dark green leaves cut into divers parts, in taste biting and sharp, biting and blistering the Tongue, it bears many Flowers, and those of a bright resplendent yellow colour, I do not remember that ever I saw any thing yellower, Virgins in Ancient time used to make powder of them to strew Bride Beds: after which flowers come small Heads of Seeds, round, but rugged like a Pine Apple.  
Place.] They grow very common every where, unless you run your Head into a hedge, you cannot but see some of them where ever you walk.  
Time.] They flower in May and June, even till September.  
Government and virtues.] This fiery and hot spirited Herb of Mars is no way fit to be given inwardly, but an ointment of the leaves or flowers will draw a Blister, and may so be fitting applied to the nape of the Neck to draw back Rhewm from the Eyes: the Herb being bruised and mixed with a little Mustard, draws a Blister as well and as perfectly as Cantharides, and with far less danger to the Vessels of Urin, which Canthari●es naturally delight to wrong; I knew the Herb once applied to a Pestilential rising that was falling down, and it saved life even beyond hope; it were good keeping an ointment and plaster of it if it were but for that.   

Cuckowpint.  
IT is called Aron, Jarus, and Barba-aron, Calves-foot, Ramp, Starchwort, Cuckoo-pintle, Priest-pintle, and Wake-robin.  
Descript.] This shooteth forth three, four, or five leaves at the most, from one Root, every one whereof is somewhat large and long, broad at the bottom next the Stalk, and forked, but ending in a point, without cut on the edges, of a full green colour, each standing upon a thick round stalk, of a hands breadth long, or more: among which after two or three months that they begin to whither, riseth up a bare, round, whitish green stalk, spot●ed and streaked with-purple, somewhat higher than the leaves: at the top whereof standeth a long hollow Hose or Husk, close at the bottom, but open from the middle upwards ending in a point; in the middle whereof standeth a small long Pestle or Clapper, smaller at the bottom than at the top, of a dark purple colour as the Husk is on the inside, though green without; which after it hath so abidden for some time, the Husk with the Clapper decayeth, and the foot or bottom thereof groweth to be a small long Bunch of Berries, green at the first, and of a yellowish read colour when they are ripe, of the bigness of an Hazel Nut Kernel; which abideth thereon almost until Winter; The Root is round and somewhat long, for the most part lying along, the leaves shooting forth at the bigger end, which when it beareth his Berries is somewhat wrinkled and loose, another growing under it, which is so solid and firmwith many small thirds hanging thereat: The whole Plant is of a very sharp biting taste, pricking the Tongue as Nettles do the Hands, and so abideth for a great while without alteration: The Root hereof was anciently used instead of Starch, to starch linen withal.  
There is another sort of Cuckoopint, with lesser leaves than the former, and somewhat harder, having blackish spots upon them, which for the most part abide longer green in Summer than the former; and both leaves and Roots are more sharp and fierce than it: In all things else it is like the former.  
Place.] These two sorts grow frequently-almost under every hedge sid●●n many places of this Land.  
Time.] They shoot forth leaves in the Spring, and continue but until the middle of Summer, or somewhat later, their Husks appearing before they fall away; and their fruit showing in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars. Tragus reporteth that a dram weight, or more if need be, of the spotted Wake-Robin, either fresh and green, or dried, being beaten and taken, is a most present and sure Remedy for poison and the Plague. 
poison, Plague, boil, Difficulty, of breath, Cough,  The juice of the Herb taken to the quantity of a spoonful hath the same effect. But if there be a little Vinegar added thereunto as well as unto the Root aforesaid, it somewhat allayeth the sharp biting taste thereof upon the Tongue. The green leaves bruised, and laid upon any boil or Plague-sore, doth wonderfully help to draw forth the poison: A dram of the powder of the dried Root taken with twice so much Sugar in the form of a licking Electuary, or the green Root doth wonderfully help those that are pursy and short winded, as also those that have a Cough; it breaketh, digesteth, and riddeth away phlegm from the Stomach, 
phlegm, Disury, Terms, provokes, Afterbirth Ulcers, Itch, Ruptures, Polipus, Eyes, Throat, Jaws, Gout, Piles, or Hemorrhoids, Fundament falling down, Scurf, Freckles, Spots, Blemishes.  Chest, and Lungs. The Milk wherein the Root hath been boiled is effectual also for the same purpose. The said powder taken in Wine or other Drink; or the juice of the Berries, or the powder of them, or the Wine wherein they have been boiled, provoketh Urine, and bringeth down Womens Courses, and purgeth them effectually after Child-bearing to bring away the After-birth. Taken with Sheeps Milk it healeth the inward Ulcers of the Bowels. The distilled Water hereof is effectual to al the purposes aforesaid; A spoonful taken at a time healeth the Itch; and an ounce or more taken at a time for some daies together doth help the rapture: The leaves either green or dry, or the juice of them, doth cleanse al manner of rotten and filthy Ulcers in what part of the Body soever, and healeth the stinking sores in the Nose called Polipus. The Water wherein the Root hath been boiled dropped into the Eyes, cleanseth them from any Film or Skin, Clouds or Mists which begin to hinder the Sight, and helpeth the watering or redness of them; or when by some chance they become black and blue. The Root mixed with Bean Flower and applied to the Throat or Jaws that are inflamed, helpeth them. The juice of the Berries, boiled in oil of Roses, or beaten into powder and mixed with the oil, and dropped into the Ears, easeth pains in them. The Berries or the Roots beaten with hot Ox Dung, and applied, easeth the pains of the Gout. The leaves and Roots boiled in Wine with a little oil, and applied to the Piles, or the falling down of the Fundament easeth them; and so doth sitting over the hot fumes thereof. The fresh Roots bruised, and distilled with a little Milk, yieldeth a most sovereign Water to cleanse the Skin fro● Scurf, Freckles, Spots, or Blemishes whatsoever therein.  
Authors have left large Commendation of this Herb you see, but for my part I have neither spoken with Dr. Reason nor Dr. Experience about it.   

cucumbers, Or,( according to the pronunciation of the vulgar) cucumbers.  
Government& virtues.] THere is no dispute to be made, but that they are under the Dominion of the Moon, and though they are so much cried out against for their coldness, and that if they were but one degree colder they would be poison, 
Stomach het, Liver hot, Humors raw, Skin cleanseth, Hot rheums in the Eyes, provokes Urin, and cleanse the Passages, Ulcers in the Bladder, read Face, Sunburning, Freckles, Morphew.  the best of Galenists hold them but to be could and moist in the second degree, and then not so hot as either lettuce or purslane: They are excellent good for hot Stomachs and hot Livers; the unmeasurable use of them fills the Body full of raw humors, and so indeed the unmeasurable use of any thing else do harm: The juice of cucumbers, the Face being washed with it, cleanseth the Skin, and is excellent good for hot rheums in the Eyes; the Seed is excellent to provoke Urine, and cleanse the passages thereof when they are stopped; neither do I think there is a better Remedy for Ulcers in the Bladder growing than cucumbers are: The usual course is to use the Seeds in Emultions, as they make Almond Milk; but a better way far( in my opinion) is this, when the season of the year is, To take the cucumbers and bruise them well, and distill the Water from them, and let such as are troubled with Ulcers in their Bladders drink no other drink; The Face being washed with the same Water, cureth the reddest face that is; it is also excellent good for Sunburning, Freckles, and Morphew.   

Daisies.  
THese are so well known to almost every Child, that I suppose it is altogether needless to writ any Description of them. Take therefore the virtues of them as followeth.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is under the Sign Cancer, and under the Dominion of Venus, and therfore excellent good for wounds in the Breast, and very fitting to be kept both in oils, ointments, and plasters, as also in Syrup. The greater wild Daisie is a Wound Herb of good respect, often used in those Drinks or Salves that are for Wounds, 
Wounds, inward& outward, choler, Liver, Breast, Ulcers, Swellings, Kernels, Bruises, Falls, Ruptures, Burnings, inflammations.  either inward or outward. The juice or Distilled Water of these, or the small Daisies, doth much temper the heat of choler, and refresheth the Liver, and other inward parts. A Decoction made of them and drunk, helpeth to cure the Wounds made in the hollowness of the Breast: The same also cureth all Ulcers and pustules in the Mouth or Tongue, or in the secret parts. The leaves bruised and applied to the Cods, or to any other parts that are swollen and hot, doth desolve it and temper the heat: A Decoction made hereof with Walwort and Agrimony, and the places fomented or bathed therewith warm, giveth great ease to them that are troubled with the palsy, Sciatica, or the Gout: The same also disperseth and dissolveth the Knots or Kernels that grow in the Flesh of any part of the Body, and the Bruises and Hurts that come of Fals and Blows: They are also used for Ruptures, and other inward Burnings with very good success. An ointment made hereof doth wonderfully help all Wounds that have inflammations about them, or by reason of moist humors having access unto them, are kept long from healing, and such are those for the most part that happen in the joints of the Arms or Legs. The juice of them dropped into the running Eyes of any doth much help them.   

Dandelyon, vulgarly called Piss-a-beds.  
Descript.] THis is so well known to have many long and deeply gashed leaves lying on the ground, round about the Head of the Root; the ends of each gash or jag on both sides, looking downward towards the Root, the middle rib being white, which broken, yieldeth abundance of bitter Milk, but the Root much more: from among the leaves which always abide green, arise many slender, weak, naked footstalks, every one of them bearing at the top one large yellow Flower, consisting of many rows of yellow leaves, broad at the points, and nicked in, with a deep spot of yellow in the middle, which growing ripe, the green Husk wherein the Flower stood, turneth itself down to the Stalk, and the head of Down becometh as round as a Ball, with long reddish Seed underneath, bearing a part of the Down on the Head of every one, which together is blown away with the wind, or may be at once blown away with ones mouth. The Root groweth downward exceeding deep, which being broken off within the ground, will notwithstanding shoot forth again; and will hardly be destroyed where it hath once taken deep Root in the ground.  
Place.] It groweth frequent in al Meadows and Pasture grounds.  
Time.] It Flowreth in one place or other almost al the year long.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Jupiter. It is of an opening and cleansing quality, and therfore very effectual for the Obstructions of the Liver, 
Openeth, cleanseth, Obstructions, Liver, gull, Spleen, Jaundice, hypochondrical, melancholy, Disury, Consumption, Cachexia, Watching, heat, ague, Pestilence.  gull, and Spleen, and the Diseases that arise from them, as the Jaundice, and Hypochondrical passion: It wonderfully openeth the passages of the Urin both in young and old: It powerfully cleanseth apostemes, and inward in the Uritory Passages, and by the drying and temperate quality doth afterwards heal them; for which purpose the Decoction of the Roots or leaves in white Wine, or the leaves chopped as Potherbs with a few Allisanders, and boiled in their broth, is very effectual. And whoso is drawing towards a consumption, or an evil disposition of the whole Body called Cachexia, by the use hereof for some time together shal find a wonderful help: It helpeth also to procure rest and sleep to Bodies distempered by the heat of Ague Fits, or otherwise. The distilled Water is effectual to drink in Pestilential fevers, and to wash the Sores.  
You see here what virtues this common Herb hath, and that's the reason the French& Dutch so often eat them in the Spring; and now if you look a little further you may see plainly without a pair of Spectacles, that foreign Physitians are not so selfish as our are but more communicative of the virtues of Plants to People.   

Darnel.  
IT is also called Juray, and Wray; in Sussex they call it Crop, it being a pestilent Enemy amongst Corn.  
Descript.] This hath all the Winter long, sundry long, fat, and rough leaves, which when the Stalk riseth, which is slender and jointed, are narrower, but rough stil; on the top groweth a long spik, composed of many Heads, set one above another, containing two or three Husks with sharp, but short Beards or awns at the ends; the Seed is easily shaked out of the Ear, the Husk itself being somewhat tough.  
Place.] The Country Husbandmen do know this too well to grow among their Corn: or in the Borders and Pathwaies of other Fields that are fallow.  
Government and virtues.] It is a malicious Plant of sullen Saturn. As it is not without some Vices, so hath it also many virtues. The Meal of Darnel is very good to stay Gangreans, 
Gangrenes Cankers, leprosy, Morphew, Ringworms, Sciatica, Thorns, Splinters, broken Bones, Diabets.  and other such like freting and eating Cankers, and putrid Sores: It also cleanseth the Skin of al leprosies, Morphews, Ringworms, and the like, if it be used with Salt and Rhadish Roots. And being used with quick Brimstone and Vinegar, it dissolveth Knots and Kernels, and breaketh those that are hard to be dissolved, being boiled in Wine with pigeons Dung and Linseed: A Decoction therof made with Water and Honey, and the place bathed therwith, is profitable for the Sciatica. Darnel Meal applied in a Pultiss, draweth forth Splinters and broken Bones in the Flesh: The read Darnel boiled in read Wine and taken, stayeth the Lask and al other fluxes, and Womens bloody Issues; and restraineth Urin that passeth away too suddenly.   

Dill.  
Descript.] THe common Dill groweth up with seldom more than one Stalk, neither so high, nor so great usually as Fennel, being round, and with fewer joints thereon, whose leaves are sadder, and somewhat long, and so like Fennel that it deceiveth many, but harder in handling and somewhat thicker, and of a stronger unpleasanter scent: The tops of the Stalks have four Branches and smaller Umbels of yellow flowers, which turn into small Seed somewhat flatter and thinner than Fennel Seed. The Root is somewhat small and woody, perishing every year after it hath born Seed; and is also unprofitable, being never put to any use.  
Place.] It is most usually sown in Gardens, and grounds for the purpose, and is also found wild with us in some places.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury hath the Dominion of the Plant, and therfore to be sure it strengtheners the Brain. The Dill being boiled and drunk is good to eas Swellings and pains, 
Swellings, Pains, looseness, Vomiting, Mother, Hiccough, Raw humors, Wind, Apostums, Ulcers, Terms provokes.  it also stayeth the Belly, and Stomach from casting: The Decoction thereof helpeth Women that are troubled with the pains and windiness of the Mother, if they sit therein. It stayeth the Hiccough, being boiled in Wine, and but smelled unto, being tied in a cloth. The Seed is of more use than the leaves, and more effectual to digest raw and viscuous humors, and is used in Medicines that serve to expel wind and the pains proceeding there; from. The Seed being toasted or fried, and used in oils or plasters, dissolveth the Imposthumes in the Fundament, and drieth up all moist Ulcers( especially in the secret parts.) The oil made of Dill is effectual to warm, to resolve Humors and Imposthums, to eas pains and to procure rest. The Decoction of Dill be it Herb or Seed( only if boil the Seed you must bruise it) in white Wine, being drunk is a gallant expeller of Wind and provoker of the Terms.   

Devils-bit.  
Descript.] THis riseth up with a round, green, smooth stalk, about two foot high, set with divers long, and somewhat narrow, smooth, dark, green leaves, somewhat snip'd about the edges for the most part, being else al whole and not divided at al, or but very seldom, even to the tops of the Branches which yet are smaller than those below, with one Rib only in the middle: At the end of each Branch standeth a round Head of many Flowers set together in the same manner or more neatly than the Scabious, and of a more bluish purple colour; which being past there followeth Seed that falleth away. The Root is somewhat thick, but short and blackish with many strings, 
A Learned Tale that cost a dull friar seven yeers study.  abiding after Seed time many yeers. This Root was longer until the Devil( as the friars say) bit away the rest of it for spite, envying its usefulness unto Mankind. For-sure he was not troubled with any disease for which it is proper.  
There are two other sorts hereof, in nothing unlike the former, save that the one beareth white, and the other blushy coloured Flowers.  
Place.] The first groweth as well in dry Meadows and Fields, as moist, in many places of this Land: But the other two are more rare, and hard to meet with, yet they are both found growing wild about Appledore, near Rye in Kent.  
Time.] They flower not usually until August.  
Government and virtues.] The Plant is Venerial, pleasing and harmless.  
The Herb or Root( al that the Devil hath left of it) being boiled in Wine and drunk is very powerful against the Plague, 
Pestilence, fevers, poison, venomous Beasts, Bruises, Fals, Clotted Blood, Swellings of the Throat, Mother, Wind, Worms, Wounds Scurf, Itch, Dandrif, Pimples, Freckles, Morphew.  and al Pestilential Diseases or fevers, poisons also and the bitings of venomous Beasts: It also helpeth those that are inwardly bruised by any casualty, or outwardly by fals or blows, dissolving the clotted blood: and the Herb or Root beaten and outwardly applied, taketh away the black and blue Marks that remain in the Skin. The Decoction of the Herb, with Honey of Roses put therein is very effectual to help the inveterate tumours and swellings of the Almonds and Throat, by often gargling the Mouth therwith. It helpeth also to procure Womens Courses, and easeth all pains of the Mother, and to break and discuss Winds therein and in the Bowels. The powder of the Root taken in Drink, driveth forth the Worms in the Body: The juice or distilled Water of the Herb is effectual for green Wounds, or old Sores, and cleanseth the Body inwardly, and the Seed outwardly, from Sores, Scurf, Itches, Pimples, Freckles, Morphew, or other deformities thereof, but especially if a little Vitriol be dissolved therein.   

Dock.  
THese are so well known many kinds of them, that I shal not trouble you with a Description of them; my Book grows big too fast.  
Government and virtues.] All Docks are under Jupiter; of which the read Dock which is commonly called Bloodwort, 
cleanse the Blood, strengtheners the Liver,  cleanseth the Blood, and strengtheneth the Liver; but the yellow Dock Root is best to be taken when either the Blood or Liver is afflicted by choler. All of them have a kind of cooling( but not all alike) drying quality, the Sorrels being most could, and the Bloodworts most drying: 
Flux, Loathing of Meat, Spitting Blood, Scabs, Itch, Freckles, Morphew.  Of the Bur-Dock I have spoken already by himself. The Seed of most of the other kinds whether of the Garden or Field, do stay Lasks or Fluxes of al sorts, the loathings of the stomach through choler, and is helpful to those that spit Blood. The Roots boiled in Vinegar helpeth the Itch, Scabs, and breakings out of the Skin, if it be bathed therewith. The Distilled Water of the Herb and Roots hath the same virtue, and cleanseth the Skin of Freckles, Morphews, and al other Spots and Discolorings therein.  
Al Docks being boiled with meat, make it boiled the sooner: Beside Bloodwort is exceeding strengthening to the Liver, and procures good Blood, being as wholesome a Pot Herb as any grows in a Garden, yet such is the nicety of our times forsooth, that Women will not put it in the Pot because it makes the Portage black, Pride and Ignorance( a couple of Monsters in the Creation) preferring nicety before Health.   

Dodder of Time, or Epithimum, and other Dodders.  
Descript.] THis first from Seeds giveth Roots in the ground, which shooteth forth thirds or strings, grosser or finer, as the property of the Plant wherein it groweth, and the Climate doth suffer, creeping and spreading on that Plant whereon it fasteneth, be it high or low. These strings have no leaves at all upon them, but wind and interlace themselves so thick upon a small Plant that it taketh away all comfort of the Sun from it, and is ready to choke, or strangle it: After these strings are risen up to that height that they may draw Nourishment from the Plant, they seem to be broken off from the ground, either by the strength of their rising, or withered by the heat of the Sun. Upon these strings are found clusters of small Heads or Husks, out of which start forth whitish Flowers, which afrerwards give small pale coloured Seed somewhat flat, and twice as big as Poppy seed. It generally participates of the Nature of that Plant which it climbeth upon, but the Dodder of Time is accounted the best, and is the only true Epithimum.  
Government and virtues.] Al Dodders are under Saturn, Tel not me of Physitians crying up Epithimum, or that Dodder which grows upon Time( most of which comes from Hymettus in Greece, or Hibla in Sicilia, because those Mountains abound with Time) he is a physician indeed that hath wit enough to choose his Dodder according to the nature of the disease, and humour peccant: We confess, Time is the hottest Herb it usually grows upon, and therfore that which grows upon Time is hotter than that which grows upon colder Herbs, for it draws Nourishment fromwhat it grows upon as well as from the Earth where its Root is;& thus you see old Saturn wise enough to have two strings to his Bow. This is accounted the most effectual for Melanchollick Diseases, 
melancholy, Addust choler, trembling, fainting, Swooning, Spleen, Hypochondria, Obstructions, gull, Jaundice, Liver,  and to purge black or burnt choler, which is the cause of many Diseases of the Head and Brains, as also for the trembling of the Heart, faintings, and swoonings. It is helpful in al Diseases and Griefs of the Spleen, and of that melancholy that ariseth from the windiness of the Hypochondria. It purgeth also the Reins or kidneys by Urin. It openeth Obstructions of the gull, whereby it profiteth them that have the Jaundice; as also of the Liver and Spleen; purging the Veins of choleric and Flegmatick Humors, and helpeth Childrens Agues, a little Wormseed being put thereto.  
The other Dodders do( as I said before) participate of the Nature of those Plants whereon they grow: As that which hath been found growing upon Nettles in the West Country, hath by experience been found very effectual to procure plenty of Urin, 
Disury.  where it hath been stopped or hindered. And so of the rest.  
Sympathy and Antipathy, are the two Hinges upon which the whole Model of physic turns, and that physician which minds them not is like a Door off from the Hooks, more likely to do a man a mischief than to secure him: then al the Diseases Saturn causeth, this helps by Sympathy, and strengtheners al the parts of the Body he rules: Such as caused by Sol it helps by Antipathy: what those Diseases are, see my judgement of Diseases by Astrology, and you be pleased to look the Herb Wormwood, you shal find a Rational way for it.   

Dogs-Grass, Quich-Grass, Or, Couch-Grass.  
Descript.] IT is well known that this Grass creepeth far about under ground with long white jointed Roots, and small fibres almost at every joint very sweet in taste, as the rest of the Herb is, and interlacing one another, from whence shoot forth many fair long grassy leaves. small at the ends, and cutting or sharp on the edges. The Stalks are jointed l●ke Corn with the like leaves on them, and a long spiked Head with long H●●ks on them, and hard rough Seed in them. If you know it not by this Description, watch the Dogs when they are sick, and they will quickly led you to it.  
Place.] It groweth commonly through this Land in divers ploughed grounds, to the no small trouble to the Husbandman, as also of the Gardiners in Gardens to weed it out if they can, for it is a constant Customer to the place it gets footing in.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis a gentle Remedy under the Dominion of Jupiter. This is the most Medicinable of al the Quich-grasses: Being boiled and drunk, it openeth Obstructions of the Liver and gull, 
Liver, gull, Disury, gripping, inflammation, Ulcers in the Bladder, Wounds, Vomiting, Worms, stoping.  and the stoppings of the Urin, and easeth the gripping pains of the Belly, and inflammations; wasteth the matter of the ston in the Bladder, and the Ulcers therof also: The Roots bruised and applied doth consolidate Wounds: The Seed doth more powerfully expel Urin, and stayeth the Lask, and Vomitings: The distilled Water alone, or with a little Wormseed killeth the Worms in Children.  
The way of use is to bruise the Roots, and having well boiled them in white Wine, drink the Decoction; 'tis opening, but not purging very safe; 'tis a Remedy against al Diseases coming of stoping,& such are half those which are incident to the Body of man; and although a gardener be of another opinion, yet a physician holds half an Acre of them to be worth five Acres of Carrots twice  told over.   

Dovesfoot, or Cranesbil.  
Descript.] THis hath divers small, round, pale, green leaves, cut in about the edges, much like meadows, standing upon long, reddish hairy stalks lying in a round compass upon the ground; among which rise up two or three, or more, reddish, jointed, slender, weak, and hairy Stalks, with some such like leaves thereon, but smaller, and more cut in up to the tops, where grow many very small, bright, read Flowers of five leaves apiece; after which follow small Heads, with small short beaks pointing forth, as all other sorts of these Herbs do.  
Place.] It groweth in Pasture grounds, and by the Path sides in many places, and will also be in Gardens.  
Time.] It flowreth in June, July, and August, some earlier, and some later, and the Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is a very gentle, though marshal Plant: It is found by experience to be singular good for the Wind colic, 
colic, ston, Gravel, Wounds, Congealed Blood, Sores, Ulcers, Fistulaes, Gout, Sinews, Ruptures.  and pains thereof, as also to expel the ston and gravel in the kidneys. The Decoction thereof in Wine is an exceeding good wound Drink for those that have inward Wounds, Hurts, or Bruises, both to stay the Bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed Blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward Sores, Ulcers, and Fistulaes; and for green Wounds many do but bruise the Herb, and apply it to the place, and it healeth them quickly. The same Decoction in Wine fomented to any place pained with the Gout, or to Joynt-aches, or pain of the Sinews giveth much ease. The powder, or Decoction of the Herb taken for some time together, is found by experience to be singular good for Ruptures, and Burstings in People, either young or old.   

Ducks-meat.  
THis is so well known to swim on the top of standing Waters, as pounds, Pools, and Ditches, that it is needless further to describe it.  
Government and virtues.] Cancer claims the Herb, and the Moon will be Lady of it; a word is enough to a wise man. It is effectual to help inflammations, 
inflammations, St. Anthonies fire, pestilence, Eyes, Swellings of the Cods, headache.  and St. Anthonies fire, as also the Gout, either applied by itself, or in a Pultis with barley Meal. The distilled Water hereof is by some highly esteemed, against al inward inflammations, and Pestilent fevers; as also to help the redness of the Eyes, the Swellings of the Cods, and of the Breasts before they be grown too much. The fresh Herb applied to the Forehead, easeth the Pains of the headache coming of heat.   

Down, or Cotton-Thistle.  
Descript.] THis hath many large leaves lying on the ground, somewhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a green colour on the uper side, but covered with a long hairy wool, or Cottony Down, set with most sharp, and cruel pricks; from the middle of whose Heads of Flowers, thrust forth many purplish, crimson Treds, and sometimes( although more seldom) white ones. The Seed that followeth in these Heads, lying in a great deal of fine white Down is somewhat large, long, and round, like the Seed of Ladies Thistle, but somewhat paler. The Root is great and thick, spreading much, yet it usually death after Seed time.  
Place.] It groweth on divers Ditches Banks, and in the Corn Fields, and highways generally every where throughout the Land.  
Time.] It Flowreth and beareth Seed about the end of Summer, when other Thistles do Flower and Seed.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns the Plant, and manifests to the World, That though it may hurt your Fingers it will help your Body, for I fancy it much for these ensuing virtues. Pliny and Dioscorides writ, That the leaves and Roots hereof taken in Drink, helpeth those that have a Crick in their Neck, 
●ry Neck,  whereby they cannot turn their Neck but their whole Body must turn also( sure they do not mean those that have got a Crick in their Neck by being under the Hangmans hands.) Galen saith that the Root and leaves hereof are of an heating quality, and good for such persons as have their Bodies drawn together by some Spasme or Convulsion; 
Spasmus, convulsion Rickets.  as it is with Children that have the Rickets, or rather( as the college of Physitians will have it) the Rachites, for which name for the Disease, they have( in a particular Treatise lately set forth by them) Learnedly Disputed, and put forth to the public view, that the World may see they took much pains to little purpose.   

Dragons.  
THey are so well known to every one that plants them in their Gardens, they need no Description; if not, let them look down towards the lower end of the stalk, and see how like a Snake they look.  
Government and virtues.] The Plant is under the Dominion of Mars, and therefroe it would be a wonder if it should want some obnoxious quality or other: in al Herbs of that quality, the safest way is either to distill the Herb in an alembic, in what Vehecle you please, or else to press out the juice, and distill that in a Glass Stil in Sand, it scoureth and cleanseth the internal parts of the Body mightily, 
Scoureth, cleanseth, freekles, Morphew, Sunburning, Wounds, ulcers, Cankers, Polipus, spots in the Eyes, Pin and Web, sight helpeth, Pestilence, poison, venomous Beasts,  and so it doth the external parts also, being externally applied from Freckles, Morphew, and Sunburning: your best way to use it externally, is to mix it with Vinegar: an ointment of it is held to be good in Wounds and Ulcers, it consumes Cankers, and that flesh growing in the Nostrils, which they call Polipus. Also the distilled Water being dropped into the Eyes, takes away spots there, as also Pin and Web, and amends the dimness of sight; it is excellent good against the Pestilence and poisons. Pliny and Dioscrides affirm that no Serpent will meddle with him that carries this Herb about him.   

The Elder-Tree.  
I Hold it needless to writ any Description of this, sith every Boy that plays with a Potgun, will not mistake another three instead of Elder. I shal therfore in this place only describe the Dwarf Elder, called also Danewort, and Wal-wort.   

The Dwarf Elder.  
Descript.] THis is but an Herb, every year dying with his Stalks to the ground, and rising again afresh every Spring; and is like unto the Elders both in form and quality, rising up with a four square rough hairy Stalk, four foot high, or more sometimes. The winged leaves are somewhat narrower than the Elder, but else very like them. The Flowers are white with a dash of purple, standing in Umbels, very like the Elder also, but more sweet in scent, after which come small blackish Berries, full of juice while they are fresh, wherein there lye small hard Kernels or Seed. The Root doth creep under the uper crust of the ground, springing afresh in divers places being of the bigness of ones finger or thumb sometimes.  
Place.] The Elder three groweth in Hedges, being planted there to strengthen the Fences, and Partitions of Grounds, and to hold up the Banks by Ditches, and Water-courses.  
The Dwarf Elder groweth wild in many places of England, where being once gotten into a ground it is not easily gotten forth again.  
Times.] Most of the Elder Trees Flower in June, and their Fruit is ripe for the most part in August.  
But the Dwarf Elder, or Walwort flowreth somewhat later, and his fruit is not ripe until September.  
Government and virtues.] Both Elder and Dwarf Elder are under the Dominion of Venus. The first Shoots of the common Elder boiled like Asparagus, and the young leaves and Stalks boiled in fat Broth, doth mightily carry forth phlegm and choler. 
phlegm, Coller, dropsy, venomous Beasts, mad dogs, Terms, provokes, inflammation, Brain, Ears, Urin provokes, Sunburning, Freckles, morphew, headache, Ulcers, palsy.  The middle or inward Bark boiled in Water, and given to drink, worketh much more violently; and the Berries either green or dry, expel the same Humors, and is often given with good success to help the dropsy. The Bark of the Root boiled in Wine, or the juice therof drunk, worketh the same effects, but more powerfully than either the leaves or Fruit. The juice of the Root taken doth mightily provoke Vomit, and purgeth the watery humors of the dropsy. The Decoction of the Root taken, cureth the biting of the Adder, and biting of mad dogs; it mollifieth the hardness of the Mother, if Women sit therein, and openeth the Veins, and bringeth down their Courses: The Berries boiled in Wine performeth the same effect; and the hair of the Head washed therewiih is made black. The juice of the green leaves applied to the hot inflammations of the Eyes, assuageth them. The juice of the leaves snuffed up into the Nostrils, purgeth the Tunicles of the Brain. The juice of the Berries boiled with a little Honey, and dropped into the Ears, helpeth the pains of them. The Decoction of the Berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urin. The distilled Water of the Flowers is of much use to clear the Skin from Sunburning, Freckles, Morphew, or the like; and taketh away Headaches coming of a could cause, the Head being bathed therwith. The leaves or Flowers distilled in the Month of May, and the Legs often washed with the said distilled Water it taketh away the Ulcers and Sores of them: The Eyes washed therwith, it taketh away the redness and Bloodshot: And the Hands washed morning and evening therewith, helpeth the palsy, and shaking of them.  
The Dwarf Elder is more powerful than the Common Elder, 
Gout, inflammation, Burning, Scalding, colic, ston, Disury.  in opening and purging choler, phlegm, and Water, in helping the Gout, Piles, and Womens Diseases, coloreth the hair black, helpeth inflammation in the Eyes, and pains in the Ears, the biting of Serpents, or a mad dog, Burnings and Scaldings, the wind colic, colic and ston, the difficulty of Urin, the cure of old Sores, and Fistulous Ulcers.  
Either leaves or Bark of Elder stripped upwards as you gather it, causeth Vomiting, but stripped downward, it purgeth downward. Also Dr. Butler in a Manuscript of his commend Dwarf Elder to the Sky for Dropsies, viz. To drink it being boiled in white Wine, to drink the Decoction I mean, not the Elder.   

The Elm three.  
THis three is so well known, growing generally in al Countries of this Land; that it is needless to describe it.  
Government and virtues.] It is a could and Saturnine Plant, The leaves hereof bruised, and applied, healeth green wounds being bound thereon with its own Bark: 
Wounds, Scurf, leprosy. Beauty, Ruptures, Swillings, Baldness, Gout, burning.  The leaves or the Bark used with Vinegar, cureth Scurf, and Leprosy very effectually: The Decoction of the leaves, Bark, or Root, being bathed, healeth broken Bones. The Water that is found in the Bladders on the leaves, while it is fresh, is very effectual to cleanse the Skin and make it fair: and if clothes be often wet therein, and applied to the Ruptures of Children it helpeth them, if they be after well bound up with a Truss. The said Water put into a glass, and set in the Ground, or else in Dung for twenty five daies, the mouth therof being close stopped; and the bottom set upon a lay of ordinary Salt, that the Feces may settle and Water become very clear, is a singular and sovereign Balm for green Wounds, being used with soft tents: The Decoction of the Bark of the Root fomented mollifieth hard tumours, and the shrinking of the Sinews. The Roots of the Elm boiled for a long time in Water, and the fat rising on the top thereof being clean scummed off, and the place anointed therewith that is grown bald, and the Hair fallen away, will quickly restore them again. The said Bark ground with Brine and Pickle, until it come to the form of a Pultis, and laid on the place pained with the Gout, giveth great eas. The Decoction of the Bark in Water is excellent to bath such places as have been burned with fire.   

Endive.  
Descript.] THe common Garden Endive beareth a longer and a larger Leaf than Succory, and abideth but one year, quickly running up to Stalk and Seed, and then perisheth: It hath blue Flowers, and the Seed of the ordinary Endive is so like Succory Seed, that it is hard to distinguish them.  
Government and virtues.] It is a fine cooling, cleansing Jovial Plant. The Decoction of the leaves, or the juice, or the distilled Water of Endive serveth well to cool the excessive heat in the Liver and Stomach, 
Liver, Stomach, Agues, Sarpness of Urine, and Excoriations thereby, Passion of the heart, Ulcers, Swellings, Eyes, gout.  and in the hot fits of Agues, and al other inflammations in any part of the Body; it cooleth the heat and sharpness of the Urine, the Excoriations in the Uritory parts: The Seed is of the same property or rather more powerful, and besides is available for the faintings, swoonings, and passions of the Heart. Outwardly applied they serve to temper the sharp Humors of freting Ulcers, hot tumours and Swellings, and Pestilential sores; and wonderfully helpeth not only the redness and inflammation in the Eyes, but the dimness of the Sight also: They are also used to alloy the pains of the Gout.  
You cannot use it amiss; a Syrup of it is a fine cooling Medicine for fevers, See the end of this Book, and the Eng. Disp.   

Elecampane.  
Descript.] THis shooteth forth many large leaves, long, and broad, lying near the ground, small at both ends, somewhat soft in handling, of a whitish green on the uper side, and gray underneath, each set upon a short footstalk; from among which rise up divers great, and strong hairy stalks, three or four foot high, with some leaves thereupon compassing them about at the lower ends, and are branched toward the tops, bearing divers great and large Flowers like those of the Corn Marigold, both the Border of leaves and the middle thrum being yellow, which turn into Down, with long, small, brownish Seed among it, and is carried away with the wind. The Root is great and thick, branched forth divers ways, blackish on the outside, and white within, of a very bitter taste, and strong, but good scent, especially when they are dried, no part else of the Plant having any smell.  
Place.] It groweth in the moist Grounds, and shadowy place, oftener than in the dry and open Borders of Fields and Lanes, and in other wast places almost in every Country of this Land.  
Time.] It flowreth in the end of June and July, and the Seed is ripe in August: The Roots are gathered for use, as well in the Spring before the leaves come forth as in Autumn or Winter.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant under the Dominion of Mercury. The fresh Roots of Elecampane preserved with Sugar, or made into a Syrup or Conserve, are very effectual to warm a could and windy Stomach, 
could stomach, Wind, Stitch, Spleen, Cough, Shortness of breath, Wheesing, Terms provokes, Mother, ston, poison, venomous Beasts, Pestilence, Eyes, Worms, loose teeth, spitting Blood, Cramps, Convulsions, Gout, joints, Itch, Cankers, Freckles, Morphew, Spots.  or the pricking therein, and Stitches in the sides caused by the Spleen; and to help the Cough, shortness of breath, and wheesing in the Lungs. The dried Root made into powder, and mixed with Sugar and taken, serveth to the same purposes, and is also profitable for those that have their Urin stopped; or the stoping of Womens Courses, the pains of the Mother, and of the ston in the Reins, kidneys, or Bladder: It resisteth poison, and stayeth the spreading of the Venom of Serpents, as also of putrid and Pestilential fevers, and the Plague itself. The Roots and Herb beaten and put into new Ale or Beer, and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth, and quickeneth the Sight of the Eyes wonderfully. The Decoction of the Roots in Wine or the juice taken therein, killeth and driveth forth al manner of Worms in the Belly, Stomach, and Maw; and gargled in the Mouth, or the Root chewed fasteneth loose Teeth, and helpeth to keep them from putrefaction: And being drunk is good for those that spit Blood, helpeth to remove Cramps or Convulsions, and the pains of the Gout, the Sciatica, the looseness and pains in the joints, or those Members that are out of joint, by could or moisture happening to them, applied outwardly as well as inwardly, and is good for those that are bursten, or have any inward bruise. The Roots boiled well in Vinegar, beaten afterwards and made into an ointment with Hogs Suet, or oil of Trotters is an excellent remedy for Scabs or Itch in young or old: The places also bathed or washed with the Decoction doth the same; it also helpeth al sorts of filthy, old, putrid Sores or Cankers wheresoever. In the Roots of this Herb lieth the chief effect for al the Remedies aforesaid: The distilled Water of the leaves and Roots together is very profitable to cleanse the Skin of the Face or other Parts, from any Morphew, Spots, or Blemishes therein, and maketh it clear.   

Eringo, or, Sea-Holly.  
Descript.] THe first leaves of our ordinary Sea-Holly, are nothing so hard and prickly as when they grow old, being almost round and deeply dented about the edges; hard, and sharp pointed, and a little crumpled, of a bluish green colour, every one upon a long Footstalk: but those that grow up higher with the Stalk, do as it were compass it about. The stalk itself is round and strong, yet somewhat crested with joints, and leaves set thereat, but more divided, sharp, and prickly; and branches rising from thence, which have likewise other smaller branches, each of them bearing several bluish round prickly heads, with many small jagged, prickly leaves under them standing like a Star, and are sometimes found greenish or whitish: The Root groweth wonderful long, even to eight or ten foot in length, set with Rings or Circles, toward the uper part, but smooth and without joints down lower, brownish on the outside, and very white within, with a pith in the middle, of a pleasant taste, but much more being artificially preserved and candy'd with Sugar.  
Place.] It is found about the Sea Coasts, in almost every Country of this Land which bordereth upon the Sea.  
Time.] It Flowreth in the end of Summer, and giveth ripe Seed within a Month after.  
Government and virtues.] The Plant is Venerial, and breedeth Seed exceedingly and strengtheners the Spirit procreative, 
Seed breedeth, Obstructions, Spleen, Liver, yellow jaund. dropsy, colic, Disury, Strangury, Reins, French Pox, Kings Evil, venomous Beasts, Thorns, broken bones, Splinters, apostemes, Mecancholly, Quartan and Quotidian Agues, Wry Necks  it is hot and moist, and under the celestial balance. The Decoction of the Root hereof in Wine is very effectual to open the Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the dropsy, th●… pains in the loins, and wind colic, provoketh urine, and expelleth the ston, and procureth Womens Courses. The continued use of the Decoction for fifteen daies, taken fasting, and next to bedward, doth help the Strangury, the pissing by drops, the stoping of Urine and ston, and al defects of the Reins or kidneys; and if the said drink be continued longer, it is said that it perfectly cureth the ston, and that experience hath found it so: It is found good against the French Pox. The Roots bruised and applied outwardly, helpeth the Kernels of the Throat, commonly called the Kings evil; or taken inwardly and applied to the place stung or bitten by any Serpent, healeth it speedily. If the Roots be bruised and boiled in old Hogs Greas, or salted Lard and applied to broken Bones, Thorns, &c. remaining in the Flesh, doth not only draw them forth, but healeth up the place again, gathering new flesh where it was consumed: The juice of the leaves dropped into the Ears, helpeth Imposthumes therein: The distilled Water of the whole Herb when the leaves and Stalks are young, is profitably drunk for al the purposes aforesaid; and helpeth the melancholy of the Heart, and is available in Quartan and Quotidian Agues, as also for them that have their Necks drawn awry, and cannot turn them without turning their whole Body.   

Eyebright.  
Descript.] THe common Eyebright is a small low Herb, rising up usually but with one blackish, green stalk, a span high, or not much more, spread from the bottom into sundry branches, whereon are set small and almost round, yet pointed, dark, green leaves finely snipped about the edges, two always set together, and very thick: At the joints with the leaves from the middle upward, come forth small white Flowers stryped with purple and yellow spots or stripes; after which follow small round heads with very small seed therein. The Root is long, small, and threddy at the end.  
Place.] It groweth in many Meadows, and grassy places in this Land.  
Government and virtues.] Is is under the Sign of the lion, and Sol claims Dominion over it. If this Herb were but as much used as it is neglectes, it would half spoil the Spectacle-makers Trade; and a man would think that reason should teach people to prefer the preservation of their Natural, before Artificial Spectacles: which that they may be instructed how to do, take the virtues of Eyebright as followeth:  
The juice or distilled Water of Eyebright taken inwardly in white Wine or Broth, or dropped into the Eyes for divers daies together, 
Eyes, Dimness, Brain, Memory.  helpeth al infirmities of the Eyes that cause dimness of Sight: Some make a Conserve of the flowers to the same effect: Being used any of these ways it also helpeth a weak Brain or Memory. This tunned up with strong Beer that it may work together, and drunk: Or the powder of the dried herb mixed with Sugar, a little Mace, and Fennel-seeds, and drunk or eaten in broth: Or the said powder made into an Electuary with Sugar and taken, hath the same powerful effect to help and restore the sight decayed through age. And Arnoldus de villa nova, saith, It hath restored sight to them that have been blind a long time before.   

Fern.  
Descript.] OF this there are two kinds principally to be noted, viz. The Male and Female: The female groweth higher than the Male, but the leaves therof are lesser, and more divided or dented, and of as strong a smell as the Male: The virtues of them are both alike, and therfore I shal not trouble you with any further Description or distinction of them.  
Place.] They both grow on Heaths, and in shady places near the Hedgsides in al Countries of this Land.  
Time.] They flourish and give their seed at Midsummer.  
The female Fern is that Plant which is in Sussex called Brakes, the seed of which some Authors hold to be so rare, such a thing there is I know, and may easily be had upon Midsummer-eve, and for ought I know, two or three dayes before or after, if not more.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mercury, both the Male, and the Female. The Roots of both these sorts of Ferns, being bruised and boiled in Mead, or honeyed water, and drunk, killeth both the broad, and long Worms in the Body, and abateth the swelling, and hardness of the Spleen. 
Worms, Spleen, choler, phlegm, Stomach, Wounds, Ulcers, Serpents, Gnats, venomous Beasts.  The green leaves eaten, purgeth the Belly, and choleric and waterish humors, but it troubles the stomach. They are dangerous for Women with Child to meddle with, by reason they cause Abortment. The Roots bruised and boiled in oil, or Hogs-grease, maketh a very profitable ointment to heal Wounds, or pricks gotten into the Flesh. The powder of them used in soul Ulcers, drieth up their malignant moisture, and causeth their speedier healing: Fern being burned, the smoke therof driveth away Serpents, Gnats, and other noisome Creatures, which in the Fenny Countries do in the night time trouble and molest people lying in their Beds with their faces uncovered: it causeth barrenness.   

Osmond Royal, or Water-Fern.  
Descript.] THis shooteth forth in the spring time, for in the Winter the leaves perish, divers rough hard stalks, half round and hollowish, or flat on the other-side, two foot high, having divers branches of winged yellowish green leaves on al sides, set one against another, longer, narrower, and not nicked on the edges as the former: From the top of some of these stalks grow forth a long bush of small, and more yellowish, green, scaly aglets, as it were set in the same manner on the stalks as the leaves are, which are accounted the flower and seeds. The Root is rough, thick, and scaly, with a white pith in the middle, which is called the Heart therof.  
Place.] It groweth on Moors, Bogs, and Watery places in many parts of this Land.  
Time.] It is green al the Summer, and the Root only abideth in Winter.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns the Plant. This hath al the virtues mentioned in the former Ferns, and is much more effectual than they both ●or inward and outward Griefs, and is accounted singular good in Wounds, 
Wounds, Bruises, Broken, Bones, colic, Spleen, Ruptures.  Bruises, or the like: The Decoction to be drunk, or boiled into an ointment, or oil, as a balsam, or Balm, and so it is singular good against Bruises, and Bones broken or out of joint, and giveth much ease to the colic, and Spleenetick Diseases: as also for Ruptures, or Burstings. The Decoction of the Root in white Wine, provokes Urin exceedingly, and cleanseth the Bladder and passages of Urin.   

Featherfew.  
Descript.] COmmon Featherfew hath many large, fresh, green leaves, very much torn, or cut on the edges: The stalks are hard and round set with many such like leaves, but somewhat smaler, and at the tops stand many single flowers upon several small footstalks, consisting of many small white leaves, standing round about a yellow thrum in the middle. The Root is somewhat hard and short, with many strong fibres at it. The scent of the whole Plant is very strong, and stuffing, and the taste very bitter.  
Place.] This grow wild in some places of this Land, but it is for the most part nourished in Gardens.  
Time.] It flowereth in the Months of June, and July.  
Government and virtues.] Venus commands the Herb, and hath commanded it to succour her Sisters [ Women] and to be a general strengthener of their Wombs, and Remedy such infirmities as a careless Midwife hath there caused, if they will be but pleased to make use of her Herb boiled in white Wine, and drink the Decoction, it cleanseth the Womb, expelleth the After-birth, doth the Woman al the good she can desire of an Herb. And if any grumble because they cannot get the Herb in Winter, tel them, if they please, they may make a Syrup of it in Summer. It is chiefly used for the diseases of the Mother, whether it be the strangling or rising of the Mother, 
Mother, Womb, Terms provokes, Dead-birth, After-birth, Cough, Reins, Bladder, choler, phlegm, melancholy, Sadness, headache, Vertigo, Ague, Deformity of the skin Wind, colic, Opium.  or Hardness, or inflammations of the same, applied outwardly thereunto: Or a Decoction of the Flowers in Wine, with a little Nutmeg or Mace put therein, and drunk often in a day, is an approved Remedy to bring down Womens Courses speedily, and helpeth to expel the Dead-birth, and After-birth. For a Woman to sit over the hot fumes of the Decoction of the Herb made in Water, or Wine, is effectual also for the same: and in some cases, to apply the boiled Herb warm to the privy parts. The Decoction therof made, with some Sugar or Hony put thereto, is used by many with good success, to help the Cough and stuffing of the Chest by could, as also to cleanse the Reins and Bladder, and help to expel the ston in them. The powder of the Herb taken in Wine, with some oxymel, purgeth both choler and phlegm, and is available for those that are short winded, and are troubled with melancholy and Heaviness, or sadness of the Spirits. It is very effectual for al pains in the head coming of a could cause, the Herb being bruised, and applied to the crown of the head: as also for a Vertigo, that is a turning, or swimming in the head. The Decoction therof drunk warm, and the Herb bruised with a few corns of Bay-salt, and applied to the Wrists before the coming of the Ague fits, doth take them away. The Distilled water taketh away Freckls, and other spots and deformities in the Face. The Herb bruised and heated on a tile, with some Wine to moisten it, or fried with a little Wine and oil in a frying-pan, and applied warm outwardly to the places, helpeth the Wind and colic in the lower part of the Belly: It is an especial Remedy against Opium taken too liberally.   

Fennel.  
EVery Garden affordeth this so plentifully, that it needeth no Description Government and virtues.] One good old fashion is not yet left off, viz. To boil Fennel with Fish, for it consumes that flegmatick humour which Fish most plentifully afford and annoy the Body by, therfore it is a most fit herb for that purpose, though few that use it know why or wherefore they do it; I suppose the reason of its benefit this way is, because it is an Herb of Mercury, and under Virgo, and therfore bears Antipathy to Pisces. 
Wind, Disury, ston, increaseth Milk, Amends Milk, Hiccough, Loathing of meat, Venem. Beasts, poison, mushrooms, obstructions in the Liver, Spleen,& gull, yellow Jaundice, Gout Cramp, Wheesing, Terms, provoks, After-delivery, cleanse Open, Fatness, Eyes.  Fennel is good to break Wind, to provoke Urin, and ease the pains of the ston, and help to break it. The leaves or Seeds boiled in barley-water and drunk, is good for Nurses to increase their Milk, and make it more wholesome for the Child. The leaves, or rather the Seed boiled in water stayeth the Hiccough, and taketh away that loathing which oftentimes happeneth to the stomachs of sick, and feverish Persons, and allayeth the heat therof. The Seed boiled in Wine and drunk, is good for those that are bitten with Serpents, or have eaten poisonful Herbs, or mushrooms: The Seed and the Root much more helpeth to open Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and gull, and thereby helpeth the painful and windy swellings of the Spleen, and the yellow Jaundice, as also the Gout and Cramps. The Seed is of good use in Medicines to help shortness of breath, and Wheesing by stoping of the Lungs. It helpeth also to bring down the Courses, and to cleanse the Parts after delivery. The Roots are of most use in Physick-Drinks and Broths that are taken to cleanse the blood, to open Obstructions of the Liver, to provoke Urine, and amend the ill colour in the Face after sickness, and to cause a good habit through the Body: Both leaves, Seeds, and Roots hereof are much used in Drinks or Broths, to make people more spare and lean that are too fat. The Distilled Water of the whole Herb or the condensate juice dissolved, but especially the Natural juice that in hot Countries issueth out therof of its own accord, dropped into the Eyes, cleanseth them from Mists and Films that hinder the sight. The sweet Fennel is much weaker in Physical uses, than the common Fennel. The wild Fennel is stronger and hotter than the tame, and therfore most powerful against the ston, but not so effectual to increase Milk, because of its dryness.   

Sow-Fennel, or Hogs-Fennel.  
BEsides the common Name in English Hogs-Fennel, and the Latin name Peusidanum, it is called Hoar-strang, and Hoar-strong, Sulpher-wort, and Brimstone-wort.  
Descript.] The common Sow-Fennel hath divers branched stalks of thick and somewhat long leaves, three for the most part joined together at a place, among which riseth a crested straight stalk, less than Fennel, with some joints thereon, and leaves growing thereat, and toward the top so in Branches issuing from thence; likewise on the tops of the stalk and branches stand divers tufts of yellow Flowers, where after grow somewhat flat, thin, and yellowish seed, bigger than Fennel-seed. The Root groweth great and deep, with many other parts and fibres about them, of a strong scent like hot Brimstone, and yielding forth a yellowish milk, or clammy juice, almost like a Gum.  
Place.] It groweth plentifully in the salt low Marshes near by Feaversham in Kent.  
Time.] It flowereth and seedeth in July and August.  
Government and virtues.] This also is an Herb of Mercury. The juice of Sow-Fennel( saith Dioscorides and Galen) used with Vinegar and rose-water, or the juice with a little Euphorbium put to the nose, helpeth those that are troubled with the Lethargy, 
Lethargy, frenzy, Vertigo, Falling-sickness headache, palsy, Sciatica, Cramp, Sinews, Cough, shortness, of breath, Wind, Spleen, Childbirth, Reins, Bladder, Womb, Ears, Hollow Teeth, Ulcers, Broken bones, Thorns, wounds.  the frenzy, the turning or giddiness of the Head, the falling-sickness, long, and inveterate headache, the palsy, Sciatica, and the Cramp, and generally al the Diseases of the Sinews, used with oil and Vinegar. The juice dissolved in Wine, or put into an Eg, is good for the Cough, or shortness of Breath, and for those that are troubled with the Wind in the Body: It purgeth the Belly gently, helpeth the hardness of the Spleen, giveth ease to Women that have sore Travail in Childbirth, and easeth the pains of the Reins, and Bladder, and also of the Womb. A little of the juice dissolved in Wine and dropped into the Ears, easeth much of the pains in them; and put into an hollow-tooth, easeth the pain therof. The Root is less effectual in al the aforesaid Diseases: yet the powder of the Root cleanseth foul Ulcers being put into them: and taketh out splinters of Broken B●nes, or other things in the Flesh, and healeth them up perfectly: as also it drieth up old and inveterate running sores; and is of admirable virtue in al g●een Wounds.   

Fig-wort, or Throat-wort.  
Descript.] THe common great fig-wort sendeth forth divers great, strong, hard, square, brown stalks, three or four foot high, wherein grow large, hard, and dark green leaves, two at a joint, which are larger and harder than Nettle leaves, but not stinging: At the tops of the stalks stand many purple flowers set in husks, which are somewhat gaping and open, somewhat like those of Water-Betony: after which come hard round Heads, with a small point in the middle, wherein lye small brownish seed. The Root is great, white, and thick, with many branches at it growing aslope under the upper crust of the ground, which abideth many years, but keepeth not his green leaves in Winter.  
Place.] It groweth frequently in moist and shadowy Woods, and in the lower parts of the Fields and Meadows.  
Time.] It flowereth about July, and the seed will be ripe about a Month after the flowers are fallen.  
Government and virtues.] Some Latin Authors call it Cervicria, because 'tis appropriated to the Neck, and we Throatwort, because 'tis appropriated to the Throat. Venus own the Herb, and the celestial Bull will not deny it, therfore a better Remedy cannot be for the Kings Evil, because the Moon that rules the Disease is exalted there, nor for any Disease in the Neck, the rest of the Diseases specified, you may( if you look) see a very good Reason for their Cure by this Herb. The Decoction of the Herb taken inwardly, 
Congealed blood by Wound, bruis or Fall, Kings-Evil, Wens, Hemorrhoids, fundament, Ulcers, householdstuff, Spots, Freckls, Deformity, leprosy.  and the bruised Herb applied outwardly, dissolveth clotted or congealed blood within the Body, coming by any Wound, Bruise, or Fall; and is no less effectual for the Kings Evil, or any other Knots, Kernels, Bunches or Wens growing in the Flesh wheresoever, and for the Hemorrhoids, or Piles, or other Knobs, or Kernels which sometimes grow about the Fundament. An ointment made hereof, may be used at al times when the fresh Herb is not to be had. The distilled Water of the whole Plant, Roots and al, is used for the same purposes, and drieth up the superfluous virulent moisture of hollow and corroding Ulcers: It taketh away al redness, spots, and Freckls in the Face, as also the householdstuff, of any foul Deformity therein, and the leprosy likewise.   

Filipendula, or Dropwort.  
Descript.] THis sendeth forth many leaves, some bigger, some lesser, set on each side of a middle Rib, and each of them dented about the edges, somewhat resembling wild tansy, or rather Agrimony, but harder in handling; among which rise up one or more stalks two or three foot high, with like leaves growing thereon, and sometimes also divided into other branches spreading at the top into many white sweet smelling Flowers, consisting of five leaves apiece with some thirds in the middle of them standing together in a tuft, or umbel, each upon a small footstalk, which after they have been open and blown a good while, do fall away, and in their places appear small round chaffy heads like Buttons wherein are the chaffy Seed set and placed. The Root consists of many small black tuberous pieces, fastened together by many small, long, blackish strings which run from one to another.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of this Land, in the corners of dry Fields and meadows, and their hedg-sides.  
Time.] They flower in June and July, and their seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Venus, and is very effectual to open the Passages of the Urine, and help the Strangury, 
Disury, Strangury, Reins, Bladder, ston, Gravel, Wind, Lungs, Wheesing, hoarseness, Cough, phlegm.  and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins, helping mightily to expel the ston in the kidneys or Bladder, and the Gravel also, and these are done by taking the Roots in powder, or a Decoction of them in white Wine, whereunto a little Honey is added: The same also helpeth to expel the Afterbirth. The Roots made into powder, and mixed with honey into the form of an Electuary, doth much help them whose stomachs are swollen, dissolving and breaking the Wind which was the cause therof, and is also very effectual for al Diseases of the Lungs, as shortness of breath, wheezings, hoarseness of the Throat, and the Cough, and to expectorate could phlegm, or any other parts thereabouts. It is called Dropwort because it helps such as piss by drops.   

The Figtree.  
FOR to give a Description of a three so well known to every body that keeps it in their Garden, were needless; they prosper very well in our English Gardens, yet are fitter for Medicine than for any other profit which is gotten by the Fruit of them.  
Government and virtues.] The three is under the Dominion of Jupiter. The Milk which issueth out from the leaves or Branches when they are broken off, being dropped upon Warts takes them away. The Decoction of the leaves of a Fig-tree, 
Warts, headsore leprosy, Morphew, householdstuff, scabs, sores, ulcers, blood congealed caused by Bruises or Fals Bloudy-flux, kibes, Chilblains toothache, noise in the Ears, Deasness, biting of mad-Dogs, Venem. Beasts, Cough, hoarseness, shortness of Breath, Breast, Lungs, dropsy, Falling-sickness, Lice.  is excellent good to wash sore Heads withal: neither is there scarcely a better Remedy for the leprosy then it is; it clears the Face also of Morphew, and the body of white scurf, moist scabs, and running sores if it be dropped into old freting Ulcers, it cleanseth out the moisture and bringeth up the flesh, because you cannot have the leaves green al the year, you may make an ointment of them whilst you may: A Decoction of the leaves being drunk inwardly, or rather a Syrup made of them, dissolves congealed blood, caused by Bruises or Fals, and helps the Bloudy-flux: The Ashes of the Wood made into an ointment with Hogs-greas, helps Kibes and Chilblains: The juice being put into a hollow-tooth, easeth pain, as also pain and noise in the Ears being dropped into them, and deafness: An ointment made of the juice and Hogs-grease is as excellent a Remedy for the biting of a man Dog, or other venomous Beast as most is. A Syrup made of the Leaves or green fruit is excellent good for Coughs, hoarseness or shortness of Breath, and al Diseases of the Breast and Lungs. It is also excellent good for the dropsy, and falling-sickness. They say that the Fig-Tree as well as the Bay-Tree is never hurt by lightning; as also that a Bull if he be never so mad, if you tie him to a Fig-Tree will quickly become tame and gentle. As for such Figs as come from beyond Sea, I have little to say to them, because I writ not of Igsoticks; yet some Au●hors say the eating of them makes people lousy.   

The yellow Water-Flag, Or, flower-deluce.  
Descript.] THis groweth like the Flower-de-luces, but it hath much longer and narrower sad green leaves joined together in that fashion; the Stalk also groweth often times as high, bearing small yellow Flowers, shaped like the flower-deluce with three falling leaves, and other three arched that cover their bottoms; but instead of the three upright leaves as the flower-deluce hath, this hath only three short pieces standing in their places, after which succeed thick and long three square Heads containing in each part somewhat big and flat Seed like to those of the Flowerdeluces: The Root is long and slender, of a pale brownish colour on the outside, and of a hoar flesh colour on the inside, with many hard fibres thereat, and very harsh in taste.  
Place.] It usually groweth in watery Ditches, pounds, Lakes, and Moor sides which are always overflown with Water.  
Time.] It flowreth in July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Moon. The Root of this Water-flag is very astringent, cooling, and drying, 
Binds, cools, Dries, Flux, Bloody flux, Bleeding, Terms stops, Eyes, spots, Blemishes, inflammations, Sore Breasts, Cankers, Ulcers. Noli me tangere.  and thereby helpeth al Lasks and Fluxes, whether of blood, or humors, as bleeding at mouth, nose, or other parts, bloody fluxes, and the immoderate Flux of Womens Courses. The distilled water of the whole Herb, Flowers, and Roots, is a sovereign good Remedy for watering Eyes, both to be dropped into them, and to have clothes or sponges wetted therein and applied to the Forehead: It also helpeth the spots or blemishes that happen in or about the Eyes, or in any other parts: The said water fomented on swellings and hot inflammations of Womens sore Breasts, upon Cankers also,& those spreading Ulcers called Noli me tangere, doth much good: It helpeth also foul Ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman, or elsewhere. An ointment made of the Flowers is better for these external applications.   

Flaxweed, or Toadflax.  
Descript.] Our common Flaxweed hath divers Stalks full fraught with long and narrow blue or Ash-color'd leaves, and from the middle of them almost upward stored with a number of palo yellow Flowers, of a strong unpleasant scent, with deeper yellow mouths, and blackish flat Seeds in round Heads. The Root is somewhat woody and white, especially the main downright one, with many fibres, abiding many yeers, shooting forth Roots every way round about, and new Branches every year.  
Place.] This ●roweth throughout this Land, both by the way sides in Meadows, as also by hedge sides, and upon the sides of Banks and Borders of Fields.  
Time.] It flowreth in Summer, and the Seed is ripe usually before the end of August.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns the Herb: in Sussex we call it Gall-wort, and lay it in our Chickens water, to cure them of the gull I think, I am sure it releevs them when they are drooping. This is frequently used to provoke Urin being stopped, 
Disury, dropsy, Obstruction of the Liver, yellow Jaundice, dead child and After birth inflammations, Eyes, Ulcers, Cancers, Fistulaes, leprosy, Scabs, Pimples, Freckles.  and to spend the abundance of those watery humors by Urin which cause the dropsy. The Decoction of the Herb both leaves and Flowers in Wine, taken and drunk doth somewhat move the Belly downward, openeth obstructions of the Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, expelleth poison, provoketh Womens Courses, driveth forth the dead Child, and Afterbirth. The distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers is effectual for al the same purposes, esp ●ially being drunk with a dram of the powder of the Seeds, or Bark of the Root of Walwort, and a little Cinnamon for certain daies together, is held a singular Remedy for the dropsy: The juice of the Herb or the distilled Water dropped into the Eyes is a certain Remedy for al heat, inflammations and redness in them. The juice or water put into foul Ulcers whether they be cankerous or Fistulous, with tents rolled therein, or the parts washed or injected therwith cleanseth them thoroughly from the bottom, and healeth them up safely. The same juice or Water also cleanseth the Skin wonderfully of all sorts of deformity therof, as Lepry, Morphew, Scurf, Wheals, Pimples, or any other spots or marks in the Skin, applied of itself, or used with some powder of Lupines.   

Fleawort.  
Descript.] THe ordinary Fleawort riseth up with a Stalk two Foot high, or more, full of joints and Branches on every side up to the top, and at every joint two small, long, and narrow whitish green leaves somewhat hairy: At the tops of every Branch stand divers small short scaly or chaffy heads, out of which come forth small whitish yellow threads, like to those of the plantain Herbs, which are the Bloomings or Flowers. The seed enclosed in those Heads is small and shining while it is fresh very like unto pleas, both for colour and bigness, but turning black when it groweth old. The Root is not long but white, hard, and woody, perishing every year and rising again of its own Seed for divers yeers if it be suffered to  shed: The whole Plant is somewhat whitish and hairy, smelling somewhat like Rozin.  
There is another sort hereof differing not from the former in the manner of growing, but only that his stalk and branches being somewhat greater, do a little more bow down to the ground: The leaves are somewhat larger, the heads somewhat lesser, the Seed alike; and the Root and leaves abide al the Winter, and perish not as the former.  
Place.] The first groweth only in Gardens; the second plentifully in Fields that are near the Sea.  
Time.] They flower in July or thereabouts.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is could and dry, Saturnine: I suppose it obtained the name Fleawort because the Seeds are so like pleas. 
Flux, Corrosion, choleric humors, Agues, fevers, inflammation, Thirst, Hoarseness, salt humors, Pleur●sie, Hemorrboids, headache, Megrim, A●osthumes, Bluns, Wheals, bushes, Pu●ples, Gout, joints, Sciatica, Nipples, sore breasts, Ears, Worms, Ulcers.  The Seed fried and so taken stayeth the Flux or Lask of the Belly, and the corrosions that come by reason of hot, choleric, Sharp, and malignant Humors, or by the too much purging of any violent Medicine, as Scammony or the like. The Muccilage of the Seed made with Rose Water, and a little Sugar Candy put thereto is very good in al hot Agues and burning fevers, and other inflammations to cool the thirst, and lenifie the dryness and roughness of the Tongue and Throat. It helpeth also hoarseness of the voice, and Diseases of the Breast and Lungs caused by heat, or sharp salt humors, and the pleurisy also. The Muccilage of the Seed made in plantain Water, whereunto the Yolk of an Eg or two and a little Populeon is put, is a most safe and sure Remedy to ease the sharpness, prickings, and pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles, if it be laid on a cloth and bound thereto. It helpeth also al inflammations in any parts of the Body, and the pains that come thereby, as the headache and Megrim, and al hot Imposthumes or Swellings, or breakings out of the Skin, as Blains, Wheals, bushes, Purples, and the like; as also the pains of the joints, and of those that are out of joint; the pains of the Gout and Sciatica, the bursting of young Children, and the swelling of the Navel, applied with oil of Roses and Vinegar. It is also very good to heal the Nipples and sore Breasts of Women being often applied thereunto. The juice of the Herb with a little Honey put into the Ears helpeth the running of them, and the Worms breeding in them: The same also mixed with Hogs Grease, and applied to corrupt and filthy Ulcers and Sores, cleanseth and healeth them.   

Flixweed.  
Descript.] IT riseth up with a round upright hard stalk, four or five foot high, spread into sundry Branches, whereon grow many grayish green leaves very finely cut and severed into a number of short and almost round parts. The Flowers are very small and yellow growing spike fashion, after which come very small long Pods, with very small yellowish Seed in them. The Root is long and woody perishing every year.  
There is another sort differing in nothing, save only it hath somewhat broader leaves: They have a strong evil savour being smelled unto, and are of a drying taste.  
Place.] They grow wild in the Fields by hedge sides, and High ways, and among rubbish, and in many other places.  
Time.] They flower and Seed quickly after, namely in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] This Herb is Saturnine also. Both the Herb and Seed of Flixweed is of excellent use to stay the Flux or Lask of the Belly being drunk in Water wherein gads of steel heated have been often quenched; 
Flux, Bleeding, Bloody, Flux, Terms stops, broken Bones, Members disjointed, worms, Sores, Ulcers.  and is no less effectual for the said purpose than plantain or Comfry, and to restrain any other Flux of Blood in man or woman, as also to consolidate Bones broken, or out of joint. The juice therof drunk in Wine, or the Decoction of the Herb drunk, doth kill the Worms in the Stomach or Belly, or the Worms that grow in putrid and filthy Ulcers; And made into a salue doth quickly heal al old Sores, how foul or Malignant soever they be. The distilled Water of the Herb worketh the same effects although somewhat weaker, yet is a fair Medicine, and more acceptable to be taken.  
It is called Flixweed because it cures the Flux, and for its uniting broken Bones, &c. Paracelsus extols it to the Skies. It is fitting Syrupts, ointments, and plasters of it, were kept in your Houses.   

Flower-de-luce.  
IT is so well known, being nursed up in most Gardens, that I shal not need to spend time in writing a Description thereof.  
Time.] The Flaggy kinds thereof have the most Physical uses; the Dwarf kinds therof flower in April, the greater sorts in May.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is Lunar. The juice or Decoction of the green Roots of the Flaggy kind of flower-deluce, with a little Hony drunk, 
Stomach, phlegm, choler, jaundice, dropsy, Belly, sides, Agues, Liver, spleen, Stones, convulsion, Cramp, venomous Beasts, disury, colic, Terms provokes, Cough, sneezing, hemorrhoids, toothache, joints, sinews, gout, Sciatica, Womb, Rhewm, Breast, Wounds, Ulcers, fistulaes, Cankers.  doth purge and clens the Stomach of gross and tough phlegm and choler therein; it helpeth the Jaundice and the dropsy, by evacuating those humors both upwards and downward, and because it somewhat hurteth the Stomach, is not to be taken but with Honey and spikenard. The same being drunk doth eas the pains and torments of the Belly and sides, the shaking of Agues, the Diseases of the Liver and Spleen, the Worms in the Belly, the ston in the Reins, Convulsions or Cramps that come of could humors; it also helpeth those whose Seed passeth from them unawares; It is a Remedy against the bitings and stingings of venomous Creatures, being boiled in Water and Vinegar and drunk: Being boiled in Wine and drunk it provoketh Urine, helpeth the colic bringeth down Womens Courses; and made up into a Pessary with Honey, and put up into the Body, draweth forth the dead Child. It is much commended against the Cough to expectorate tough phlegm; It much easeth pains in the Head, and procureth sleep: Being put into the Nostrils it procureth sneezing, and thereby purgeth the Head of phlegm: The juice of the Root applied to the Piles or Hemorrhoids giveth much ease. The Decoction of the Roots gargled in the Mouth easeth the toothache, and helpeth a stinking breath. The oil called Oleum Irinum if it be rightly made of the great broad flag flower-deluce( and not of the great bulbous blue flower-deluce as is used by some Apothecaries) and Roots of the same of the Flaggy kinds is very effectual to warm and comfort al could joints and sinews, as also the Gout and Sciatica, and mollifieth, dissolveth, and consumeth tumours or Swellings in any part of the Body, as also of the Matrix: It helpeth the Cramp and Convulsion of the sinews: The Head and Temples anointed therewith helpeth the Catark or thin Rhewm distilling from thence; and used upon the Breast or Stomach, helpeth to extenuate the could tough phlegm. It helpeth also the pains and noise in the Ears, and the stench of the Nostrils. The Root itself either green or in powder, helpeth to cleanse, heal, and incarnate Wounds, and to cover the naked Bones with Blesh again that Ulcers have made bare; and is also very good to cleanse and heal up Fistulaes and Cankers that are hard to be cured.   

Fluellin, or Lluellin.  
Descript.] THis shooteth forth many long Branches partly lying upon the Ground, and part standing upright, set with almost round leaves, yet a little pointed, and sometimes more long than round, without order thereon, somewhat hoary, and of an evil greenish white colour; at the joints all along the Stalks, and with the leaves come forth small Flowers, one at a place, upon a very small short Footstalk, gaping somewhat like Snapdragons, or rather like Toadflax, with the uper Jaw of a yellow colour, and the lower of a purplish, with a small heel or spur behind, after which come small round Heads, containing small black Seed. The Root is small and threddy, dying every year, and raiseth itself again of its own sowing.  
There is another sort of Lluellin which hath longer Branches wholly trailing upon the ground two or three foot long, and sometimes more, thinner set with leaves thereon, upon small Footstalks. The leaves are a little larger and somewhat round, and cornered sometimes in some places on the edges; but the lower part of them being the broadest, hath on each side a small point, making it seem as if they were Ears, somewhat hairy, but not hoary, and of a better green colour than the former: The Flowers come forth like the former: but the colours therein are more white than yellow, and the purple not so fair, It is a larger flower, and so are the Seed, and Seed Vessels: The Root is like the other, and perisheth every year.  
Place.] They grow in divers Corn Fields, and in borders about them, and in other fertile grounds, about Southfleet in Kent abundantly, at Buckworth, hammerton, and Richwersworth in Huntington-shire; and in divers other places.  
Time.] They are in Flower about June and July, and the whole Plant is dry and withered before August be done.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Lunar Herb. The leaves bruised and applied with barley Meal to watering Eyes that are hot and inflamed by defluxions from the Head, 
Eyes, flux, Bloody Flux, Terms stops, Wounds, Ulcers, Cankers.  doth very much help them, as also the Fluxes of Blood or Humors, as the Lask, Bloody Flux, Womens Courses, and stayeth al manner of bleeding at Nose, Mouth, or any other place, or that cometh by any bruise or hurt, or bursting a Vein; and wonderfully it helpeth al those inward parts that need consolidating or strengthening: and is no less effectual both to heal and close green Wounds, as to cleanse or heal al foul or old Ulcers, freting or spreading Cankers or the like.  
Bees are industrious, and go abroad to gather Honey from each Plant and Flower, but Drones lye at home, and eat up what the Bees have taken pains for: Just so do our college of Physitians, lye at home and domineer, and suck out the sweetness of other Mens labours and Studies, themselves being as ignorant in the knowledge of Herbs as a Child of four yeers old, as I can make appear to any Rational man by their last Dispensatory; Now then to hid their Ignorance, there is not a readier way in the World, than to hid knowledge from their Country men, that so no body might be able so much as to smell out their Ignorance. When Simples were more in use, mens bodies were in better health by far than now they are, or shal be if the college can help it. The truth is, this Herb is of a fine cooling, dryin● quality, and an ointment or plaster of it, might do a man a cou●●ent ●a● hath any hot virulent Sores; 'tis admirable for the Ulcers of the French Pox, if taken inwardly may cure the disease. It was at first called Foemale Speedwel, but a Shentleman of Wales, whose Nose was almost eaten off with the Pox, and so near the matter, that the Doctors commanded it to be cut off, being cured by only the use of this Herb, to honor the Herb for saving her Nose whole, gave it one of her own Country names, Lluellin.   

Foxglove.  
Descript.] IT hath many long and broad leaves lying upon the ground deated about the edges, a little soft or woolly, and of a hoary green colour, among which rise up sometimes sundry Stalks, but one very often bearing such leaves thereon from the bottom to the middle, from whence to the top it is stored with large and long hollow reddish purple Flowers, a little more long and eminent at the lower edge, with some white spots within them, one above another, with small green leaves at every one, but all of them turning their heads one way, and hanging downward, having some threads also in the middle, from whence rise round heads pointed sharp at the ends, wherein small brown Seed lieth. The Roots are many small huskie fibres, and some greater strings among them: The Flower hath no scent, but the leaves have a bitter hot taste.  
Place.] It groweth on the dry sandy grounds for the most part, and as well on the higher as lower places under hedge sides in almost every Country of this Land.  
Time.] It seldom Flowreth before July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] The Plant is under the Dominion of Venus, being of a gentle cleansing Nature; and withal very friendly to Nature. 
Wounds, Clens, dry, Heat, Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen, Kings Evil, Falling-sickness, scabby Heads.  The Herb is familiarly and frequently used by the Italians to heal any fresh or green Wound, the leaves being but bruised and bound thereon; and the juice thereof is also used in old Sores, to clens, dry, and heal them. The Decoction hereof made up with some Sugar or Honey is available to clens and purge the Body, both upwards and downward sometimes of tough phlegm and clammy humors, and to open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen: It hath been found by experience to be available for the Kings Evil, the Herb bruised and applied, or an ointment made with the juice thereof, and so used: And a Decoction of two handfuls thereof with four Ounces of polypody in Ale, hath been found by late experience to cure divers of the Falling-sickness, that have been troubled with it above twenty yeers.  
myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best Remedies for a Scabby Head that is.   

Fumitory.  
Descript.] OUr common Fumitory is a tender sappy Herb, sending forth from one square, slender, weak Stalk, and leaning downward on al sides many Branches two or three foot long, with finely cut and jagged Leaves of a whitish, or rather bluish, Seagreen colour: At the tops of the Branches stand many small Flowers, as it were in a long spike one above another, made like little Birds of a reddish purple colour with whitish bellies: After which come small round Husks containing small black Seed. The Root is yellow, small, and not very long, full of juice while it is green, but quickly perishing with the ripe Seed: In the Corn Fields in cornwall this beareth white Flowers.  
Place.] It groweth in the Corn Fields almost every where as well as in Gardens.  
Time.] It Flowreth in May for the most part, and the Seed ripeneth shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns the Herb, and presents it to the World as a Cure for his own Diseases, and a strengthener of the parts of the Body he rules: If by my Astrological judgement of Diseases, from the Decombiture, you find Saturn Author of the disease, or if by Direction from a Nativity you fear a Saturnine disease approaching, you may by this Herb prevent it in the one, and cure it in the other: and therfore 'tis fit you keep a Syrup of it always by you. The juice or Syrup made therof, or the Decoction made in Whey by itself, with some other purging or opening Herbs and Roots to cause it to work the better, 
Liver, Spleen, choler, Adust, melancholy, Madness, Forgetfulness, Jaundice, yellow,& Black, Pestilence, Sore Mouth,& Throat, Eyes, Hairs, Scabs, Itch, Pimples, weals. ( it self being but weak) is very effectual for the Liver and Spleen, opening the Obstructions therof, and clarifying the blood from saltish, choleric, and Adust humors, which cause Leprosy, Scabs, Tetters, and Itches, and such like breakings out of the skin, and after the purging, doth strengthen al the inward parts: It is good also against the yellow Jaundice, and spendeth it by Urine, which it procureth in abundance. The powder of the dried Herb given for some time together, cureth melancholy, but the seed is strongest in operation for al the former Diseases. The distilled Water of the Herb is also of good effect in the former Diseases, and conduceth much against the Plague and Pestilence, being taken with good Treacle. The Distilled Water also, with a little Water and Honey of Roses helpeth al the sores of the Mouth or Throat, being gargled often therwith. The juice dropped into the Eyes, cleareth the sight, and taketh away redness, and other defects in them, although it procure some pain for the present, and cause tears. Dioscorides saith, It hindereth any fresh springing of Hairs on the Eye-lids( after they be pulled away) if the Eye-lids be anointed with the juice hereof with Gum arabic dissolved therein. The juice of Fumitory and Docks mingled with Vinegar, and the places gently washed or wet therwith, cureth al sorts of Scabs, Pimples, Itches, Wheals, or bushes which arise on the Face or Hands, or any other part of the Body.   

The Furs-Bush.  
IT is so well known, as well by this name, as in some Countries by the name Goss, or Whins, that I shal not need to writ any Description therof, my intent being to teach my Country-men what they know not, rather than to tel them again of that which is generally known before.  
Place.] They are known to grow on dry barren Heaths, and other wast gravelly or sandy Grounds in al Countries of this Land.  
Time.] They also Flower in the Summer Months.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns the Herb. They are hot and dry good to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen. A Decoction made with the flowers therof, 
Obstructions, Liver, Spleen, yell. Jaundice, Disury, Gravel, ston.  hath been found effectual against the Jaundice, as also to provoke Urine, and cleanse the Kidneys from Gravel, or Stones, engendered in them. Mars doth al this by Sympathy.   

garlic.  
THe offensiveness of the breath of him that hath eaten garlic will led you by the Nose to the knowledge hereof, and( instead of a Description) direct you to the place where it groweth in Gardens, which kinds are the best, and most Physical.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns this Herb. This was anciently accounted the Poormans Treacle, it being a remedy for al Diseases or hurts( except those which itself breeds) It provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, helpeth the biting of a mad Dog, and other venomous Creatures: 
Urine, Terms provokes, mad-Dogs, venomous Beasts, Worms, Lethargy, phlegm Pestilence, Aposthums, mineral vapours, stinking Waters, Henban Hemlock, wolsbane, dropsy, Cramps, Convulsions, Falling-sickness.  killeth Worms in Children, cutteth and avoideth tough phlegm, purgeth the head, helpeth the Lethargy, is a good preservative against, and a remedy for any Plaguesore, or foul Ulcer: taketh away spots and blemishes in the skin, easeth pains of the ears, ripeneth and breaketh Imposthumes or other swellings: And for al these Diseases, the onions are also effectual. But the garlic hath some more peculiar virtues besides the former, viz. It hath a special quality to discuss the inconveniences coming by corrupt Agues or Mineral vapours, or by drinking corrupt and stinking Waters; as also by taking of Wolf-bane, Henbane, Hemlock, or other poisonful and dangerous herbs. It is also held good in hydropic Diseases, the Jaundice, Falling-sickness Cramps, Convulsions, the Piles or Hemorrhoids or other could Diseases.  
Many Authors quote many Diseases this is good for, but conceal its Vices: Its heat is very vehement, and al vehement hot things sand up but ill favoured vapours to the Brain: in choleric men 'twill ad fuel to the fire, in men oppressed by melancholy, 'twill attenuate the humour, and sand up strange Fancies, and as many strange Visions to the Head: therfore let it be taken inwardly with great moderation, outwardly you may make more bold with it.   

Gentian, Felwort, or Baldmony.  
IT is confessed that Gentian which is most used amongst us, is brought over from beyond Sea: yet have we two sorts of it growing frequently in our Nation, which besides the Reasons so frequently alleged, Why English Herbs should be fittest for English bodies? hath been proved by the experience of divers able Physitians to be not a whit inferior in virtue to that which cometh from beyond Sea: therfore be pleased to take the Description of them as followeth.  
Description.] The greater of the two hath many small long Roots thrust down deep in the ground, and abiding al the winter. The stalks are sometime more, sometimes fewer, of a brownish green colour, which is sometimes two foot high, if the ground be fruitful, having many long, narrow, dark green leaves, set by couples up to the top: the Flowers are long and hollow, of a purple colour, ending in five corners.  
The smaller sort which is to be found in our Land, groweth up with sundry Stalks not a foot high, partend into several small branches, whereon divers small leaves together, very like those of the lesser Centaury or whitish green colour; on the top of the stalks grow divers perfect blue Flowers, standing in long husks, but not so big as the other: the Root is very small, and full of thirds.  
Place.] The first groweth in divers places both of the East and West Countries, and as well in wet as in dry Grounds, as near Long-field by Graves-end near Cobham in Kent, near Lellingstone in Kent, also in a Chalky-pit hard by a Paper-mill not far from Dartford in Kent.  
The Second groweth also in divers places in Kent, as about Southfleet, and Longfield upon Barton hills in Bedfordshire: also not far from St Albans upon a piece of wast Chalky ground as you go out of Dunstable way towards Gorkambury.  
Time.] They Flower in August.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of Mars, and is one of the principallist Herbs he is Ruler of. They resist putrefaction, poison, Pestilence: neither can a more sure Remedy be found to prevent the Pestilence than it is. 
poison, Pestilence, Stomach, Indigestion, Heart, preserveth, Fainting, swooning, Biting of mad-dogs, venomous Beasts, Liver, appetite, Weariness, joints, Stitches, Sides, Bruises, Urine provoks, Cramp Convulsions, ston, Ruptures tough phlegm, scabs, Itch, sors Ulcers, Worms, Kings-Evil, Agues, yellow-Jaundice, Bots Venem. Beasts.  It strengtheners the Stomach exceedingly, and helps Digestion, it preserves the Heart, and preserves it against Fainting and Swooning, the powder of the dry Roots helps the biting of mad-Dogs, and venomous Beasts, opens Obstructions of the Liver, and restoreth an appetite to their Meat to such as have lost it: The Herb steeped in Wine, and the Wine drunk, refresheth such as are over-weary with travail, and are grown lame in their joints either by could or evil lodgings: It helps stitches and gripping pains in the Sides: and is an excellent Remedy for such as are Bruised by Falls: It provokes Urine, and the Terms exceedingly, therfore let it not be given to Women with Child: The same is very profitable for such as are troubled with Cramps and Convulsions to drink the Decoction: Also they say it breaks the ston, and helps Ruptures most certainly: It is very excellent in al could Diseases, and for such as are troubled with tough phlegm, Scabs, Itch, or any freting Sores and Ulcers: It is an admirable Remedy to kill the Worms by taking half a dram of the powder in the morning in any convenient liquour, the same is excellent good to be taken inwardly for the Kings-Evil: It helps Agues of al sorts, and the yellow Jaundice, as also the Bots in cattle when Kine are bitten on the Udder by any venomous Beast, do but stroke the place with the Decoction of any of these, and it will instantly help them.   

Clove-gilli-Flowers.  
IT is in vain to describe an Herb so well known.  
Government and virtues.] They are gallant fine temperate Flowers, of the nature, and under the Dominion of Jupiter; yea, so temperate, that no excess, neither in heat, could, dryness, nor moisture can be pe●ceived in them: they are great strengthners both of the Brain and Heart, and will therfore serve either for Cordials or Cephalicks as your occasion will serve: 
Brain, Heart, consumptions, strengtheners Nature.  There is both a Syrup and a Conserve made of them, and of them alone commonly to be had at every Apothecaries to take now and then a little of either, strengtheners Nature much in such as are in Consumptions. They are also excellent good in hot Pestilential fevers, and expel poison.   

Germander.  
Descript.] COmmon Germander shooteth forth sundry stalks with small and somewhat round leaves, dented about the edges: The Flowers stand at the tops, of a deep purple colour: The Roots is composed of divers sprigs, which shoot forth a great way round about, quickly overspreading a Ground.  
Place.] It groweth usually with us in Gardens.  
Time.] And Flowereth in June, or July.  
Government and virtues.] It is a most prevalent Herb of Mercury, and strengtheners the Brain and Apprehension exceedingly: you may see what human virtues are under Mercury in the latter end of my Ephemeris for 1651 strengthen them when weak; relieve them, when drooping, by this Herb. This taken with Hony( saith Dioscorides) is a remedy for Coughs, for hardness of the Spleen, and difficulty of Urin, and helpeth those that are fallen into a dropsy, 
Cough, Spleen, Disury, dropsy Terms provoks Dead Child, poison, Ulcers, Cramps, Agues, Falling-sicknes headache, melancholy, dullness of spirit, Convulsion, palsy, yellow jaundice, worms.  especially at the beginning of the Disease, a Decoction being made therof when it is green, and drunk: It also bringeth down Womens Courses, and expelleth the dead Child: It is most effectual against the poison of al Serpents, being drunk in Wine and the bruised Herb outwardly applied, used with Hony, it cleanseth old and foul Ulcers, and made into an oil, and the Eyes anointed therwith, taketh away their dimness and moistness: It is likewise good for the pains in the sides, and Cramps. The Decoction therof taken for some daies together, driveth away and cureth both Tertian and Quartan Agues. It is also good against al Diseases of the Brain, as continual headache, Falling-sickness, melancholy Drowsines and dullness of Spirit, Convulsions, and Palsies. A Dram of the Seed taken in powder, purgeth by Urin, and is good against the yellow Jaundice. The juice of the leaves dropped into the Ears, killeth the Worms in them. The tops therof when they are in flower steeped twenty four hours in a draft of white Wine and drunk, killeth Worms in the Belly.   

Stinking Gladwin.  
Descript.] THis is one of the kinds of flower-de-luces, having divers leaves rising from the Roots very like a Flower-de-luce, but that they are sharp edged on both sides, and thicker in the middle, of a deeper green colour, narrower and sharper pointed, and of a strong ill scent if they be bruised between the fingers: In the middle riseth up a reasonable strong stalk a yard high at least, beareth 3 or 4 Flowers at the top, made somewhat like the Flowers of the Flower-de-luce, with three upright leaves of a dead purplish Ash-color with some Veins discoloured in them, the other three do not fall down, nor the three other small ones are so arched, nor cover the lower leaves as the Flower deluce doth, but stand loose, or asunder from them: After they are past, ther come up three square hard husks opening wide into three parts when they are ripe, wherein lye reddish seed, turning black when it hath abidden long: The Root is like that of the Flower-de-luce, but reddish on the out-side, and whitish within, very sharp and hot in taste of as evil a scent as the leaves.  
Place.] This groweth as well on the Up-land grounds as also in moist places, in Woods, and shadowy places by the Sea side in many places of this Land, and is usually nursed up in Gardens.  
Time.] It flowereth not until July, and the seed is ripe in August or September, yet the Husks after they are ripe, opening themselves, will hold their seeds within them for 2 or 3 Months, and not  shed them.  
Government and virtues.] It is supposed to be under the Dominion of Saturn. It is used by many Country people to purge corrupt phlegm and choler, 
phlegm, choler, Head, Cramp Convulsion Gout; Sciatica, Belly-ach, Strangury, Fluxes, Terms provokes, Disury, Spleen, Wounds, Splinters, Thorns, B●●k●n Bones. Kings Evil, Itch, Scab●, Blemishes in the Skin.  which they do by drinking the Decoction of the Roots, and some to make it work more gently, do but infuse the sliced Roots in Ale, and some take the leaves which serveth well for the weaker stomachs. The juice hereof put up, or snuffed up the Nose, causeth sneezing, and draweth from the Head much corruption; and the powder therof doth the same: The powder therof drunk in Wine, helpeth those that are troubled with Cramps and Convulsion, or with the Gout or Sciatica, and giveth ease to those that have any gripping pains in their Body or Belly, and helpeth those that have the Strangury. It is given with much profit to those that have had long Fluxes by the sharp and evil quality of humors, which it stayeth, having first cleansed and purged them by the drying and binding property therein. The Root boiled in Wine and drunk, doth effectually procure Womens Courses, and used as 〈◇〉 Pessary, worketh the same effects, but causeth Abortion in Women with Child. Half a dram of the seed beaten to powder, and taken in Wine, doth speedily cause one to piss which otherwise cannot. The same taken with Vinegar, dissolveth the hardness and swellings of the Spleen. The Root is very effectual in al Wounds, and especially of the Head, as also to draw forth any Splinters, Thorns, Broken Bones, or any other thing sticking in the Flesh, without causing pain, being used with a little Verdigreese and Hony, and the great Centaury Root: The same boiled in Vinegar and laid upon any tumour or Swelling, doth very effectually dissolve and consume them, yea even the swellings of the Throat called the Kings evil. The juice of the leaves and Roots healeth the Itch, and al running or spreading Scabs or Sores, and Blemishes, or Scars in the Skin wheresoever they be.   

Golden Rod.  
Descript.] THis riseth up with brownish small round stalks, two foot high and sometimes more, having thereon many narrow and long dark green leaves, very seldom with any dents about the edges, or any strakes or white spots therein, yet they are sometimes so found, divided at the tops into many small branches, with divers small yellow Flowers on every one of them, all which are turned one way, and being ripe do turn into Down, and are carried away with the Wind. The Root consisteth of many small fibres which grow not deep in the ground, but abideth al the Winter therein, shooting forth new branches every year, the old ones dying down to the ground.  
Place.] It groweth in the open places of Woods, and Copses both moist and dry grounds in many places of this Land.  
Time.] It Flowereth about the Month of July.  
Government and virtues.] Venus claims the Herb, and therfore to be sure, it restores Beauty lost. Arnoldus de villa nova, commendeth it much against the ston in the Reins and Kidneys, and to provoke Urin in abundance, 
Beauty lost, ston, Gravel, Disury, wounds Flux, Bloudy-Flux, Terms stops, Ruptures ulcers, Sore Mouth, and Throat, Teethloose.  whereby also the Gravel or ston may be avoided. The Decoction of the Herb green or dry, or the distilled Water therof is very effectual for inward Bruises, as also to be outwardly applied, it stayeth bleedings in any part of the Body, and of Wounds also, the Fluxes of Humors, the Bloudy-Flux, and Womens Courses: and is no less prevalent in al Ruptures or Burstings, being drunk inwardly and outwardly applied. It is a sovereign Wound-Herb, inferior to none, both for inward and outward hurts, green Wounds, and old Sores, and Ulcers are quickly cured therwith. It is also of especial use in al Lotions for Sores, or Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat, or privy Parts of man or Woman. The decoction also helpeth to fasten the Teeth that are loose in the Gums.   

Goutwort, or Herb-Gerrard.  
Descript.] THis is a low Herb seldom rising half a yard high, having sundry leaves standing on brownish green stalks by three, snipped about, and of a strong unpleasant savour. The Umbels of Flowers are white, and the Seed blackish, the Root runneth in the Ground, quickly taking up a great deal of room.  
Place.] It groweth by hedge and Wall sides, and often in the Borders or Corners of Fields, and in Gardens also.  
Time.] It Flowereth and Seedeth about the end of July.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn rules it: neither is it to be supposed Goutwort had not his name for nothing, but upon good experience to help the could Gout, 
Gout, Sciatica, joints.  and Sciatica, as also Joynt-aches, and other could Griefs. The very bearing of it about one, easeth the pains of the Gout,& defends him that bears it from the disease.   

Gromel.  
OF this I shal briefly describe three kinds, which are principally used in physic, the virtues whereof are alike, though somewhat different in their manner and form of growing.  
Description.] The greater Gromel groweth up with slender hard and hairy stalks trailing and taking Root in the ground as it lieth thereon, and partend into many other smaller branches with hairy dark green leaves thereon. At the joints with the leaves come forth very small blue flowers, and after them hard stony roundish seed. The Root is long and Woody, abiding the winter, and shooting forth fresh stalks in the Spring.  
The small wild Gromel sendeth forth divers upright hard branched stalks two or three foot high, full of joints, at every of which groweth small, long, hard, and rough leaves like the former but lesser, among which leaves come forth small white Flowers, and after them grayish round Seed like the former. The Root is not very long, but with many strings thereat.  
The garden Gromel hath divers upright slender woody hairy stalks brown and crested, very little branched, with leaves like the former, and white Flowers, after which in rough brown Husks is contained a white hard round Seed, shining like Pearls, and greater than either of the former: The Root is like the first Described, with divers Branches and Strings thereat; which continueth( as the first doth) al Winter.  
Place.] The two First grow wild in barren or untilled places, and by the Way sides in many places of this Land. The last is a Nursling in the Gardens of the curious.  
Time.] They al four from Midsummer unto September sometimes, and in the mean time the seed ripeneth.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb belongs to Dame Venus, and therfore if Mars cause the colic or ston, as usually he doth if in Virgo: this is your Cure. These are accounted to be of as singular force as any other Herb or Seed whatsoever, 
ston, Gravel, Strangury, Travail in Women.  to break the ston, and to avoid it and the Gravel either in the Reins or Bladder: as also to provoke Urine being stopped, and to help the Strangury. The Seed is of greatest use, being bruised and boiled in white Wine, or in Broth, or the like, or the powder of the Seed taken therein: Two drams of the Seed in powder taken with Womens Breast-milk, is very effectual to procure a speedy Delivery to such Women as have sore pains in their travail, and cannot be delivered. The Herb itself( when the Seed is not to be had) either boiled, or the juice therof drunk, is effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, but not so powerful or speedy in operation.   

Goosberry Bush.  
CAlled also Feapberry, and in Sussex Dewberry Bush, and in some Countries Wine-berries.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of Venus. 
Appetite, stomach, womens Longing, Swellings, inflammations, St. Anthonies fire, stomach, Liver, ston, Gravel, Worms.  The Berries whilst they are unripe being scalded or baked, are good to stir up a fainting or decaying Appetite, especially such whose Stomachs are afflicted by choleric humors: They are excellent good to stay the Longings of women with Child: They may easily keep them preserved with Sugar al the year long. The Decoction of the leaves of the three cools hot swellings and inflammations, as also St. Anthonies fire. The ripe gooseberries being eaten, are an excellent remedy to alloy the violent heat both of the Stomach and Liver. The young and tender leaves break the ston, and expel Gravel both from the Kidneys and Bladder: Al the evils they do to the Body of Man is, they are supposed to breed Crudities, and by Crudities, Worms.   

Winter Green.  
Descript.] THis sendeth forth seven, eight, or nine leaves from a small brownish creeping Root, every one standing upon a long Footstalk, which are almost as broad as long, round pointed, of a sad green colour, and hard in handling, and like the Leaf of a Pear-tree, from whence ariseth a slender weak Stalk, yet standing upright, bearing at the top many small, white, and sweet smelling Flowers, laid open like a Star, consisting of five round pointed leaves, with many yellowish thirds standing in the middle, about a green Head, and a long style with them, which in time groweth to be the Seed Vessel, which being ripe is sound five square with a small point at it, wherein is contained Seed as small as dust.  
Place.] It groweth seldom in the Fields, but frequently in the Woods Northwards, viz. In Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Scotland.  
Time.] It flowreth about June or July.  
Government and virtues.] Winter-green is under the Dominion of Saturn, and is a singular good Wound Herb, and an especial Remedy for to heal green Wounds speedily, 
Wounds, Ulcers, Kidneys, Bladder, Flux, bloody flux, Terms, stops, inflammations, Cankers, fistulaes.  the green leaves being bruised and applied, or the juice of them: A salue made of the green Herbs stamped, or the juice boiled with Hogs Lard, or with Sallat oil and Wax, and some Turpentine added unto it, is a sovereign salue, and highly extolled by the Germans, who much use it to heal al manner of Wounds and Sores. The Herb boiled in Wine and Water, and given to drink to them that have any inward Ulcers in their kidneys, or Neck of the Bladder, doth wonderfully help them: It stayeth also al Fluxes, whether of Blood or Humors, as the Lask, bloody flux, Womens Courses, and bleeding of wounds, and taketh away any inflammation rising upon pains of the Heart. It is no less helpful for foul Ulcers hard to be cured, as also for Cankers or Fistulaes. The distilled water of the Herb doth effectually perform the same things.   

Groundsel.  
Descript.] OUr common Groundsel hath a round, green, and somewhat brownish Stalk, spread toward the top into Branches, set with long, and somewhat narrow green Leaves cut in on the edges, somewhat like the Oak Leaves, but lesser, and round at the ends; at the tops of the Branches stand many small green Heads, out of which grow small yellow threads or thrums, which are the Flowers, and continue many daies blown in that manner before it pass away into Down, and with the Seed is carried away in the wind. The Root is small and threddy, and soon perisheth, and as soon riseth again of its own sowing, so that it may be seen many months in the year, both green, and in flower, and seed, for it will spring and seed twice in a year at least if it be suffered in a Garden.  
Place.] This groweth almost every where, as well on the tops of walls, as at the foot among Rubbish, and untilled grounds, but especially in Gardens.  
Time.] It Flowreth as is said before, almost in every Month through the year.  
Government and virtues.] This Herb is Venus her Mris. piece, and is as gallant an Universal Medicine for al Diseases coming of heat whatsoever they be, 
choler in the Stomach, yellow Jaundice, Falling-sickness, Disury, Gravel, Sciatica, colic, Liver, Terms provokes, Womens, Breasts, Privy parts, Arteries joints& sinews over heated, Kernels, Wounds in the Sinews, inflammations in the Eyes.  or in what part of the Body soever they lye, as the Sun shines upon, 'tis very safe and friendly to the Body of man, yet causeth Vomiting if the Stomach be afflicted, if not, purging, and it doth it with more gentleness than can be expected. 'tis moist and somewhat could withal, thereby causing expulsion, and repressing the heat caused by the motion of the internal parts in Purges and Vomits: Lay by your Learned Receipts, Take so much Senna, so much Scammony, so much Colocynthis, so much Infusion of Crocus Metallorum, &c. this Herb alone preserved in a Syrup, in a distilled Water, in an ointment, shal do the dead for you in al hot Diseases, and it shal do it, 1. Safely, 2. Speedily.  
The Decoction of the Herb( saith Dioscorides) made with Wine and drunk, helpeth the pains of the Stomach proceeding of choler( which it may well do by a Vomit, as daily experience sheweth) The juice hereof taken in Drink, or the Decoction of it in Ale, gently performeth the same: It is good against the Jaundice and Falling-sickness, being taken in Wine; as also against difficulty of making Water; it provoketh Urin, expelleth Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys; a dram thereof given in oxymel, after some walking or stirring the Body; It helpeth also the Sciatica, gripping of the Belly and the colic, helpeth the defects of the Liver, and provoketh Womens Courses. The fresh Herb boiled and made into a Pultis and applied to the Breasts of Women that are swollen with pain and heat, as also to the privy Parts of Man or Woman, the Seat, or Fundament, or the Arteries, joints, and Sinews when they are inflamed and swollen, doth much ease them: and used with some Salt helpeth to dissolve Knots or Kernels in any part of the Body. The juice of the Herb or( as Dioscorides saith) the leaves and Flowers with some Fine frankincense in powder, used in Wounds of the Body, laws, or Sinews, doth singularly help to heal them. The Distilled Water of the Herb performeth well al the aforesaid Cures, but especially for inflammations or watering of the Eyes by reason of the Defluxion of Rhewm into them.   

Harts-ease.  
THis is that Herb which such Physitians as are licenced to blaspheme by Authority without danger, having their tongues bored through with a hot Iron, call an Herb of the Trinity; it is also called by those that are more moderate, Three Faces in a Hood, Live in Idleness, Cul-me-to-you; and in Sussex we call them Pansies.  
Place.] Besides those which are brought up in Gardens, they grow commonly about, wild in the Field, especially in such as are very barren; sometimes you may find it on the tops on high hills.  
Time.] They Flower al the Spring and Summer long.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is really Saturnine, something could viscous, 
French Pox, Convulsions, falling-sickness, inflammations in the Breast and Lungs, pleurisy, Scabs, Itch.  and slimy: A strong Decoction of the Herbs and Flowers( if you will you may make it into a Syrup, or distilled in an alembic with what Vehecle you pleas) is an excellent Cure for the French Pox, the Herb being a gallant Antivenerian; and that Antivenerians are the best Cure for that Disease, far better and safer than to torment them with the Flux divers foreign Physitians have confessed: The Spirit of it is excellent good for the convulsions in Children, as also for the Falling-sickness, and a gallant remedy for inflammations of the Lungs and Breast, pleurisy, Scabs, Itch, &c. It is under the celestial Sign Cancer.   

Hartichokes.  
THe Latins call them Cinera, only our college calls them Artichokus.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of Venus and therfore it is no marvel if they provoke Lust much, as indeed they do, 
Lust provoketh, Nocturnal pollutions, Purgeth by Urin.  being something windy meat, and yet they stay the involuntary course of Natural Seed in Man, which is commonly called Nocturnal pollutions. And here I care not greatly if I quote a little of Galens nonsense in his Treatise of the Faculties of Nourishments, he saith they contain plenty of choleric juice( which notwithstanding I can scarcely believe) of which he saith is engendered melancholy juice, and of that melancholy juice, thin choleric Blood; but to proceed: this is certain, That the Decoction of the Root boiled in Wine, or the Root bruised and distilled in an in an alembic, and being drunk purgeth by Urin exceedingly.   

Harts-Tongue.  
Descript.] THis hath divers leaves rising from the Root, every one severally, which fold themselves in their first springing and spreading; when they are full grown are about a foot long, smooth and green above, but hard and with little Sap in them, and streaked on the back athwart on both sides of the middle Rib, with small and somewhat long brownish marks; the bottoms of the leaves are a little bowed on each side of the middle Rib somewhat narrow with the length, and somewhat small at the end. The Root is of many black threads, folded or interlaced together.  
Time.] It is green al the Winter, but new leaves spring every year.  
Government and virtues.] Jupiter claims Dominion over this Herb, therfore is a singular Remedy for the Liver, both to strengthen it when weak, and ease it when afflicted, 'tis no matter by what: you should do well to keep it in a Syrup al the year, for though Authors say 'tis green al the year, 
Spleen, Liver, Flux, Bloody flux, Hiccough, Gums, venomous Beasts.  I scarce believe it. Ha ts-tongue is much commended against the hardness and stoppings of the Spleen and Liver, and against the heat of the Liver and Stomach, and against Lasks and the bloody Flux: The distilled Water therof is also very good against the Passions of the Heart, and to stay the Hiccough to help he falling of the Pillar, and stay the bleeding of the G●ns being gargled in the mouth. Dioscorides saith it is good against the stinging or biting of Serpents.  
As for the use of it, my Directions ●t latter end will be sufficient, and enough for those that are studious in physic to whet their Brains upon for one year or two.   

The Hazel Nut.  
HAzel Nuts are so well known to every Boy, that they need no Description.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of Mercury. The parched Kernels made into an Electuary, or the milk drawn from the K●●nels with Mead or Honeyed Water, is very good to help an old Cough; 
Cough, Ph●isick, Flux, Terms stops.  and being parched and a little Pepper put to them and drunk, digesteth the distillations of Rhewm from the Head: The dried Husks and shells to the weight of two drams taken in read Wine, stayeth Lasks, and Womens Courses, and so doth the read Skin that covers the Kernels which is more effectual to stay Womens Courses.  
And if this be true as it is, then why should the Vulgar so familiarly affirm, That eating Nuts causeth shortness of breath, than which nothing is falser; for how can that which strengthen the Lungs cause shortness of breath? I confess the Opinion is far older than I am, I knew Tradition was a Friend to Errors before, but never that he was the Father of Slanders; or are mens tongues so given to slandering one another that they must slander Nuts too, to keep their tongues in ure? If any thing of the Hazel Nut be stoping 'tis the Husks and shells, and no body is so mad to eat them unless Physically, and the read Skin which covers the Kernel which 〈◇〉 may easily pull off. And thus have I made an Apology for Nuts which cannot speak for themselves.   

Hawkweed.  
Descript.] IT hath many large leaves lying on the ground, much rent or torn on the sides into many gashes like Dandelyon, but with greater parts more like the smooth Sow-Thistle, from among which ariseth a hollow rough stalk two or three foot high branched from the middle upward, wherein are set at every joint longer leaves, little or nothing rent or cut in, beating at their top sundry pale yellow Flowers consisting of many small narrow leaves, broad pointed, and nicked in at the ends, set in a double row or more the outermost being larger than the inner, which form most of the Hawkweeds( for there are many kinds of them) do hold, which turn into Down, and with the small brownish Seeds, is blown away with the wind: The Root is long and somewhat greater, with many small fibres thereat. The whole is full of bitter milk.  
Place.] It groweth in divers places about Field sides, and the Path-waies in dry grounds.  
Time.] It flowreth and flies away in the Summer Months.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns it. Hawkweed( saith Dioscorides) is cooling, 
Cools, Dries, Binds, gnawing in the Stomach, inflammations, Agues, Crudity, desury, venomous Beasts, poison, dropsy, phlegm, colic, spleen, Watching, Lust stops, venereous Dreams, Reins, Bladder, Eyes, Ulcers, Burnings, inflammations, St. Anthonies fire, Heat, salt phlegm, Convulsion, Cramp, Freckles, spots, Morphew, Wrinkles.  somewhat drying and binding, and therfore good for the heat of the Stomach, and gnawings therein, for inflammations, and the hot fits of Agues. The juice therof in Wine, helpeth digestion, discusseth wind, hindereth crudities abiding in the Stomach, and helpeth the difficulty of making Water, the biting of venomous Serpents, and sting of the Scorpion, if the Herb be also outwardly applied to the place, and is very good against al other poisons. A scruple of the dried juice given in Wine and Vinegar is profitable for those that have the dropsy. The Decoction of the Herb taken with Honey, digesteth thin phlegm in the Chest or Lungs, and with hyssop helpeth the Cough. The Decoction therof and of wild Succory made with Wine and taken helpeth the wind colic and hardness of the Spleen, it procureth rest and sleep, hindereth Venery and venereous Dreams, cooleth heats, purgeth the stomach, increaseth blood, and helpeth the diseases of the Reins and Bladder. Outwardly applied it is singular good for al the defects and diseases of the Eyes, used with some Womens Milk, and is used with good success in freting or creeping Ulcers, especially in the beginning. The green Herb b●uised, and with a little Salt applied to any place burnt with fire before blisters do arise, helpeth them, as also inflammations, St. Anthonies fire, and al bushes, and Eruptions, Heat, and salt phlegm. The same applied with Meal and fair Water in manner of a Pultiss to any place affencted with Convulsions and the Cramp, or such as are out of joint doth give help and ease. The distilled water cleanseth the Skin and taketh away freckles, Spots, the Morphew or Wrinkles in the face.   

The Hawthorn.  
IT is not my intent to trouble you with a Description of this three, which is so well know that it needeth none.  
It is ordinarily but a hedge Bush, although being pruned and dressed, it groweth to be a three of a reasonable height.  
As for the Hawthorn three at Glastenbury, which is said to Flower yearly on Christmas Day, it rather shows the Superstition of those who observe it for the time or its flowering, than any great wonder, sith the like may be found in divers other places of this Land; as in Whey-street in Rummey Marsh, and near unto Namptwich in Cheshire by a place called White Green, where if the Winter be mildred, they will have white Blossoms al over before and about Christmas; as in May if the weather be frosty, it flowreth not until January, or that the hard weather be over.  
Government and virtues.] It is a three of Mars. The Berries, or the Seeds in the Berries beaten to powder and drunk in Wine, are held singular good against the ston, 
ston, dropsy, Flux, Inward pains, Splinters, Thorns.  and are good for the dropsy. The distilled Water of the Flower stayeth the Lask. The Seeds cleared from the Down, bruised and boiled in Wine and drunk is good for inward tormenting pains: It clothes and sponges be wet in the said distilled water and applied to any place wherein Thorns, Splinters, or the like, do abide in the Flesh, it will notably draw them forth.  
And thus you see the Thorn gives a Medicine for his own pricking, and so doth almost every thing else.   

Hemlock.  
Descript.] THe common great Hemlock groweth up with a green stalk, four or five foot high or more, full of read spots sometimes, and at the joints very large winged leaves set at them which are divided into many other winged leaves, one set against another, dented about the edges, of a sad green colour branched towards the top where it is full of umbels of white Flowers, and afterwards with whitish flat Seed: The Root is long, white, and sometimes crooked and hollow within; the whole Plant and every part hath a strong, heady, and il favoured scent, much offending the Senses.  
Place.] It groweth in al Countries of this Land by walls and Hedges sides, in wast grounds and untilled places.  
Time.] It flowreth and seedeth in July, or thereabouts.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn claims Dominion over the Herb; yet I wonder why it may not be applied to the Privities in a Priapismus, or continual standing of the Yard, it being very beneficial for that disease; I suppose my Authors judgement was first upon the opposite Disposition of Saturn to Venus in those Faculties, and therfore he forbid the applying of it to those parts that it might not cause Barrenness, or spoil the Spirit Procreative, which if it do, yet applied to the Privities it stops lustful thoughts. 
Lechery.  Hemlock is exceeding could, and very dangerous, especially to be taken inwardly: It may safely be applied to inflammations. 
Inflamtions, St. Anthonies Fire, Tetters, Ringworms, Eyes, Pin and Web, Gout.  tumours, and Swelling in any part of the Body( save the privy Parts) as also to St. Anthonies fire, Wheals bushes, and creeping Ulcers that rise of hot sharp Humors, by cooling& repelling the heat. The leaves bruised& laid to the Brow or Forehead, is good for their Eyes that are read and Swollen, as also to take away a Pin and Web growing in the Eye, this is a tried Medicine: Take a small handful of the Herb, and half so much Bay Salt beaten together, and applied to the contrary Wrest of the Hand for twenty four hours, doth remove it in thrice dressing. If the Root hereof be roasted under the Embers, wrapped in double wet Papers, until it be soft and tender, and then applied to the Gout in the Hands or Fingers, it will quickly help this evil, If any shal through mistake eat the Herb Hemlock instead of parsley, or the Root instead of a Parsnip( both which it is very like) whereby happeneth a kind of frenzy, or perturbation of the Sences, as if they were stupefied or drunk, the Remedy is as Pliny saith, To drink of the best and strongest pure Wine, before it strike to the Heart, or Gentian put into Wine, or a draft of good Vinegar, wherewith Tragus doth affirm that he cured a Woman that had eaten the Root.   

Hemp.  
THis is so well known to every good housewife in the Country, that I shal not need to writ any Description of it.  
Time.] It is sown in the end of March, or beginning of April, and is ripe in Angust or September.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant of Saturn, and good for something else you see than to make Halters only. The Seed of Hemp consumeth Wind, 
Wind, Cough, Jaundice, gull, choler, Flux, colic, Bleeding, Worms, Earwigs, inflammation, Gout, Sinews shrunk.  and by the much use thereof disperseth it so much that it drieth up the natural Seed for Procreation; yet being boiled in Milk and taken, helpeth such as have a hot dry Cough. The Dutch make an Emulsion out of the Seed, and give it with good success to those that have the Jaundice, especially in the beginning of the disease if there be no Ague accompanying it, for it openeth Obstructions of the gull, and causeth digestion of choler. The Emulsion or Decoction of the Seed stayeth Lasks and continual fluxes, easeth the colic, and allayeth the troublesome humors in the Bowels, and stayeth bleeding at the Mouth, Nose, or other place, some of the leaves being fried with the blood of them that bleed, and so given then to eat. It is held very good to kill the Worms in man or beast, and the juice dropped into the Ears, killeth Worms in them, and draweth forth Earwigs, or other living Creatures gotten into them. The Decoction of the Root allayeth inflammations in the Head or any other parts; the Herb itself, or the distilled Water thereof doth the like: The Decoction of the Roots easeth the pains of the Gout, the hard tumours or knots in the joints, the pains and shrinking of the Sinews, and the pains of the Hips: The fresh juice mixed with a little oil and Butter, is good for any place that hath been burnt with fire, being thereto applied.   

Henbane.  
Descript.] OUr common Henbane hath very large, thick, soft, woolly leaves lying upon the ground, much cut in or to●n on the edges, of a dark ill grayish green colour, among which rise up divers thick and short Stacks two or three foot high, spread into divers smaller branches with lesser leaves on them, and many hollow Flowers scarce appearing above the Husks, and usually torn on the one side, ending in five round points growing one above another, of a deadish yellow colour, somewhat pal●● toward the edges, with many purplish Veins therein, and of a dark yellowish purple in the bottom of the Flower, with a small pointel of the same colour in the middle, each of them standing in a hard close Husk, which after the Flower is past, groweth very like the Husk of Asarahacca, and somewhat sharp at the top points, wherein is contained much small Seed very like Poppy Seed, but of a dusky grayish colour. The Root is great, white, and thick, branching forth divers ways under ground, so like a Parsnip Root( but that it is not so white) that it hath deceived divers. The whole Plant more than the Root hath a heavy ill so poriferous smell somewhat offensive.  
Place.] It commonly groweth by the way sides, and under hedge sides and Walls.  
Time.] It Flowreth in July, and springeth again yearly of its own Seed.  
I doubt my Authors mistook July for June, if not for May.  
Government and virtues.] I wonder in my heart how Astrologers could take on them to make this an Herb of Jupiter, and yet Mizaldus, a man of a penetrating Brain, was also of that Opinion as well as the rest; the Herb is indeed under the Dominion of Saturn, and I prove it by this Argument,  
All the Herbs which delight most to grow in Saturnine places, are Saturnine Herbs.  
But Henbane delights most to grow in Saturnine places, and whole Cart loads of it may be found near the places where they empty the common Jakes, and scarce a stinking Ditch to be found without it growing by it.  
Ergo 'tis an Herb of Saturn.  
The leaves of Henbane do cool all hot inflammations in the Eyes, 
inflammation, Cods, Womens Breasts, Gout, Sciatica, joints Watching, Deafness, Noise in the Ears, Chilblains, Kibes,  or any other part of the Body; and are good to assuage al manner of swellings of the Cods or Womens Breasts, or elsewhere, if they be boiled in Wine, and either applied themselves or the Fomentation warm; it also assuageth the pain of the Gout, the Sciatica, and al other pains in the joints which arise from an hot cause. And applied with Vinegar to the Forehead and Temples, helpeth the headache and want of sleep in hot fevers. The juice of the Herb or Seed, or the oil drawn from the Seed doth the like. The oil of the Seed is helpful for the Deafness, Noise, and Worms in the Ears, being dropped therein; the juice of the Herb or Root doth also the same. The Decoction of the Herb or Seed, or both, killeth Lice in Man and Beast. The fume of the dried Herb, Stalks, and Seed burned, quickly healeth Swellings, Chilblains, or Kibes in the Hands or Feet, by holding them in the fume therof. The Remedy to help those that have taken Henbane, is to drink Goats Milk, Honeyed Water, or Pine Kernels, with Sweet Wine: or in the absence of these, Fennel Seed, Nettle Seed, the Seed of Cresses, Mustard, or Rha●ish, as also Onions, or garlic taken in Wine, do al help to free them from danger, and restore them to their due temper again.  
Take notice that this Herb must never be taken inwardly; outwardly, an oil, ointment, or plaster of it, is most admirable for the Gout, 
French Pox. toothache.  to cool the Venerial heat of the Reins in the French Pox, to stop the toothache being applied to the aching side, to alloy all inflammations, and to help the Diseases before premised.   

Hedg-Hysop.  
Descript.] THere are divers sorts of this Plant, the first of which is an Italian by Birth, and only nursed up here in the Gardens of the Curious. Two or three sorts are to be found commonly growing wild here; the Descriptions of two of which I shall give you: The first is a smooth low Plant, not a foot high, very bitter in taste, with many square Stalks, diversely branched from the bottom to the top, with divers joints, and two small leaves at each joint, broader at the bottom than they are at the end, a little dented about the edges, of a sad green colour and full of veins: The Flowers stand at the joints, being of a fair purple colour, with some white spots in them, in fashion like those of dead Nettles: The Seed is small and yellow, and the Roots spreadeth much under ground.  
The second seldom groweth half a foot high, sending up many small branches, whereon grow many small leaves set one against the other, somewhat broad, but very short: the Flowers are like the Flowers of the other in fashion, but of a pale reddish colour: the Seeds are small and yellowish: the Root spreadeth like the other, neither will it yield to its fellow one are of bitterness.  
Place.] They grow in wet low grounds, and by water sides: the last may be found amongst the Bogs on Hampsted Heath.  
Time.] They Flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe presently after.  
Government and virtues.] They are Herbs of Mars, and as choleric and churlish as he is, 
choler, phlegm, dropsy, Gout, Sciatica, Worms, Ulcers,  being most violent purgers, especially of choler and phlegm: It is not safe taking them inwardly, unless they be well rectified by the Art of the alchemist, and only the purity of them given; if so used, they may be very healthful both for the dropsy, Gout and Sciatica: outwardly used in ointments, they kill Worms, the belly being anointed with it; and are excellent good to cleanse old and filthy Ulcers.   

Black Hellebore.  
IT is called also Setter-wort, Setter-grass, Bears-foot, Christmas Herb, and Christmas Flower.  
Description.] It hath sundry fair green leaves rising from the Root, each of them standing about a handful high from the Earth, each Leaf is divided into seven, eight, or nine parts, dented from the middle of the Leaf to the point on both sides, abiding green all the Winter; about Christmas time, if the weather be any thing temperate, the Flowers appear upon Footstalks, also consisting of five large, round, white leaves apiece, which sometimes are purple toward the edges, with many pale yellow thrums in the middle: The Seeds are divided into several cells like those of Columbines, save only they are greater; the Seeds are in colour black, and in form long and round: The Root consisteth of a number numberless blackish strings, all united into one Head.  
There is another black Hellebore which groweth up and down in the Woods very like this, but that only the leaves are smaller and narrower, and perish in the Winter when this doth not.  
Place.] The first is maintained in Gardens: The second is commonly found in the Woods in Northamptonshire.  
Time.] The first flowreth in December or January; the second in February or March.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Saturn, and therefore no marvel if it have some sullen conditions with it, and would be far safer being purified by the Art of the alchemist, 
melancholy, Quartain Agues, Madness, Falling-sickness, leprosy, yellow& black Jaundice, Gout, Sciatica, Terms provokes, Ulcers, dead flesh, Cough& poison in cattle.  than given raw. If any have taken any harm by taking it, the common cure is to take Goats Milk, if you cannot get Goats Milk, you must make a shift with such as you can get. The Roots are very effectual against al melancholy Diseases, especially such as are of long standing, as Quartan Agues, and Madness; it helps the Falling-sickness, and the leprosy; both the yellow and the black Jaundice, the Gout, Sciatica, Convulsions: and truly this was found out by experience, That the Roots of that which groweth wild in our own Country, work not so churlishly as those do which are brought from beyond Sea, as being maintained by a more temperate Air. The Root used as a Pessary provokes the Terms exceedingly; also being beaten into powder and strewed upon soul Ulcers, it consumes the dead flesh, and instantly heals them; nay, it will help Gangrenes in the beginning, twenty grains taken inwardly is a sufficient Dose for one time, and let that be corrected with half so much Cinnamon. Country people used to rowel their cattle with it: if a Beast be troubled with the Cough, or have taken any poison, they bore a hole through his Ear, and put a piece of the Root in it; this will help him in twenty four hours time. Many other uses Farriers put it to, which I shal forbear.   

Herb Robert.  
Descript.] THis riseth up with a reddish stalk two foot high, having divers leaves thereon upon very long and reddish footstalks, divided at the ends into three or five divisions, each of them out in on the edges some deeper than others, and all dented likewise about the edges, which often times turn reddish: At the tops of the Stalk come forth divers flowers made of five leaves, much larger than the Doves foot, and of a more reddish colour, after which come beak heads as in others: The Root is small and threddy, and smelleth as the whole Plant very strong, almost stinking.  
Place.] This groweth frequently every where by Way sides, upon Ditch banks, and wast grounds wheresoever one goeth.  
Time.] It flowreth in June and July chiefly, and the Seed is ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Venus. Herb Robert is commended not only against the ston, but to stay Blood, 
ston, bleeding, Terms stops, Wound, Ulcers in the Privities.  where, or howsoever flowing; it speedily healeth al green Wounds, and is effectual in old Ulcers in the privy parts, or elsewhere. You may persuade yourself this is true, and also conceive a good reason for it, if you do but consider 'tis an Herb of Venus, for al it hath a mans name.   

Herb Truelove, or Oneberry.  
Descipt.] THe ordinary Herb Truelove, hath a small creeping Root running under the uper crust of the ground, somewhat like a Couchgrass Root but not so white, shooting forth stalks with leaves, some whereof carry no berries, though others do, every stalk smooth without joints and blackish green, rising about half a foot high if it bear berries, otherwise seldom so high, bearing at the top four leaves set directly one against another in manner of a across or a R●bband tied( as it is called) on a True-loves Knot, which are each of them apart, somewhat like unto a Nightshade Leaf, but somewhat broader, having sometimes three Leaves, sometimes five, sometimes six,& these sometimes greater than in others. In the middle of the four leaves riseth up one small slender Stalk about an inch high, bearing at the top therof one flower spread open like a star, consisting of four small& narrow long pointed leaves of a yellowish green colour, and four other lying between them lesser than they; in the middle whereof stands a round dark purplish Button or Head, compassed about with eight small yellow mealy threads with three colours, make it the more conspicuous and lovely to behold: This Button or head in the middle, when the other leaves are withered, becometh a blackish purple Berryful of juice of the bigness of a reasonable Grape, having within it many white Seeds: The whole Plant is without any manifest taste.  
Place.] It groweth in Woods and Copses, and sometimes in the corners or borders of Fields, and wast grounds in very many places, of this Land; and abundantly in the Woods, Copses, and other places about Chislchurst and Maidstone in Kent.  
Time.] They spring up in the middle of April or May, and are in Flower soon after: The Berries are ripe in the end of May, and in some places in June.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns it. The leaves or Berries hereof are effectual to expel poison of al sorts, especially that of the Aconites; 
poison, Pestilence, fevers, Witchcraft colic, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings in the groin, Cods and Privities, Inflamtions, apostemes.  as also the Plague, and other Pestilential Diseases. Some have been holpen thereby saith Mathiolus, that have lain long in a lingering sickness, and others that by Witchcraft( as it was thought) were become half foolish, by taking a dram of the Seeds or Berries hereof in powder every day for twenty daies together, they were restored to their former health. The Roots in powder taken in Wine easeth the pains of the colic speedily: The leaves are very effectual as well for green Wounds, as to cleanse and heal up old filthy Sores and Ulcers; and is very powerful to discuss al tumours,& Swellings in the Cods, privie-Parts, or groin, or in any part of the Body, and speedily to alloy al inflammations. The leaves or the juice applied to Felons, or those Nails of the Hands or Toes that have Imposthumes or Sores gathered together at the Roots of them, healeth them in short space.  
The Herb is not to be described for the premises, but is fit to be nourished in every good Womans Garden.   

hyssop.  
THis is so well known to be an Inhabitant in every Garden, that it will save me labour in writing a Description thereof. The virtues are as followeth:  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is Jupiters, and the the Sign Cancer; 
Cough, shortness of breath, Wheesing, Gross Humors, Worms, yellow Jaundice, dropsy, Spleen, inflammations, black and blue spots, quinsy, toothache, noise in the Ears, venomous Beasts, Lice, Itching of the Head Falling-sickness, Wounds.  It strengtheners al the parts of the Body under Cancer and Jupiter, which what they be may be found amply discoursed of in my Astrological judgement of Diseases. Dioscorides saith that hyssop boiled with Rue and Honey, and drunk, helpeth those that are troubled with Coughs, shortness of breath, wheesing, and Rhewmatick Distillations upon the Lungs: Taken also with oxymel, it purgeth gross Humors by the Stool; and with Honey killeth Worms in the Belly; and with fresh or new Figs bruised, helpeth to loosen the Belly, and more forcibly if the Root of Flower-de-luce and Cresses be added thereto. It amendeth and cherisheth the Native colour of the Body spoiled by the yellow Jaundice, and being taken with Figs and Nitre helpeth the dropsy and Spleen. Being boiled with Wine, it is good to wash inflammations: and taketh away black and blue Spots and Marks that come by stroke, Bruises, or Fals, being applied with warm Water. It is an excellent medicine for the quinsy, or swelling in the Throat, to wash and gargoyle it, being boiled with Figs. It helpeth the toothache, being boiled in Vinegar, and gargled therewith. The hot vapours of the Decoction taken by a Funnel in at the Ears, easeth the inflammations and singing noise of them: Being bruised, and Salt, Honey, and Cummin Seed put to it, it helpeth those that are stung by Serpents. The oil thereof being anointed killeth Lice, and taketh away Itching of the Head: It helpeth those that have the Falling-sickness which way soever it be applied: It helpeth to expectorate tough phlegm, and is effectual in al could Griefs, or Diseases of the Chest and Lungs, being taken either in a Syrup or licking Medicine. The green Herb bruised and a little Sugar put thereto doth quickly heal any cut, or green Wound, being thereunto applied.   

Hops.  
THese are so well known that they need no Description, I mean the manured kind, which every good Husband or housewife is acquainted with. The wild Hop groweth up as the other doth, ramping upon Trees or Hedges that stand next unto them, with rough branches, and leaves like the former; but it giveth smaller Heads, and in far less plenty than it, so that ther is scarce a Head or two seen in a year on divers of this wild kind, wherein consisteth the chief difference.  
Place.] They delight to grow on low moist grounds, and are found in al parts of this Land.  
Time.] They spring not up until April, and Flower not until the latter end of June, the Heads are not gathered until the middle or latter end of September.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars. 
Obstructions Liver, spleen, Blood, Reins cleanseth, French Pox, Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, Morphew, poison Worms, Terms provokes, Disury, yellow Jaundice, Liver, stomach, Agues.  This Physical operation is to open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, to cleanse the Blood to loosen the Belly, to cleanse the Reins from Gravel, and provoke Urin. The Decoction of the tops of Hops, as well of the tame as the wild, worketh the same effects. In cleansing the Blood they help to cure the French disease, and al manner of Scabs, Itch, and other breakings out in the Body, as also al Tetters, Ringworms, and spreading Sores, the Morphew, and al discolorings of the Skin. The Decoction of the Flowers and tops, do help to expel poison that any one hath drunk: Half a dram of the Seed in powder taken in drink, killeth Worms in the Body, bringeth down Womens Courses, and expelleth Urin: A Syrup made of the juice and Sugar, cureth the yellow Jaundice, easeth the headache that comes of Heat, and tempereth the heat of the Liver and Stomach, and is profitably given in long and hot Agues that rise of choler and Blood. Both the wild and the manured are of one property, and alike effectual in al the aforesaid Diseases.  
By al these Testimonies, Beer appears to be better than Ale.  
Mars owns the Plant, and then Dr. Reason will tel you how it performs these Actions.   

whorehound.  
Descript.] COmmon whorehound groweth up with square hoary Stalks, half a yard or two foot high, set at the joints with two round crumpled rough leaves, of a sullen hoary green colour, of a reasonable good scent, but a very bitter taste. The Flowers are small white and gaping, set in rough, hard, prickly Husks, round about the joints with the leaves from the middle of the Stalk upwards, wherein afterwards is found small round blackish Seed. The Root is blackish, hard, and woody, with many strings thereat, and abideth many yeers.  
Place.] It is found in many parts of this Land, in dry grounds, and wast green places.  
Time.] It flowreth in or about July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mercury. A Decoction of the dried Herb with the Seed, 
Difficulty of breath, Cough, consumption, phlegm, Terms provokes, Afterbirth weariness, poison, venomous Beasts, Ulcers, Sides, Eyes, yell. Jaundice, Ears, Obstructions of the liver, and spleen, Liver, Itch, Tetters, Worms, Dogs-bitings, Womens Breasts Thorns, Asthmaes.  or the juice of the green Herb taken with Honey, is a Remedy for those that are pursy or short winded, or have a Cough, or are fallen into a Consumption either through long sickness, or thin Distillations of Rhewm upon the Lungs. It helpeth to expectorate tough phlegm from the Chest, being taken with the Roots of Iris or O●ris. It is given to Women to bring down their Courses, to expel the Afterbirth, and to them that have sore and long Travels, as also to those that have taken poison, or are stung or bitten by venomous Serpents: The leaves used with Honey purge foul Ulcers, stay running or creeping sores, and the growing of the Flesh over the Nails. It also helpeth pains of the sides. The juice thereof with Wine and Honey helpeth to clear the Eyesight, and snuffed up into the Nostrils, purgeth away the yellow Jaundice, and with a little oil of Roses dropped into the Ears easeth the pains of them. Galen saith it openeth obstructions both of the Liver and Spleen, purgeth the Breast and Lungs of phlegm: and used outwardly, it both cleanseth and digesteth. A Decoction of whorehound( saith Mathiolus) is available for those that have bad Livers, and for such as have Itches and Running Tetters. The powder hereof taken, or the Decoction, killeth Worms. The green leaves bruised and boiled in old Hogs-grease unto an ointment, healeth the biting of Dogs, abateth the swellings of womens Breasts, and taketh away the swelling and Pains that come by any pricking of Thorns, or such like means, and used with Vinegar it cleanseth and healeth Tetters. There is a Syrup made of whorehound to be had at the Apothecaries, very good for old Coughs, to rid the tough phlegm, as also to avoid could Rhewm from the Lungs of old Folks, and for those that are Asthmatick or short winded.   

Horse-Taile.  
Descript.] OF this there are many kinds, but I shal not trouble you nor myself with any large Description of them, which to do, were but as the proverb is, To find a knot in a Rush: Al the kinds hereof being nothing else but knotted Rushes, some with leaves, and some without: Take the Description of the most eminent sort as followeth,  
The great Horse-taile at the first springing hath heads somewhat like those of Asparagus, and after grow to be hard, rough hollow stalks, jointed at sundry places up to the top, a foot high, so made as if the lower part were put into the upper, whereat grow on each side a bush of small, long, Rush like hard leaves, each part resembling a Hors-tail( from whence it was so called) At the tops of the stalks come forth small Catkins like to those of Trees. The Root creepeth under ground having joints at sundry places.  
Place.] This( as most of the other sorts hereof) groweth in wet grounds.  
Time.] They spring up in April, and their blooming Catkins in July, seeding for the most part in August, and then perish down to the ground, rising afresh in the spring.  
Government and Ve●tues.] The Herb is belonging to Saturn, yet is very harmless,& excellent good for the things following, Hors-Tail, the smother rather than the rough, and the leaved rather than the bare, are most Physical: It is very powerful to staunch bleedings wheresoever, either inward or outward, the juice or the Decoction therof being drunk, or the juice, 
Bleeding-flux, Terms stops, Pissing Blood, Inward Ulcers Excoriations of the Bladder, Ulvers, wounds Ruptures, Dissury, ston, strangury, Cough, inflammations, pimpls, read face  Decoction, or distilled Water applied outwardly. It stayeth also al sorts of Lasks and Fluxes in Man or Woman, and the pissing of blood, and healeth also not only the inward Ulcers, and Excoriations of the entrails, bladder, &c. but al other sorts of foul, moist, and running Ulcers, and soon sodereth together the tops of green wounds: It cureth also Ruptures in Children. The Decoction therof i● Wine being drunk, provoketh Urin, and helpeth the ston and the Strangury: and the Distilled Water therof drunk two or three times in a day, and a small quantity at a time; as also easeth the Entrails or Guts, and is effectual against a Cough that cometh by distillation from the head. The juice or distilled Water being warmed, and hot inflammations, Pustules, or red Wheals, and other breakings out in the skin, which being bathed therwith doth help them, and doth no less ease the swellings, heat, and inflammations of the Fundament or privy parts in Man or Woman.   

Housleeks, or Sengreen.  
BOth these are so well known unto my Country Men, that I shal not need to writ any Description of them.  
Place.] It groweth commonly on Walls and Housesides, and flowereth in July.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Jupiter, and it is reported by Myzaldus, to preserve what it grows upon, from Fire and Lightning. Our ordinary houseleek is good for al inward heats as well as outward, and in the Eyes or other parts of the Body: A Posset made with the juice of houseleek is singular good in al hot Agues, for it cooleth and tempereth the blood and Spirits, 
Heat, Eyes, Agues, Thirst, salt rheums, Ears, Terms stops, Fluxes, inflammations, S. Anthonies fire, Burning, Scaldings, Tetters, Ring-worms, Corns on the Hands& feet, Hendach, frenzy, Watching, bleeding, nettles Bees, &c.  and quench the thirst: and is also good to stay al hot defluxions of sharp and salt rheums in the Eyes, the juice being dropped into them, or into the ears helpeth them: It helpeth also other fluxes of Humors into th● Bowels, and the immoderate Courses of Women. It cooleth and restraineth also al other hot inflammations, St. Anthonies Fire, Scaldings and Burnings, the Shingls, freting Ulcers, Cankers, Tetters, Ringworms, and the like; and much easeth the pain of the Gout proceeding from an hot Cause. The juice also taketh away Warts and Corns in the Hands or Feet, being often bathed therwith, and the skin of the leaves being laid on them afterwards. It easeth also the headache, and distempered heat of the Brain in frenzies, or through want of sleep, being applied to the Temples and Fore-head. The leaves bruised and laid upon the Crown or Seam of the Head, stayeth bleeding at the Nose very quickly. The distilled Water of the Herb is profitable for al the purposes aforesaid: The leaves being gently rubbed on any place stung with Nettles or Bees, doth quickly take away the Pain.   

Hounds-Tongue.  
Descript.] THe great ordinary Hounds-Tongue hath many long and somewhat narrow, soft, hairy darkish green leaves, lying on the ground somewhat like unto Bugloss leaves, from among which riseth up a rough hairy stalk about two foot high, with some smaller leaves thereon, and branched at the top into divers parts, with a small Leaf at the Foot of every branch which is somewhat long, with many Flowers set along the same, which branch is crooked or turned inwards before it flowereth and openeth by degrees as the Flowers do blow, which consist of four small purplish read leaves of a dead colour, scarce rising out of the Husk wherein they stand, with some thirds in the middle: It hath sometimes a white Flower. After the Flowers are past, there cometh rough flat Seed, with a small pointel in the middle, easily cleaving to any garment that it toucheth, and not so easily pulled off again: The Root is black, thick, and long, hard to break, and full of a clammy juice, smelling somewhat strong, of an evil scent as the leaves also do.  
Place.] It groweth in most places of this Land, in wast grounds, and untitled places by high way sides, Lanes, and hedge sides.  
Time.] It flowereth about May and June, and the seed is ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant under the Dominion of Mercury. The Root is very effectually used in Pills, as well as in Decoctions, or otherwise, to stay al sharp and thin Defluxions of Rhewm from the head into the eyes or nose, 
Eyes, Nose Stomach, Lungs, shortness of breath, Mad-dogs Scaldings, Burnings, Hermorrhoids, Wounds, Ulcers, French Pox.  or upon the Stomach or Lungs, as also for Coughs or shortness of breath. The leaves boiled in wine( saith Dioscorides) but others do rather appoint it to be made with Water, and to ad thereto oil and Salt, mollifieth or openeth the Belly downward: It also helpeth to cure the biting of a Mad Dog, some of the leaves being also applied to the Wound: The leaves bruised, or the juice of them boiled in Hogs-lard, and applied, helpeth the falling away of the Hair which cometh of hot and sharp humors: as also for any place that is scalded or burnt: The leaves bruised, and laid to any green Wound, doth heal it up quickly: The Root baked under the embers, wrapped in Past, or wet Papers, or in a wet double Cloth, and therof a suppository made, and put up into, or applied to the Fundament, doth very effectually help the painful Piles or Hemorrhoids. The Distilled Water of the Herb and Roots, is very good to al the purposes aforesaid, to be used as well inwardly to drink, as outwardly to wash any sore places, for it healeth al manner of Wounds and Punctures, and those foul Ulcers that arise by the French-pox.  
Myzaldus adds to this, That the leaves laid under the Feet, will keep the Dogs from barking at you: Hounds-tongue, because it ties the Tongue of Hounds, whether it be true or not, I never tried, yet I have cured the biting of a mad Dog with this only Medicine.   

Holly, Holm, or Hulver-bush.  
FOR to Describe a three so well known, is needless.  
Government and virtues.] The three is really Saturnine, the Berries expel Wind, and therfore are held to be profitable in the colic: The Berries have a strong quality with them, for if you eat a dozen of them in the morning fasting when they are ripe and not dried, 
Expel Wind, colic, phlegm Fluxes, bloudy-fluxes, stop the Terms, Bones broken, Members out of joint, Witchcraft.  they purge the Body of gross and clammy phlegm: but if you dry the Berries, and beat them into powder, they bind the Body, and stop Fluxes, bloody Flaxes, and the Terms in Women: Both the Bark of the three, and also the leaves are excellent good being used in Fomentations for broken Bones, and such Members as are out of joint. Pliny saith, The Branches of the three defend Houses from Lightning, and Men from Witchraft.   

St. Johns-wort.  
Descript.] THe common St. Johns-wort shooteth forth brownish, upright, hard, round stalks, two foot high, spreading many branches from the sides up to the tops of them, with two small leaves set one against another at every place, which are of a deep green colour, somewhat like the leaves of the lesser Centaury, but narrower, and full of small holes in every leaf, which cannot be so well perceived as when they are held up to the light: At the tops of the Stalks and branches stand yellow Flowers made of five leaves a piece, with many yellow thirds in the middle, which being bruised, do yield a reddish juice like blood, after which come small round Heads, wherein is contained small blackish seed smelling like Rozin: The Root is hard and woody, with divers strings and fibres at it, and of a brownish colour, which abideth in the ground many years, shooting anew every spring.  
Place.] This groweth in Woods and Copses, as well those that are shady as open to the Sun.  
Time.] They flower about Midsummer, and in July, and their Seed is ripe in the latter end of July or August.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the celestial Sign lo, and under the Dominion of the Sun: It may be if you meet with a Papist that is an Alstrologer, he will tel you St. Jobn made it over to him by a Letter of attorney, especially if withal he be a Lawyer also. St. Johns-wort is as singular a Wound herb as any other whatsoever, either for inward Wounds, Hurts, or Bruises, to be boiled in Wine and drunk, or prepared into oil or ointment, 
Wounds, Bruises, Obstructions, Swellings, Spitting and Vomiting blood venomous Beasts, Disury, choler, Agues, Sciatica, Falling-Sickness, palsy.  Bath or Lotion outwardly: It hath power to open Obstructions, to dissolve Swellings, to close up the lips of Wounds, and to strengthen the parts that are weak and feeble. The Decoction of the Herb and Flowers, but of the Seed especially in Wine, being drunk; or the seed made into powder, and drunk with the juice of Knotgrass, helpeth al manner of Spitting and Vomiting of blood, be it by any Vein broken inwardly, by Bruises, Fals, or howsoever. The same helpeth those that are bitten or stung by any venomous Creature: and is good for those that are troubled with the ston in their Kidneys, or that cannot make Water; and being applied provoketh Womens Courses. Two drams of the Seed of St. Johns-wort made into powder and drunk in a little Broth, doth gently expel choler, or congealed blood in the Stomach: The Decoction of the leaves and Seeds being drunk somewhat warm before the Fits of Agues, whether they be Tertians, or Quartans, doth alter the Fits, and by often using doth take them quiter away: The Seed is much commended being drunk for forty dayes together, to help the Sciatica, the Falling-sickness, and the palsy.   

Ivy.  
Descript.] IT is so well known to every Child almost to grow in Woods upon the Trees, and upon the ston Walls of Churches, Houses, &c. and sometimes to grow alone of itself, though but seldom.  
Time.] I● flowereth not until July, and the Berries are not ripe till Christ-tide that they have felt the winter frosts.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Saturn. A pugil of the Flowers, which may be about a dram( saith Dioscorides) drunk twice a day in read Wine, helpeth the Lask and bloody Flux. It is an enemy to the laws and Sinews being much taken inwardly, 
Flux Bloudy-Flux, Jaundice, Spitting blood, Worms, Drunkenness, Pestilence, ston, Disury, Terms provokes, Spleen, Stitch, headache, Ulcers, Wounds, Burnings, Scaldings, salt-flegm, Rhewm, Sore Ears.  but very helpful unto them being outwardly applied, Pliny saith, That the yellow Berries are good against the Jaundice, and taken before one be set to drink hard, preserveth from Drunkenness, and helpeth those that spit blood: and that the white Berries being taken inwardly, or applied outwardly killeth the Worms in the Belly. The Berries are a singular Remedy to prevent the Plague, as also to free them from it that have got it, by drinking the Berries therof made in powder, for two or three dayes together: They being taken in Wine, do certainly help to break the ston, provoke Urine, and Womens Courses. The fresh leaves of Ivy boiled in Vinegar, and applied warm to the sides of those that are troubled with the Spleen, ache, or Stitch in the sides, doth give them much ease: the same applied with some rose-water and oil of Roses to the Temples and Fore-head, easeth the headache, though it be of long continuance. The fresh leaves boiled in Wine, and old filthy Ulcers that are hard to be cured, washed therwith, doth wonderfully help to cleanse and heal them: It also quickly healeth green Wounds, as also it is effectual to heal al Burnings and Scaldings, and al kind of exulcerations coming thereby, or by salt phlegm or hot Humors in other parts of the Body. The juice of the Berries or leaves snuffed up into the noll, purgeth the Head and Brain of thin Rhewm that maketh Defluxions into the Eyes and Nose, and cureth the Ulcers and Stench therein: the same dropped into the Ears, helpeth the old, and running Sores of them: those that are troubled with the Spleen shal find much case by continual drinking out of a Cup made of Ivy, so as the drink may stand some small time therein before it be drunk. Cato saith, That Wine put into such a Cup will soak through it, by reason of the Antipathy that is between them.  
There seems to be a very great Antipathy between Wine and Ivy, for if any have got a Surfet by drinking Wine, his speediest Cure is to drink a draft of the same Wine wherein a handful of Ivy Leads being first bruised have been boiled.   

Juniper-Bush.  
FOR to give a Description of a Bush so commonly known is needless.  
Place.] They grow plentifully in divers Woods in Kent, upon Warny-Common near Brentwood in Essex, upon Finchly-common without Hygate, hard by the New-found-Wells near Dullage, upon a common between Mitchum and croyden, in the High-way near Amersham in Buckingham-shire, and in many other places.  
Time.] The Berries are not ripe the first year, but continue green two Summers, and one Winter before they be ripe; at which time they are of a black colour, and therfore you shal always find upon the Bushes green-berries: the berries are ripe about the Fall of the Leaf.  
Government and virtues.] This admirable Solar shrub, is scarce to be parralel'd for his virtues. The Berries are hot in the third degree, and dry but in the first: being a most admirable counterpoison, and as great a resister of the Pestilence as any grows; 
counterpoison Pestilence, venomous Beasts, Urin provoketh Disurys, Strangury, dropsy, Terms provoketh, Mother fits Stomach, Wind expels, colic Cough, shortness of breath, Consumption, pains in the Belly, ruptures, Cramp, Convulsions, speedy delivery to Women, brain Memory, Sight, Agues, Gout, Sciatica, Limbs strengtheneth, Scurvy, Fluxes stop, Piles, worms, Itch, Scab, leprosy, ston, Appetite provoketh, Palsies, Falling-sickness.  they are excellent good against the bitings of venomous Beasts, they provoke Urin exceedingly, and therfore are weary available to Disurys, and Strangurys: it is so powerful a Remedy against the dropsy, that the very Lee made of the Ashes of the Herb being drunk, cures the Disease: it provokes the Terms, helps the Fits of the Mother, strengtheners the Stomach exceedingly, and expels Wind: indeed there is scarce a better Remedy for Wind in any part of the Body, or the colic than the chemical oil drawed from the Berries: such Country-people as know not how to draw the chemical oil, may content themselves by eating ten or a dozen of the ripe Berries every morning fasting, they are admirable good for the Cough, shortness of Breath, and Consumption, pains in the Belly, Ruptures, Cramps, and Convulsions: They give safe and speedy delivery to Women with Child, they strengthen the Brain, exceedingly help the Memory, and fortify the Sight by strengthening the optic laws: They are excellent good in al sorts of Agues, they help the Gout, and Sciatica, and strengthen al the Limbs of the Body: The Ashes of the Wood is a special Remedy for such as have the scurvy to rub their Gums with: the Berries stay al Fluxes, helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles, and kill Worms in Children: A lie made of the Ashes of the Wood, and the Body bathed with it, cures the Itch, Scabs, and leprosy: The Berries break the ston, procure Appetite, when it is lost, and are excellent good for Palsies and Falling-sickness.   

Kidney-wort, or Wall-Penyroyal, Or Wall Peny-wort.  
Descript.] IT hath many thick, flat, and round leaves growing from the Root, every one having a long Footstalk fastened underneath about the middle of it, and a little unevenly waved sometimes about the edges, of a pale green colour, and somewhat hollow on the uper side like a saucer; from among which rise one or more tender smooth hollow Stalks half a foot high, with two or three small leaves thereon, usually not round as those below, but somewhat long and divided at the edges: The tops are sometimes divided into long Branches, bearing a number of Flowers, set round about a long spike one above another, which are hollow and like a little Bell, of a whitish green colour, after which come small Heads containing very small brownish seed, which falling on the ground, will plentifully spring up before Winter, if it have moisture. The Root is round, and most usually smooth, grayish without and white within, having small fibres at the head of the Root, and bottom of the Stalk.  
Place.] It groweth very plentifully in many places of this Land, but especially in al the West parts thereof, upon ston and mud walls, upon Rocks also, and in stony places upon the ground, at the bottom of old Trees, and sometimes on the Bodies of them that are decayed and rotten.  
Time.] It usually flowreth in the beginning of May, and the Seed is ripening quickly after, sheddeth itself: so that about the end of May usually the leaves and Stalks are withered, dry, and gone until September, that the leaves spring up again, and so abide al Winter.  
Government and virtues.] Venus challengeth the Herb under Libra. The juice or the distilled Water being drunk, is very effectual for al inflammations, 
inflammations, pimples, Redness, St. Anthonies fire, kidneys, hurt by the ston, disury, ston, bloody flux, Piles, Hemorrhoids, Gout, Sciatica, Cods, Kings Evil, Kibes, Chilblains.  and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot Stomach, or a hot Liver, or the Bowels: The bruised Herb, or the place bathed with the juice or distilled Water thereof, and outwardly applied healeth Pimples, Redness, St. Anthonies fire, and other outward heats and inflammations. The said juice or Water helpeth much also to heal sore Kidneys, torn or fretted by the ston, or exulcerated within, and easeth the pains; It also provoketh Urine, and is available for the dropsy, and helpeth to break the ston, cooling the inflamed parts and other pains of the Bowels, and the bloody flux; It is singular good to cool the painful Piles, or Hemorrhoidal Veins, the juice being used as a Bath unto them, or made into an ointment: It is no less effectual to give eas of pains to the hot Gout, the Sciatica, and the inflammations and Swellings in the Cods; It helpeth the Kernels or Knots in the Neck or Throat, called the Kings Evil; healeth Kibes and Chilblains if they be bathed with the juice, or anointed with an ointment made thereof, and some of the skin of the Leaf laid upon them; It is also used in green Wounds to stay the Blood, and to heal them quickly.   

Knapweed.  
Descript.] THe common sort hereof hath many long and somewhat broad dark green leaves, rising from the Root deeply dented about the edges, and sometimes a little rent or torn on both sides in two or three places, and somewhat hairy withal, among which riseth up a strong round stalk four or five foot high, divided into many Branches; at the tops whereof stand great scaly green heads, and from the middle of them thrust forth a number of dark purplish read thrums or thirds, which after they are withered and past, there is found divers black Seeds, lying in a great deal of Down, somewhat like unto a Thistle Seed, but smaller: The Root is white, hard, and woody, with divers fibres annexed thereunto, which perisheth not but abideth with leaves thereon al the Winter, shooting out fresh every Spring.  
Place.] It groweth in most Fields and Meadows, and about their borders and Hedges, and in many wast grounds also, almost every where.  
Time.] It usually flowreth in June and July, and the seed is ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn challengeth the Herb for his own. This Knapweed helpeth to stay Fluxes, both of Blood at the Mouth or Nose, 
Fluxes, bleeding, Veins broken, Phtisick, Falls, Blows, Ruptures, Sores, Cankers, Fistulaes, Scabby head, Sore throat, Uvula, Jaws.  or other outward parts, and those veins that are inwardly broken, or inward Wounds, as also the Fluxes of the belly; It stayeth the distillations of thin and sharp humors from the head upon the Stomach and Lungs: it is good for those that are bruised by any fall, blows, or otherwise. It is very profitable for those that are bursten and have a rapture, by drinking the Decoction of the Herb and Roots in Wine, and applying the same outwardly to the place. It is singular good in al running sores, cankrous and fistulous, drying up the moisture, and healing them up gently, without sharpness; it doth the like to running sores or scabs of the head or other parts. It is of special use for the soreness of the Throat, swelling of the Uvula and Jaws; and excellent good to stay the bleeding, and heal up al green Wounds.   

Knot-grass.  
IT is generally so well known that it needeth no Description.  
Place.] It groweth in every Country of this Land, by the High-way sides, and by Foot-paths in Fields, as also by the sides of old walls.  
Time.] It springeth up late in the Sp●ing, and abideth until Winter, when al the Branches perish.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn seems to me to own the Herb, and yet some hold the Sun; out of doubt 'tis Saturn. The juice of the common kind of Knotgrass, 
Bleeding, Heat, Flux, Bloody Flux, Courses stops, Disury, Gravel, venomous Beasts, Rhewm, Worms, Heat, choler, inflammations, Apostums, Gangrenes Fistulaes, Cankers, Ulcers, Wounds Ears.  is most effectual to stay bleeding at the Mouth, being drunk in steeled or read Wine: and the bleeding at the Nose, to be applied to the Forehead and Temples, or to be squirted up into the Nostrils. And no less effectual to cool and temper that heat of the Blood and Stomach and to stay any Flux of the Blood or Humors, as Lask, Bloody flux, Womens Courses, and Running of the Reins. It is singular good to provoke Urin, help the strangury, and allayeth the heat that cometh thereby; and it is powerful by Urin to expel the Gravel, or ston in the Kidneys or Bladder, a dram of the powder of the Herb being taken in Wine for many daies together: Being boiled in Wine and drunk, it is profitable to those that are stung or bitten by venomous creatures, and very effectual to stay al defluxions of Rhewmatick humors upon the stomach, and killeth Worms in the belly or stomach, quieteth inward pains that arise from the heat, sharpness, and corruption of blood and choler: The distilled Water hereof taken by itself, or with the powder of the Herb or Seed, is very effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, and is accounted as one of the most Sovereign Remedies to cool al manner of inflammations, breakings out through heat, hot swellings, and impostumations, Gangrenes, and fistulous Cankers, or soul filthy Ulcers, being applied or put into them; but especially for al sorts of Ulcers and Sores happening in the privy parts of men or Women. It helpeth al fresh and green Wounds, and speedily helpeth them: The juice dropped into the Ears cleanseth them being foul, and having running matter in them.  
It is very prevalent for the premises; as also for broken joints, and Ruptures.   

Ladies-Mantle.  
Descript.] IT hath many leaves rising from the Root, standing upon long hairy Footstalks, being almost round, but a liitle cut in on the edges, into eight or ten parts more or less, making it seem like a star, with so many corners and points, and dented round about, of a light green colour somewhat hard in handling, and as if it were folded, or plaited at first, and then crumpled in divers places, and a little hairy as the stalk is also, which riseth up among them to the height of two or three foot, with such like leaves thereon but smaller, and being weak is not able to stand upright, but bendeth down to the ground, divided at the top into two or three small Branches, with small yellowish green Heads, and Flowers of a whitish colour, breaking out of them; which being past, there cometh small yellow Seed tike Poppy Seed: The Root is somewhat long and black, with many strings or fibres thereat.  
Place.] It groweth naturally in many Pastures, and Wood sides, in Hertfordshire, Wiltshire, and Kent, and other places of this Land.  
Time.] It flowreth in May and June, and abideth after Seed time green al the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] Venus claims the Herb as her own. Ladies-Mantle is very proper for those Wounds that have inflammations, and is very effectual to stay bleedings, 
inflammations, Bleeding, Vomiting, Fluxes, Bruises, Ruptures, Flagging Breasts, Barrenness Women with Child.  vomitings, fluxes of al sorts in man or woman, and bruises by fals or otherwise, and helpeth Ruptures, and such Women or Maids as have over great flagging Breasts, causing them to grow less and hard, being both drunk, and outwardly applied: The distilled Water drunk for twenty daies together helpeth Conception, and to retain the Birth if the Woman do sometimes also sit in a Bath made of the Decoction of the Herb. It is one of the most singular Wound Herbs that is, and therfore highly prized and praised by the Germans, who use in al Wounds inward and outward, to drink the Decoction therof, and wash the Wounds therwith, or dip Tents therein and put them into the Wounds, which wonderfully drieth up al humidity of the Sores, and abateth inflammations therein. It quickly healeth at green Wounds, not suffering any corruption to remain behind, and cureth old Sores though fistulous and hollow.   

Lavender.  
IT is so well known, being an Inhabitant in almost every Garden, that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It flowreth about the end of June, and beginning of July.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury owns the Herb, and it carries his effects very potently. Lavender is of special good use for al the griefs and pains of the Head and Brains that proceed of a could cause, 
Head, brains Apoplexy, falling-sickness, lethargy, Cramps, convulsions, palsy, both dead and shaking, stomach, Liver, spleen, terms provokes, colic, Vertigo, loss of voice, Trembling, Fainting.  as the Apoplexy, Falling-sickness, the drouzie or sluggish Malady, Cramps, Convulsions, palsies, and often faintings. It strengtheneth the Stomach, and freeth the Liver and Spleen from Obstructions, provoketh Womens Courses, and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth. The Flowers of Lavender steeped in Wine helpeth them to make water that are stopped, or are troubled with the Wind, or colic, if the places be bathed therewith. A Decoction made with the Flowers of Lavender, whorehound, Fennel, and Asparagus Roots, and a little Cinnamon, is very profitably used to help the Falling-sickness, and the giddiness or turning of the Brain: To gargoyle the Mouth with the Decoction therof is good against the toothache. Two spoonfuls of the distilled Water of the Flowers taken, helpeth them that have lost their voice; as also the tremblings and passions of the Heart, and faintings and swoonings, not only being drunk, but applied to the Temples, or Nostrils to be smelled unto, but it is not safe to use it where the Body repleat with Blood and Humors, because of the hot and subtle spirits wherewith it is possessed. The chemical oil drawn from Lavender, usually called oil of Spike, is of so fierce and piercing spirits that it is cautiously to be used, some few drops being sufficient to be given with other things, either for inward or outward Griefs.   

Lavender Cotton.  
IT being a common Garden Herb, I shal forbear the Description, only take notice, That it flowreth in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mercury. 
poison, putrefaction, venomous Beast, Running of the Reins, whites in Women, worms, Scabs, Itch.  It resisteth poison, putrefaction, and helps the bitings of venomous Beasts: A dram of the powder of the dried leaves taken every morning fasting in any convenient Vehecle, stops the running of the Reins in Men, and Whites in Women. The Seed being beaten into powder, and taken as Wormseed, it kills the Worms, not only in Children, but also in people of riper yeers: the like doth the Herb itself being boiled in Milk, and the Milk drunk: The Body bathed with the Decoction of it, helps Scabs and Itch.   

Ladies-Smocks, or Cuckoo-Flowers.  
Descript.] THe Root is composed of many small white thirds, from whence springeth up divers long stalks of winged leaves consisting of many round tender dark green leaves set one against another upon a middle Rib, the greatest being at the ends, amongst which rise up divers tender weak round green stalks, somewhat streaked with longer and smaller leaves upon them; on the tops of which stand Flowers almost like Stock-gilli-flowers, but rounder and not so long, of a blushing white colour: The Seed is reddish, and groweth in small pouches, being of a sharp biting taste, and so hath the Herb.  
Place.] They grow in moist places, and near to Brook sides.  
Time.] They flower in April or May, and the lower leaves continue green al the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of the Moon, 
scurvy, provoke Urin, ston, Stomach, lost Appetite, indigestion.  and very little inferior to Water-Cresses in al their operations: They are excellent good for the Scurvy; they provoke Urin, and break the ston, and excellently warm a could and weak Stomach, restoring lost appetite, and helping digestion.   

lettuce.  
IT is so well known, being generally used as a salad Herb, that it is altogether needless to writ any Description thereof.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon owns them, and that's the reason they cool and moisten what heat and dryness Mars causeth, because Mars hath his fall in Cancer, and they cool the Heart, because the Sun rules it between whom and the Moon is a Reception in the Generation of Man, as you may see in my Guide for Women. The juice of lettuce mixed or boiled with oil of Roses, 
Watching, headache, Indigestion, Thirst, Milk increaseth, choler, Bowels, Lust, venereous Dreams, inflammation, Heat of Urin.  and applied to the forehead and temples procureth Sleep, and easeth the headache proceeding of an hot cause; being eaten boiled, it helpeth to loosen the Belly. It helpeth digestion, quencheth thirst, increaseth Milk in Nurses, easeth gripping pains of the stomach or Bowels, that come of choler. It abateth Bodily Lust, represseth venereous Dreams, being outwardly applied to the Cods with a little camphor: Applied in the same manner to the Region of the Heart, Liver, or Reins, or by bathing the said place with the juice or distilled Water, wherein some white Sanders, or read roses are put also, it not only represseth the heat and inflammation therein, but comforts and strengtheners those parts,& also tempereth the heat of Urin. Galen adviseth old men to use it with Spices, and where Spices are wanting to ad Mints, Rocket and such like hot Herbs, or else Citron, lemon, or Orange Seeds, to abate the could of one, and heat of the other. The Seed and distilled Water of the lettuce work the like effects in all things: but the useof lettuce is chiefly forbidden to those that are short winded, or have any imperfection in their Lungs, or spit Blood.   

The water-lily.  
Descript.] OF these there are two principally noted kinds, viz. The White, and the Yellow.  
Description.] The white lily hath very large, round, and thick, dark green leaves lying on the Water, sustained by long and thick Footstalks, that rise from a great, thick, round and long tuberous black Root, spongy or loose, with many Knobs thereon like Eyes, and whitish within, from amid the which rise other the like thick and great stalks, sustaining one large white Flower thereon, green on the outside, but as white as Snow within, consisting of divers rows of long, and somewhat thick and narrow leaves, smaller and thinner the more inward they be, encompassing a head within with many yellow thirds or thrums in the middle, where after they are past, stand round, Poppy-like Heads, full of broad, oily, and bitter Seed.  
The yellow kind is little different from the former save only it hath fewer leaves on the Flowers, greater and more shining Seed, and a whitish Root, both within and without: The Roots of both being somewhat sweet in taste.  
Place.] They are found growing in great Pools and standing Waters, and sometimes in slow running Rivers and lesser Ditches of Water, in sundry places of this Land.  
Time.] They flower most commonly about the end of May, and their Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is under the Dominion of the Moon, and therfore cools and moistens like the former. The leaves and Flowers of the Water-Lillies are could and moist, but the Root and Seed is could and dry: 
inflammations, Agues, Watching, frenzy, Flux, Belly, Running of the Reins, Veneyr, Freckles, Spots, Sunburn, Morphew.  The leaves do cool al Infl●mations, and both outward and inward heats of Agues, and so doth the Flowers also, either by the Syrup or Conserve: The Syrup helpeth much to procure rest, and to settle the Brains of frantic persons, by cooling the hot distemperature of the Head. The Seed as well as the Root is effectual to stay Fluxes of blood or Humors, either of Wounds, or of the Belly: but the Roots are most used, some choosing the one, and some the other to be more effectual to cool, bind, and restrain al Fuxes in Man or Women, as also the Running of the Reins, and the passing away of the Seed when one is asleep: but the frequent use hereof extinguisheth Venerous actions: The Root is likewise very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharp, to be boiled in Wine or Water, and the Decoction drunk. The distilled Water of the Flowers is very effectual for al the Diseases aforesaid, both inwardly taken and outwardly applied, and is much commended to take away Freckles, Spors, Sun burn, and Morphew from the Face, or other parts of the Body. The oil made of the Flowers, as oil of Roses is made, is profitablly used to cool hot tumours, and the inflammations of Ulcers and Wounds, and to ease the pains, and help the Sores.   

lily of the Valley.  
CAlled also Conval-Lilly, May-Lillys, and Lilly-Confancy.  
Descript.] The Root is small and creepeth far in the Ground as grass Roots do: the leaves are many, amongst which ariseth up a stalk half a foot high, with many white flowers like little bells, with turned edges, of a strong, though pleasing smell: the Berries are read, not much unlike those of Sparragus.  
Place.] They grow plentifully upon Hamsteed-heath, and in many other places in this Nation.  
Time.] They flower in May, and the seed is ripe in September.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mercury, and therfore there is no question to be made but it strengtheners the Brain, 
Brain, Memroy, inflammations in the Eyes, pin& web, lost speech palsy, apoplexy, Heart, Vital Spirits, Gout.  recruits a weak Memory, and makes it strong again: The Distilled water dropped into the Eyes, helps inflammations there, as also that infirmity which they call a Pin and Web: the Spirit or the flowers distilled in Wine, restoreth lost Speech, helps the palsy, and is exceeding good in the apoplexy, comforteth the Heart and vital Spirits. Gerrard saith, That the flowers being close stopped up in a Glass, put into an Ant-hill, and taken away again a month after, you shal find a liquour in the Glass, which being outwardly applied, helps the Gout.   

White-Lillys.  
IT were in vain to Describe a Plant so commonly known in every ones Garden, therfore I shal not tel you what they are, but what they are good for.  
Government and virtues.] They are under the Dominion of the Moon, and by Antipathy to Mars, expel poison: they are excellent good in Pestilental fevers: The Roots being bruised and boiled in Wine, and the Decoction drunk, for it expels the Venom to the exterior parts of the Body: 
poison, Pestilential fevers Venom, Dropsy Scald-Heads, Unites Sinews, Ulcers, After-birth, Plague-sores, Swellings in the Privitys Burnings, scaldings, Hair restoreth.  The juice of it being tempered with Barly-meal baked, and so eaten for ordinary bread, is an excellent cure for the dropsy: An ointment being made of the Root and Hogs-grease, is excellent good for scald heads, and unites Sinews when they are cut; besides the virtue that it hath to cleanse Ulcers, it being of a fine suppu●ating quality: The Root boiled in any convenient Decoction gives speedy delivery to Women in travail, and expels the After-birth: The Root roasted and mixed with a little Hogs-grease, makes a gallant Pultiss to ripen and break Plague-sores: The ointment is excellent good for Swellings in the Privities, and will cure Burnings and Scaldings without a scar, and trimly deck a bald place with Hairs.   

Liquoris.  
Descript.] OUr English Liquoris riseth up with divers woody stalks, whereon are set at several distances, many narrow, long, green leaves, set together on both sides of the stalk, and an odd one at the end, very well resembling a young Ash-tree sprung up from the seed: This by many years continuance in a place without removing, and not else, will bring forth Flowers, many standing together Spike fashion one above another upon the stalks, of the form of Peas-blosoms, but of a very pale blue colour, which turn into long, somewhat flat, and smooth Cods, wherein is contained small, round, hard seed: The Root runneth down exceeding deep into the ground, with divers other smaller Roots and Fibres growing with them, and shoot out Suckers from the main Roots al about, whereby it is much increased, of a brownish colour on the outside, and yellow within.  
Place.] It is planted in Fields and Gardens in divers places of this Land, and therfore good profit is made.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mercury. Liquoris boiled in fair Water with some Maiden-hair and figs, maketh a good Drink for those that have a dry Cough, 
Cough, hoarseness, Phtisick, Consumption, Reins, Strangury, Heat of Urine, ●yess, Bladder;  or hoarseness, Wheesing, shortness of breath, and for al the griefs of the Breast and Lungs, Phtisick or Consumptions caused by the Distillation of salt humors on them. It is also good in al pains of the Reins, the Strangury, and heat of Urine: The fine powder of Liquoris blown through a quill into the Eyes that have a Pin and Web( as they call it) or Rhewmatick Distillations into them doth cleanse and help them: The juice of Liquoris is as effectual in al the Diseases of the Breast and Lungs, the Reins and Bladder, as the Decoction. The juice dissolved in Rose-water with some Gum-Tragacanth, is a fine licking Medicine for hoarseness, wheezings, &c.   

Liver-wort.  
Descript.] THe common Liver-wort groweth close, and spreadeth much upon the ground in moist and shadowy places, with many sad green leaves, or rather( as it were) sticking flat one to another, very unevenly cut in on the edges, and crumpled, from among which arise small slender stalks an Inch or two high at most, bearing small starlike Flowers at the tops: The Roots are very fine and small.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Command of Jupiter, 
Liver, inflammation, yellow-Jaundice, Spleen, Running of the Reins, Whites, Tetters, Ring-Worms, surfeits.  and under the sign Cancer. It is a singular good He●b for al the Diseases of the Liver, both to cool and cleanse it, and helpeth the inflammations in any part, and the yellow Jaundice likewise: being bruised and boiled in small Beer and drunk, it cooleth the heat of the Liver and Kidneys, and helpeth the running of the Reins in Men, and the Whites in Women: It is a singular Remedy to stay the spreading of Tetters, Ring-worms, and other freting and running Sores and Scabs, and is an excellent Remedy for such whose Livers are corrupted by surfeits, which causeth their Bodies to break out, for it fortifies the Liver exceedingly, and make it impregnable.   

Loos-strife, or Willow-Herb.  
Descript.] THe Common yellow Loos-strife groweth to be four or five foot high or more, with great round stalks a little crested, diversely branched from the midd●e of them to the tops into great and long Branches, on al which at the joints there grow long and narrow Leaves but broader below, and usually two at a joint, yet sometimes three or four somewhat like willow-leavs, smooth on the edges, and of a faint green colour from the upper joints of the branches, and at the tops of them also stand many yellow Flowers of Five leaves apiece, with divers yellow thirds in the middle, which turn into small round heads, containing small cornered seeds: The Root creepeth under ground, almost like Couch-grass, but greater, and shooteth up every spring, brownish heads, which afterwards grow up into stalks: It hath no scent nor taste but only astringent.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of this Land in moist Meadows, and by Water-sides.  
Time.] It flowereth from June to August.  
Government and virtues.] This Herb is good for al manner of Bleeding at Mouth, or Nose, or Wounds, and al Fluxes of the Belly, 
Bleeding, Flux, Bloudy-Flux, Terms stops, Wounds, Sore Mouth, Privities, Gnats.  and the Bloudy-flux, given either to drink, or taken by Clyster, it stayeth also the abundance of Womens Courses: It is a singular good Wound-herb for green Wounds, to stay the bleeding, and quickly close together the lips of the Wound, if the herb be bruised, and the juice only applied: It is often used in Gargles for sore Mouths, as also for the secret parts: The smoke hereof being burned, driveth away flies and Gnats which use in the night-time to molest people inhabiting near Marshes, and in the Fenny Countries.   

Loos-strife, with Spiked Heads of Flowers.  
Descript.] THis groweth with many woody square stalks, full of joints about three foot high at least, at every one whereof, stand two long leaves, shorter, narrower, and of a deeper green colour than the former; and some brownish. The Stalks are branched into many long stems of spiked-Flowers, half a foot long, growing in Rundls one above another, out of small husks very like the spiked heads of Lavender; each of which flowers have five round pointed leaves of a purple violet colour, or somewhat inclining to redness, in which husks stand small round heads, after the Flowers are fallen, wherein is contained small seed: The Root creepeth under ground like unto the yellow, but is greater than it; and so is the heads of the leaves when they first appear out of the ground, and more brown than the other.  
Place.] It groweth usually by Rivers, and Ditches-sides in wet Grounds, as about the Ditches at and near Lambeth; and in many other places of this Land.  
Time.] It flowreth in the Months of June and July.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is an Herb of the Moon, and under the sign Cancer: neither do I know a better Preserver of the Sight when 'tis well; nor a better Curer of sore Eyes, than Eye-bright taken inwardly; and this used outwardly: 'tis could in quality. This Herb is no whit inferior unto the former; it having not only al the virtues which the former hath, but some particular virtues of its own found out by experience, as namely, The Distilled Water is a present Remedy for Hurts and Blows on the Eyes, and for Blindness, so as the crystalline humour be not perished or hurt; 
Eyes, Blindness, Wounds, Ulcers, inflammations. quinsy, Kings Evil, Spots, Marks, Scars.  and this hath been sufficiently proved true by the experience of a man of judgement, who kept it long to himself as a great secret: It also cleareth the Eyes of dust or any other thing gotten into them, and preserveth the sight. It is also very much available against Wounds and Thrusts, being made into an ointment on this manner, To every ounce of the Water, ad two drams of May-butter without salt, and of Sugar and Wax of each as much also, let them boil gently al together: Let Tents be dipped in the liquour that remaineth after it is could, and put into the Wounds, and the place covered with a linen cloth doubled and anointed with the ointment; and this is also an approved Medicine. It likewise cleanseth and healeth al foul Ulcers and Sores wheresoever, and stayeth their inflammations by washing them with the Water, and laying on them a green Leaf or two in the Summer, or dry leaves in the Winter. This Water gargled warm in the mouth, and sometimes drunk also, doth cure the quinsy, or Kings-Evil in the Throat. The said water applied warm, taketh away al Spots, Marks, and Scars in the Skin: And a little of it drunk, quencheth thirst when it is extraordinary.   

Lovage.  
Descript.] IT hath many long and great stalks, of large winged leaves divided into many parts like Smallage, but much larger and greater, every leaf being cut about the edges, broadest forward, and smallest at the stalk, of a sad green colour, smooth and shining; from among which rise up sundry strong hollow green stalks, five or six foot, yea sometimes seven or eight foot high, full of joints, but lesser leaves set on them than grow below; and with them toward the tops come forth long branches, bearing at their tops large umbels of yellow Flowers; and after them flat brownish seed. The Root groweth thick, great, and deep, spreading much, and enduring long, of a brownish colour on the out-side, and whitish within. The whole Plant, and every part of it, smelleth strong, and Aromatically, and is of an hot, sharp, biting taste.  
Place.] It is usually planted in Gardens, where if it be suffered, it groweth huge, and great,  
Time.] It Flowreth in the end of July, and seedeth in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of the Sun under the sign Taurus, if Saturn offend the Throat( as he always doth, if he be occasioner of the Malady, and in Taurus is the Genesis) this is your Cure. It openeth, cutteth, and digesteth Humors, and mightily provoketh Womens Courses and Urine. 
Humors, Terms provokes Disury, could Stomach, Indigestion, Wind, poison, Epidemical Diseases, Agues bellyach, quinsy, pleurisy, Spots, Freckles boils.  Half a dram at a time of the dried Root in powder taken in Wine, doth wondefully warm a could stomach, helping digestion, and consuming al raw and superfluous moisture therein: easeth al inward gripings and pains, dissolveth wind, and resisteth poison and Infection: It is a known and much practised Remedy to drink the Decoction of the herb for any sort of Ague, and to help the pains and torments of the Body and Bowels coming of could. The Seed is effectual to al the purposes aforesaid( except the last) and ●orketh more powerfully: The Distilled Water of th● 〈◇〉 helpeth the quinsy in the throat, if the mouth and thr●●●●● gargled and washed therwith, and helpeth the pleurisy, being drunk three or four times. Being dropped into the Eyes it taketh away the redness or dimness of them; it likewise taketh away Spots or Freckles in the Face. The leaves bruised and fried with a little Hogs Lard, and laid hot to any Botch or boil, will quickly break it.   

Lungwort.  
Descript.] THis is a kind of Moss that groweth on sundry sorts of trees especially Oaks, and Beeches, with broad, grayish, tough leaves, diversely folded, crumpled, and gashed in on the edges, and sometimes spotted also, with many small spots on the upper-side: It was never seen to bear any stalk or flower at any time.  
Government and virtues.] Jupiter seems to own this Herb. This is of great use with many Physitians to help the Diseases of the Lungs, 
Lungs, Coughs, Wheesing, shortness of breath, Ulcers in the Privities and elsewhere.  and for Coughs, wheezings, and shortness of breath, which it cureth both in Man and Beast: It is very profitably put into Lotions that are taken to stay the moist Humors that flow to Ulcers and hinder their healing, as also to wash al other Ulcers in the privy parts of Man or Woman.  
It is an excellent Remedy boiled in Beer for broken-winded Horses.   

Madder.  
Descript.] GArden Madder shooteth forth many very long, weak, four square, reddish Stalks trailing on the ground a great way, very rough or hairy, and full of joints; at every of those joints come forth divers long, and somewhat narrow leaves, standing like a star about the stalks, rough also and hairy, toward the tops whereof come forth many small pale yellow Flowers: after which come small round heads, green at first, and reddish afterwards, but black when they are ripe, wherein is contained the Seed. The Root is not very great, but exceeding long, running down half a mans length into the ground, read and very clear while it is fresh, spreading divers ways.  
Place.] It is only manured in Gardens or larger Fields for the profit that is made thereof.  
Time.] It flowreth towards the end of Summer, and the Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mars. It hath an opening quality, and afterwards to bind and strengthen. It is an assured Remedy for the yellow Jaundice by opening the Obstructions of the Liver and gull, 
Yell. Jaund. Obstructions of the Liver and gull, spleen, melancholy, palsy, Sciatica, bruises inward and outward, Terms provokes, freckles, Morphew, Scurf.  and cleansing those parts: It openeth also the Obstructions of the Spleen, and diminisheth the Melanchollick humour. It is available for the palsy and Sciatica, and effectual for bruises inward or outward, and is therefore much used in Vulnerary Drinks. The Root for all those aforesaid purposes, is to be boiled in Wine or Water, as the cause requireth, and some Honey or Sugar put thereunto afterwards. The Seed hereof taken with Vinegar and Honey, helpeth the Swellings and hardness of the Spleen. The Decoction of the leaves and Branches is a good Fomentation for Women to sit over that have not their Courses. The leaves and Roots beaten and applied to any part that is discoloured with Freckles Morphew; the white Scurf, or any such deformity of the Skin, cleanseth them thoroughly, and taketh them away.   

Maiden-hair.  
Descript.] OUr common Maiden-hair doth from a number of hard black fibres, sand forth a great many blackish shining brittle Stalks, hardly a span long; in many not half so long, on each side set very thick with small round dark green leaves, and spotted on the back of them like other Ferns.  
Place.] It groweth much upon old ston walls in the West parts, and Wales, in Kent, and divers other places of this Land; It joyeth likewise to grow by Springs, Wels, and rocky, moist and shadowy places; and is always green.   

Wall-Rue, or ordinary White Maiden-hair.  
Descript.] THis hath very fine pale green stalks, almost as fine as hairs, set confusedly with divers pale green leaves on very short Footstalks, somewhat near unto the colour of Garden Rue, and not much differing in form, but more dive●sly cut in on the edges, and thicker, smooth on the uper part, and spotted finely underneath.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of this Land, as at Dartford, and the bridge at Ashford in Kent, at Beconsfield in Buckinghamshire, at Wolley, in Huntingtonshire, on Frammingham Castle in Suffolk, on the Church walls at Mayfi●ld in Sussex, in Summersetshire, and divers other places of this Land, and is green in Winter as well as in Summer.  
Government and virtues.] Both this and the former are under the Dominion of Mercury, and so is that also which follows after: and the virtues of both these are so near alike, that although I have described them and their places of growing severally, yet I shal in writing the virtues of them, join them both together as followeth:  
The Decoction of the Herb Maidenhair being drunk, helpeth those that are troubled with the Cough, shortness of breath, 
Cough, shortness of breath, the yellow Jaundice, Spleen, Disury, ston, Terms provokes, Bleeding, Fluxes, Lungs, Swellings, Ulcers, householdstuff, Sores, Baldness.  the yellow Jaundice, diseases of the Spleen, stoping of Urin, and helpeth exceedingly to break the ston in the Kidneys( in al which diseases the Wal-Rue is also very effectual:) It provoketh Womens Courses, and stayeth both Bleedings and Fluxes of the Stomach and Belly, especially when the Herb is dry, for being green it loosneth the Belly, and avoideth choler and phlegm from the Stomach and Liver, it cleanseth the Lungs, and by rectifying the Blood causeth a good colour to the whole Body: The Herb boiled in oil of camomile, dissolveth Knots, allayeth Swellings, and drieth up moist Ulcers. The Ly made therof is singular good to cleanse the Head from Scurf, and from dry and running Sores; stayeth the falling or shedding of the Hair, and causeth it to grow thick, fair, and well coloured; for which purpose some boil it in Wine, putting some Smallage seed thereto, and afterwards some oil. The Wall-Rue is as effectual as Maidenhair in al diseases of the Head, and falling or the recovering of Hair again; and generally for al the aforementioned Diseases: And besides, The powder of it taken in drink for forty daies together, helpeth the burstings in Children.   

Golden Maiden-hair.  
TO the two former give me leave to ad this, and I shal do no more but only describe it unto you; and for the virtues refer you to the former, sith whatsoever is said of them, may be also said of this.  
Description.] It hath many small brownish read hairs to make up the form of leaves growing about the ground from the Root, and in the middle of them in Summer, rise small Stalks of the same colour, set with very fine yellowish green hairs on them, and bearing a small gold yellow Head, lesser than a Wheat Corn, standing in a great Husk. The Root is very small and thriddy.  
Place.] It groweth on Bogs and Moorish places, and also on dry shadowy places, at Hamsted Heath, and elsewhere.   

meadows, and ways.  
COmmon meadows are generally so well known that they need no Description.  
Our common ways have divers soft hoary white stalks rising to be three or four foot high, spreading forth many Branches, the leaves whereof are soft and hairy; somewhat lesser than the other Mallow leaves, but longer pointed, cut( for the most part) into some few divisions, but deep: The Flowers are many, but smaller also than the other meadows, and white, or tending to a blushy colour. After which come such like round cases and seed as in the other meadows. The Roots are many and long, shooting from one Head, of the bigness of a Thumb or Finger, very pliant, tough and bending like Liquoris, of a whitish yellow colour on the outside, and more white within, full of a slimy juice, which being laid in water will thicken it as if it were jelly.  
Place.] The Common meadows grow in every Country of this Land.  
The Common ways in most of the the Salt Mashes from Woolwich, down to the Sea, both on the Kentish and Essex Shores, and in divers other places of this Land.  
Time.] They flower al the Summer Months, even until the Winter do pull them down.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns them both. The leaves of either of the sorts before specified, and the Roots also boiled in Wine or Water, or in Broth with parsley o● Fennel roots, doth help to open the Body, 
Agues, choler, Gripings in the Belly, Milk, Excoriation, Phtisick, Pleuresy, travail in Women, Falling-sickness, Eyes, Bees, Wasps &c. poison, hard swelling, inflammation, Cods, Liver, Spleen, Roughness of the skin Scurf, Dandrif, Scabby Heads, Scalding, Burning, St. Anthonies fire, sore Mouth& Throat, Baldness, Thorns.  and is very convenient in hot Agues, or other distempers of the Body to apply the leaves so boiled warm to the Belly: It not only voideth hot choleric and other offensive Humors, but easeth the pains and torments of the Belly coming thereby; and are therfore used in al Clysters conducing to those purposes: The same used by Nurses, procureth them store of Milk. The Decoction of the Seed of any of the common meadows, made in Milk or Wine, doth mervelously help excoriations, the Phtisick, pleurisy, and other Diseases of the Chest and Lungs that proceed of hot causes, if it be continued taking for some time together: The leaves and Roots work the same effects: They help much also in the excoriations of the Guts and Bowels, and hardness of the Mother, and in al hot and sharp Diseases therof. The juice drunk in Wine, or the Decoction of them therein, doth help Women to a speedy and easy Delivery. Pliny saith, That whosoever shal take a spoonful of any of the meadows, shal that day be free from al Diseases that may come unto him; and that it is special good for the Falling-sickness. The Syrup also, and Conserve made of the Flowers are very effectual for the same Diseases, and to open the Body being costive: The leaves bruised and laid to the Eyes with a little Honey, taketh away the Impostumations of them. The leaves bruised or rubbed upon any place stung with Bees, Wasps, or the like, presently taketh away the pains, redness, and swellings that rise thereupon: and Diosocrides saith, The Decoction of the leaves and Roots helpeth al sorts of poison, so as the poison be presently voided by Vomit. A Pultiss made of the leaves boiled and bruised, whereunto ad some Bean or barley flower and oil of Roses, is an especial Remedy against al hard tumours and inflammations of Imposthumes and Swellings of the Cods and other parts, and easeth the pains of them; as also against the hardness of the Liver or Spleen, being applied to the places. The juice of the meadows boiled in old oil and applied, taketh away al roughness of the Skin, as also the Scurf, Dandrif, or dry Scabs in the Head or other parts if they be anointed therewith, or washed with the Decoction, and preserveth the Hair from falling off. It is also effectual against Scaldings and Burnings, St. Anthonies fire, and al other hot, read, and painful Swellings in any part of the Body. The Flowers boiled in oil or Water( as every one is disposed) whereunto a little Honey and alum is put, is an excellent gargoyle to wash, cleanse, and heal any sore Mouth, or Throat, in a short space. If the Feet be bathed or washed with the Decoction of the leaves, Roots, and Flowers, it helpeth much the Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head: If the Head be washed therwith, it stayeth the falling and shedding of the Hair. The green leaves( saith Pliny) beaten with Nitre and applied, draweth out Thorns or Pricks in the Flesh.  
The ways are more effectual in al the Diseases before mentioned: The leaves are likewise used to loosen the Belly gently, and in Decoctions for Clysters to eas al pains of the Body, 
Belly, ston, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, shortness of breath, Wheesing, Excoriation of the Guts, Ruptures, Cramps, Convulsions, The Kings Evil, Kernels, Chincough Wounds, bruises, Falls, Blows, Muscles, Morphew, Sunburning.  opening the straight Passages, and making them slippery, whereby the ston may descend the more easily, and without pain out of the Reins, Kidneys and Bladder, and to eas the torturing pains therof: But the Roots are of more especial use for those purposes, as well as for Coughs, hoarseness, shortness of breath, and wheezings, being boiled in Wine or Honeyed Water and drunk. The Roots and Seeds hereof boiled in Wine or Water, is with good success used by them that have Excoriations in the Guts, or the Bloody flux, by qualifying the violence of the sharp freting Humors, easing the pains, and healing the soreness: It is profitably taken of them that are troubled with Ruptures, Cramps, or Convulsions of the Sinews; and boiled in white Wine for the Imposthumes of the Throat, commonly called the Kings Evil, and of those Kernels that rise behind the Ears, and inflammations or swellings in Womens Breasts. The dried Roots boiled in Milk and drunk is special good for the Chincough. Hippocrates used to give the Decoction of the Roots, or the juice therof to drink to those that were wounded, and ready to faint through loss of Blood, and applied the same mixed with Honey and Rozin to the Wounds: As also the Roots boiled in Wine to those that had received any hurt by Bruises, Fals, or Blows, or had any Bone or Member out of joint, or any swelling pain or ache in the Muscles, Sinews, or Arteries. The Muccilage of the Roots, and of Linseed, and of Fenugreek put together, is much used in Pultisses, ointments, and plasters, to mollify and digest al hard swellings, and the inflammation of them, and to eas pains in any part of the Body. The Seed either green or dry mixed with Vinegar cleanseth the Skin of the Morphew, and al other discolorings, being bathed therwith in the Sun.  
You may remember that not long since there was a raging disease called the Bloody Flux; the college of Physittans not knowing what to make of it, called it, The Plague in the Guts, for their wits were at ne plus ultra about it. My son was taken with the same disease, and the excoriation of his Bowels was exceeding great; myself being in the Country was sent for up; the only thing I gave him was meadows bruised and boiled both in his Milk and Drink, in two daies( the blessing of God being upon it) it cured him, and I here to show my thankfulness to God in communicating it to his Creatures, leave it to posterity.   

Maple-Tree.  
Government and virtues.  

Liver strengtheners, open obstructions of the Liver and spleen, pains in the sides.  IT is under the Dominion of Jupiter. The Decoction either of the leaves or Bark must needs strengthen the Liver much, and so you shal find it do if you use it: it is excellent good to open obstructions both of the Liver and Spleen, and easeth pains of the sides thence proceeding.   

Wild Marjoram.  
CAlled also organ, Origanum, Bastard Marjoram, Wild Marjoram, and Grove Marjoram.  
Description.] ●ild or Field Marjoram hath a Root which creepeth much under ground, which continueth a long time, sending up sundry brownish hard square stalks with small dark green leaves very like those of sweet Marjoram, but harder, and somewhat broader; at the tops of the stalks stand tufts of Flowers of a deep purplish read colour; the Seed is small and something blacker than that of sweet Marjoram.  
Place.] It groweth plentifully in the borders of Corn Fields, and in some Copses.  
Time.] It flowreth toward the latter end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] This also is under the Dominion of Mercury. 
Stomach, Head, Humors, appetite, cough, Consumption of the Lungs, poison choler, spleen, venomous Beasts, poison, Urine provoketh, terms provokes, dropsy, scurvy, scabs, Itch, leprosy, yellow Jaundice, Deafness, noise and pain in the Ears.  It strengtheners the stomach and Head much, there being scarce a better remedy growing for such as are troubled with a sour humour in their stomachs; it restores Appetite being lost, helps the Cough and Consumption of the Lungs, it cleanseth the Body of choler expelleth poison, and remedieth the infirmities of the spleen, helps the bitings of venomous Beasts, and helps such as have poisoned themselves by eating Hemlock, Henbane, or Opium; it provoketh Urin and the Terms in Women, helps the dropsy and the Scurvy, Scabs, Itch, and the yellow Jaundice: the juice being dropped into the Ears, helps Deafness, pain and noise in the Ears. And thus much for this Herb, between which and Adders there is a deadly Antipathy.   

Sweet Marjoram.  
SWeet Marjoram is so well known, being an Inhabitant in every Garden, that it is needless to writ an● Description thereof, neither of the Winter Sweet Marjoram, nor Pot Marjoram.  
Place.] They grow commonly in Gardens; some sorts there are that grow wild in the Borders or Corn Fields, and Pastures in sundry places of this Land, but it is not my purpose to insist upon them: The Garden kinds being most used and useful.  
Time.] They flower in the end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mercury, and under Aries, and is therfore an excellent Remedy for the Brain and other parts of the Body and Mind, under the Dominion of the same Planet. Our common Sweet Marjoram is warming and comfortable in could Diseases of the Head, 
Head, Stomach, Breast, Obst●uctions, Liver, spleen, Womb, Wind, dropsy, Belly-ach, Terms provokes, Marks of Blows, Noise in the Ears, joints, Sinews, Swellings, sneezing, phlegm.  Stomach, Sinews, and other parts, taken inwardly, or outwardly applied: The Decoction therof being drunk, helpeth al Diseases of the Chest which hinder the freeness of breathing, and is also profitable for the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen: It helpeth the could griefs of the Womb, and the windiness therof, and the loss of Speech, by resolution of the Tongue. The Decoction therof made with some Pellitory of Spain, and long Pepper, or with a little Acorus or Origanum, being drunk, is good for those that are beginning to fall into a dropsy, for those that cannot make Water, and against pains and torment in the Belly; it provoketh Womens Courses if it be put up as a Pessary. Being made into powder and mixed with Honey, it taketh away the black marks of blows and bruises, being thereto applied. It is good for the inflammations and watering of the Eyes, being mixed with fine Flower and laid unto them. The juice dropped into the Ears easeth the pains and singing noise in them. It is profitably put into those ointments and Salves that are made to warm and comfort the outward parts, as the joints and Sinews, for Swellings also, and places out of joint. The powder therof snuffed up into the Nose, provoketh sneezing, and thereby purgeth the Brain; and chewed in the Mouth draweth forth much phlegm. The oil made therof is very warming and comfortable to the joints that are stiff, and the Sinews that are hard, to mollify and suppling them. Marjoram is much used in al odiferous Waters, powders, &c. that are for ornament or delight.   

Marigolds.  
THese being so plentiful in every Garden, are so well known that they need no Description.  
Time.] They flower al the Summer long, and sometimes in Winter if it be mildred.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of the Sun, and under lo: They strengthen the Heart exceedingly, and are very expulsive, and little less effectual in the small Pox and measles than Saffron. 
Heart, Vital Spirits, pestilence, small Pox, measles, Hot swellings, fevers, pestilence.  The juice of Marigold leaves mixed with Vinegar, and any hot swelling bathed with it, instantly giveth ease and assuageth it. The Flowers either green or dried are used much in Possets, Broths, and Drinks as a comforter of the Heart and Spirits, and to expel any malignant or pestilential quality which might annoy them. A plaster made with the dry Flowers in powder, Hogs Greas, Turpentine and Rozin, and appled to the Breast, strengtheners and succours the Heart infinitely in fevers whether pestilential or not pestilential.   

Masterwort.  
Descript.] COmmon Masterwort hath divers stalks of winged leaves divided into sundry parts, three for the most part standing together at a small footstalk on both sides of the greater, and three likewise at the end of the stalk, somewhat broad and cut in on the edges, into three or more divisions, all of them dented about the brims, of a dark green colour, somewhat resembling the leaves of Angelica, but that these grow lower to the ground, and on lesser stalks; among which rise up two or three short stalks about two foot high, and slender, with such like leaves at the joints as grow below, but with lesser and sure divisions, bearing Umbels of white Flowers, and after them small, thin, flat, blackish seed bigger than Dil seeds: The Root is somewhat greater and groweth rather sidewaies than down deep into the ground, shooting forth sundry heads, which taste sharp, biting on the tongue, and is the hottest and sharpest part of the Plant, and the seed next unto it, being somewhat blackish on the outside, and smelling well.  
Place.] It is usually kept in Gardens with us in England.  
Time.] It flowreth and seedeth about the end of August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mars. The Root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, 
could griefs stomach, could rheums, urin, ston, Gravel, Womens Courses, dead child Mother, dropsy, cramps,& Falling-sickness, could poisons, sweat Green Wounds, Rotten ulcers, gout.  and very available in al could griefs and Diseases both of stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward: It is also used in a Decoction with Wine against al could rheums, or Distillations upon the Lungs, and shortness of breath, to be taken morning and evening; it also provoketh Urin, and helpeth to break the ston, and expel the Gravel from the Kidneys, procureth Womens Courses, and expelleth the dead birth; is singular good for the strangling of the Mother, and other such like Feminine Diseases. It is effectual also against the dropsy, Cramps,& the Falling-sicknes, for the Decoction in Wine being gargled in the Mouth, draweth down much Water and phlegm from the Brain, purging and easing it of what oppresseth it. It is of a rare quality against al sorts of could poison, to be taken as there is cause; it provoketh sweat: but lest the taste hereof, or of the Seed( which worketh to the like effect, though not so powerfully) should be too offensive, the best way is to take the Water distilled both from the Herb and Root. The juice hereof dropped, or Tents dipped therein, and applied either to green Wounds, or filthy rotten Ulcers, and those that come by envenomed Weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them: The same is also very good to help the Gout coming of a could cause.   

Sweet Maudlin.  
Descript.] COmmon Maudlin have somewhat long, and narrow leaves, snip'd about the edges: the stalks are two foot high, bearing at the tops many yellow Flowers set round together and al of an equal height in Umbels, tufts like unto tansy; after which flowreth small whitish Seed almost as big as Wormseed. The whole Herb is sweet and bitter.  
Place and Time.] It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] The virtues hereof being the same with Costmary, or Alecost, I shal not trouble you to make any repetition thereof, lest my Book grow too big: but rather refer you unto Costmary for satisfaction.   

The Medlar.  
Descript.] THis three groweth near the bigness of the Quince three, spreading Branches reasonable large, with longer and narrower leaves than either the Apple or Quince, and not dented about the edges: At the end of the sprigs stand the Flowers made of five white, great broad pointed leaves, nicked in the middle, with some white thirds also: after which cometh the Fruit, of a brownish green colour being ripe, bearing a Crown as it were on the top, which were the five green leaves; and being rubbed off or fallen away, the head of the Fruit is seen to be somewhat hollow. The Fruit is very harsh before it be mellowed, and hath usually five hard kernels within it.  
There is another kind hereof differing nothing from the former, but that it hath some Thorns on it in several places, which the other hath not, and the Fruit is small and not so pleasant.  
Time.] They grow in this Land, and Flower in May for the most part, and bear ripe Fruit in September, and October.  
Government and virtues.] The Fruit is old Saturns, and sure a better Medicine he hardly hath to strengthen the Retentive faculty, therfore it stays Womens Longings, the good old man cannot endure Womens minds should run a gadding: Also a plaster made of the Fruit dried before they be rotten, 
Miscarriage, Fluxes, stayeth Womens Longings, Hinders Miscarriage, gargoyle, Womens Courses, Piles, Loathing of Meat, or Casting, bleeding, Fresh Wounds, ston in the Kidneys.  and other convenient things, and applied to the Reins of the Back, stops Miscarriage in Women with Child. They are very powerful to stay any Fluxes of Blood or Humors in Man or Woman: the leaves have also the like quality. The Fruit eaten by Women with Child, stayeth their Longings after unusual meats, and is very effectual for them that are apt to Miscarry, and be delivered before their time, to help that Malady, and make them joyful Mothers. The Decoction of them is good to gargoyle and wash the Mouth, Th●oat, and Teeth, when there is any defluxion of Blood to stay it, or of Humors, which causeth pains and swellings: It is a good bath for Women to sit over that have their Courses flow too abundantly; or for the Piles when they bleed too much. If a Pultiss or plaster be made with dried Medlars, beaten and mixed with the juice of read Roses, whereunto a few Cloves and Nutmeg may be added, and a little read coral also, and applied to the Stomach that is given to casting, or loathing of Meat, it effectually helpeth. The dried leaves in powder, strewed on fresh bleeding Wounds, restraineth the Blood, and healeth up the Wound quickly: The Medlar stones made into powder and drunk in Wine, wherein some parsley Roots have lain infused all night, or a little boiled, do break the ston in the Kidneys, helping to expel it.   

Melilot, or Kings-Claver.  
Descript.] THis hath many green stalks two or threr foot high, rising from a tough long white Root, which death not every year; set round about at the joints with small, and somewhat long well smelling leaves set three together, unevenly dented about the edges: The flowers are yellow, and well smelling also, made like other Trefoyls, but small, standing in long spikes, one above another, for an hand breadth long, or better, which afterwards turn into long crooked Cods, wherein is contained flat seed, somewhat brown.  
Place.] It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land, as in the edge of Suffolk, and in Essex, as also in huntingdon shire, and in other places, but most usually in Corn fields, in corners of Meadows.  
Time.] It flowreth in June and July, and is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] Melilot boiled in Wine and applied, 
Hard tumours& inflammations in the Eyes or elsewhere Ulcers in the Head, Stomach pained, headache, Wind, spleē Dimness of sight, stupidity of Senses, strengthen Memory, Apoplexy.  mollifieth al hard tumours and inflammations that happen in the Eyes or other parts of the Body, as the Fundament; or privy parts of Man or Woman; and sometimes the yolk of a roasted Eg, or fine Flower or Poppy-seed, or Endive is added unto it. It helpeth the spreading Ulcers in the head, it being washed with a Ly made therof; It helpeth the pains of the Stomach being applied fresh, or boiled with any of the aforenamed things. It helpeth also the pains of the Ears being dropped into them; and steeped in Vinegar and Rose water, it mitigateth the headache. The flowers of Melilot, and camomile, are much used to be put together in clysters to expel Wind, and to ease pains; also into Pultices for the same purpose, and to assuage Swellings, or tumours in the Spleen or other parts; and helpeth inflammations in any part of the Body. The juice dropped into the Eyes, is a singular good Medicine to take away any film or skin that cloudeth or dimneth the Eye ●●●ht. The head often washed with the Distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers, or a Ly made therwith, is effectual for those that have suddenly lost their senses; as also to strengthen the Memory, to comfort the Head and Brains, and to preserve them from pains and the Apoplexy.   

French, and Dogs Mercury.  
Descript.] THis riseth up with a square green stalk full of joints two foot high or thereabouts, with two leaves at every joint, and branches likewise from both sides of the stalk, set with fresh green leaves somewhat broad and long, about the bigness of the leaves of Bassel finely dented about the edges: towards the tops of the stalks and branches come forth at every joint in the Male Mercury two small round green heads, standing together upon a short foot-stalk, which growing ripe are the seeds, not having any Flower: In the Female, the stalk is longer, spike fashion, set round about with small green husks, which are the flowers made like small branches of grapes which give no seed, but abide long upon the stalks without shedding: The Root is composed of many small Fibres, which perisheth every year at the first approach of Winter, and riseth again of its own sowing, and where it once is suffered to sow itself, the ground will never want it afterwards, even both sorts of it.   

Dogs Mercury.  
HAving Described unto you that which is called French Mercury, I come now to show you in a Description this kind also.  
Descript.] This is likewise of two kinds, Male and Female, having many stalks, slenderer and lower than Mercury, and without any branches at al upon them: The Male is set with two leaves at every joint, somewhat greater than the Female, but more pointed and full of Veins, and somewhat harder in handling, of a darker green colour, and less dented, or snip'd about the edges: At the joints with the leaves come forth longer stalks than the former, with two hairy round Seeds upon them, twice as big as those of the former Mercury: The taste hereof is hereby; and the smell somewhat strong and Virulent: The Female hath much harder leaves standing upon longer foot-stalks, and the stalks are also longer: from the joints come forth spikes of flowers, like the French Female Mercury: The Roots of them both are many, and full of small Fibres, which run under ground, and mat themselves very much, not perishing as the former Mercuries do; but abiding the Winter, and shoot forth new Branches every year( for the old die down to the ground)  
Place.] The Male and Female French Mercury are found wild in divers places of this Land; as by a Village called Brookland in Rumny-Marsh in Kent.  
The Dogs-Mercury in sundry places of Kent also, and elsewhere; but the Female more seldom than the Male.  
Time.] They flourish in the Summer months, and therein give their Seed.  
Government and virtues.] M●●cury they say owns this Herb, but I rather think 'tis Venus, and am partly ●●nfident of it too: for I never red that Mercury ever minded Womens business so much; I believe he minds his Study more. The Decoction of the leaves of Mercury, or the juice thereof in Broth, or drunk with a little Sugar put to it, purgeth choleric and Waterish Humors. 
Purgeth choleric Humors, Womens Sickness, Mother, Womens Courses, strangury, sore Eyes, Agues, Fl●gm, rheums, and Catarrhes, melancholy Humors, Yellow Jaundice, Warts, Scabs, Tetters,& Ring-worms, Swellings, inflammations, Waterish& melancholy Humors.  Hippocrates commendeth it wonderfully for Womens Diseases; and applied it to the secret parts to ease the pains of the Mother; and used the Decoction of it, both to procure Womans Courses, and to expel the After-birth: And gave the Decoction thereof with myrrh or Pepper, or used to apply the leaves outwardly against the Strangury, and Diseases of the Reins and Bladder. He used it also for sore and watering Eyes, and for the Deafness and pain in the Ears, by dropping the juice thereof into them, and bathing them afterwards in white Wine. The Decoction thereof made with Water, and a Cock Chicken, is a most safe Medicine against the hot fits of Agues: it also cleanseth the Breast and Lungs of phlegm, but a little offendeth the Stomach: The juice or distilled Water snuffed up into the nostrils, purgeth the Head and Eyes of Catarrhes and rheums. Some use to drink two or three Ounces of the distilled Water, with a little Sugar put to it, in the morning fasting, to open and purge the Body of gross viscuous and melancholy Humors. It is wonderful( if it be not fabulous) that Dioscorides and Theophrastus do relate of it, viz. That if Women use these herbs either inwardly or outwardly for three dayes together after Conception, and their Courses be past, they shal bring forth Male or Female Children, according to that kind of Herb they use. Mathiolus saith, That the Seed both of the Male and Female Mercury boiled with Wormwood and drunk, cureth the yellow Jaundice in a speedy manner: The leaves or the juice rubbed upon Warts, taketh them away: The juice mingled with some Vinegar, helpeth al running Scabs, Tetters, Ring-worms, and the Itch: Galen saith, That being applied in manner of a Pultis, to any swelling or inflammation, it digesteth the Swelling and allayeth the inflammation; and is therfore given in Clysters to evacuate the Belly from offensive Humors. The Dogs Mercury, although it be less used, yet may serve in the same manner to the same purpose to purge waterish and melancholy Humors.   

Mint.  
Descript.] OF al the kinds of Mints, the Spear-Mint, or Heart-Mint, being most useful: I shal only describe it, as followeth: Spear-Mint, hath divers round stalks and long, but narrowish leaves set thereon, of a dark green colour. The flowers stand in spiked heads at the tops of the Branches, being of a pale blushy colour. The smell or scent hereof is somewhat near unto Basil; it increaseth by the Root under ground, as al the others do.  
Place.] It is an usual inhabitant i● Gardens; and because it seldom giveth any good Seed, the defect is recompensed by the plentiful increase of the root which being once planted in a Garden, will hardly be rid out again.  
Time.] It Flowreth not until the beginning of August, for the most part.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Venus. Dioscorides saith, It hath a Heating, Binding, and drying quality,& therfore the juice taken with Vinegar, 
Provoks venery stays vomiting, allayeth choler Imposthums, great Breasts, mad-Dogs biting, pains of the Ears, good for the stomach pains of the Head, Sores& Scabs, chaps of the Fundament poison, Helpeth Liver,& Stomach, stayeth Vomiting, and Hiccough, provoketh Lust, Spleen, Gravel, ston,& strangury, comforts the Head, sore Mouth, ill Breath, Pallat-down.  stayeth Bleeding; it stirreth up Venery, or bodily Lust. Two or three Branches thereof taken with the juice of sour Pomegranates, stayeth the Hiccough, vomiting, and allayeth the choler. It dissolveth Imposthums being laid to with Barly-meal. It is good to repress the Milk in womens Breasts, and for such as have swollen, flagging, or great Breasts. Applied with Salt, it helpeth the biting of a mad Dog; with Mead or Honyed-water, it easeth the pains of the Ears, and taketh away the roughness of the Tongue, being rubbed thereupon. It suffereth not milk to curdle in the Stomach if the leaves hereof be steeped or boiled in it before you drink it. Briefly it is very profitable to the Stomach. The often use hereof is a very powerful Medicine to stay Womens Courses, and the Whites. Applied to the Forehead or Temples, it easeth pains of the Head. And is good to wash the Heads of young Children therwith, against al manner of breakings out, Sores, or Scabs therein; and healeth the chaps of the Fundament. It is also profitable against the poison of venomous Creatures. The Distilled Water of Mints is available to al the purposes aforesaid, yet more weakly. But if a Spirit thereof be rightly and chemically drawn, it is much more powerful than the Herb itself. Simeon Sethi saith, It helpeth a could Liver, strengtheneth the Belly and Stomach, causeth digestion, stayeth Vomit and the Hiccough is good against the Gnawings of the Heart, provoketh Appetite, taketh away Obstructions of the Liver, and stirreth up bodily Lust; But thereof too much must not be taken, because it maketh the blood thin and wheyish, and turneth it into choler, and therfore choleric persons must abstain from it. It is a safe Medicine for the biting of a mad Dog, being bruised with Salt and laid thereon. The powder of it being dried and taken after Meat, helpeth digestion, and those that are splenetic: taken with Wine it helpeth Women in their sore travail in Child bearing: It is good against the Gravel and ston in the Kidneys, and the Strangury. Being smelled unto, it is comfortable for the Head and Memory. The Decoction thereof gargled in the Mouth, cureth the Gums and Mouth that is sore, and mendeth an ill savored Breath: as also with Rue and Coriander, causeth the palate of the Mouth that is down to return to his place, the Decoction being gargled and held in the Mouth.  
The virtues of the Wild or horse ●ints, such as grow in Ditches( whose Description I purposely omitted in regard they are well enough known) are especially to dissolve Wind in the Stomach, to help the colic, 
Wind, Venereal Dreams, and nightly pollutions, Ears pained, biting of Serpents, Kings Evil, a stinking Breath, leprosy Dandrif.  and those that are short Winded, and are an especial Remedy for those that have Vene●ious Dreams and pollutions in the night, being outwardly applied to the Testicles or Cods. The juice dropped into the Ears, easeth the pains of them, and destroyeth the Worms that breed therein. They are good against the venomous biting of Serpents. The juice laid on warm, helpeth the Kings Evil, or Kernels in the Throat: The Decoction or Distilled Water helpeth a stinking Breath proceeding from the corruption of the Teeth; and snuffed up into the Nose, purgeth the Head. Pliny saith, That eating of the leaves hath been found by experience to cure the leprosy, and applying some of them to the Face, and to help the Scurf or Dandrif of the head, used with Vinegar.  
They are extreme bad for wounded people; and they say a wounded man that eats Mints, his Wound will never be Cured; and that's a long day.   

Misselto.  
Descript.] THis riseth up from the Branch or Arm of the three whereon it groweth, with a woody stem, parting itself into sundry Branches, and they again divided into many other smaller twigs, interlacing themselves one within another, very much covered with a grayish green bark, h●ving two leaves set at every joint, and at the end likewise, which are somewhat long and narrow, small at the bottom, but broader toward the end. At the knots or joints of the Boughs and Branches, grow small yellowish flowers, which turn into small round white transparent Berries three or four together, full of gluttonous moisture, with a blackish Seed in every of them, which was never yet known to spring, being put into the ground, or any where else to grow.  
Place] It groweth very rarely on Oaks with us, but upon sundry other, as well Timber as Fruit-Trees, plentifully in Woods, Groves, and the like, through al this Land.  
Time.] It Flowreth in the Spring time, but the Berries be not ripe until October, and abide on the Branches al the Winter, unless the Black-Birds, and other Birds do devour them.  
Government and virtues.] That it is under the Dominion of the Sun, I do not question; and can also take for granted, That that which grows upon Oaks participates something of the Nature of Jupiter, because an Oak is one of his Trees; as also that which grows upon Pear-trees, and Apple-trees, participates something of his Nature, because he rules the Trees it grows upon, having no Root of its own: But why that should have most virtues that grows upon Oaks I know not, unless because 'tis rarest, and hardest to come by; and our colleges Opinion is in this, contrary to the Scripture, which saith, Gods tender mercies are over all his Works, and so 'tis, let the college of Physitians walk as contrary to him as they please, and that's as contrary as the East is to the West. Clusius affirms that which grows upon Pear-trees to be as prevalent, and give order that it should not touch the ground after it is gathered, and also saith, That being hung about the Neck it remedies Witchcraft. 
Witchcraft  Both the leaves and Berries of Misselto do heat and dry, and are of subtle parts: The bird-lime doth mollify hard Knots, 
Impostums Spleen, Ulcers Falling-Sickness, Apoplexy, palsy, Impostums  tumours and Inposthumes, ripeneth and discusseth them; and draweth forth thick as well as thin Humors from the remote places of the Body, digesting and separating them: And being mixed with equal parts of Rozin and Wax, doth mollify the hardness of the Spleen, and healeth old Ulcers and Sores: Being mixed with Sandarack, and Ortment, it helpeth to draw off foul Nails; and if Quicklime and Wine Lees, be added thereunto it worketh the stronger. The Misselto itself of the Oak( as the best) made into powder and given in drink to those that have the Falling-sickness, doth assuredly heal them as Mathiolus saith, but it is fit to use it for forty daies together. Some have so highly esteemed of the virtues hereof that they have called it, Lignum Sanctae Crucis, Wood of the holy across, believing it to help the Falling-sickness, apoplexy, and palsy very speedily, not only to be inwardly taken, but to be hung at their Necks. Tragus saith, That the fresh Wood of any Mislelto bruised, and the juice drawn forth and dropped into the Ears that have Impostumes in them, doth help and eas them within a few daies.   

Money-wort, or Herb-Twopence.  
Descript.] THe common Money-wort, sendeth forth from a small thriddy Root, divers long, weak, and slender Branches lying and running upon the ground two or three foot long or more, set with leaves two at a joint one against another at equal distances, which are almost round, but pointed at the ends, smooth, and of a good green colour: At the joints with the leaves from the middle forward come forth at every joint sometimes one yellow Flower, and sometimes two, standing each on a small Footstalk, and made of five leaves, narrow, and pointed at the ends, with some yellow threads in the middle: which being past, there stand in their places small round Heads of Seed.  
Place.] It groweth plentifully in almost al places of this Land; commonly in moist grounds by hedge sides, and in the middle of grassy Fields.  
Time.] They flower in June and July, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns it. Money-wort is singular good to stay al Fluxes in Man or Woman, whether they be Lasks, 
Fluxes, Ulcers, Green Wounds, Old ulcers  bloody Fluxes, the flowing of Womens Courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the Stomach that is given to casting. It is very good also for al Ulcers, or Excoriations of the Lungs or other inward parts. It is exceeding good for al Wounds, either fresh or green to heal them speedily; and for old Ulcers that are of a spreading Nature: For al which purposes, the juice of the Herb, or the powder drunk in Water wherein hot Steel hath been often quenched; or the Decoction of the green Herb in Wine or Water drunk; or the Seed, juice, or Decoction used to the outward places to wash or bath them, or to have Tents dipped therein and put into them, are effectual.   

Moon-wort.  
Descript.] IT riseth up usually but with one dark green thick and fat Leaf standing upon a short footstalk, not above two fingers breadth; but when it will flower it may be said to bear a small slender stalk about four or five inches high, having but one Leaf set in the middle thereof, which is much divided on both sides into sometimes five or seven parts on a side, sometimes more, each of which parts is small next the middle rib, but broad forward and round pointed, resembling therein an half Moon from whence it took the name, the upermost parts or divisions being less than the lowest: The stalk riseth above this Leaf two or three inches, bearing many branches of small long Tongues, every one like the spiky head of Adders-Tongue, of a brownish colour, which whether I shal call them Flowers or the Seed, I well know not: which after they have continued a while resolve into a Mealy dust: The Root is small and Fibrous. This hath sometimes divers such like leaves as are before described, with so many branches or tops arising from one Stalk each divided from the other.  
Place.] It groweth on hills, and Heaths, yet where there is much Grass, for therein it delighteth to grow.  
Time.] It is to be found only in April and May, for in June when any hot weather cometh, for the most part it is withered and gone.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon owns the Herb. Moon-wort is could and drying more than Adders-Tongue, and is therfore held to be more available for al Wounds both inward and outward: The leaves bo●led in read Wine and drunk stayeth the immoderate Flux of Womens Courses, 
Womens Courses, Bleedings, vomiting, Fluxes, Broken& disjointed Bones, Green Wounds.  and the Whites: It also stayeth Bleeding, Vomitings, and other Fluxes: It helpeth al Blows and Bruises, and to consolidate al Fractures and Dislocations: It is good for Ruptures: But it is chiefly used by most with other Herbs to make oils or balsams to heal fresh or green Wounds( as I said before) either inward or outward, for which it is excellent good.  
Moon-wort is an Herb which they say will open Locks, and unshoo such Horses as tread upon it; this some laugh to scorn, and those no small Fools neither: but Country people that I know, call it[ Unshoo the Horse:] Besides, I have heard Commanders say, That on White Down in Devon-shire near Tiverton, there was found thirty Hors-shoos, pulled off from the feet of the Earl of Essex his Horses being there drawn up in a Body, many of them being but newly shod, and no reason known, which caused much admiration: and the Herb described usually grows upon Heaths.   

Mosses.  
I Shal not trouble the Reader with any Description of these, sith my intent is to speak only of two kinds as the most principal, viz. Ground-Moss, and Tree-Moss, both which are very well known.  
Place.] The Ground-Moss, growing in our moist Woods, and the bottoms of hills, in boggy grounds, and in shadowy Ditches, and many other such li●e places.  
The Tree-Moss groweth only on Trees.  
Government and virtues.] Al sorts of Mosses are under the Dominion of Saturn. The Ground-Moss is held to be singular good to break the ston, 
ston, inflammations.  and to expel and drive it forth by Urin, being boiled in Wine and drunk: The Herb bruised and boiled in Water and applied, easeth al inflammations and pains coming of an hot cause; and is therefore used to ease the pains of the ●ot Gout.  
The Tree-Mosses are cooling and binding, and partake of a digesting and mollifying quality withal, as Galen saith. But each Moss doth partake of the Nature of the three from whence it is taken; therfore that of the Oak is more binding, 
Fluxes, Vomiting, Bleeding, Womens Courses,  and is of good effect to stay Fluxes in man or Woman, as also Vomitings or Bleedings, the powder therof being taken in Wine: The Decoction therof in Wine is very good for Women to be bathed with, or to sit in that are troubled with the overflowing of their Courses: The same being drunk stayeth the stomach that is troubled with casting, or the Hiccough; and as Avicenna saith, it comforteth the Heart: The powder therof taken in Drink for some time together, is thought available for the dropsy. 
dropsy, headache, Sinews.  The oil of Roses that have had fresh Moss steeped therein for a time, and after boiled and applied to the Temples and F●rehead, do●h mervelously eas the headache coming of a hot cause; as also the Distillations of hot Rhewm or Humors to the Eyes or other parts: The Ancients much used it in their ointments and other Medicines against Lassitude, and to strengthen and comfort the Sinews. For which, if it was good then, I know no reason but it may be found so stil.   

Mother-wort.  
Descript.] THis hath a hard, square, brownish, rough, strong Stalk, rising three or four foot high at least, spreading into many Branches; whereon grow leaves on each side with long Footstalks, two at every joint, which are somewhat broad and long, as it were rough, or crumpled, with many great Veins therein, of a sad green colour, and deeply dented about the edges, and almost divided: From the middle of the Branches up to the tops of them( which are very long and small) grow the Flowers round about them at distances, in sharp pointed rough hard Husks, of a more read or purple colour than Balm or whorehound, but in the same manner or form as the Horehounds: after which come small round blackish Seeds in great plenty. The Root sendeth forth a number of long strings and small fibres, taking strong hold in the ground, of a dark yellowish or brownish colour, and abideth as the whorehound doth, the smell of this being not much different from it.  
Place.] It groweth only in Gardens with us in England.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns the Herb, and it is under lo: There is no better Herb to drive melancholy vapours from the Heart, 
melancholy vapours, doings Sore Travail, Mother, urine, Womens Courses, phlegm, could phlegm, Cramps, Convulsions.  to strengthen it, and make a merry, cheerful, blithe soul, than this Herb: It may be kept in a Syrup or Conserve, therfore the Latins called it Cardiaca. Besides, it makes Women joyful Mothers of Children, and settles their Wombs as they should be; therfore we call it Motherwort. It is held to be of much use for the trembling of the Heart, and in faintings and swoonings from whence it took the name Cardiaca. The powder therof to the quantity of a spoonful drunk in Wine is a wonderful help to Women in their sore Travels, as also for the suffocations or risings of the Mother; and from these effects it is likely it took the name of Motherwort with us. It also provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, cleanseth the Chest of could phlegm oppressing it, and killeth the Worms in the Belly: It is of good use to warm and dry up the could Humors, to digest and disperse them that are settled in the Veins, joints, and Sinews of the Body, and to help Cramps and Convulsions.   

Mouse-Ear.  
Descript.] MOuse-Ear is a low Herb creeping upon the ground by small strings like the Strawberry Plant, whereby it shooteth forth small Roots, whereat grow upon the ground many small and somewhat short leaves set in a round form together, hollowish in the middle where they are broadest, of an hoary colour al over, and very hairy, which being broken do give a white Milk: From among these leaves spring up two or three small hoary Stalks about a span high, with a few smaller leaves thereon: At the tops whereof standeth usually but one Flower, consisting of many paler yellow leaves broad at the points, and a little dented in, set in three or four rows, the greater outermost, very like a D●ndelyon Flower, and a little reddish underneath about the edges, especially if it grow in a dry ground: which after they have stood long in Flower, do turn into Down, which with the Seed is carried away with the wind.  
Place.] It groweth on Ditch Banks, and sometimes in Ditches if they be dry, and in sandy grounds.  
Time.] It flowreth about June and July, and abideth green all the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon owns the Herb also, and though Authors cry out upon alchemists for attempting to fix Quick Silver by this Herb and Moonwort: A Roman would not have judged a thing by the success; if it be to be fixed at al, 'tis by Lunar Influence. The juice hereof taken in Wine, or the Decoction therof drunk, doth help the Jaundice although of long continuance to drink therof morning and evening, 
Jaundice, ston, belly-●ch, Dro●sie, Flux, Wounds, Bloody Flux, Terms stops, Cough, Phtisick, Ruptures, Canker, Ulcers, spreading sores.  and abstain from other drink two or three hours after: It is a special Remedy against the ston, and the tormenting pains therof; as also other Tortures and gripping pains of the Bowels: The Decoction thereof with Succory and Centaury, is held very effectual to help the dropsy, and them that are inclining thereunto, and the Dise●ses of the Spleen. It stayeth the Fluxes of Blood, either at the Mouth or Nose, and inward bleedings also, for it is a singular Wound-Herb for Wounds both inward and outward; It helpeth the Bloody flux, and helpeth the abundance of Womens Courses. There is a Syrup made of the juice hereof and Sugar by the Apothecaries of Italy, and other places, which is of much account with them, to be given to those that are troubled with the Cough or Phtisick: The same also is singular good for Ruptures or Burstings. The green Herb bruised and presently bound to any fresh Cut or Wound, doth quickly solder the Lips therof. And the juice, Decoction, or powder of the dried Herb, is most singular to stay the malignity of spreading and freting Cankers and Ulcers wheresoever, yea, in the Mouth, or secret parts: The distilled Water of the Plant is available in all the Diseases aforesaid, and to wash outward Wounds and Sores, and to apply Tents, or clothes wet therein.   

Mugwort.  
Descript.] COmmon Mugwort have divers leaves lying upon the ground, very much divided, or cut deeply in about the Brims, somewhat like Wormwood, but much larger, of a dark green colour on the upper side, and very hoary white underneath. The stalks rise to be four or five foot high, having on it such like leaves as those below, but somewhat smaller, branching forth very much toward the top, whereon are set very small pale yellowish Flowers like Buttons, which fall away; and after them come small Seed enclosed in round Heads: The Root is long and hard with many small Fibres growing from it, whereby it taketh strong hold in the ground, but both stalk and Leaf do die down every year, and the Root shooteth anew in the Spring. The whole Plant is of a reasonable good scent, and is more easily propagated by the Slips, than by the Seed.  
Place.] It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land, by the way sides, as also by small Water-Courses, and in divers other places.  
Time.] It Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] This is an Herb of Venus, therfore maintaineth the parts of the Body she rules, and remedies the Diseases of the parts that are under her Signs, 
Terms provokes, Birth, Afterbirth Womb inflamed, Wens,  Taurus and Libra. Mugwort is with good success put among other Herbs that are boiled for Women to sit over the hot Decoction, to draw down their Courses, to help the Delivery of the Birth, and expel the Afterbirth, as also for the Obstructions and inflammations of the Mother. It breaketh the ston, and causeth one to make water where it is stopped: The juice thereof made up with myrrh, and put under as a Pessary, worketh the same effect, and so doth the Root also, being made up with Hogs Grease into an ointment, 
Kings Evil, pains in the Neck, Opium, Sciatica, Sinews pained, Cramp.  it taketh away Wens and hard Knots and Kernels that grow about the Neck and Throat, and easeth the pains about the Neck more effectually, if some field Daisies be put with it. The Herb itself being fresh, or the juice therof taken, is a special Remedy upon the overmuch taking of Opium. Three drams of the powder of the dried leaves taken in Wine, is a speedy and the best certain help for the Sciatica. A Decoction therof made with camomile and Agrimony, and the place bathed therwith while it is warm, taketh away the pains of the Sinews and the Cramp.   

The Mulberry-Tree.  
THis is so well known where it groweth, that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It beareth Fruit in the Months of July and August.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury rules the three, therfore are its effects variable as his are. The Mulberry is of different parts; the ripe Berries by reason of their sweetness and slippery moisture, opening the Belly, and the unripe binding it, especially when they are dried, and then they are good to stay Fluxes, 
Binding, Fluxes, Lasks, Terms stops, inflammation, Uvula, sore Mouth& Throat, toothache, Bleeding, Hemorrhoids,  Lasks, and the abundance of Womens Courses. The Bark of the Root killeth the broad Worms in the Body. The juice, or the Syrup made of the juice of the Berries, helpeth al inflammations or Sores in the Mouth or Throat, and the palate of the Mouth when it is fallen down. The juice of the leaves is a Remedy against the biting of Serpents, and for those that have taken Aconite: The leaves beaten with Vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire. A Decoction made of the Bark and leaves, is good to wash the Mouth and Teeth when they ache. If the Root be a little slit or cut, and a small hole made in the ground next thereunto, in the Harvest time, it will give out a certain juice, which being hardened, the next day is of good use to help the toothache, to dissolve knots, and purge the Belly: The leaves of Mulberries are said to stay bleeding at Mouth or Nose, or the bleeding of the Piles, or of a Wound being bound unto the places. A Branch of the three taken when the Moon is at the full, 
A curious secret.  and bound to the Wrest of a Womans Arm, whose Courses come down too much doth stay them in a short space.   

Mullein.  
Descript.] COmmon white Mullein hath many fair large woolly white leaves lying next the ground, somewhat longer than broad, pointed at the ends, and as it were dented about the edges: The Stalk riseth up to be four or five foot high, covered over with such like leaves, but lesser, so that no Stalk can be seen for the multitude of leaves thereon up to the Flowers, which come forth on al sides of the Stalk, without any Branches for the most part, and are many set together in a long spike, in some of a gold yellow colour, in others more pale, consisting of five round pointed leaves, which afterward give small round Heads, wherein is small brownish Seed contained: The Root is long, white, and woody, perishing after it hath born Seed.  
Place.] It groweth by way sides, and Lanes, in many places of this Land.  
Time.] It flowreth in July, or thereabouts.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Saturn. A small quantity of the Root given in Wine, is commended by Dioscorides against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly: 
Flux, Ruptures, Cramp, Convulsion, Cough, toothache, Hemorrhoids, Bloody, Flux, Obstructions, Reins, Bladder, Sinews, Gout, Warts, Bellyach, colic, inflammation, Thorns, splinters, boils, groin, Disjunctures.  The Decoction thereof drunk is profitable for those that are Bursten, and for Cramps and Convulsions, and for those that are troubled with an old Cough. The Decoction therof gargled, easeth the pains of the toothache. An oil made by the often Infusion of the Flowers, is of very good effect for the Piles. The Decoction of the Root in read Wine, or in Water( if there be an Ague) wherein read hot Steel hath been often quenched, doth stay the Bloody flux: The same also openeth obstructions of the Bladder and Reins when one cannot make water. A Decoction of the leaves hereof, and of Sage, Marjoram and camomile Flowers, and the places bathed therewith that have Sinews stark with could, or Cramps, doth bring them much eas, and comfort. Three ounces of the distilled Water of the Flowers drunk morning and evening for some daies together, is said to be the most excellent Remedy for the hot Gout. The juice of the leaves and Flowers being laid upon rough Warts, as also the powder of the dried roots rubbed on, doth easily take them away; but doth no good to smooth Warts. The powder of the dried Flowers is an especial Remedy for those that are troubled with Belly-aches or the pains of the colic. The Decoction of the Root, and so likewise of the leaves is of great effect to dissolve the tumours, Swellings, or inflammation of the Throat. The Seed and leaves boiled in Wine, and applied, draweth forth speedily Thorns, or Splinters gotten into the Flesh, easeth the pains, and healeth them also. The leaves bruised and wrapped in double Papers, and covered with hot ashes and Embers to bake a while, and then taken forth and laid warm on any Botch or boil happening in the groin or Share, doth dissolve and heal them. The Seed bruised, and boiled in Wine, and laid on any Member that hath been out of joint and is newly set again, taketh, away al Swellings and pains therof.   

Mustard.  
Descript.] OUr common Mustard hath large and broad rough leaves, very much jagged with uneven and unorderly gashes, somewhat like Turnip leaves, but lesser and rougher: The Stalk riseth to be more than a foot high,& sometimes two foot high, being round, rough, and branched at the top, bearing such like leaves thereon as grow below, but lesser, and less divided; and divers yellow Flowers one above another at the tops; after which come small rough Pods, with small lank flat ends, wherein is contained round yellowish Seed, sharp, hot, and biting upon the Tongue: The Root is small, long, and woody, when it beareth Stalks, and perisheth every year.  
Place.] This groweth with us in Gardens only, and other manured places.  
Time.] It is an annual Plant, flowering in July, and their Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an excellent sauce for such whose Blood wants clarifying, and for weak Stomachs, being an Herb of Mars, but nought for choleric people, though as good for such as are aged or troubled with could Diseases: Aries claims something to do with it, therefore it strengtheners the Heart and resisteth poison: let such whose Stomachs are so weak they cannot digest their meat, or appetite it, take of Mustard Seed a dram, Cinnamon as much, and having beaten them to powder, ad half as much mastic in powder, and with Gum arabic dissolved in Rose Water, make it up into Troches, of which they may take one of about half a dram weight an hour or two before meals, let old men and women make much of this Medicine, and they will either give me thanks, or manifest ingratitude. Mustard Seed hath the virtue of heating, discussing, rarefying, 
Heat●, Dries, Splinters, Thorns, Terms, povokes, Falling-sickness, lethargy, Sneezing, Disury, poison, mushrooms venomous Breasts, Agues, Lust provokes, Spleen, Uvula, Sciatica; toothache, Pains, Hair, Bruises, Black and blue spots, roughness, leprosy, Leuzie Evil, Mor-Freckles, Wry Necks.  and drawing out Splinters of Bones, and other things out of the flesh. It is of good effect to bring down Womens Courses, for the Falling-sickness or Lethargy, drowsy forgetful evil, to use it both inwardly, and outwardly to rub th● Nostrils, Forehead and Temples, to warm and quicken the Spirits, for by the fierce sha●pness it purgeth the Brain by sneezing, and drawing down Rhewm and other viscuous Humors, which by their distillations upon the Lungs and Chest procure Coughing, and therfore with some Honey added thereto doth much good therein. The Decoction of the Seed made in Wine and drunk, provoketh Urin, resisteth the force of poison, the malignity of mushrooms, and the Venom of Scorpions, or other venomous Creatures, if it be taken in time: and taken before the could fits of Agues, altereth, lesseneth, and cureth them. The Seed taken either by itself or with other things, either in an Electuary or Drink, doth mightily stir up bodily Lust, and helpeth the Spleen and pains in the Sides, and gnawing in the Bowels. And used as a gargoyle, draweth up the palate of the Mouth being fallen down, and also it dissolveth the Swellings about the Throat if it be outwardly applied. Being chewed in the Mouth, it oftentimes helpeth the toothache. The outward application hereof upon the pained place of the Sciatica, discusseth the Humors, and easeth the pains, as also of the Gout, and other joint aches. And is much and often used to eas pains in the Sides or loins, the Shoulders, or other parts of the Body, upon the applying therof to raise Blisters, and cureth the Disease by drawing it to the outward part of the Body: It is also used to help the falling of the Hair: The Seed bruised, mixed with Honey and applied, or made up with Wax, taketh away the Marks, and black and blue spots of Bruises or the like, the roughness or scabbedness of the Skin, as also the leprosy and lousy evil: it helpeth also the crick in the Neck. The distilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower, is much used to drink inwardly to help in any the Diseases aforesaid, or to wash the Mouth when the palate is down, and for the diseases of the Throat to gargoyle, but outwardly also for Scabs, Itch, or other like infirmities, and cleanseth the Face from Morphew, Spots, Freckles, and other Deformities.   

Hedg-Mustard.  
Descript.] THis groweth up usually but with one blackish green Stalk, tough, easy to bend but not break, branched into divers parts, and sometimes with divers Stalks set full of Branches, whereon grow long, rough, or hard rugged leaves, very much torn or cut on the edges into many parts, some bigger, and somelesser, of a dirty green colour: The Flowers are small and yellow, that grow at the tops of the Branches, in long spikes, flowering by degrees, so that continuing long in Flower the stalks will have small round Cods at the bottom, growing upright and close to the stalk, while the top Flowers, yet show themselves; in which are contained small yellow Seed, sharp and strong, as the Herb is also. The Root groweth down slender and woody, yet abiding, and springing again every year.  
Place.] This groweth frequently in this Land by the ways and Hedgsides, and sometimes in the open Fields.  
Time.] It flowreth most usually about July.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns this Herb also. It is singular good in al the Diseases of the Chest and Lungs, hoarseness of voice, 
Chest, Lungs, hoarseness, Cough, shortness of breath, Jaundice, pleurisy, Back, loins, Belly, colic, poison, Sciatica, Gout, joints, Fistulaes, ulcers, cankers, Testicles, womens Breasts.  and by the use of the Decoction therof for a little space, those have been recovered who had utterly lost their voice, and almost their spirits also. The juice thereof made into a Syrup, or licking Medicine with Honey or Sugar is no less effectual for the same purpose, and for al other Coughs, wheezings, and shortness of Breath The same is also profitable for those that have the Jaundice, the pleurisy, pains in the Back and loins, and for torments in the Belly, or the colic, being also used in Clysters. The Seed is held to be a special Remedy against poison and Venom: It is singular good for the Sciatica, the Gout, and al joint aches, Sores, and Cankers in the Mouth, Throat, or behind the Ears; and no less for the hardness and Swelling of the Testicles, or of Womens Breasts.   

Nail-wort, or Whitlow-grass.  
Descript.] THis very small and common Herb hath no Roots, save only a few strings, neither doth it ever grow to be above a band breadth high: The leaves are very small, and something long, not much unlike those of Chickweed; amongst which arise up divers slender Stalks, bearing many white Flowers one above another, which are exceeding small: After which come small flat Pouches containing the Seed which is very small, but of a sharp taste.  
●lace.] It grows commonly upon old ston and brick walls, and sometimes in dry gravelly Grounds, especially if there be grass or Moss near, to shadow it.  
Time.] They flower very early in the year, sometimes in January, and in February, for before the end of April they are not to be found.  

Imposthumse, whitlows, Felons, Andicoms Nail-wheals.  [ Government and virtues.] It is held to be exceeding good for those Imposthumes in the joints, and under the Nails, which they call Whitlows, Felons, Andicoms, and Nail-wheals.   

Nep, or Catmint.  
Descript.] COmmon Garden Nep shooteth forth hard four square Stalks with a hoariness on them, a yard high or more, full of Branches, bearing at every joint two broad leaves, somewhat like Balm but longer pointed, softer, whiter, and more hoary, nicked about the edges, and of a strong sweet scent. The flowers grow in large tufts at the tops of the Branches, and undernea●h them likewise on the Stalks many together, of a whitish purple colour. The Roots are composed of many long strings or Fibres, fastening themselves strongly in the ground, and abide with green leaves thereon al the Winter.  
Place.] It is only nursed up in our Gardens.  
Time.] And it flowreth in July, or thereabouts.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Venus. Nep is generally used for Women to procure their Courses, 
Terms provokes, Barrenness Womb, Wind, Mother, Cough, rheums, Vertigo, Cramp, could ache, Difficulty of breath, Bruises, Hemorrhoids, Scabby Heads.  being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient Herbs in a Decoction to bath them, or sit over the hot fumes therof, and by the frequent use therof it taketh away barrenness, and the wind and pains of the Mother. It is also used in pains of the Head coming of any could cause, as Catarrhs, rheums, and for swimming and giddiness therof, and is of especial use for the windiness of the Stomach and Belly. It is effectual for any Cramps or could aches, to dissolve the could and wind that afflicteth the place, and is used for Colds, Coughs, and shortness of breath. The juice therof drunk in Wine is profitable for those that are bruised by any accident. The green Herb bruised and applied to the Fundament, and lying there two or three hours, easeth the pains of the Piles. The juice also being made up into an ointment, is effectual for the same purpose: The Head washed with a Decoction therof, it taketh away Scabs; and may be effectual for other parts of the Body also.   

Nettles.  
NEttles are so well known that they need no Description at al, they may be found by feeling in the darkest night.  
Government and virtues.] This also is an Herb Mars claims Dominion over: you know Mars is hot and dry, and you know as well that Winter is could and moist; then you may know as well the reason why Nettle tops eaten in spring consume the Flegmatick superfluities in the Body of man, that the coldness and moisture of Winter hath left behind. The Roots or leaves boiled, 
Lungs, wheezing, shortness of breath, pleurisy, Almonds of the Ears, Ears, Throat, Mouth, Uvula, Terms provokes Mother, Disury, Gravel, Vorms, spleen, bleeding, Venem. Beasts mad-dogs, hemlock, Henbane, Night-shade, Mandrakes, Lethargy, Morphew, leprosy, Bleeding, Polipus, Ulcers, Fistulaes, gangrenes, Scabs, Itch, Wounds, Weariness, Disjunctures, gout, Sciatica, joints.  or the juice of either of them, or both, made into an Electuary with Honey or Sugar, is a safe and sure Medicine to open the Pipes& Passages of the Lungs, which is the cause of wheesing and shortness of breath, and helpeth to expectorate tough phlegm, as also to raise the impostumated pleurisy, and spend it by spitting; the same helpeth the swelling of the Almonds of the Throat, the Mouth& Throat being gargled therwith. The juice is also effectual to settle the palate of the Mouth in it's place, and to heal and temper the inflammations and soreness of the Mouth and Throat. The Decoction of the leaves in Wine, being drunk, is singular good to provoke Womens Courses, and settle the suffocation or strangling of the Mother, and al other diseases therof, as also applied outwardly with a little myrrh. The same also, or the Seed, provoketh Urine, and expelleth the G●avel and ston in the Reins or Bladder often proved to be effectual in many that have taken it. The same killeth the Worms in Children, easeth pains in the sides, and dissolveth the windiness in the Spleen, as also in the Body, although others think it only powerful to provoke Venery. The juice of the leaves taken two or three dayes together, st●yeth bleeding at the Mouth. The Seed being drunk, is a Remedy against the stinging of venomous Creatures, the bitting of mad-Dogs, the poisonful qualities of Hemlocks, Henbane, Nightshade, Mandrake, or other such like He●bs that stupefy or dull the Senses; as also the Lethargy, especially to use it outwardly to rub the Fore-head, or Temples in the Lethargy, and the places bitten or stung with Beasts, with a little Salt. The Distilled water of the Herb is also effectual( although not so powerful) for the Diseases aforesaid, as for outward Wounds and Sores to wash them, and to cleanse the skin from Morphew, leprosy, and other discolourings thereof; The Seed or leaves bruised, and put into the Nostrils, stayeth the Bleeding of them, and taketh away the Flesh growing in them, called Polipus. The juice of the leaves, or the Decoction of them, or of the Roots, is singular good to wash either old, rotten, or stinking Sores, or Fistulaes and Gangrenes, and such as are freting, eating, or corroding Scabs, Manginess and Itch in any part of the Body, as also green Wounds by washing them therwith, or applying the green Herb bruised thereunto, yea, although the Flesh were separated from the Bones: The same applied to our wearied Members refresheth them, or to places that have been out of joint being first set again, strengtheneth, drieth, and comforteth them, as also those places troubled with aches and Gouts, and the Defluxion of Humors upon the joints or Sinews, it easeth the pains, and drieth or dissolveth the Defluxions, An ointment made of the juice, oil, and a little Wax, is singular good to rub could and benumbed Members. An handful of the leaves of green Nettles, and another of Wal-wort, or D●newort, bruised and applied simply of themselves to the Gout, Sciatica, or Joynt-aches in any part, hath been found to be an admirable help thereunto.   

Nightshade.  
Descript.] COmmon Nightshade hath an upright, round green, hollow stalk, about a Foot or half a yard high, bushing forth into many Branches, whereon grow many green leaves, somewhat broad and pointed at the ends, soft and full of juice, somewhat like unto Bazil, but larger, and a little unevenly dented about the edges: at the tops of the Stalks and B●anches, come forth three or four or more white Flowers made of five small pointed leaves apeice, standing on a Stalk together, one above another with yellow pointels in the middle, composed of four or five yellow threads set together which afterwards turn into so many pendulous green Berries of the bigness of small Pease, full of green juice, and small whi●ish round flat Seed lying within it. The Root is white and a little woody when it hath given Flower and fruit with many small Fibres at it; The whole Plant is of a waterish insipid taste, but the juice within the Berries is somewhat viscuous, and of a cooling and binding quality.  
Place.] It groweth wild with us, under old Walls, and in Rubbish, the common paths, and sides of Hedges, and Fields, as also in our Gardens here in England without any planting.  
Time.] It death down every year, and ariseth again of its own sowing, but springeth not until the latter end of April at the soonest.  
Government and virtues.] It is a could Saturnine Plant. This common Nightshade is wholly used to cool hot inflammations either inwardly or outwardly, being no way dangerous to any that shal use it, as most of the rest of the Nightshades are; 
inflammations, inflammations, in the Eyes, Shingles, Ring-Worms, Terms, stops, Testicles, Gouts, Ears,  yet it must be used moderately: The distilled Water only of the whole Herb is fittest and safest to be taken inwardly: The juice also clarified and taken, being mingled with a little Vinegar, is good to wash the Mouth and Throat that is inflamed: But outwardly the juice of the Herb or Berries with oil of Roses, and a little Vinegar and Ceruss laboured together in a leaden mortar, is very good to anoint al hot inflammations in the Eyes: It doth also much good for the Shingles, Ringworms, and in al running, freting, and corroding Ulcers, and in moist Fistulaes, and if the juice be made up with some Hens-dung and applied thereunto: A Pessary dipped in the juice, and put up into the Matrix, stayeth the immoderate Flux of Womens Courses: A Cloth wet therein, and applied to the the Testicles or Cods, upon any swelling therein, giveth much ease, as also to the Gout that cometh of hot and sharp Humors. The juice droped into the Ears, easeth pains therof that arise of heat or inflammation. And Pliny saith, It is good for hot swellings under the Throat. Have a care you mistake not the deadly Nightshade for this; if you know it not, you may let them both alone and take no harm, having other Medicines sufficient in the Book.   

The Oak.  
IT is so well known( the Timber therof being the Glory and Safety of this Nation by Sea) that it needeth no Description.  
Government and virtues.] Jupiter owns the three. The leaves and Bark of the Oak, and the Acorn Cups, do bind and dry very much: 
Dry, Bind, spitting blood, flux Vomiting, venereous Acts, Disury, poison, Venem. Beasts, Catharides, Ulcers of the bladder,  The inner Bark of the three, and the thin skin that covereth the Acorn, are most used to stay the spitting of blood, and the Bloudy-flux: The Decoction of that Bark, and the powder of the Cups, to stay Vomitings, spitting of blood, bleeding at Mouth, or other Flux of blood in man or Woman, Lasks also, and the involuntary Flux of natural Seed. The Acorns in powder taken in Wine, provoketh Urine, and resisteth the poison of venomous Creatures. The Decoction of Acorns and the Bark made in Milk, and taken, resisteth the force of poisonous Herbs and Medicines, as also the Virulency of Cantharides, when one by eating them, hath his Bladder exulcerated, and pisseth Blood. Hippocrates saith, He used the fumes of Oak leaves to Women that were troubled with the strangling of the Mother; and Galen applied them being bruised, to cure green Wounds. The Distilled Water of the Oaken Buds before they break out into leaves, 
Mother, wounds inflammation, Flux, pestilences, epidemical Diseases, Liver ston, Terms stops, Scabs.  is good to be used either inward or outwardly to assuage inflammations, and stop al manner of Fluxes in man or Woman: The same is singular good in Pestilential and hot burning fevers, for it resisteth the force of the infection, and allayeth the heat: it cooleth the heat of the Liver, breaketh the ston in the Kidneys, and stayeth Womens Courses. The Decoction of the leaves worketh the same effects. The Water that is found in the hollow places of old Oaks, is very effectual against any foul or spreading Scab. The Distilled Water( or Decoction which is better) of the leaves is one of the best Remedies that I know for the Whites in Women.   

Oats.  
THese are also so well known that they need no Description.  
Government and virtues.] Oats fried with Bay-salt, and applied to the Sides, 
Stitch, wind, Itch, leprosy, Fistulaes, Apos●ums, Frecles,  takes away the pains of Stitches and Wind in the Sides or Belly. A pultis made of the Meal of Oats, and some oil of Bays put thereto, helpeth the Itch, and the leprosy, as also the Fistulaes of the Fundament, and dissolveth hard Imposthumes. The Meal of oats boiled with Vinegar and applied, taketh away Freckles and Spots in the Face, or other parts of the Body.   

One-Blade.  
Descript.] THis small Plant never beareth more than one Leaf, but only when it riseth up with his stalk, which thereon beareth another, and seldom more, which are of a bluish green colour, pointed, with many ribs, or veins therein, like plantain: At the top of the stalk, grow many small whit Flowers, star-fashion, smelling somewhat sweet; after which come small reddish Berries when they are ripe. The Root is small of the bigness of a Rush, lying and creeping under the upper crust of the Earth, shooting forth in d●v●es places.  
Place.] It groweth in moist, shadowy, and grassy places of Woods, in many places of this Land.  
Time.] It flowreth about May, and the Berries be ripe in June, and then quickly perisheth until the next year, it springeth from the same Root again.  
Government and virtues.] It is a precious Herb of the Sun. Half a dram, or a dram at most in powder of the Roots hereof taken in Wine and Vinegar, 
Pestilence, poison, Epidemical diseases Wounds, Sinews Cut.  of each equal parts, and the party laid presently to sweat thereupon, is held to be a sovereign Remedy for those that are infected with the Plague, and have a Sore upon them, by expelling the poison and Infection, and defending the Heart and Spirits from danger. It is a singular good Wound herb, and is thereupon used with other the like effects in making Compound-Balms for the Curing of Wounds, be they fresh and green, or old and malignant, and especially if the Sinews be hurt.   

Orchis.  
IT hath gotten almost as many several Names attributed to the several sorts of it, as would almost fill a sheet of Paper; as, Dogs-stones, Goats-stones, Fools-stones, Fox-stones, Satirian, Cullians, together with many others, too tedious to rehears.  
Descript.] To describe all the several sorts of it were an endless piece of work; therfore I shal only describe the Roots because they are to be used with some discretion: They have each of them a double Root within, some of them is round, in others like a hand; these Roots alter every year by course, when the one riseth and waxeth full, the other waxeth lank and perisheth: Now it is that which is full which is to be used in Medicine, the other being either of no use at all, or else according to the humour of some, it destroys and dissanul the virtue of the other, quiter undoing what that doth.  
Time.] One or other of them may be found in Flower, from the beginning of April, to the latter end of August.  
Government and virtues.] They are hot and moist in operation, under the Dominion of Dame Venus, and provoke Lust exceedingly, 
Lust provoketh Worms Kings-Evil.  which they say the dry or withered Root restrains again; they are held to kill the Worms in Children: as also being bruised and applied to the place, to help the Kings-evil.   

Onions.  
THese are so well known that I need not spend time about writing a Description of them.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns them, and they have gotten this quality, to draw any corruption to them, for if you pill one and lay him upon a dunghill, you shal find him rotten in half a day, by drawing putrefaction to it, then being bruised and applied to a Plague-Sore 'tis very probable 'twill do the like.  
Onions are Flatulent or Windy, yet they do somewhat provoke appetite, increase thirst, ease the Belly and Bowels; provoke Womens Courses, help the biting of a mad Dog, 
Mad Dogs Worms, Cough, Lethargy, Epidemical diseases.  and of other venomous Creatures, to be used with Honey and Rue, and increaseth Sperm, especially the seed of them: They also kill the Worms in Children if they drink the water fasting wherein they have been steeped all night. Being roasted under the Embers and eaten with Honey, or Sugar and oil they much conduce to help an inveterate Cough, and expectorate the tough phlegm. The juice being snuffed up into the Nostrils, purgeth the Head and helpeth the Lethargy( ●et the often eating of them is said to procure pains in the Head) It hath been held by divers Country people a good preservative against infection to eat Onions fasting with Bread and Salt: as also to make a great Onion hollow, filling the place with good treacle, and after to roast it well under the Embers, which after taking away of the outermost skin thereof, being beaten together, is a sovereign salue for either Plague-Sore, or any other putrid Ulcer. The juice of Onions is good for either scalding, or burning by fire, water, or gunpowder, and used with Vinegar, taketh away all blemishes, Spots, and Marks in the Skin, and dropped into the Ears, easeth the pains and noise of them. Applied also with Figs beaten together, helpeth to ripen and break Impostumes and other Sores.  
Lecks are as like them in quality as a Pomewater is like an Apple: They are a Remedy against a Surfeit of mushrooms, being baked under the Embers and taken; and being boiled and applied warm helpeth the Piles; In other things they have the same property as the Onions, although not so effectual.   

Orpine.  
Descript.] COmmon Orpine riseth up with divers round brittle Stalks, thick set with fat and fl●shly leaves without any order, and little or nothing dented about the edges, of a pale green colour; The Flowers are white or whitish growing in tufts, after which come small chaffy Husks, with seed like dust in them. The Roots are divers thick, round, white, tuberous clogs; and the Plant groweth not so big in some places as in others where it is found.  
Place.] It is frequent almost in every Country of this Land, and is cherished in Gardens with us, where it groweth greater than that which is wild, and groweth in the shadowy sides of Fields and Woods.  
Time.] It Flowreth about July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon owns the Herb, and he that knows but her Exaltation, knows what I say is true.  
Orpine is seldom used in inward Medicines with us, although Tragus sai●h from experience in Germany that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the Stomach or Bowels, 
Excoriation of Bowels, phthisic Womb, Bloody Flux, Wounds  and for Ulcers in the Lungs, Liver, or other inward parts, as also in the Matrix, and helpeth all those Diseases, being drunk for certain daies together: And that it stayeth the sharpness of Humors in the Bloody Flux, 
inflammation, Scalding, Burnings, quinsy, Ruptures.  and other Fluxes in the Body, or in Wounds: The Root thereof also performeth the same effect. It is used outwardly to cool any heat or inflammation upon any Hurt or Wound and easeth the pains of them: as also to heal Scaldings or Burnings: The juice thereof beaten with some green salad oil, and anointed. the Leaf also bruised and laid to any green Wound in the Hands or Legs, doth heal them quickly; and being bound to the Throat, much helpeth the quinsy, it helpeth also Ruptures and Burstinesse.  
If you please to make the juice thereof into a Syrup with Honey or Sugar, you may safely take a spoonful or two at a time( let my Author say what he will) for a quinsy, and you shall find the Medicine more pleasant, and the Cure more speedy, than if you took a Dogs-turd which is the Learned colleges vulgar Cure.   

Parsley.  
THis is so well known that it needs no Description.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mercury, 
Stomach, Disury, Terms provokes, Liver, Spleen, falling-sickness, ston, Wind, venomous Beasts, Cough, Sucking Children, Eyes, Womens Breasts, Curdled Milk, Black and Blue marks Jaundice, falling-sickness, dropsy.  and is very comfortable to the Stomach, and helpeth to provok to Urine and Womens Courses, and to break wind both in the Stomach and Bowels, and doth a little open the Body, but the Root much more, and openeth Obstructions both of the Liver and Spleen, and is therefore accounted one of the five opening Roots; Galen commendeth it against the Falling sickness, and to provoke Urine mightily, especially if the Roots be boiled and eaten like Parsnips. The Seed is effectual to provoke Urine and Womens Courses, to expel wind, to break the ston, and case the pains and torments thereof, or of any other part in the Body occasioned by Wind. It is also effectual against the Venom of any poisonful Creature, and the danger that cometh to them that have taken lethargy, and is good against the Cough. The distilled water of Parsley is a familiar Medicine with Nurses to give their Children when they are troubled with wind in the Stomach or Belly, which they call the frets, and is also much available to them that are of greater years. The leaves of Parsley laid to the eyes that are inflamed with heat or swollen, doth much help them, if it be used with Bread or Meal; and being fried with Butter and applied to Womens Breasts that are hard through the curdling of their Milk, it abateth the hardness quickly, and also it taketh away black and blue marks coming of Bruises or Falls. The juice thereof dropped into the Ears with a little Wine easeth the pains; Tragus setteth down an excellent Medicine to help the Jaundice and falling-sickness, the dropsy, and ston in the Kidneys, in this manner: Take of the Seeds of Parsley, Fennill, Annis, and Caraways, of each an ounce; of the Roots of Parsley, Burnet, Saxifrage, and Carawayes of each one ounce and an half, let the Seeds be bruised, and the Roots washed and cut small: Let them lye all night in steep in a pottle of white Wine, and in the morning be boiled in a close earthen Vessel until a third part or more be wasted, which being strained and cleared: take four ounces thereof morning and evening first and last abstaining from drink after it for three hours: This openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, 
Obstructions of Liver& spleen  and expelleth the dropsy and Jaundice by Urine.   

Parsley-Piert, or Parsley Break-Stone.  
Descript.] THe Root although it be very small and thriddy yet it continues many years, from whence arise many leaves lying along upon the ground, each standing upon a long small foot Stalk, the leaves as broad as a mans Nail, very deeply indented on the edges, somewhat like a parsley Leaf, but of a very dusky green colour, the Stalks are very weak and slender, about three or four fingers in length, set so full of leaves that they can hardly be seen, either having no foot Stalk at all, or but very short, the Flowers are so small they can hardly be seen, and the Seed as small as small may be.  
Place.] Its a common Herb throughout the Nation, and rejoiceth in barren, sandy moist places; it may be found plentifully about Hempsted-Heath in Hidepark, and in Tuttle fields.  
Time.] It may be found all the Summer time, even from the beginning of April to the end of October.  
Government and virtues.] Its operation is very prevalent to provoke Urine, 
Urine provoketh ston.  and to break the ston; it is a very good salad Herb: It were good the Gentry would pick it up as they pick up Sampire for their use all the Winter; I cannot teach them how to do it, yet this I can tell them, it is a very wholesome Herb: they may also keep the Herb dry, or in a Syrup, if they please; 
Gravil in the Kidneys Strangury.  you may take a dram of the powder of it in White Wine, it would bring away gravill from the Kidneys incensibly and without pain; It also helps the Strangury.   

Parsnip.  
THe Garden kind thereof is so well known( the Root being commonly eaten) that I shal not trouble you with any Description of it. But the wild kind being of more Physical use, I shall in this place describe unto you.  
Descript.] The wild Parsnip differeth little from the Garden kind, but groweth not so fair and large, nor hath so many leaves; and the Root is shorter, more woody and not so fit to be eaten, and therefore the more Medicinable.  
Place.] The name of the first sheweth the place of its growth.  
The other groweth wild in divers places, as in the Marshes by Rochester and elsewhere, and flowreth in July; the Seed being ripe about the beginning of August, the second year after the sowing; for if they do flower the first year, the Country people call them Madneps.  
Government and virtues.] The Garden Parsnips are under Venus. The Garden Parsnip nourisheth much, 
Lust provokes, Disury, cleanse, Open, venomous Beasts, colic, Disury.  and is good and wholesome Nourishment, but a little windy, whereby it is thought to procure bodily lust: but it fatneth the Body much if much used, It is conducible to the Stomach and Reins, and provoketh Urine. But the wild Parsnip hath a cutting, attenuating, cleansing and opening quality therein: It resisteth and helpeth the bitings of Serpents, easeth pains and Stitches in the sides, and dissolveth wind both in the Stomach and Bowels, which is the colic, and provoketh Urine. The Root is often used, but the Seed much more.  
The wild being better then the tame shows Dame Nature to be the best physician.   

Cow-Parsnep.  
Descript.] THis groweth with three or four large, spread, winged, rough, leaves, lying often on the Ground, or else raised a little from it, with long, round, hairy footstalks under them, partend usually into five divisions, the two couples standing each against other, and one at the end, and each Leaf being almost round, yet somewhat deeply cut in on the edges, in some leaves, and not so deep in others of a whitish green colour, smelling somewhat strongly: among which ariseth up a round crested hairy Stalk two or three foot high with a few joints and leaves thereon, and branched at the top, where stand large Umbels of white, and sometimes reddish Flowers, and after them, flat, whitish, thin winged Seed, two always joined together. The Root is long and white with two or three long strings growing down into the ground, smelling likewise strongly, and unpleasant.  
Place.] It groweth in moist Meadows, and the borders and corners of Fields, and near Ditches, generally through this Land.  
Time.] It Flowreth in July, and Seedeth in August.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury hath the dominion over them. The Seed hereof as Galen saith is of a sharp and cutting quality, and is therefore a fit Medicine for the Cough and shortness of Breath, 
Cough, Difficulty of breath, Fallingsickness Jaundice, Fistula, Phlegm, Liver, Mother, Lethargy, Frenzy, headache, Scabs, Shingles.  the falling-sickness and the Jaundice. The Root is available to all the purposes aforesaid, and is also of great use to take away the hard skin that groweth on a Fistula, if it be but scraped upon it. The Seed hereof being drunk cleanseth the belly from tough phlegmatic matter therein, easeth them that are Liver-grown, and Womens passions of the Mother, as well being drunk as the smoke therof received underneath, and likewise raiseth such as are fallen into a deep sleep, or have the Lethargy by burning it under their Nose: The Seed& Root boiled in oil, and the Head rubbed therwith helpeth not onely those that are fallen into a Frenzy, but also the Lethargy or drowsy evil, and those that have been long troubled with the headache, if it be likewise used with Rue: It helpeth also the running Scab and the Shingles: The juice of the Flowers dropped into the Ears that run and are full of matter, it cleanseth and healeth them.   

The Peach-tree.  
Deseript.] A Peach-tree groweth not so great as the Apricock-tree, yet spreadeth Branches reasonable well, from whence spring smaller reddish twigs, whereon are set long and narrow green leaves dented about the edges. The blossoms are greater than the Plum, and of a light Purple colour. The fruit round, and sometimes as big as a reasonable Pippin, others are smaller, as also differing in colours and tastes, as russet, read, or yellow, waterish or firm, with a frieze or Cotton all over, with a cleft therein like an Apricock, and a rugged furrowed great ston within it, and a bitter kernel within the ston: It sooner waxeth old, and decayeth than the Apricock, by much.  
Place.] They are nursed up in Gardens and Orchards through this Land.  
Time.] Tney Flower in the Spring, and fructify in Autumn.  
Government and virtues.] Lady Venus owns this three, and by it opposeth the ill-effects of Mars, and indeed for Children and young people, nothing is better to purge choler, and the Jaundice, than the leaves and Flowers of this three, being made into a Syrup or Conserve, let such as delight to please their lust regard the Fruit, but such as love their health and their Childrens, let them regard what I say, they may safely give two spoonfuls of the Syrup at a time, 'tis as gentle as Venus her self. The leaves of Peaches bruised and laid on the Belly killeth Worms; and so they do also being boiled in Ale and drunk, 
Worms, Open, Humors, Wounds.  and open the Belly likewise; and being dried is a safe Medicine to discuss Humors. The powder of them strewed upon fresh bleeding Wounds, stayeth their bleeding, and closeth them up. The Flowers steeped all night in a little Wine standing warm, strained forth in the morning and drunk fasting, doth gently open the Belly, and move it downward: A Syrup made of them as the Syrup of Roses is made worketh more forcibly then that of Roses, for it provoketh Vomiting, and and spendeth waterish and hydropic Humors by the continuance thereof. The Flowers made into a Conserve worketh the same effect. The liquour that droppeth from the three being wounded, is given in the Decoction of Coltsfoot, 
dropsy, Cough, shortness of Breath, Vomiting and spitting of blood, ston, Wind, colic.  to those that are troubled with the Cough or shortness of Breath, by adding thereto some sweet Wine and putting some Saffron also therein, it is good for those that are hoarse or have lost their voice; helpeth all defects of the Lungs, and those that vomit or spit blood. Two drams thereof given in the juice of lemons or of Radish, is good for them that are troubled with the ston. The Kernels of the Stones do wonderfully ease the pains and wringings of the Belly through wind or sharp Humors, and help to make an excellent Medicine for the ston upon all occasions, on this manne●; Take fifty Kernels of Peach Stones, and one hundred of the Kernels of Cherry Stones, a handful of Elder Flowers, Fresh or dried, and three pints of Muscadine, set them in a closed pot into a bed of Horse dung for ten dayes, which after distil in Glass with a gentle fire, and keep it for your use; you may drink upon occasion three or four ounces at a time. The Milk or Cream of these Kernels being drawn forth with some Vervain Water, and applied to the Forehead and Temples, doth much help to procure rest and sleep to sick persons wanting it. 
Watching, Ears, Baldness.  The oil drawn from the Kernels, the Temples being therwith anointed doth the like: The said oil put into Clysters easeth the pains of the wind colic, and anointed on the lower part of the Belly doth the like, and dropped into the Ears easeth the pains of them: the juice of the leaves doth the like. Being also anointed on the Forehead and Temples, it helpeth the Megrim and al other pains in the Head. If the Kernels be bruised and boiled in Vinegar until they become thick, and applied to the Head, it marvelously procure the Hair to grow again upon bald places, or where it is too thin.   

The Pear-tree.  
PEar-trees are so well known that they need no Description.  
Government and virtues.] The three belongs to Venus, and so doth the Apple-tree. For their Physical use they are best discerned by their tastes. Al the sweet or lucious sorts whether manured or wild, do help to move the Belly downward more or less: Those that are harsh and sour do on the contrary bind the Belly as much; and the leaves do so also. Those that are moist do in some sort cool, but harsh or wild sorts much more, and are very good in repelling Medicines: as if the wild sorts be boiled with mushrooms, 
mushrooms Stomach, inflammations, Cool, Bind, Wounds.  it maketh them the less dangerous. The said Pears boiled with a little Honey, helpeth much the oppressed Stomach, as al sorts of them do, some more, some less; but the harsher sorts do most cool and bind, serving well to be bound to green wounds to cool and stay the Blood, and heal up the Wound without further trouble or inflammation, as Galen saith he hath found by experience. And wild Pears do sooner close up the Lips of green Wounds than the others.  
Schola Salerni adviseth to drink much Wine after Pears, or else( they say) they are as bad as poison, nay, and they curse the three for it too: but if a poor man find his Stomach oppressed by eating Pears, 'tis but working hard and it will do as well as drinking Wine.   

Pellitory of Spain.  
COmmon Pellitory of Spain, if it be planted in our Gardens, it will prosper very well, yet is there one sort growing ordinary here wild which I esteem to be little inferior to the other, if at al. I shal not deny you the Descriptions of them both.  
Descript.] Common Pellitory is a very common Plant, and will not be kept in our Gardens without diligent looking to. The Root goes down right into the ground, bearing leaves being long and finely cut upon the Stalks lying upon the ground, much larger than the leaves of camomile are: At the top it bears one single large Flower at a place, having a border of many leaves white on the uper side, and reddish underneath, with a yellow thrum in the middle, not standing so close as that of camomile doth.  
The other common Pellitory which groweth here, it hath a Root of a sharp biting taste, scarce discernible by the taste from that before described; from whence ariseth divers brittle stalks, a yard high and more, with narrow long leaves finely dented about the edges, standing one above another up to the top: The Flowers are many and white, standing in Tufts like those of Yarrow, with a small yellowish thrum in the middle: The Seed is very small.  
Place.] The last groweth in Fields by the hedge sides and Paths, almost every where.  
Time.] It Flowreth at the latter end of June and July.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Government of Mercury, and I am persuaded that 'tis one of the best purgers of the Brain that grows: 
Brain purgeth, Agues, flegmatick humors, Head, Teeth, distillations of the brain on the Lungs& Eyes, Coughs, ptisicks Consumptions, Apoplexy, falling-sickness, lethargy, sneezing, headache, black and blue spots, Gout, Sciatica.  An ounce of the juice taken in a draft of Muskadel an hour before the fit of an Ague comes, will assuredly drive away the Ague at the second or third time taking at the furthest. Either the Herb or Root dried and chewed in the Mouth, purgeth the Brain of flegmatick Humors, thereby not only easing pains in the Head and Teeth, but also hindering the distilling of the Brain upon the Lungs and Eyes, thereby preventing Coughs, Phtisicks, and Consumptions, the Apoplexy, and Falling-sickness: It is an excellent approved Remedy in the Lethargy: the powder of the Herb or Root being snuffed up the Nostrils procureth sneezing, and easeth the headache, being made into an ointment with Hogs Grease, it takes away black and blue spots occasioned by blows or fals, and helps both the Gout and Sciatica.   

Pellitory of the Wall.  
Descript.] IT riseth up with many brownish, read, tender and weak, clear, and almost transparent stalks about two foot high, upon which grow at the several joints, two leaves somewhat broad and long, of a dark green colour, which afterwards turn brownish, smooth on the edges, but rough and hairy as the Stalks are also: At the joints with the leaves from the middle of the Stalks upwards, where it spreadeth into some Branches, stand many small, pale, purplish Flowers, in hairy rough Heads or Husks: after which come small black and rough Seed, which will stick to any cloth or Garment that shal touch it. The Root is somewhat long, with many small Fibres thereat, of a dark reddish colour, which abideth the winter, although the stalks and leaves perish and spring fresh every year.  
Place.] It g●oweth wild generally through this Land, about the borders of Fields, and by the sides of walls, and among Rubbish; It will endure well being brought into Gardens, and planted on the shady side, where it will spring of its own sowing.  
Time.] It flowereth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe soon after.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mercury. The dried Herb Pellitory made up into an Electuary with Honey, or the juice of the Herb, 
Old or dry Cough, shortness of breath, ston and Gravel, Mother, Womens, Courses, Obstructions, Sore Throat, Teeth, Freckles, Wheals, Sunburn, Morphew, Pain in the Ears, Impostums Burnings and scaldings, inflammations, Ulcers, Scabs, Falling of the Hair, Piles, Gout, Fistulaes, Green Wounds, Bruised Tendon or Muscle.  or the Decoction thereof made up with Sugar or Honey, is a singular remedy for any old or dry Cough, the shortness of breath, and Wheesing in the Throat. Three ounces of the juice therof taken at a time, doth wonderfully help stoping of the Urin, and to expel the ston or Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder, and is therfore usually put among other Herbs, used in Clysters to mitigate pains in the Back, Sides, or Bowels proceeding of wind, stoping of Urin, the Gravel or ston as aforesaid. If the bruised Herb sprinkled with some muscadine be warmed upon a tile, or in a dish upon a few quick Coals in a Chafing-dish, and applied to the Belly, it worketh the same effect. The Decoction of the Herb being drunk, easeth pains of the Mother, and bringeth down Womens Courses; it also easeth those Griefs that arise from Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Reins: The same Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good to gargoyle a sore Throat. The juice held a while in the Mouth, easeth pains in the Teeth. The distilled Water of the Herb drunk with some Sugar worketh the same effects; and cleanseth the Skin from Spots, Freckles, Purples, Wheals, Sunburn, Morphew, &c. The juice dropped into the Ears, easeth the noise in them, and taketh away the pricking and shooting pains therein: The same or the distilled Water, assuageth hot and swelling Imposthumes, Burnings and scaldings by fire or Water, as also al other hot tumours and inflammations, or breakings out of heat, being bathed often with wet clothes dipped therein. The said juice made into a lineament with Ceruss and oil of Roses and anointed therwith, cleanseth foul rotten Ulcers, and stayeth spreading or creeping Ulcers, and running Scabs or Sores in Childrens Heads: and helpeth to stay falling of the Hair from off the Head. The said ointment, or the Herb applied to the Fundament openeth the Piles and easeth their pains;& being mixed with Goats Tallow helpeth the Gout. The juice is very effectual to cleanse Fistulaes, and to heal them up safely; or the Herb itself bruised, and applied with a little Salt. It is likewise so effectual to heal any green Wound, that if it be bruised and bound thereto for three daies, you shal need no other Medicine to heal it further. A Pultiss made hereof with meadows, and boiled in Wine with Wheat Bran, and Bean Flower, and some oil put thereto, and applied Warm to any bruised Sinew, Tendon, or Muscle, doth in a very short time restore them to their strength, taking away the pains of the Bruises; and dissolveth the congealed Blood coming of Blows or Fals from high places.  
The juice of Pellitory of the Wall clarified and boiled into a Syrup with Honey, and a spoonful of it drunk every morning by such as are subject to the dropsy; if continuing that course though but once a week, if ever they have the dropsy, let them come but to me, and I will cure them gratis.   

Peny-royal.  
PEny-royal is so well known unto al( I mean the common kind) that it needeth no Description.  
There is a greater kind than the ordinary sort found wild with us, which so abideth being brought into Gardens, and differeth not from it but only in the largeness of the leaves and Stalks, in rising higher, and not creeping upon the ground so much. The Flowers whereof are purple, growing in Rundles about the Stalk like the other.  
Place.] The first which is common in Gardens, groweth also in many moist and watery places of this Land.  
The second is found wild in Essex in divers places by the High-way from London to Colechester, and thereabouts more abundantly than in other Countries, and is also planted in their Gardens in Essex.  
Time.] They Flower in the latter end of Summer, about August.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is under Venus. Dioscorides saith, That Peny-royal maketh thin tough phlegm, warmeth the coldness of any part whereto it is applied, 
Tough phlegm, terms provokes dead Child and Afterbirth, Vomiting, melancholy, venomous Beasts, Fainting and swooning, Gums, Gout, Marks in the Face, toothache, Pains in the joints, headache, pains of the Belly and Breast, falling-sickness, stinking Water, Cramps and Convulsions, Sore Mouth, Jaundice, dropsy, pains of the Head and Eye-sight, lethargy, burnings.  and digesteth raw or corrupt matter: Being boiled and drunk, it provoketh Womens Courses, and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth, and staveth the disposition to Vomit, being taken in Water and Vinegar mingled together. And being mingled with Honey and Salt it avoideth phlegm out of the Lungs, and purgeth melancholy by the Stool. Drunk with Wine it helpeth such as are bitten or stung with venomous Beasts: and applied to the Nostrils with Vinegar, reviveth those that are fainting and swooning. Being dried and burnt, it strengtheneth the Gums: It is helpful to those that are troubled with the Gout, being applied of itself to the place until it wax read; and applied in a plaster, it taketh away spots or marks in the Face: Applied with Salt, it profiteth those that are splenetic or Liver-grown. The Decoction doth help the Itch, if washed therewith: Being put into Baths for Women to sit therein, it helpeth the swelling and hardness of the Mother. The green Herb bruised and put into Vinegar cleanseth foul Ulcers, and taketh away the marks of bruises and blows about the Eyes, and al discolorings of the Face by fire, yea, and the leprosy, being drunk and outwardly applied: boiled in Wine with Honey and Salt, it helpeth the toothache. It helpeth the could griefs of the joints, taking away the pains, and warming the could parts, being fast bound to the place after a bathing, or sweeting in an Hot-house. Pliny addeth, That Peny-royal and Mints together helps faintings or doings, being put into Vinegar, and put to the Nostrils to be smelled unto, or a little thereof put into the Mouth. It easeth the headache, and the pains of the Breast and Belly, stayeth the gnawing of the Stomach, and inward pains of the Bowels: Being drunk in Wine it provoketh Womens Courses, and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth: Being given in Wine it helpeth the Falling-sickness: Put into humoursome or stinking Water that men must drink( as at Sea, and where other cannot be had) it maketh them the less hurtful: It helpeth Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews being applied with Honey, Salt, and Vinegar. It is very effectual for the Cough, being boiled in Milk and drunk, and for Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth. Mathiolus saith, The Decoction thereof being drunk, helpeth the Jaundice and dropsy, and al pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a could cause, and that it helpeth to clear and quicken the Eye-sight. Applied to the Nostrils of those that have the Falling-sickness, or the Lethargy, or put into the Mouth, it helpeth them much, being bruised and with Vinegar applied. And applied with Barley Meal, it helpeth burnings by fire, and put into the Ears, easeth the pains of them.   

Peony, Masc.& Foemina.  
Descript.] MAle Peony riseth up with many brownish Stalks, whereon grow many fair green, and sometimes reddish leaves, one set against another upon a Stalk without any particular division in the Leaf at all. The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks, consisting of five or six broad leaves, of a fair purplish read colour, with many yellow threads in the middle standing about the Head, which after riseth to be the Seed Vessels, divided into two, three, or four rough crooked Pods like Horns, which being full ripe, open and turn themselves down one edge to another backward, showing within them divers round, black, shining seed, having also many read or crimson grains, intermixed with the black, whereby it maketh a very pretty show. The Roots are great, thick, and long, spreading and running down reasonable deep in the ground.  
The ordinary Female Peony hath many stalks, and more leaves on them than the Male; the leaves not so large, but nicked diversely on the edges, some with great and deep, others with smaller cuts and divisions, of a dark or dead green colo●. The flowers are of a strong heady scent, most usually smaller and of a more purple colour than the Male, with yellow thrums about the Head as the Male hath. The Seed Vessels are like Horns as in the Male, but smaller; the Seed also is black, but less shining. The Roots consist of many thick and short tuberous clogs, fastened at the ends of long strings, and all from the head of the Root which is thick and short, and of the like scent with the Male.  
Place and Time.] They grow in Gardens; and flower usually about May.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of the Sun, and under the lion: Physitians say Male Peony Roots are best, but Dr. Reason  told me, Male Peony was best for Men, and Female Peony for Women; and he desires to be jugged by his Brother Dr. Experience. The Roots are held to be of most virtue; then the Seeds, next the Flowers, and last of al the leaves. The Root of the Male Peony fresh gathered, hath been found by experience to cure the Falling-sickness; but the surest way is( besides hanging it about the Neck, 
Falling-sickness, women not cleansed in Child-birth, Mother, Ephialtes, or the Night-Mare, Melanchollick Dreams.  by which Children have been cured) to take the Root of the Male Peony washed clean and stamped somewhat small, and lay to infuse in Sack for twenty four hours at the least, after strain it, and take it first and last, morning and evening a good draft for sundry daies together before and after a full Moon, and this will also cure older persons, if the disease be not grown too old and past cure, especially if there be a due and orderly preparation of the Body, with Posset-drink made of Betony &c. The Root is also effectual for Women that are not sufficiently cleansed after Child-birth, and such as are troubled with the Mother; for which likewise the black Seed beaten to powder and given in Wine, is also available. The black Seed also taken before bed-time, and in the morning, is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the Disease called Ephialtes or Incubus, but we do commonly call it the Night-Mare, a disease which melancholy persons are subject unto: It is also good against Melanchollick Dreams. The Distilled Water, or Syrup made of the Flowers, worketh the same effects that the Root and the Seed do, although more weakly. The Female is often used for the purposes aforesaid, by reason the Male is so scarce a Plant that it is possessed by few, and those great Lovers of Rarities in this kind.   

Pepper-wort, or Dittander.  
Descript.] OUr common Pepper-wort sendeth forth somewhat long, and broad leaves, of a light bluish green colour, finely dented about the edges, and pointed at the ends, standing upon round hard stalks, three or four foot high, spreading many branches on all sides, and having many small whit Flowers at the tops of them, after which follow small seed in small Heads: The Root is slender, running much under ground, and shooting up again in many places: and both leaves and Root, are very hot and sharp of taste like Pepper, for which cause it took the name.  
Place.] It groweth naturally in many places of this Land, as at clear in Essex; near also unto exeter in Devonshire; upon Rochester Common in Kent; in Lancashire, and divers other places: but is usually kept in Gardens.  
Time.] It Flowreth in the end of June, and in July.  
Government and virtues.] Here's another marshal Herb for you, make much of it. Pliny and Paulus Aegineta say, That Pepper-wort is very effectual for the Sciatica, 
Sciatica, Gout, pain in th'joynts Discolorings of the skin, Marks,& scars by burning, speedy delivery.  or any other Gout, or pain in the joints, or any other inveterate grief: The leaves hereof to be bruised and mixed with old Hogs grease and applied to the place, and to continue thereon four hours in Men, and two hours in Women, the place being afterwards bathed with Wine and oil mixed together, and then wrapped with Wool or skins after they have sweat a little. It also amendeth the deformities or discolorings of the Skin, and helpeth to take away Marks, Scars, and Scabs; or the foul marks of burning with fire or iron. The juice hereof is in some places used to be given in Ale to drink to Women with Child, to procure them a speedy Delivery in travail.   

periwinkle.  
Descript.] THe common sort hereof hath many branches trayling, or running upon the ground, shooting out small fibres at the joints as it runneth, taking thereby hold in the ground, and rooteth in divers places: At the joints of these branches stand two small dark, green, shining leaves, somewhat like Bay-leavs, but smaller, and with them come forth also the flowers( one at a joint standing upon a tender Footstalk) being somewhat long and hollow, partend at the brims sometimes into four, sometimes into five leaves; the most ordinary sort are of a pale blue colour, some are pure white, and some of a dark reddish purple colour. The Root is little bigger than a Rush, bushing in the ground, and creeping with his branches far about, whereby it quickly possesseth a great compass, and is therfore most usually planted under Hedges, where it may have room to run.  
Place.] Those with the pale blue, and those with the white Flowers, grow in Woods, and Orchards, by the Hedge-sides, in divers places of this Land. But those with the purple Flowers, in Gardens only.  
Time.] They Flower in March and April.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns this Herb, and saith, That the leaves eaten by Man and Wife together, 
staunch Bleeding, Womens Courses, Flux of the Belly.  causeth Love between them. The periwinkle is a great hinder, staying bleeding both at Mouth and Nose, if some of the leaves be chewed: The French use it to stay Womens Courses. Dioscorides, Galen, and Aegineta commend it against the Lask, and Fluxes of the Belly, to be drunk in Wine.   

St. Peters-wort.  
IF Superstition had not been the Father of Tradition, as well as Ignorance the Mother of Devotion, this Herb( as well as St. Johns-wort) had found some other name to be known by: but we may say of our Fore-fathers, as St. Paul of the Athenians, I perceive that in many things you are too superstitious: Yet seeing it is come to pass, That Custom having gotten possession, pleads Prescription for the name; I shal let it pass, and come to the Description of the Herb, which take as followeth:  
Descript.] It riseth up with square upright stalks for the most part, somewhat greater and higher than St. Johns-wort( and good reason too, St. Peter being the greater Apostle( ask the Pope else) for though God would have the Saints equal, the Pope is of another Opinion) but brown in the same manner, having two leaves at every joint, somewhat like, but larger than St. Johns-wort, and a little rounder pointed with few or no holes to be seen therein, and having sometimes some smaller leaves rising from the bosom of the greater, and sometimes a little hairy also: At the tops of the stalks stand many star-like Flowers, with yellow thirds in the middle very like those of St. Johns-wort, insomuch that this is hardly discerned from it, but only by the loathness and height, the seed being also alike in both. The Root abideth long, sending forth new shoots every year.  
Place.] It groweth in many Groves and small low Woods, in divers places of this Land, as in Kent, huntingdon, Cambridg, and Northampton-shires, as also near water Courses in other places.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] There is not a straw to choose between this and St. Johns-wort, only St. Peter must have it, lest he should lack Pot-herbs. It is of the same property with St. Johns-wort, but somewhat weak, 
choleric Humors, Sciatica, Burnings.  and therfore more seldom used. Two drams of the Seed taken at a time in honeyed water, purgeth choleric Humors( as saith Dioscorides, Pliny, and Galen) and thereby helpeth those that are troubled with the Sciatica: The leaves are used as St. Johns-wort, to help those places of the Body that have been burnt with fire.   

Pimpernel.  
Descript.] COmmon Pimpernel hath divers weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset al along with two small, and almost round leaves at every joint, one against another, very like Chickweed, but hath no Footstalks, for the leaves do as it were compass the Stalk: The Flowers stand singly each by themselves at them and the Stalks, consisting of five round small pointed leaves of a fine pale read colour, tending to an Orange, with so many threads in the middle, in whose places succeed smooth round Heads, wherein is contained small Seed. The Root is small and fibrous, perishing every year.  
Place.] It groweth every where almost, as well in the Meadows and Corn-fields, as by the way sides and in Gardens arising of itself.  
Time.] It flowreth from May unto August, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time, and falleth.  
Government and virtues.] It is a gallant Solar Herb. This is of a cleansing and attractive quality, whereby it draweth forth Thorns or Splinters, 
Thorns or splinters, purgeth the Head, Wounds& Ulcers, cleanseth Face, Plague& Pestilential fevers, venomous Beasts, Mad Dogs biting, Obstructions, Urin, ston and gravel, Wounds and Ulcers, Clouds or mists in the Eyes, toothache, Hemorrhoids.  or other such like things gotten into the Flesh, and put up into the Nostrils purgeth the Head; and Galen saith also they have a drying faculity, whereby they are good to solder the Lips of Wounds, and to cleanse soul Ulcers. The distilled Water or juice is much esteemed by French Dames to cleanse the Skin from any roughness, deformity, or discoloring therof: Being boiled in Wine, and given to drink, it is a good Remedy against the Plague, and other Pestilential fevers, if the Party after taking it warm lye in his bed and sweat for two hours after, and use the same twice at least. It helpeth also al stingings and bitings of venomous Beasts or Mad Dogs, being used inwardly, and applied outwardly: The same also openeth the Obstructions of the Liver, and is very available against the Infirmities of the Reins, it provoketh Urine, and helpeth to expel the ston and Gravel out of the Kidneys and Bladder, and helpeth much in al inward Wounds and Ulcers. The Decoction or distilled Water is no less effectual to be applied to al Wounds that are fresh and green, or old filthy freting and running Ulcers, which it very effectually cureth in short spaces. A little Honey mixed with the juice, and dropped into the Eyes, cleanseth them from cloudy mists, or thick films which grow over them and hinder the sight: It helpeth the toothache being dropped into the Ear on the contrary side of the pain. It is also effectual to eas the pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles.   

Ground Pine, or Chamepitys.  
Descript.] OUr common Ground-Pine groweth low, seldom rising above an handbreadth high, shooting forth divers small Branches, set with slender small long narrow grayish or whitish leaves somewhat hairy; and divided into three parts many times many bushing together at a joint, and sometimes some growing scatteredly upon the stalks, smelling somewhat strong like unto Rozin; the Flowers are somewhat small and of a pale yellow colour growing from the joints of the Stalks all along among the leaves, after which come small, long, and round Husks: The Root is small and woody, perishing every year.  
Place.] It groweth more plentifully in Kent than in any other Country of this Land; as namely, in many places from on this side Dartford, along to Southfleet, Cotham, and Rochester, and upon Chattam Down hard by the Beacon, and half a mile from Rochester in a Field nigh a House called Selsey.  
Time.] It Flowreth and giveth Seed in the Summer Months.  
Government and virtues.] Mars owns the Herb. The Decoction of Ground-Pine drunk, doth wonderfully prevail against the strangury, 
Strangury, Obstructions, Mother, Womens Courses, Dead Child and Afterbirth  or any inward pains arising from the Diseases of the Reins and Urine, and is especial good for al Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and gently openerh the Body, for which purpose they were wont in former times to make pills with the powder thereof, and the purple Figs. It mervelously helpeth al the Diseases of the Mother used inwardly, or applied outwardly, procuring Womens Courses, and expelling the dead Child and After-birth, yea, it is so powerful upon those Feminine parts that it is utterly forbidden to Women with Child, in that it will cause abortment or delivery before the time: It is as effect●all also in all pains and Diseases of the joints, as Gouts, Cramps, palsies, 
Gouts, Cramps, palsies, Sciatica, Aches, &c. dropsy, poison of the Aconites venomous Creatures, could Cough palsy, Hard Breasts,& Hard Swellings, Ulcers& old Sores, Green Wounds.  Sciatica, and Aches; either the Decoction of the Herb in Wine taken inwardly, or applied outwardly, or both for some time together, for which purpose the Pills made with the powder of Ground Pine, and of hermodactyls with Venice Turpentine are very effectual. These pills also are special good for those that have the dropsy, to be continued for some time. The same is a special good help for the Jaundice, and for gripping pains in the joints, Belly, or inward parts; It helpeth also all Diseases of the Brain proceeding of could and Flegmatick Humors and Distillations, as also for the falling-sickness. It is an especial Remedy for the poison of the Aconites of all sorts, and other poisonful Herbs, as also against the stinging of any venomous Creature: It is a good Remedy for a could Cough especially in the beginning. For all the purposes aforesaid, the Herb being tunned up in new drink and drunk, is almost as effectual, but far more acceptable to weak and dainty Stomachs. The Distilled Water of the Herb hath the same effects, but more weakly. The Conserve of the Flowers doth the like, which Mathiolus much commendeth against the palsy. The green Herb or the Decoction thereof being applied, dissolveth the hardness of Womens Breasts, and all other hard Swellings in any other part of the Body. The green Herb also applied, or the juice thereof with some Honey, not only cleanseth putrid, stinking foul and Malignant Ulcers and sores of all sorts, but healeth and sodereth up the lips of green Wounds in any part also.  
Let Wowen forbear it if they be with Child, for it works violently upon the feminine part.   

plantain.  
THis groweth so familiarly in Meadows and Fields, and by Pathways, and is so well known that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It is in its beauty about June, and the Seed ripeneth shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] Its true Myzaldus and others, yea almost all Astrologo-Physitians hold this to be an Herb of Mars, and they give a verisimile of a truth for it too, viz. Because it cures diseases of the Head and privities which are under the Houses of Mars, Aries, and scorpion: All Diseasts of the Head coming of heat are caused by Mars, for Venus is made of no such hot mettle, or at least deals in inferior parts. The truth is it is under the command of Venus, and cures the head by Antipathy to Mars and the Privities by Sympathy to Venus, neither is there hardly a Martiall Disease but it cures, If I were to fortify my Body against a marshal Disease I would do it by this Herb as soon as by any, and may do it( it maybe) when time shall serve.  
The juice of plantain clarified and drunk for divers days together, 
Pains in the Guts, Distillation of Rhewm, Fluxes, and Womens Courses, spitting Blood or Bleeding at Mouth, or Nose or of Wounds, phthisic Consumption or Ulcers in the Lungs, Tertian Ague, dropsy, and Fallingsickness, toothache, pin and Web in the Eyes, pains in the Ears, inflammations, Burning or Scalding, Hollow Ulcers, Cankers and sore Mouth, or privy parts, Piles, pains of the Head, Lunasie& frenzy, Biting of Serpents, or Mad Dogs, Hot Gouts, Bones out of joint, Worms in the Belly, or in Ulcers, Scabs& Itch, Tetters, Ringwormes shingls and freting sores, Wounds.  either of himself or in other drink prevaileth wonderfully against all torments or Excoriations in the Guts or Bowels, helpeth the distillations of Rhewm from the Head, and stayeth all manner of Fluxes, even Womens Courses when they flow too abundantly; It is good to stay spitting of Blood, and other Bleedings at the Mouth, or the making of foul or bloody water by reason of any Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder, and also slayeth the too free bleeding of Wounds. It is held an especial remedy for those that are troubled with the phthisic, or Consumption of the Lungs, or Ulcers in the Lungs, or Coughs that come of heat. The Decoction or powder of the Roots or Seed, is much more binding for all the purposes aforesaid than the leaves. Dioscorides saith, That three Roots boiled in Wine and taken helpeth the Tertian Ague, and four the Quartan Ague: But( letting pass the numbers as Fabulous) I conceive the Decoction of dsverse Roots may be effectual. The Herb( but especially the Seed) is held to be profitable against the dropsy, the falling-sickness, the yellow Jaundice, and stoppings of the Liver and Reins. The Roots of plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow Teeth, taketh away the pains of them: The clarified juice or distilled Water dropped into the Eyes cooleth the inflammations in them, and taketh away the Pin and Web; and dropped into the Ears easeth pains in them, and help●th and restoreth the Hearing: The same also with juice of houseleek is profitable against all inflammations and breakings out in the Skin, and against Burnings or Scaldings by Fire or Water. The juice or Decoction made either of itself, or other things of like nature is of much use and good effect for old and hollow Ulcers that are hard to be cured, and for Cankers and sores in the Mouth or privy parts of Man or Woman; and helpeth also the pains of the Piles in the Fundament. The juice mixed with oil of Roses, and the Temples and Forehead anointed therewith easeth the pains of the Head proceeding from heat, and helpeth lunatic, and frenetic persons very much; as also the biting of Serpents or a Mad Dog: The same also is profitably applied to all hot Gouts in the Feet or Hands, especially in the beginning. It is also good to be applied where any Bone is out of joint to hinder Inflamattons, Swellings and Pains that presently rise thereupon. The powder of the dried leaves taken in drink, killeth worms of the Belly, and boiled in Wine killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers. One part of plantain Water, and two parts of the brine of powdered Beef boiled tegether and clarified, is a most sure Remedy to heal all spreading Scabs and Itch in the Head or Body, all manner of Tetters, Ringwormes, the Shingles, and all other running and freting Sores. Briefly the Plantanes are singular good Wound Herbs to heal fresh or old Wounds or Sores either inward or outward.   

Plums.  
THese are so well known that they need no Description.  
Government and virtues.] All Plums are under Venus, and are like Women, some better, some worse. As there is great diversity of the kinds, so is there in the operation of Plums, for some that are sweet, moisten the Stomach and make the Belly soluble; those that are sour quench thirst more and bind the Belly; 
Open the Belly, Quench Thirst, and bind the Belly, procure Appetite, alloy choler, Cool the Stomach, Rhewm, ston, Tetters, and Ringworms, Piles, Ulcers, Hoarsnesse, and pains in the Ears ston and colic.  the moist and waterish do soonest corrupt in the Stomach, but the firm do nourish more and offend less: The dried fruit sold by the Grocers under the name of Damask Prunes, do somewhat loosen the Belly, and being stewed are often used both in health and sickness, to relish the Mouth and Stomach to procure Appetite, and a little to open the Body, alloy choler, and cool the Stomach: Plum-tree leaves boiled in Wine, is good to wash and gargoyle the Mouth and Throat, to dry the Flux of Rhewm coming to the palate, Gums, or Almonds of the Ears. The Gum of the Trees is good to break the ston. The Gum or leaves boiled in Vinegar and applied, killeth Tetters and Ringworms. Mathiolus saith, The oil pressed out of the Kernels of the Stones, as oil of Almonds is made, is good against the inflamed Piles, the tumours or Swellings of Ulcers, Hoarsnesse of the voice, roughness of the Tongue and Throat, and likewise the pains in the Ears. And that five ounces of the said oil taken with one ounce of Muscadine, driveth forth the ston, and helpeth the colic.   

Pollipody of the Oak.  
Descript.] THis is a small Herb, consisting of nothing but Roots and leaves: bearing neither Stalk, Flower nor Seed as it is thought. It hath three or four leaves rising from the Root, every one singly by itself, of about a hand length, which are winged, consisting of many small narrow leaves, cut into the middle rib standing on each side of the Stalk, large below, and smaller up to the top, not dented or notched on the edges at all, as the Male Fern hath; of a sad green colour, and smooth on the upper side, but on the under side somewhat rough, by reason of some yellowish spots set thereon: The Root is smaller then ones little finger lying aslope, or creeping along under the upper crust of the earth, brownish on the out side, and greenish within, of a sweetish harshness in taste, set with certain rough Knags on each side thereof, having also much Mossiness or yellow hairness upon it, and some Fibres underneath it, whereby it is nourished.  
Place.] It groweth as well upon old rotten stumps, or trunks of Trees, as Oak, Beech, Hazel, Willow, or any other, as in the Woods under them, and upon old Mud walls, as also in mossy, Stony, and Gravelly places, near unto Woods: That which groweth upon Oaks is accounted the best, but the quantity thereof is scarce sufficient for the common use.  
Time.] It being always green, may be gathered for use at any time.  
Government and virtues.] And why I pray must Pollipodium of the Oak only be used, Gentle college of Physitians, can you give me but a glimpse of a reason for it? is it only because it is dearest? will you never leave your covetousness till your lives leave you? The truth is, that which grows upon the Earth is best( 'tis an Herb of Saturn, and he seldom climbs Trees) to purge melancholy; if the humour be otherwise, choose your Pollipodium accordingly. Mesue( who is called the Physitians Evangelist for the certainty of his Medicines, 
Drieth Humors, purgeth burnt choler, phlegm, melancholy Quartan Agues, spleen, colic, troublesome sleeps, cough shortness of breath, wheezings, Lungs, Phtisick, Member out of joint, Pollipus, or Disease in the Nose, chaps in the fingers or toes.  and the truth of his Opinions) saith, That it drieth up thin Humors, digesteth thick and tough, and purgeth burnt choler, and especially tough and thick phlegm, and thin phlegm also, even from the joints; and is therfore good for those that are troubled with melancholy, or Quartan Agues, especially if it be taken in Whey, or Honeyed Water, or in Barley Water, or the Broth of a Chicken with Epithimum, or with Beets and meadows. It is also good for the hardness of the Spleen and for prickings or stitches in the sides, as also for the colic; some use to put to it some Fennel Seeds, or Annis Seeds, or Ginger to correct that loathing it bringeth to the Stomach, which is more than needeth, it being a safe and gentle Medicine, fit for al persons at al seasons, which daily experience confirmeth; and an ounce of it may be given at a time in a Decoction, if there be not Sena, or some other strong purger put with it. A dram or two of the powder of the dried Roots, taken fasting in a cup of Honeyed Water, worketh gently, and for the purposes aforesaid. The distilled Water both of Roots and leaves is much commended for the Quartan Ague, to be taken for many daies together; as also against melancholy, or fearful or troublesome sleeps or dreams; and with some Sugar Candy dissolved therein, is good against the Cough, shortness of breath and wheezings, and those distillations of thin Rhewm upon the Lungs, which cause Phtisicks, and oftentimes Consumptions. The fresh Roots beaten small, or the powder of the dried Roots mixed with Honey and applied to any Member that is out of joint, doth much help it: Applied also to the Nose, cureth the disease called Polipus, which is a piece of Flesh growing therein, which in time stoppeth the passage of breath through that Nostril; and it helpeth those clefts or chaps that come between the fingers or toes.   

The Poplar-Tree.  
Descript.] THere are two sorts of Poplars which are most familiar with us, Viz. The Black, and the White, both which I shall here describe unto you.  
The white Poplar groweth great and reasonable high, covered with a thick smooth white Bark, especially the Branches, having large leaves cut into several divisions almost like a Vine Leaf, but not of so deep a green on the upper side, and hoary white underneath, of a reasonable good scent, the whole form representing the Leaf of Coltsfoot. The Catkins which it bringeth forth before the leaves, are long, and of a faint reddish colour, which fall away, bearing seldom good Seed with them. The Wood hereof is smooth, soft, and white, very finely waved, whereby it is much esteemed.  
The black Poplar groweth higher and straighter then the White, with a grayish Bark bearing broad and green leaves somewhat like Ivy Leaves, not cut in on the edges like the White, but whole and dented, ending in a point, and not white underneath, hanging by slender long Footsttalks, which with the Air are continually shaken like as the Aspin leaves are: The Catkins hereof are greater then of the White, composed of many round green Berries as it were set together in a long Cluster, containing much downie matter, which being ripe is blown away with the wind: The clammy Buds hereof before they spread into leaves, are gathered to make the Unguentum Populeon, and are of a yellowish green colour and small, somewhat sweet, but strong. The Wood is smooth, tough and and white, and easy to be cloven: On both these Trees groweth a sweet kind of Musk, which in former times were used, to be put into sweet ointments.  
Place.] They grow in moist Woods and by water sides in sundry places of the Land, yet the white is not so frequent as the other.  
Time.] Their time is likewise expressed before. The Catkins coming forth before the leaves and ripen in the end of Summer.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn hath Dominion over both. The White Poplar, saith Galen, is of a cleansing property: the weight of one ounce in powder of the Bark thereof being drunk saith Dioscorides is a Remedy for those that are troubled with the Sciatica, 
Sciatica, Strangury, pain in the Ears, dull sight Gout, falling-sickness, Warts, bushes and Wheals, Heat, and inflammations, drieth Womens Milk.  or the Strangury: The juice of the leaves dropped warm into the Ears, easeth the pains in them: The young clammy Buds or Eyes before they break out into leaves, bruised, and a little Honey put to them, is a good Medicine for a dull sight. The black Poplar is held to be more cooling than the White, and therefore the leaves bruised with Vinegar and applied, helpeth the Gout; The Seed drunk in Vinegar is held good against the falling-sickness. The Water that droppeth from the hollow places of this three, taketh away Warts, bushes, Wheals. and other the like breakings out in the Body. The young black Poplar Buds, saith Mathiolus, are much used by Women to beautify their hair, bruising them with fresh Butter, and straining them after they have been kept for some time in the Sun. The ointment called Populeon, which is made of this Poplar, is singular good for al Heat and inflammation in any part of the Body, and tempereth the H●●t of Wounds: It is much used to dry up the Milk in Womens Breasts, when they have Weaned their Children.   

Poppy.  
OF this I shal Describe Three kinds, viz. The White and Black of the Garden; and the erratic, Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose.  
Descript.] The White Poppy hath at first four or five whitish green leaves lying upon the ground, which rise with the stalk, compassing it at the bottom of them, and are very large, much cut or torn in on the edges, and dented also besides: The stalk which is usually four or five foot high, hath sometimes no branches at the top,& usually but two or three at most, bearing every one but one head, wrapped in a thin skin, which boweth down before it be ready to blow, and then rising and being broken, the flower within it spreadeth itself open, and consisteth of four very large White round leaves, with many whitish round thirds in the middle, set about a small, round, green head, having a crown, or star-like cover at the head thereof, which growing ripe, becometh as large as a great apple, wherein are contained a great number of small round seed, in several partitions or divisions next unto the shell, the middle thereof remaining hollow and empty. All the whole Plant, both leaves, Stalks, and Heads, while they are fresh, young, and green, yield a Milk when they are broken, of an unpleasant bitter taste, almost ready to provoke casting, and of a strong heady smell, which being condensate, is called Opium. The Root is white, and woody, perrishing as soon as it hath given ripe seed.  
The Black Poppy little differeth from the former, until it beareth his flower, which is somewhat less, and of a black purplish colour, but without any purple spots in the bottom of the Leaf. The Head of Seed is much less than the former, and openeth itself a little, round about the top, under the crown, so that the seed which is very black, will fall out if one turn the head thereof downward.  
The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose, hath long and narrow leaves, very much cut in on the edges into many divisions, of a light green colour, and sometimes hairy withal: The Stalk is blackish and hairy also, but not so tall as the garden-kinds, having some such like leaves thereon as grow below, partend into three or four Branches sometimes, whereon grow small hairy heads, bowing down before the skin break, wherein the flower is enclosed, which when it is full blown open, is of a fair yellowish read, or crimson colour, and in some, much paler, without any spot in the bottom of the leaves, having many black soft thirds in the middle, compassing a small green head, which when it is ripe, is not biger then ones little finger end, wherein is contained much black seed, smaller by half than that of the Garden. The Root perisheth every year, and springeth again of its own sowing. Of this kind, there is one lesser in all the parts thereof, and differeth in nothing else.  
Place.] The Garden kinds do not naturally grow wild in any Place, but are all sown in Gardens where they grow.  
The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose is plentiful enough, and many times too much in the Corn-fields of al Countries through this Land, and also upon Ditch-banks, and by Hedg-sides: The smaller wild kind is also found in Corn-fields, and also in some other places, but not so plentiful as the former.  
Time.] The Garden kinds are usually sown in the Spring, which then flower about the end of May, and somewhat earlier, if they spring of their own sowing.  
The Wild kinds Flower usually from May until July, and the Seed of them is ripe soon after the flowering.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is Lunar, and of the juice of it is made Opium; only for lucre of Money they cheat you, and tel you 'tis a kind of tear, or some such like thing that drops from Poppies when they weep, 
Procure sleep, Catarrhs, and defluxions of Rhewm, stayeth, hoarseness, Flux of the belly& Womens Courses, inflammations,& St. Anth. fire, pains in the Head, frenzies, toothache.  and that is some where beyond the Seas, I know not where, beyond the Moon. The Garden Poppy heads, with seeds made into a Syrup, is frequently, and to good effect, used to procure rest and sleep in the sick and weak, and to stay Catarrhs and Defluxions of hot thin rheums from the Head into the Stomach, and upon the Lungs, causing a continual Cough, the Fore-runner of a Consumption: It helpeth also hoarseness of the Throat, and when one hath lost their voice, which the oil of the Seed doth likewise. The black seed boiled in Wine and drunk, is said also to stay the Flux of the Belly and Womens Courses. The empty shells of the Poppy-heads are usually boiled in Water and given to procure rest and sleep; so do the leaves in the same manner: as also if the Head and Temples be bathed with the Decoction warm, or with the oil of Poppies, the green leaves or Heads bruised and applied with a little Vinegar, or made into a Pultis with Barly-meal, or Hogs-grease, it cooleth and tempereth al inflammations, as also the Disease called St. Anthonies Fire. It is generally used in Treacle and mithridate, and in al other Medieines that are made to procure rest and sleep, and to ease pains in the Head as well as in other parts: It is also used to cool inflammations, Agues, or frenzies, and to stay defluxions which cause a Cough or Consumption, and also other Fluxes of the Belly, or Womens Courses: It is also put into hollow Teeth to ease the pain, and hath been found by experience to ease the pain of the Gout.  
The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose( as Mathiolus saith) is good to prevent the Falling-sickness. The Syrup made with the Flowers is with good effect given to those that have the pleurisy: 
Falling-sickness, pleurisy, surfeits, Agues, and inflammations.  and the dried Flowers also, either boiled in Water, or made into powder and drunk, either in the Distilled water of them, or in some other Drink, worketh the like effect. The Distilled Water of the flowers, is held to be of much good use against surfeits, being drunk evening and morning: It is also more cooling than any of the other Poppies, and therfore cannot but be as effectual in hot Agues, frenzies, and other inflammations either inward or outward, the Syrup or Water to be used therein, or the green leaves used outwardly, either in an ointment, as it is in Populeon, a cooling ointment, or any other ways applied. Galen saith, The Seed is dangerous to be used inwardly.   

Purslane.  
GArden Purslane( being used as a salad Herb) is so well known that it needeth no Description; I shal therfore only speak of its virtues as followeth.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis an Herb of the Moon. It is good to cool any heat in the Liver, Blood, Reins, and Stomach, and in hot Agues, nothing better; It stayeth hot and choleric Fluxes of the Belly, 
Cooleth heat of Blood in hot Agues, choleric Fluxes, Womens Courses, the Whites& Genorrhea, distilations, frenzy, Heat of Urine, Lust, and venerous Dreams, Worms, Vomiting, old, dry, Cough, Short Breath,& phtisick, Ulcers in the secret parts. Redness of the Eyes,& inflammations, Crick, or pain in the Neck, blastings by Lightning, burning by gun-powder; Sore Breasts, Childrens Navils, Sore mouths,& swollen Gums, Fasteneth teeth, toothache, bloody Urine Gout, Cramp,& stiffness of the sinews.  Womens Courses, the Whites, and gonorrhoea, or running of the Reins, the Distillations from the Head, and pains therein proceeding of Heat, want of sleep, or the frenzy. The Seed is more effectual than the Herb, and is of singular good use to cool the heat and sharpness of the Urine, and the outrageous Lust of the Body, venereous Dreams, and the like, insomuch that the over-frequent use hereof, extinguisheth the Heat and virtue of Natural Procreation. The Seed bruised and boiled in Wine, and given to Children, expelleth the Worms. The juice of the herb is held as effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, as also to stay Vomitings; and taken with some Sugar or Honey, helpeth an old and dry Cough, shortness of Breath, and the Phtisick, and stayeth immoderate Thirst. The Distilled Water of the Herb is used by many( as the more pleasing) with a little Sugar, to work the same effects. The juice also is singular good in the inflammations and Ulcers of the secret Parts in Man or Woman, as also of the Bowels and Hemorrhoids, when they are Ulcerous, or Excoriations in them: The Herb bruised and applied to the Fore-head and Temples, allayeth excessive heat therein, hindering rest and sleep: and applied to the Eyes, taketh away the Redness and inflammation in them, and those other Parts where bushes, Wheals, Pimples, St. Anthonies Fire, and the like, break forth, especially if a little Vinegar be put to it: And being laid to the Neck with as much of Galls and Linseed together, taketh away the pains therein and the Crick in the Neck. The juice is used with oil of Roses for the said Causes, or for Blastings by Lightning, and Burnings by Gun-powder, or for Womens sore Breasts, and to alloy the heat in al other Sores or Hurts: Applied also to the Navels of Children that stick forth, it helpeth them: It is also good for sore mouths, and Gums that are swollen, to fasten loose teeth. Camerarius saith, That the Distilled Water used by some, took away the pain of their Teeth when al other Remedies failed, and that the thickened juice made in Pills with the powder of Gum-Tragacanth, and arabic, being taken prevaileth much to help those that make a bloody water. Applied to the Gout it easeth pains thereof, and helpeth the hardness of Sinews, if it come not of the Cramp, or a could Cause.   

Primroses.  
THese are so well known, that they need no Deseription. Of the leaves of Primroses is made as fine a salue to heal green Wounds as any is that I know: You shal be taught to make Salves of any Herb at the latter end of the Book, make this as you are taught there, and do not( you that have any ingenuity in you) see your poor Neighbors go with wounded Limbs, when a half-penny cost will heal them.   

Privet.  
Descript.] OUr Common Privet is carried up with many slender Branches, to a reasonable height and breadth, to cover arbours, bowers, and banqueting Houses, and brought, wrought, and cut into many Forms, of Men, Horses, Birds, &c. which though at first supported, groweth afterwards strong of itself: It beareth long and narrow green leaves by couples, and sweet smelling white flowers in tufts at the ends of the branches, which turn into small black Berries that have a purplish juice within them, and some seeds that are flat on the one side, with a hole or dent therein.  
Place.] It groweth in this Land, in divers Woods.  
Time.] Our Privet Flowreth in June and July; the Berries are ripe in August and September.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon is Lady of this. It is little used in physic with us in these times, more than in Lotions to wash Sores, 
Lotions to wash sore Mouths, Throats, Cool inflammations, Dry Fluxes, inflammation in Wounds, headache, Fluxes,& Womens courses Voiding blood, Rhewm in the Eyes.  and sore Mouths, and to cool inflammations and dry up Fluxes. Yet Mathiolus saith, It serveth to al the uses for the which Ciprus or the East Privet is appointed by Dioscorides and Galen. He further saith, That the oil that is made of the Flowers of Privet infused therein, and set in the Sun, is singular good for the inflammations of Wounds, and for the headache coming of an hot cause. There is a sweet Water also distilled from the Flowers that is good for al those Diseases that need cooling and drying, and therfore helpeth al Fluxes of the Belly or Stomach. bloody Fluxes, and Womens Courses, being either drunk or applied, as also for those that voided blood at their Mouth, or at any other place; and for Distillations of rheums in the Eyes, especially if it be used with Tutiae.   

Queen of the Meadows, Meadow-sweet, Or, Mead-sweet.  
Descript.] THe Stalks of this are reddish, rising to be three foot high, sometimes four or five foot, having at the joints therof large winged leaves, standing one above another at distances, consisting of many and somewhat broad leaves, set on each side of a middle rib, being hard, rough, or rugged, crumpled much like to Elm-Leavs, having also some smaller leaves with them( as Agrimony hath) somewhat deeply dented about the edges, of a sad green colour on the upper side, and grayish underneath, of a pretty sharp scent and taste, somewhat like unto Burnet, and a Leaf hereof put into a cup of Clarret-wine, giveth also a fine relish to it: At the tops of the stalks and branches stand many tufts of small white Flowers, thrust thick together, which smell much sweeter than the leaves: and in their places, being fallen, come crooked and cornered Seed: The Root is somewhat woody, and black●sh on the out-side, and brownish within, with divers greater strings, and lesser fibres set thereat, of a strong scent, but nothing so pleasant as the Flowers and leaves, and perisheth not, but abideth many years, shooting forth anew every spring.  
Place.] It groweth in moist Meadows, that lye much wet, or near the Courses of Water.  
Time.] It Flowreth in some place or other al the three Summer Months, that is, June, July, and August, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] Venus claims dominion over the Herb. It is used to stay al manner of Bleedings, Fluxes, Vomitings, and Womens Courses, 
Bleedings, Fluxes, Vomitings, womens courses& the Whites, Quartan Ague, colic, opens the Belly, Old-Ulcers, healeth sore Mouths, or Secrets, raise Blisters, inflammation in the Eyes.  as also their Whites: It is said to alter and take away the Fits of Quartan Agues, and to make a merry Heart, for which purpose some use the Flowers, and some the leaves. It helpeth speedily those that are troubled with the colic, being boiled in Wine; and with a little Honey taken warm, it openeth the Belly: but boiled in read Wine and drunk, it stayeth the Flux of the Belly. Being outwardly applied, it healeth old Ulcers that are Cankrous or eaten, or hollow and Fistulous, for which it is by many much commended, as also for the Sores in the mouth, or secret Parts. The leaves, when they are full grown, belaid upon the skin, will in a short time raise Blisters thereon, as Tragus saith. The Water therof helpeth the Heat and inflammation in the Eyes.   

The Quince-Tree.  
Descript.] THe ordinary Quince-tree groweth often to the height and bigness of a reasonable Apple-tree, but more usually lower and crooked with a rough Bark, spreading Arms and Branches far abroad▪ The leaves are somewhat like those of the Apple-tree, but thicker, harder, and fuller of Veins, and white on the under side, not dented at all about the edges. The Flowers are large and white, sometimes dashed over with a blushy: The Fruit that followeth is yellow, being near ripe, and covered with a white freeze or Cotton, thick set on the younger, and growing less as they grow to be through ripe, bunched out often times in some places, some being liker an Apple, and some a Pear, of a strong heady scent, and not durable to keep, and is sour, harsh, and of an unpleasant taste to eat fresh; but being scalded, roasted, baked, or preserved, becometh more pleasant.  
Place and Time.] It best likes to grow near pounds and Water sides, and is frequent through this Land; and flowereth not until the leaves be come forth: The Fruit is ripe in September or October.  
Government and virtues.] Old Saturn owns the three. Quinces when they are green, helps al sorts of Fluxes in Man or Woman, and choleric lask, 
Fluxes, Lasks, &c. Provoketh Appetite, stayeth vomiting, Fainting Spirits, choler, phlegm, poison, Womens Breasts, plague Sores, preserveth Hair.  Castings, and whatsoever needeth Astriction more than any way prepared by fire: yet the Syrup of the juice, or the Conserve, are much conducible, much of the binding quality being consumed by the fire: If a little Vinegar be added, it stirreth up the languishing Appetite, and the Stomach given to casting: Some Spices being added, it comforteth and strengtheneth the decayed and fainting Spirits, and helpeth the Liver oppressed, that it cannot perfect the digestion; and correcteth choler and phlegm: If you would have them Purging, put Honey to them instead of Sugar; and if more Laxative, for choler, Rhubarb; for phlegm, Turbith; for watery. Humors, Scammony: but if more forcibly to bind, use the unripe Quinces with Roses, and Acacia, or Hypocistis, and some torrefied Rhubarb. To take the crude juice of Quinces, is held a preservative against the force of deadly poison; for it hath been found most certain true, That the very smell of a Quince hath taken away al the strength of the poison of white Hellebore. If there be need of any outward binding and cooling of any hot Fluxes: The oil of Quinces, or other Medicines that may be made thereof, are very available to anoint the Belly, or other parts therewith: It likewise strengtheneth the Stomach and Belly, and the Sinews that are loosened by sharp Humors falling on them, and restraineth immoderate sweatings. The Muccilage taken from the Seeds of Quinces boiled a little in Water, is very good to cool the Heat, and heal the Sore Breasts of Women. The same with a little Sugar is good to lenefie the harshness and hoarseness of the Throat, and roughness of the Tongue. The Cotton or Down of Quinces boiled and applied to Plague Sores, healeth them up; and laid as a plaster made up with Wax, it bringeth Hair to them that are bald, and keepeth it from falling if it be ready to  shed.   

Rhadish and Hors-Rhadish.  
THe Garden Radish is so well known that it needeth no Descripton.  
Descript.] The horse Radish hath his first leaves that rise before Winter, about a foot and a half long, very much cut in or torn on the edges into many parts of a dark green colour, with a great Rib in the middle: After these have been up a while, others follow which are greater, rougher, broader, and longer whole, and not divided as the first, but only somewhat roundly dented about the edges: The stalk when it beareth flowers( which is but seldom) is great, rising up with some few lesser leaves thereon to three or four foot high, spreading at the top many small branches of whitish Flowers, made of four leaves apiece; after which come small pods like those of Shepherds-purse, but seldom with any Seed in them. The Root is great, long, white, and rugged, shooting up divers Heads of leaves, which may be partend for increase, but it doth not creep within ground, nor run above ground, and is of a strong, sharp and bitter taste, almost like Mustard.  
Place.] It is found wild in some places of this Land, but is chiefly planted in Gardens where it joyeth in a moist and shadowy place.  
Time.] It Flowreth but seldom, but when it doth, it is in July.  
Government and virtues.] They are both under Mars. The juice of Hors-Rhadish given to drink, is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy. 
Scurvy, Worms, Sciatica, Liver and Spleen.  It killeth the Worms in Children being drunk, and also laid upon the Belly. The Root bruised and laid to the place grieved with the Sciatica, joint ache, or the hard Swellings of the Liver and Spleen, doth wonderfully help them al. The distilled water of the Herb and Roots, is more familiar to be taken with a little Sugar for al the purposes aforesaid.  
Garden Rhadishes are in wantonness by the Gentry eaten as Sallat, but they breed but scurvy humors in the Stomach, and corrupt the Blood, and then sand for a physician as fast as you can, this is one cause, makes the owners of such nice senates so unhealthful, yet for such as are troubled with the Gravel, 
ston, Disury.  ston, or stoppage of Urin, they are good physic if the Body be strong that takes them: You may make the juice of the Roots into a Syrup if you please for that use: They purge by Urine exceedingly.   

Ragwort.  
IT is called also St. James-wort, Stagger-wort, and Stammer-wort, and Seggrum.  
Descript.] The greater common Ragwort hath many large, and long dark green leaves lying on the ground, very much rent and torn on the sides into many pieces; from among which rise up sometimes but one, and sometimes two or three square or crested blackish or brownish Stalks three or four foot high, sometimes branched, bearing divers such like leaves upon them at several distances unto the tops, where it brancheth forth into many Stalks bearing yellow Flowers, consisting of divers leaves set as a Pale or Border, with a dark yellow thrum in the middle, which do abide a great while, but at last are turned into Down, and with the small blackish gray Seed are carried away with the wind. The Root is made of many Fibres, whereby it is firmly fastened into the ground, and abideth many yeers.  
There is another sort hereof different from the former only in this, That it riseth not so high; the leaves are not so finely jagged, nor of so dark a green colour, but rather somewhat whitish, soft, and woolly, and the Flowers usually paler.  
Place.] They grow both of them wild in Pastures, and untilled grounds in many places, and often times both of them in one Field.  
Time.] They Flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] Ragwort is under the command of Dame Venus, and cleanseth, digesteth, and discusseth. The Decoction of the Herb to wash the Mouth or Throat that have Ulcers or Sores therein; 
Sore Mouth or Throat, Swellings and Impostumes, quinsy and Kings Evil, Catarrhs, and defluxions, Green wounds and Ulcers in the privy parts, Running Cankers, and hollow Fistulaes, Aches& pains Sciatica.  and for swellings, hardness, or Impostumations, for it thoroughly cleanseth and healeth them; as also the quinsy, and the Kings Evil: It helpeth to stay Catarrhs, thin rheums and Defluxions from the Head into the Eyes, Nose, or Lungs. The juice is found by experience to be singular good to heal green Wounds, and to cleanse and heal al old and filthy Ulcers in the Privities, and in other parts of the Body; as also inward Wounds and Ulcers, and stayeth the malignity of freting or running Cankers, and hollow Fistulaes, not suffering them to spread further. It is also much commended to help Aches and pains, either in the Fleshy parts, or in the N●rvs and Sinews; as also the Sciatica, or pain of the Hips or Huckle-bone, to bath the places with the Decoction of the Herb, or to anoint them with an ointment made of the Herb bruised and boiled in old Hogs Suet, with some mastic and Oribanum in powder added unto it after it is strained forth.  
In Sussex we call it Ragweed.   

Rattle-grass.  
OF this there are two kinds which I shal speak of, viz. The read, and Yellow.  
Descript.] The common read Rattle, hath sundry reddish hollow stalks, and sometimes green, rising from the Root, lying for the most part on the ground, yet some growing more upright, with many small reddish or greenish leaves set on both sides of a middle Rib finely dented about the edges: The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks and Branches, of a fine purplish read colour, like small gaping hoods; after which come flat blackish Seed in small Husks, which lying loose therein, will rattle with shaking. The Root consists of two or three small whitish strings, with some fibres thereat.  
The common Yellow Rattle hath seldom above one round green Stalk, rising from the Root, about half a yard or two foot high, and but few Branches thereon, having two long, and somewhat broad leaves set at a joint, deeply cut in on the edges, resembling the Comb of a Cock, broadest next to the Stalk, and smaller to the end: The Floweas grow at the tops of the Stalks with some shorter leaves with them, hooded after the same manner that the others are, but of a fair yellow colour in most, or in some paler, and in some more white. The Seed is contained in large Husks, and being ripe will rattle, or make a noise with lying loose in them. The Root is small and slender, perishing every year.  
Place.] They grow in our Meadows and Woods, generally through this Land.  
Time.] They are in Flower from Mid-Summer until August be past sometimes.  
Government and virtues.] They are both of them under the Dominion of the Moon. The read Rattle is accounted profitable to heal up Fistulaes, 
Fistulaes, and hollow Ulcers, Womens Courses, Fluxes.  and hollow Ulcers and to stay the Flux of Humors to them, as also the abundance of Womens Courses, or any other Flux of Blood, being boiled in read Wine and drunk.  
The Yellow Rattle, or Cocks Comb, is held to be good for those that are troubled with a Cough, 
Cough, Dim sight.  or dimness of sight, if the Herb being boiled with Beans, and some Hony put thereto, be drunk, or dropped into the Eyes. The whole Seed being put into the Eyes draweth forth any Skin, Dimness or Film from the sight without trouble or pain.   

Rest-Harrow, or Cammoak.  
Descript.] COmmon Rest-harrow riseth up with divers rough woody twigs, half a yard, or a yard high, set at the joints without order, with little roundish leaves sometimes more than two or three at a place, of a dark green colour, without thorns while they are young, but afterwards armed in sundry places with short and sharp Thorns. The Flowers come forth at the tops of the twigs and branches whereof it is full, fashioned like Pease, or Bloom Blossoms, but lesser, flatter, and somewhat closer, of a faint purplish colour; after which come small Pods, containing small, flat, and round Seed: The Root is blackish on the outside, and whitish within, very tough and hard to break, when it is fresh and green, and as hard as an Horn when it is dried, thrusting down deep into the ground, and spreading likewise, every piece being apt to grow again if it be left in the ground.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of this Land, as well in the Arable as wast ground.  
Time.] It flowereth about the beginning or middle of July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars. It is singular good to provoke Urin when it is stopped, and to break and drive forth the ston, 
Urine stopped, ston, Fleshy, rapture, toothache, Liver and Spleen, obstructed, Ulcers.  which the powder of the Bark of the Root taken in Wine performeth effectually. Mathiolus saith, The same helpeth the Disease called Hiernia Carnosa, the Fleshy rapture, by taking the said powder for some months together constantly, and that it hath cured some which seemed incurable by any other means than by cutting or burning. The Decoction thereof made with some Vinegar and gargled in the Mouth, easeth the toothache, especially when it comes of Rhewm; and the said Decoction is very powerful to open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and other parts. A distilled Water made in Balneo Mariae with four pound of the Roots hereof first sliced small, and afterwards steeped in a gallon of Canary Wine, is singular good for al the purposes aforesaid, and to cleanse the passages of the Urine. The powder of the said Root made into an Electuary or Lozenges with Sugar: as also the Bark of the fresh Roots boiled tender, and afterwards beaten into a Conserve with Sugar, worketh the like effect. The powder of the Roots strewed upon the brims of Ulcers, or mixed with any other convenient thing and applied, consumeth the hardness, and causeth them to heal the better.   

Rocket.  
IN regard the Garden Rocket is rather used as a salad Herb than to any Physical purposes, I shal omit it, and only speak of the common wild Rocket: The Description whereof, take as followeth;  
Descript.] The common wild Rocket, hath longer and narrower leaves, much more divided into slender cuts and jags on both sides of the middle Rib than the Garden kinds have, of a sad overworn green colour, from among which riseth up divers stiff stalks two or three foot high, sometimes set with the like leaves, but smaller, and smaller upwards, branched from the middle into divers stiff stalks, bearing sundry yellow Flowers on them made of four leaves apiece, as the others are, which afterwards yield small reddish Seed, in small long Pods, of a more bitter and hot biting taste than the Garden kinds, as the leaves are also.  
Place.] It is found wild in divers places of this Land.  
Time.] It flowereth about June and July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] The Wild Rockets are forbidden to be used alone in regard their sharpness fumeth into the Head, causing ache and pain therein: and are no less hurtful to hot and choleric persons, for fear of inflaming their Blood,& therfore for such we may say, a little doth but a little harm, for angry Mars rules them, and he sometimes will be testy when he meets with Fools. The Wild Rocket is more strong and effectual to increase Sperm and venereous qualities, 
increase Sperm& venery, helps digestion, provokes Urin, Biting of Serpents, &c. Cough in Children, increaseth Milk, cleanseth the Face, scars, Blue spots, Marks of small pox.  whereunto also the Seed is more effectual than the Garden kinds: It serveth also to help Digestion, and provoketh Urin exceedingly. The Seed is used to cure the bitings of Serpents, the Scorpion, and the Shrew-Mouse, and other poisons, and expelleth Worms, and other noisome Creatures that breed in the Body. The Herb boiled or stewed, and some Sugar put thereto, helpeth the Cough in Children being taken often. The Seed also taken in drink taketh away the il scent of the Arm-pits, increaseth Milk in Nurses, and wasteth the Spleen. The Seed mixed with Honey, and used on the Face, cleanseth the Skin from Spots, Morphew, and other discolorings therein; and used with Vinegar taketh away Freckles and redness in the Face or other parts' and with the Gal of an Ox, it amendeth foul Scars, black and blue Spots, and the marks of the small Pox.   

Winter Rocket, or Cresses.  
Descript.] WInter Rocket, or Winter Cresses, hath divers somewhat large, sad, green leaves, lying upon the ground, torn or cut into divers parts, somewhat like unto Rocket, or Turnip leaves, with smaller pieces next the bottom, and broad at the ends, which so abide al winter( if it spring up in Autumn, when it is used to be eaten) from among which riseth up divers small round Stalks full of branches, bearing many small yellow Flowers of four leaves apiece, after which come small long Pods with reddish seed in them: The Root is somewhat stringy, and perisheth every year after the seed is ripe.  
Place.] It groweth of its own accord in Gardens, and Fields, by the way sides in divers places, and particularly in the next Pasture to the Conduit-Head behind grays-inn that brings Water to Mr. Lamb's Conduit in Holbourn.  
Time.] It Flowreth in May, and Seedeth in June, and then perisheth.  
Government and virtues.] This is profitable to provoke Urine, and helpeth the Strangury, and to expel Gravel and the ston; It is also of good effect in the Scurvy: It is found by experience to be a singular good Wound Herb, 
Strangury, Gravel,& ston, scurvy, wounds ulcers,& sores.  to cleanse inward Wounds: the juice or Decoction being drunk, or outwardly applied to wash foul Ulcers and Sores, cleansing them by sharpness, and hindering or abating the dead Flesh from growing therein, and healing them by the drying quality.   

Roses.  
I Hold it altogether needless to trouble the Reader with a Description of any of these, sith both the Garden Roses, and the Wild Roses of the briars are well enough known; take therefore the virtues of them as followeth; And first I shall begin with the Garden kinds.  
Government and virtues.] What a quarter have Authors made with Roses, what a Racket have they kept? I shall ad, read Roses are under Jupiter, Damask under Venus, and White under the Moon, and Province under the King of France. The White and the read Roses are cooling and drying, and yet the White is taken to exceed the read in both those properties, but is seldom used inwardly in any Medicine. The bitterness in the Roses when they are fresh, 
choler, and Waterish Humors; headache, Pains in the Ears, Eyes, Throat and Gums, Fundament, Bowels, and Matrix. St. Anthonies fire, Stomach, Womens Courses, Defluxions fasteneth Teeth, Lask and spitting of blood, Heat& inflammations, Rest& sleep, whiets& Reds in Women, choler& phlegm, Redness and watering of the Eyes.  especially the juice purgeth choler, and watery Humors, but being dried and that heat which caused the bitterness being consumed, they have then a binding and astringent quality; Those also that are not full blown do both cool and bind more then these that are full blown, and the White Roses more than the read. The Decoction of read Roses made with Wine and used, is very good for the headache, and pains in the Eyes, Ears, Throat and Gums, as also for the Fundament, the lower bowels, and the Matrix, being bathed, or put into them. The same Decoction with the Roses remaining in it, is profitably applied to the Region of the Heart to eas the inflammation therein: as also St. Anthonies fire, and other Diseases of the Stomach. Being dried and beaten to powder, and taken into steeled Wine or Water, it helpeth to stay Womens Courses. The yellow threads in the middle of the read Roses( which are erroneously called the Rose Seed) being powdered and drunk in the distilled water of Quinces, stayeth the overflowing of Womens Courses, and doth wonderfully stay the Defluxions of Rhewm upon the Gums and Teeth, preserving them from corruption, and fastening them if they be loose, being washed and gargled therwith, and some Vinegar of Squils added thereto. The Heads with Seed being used in powder or in a Decoction, stayeth the Lask and spitting of blood. read Roses do strengthen the Heart, the Stomach and the Liver, and the retentive facultis, they mitigate the pains that arise from Heat, assuage inflammations, procure rest and sleep, stay both Whites and Reds in Women, the Gonnorrhea or running of the Reins, and the Fluxes of the Belly; the juice of them doth purge and cleanse the Body from choler and phlegm: The Husks of the Roses with the Beards and Nails of the Roses are binding and cooling and the Distilled Water of either of them is good for the Heat and redness in the Eyes, and to stay and dry up the rheums and watering of them. Of the read Roses are usully made many Compositions all serving to sundry good uses; Viz. Electuary of Roses; Conserve both moist and dry, which is more usually called Sugar of Roses; Syrup of dried Roses, and Honey of Roses; The cordial powder called Diarhodon Abhatis, and Aromatica Rosarum; The Distilled Water of Roses, Vinegar of Roses, ointment and oil of Roses, and the Rose leaves dried, which although no Composition, yet of very great use and effect. To writ at large of every one of these would make my Book swell too big, it being sufficient for a volume by itself to speak fully of them: But briefly; The Electuary is purging, whereof two or three Drams taken by itself in some convenient liquour is a purge sufficient for a weak Constitution; but may be increased to six drams according to the strength of the Patient. 
A Purge for choler, Hot fevers, Pains of the Head, Heat of the Eyes, Jaundice& joint Aches, Distillations& Defluxions of Rhewm, Fluxes and Lasks, running of the Reins, Faintings, doings and trembling of the Heart, Helpeth Digestion, Stayeth Casting, Infection, Cooleth the Liver and blood, resisteth Putrefaction, and Infection, Sore Mouths, Throats, &c. Comfort the Heart& Stomach, stay Vomiting, Faint Spirits, Redness of Eyes.  It purgeth choler without trouble, and is good in hot fevers, and pains of the Head arising from hot choleric Humors, and heat in the Eyes, the Jaundice also, and joint Aches proceeding of hot Humors. The moist Conserve is of much use, both binding and cordial, for until it be about two years old it is more binding then cordial, and after that, more Cordial than Binding: Some of the younger Conserve taken with Methridatum mixed together, is good for those that are troubled with Distillations of Rhewm from the Brain to the Nose, and Defluxsons of Rhewm into the Eyes, as also for Fluxes and Lasks of the Belly; and being mixed with the powder of mastic, is very good for the running of the Reins, and for other looseness of Humors in the Body. The old Conserve mixed with Aromaticum Rosarum is a very good cordial against Faintings, doings, weakness, and Tremblings of the Heart, strengthening both it and a weak Stomach, helpeth digestion, stayeth casting and is a very good Preservative in the time of Infection. The dry Conserve which is called Sugar of Roses, is a very good Cordial to strengthen the Heart and Spirits; as also to stay Defluxions. The Syrup of dried read Roses strengtheneth a stomach given to casting, cooleth an overheated Liver, and the Blood in Agues, comforteh the Heart and resisteth putrefaction and infection, and helpeth to stay Lasks and Fluxes. Honey of Roses is much used in Gargles and Lotions to wash Sores either in the Mouth, Throat, or other parts, both to cleanse and heal them, and to stay the Fluxes of Humors falling upon them; it is also used in Clysters both to cool and cleanse. The cordial powders called Diorhodon Abbatis and Aromaticus Rosarum do comfort and strengthen the Heart and Stomach, procure an Appetite, help Digestion, stayeth Vomiting; and is very good for those that have slippery Bowels to strengthen them, and to dry up their moisture. read Rose Water is of well known and familiar use in al occasions( and better then Damask Rose Water) being cooling and Cordial, freshing quickening the weak& faint spirits, used either in meats, or broths, to wash the Temples, to smell to at the Nose, or to smell the sweet vapours therof out of a perfuming Pot, or cast on a hot Fire-shovel: It is also of much good use against the redness and inflammations in the Eyes to bath them therewith; an the Temples of the Head also against pain& ache, for which purpose also Vinegar of Roses is of much good use, and to procure rest and sleep, 
Procure sleep.  if some thereof and rose-water together be used to smell unto, or the Nose and Temples moistened therewith, but more usually to moisten a piece of read Rose Cake cut fit for the purpose, and heated between a double folded Cloth, with a little beaten Nutmeg, and Poppy Seed strewed on the side that must ly next to the forehead and Temples, and bound so thereto for all night. The ointment of Roses is much used against heat and inflammations in the Head, 
Heat of the Liver, Back& Reins, bushes, Wheals& Pimples, Fluxes of Humors.  to anoint the Forehead and Temples, and being mixed with Unguentum Populeon, to procure rest; as also it is used for the heat of the Liver, of the Back and Reins, and to cool and heal bushes, Wheals and other read Pimples rising in the Face or other parts. oil of Roses is not onely used by it salf to cool any hot Swellings or inflammations, and to bind and stay Fluxes of Humors unto Sores, but is also put into ointment and plasters that are cooling and binding, and restraining the Flux of Humors. The dried leaves of the read Roses are used both inward and outwardly, both cooling, binding and cordial, for with them are made both Aromaticum Rosarum, Diarhodon Abbatis, 
Weakstomack.  and Saccharum Rosarum, each of whose Properties are before declared. Rose leaves and Mints heated and applied outwardly to the Stomach, stayeth castings, and very much strengtheneth a weak Stomach; and applied as a Fomentation to the Region of the Liver and Heart, doth much cool and temper them, and also serveth instead of a Rose Cake( as is said before) to quiet the over hot Spirits and cause rest and sleep. The Syrup of Damask Roses is both simplo and Compound, 
Purgeth choler.  and made with Agrick. The simplo Solutive Syrup, is a familiar safe, gentle and easy Medicine, purging choler, taken from one ounce to three or four; 
Bind che Belly.  yet this is remarkable herein that the Distilled Water of this Syrup should notably bind the Belly; The Syrup with Agrick is more strong and effectual, 
melancholic humors, leprosy Itch, Tetters, French Pox.  for one ounce thereof by itself will open the Body more than the other, and worketh as much on phlegm as choler. The Compound Syrup is more forcible in working on melancholic Humors,& available against the leprosy, Itch, Tetters, &c. and the French Disease: Also Honey of Roses Solutive is made of the same infusion that the Syrup is made of, and therfore worketh the same effect both opening and purging, but is oftener given to Flegmatick than choleric persons and is more used in Clysters than in Potions as the Syrup made with Sugar is. 
Open the Belly.  The Conserve and Preserved leaves of these Roses are also operative, in gently opening the Belly.  
The simplo Water of the Damask Roses is chiefly used for Fumes to sweeten things, as the dried leaves therof to make sweet powders, and fill sweet Bags, and little use they are put to in physic, although they have some purging quality; The wild Roses also are few or none of them used in physic, but yet are generally held to come near the Nature of the manured Roses. The Fruit of the wild briar, which are called Heps, being thoroughly ripe, 
Bind the Belly, and stay Defluxions, Whites in Women, ston, provoke Urine, colic, Worms.  and made into a Conserve with Sugar, besides the pleasantness of the taste, doth gently bind the Belly, and stay Defluxions from the Head upon the Stomach, drying up the moisture thereof, and helpeth digestion. The Pulp of the Heps dried into a hard Consistance, like to the juice of Liquoris, or so dried that it may be made into powder and taken in drink stayeth speedily the Whites in Women. The briar Ball is often used being made into powder and drunk to break the ston, to provoke Urine when it is stopped, and to ease and help the colic, some appoint it to be burnt, and then taken for the same purpose. In the middle of these Balls are often found certain white Worms, which being dried and made into powder, and some of it drunk, is found by experience of many, to kill and drive forth the Worms of the Belly.   

Rosa Solis, or Sun-dew.  
Descript.] THis hath divers small round hollow leaves, somewhat greenish, but full of certain read hairs, which makes them seem read, every one standing upon his own footstalk, reddish hairy likewise. The leaves are continually moist in the hottest day; yea, the hotter the Sun shines on them, the moister they are, with a certain sliminess that will rope( as we say) the small hairs always holding this moisture: Among these leaves rise up small slender stalks, reddish also, three or four fingers high, bearing divers small white knobs one above another, which are the Flowers; after which, in the Heads are certain small Seeds: The Root is a few small hairs.  
Place.] It groweth usually on Bogs, and in wet places, and sometimes in moist Woods.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June, and then the leaves are fittest to be gathered.  
Government and virtues.] The Sun rules it, and 'tis under the Sign Cancer. Rosa Solis is accounted good to help those that have salt Rhewm distilling on their Lungs which breedeth a Consumption, and therfore the distilled Water thereof in Wine, is held fit and profitable for such to drink, 
Distillations of Rhewm, phtisick, wheezings, sho● ness of Breath, Cough, Ulcers in the Lungs, Comfort the heart, raise blisters, passions of the Heart.  which water will be of a gold yellow colour: The same water is held to be good for al other Diseases of the Lungs, as Phtisicks, Wheesing, shortness of Breath, or the Cough; as also to heal the Ulcers that happen in the Lungs, and it comforteth the Heart and fainting Spirits; The leaves outwardly applied to the Skin will raise Blisters, which hath caused some to think it dangerous to be taken inward: but there are other things which will also draw Blisters, yet nothing dangerous to be taken inwardly. There is an usual Drink made hereof with Aquae vitae and Spices frequently, and without any offence or danger, but to good purpose used in Qualms and Passions of the Heart.   

Rosemary.  
OUr Garden Rosemary is so well known, that I need not describe it.  
Time.] It Flowreth in April and May with us, and sometimes again in August.  
Government and virtues.] The Sun claims privilege in it, and 'tis under the celestial Ram. It is an Herb of as great use with us in these dayes, as any whatsoever, not only for Physical, but civil purposes. The Physical use of it( being my present Task) is very much, both for inward and outward Diseases; for by the warming and comforting heat therof, it helpeth al could diseases, both of the Head, Stomach, Liver, and Belly. The Decoction thereof in Wine, helpeth the could Distillations of Rhewm into the Eyes, 
could Diseases, Rhewm, swimming of the head, drowsines stupidity, dumb palsy, lethargy& falling-sickness, toothache, stinking breath, weak Memory, stomach, Retention of Meat, Wind, Liver-grown, dim sight, yellow-Jaundice, Pestilence whites, in Women, Cough, phtisick, or consumption benumbed joints spots and scars in the skin.  and al other could Diseases of the Head and Brain, as the Giddiness or swimming therein, Drowsiness, or dullness of the Mind and Senses, like a stupidness, the dumb palsy, or loss of Speech, the Lethargy, and Falling-sickness, to be both drunk and the Temples bathed therwith. It helpeth the pains in the Gums and Teeth, by Rhewm falling into them, or by putrefaction, causing an evil smell from them, or a stinking Breath. It helpeth a weak Memory, and quickeneth the Senses. It is very comfortable to the Stomach in al the could Griefs therof, helping both retention of Meat, and digestion, the Decoction or powder being taken in Wine: It is a Remedy for the windiness in the Stomach or Bowels, and expelleth it powerfully, as also wind in the Spleen. It helpeth those that are Liver-grown, by opening the Obstructions therof. It helpeth dim Eyes, and procureth a clear sight, the Flowers therof being taken al the while it is flowering, every morning fasting with bread and salt. Both Dioscorides and Galen say, That if a Decoction be made thereof with Water, and they that have the yellow Jaundice do exercise their Bodies presently after the taking thereof, it will certainly cure it: The Flowers, and the Conserve made of them, is singular good to comfort the Heart, and to expel the contagion of the Pestilence; to burn the Herb in houses and chambers, correcteth the air in them: Both the Flowers and the leaves are very profitable for Women that are troubled with the Whites, if they be daily taken. The dried leaves shred small and taken in a Pipe like as Tobacco is taken, helpeth those that have any Cough or Phtisick, or Consumption, by warming and drying the thin Distillations which cause those Diseases. The leaves are much used in bathings, and made into ointments or oils, is singular good to help could benumned joints, Sinews, or Members. The chemical oil drawn from the leaves and Flowers, is a sovereign help for al Diseases aforesaid to touch the Temples and Nostrils with two or three drops, for al the Diseases of the Head and Brains spoken of before; as also to take a drop, two, or three, as the cause requireth, for the inward Griefs, yet must it be done with discretion, for it is very quick and piercing, and therfore but a very little must be taken at a time. There is also another oil made by Insolation, in this manner; Take what quantity you will of the Flowers, and put them into a strong Glass close stopped, tie a fine linen Cloth over the Mouth, and turn the Mouth down into another strong Glass, which being set in the Sun, an oil will distill down into the lower Glass, to be preserved as precious for divers uses, both inward and outward as a sovereign Balm to heal the Diseases before mentioned, to clear a dim sight, and to take away spots, marks, and scars in the skin.   

rhubarb, or Rhapontick.  
DO not start, and say this grows you know not how far off; and then ask me, How it comes to pass that I bring it among our English Simples? For though the name may speak it foreign, yet it grows with us in England, and that frequent enough in our Gardens; and when you have thoroughly perused its virtues, you will conclude it nothing inferior to that which is brought us out of China, and by that time this hath been as much used as that hath been, the name which the other hath gotten will be eclipsed by the famed of this: Take therfore a Description at large of it, as followeth.  
Descrip.] At the first appearing out of the Ground, when the Winter is past, it hath a great round brownish head, rising from the middle or sides of the Root, which openeth itself into sundry leaves one after another, very much crumpled or folded together at the first, and brownish; but afterward it spreadeth itself and becometh smooth, very large, and almost round, every one standing on a brownish stalk, of the thickness of a mans thumb, when they are grown to their fullness, and most of them two foot and more in length, especially when they grow in any moist or good ground: And the stalk of the leaf also from the bottom therof to the leaf itself, being also two foot: the breadth therof from edge to edge in the broadest place, being also two foot; of a sad or dark green colour, of a fine tart, or sowrish taste, much more pleasant than the Garden or Wood-sorrel. From among these riseth up some, but not every year, a strong thick stalk, not growing so high as the Patience, or Garden Dock, with such round leaves as grow below, but smaller, at every joint up to the top, and among the Flowers which are white spreading forth into many branches, and consisting of five or six small white leaves apiece, hardly to be discerned from the white thirds in the middle, and seeming to be al thirds, after which come brownish three square Seed like unto other Docks, but larger, whereby it may be plainly known to be a Dock. The Root groweth in time to be very great, with divers and sundry great spreading branches from it, of a dark, brownish, or reddish colour on the out-side; with a pale yellow skin under it, which covereth the inner substance or Root, which rind and skin being pared away, the root appeareth of so fresh and lively a colour, with fresh coloured Veins running through it, that the choicest of that rhubarb that is brought us from beyond the Seas cannot excel it: which Root if it be dried carefully and as it ought( which must be in our Country by the gentle heat of a fire, in regard the Sun is not hot enough here to do it, and every piece kept from touching one another) will hold his colour almost as well as when it is fresh; and hath been approved of, and commended by those who have oftentimes used them.  
Place.] It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth about the beginning, or middle of June, and the Seed is ripe in July.  
Time.] The Roots that are to be dried and kept al the year following, are not to be taken up before the Stalk and leaves be quiter withered and gone, and that is not until the middle or end of October; and if they be taken a little before the leaves do spring, or when they are sprung up, the Roots will not have half so good a colour in them.  
I have given the Precedence unto this, because in virtues also it hath the pre-eminence: I come now to describe unto you that which is called Patience, or Monks rhubarb; and next unto that, the Great round leaved Dock, or Bastard rhubarb; for the one of these may happily supply in the absence of the other; being not much unlike in their virtues, only one more powerful and efficacious than the other: And lastly, shal show you the virtues of al the three Sorts.   

Garden Patience, or Monks rhubarb.  
Descript.] THis is a Dock bearing the name of rhubarb, for some purging quality therein, and groweth up with large tall stalks, set with somewhat broad and long fair green leaves, not dented at al; The tops of the Stalks being divided into many small Branches, bear reddish or purplish Flowers, and three square Seed like unto other Docks. The Root is long, great, and yellow like unto the wild Docks, but a little redder, and if it be a little dried sheweth-less store of discolored veins, than the next doth when it is dry.   

Great round leaved Dock, or, Bastard rhubarb.  
Descript.] THis hath divers large, round, thin, yellowish green leaves, rising from the Root, a little waved about the edges, every one standing on a reasonable thick, and long brownish Footstalk; from among which, riseth up a pretty big stalk about two foot high, with some such like leaves growing thereon, but smaller: At the top whereof stand in a long spike many small brownish Flowers, which turn into hard three square shining brown Seed, like the Garden Patience before described. This Root groweth greater than that, with many branches of great fibres thereat, yellow on the out side, and somewhat pale yellow within, with some discolored Veins like to the Rubard which is first described, but much less than it, especially when it is dry.  
Place and Time.] These also grow in Gardens, and Flower and Seed at, or near the same time that our true rhubarb doth, viz. They flower in June, and the Seed is ripe in July.  
Government and virtues.] Mars claims Predominancy over al these wholesome Herbs: you cry out upon him for an infortune, when God created him for your good( only he is angry with Fools) What dishonour is this, not to Mars, but to God himself? A dram of the dried Root of Monks rhubarb, with a scruple of Ginger made into powder and taken fasting in a draft or mess of warm Broth, 
Purge choler and phlegm, stay Lasks& bloody flux, Scabs and Ulcerous Sores, running Sores.  purgeth choler and phlegm downward very gently, and safely without danger: The Seed thereof contrarily doth bind the Belly, and helpeth to stay any sort of Lask or Bloody flux. The distilled Water thereof is very profitably used to heal Scabs, as also foul ulcerous Sores, and to alloy the inflammation of them: The juice of the leaves or Roots, or the Decoction of them in Vinegar, is used as a most effectual Remedy to heal Scabs and running Sores.  
The Bastard rhubarb hath al the properties of the Monks rhubarb, but more effectual for both inward and outward Diseases. The Decoction thereof with Vinegar dropped into the Ears, taketh away the pains; 
Pains of the Ears, toothache, Jaundice, pains of the Stomach and loathing of Meat, Kings Evil, ston, Urin, Dim sight, Liver and Blood.  gargled in the Mouth taketh away the toothache, and being drunk healeth the Jaundice. The Seed thereof taken, easeth the gnawing and gripping pains of the Stomach, and taketh away the loathing thereof unto meat. The Root therof helpeth the ruggedness of the Nails, and being boiled in Wine helpeth the swelling of the Throat, commonly called the Kings Evil, as also the swellings of the Kernels of the Ears: It helpeth them that are troubled with the ston, provoketh Urine, and helpeth the dimness of the sight. The Roots of this Bastard rhubarb are used in opening and purging Diet Drinks with other things, to open the Liver, and to cleanse and cool the Blood.  
The properties of that which is called the English rhubarb, are the same with the former, but much more effectual, and hath al the properties of the true Indian rhubarb, except the force in purging, wherein it is but of half the strength thereof, and therefore a double quantity must be used; 
choler and phlegm, Obstructions, jaundice, dropsy, spleen, Agues, Pains of the sides, and spitting of Blood, Running of the Reins, swelling in the Head, Sciatica, Gout, Cramp, Clotted Blood, Ulcers in the Eyes, or Eye-lids, swellings and inflammations, black and blue spots, purge the Liver and Stomach.  it likewise hath not that bitterness and astriction: in other things it worketh almost in an equal quality, which are these; It purgeth the Body of choler and phlegm, being either taken of itself, made into powder and drunk in a draft of white Wine, or steeped therein al night and taken fasting, or put among other Purges, as shal be thought convenient, cleansing the Stomach, Liver and Blood, opening Obstructions, and helping those griefs that come thereof; as the Jaundice, dropsy, swelling of the Spleen, Tertian and Day Agues, and pricking pain of the sides, and also it stayeth spitting of Blood. The powder taken with Cassia dissolved, and a little washed Venice Turpentine, cleanseth the Reins and strengtheneth them afterwards, and is very effectual to stay the the running of the Reins or gonorrhoea. It is also given for the pains and swellings in the Head, for those that are troubled with melancholy, and helpeth the Sciatica, the Gout, and the Cramp. The powder of rhubarb taken with a little Mummia and Madder Roots in some read Wine, dissolveth clotted blood in the Body, happening by any fall or bruise, and healeth burstings and broken parts as well inward as outward: The oil likewise wherein it hath been boiled, worketh the like effects, being anointed. It is used to heal those Ulcers that happen in the Eyes and Eye-lids, being steeped and strained; as also to assuage the swellings and inflammations; and applied with Honey, or boiled in Wine, it taketh away al black and blue spots or marks that happen therein. Whey, or white Wine are the best liquours to steep it in, and thereby it worketh more effectually in opening Obstructions, and purging the Stomach and Liver. Many do use a little Indian spikenard as the best correcter thereof.   

Meadow Rue.  
Descript.] MEadow Rue riseth up with a yellow stringy Root, much spreading in the ground, and shooting forth new sprouts round about, with many hereby green Stalks two foot high, crested all the length of them, set with joints here and there, and many large leaves on them as well as below, being divided into smaller leaves, nicked or dented in the fore part of them, of a sad 'greed colour on the uper side, and pale green underneath: Toward the top of the Stalk there shooteth forth divers short branches, on every one thereof there stand two, three, or four small round Heads or Buttons, which breaking the skin that encloseth them show forth a tuft of pale greenish yellow threads, which falling away there comes in their places small three cornered Cods, wherein is contained small, long, and round Seed. The whole Plant hath a strong unpleasant scent.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of this Land, in the Borders of moist Meadows, and by Ditch sides.  
Time,] It flowreth about July, or the beginning of August.  
Government and virtues.] Dioscorides saith, That this Herb bruised and applied, perfecty healeth old Sores: and the distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers doth the like. 
Old sores, Open the Body, Lice and vermin, Plague, Jaundice.  It is used by some among other Pot-herbs to open the Body and make it soluble; but the Roots washed clean, and boiled in Ale and drunk, provoketh to the stool more than the leaves, but yet very gently. The Root boiled in Water, and the places of the Body most troubled with vermin or Lice, washed therewith while it is warm, destroyeth them utterly. In Italy it is used against the Plague, and in Saxony against the Jaundice, as Camerarius saith.   

Garden Rue.  
GArden Rue is so well known, both by this name, and the name Herb of Grace, that I shal not need to writ you any further Description of it: But shal only show you the virtues of it as followeth:  
Governmen and virtues.] It is an Herb of the Sun, and under lo. It provoketh Urin and Womens Courses, being taken either in Meat or Drink. 
Urine, Womens Courses, poisons, Plague, Abate Venery, pains of the Chest,& sides, Cough, Hard Breathihg, Sciatica,& joint Aches, Agues, Wind colic, Mother, worms, Gout, dropsy, Bleeding, Swelling of the cods Wheals& pimples, Morphew,& warts, Scab, tetter, and ringworm, Pains of the Ears, Dim sight, St. Ahthonies fire, Running sores of the Head, Ulcers of the Nose, Antidote, pains of the Chest, Stomach, Spleen, Belly, Obstructions.  The Seed thereof taken in Wine, is an Antidote against al dangerous Medicines or deadly poisons. The leaves taken either by themselves, or with Figs and Walnuts is called Methridates his Counter poison, against the Plague, and causeth al venomous things to become harmless: Being often taken in meat or drink it abateth Venery, and destroyeth the ability to beget Children. A Decoction made thereof with some dried Dil leaves and Flowers, easeth al pains and torments inwardly to be drunk, and outwardly to be applied warm to the place grieved. The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of the Chest and sides, as also Coughs, and hardness of bretthing, the inflammations of the Lungs, and the tormenting pains of the Sciatica, and the joints, being anointed or laid to the places, as also the shaking fits of Agues, to take a draft before the fit come: Being boiled or infused in oil it is good to help the wind colic, the hardness or windiness of the Mother, and freeth women from the strangling or suffocation thereof, if the Share and the parts thereabouts be anointed therewith: It killeth and driveth forth the Worms of the Belly, if it be drunk after it is boiled in Wine to the half with a little Honey: It helpeth the Gout or pains in the joints of Hands, Feet, or Knees, applied thereunto: and with Figs it helpeth the dropsy being bathed therewith: being bruised and put into the Nostrils it stayeth the bleeding thereof. It helpeth the swelling of the Cods if they be bathed with a Decoction of Rue and Bay leaves. It taketh away wheals and pimples if being bruised with a few myrtle leaves, if it be made up with Wax and applied: It cureth the Morphew and taketh away al sorts of Warts, if boiled in Wine with some Pepper and Nitre, and the places rubbed therewith: and with alum and Honey, helpeth the dry Scab or any Tetter or Ring-worm: The juice thereof warmed in a Pomegranate shell or Rind, and dropped into the Ears helpeth the pains of them. The juice of it and Fennel with a little Honey, and the gull of a Cock put thereto, helpeth the dimness of the Eyesight. An ointment made of the juice thereof with oil of Roses, Ceruss, and a little Vinegar, and anointed cureth St. Anthonies fire, and al foul running Sores in the Head; and the stinking Ulcers of the Nose or other parrs. The Antidote used by Methridates every morning fasting to secure himself from any poison or Infection was this, Take twenty leaves of Rue, a little Salt, a couple of Walnuts, and a couple of Figs beaten together into a Mass with twenty Juniper Berries, which is the quantity appointed for every day. Another Electuary is made thus, Take of Nitre, Pepper, and Cummin Seed, of each equal parts, of the leaves of Rue clean picked as much in weight as al the other three weighed, beat them well together, and put to as much Honey as will make it up into an Electuary;( but you must first steep your Cummin Seed in Vinegar twenty four hours, and then dry it, or rather toast it in a hot Fire-shovel, or in an Oven) and it is a Remedy for the pains or griefs of the Chest or Stomach of the Spleen, Belly or Sides, by Wind or Stitches; of the Liver by Obstructions, of the Reins and Bladder by the stoping of Urine, and helpeth also to extenuate fat corpulent Bodies.  
What an infamy is cast upon the Ashes of Methridates( or Methridates as the Augustanes red his name) by unworthy people; they that deserve no good report themselves, love to give none to others, Viz. That renowned King of Pontus fortified his Body by poison against poison ( He cast out Devils by beelzeebub the Prince pf Devils) what a Sot is he that knows not if he had accustomend his Body to could poisons, hot poisons would have dispatched him, or the contrary if not, corrosions would have done it, the whole world is at this very time beholding to him for his studies in physic,& he that useth the quantity of but a Hazel Nut of that receipt every morning to which his name is adjoined, shall to admiration preserve his Body in health, if he do but consider that Rue is an Herb of the Sun and under lo, and gather it and the rest accordingly.   

rapture wort.  
Descript.] THis spreadeth very many thredy Branches round about upon the ground, about a span long, divided into many other smaller parts, full of small joints set very thick together, whereat come forth two very small leaves of a french yellow green colour; branches and all where groweth forth also a number of exceeding small yellowish Flowers, scarce to be discerned from the Stalks and leaves, which turn into Seeds as small as the very dust: The Root is very long and small, thrusting down deep into the ground: This hath neither smell nor taste at first, but afterward hath a little astringent taste, without any manifest heat, yet a little bitter and sharp withall.  
Place.] It groweth in dry, sandy, and Rocky places.  
Time.] It is fresh and green all the Summer.  
Government and virtues.] They say Saturn causeth Ruptures, if he do, he doth no more then he can cure, if you want wit he will teach you though to your cost, this Herb is Saturns own, and is a notable Antevenerian. rapture wort hath not his name in vain, for it is found by experience to cure the rapture, 
Ruptures, Fluxes, Running of the Reins, Strangury, ston or Gravel, Stitches, Yellow Jaundice, Worms, Wounds, Defluxions, Foul Ulcers.  not onely in Children but also in Elder Persons, if the Disease be not too inveterate, by taking a dram of the powder of the dried Herb every day in Wine for certain dayes together; Or the Decoction made in Wine and drunk: Or the juice or distilled water of the green Herb taken in the same manner; and helpeth all other Fluxes either in men or Women; Vomitings also, and the Gonnorrhea or running of the Reins, being taken any of the ways aforesaid. It doth also most assuredly help those that have the Strangury, or have their Urine stopped, or are troubled with the ston or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder. The same also helpeth much all Stitches in the side, all gripping pains in the Stomach or Belly the Obstructions of the Liver, and cureth the yellow Jaundice likewise: It killeth also the Worms in Children: being outwardly applied it conglutineth Wounds notably, and helpeth much to stay Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head to the Eyes, Nose, and Teeth, being bruised green and bound thereto; Or the Decoction of the dried Herb, to bath the Forehead and Temples, or the Nape of Neck behind: It also drieth up the moisture of Fistulous Ulcers, or any others that are foul and spreading.   

Rushes.  
ALthough there are many kindes of Rushes, yet I shall onely here insist upon those which are best known, and most Medicinal, as the Bulrushes, and other of the soft and smooth ktnds; which grow so commonly in almost every place of this Land, and and are so generally noted, that I suppose it needless to trouble you with any Description of them: Briefly then take the virtues of them as followeth.  
Government and virtues.) The Seeds of these soft Rushes, saith Dioscorides and Galen, toasted( saith Pliny) being drunk in Wine and Water, stayeth the Lask and Womens Courses, when they come down too abundantly: but it causeth headache: It provoketh sleep likewise, but must be given with caution, lest the party that takes it wake not until the Resurrection: Pliny saith, The Root boiled in water to the consumprion of one third, helpeth the Cough.  
Thus you see that Conveniences have their Inconveniencies, and virtue is seldom unaccompanied with some Vices. What I have written concerning Rushes is to satisfy my Countrey-mens Question, Are our Rushes good for nothing? Yes, and as good let alone as taken; There are Remedies enough without them for any Disease, and therefore as the Proverb is I care not a Rush for them, or rather they will do you as much good as if one had given you a Rush.   

Rye.  
THis is so well known in all the Countries of this Land, and especially to the Country People who feed much thereon, that if I should describe it, they would presently say, I might well have spared that Labour: Its virtues follow.  
Government and virtues.] Rye is more digesting then Wheat; 
Impostums boils& Swellings, pains of the Head, chaps of the Hands or Feet.  The Bread and the Leaven thereof ripeneth and breaketh Impostumes, boils, and other Swellings: The The Meal of Rye put between a double cloth, and moistened with a little Vinegar, and heated in a Pewter dish, set over a Chafingdish of coals; and bound sast to the head while it is hot, both much ease the continual pains of the Head. Mathiolus saith, That the Ashes of Rye straw put into Water, and suffered therein a day and a night, and the chaps of the Hands or Feetwashe●●●●●with, doth heal them.   

Saffron.  
THe Herb needs no Description it being known generally where it grows.  
Place.] It grows frequently at Walden in Essex, and in Cambridg-shire.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of the Sun, and under the Lion, 
Heart strengtheneth Brain. Consumption of the Lungs, Pestilence, small Pox, Measles, Yellow Jaundice. phlegm purgeth.  and therefore you need not demand a reason why it strengtheners the Heart so exceedingly: Let not above ten grains be given at one time, for if the Sun which is the fountain of Life, may dazzle the eyes and make them blind, a Cordial being taken in an immoderat quantity may hurt the Heart instead of helping it. It quickeneth the Brain, for the Sun is exalted in ♈ as well as he hath his House in ♌ it help Consumption of the Lungs, help difficulty of Breathing: it is an excellent thing in Epimedical Diseases, as Pestilence small Pox, and Measles: It is a notable expulsive Medicine, and a notable Remedy for the yellow Jaundice. My own Opinion is,( but I have no Author for it) that hermodactyls is nothing else but the Roots of Saffron dried, and my reason is, that the Roots of all Crocus both white and yellow purge phlegm as hermodactyls do, and if you please to dry the Roots of any Crocus, neither your eyes nor your taste shall distinguish it from Hermodactiss.   

Sage.  
OUr ordinary Garden Sage needeth no Description.  
Time.] It flowreth in or about July.  
Government and Vertuee.] Jupiter claims this, and bid me tell you it is good for the Liver, and to breed good blood. A Decoction of the leaves and Branches of Sage made and drunk, saith Dioscorides provoketh Urine, 
Provok Urine, Womens Courses, Expel the Dead Child,& Afterbirth, staunch Bleeding cleanse Ulcers,& sores, Itching of the Cods Help Conception and hinder Miscarriage, spitting blood, Consumption, Pains of the Head& joints Fallingsickness Lerhargy, dullness of spirit, palsy, Defluxions of Rhewm, Im-Impostume behind the Ears, hoarseness and Cough, bloody Flux, Biting of Serpents, Worms in the Ears, or Sores, Quicken the senses, and help Memory, Sore Mouths and Throats, Cankers, palsy or Cromp, Stitch in the side.  bringeth down Womens Courses, helpeth to expel the dead Chsld, and causeth the hairs to become black; it stayeth the Bleeding of Wounds, and cleanseth foul Ulcers or Sores; The said Decoction made in Wine taketh away the itching of the Cods if they be bathed therewith. Agrippa saith, That if Women that cannot conceive by reason of the moist slipperiness of their Wombs shall take a quantity of the juice of Sage with a little Salt for four dayes before they company with their Hasbands, it will help them not onely to Conceive, but also to retain the Birth without miscarrying. Orpheus saith, Three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage taken fasting with a little Honey, doth presently stay the spitting or casting up of blood for them that are in a Consumption, these Pills are much commended. Take of spikenard of Ginger of each two drams; of the Seed of Sage toasted at the fire, eight drams, of long Pepper twelve drams, all these being brought into fine powder, put thereto so much juice of Sage as may make them into a Mass for Pills, taking a dram of them every morning fasting, and so likewise at night, drinking a little pure Water after them. Mathyolus saith, it is very profitable for all manner of pains of the Head coming of could and Rhewmatick Humors, as also for all pains of the joints, whether inwardly or outwardly, and therefore helpeth the Fallingsickness, the Lethargy, such as are dull and heavy of Spirit, the palsy, and is of much use in all Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head, and for the Diseases of the Chest or Breast. The leaves of Sage and Nettles bruised together, and laid upon the imposthume that riseth behind the Ears, doth assuage it much: The juice of Sage taken in warm Water, helpeth a Hoarsnesse and the Cough. The leaves sudden in Wine and laid upon the place affencted with the palsy helpeth much, if the Decoction be drunk also. Sage taken with Wormwood is good for the Bloody Flux. Pliny saith, it procureth Womens Courses, and stayeth them coming down too fast, helpeth the stinging and biting of Serpents, and killeth the Worms that breed in the Ears and in Sores. Sage is of excellent use to help the Memory, warming and quickntng the senses; and the Conserve made of the Flowers is used to the same purpose, and also for all the former recited Diseases. The juice of Sage drunk with Vinegar hath been of good use in the time of Plague at all times. Gargles likewise are made with Sage, Rosemary, Honey succles, and plantain boiled in Wine or Water, with some Honey or alum put thereto, to wash sore Mouths and Throats, Cankers, or the secret parts of Man or Woman as need requireth. And with other hot and comfortable Herbs. Sage is boiled to bath the Body and Legs in the Summer time, especially to warm could joints or Sinews troubled with the palsy or Cramp, and to comfort or strengthen the parts. It is much commended against the Stitch or pains in the side coming of Wind, if the place be fomented warm with the Decoction therof in Wine, and the Herb also after the boiling be laid warm also thereunto.   

Wood-Sage.  
Descript.] Wood-Sage riseth up with square hoary Stalks two foot high at the least, with two leaves set at every joint, somewhat like other Sage leaves, but smaller, softer, whiter and rounder, and a little dented about the edges, and smelling somewhat stronger. At the the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand the Flowers on a slender long Spike, turning themselves all one way when they blow, and are of a pale and whitish colour; smaller than Sage, but hooded and gaping like unto them: The Seed is blackish and round, four usually set in a husk together: The Root is long and stringy, with divers Fibres thereat, and abideth many years.  
Place.] It groweth in Woods, and by Wood-sides, as also in divers Fields and by-Lanes in this Land.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June, July, and August.  
Government and virtues.] The Herb is under Venus. The Decoction of Wood-Sage grovoketh Urine and Womens Courses: 
Provoks Urine and Womens Courses, and sweat, Swellings in the flesh, French Pox, Vein broken, burstenness palsy, Ulcers& Sores, Green Wounds.  it also provoketh Sweat, digesteth Humors and discusseth Swellings, and Nodes in the flesh, and is therefore thought to be good against the French Pox. The Decoction of the green Herb made with Wine is a safe and sure Remedy for those who by falls, bruises or Blows, doubt some Vein to be inwardly broken, to disperse and avoid the congealed blood, and to consolidate the Vein; It is also good for such as are inwardly or outwardly bursten, the drink used inwardly and the Herb applied outwardly: The same used in the same manner is found to be a sure Remedy for the palsy: The juice of the Herb, or the powder thereof dried, is good for moist Ulcers and Sores in the Legs or other parts to dry them, and cause them to heal more speedily: It is no less effectual also in green Wounds to be used upon any occasion.   

Solomons Seal.  
Descript.] THe common Solomons Seal riseth up with a round Stalk about half a yard high, bowing or bending down to the top, set with single leaves one above another, somewhat large and like the leaves of the Lilly-Convalley, or May lily, with an eye of bluish upon the green, with some ribs therein, and more yellowish underneath. At the foot of every Leaf almost from the bottom up to the top of the Stalk come forth small long white and hollow pendulous Flowers, somewhat like the Flowers of May-Lilly, but ending in five long points, for the most part two together at the end of a long Footstalk, and sometimes but one, and sometimes also two Stalks with Flowers at the Foot of a leaf, which are without any scent at all, and stand all on one side of the Stalk: After they are past come in their places small round Berries, green at the first and blackish green, tending to blewness when they are ripe, wherein lie small white hard and stony Seed: The Root is of the thickness of ones finger or Thumb, white and knobbed in some places, with a flat round circled representing a Seal, whereof it took the name lying along under the upper crust of the earth, and not growing downward, but with many Fibres underneath.  
Place.] It is frequent in divers places of this Land, as namely in a Wood two miles from Canterbury, by Fish-Pool Hill: as also in a bushy Close belonging to the parsonage of Alderbury near Clarindon, two miles from Salisbury, in Chesson Wood, on Chesson Hlll, between Newington and Sittingburn in Kent, and in divers other places, in Essex and other Counties.  
Time.] It Flowreth about May: The Root abideth and shooteth anew every year.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns the Plant, for he loves his Bones well. The Root of Solomons Seal is found by experience to be available in Wounds, 
Wounds and sores, Vomiting and bleeding, Fluxes, Running of the Reins, knit joints,& broken Bones in Man and Beast, Ruptures, Bruises and fals, black and blue Marks, beautify the Face.  Hurts, and outward Sores, to heal and close up the Lips of those that are green, and to dry up and restrain the Flux of Humors to those that are old: It is singular good to stay Vomitings and Bleedings wheresoever, as also al Fluxes in man or woman, whether the Whites or Reds in Women, or the running of the Reins in Men; also to knit any joint, which by weakness useth to be often out of place, or will not stay in long, when it is set: also to knit and join broken bones in any part of the Body, the Roots being bruised and applied to the place; yea, it hath been found by late experience, that the Decoction of the Root in Wine, or the bruised Root put in Wine or other drink, and after a nights infusion strained forth hard and drunk, hath holpen both Man and Beast whose Bones have been broken by any occasion, which is the most assured refuge of help to people of divers Countries of this Land, that they can have: It is no less effectual to help Ruptures and Burstings, the Decoction in Wine, or the powder in Broth or Drink being inwardly taken and outwardly applied to the place: The same is also available for inward or outward Bruises, Fals, or Blows, both to dispel the congealed Blood, and to take away both the pains and the black and blue Marks that abide after the hurt. The same also, or the distilled Water of the whole Plant used to the Face or other part of the Skin, cleanseth it from Morphew, Freckles, Spots, or Marks whatsoever, leaving the place fresh, fair, and Lovely, for which purpose it is much used by the Italian Dames.   

Sampire.  
Descript.] ROck Sampire groweth up with a tender green Stalk about half a yard or two foot high at the most, branching forth almost from the very bottom, and stored with sundry thick, and almost round, somewhat long leaves, of a deep green colour, sometimes three together, and sometimes more on a Stalk, and are sappy, and of a pleasant, hot, or spicy taste: At the tops of the Stalk and Branches, stand Umbels of white Flowers, and after them come large Seed bigger than Fennel Seed, yet somewhat alike. The Root is great, white, and long, continuing many yeers, and is of an hot spicy taste likewise.  
Place.] It groweth on the Rocks that are often moistened at the least, if not overflown with the Sea water.  
Time.] And it Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of July and August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Jupiter, and was in former times wont to be used more than now it is, the more is the pity; it is well known almost to every Body, 
Helps digestion, Opens Obstructions, provokes urin Expel gravel and the ston.  That il digestion and obstructions are the causes of most of the diseases which the frail Nature of Man is subject to, both which might be remedied by a more frequent use of this Herb. If people would have sauce to their Meat, they may take some for profit as well as for pleasure. It is a safe Herb, very pleasant both to the taste and Stomach, helping digestion, and in some sort opening the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, provoking Urine, and helping thereby to wash away the Gravel and ston engendered in the Kidneys or Bladder.   

Sanicle.  
Descript.] ORdinary Sanicle sendeth forth many great round leaves standing upon long brownish Stalks, every one somewhat deeply cut or divided into five or six parts, and some of those also cut in, somewhat like the Leaf of a Crow-foot or Doves-foot, and finely dented about the edges, smooth, and of a dark green shining colour, and sometimes reddish about the Brims, from among which riseth up small round green Stalks, without any joint or Leaf thereon, saving at the top, where it brancheth forth into Flowers, having a Leaf divided into three or four parts at that joint with the Flowers, which are small and white, starting out of small round greenish yellow heads, many standing together in a tuft; in which afterward are the Seeds contained, which are small round rough burrs, somewhat like the Seeds of Cleavers, and stick in the same manner upon any thing that they touch: The Root is composed of many black strings of fibres set together, at a little long head, which abideth with the green leaves al the Winter and perish not.  
Place.] It is found in many shadowy Woods, and other places of this Land.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June, and the Seed is ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] This is one of Venus her Herbs to cure either Wounds, or what other mischtef Mars inflicteih upon the Body of Man. It is exceeding good to heal al green Wounds speedily; or any Ulcers, Impostumes, or Bleedings inwardly: It doth wonderfully help those that have any tumours in any part of their Bodies, 
Green Wounds, Ulcers, Impostumes, inward bleedings, swellings, Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat,& privities, Womens Courses, Fluxes of Blood, Lasks, Ulcers in the Kidneys, Running of the Reins, rapture.  for it represseth and dissipateth the Humors, if the Decoction or juice thereof be taken, or the powder in drink, and the juice used outwardly; for there is not found any Herb that can give you such present help either to Man or Beast when the Disease falleth upon the Lungs or Throat, and to heal up al the putrid malignant Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat, and Privities, by gargling or washing with the Decoction of the leaves and Root, made in Water, and a little Honey put thereto. It helpeth to stay Womens Courses, and al other Fluxes of Blood either by the Mouth, Urine, or Stool, and Lasks of the Belly, the Ulceration of the Kidneys also, and the pains in the Bowels, and the gonorrhoea or running of the Reins, being boiled in Wine or Water, and drunk: The same also is no less powerful to help any Ruptures or Burstings, used both inwardly and outwardly; and briefly, it is effectual in binding, restraining, consolidating, heating, drying, and healing; as Comfry, Bugle, Self-heal, or any other of the Consounds, or Vulnerary Herbs whatsoever.   

saracens Consound, or saracens Wound-wort.  
Descript.] THis groweth very high sometimes with brownish Stalks, and other whiles with green and hollow to a mans height, having many long and narrow green leaves snip'd about the edges, somewhat like those of the Peach-Tree, or Willow leaves, but not of such a white green colour: The tops of the Stalks are furnished with many pale yellow Starlike Flowers standing in green heads, which when they are fallen, and the Seed ripe, which is somewhat long, small, and of a yellowish brown colour wrapped in Down, is therewith carried away with the wind: The Root is composed of many strings or fibres, set together at a head, which perish not in Winter, but abide, although the Stalks dry away, and no Leaf appeareth in Winter. The taste hereof is strong and unpleasant, and so is the smell also.  
Place.] It groweth in moist and wet Grounds by Wood sides, and sometimes in the moist places of the shady Groves, as also by the Water side.  
Time.] It flowreth in July, and the Seed is soon ripe, and carried away with the wind.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns this Herb, and 'tis of a sober condition like him. Among the Germans, this Wound-Herb is preferred before al others of the same quality. Being boiled in Wine and drunk, 
Obstructions, yell. Jaundice, Drepsie, Ulcers of the Reins, inward wounds and Bruises, Pains in the Body, Mother, Agues, green wounds, Old sores or ulcers, Ulcers in the Mouth or throat, sores in the privy parts.  it helpeth the indisposition of the Liver, and freeth the Gal from Obstructions, whereby it is good for the yellow Jaundice, and for the dropsy in the beginning of it, for al inward Ulcers of the Reins, or elsewhere, and inward Wounds and Bruises: And being steeped in Wine and then distilled, the Water thereof drunk is singular good to eas al gnawings in the Stomach, or other pains of the Body, as also the pains of the Mother: And being boiled in Water it helpeth continual Agues; and this said Water, or the simplo Water of the Herb distilled, or the juice, or Decoction, are very effectual to heal any green Wound, or old Sore, or Ulcer whatsoever, cleansing them from corruption, and quickly healing them up: It is no less effectual for the Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat, be they never so foul or stinking, by washing and gargling them therewith; and likewise for such sores as happen in the privy parts of Man or Woman: Briefly, whatsoever hath been said of Bugle or Sanicle, may be found herein.   

sauce alone, or Jack by the Hedge.  
Descript.] THe lower leaves of this are rounder than those that grow towards the tops of the stalks, and are set singly one at a joint, being somewhat round and broad, and pointed at the ends, dented also about the edges, somewhat resembling Nettle-leavs for the form, but of a fresher green colour, and not rough or pricking: The Flowers are very small and white, growing at the tops of the Stalks one above another, which being past, there follow small and long round Pods, wherein are contained, small round seed, somewhat blackish. The Root is stringy and thriddy, perishing every year after it hath given seed, and raiseth itself again of its own sowing. The Plant, or any part therof being bruised, smelleth of garlic, but more pleasantly, and tasteth somewhat hot and sharp, almost like unto Rocket.  
Place.] It groweth under Walls, and by Hedg-sides, and Pathwaies in Fields, in many places.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June, July, and August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mercury. This is eaten by many Country people as sauce to their Salt-fish, 
Helps digestion, Cough, Tough phlegm, Wind-Chollick, ston Ulcers in the Legs.  and helpeth well to digest the Crudities and other corrupt Humors engendered thereby; it warmeth also the Stomach, and causeth digestion: The juice therof boiled with Honey, is accounted to be as good as hedg-Muster for the Cough, to cut and expectorate the tough phlegm. The Seed bruised and boiled in Wine, is a singular good Remedy for the Wind colic, or the ston, being drunk warm: It is also given to Women troubled with the Mother, both to drink, and the Seed put into a Cloth and applied while it is warm is of singular good use. The leaves also or Seed boiled, is good to be used in Clysters to ease the pains of the ston. The green leaves are held to be good to heal the Ulcers in the Legs.   

Winter, and Summer savoury.  
BOth these are so well known( being entertained as constant inhabitants in our Gardens) that they need no Description.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury claims the Dominion over this herb, neither is there a better Remedy against the colic and Illiack passions than this Herb; keep it dry by you al the year if you Love yourselves, 
colic, illiack passion, Expelleth Wind, Mother, provokes Urine,& Womens Courses. Tough phlegm, Lethargy, Dull sight, Singing in the Ears,& deafness, sciatica, and palsy, stinging of Bees &c.  and your ease, as 'tis an hundred pound to a penny if you do not: keep it dry, make Conservs and Syrups of it for your use; and withal, take notice that the Summer kind is the best. They are both of them hot and dry, especially the Summer kind, which is both sharp and quick in taste, expelling Wind in the Stomach and Bowels, and is a present help for the rising of the Mother procured by Wind, provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, and is much commended for Women with Child to take inwardly, and to smell often unto. It cutteth tough phlegm in the Chest and Lungs, and helpeth to expectorate it the more easily: It quickeneth the dull Spirits in the Lethargy, the juice therof being snuffed, or cast up into the Nostrils: The juice dropped into the Eyes, cleareth a dull fight, if it proceed of thin could Humors distilling from the Brain. The juice heated with a little oil of Roses, and dropped into the Ears easeth them of the Noise and Singing in them, and of Deafness also: Outwardly applied with white Flower in manner of a Pultis, it giveth ease to the Sciatica, and Palsey'd Members, heating and warming them: and taketh away their pains. It also taketh away the pain that comes of Stinging by Bees, Wasps, &c.   

Savin.  
TO describe a Plant so well known is needless, it being nursed up almost in every Garden, and abiding green al the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Mars, being hot and dry in the third degree, and being of exceeding clean parts; 
Ulcers cleanseth, Fistulaes, Carbuncles, plaguesores, Kings Evil, Worms, scabs, Itch, running sores, Cankers, Tetters, Ringworms, Venerial sores.  is of a very digesting quality: If you dry the Herb into powder, and mix it with honey, it is an excellent Remedy to cleanse old filthy Ulcers, and Fistulaes; but it hinders them from healing. The same is excellent good to break Carbuncles and Plague-sores, also helpeth the Kings-Evil, being applied to the place: being spread upon a piece of Leather and applied to the Navel, kills the Worms in the Belly; helps Scabs and the Itch, running Sores, Cankers, Tetters, and Ringworms; and being applied to the place, may happily cure Venerial Sores. This I thought good to speak of it, as it may safely be used outwardly; for inwardly it cannot be taken, without manifest danger.   

The common white Saxifrage.  
Descript.] THis hath a few small reddish Kernels of Roots, covered with some skins lying among divers small blackish fibres, which sand forth divers round, faint, or yellowish green leaves, and grayish underneath, lying above the ground unevenly dented about the edges, and somewhat hairy, every one upon a little footstalk, from whence riseth up a round brownish hairy green stalk, two or three foot high, with a few such like round leaves as grow below, but smaller, and somewhat branched at the top, whereon stand pretty large white Flowers of five leaves apiece, with some yellow thirds in the middle, standing in long crested brownish green husks: After the Flowers are past, there ariseth sometimes a round hard head by, forked at the top, wherein is contained small blackish seed, but usually they fall away without any seed; and it is the Kernels or Grains of the Root which are usually called the White Saxifrage seed, and so used.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of our Land, as well in the lower moist, as in the upper dry corners of Meadows, and grassy sandy places; It used to grow near Lambs Conduit, on the back-side of grays-inn.  
Time.] It flowreth in May, and is then gathered as well for that which is called the Seed, as to distill, for it quickly perisheth down to the ground when any hot weather comes.  
government and virtues.] It is very effectual to cleanse the Reins and Bladder, and to dissolve the ston engendered in them, and to expel it and the Gravel by Urine, 
cleanseth the Reins, ston, Gravel, provoke Urine, Womens Courses, Tough phlegm.  to provoke Urine also being stopped, and to help the Strangury: for which purposes the Decoction of the Herb or Roots in white Wine, or the powder of the small kernelly Root, which is called the Seed, taken in white Wine, or in the same Decoction made with white Wine, is most usual. The Distilled Water of the whole Herb, Roots, and Flowers, is most familiar to be taken: It provoketh also Womens Courses, and freeth and cleanseth the Stomach and Lungs from thick and tough phlegm that troubles them. There is not many better Medicines to break the ston, than this.   

Burnet Saxifrage.  
Descript.] THe greater sort of our English Burnet Saxifrage groweth up with divers long stalks of winged leaves, set directly opposite one to another on both sides, each being somewhat broad, and a little pointed and dented about the edges, of a sad green colour. At the tops of the stalks stand umbels of white Flowers, after which comes small and blackish Seed: The Root is long and whitish, abiding long. Our lesser Burnet Saxifrage hath much finer leaves than the former, and very sm●l, and set one against another, deeply jagged about the edges, and of the same colour as the former. The Umbels of Flowers are white, and the Seed very small, and so is the Root, being also somewhat hot and quick in taste.  
Place.] These grow in most Meadows of this Land, and are easy to be found, being well sought for among the grass, wherein many times they lye hide scarcely to be discerned.  
Time.] They flower about July, and their seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] They are both of them Herbs of the Moon. These Saxifrages are as hot as Pepper; and Tragus saith by his experience, 
Provoke Urine, Ease wind& colic, Mother, Womens Courses, ston, tough phlegm, Venom, Cramps& Convulsions Wounds in the Head, Freckles and spots.  They are more wholesome: They have the same prope ties that the Parsleys have, but in provoking Urine, and easing the pains therof, or of the Wind and colic, are much more effectual: The Roots or Seed being used either in powder, or in Decoction, or any other way; and likewise helpeth the windy pains of the Mother, and to procure their Courses, to break and avoid the ston in the Kidneys, to digest could, viscuous, and tough phlegm in the Stomach, and is a most especial Remedy against al kind of Venom. Castoreum being boiled in the Distilled Water hereof, is singular good to be given to those that are troubled with Cramps and Convulsions: some do use to make the seed into Comfits( as they do Caraway Seed) which is effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, The juice of the Herb dropped into the most grievous Wounds of the Head, drieth up their moisture and healeth them quickly. Some Women use the distilled Water, to take away Freckles or Spots in the Skin or Face: and to drink the same sweetened with Sugar for all the purposes aforesaid.   

Scabious, three sorts.  
Descript.] THe common Field Scabious groweth up with many hairy soft whitish green leaves, some whereof are but very little; if at all jagged on the edges, others very much rent and torn on the sides, and have threads in them, which upon the breaking may be plainly seen: from among which rise up divers hairy green Stalks three or four foot high, with such like hairy green leaves on them, but more deeply and finely divided, branched forth a little: At the tops hereof which are naked and bare of leaves for a good space, stand round Heads of Flowers, of a pale bluish colour, set together in a head, the outermost whereof are larger than the inward, with many threads also in the middle, somewhat flat at the top, as the Head with Seed is likewise: The Root is great, white, and thick, growing down deep in the ground, and abideth many years.  
There is another sort of Field Scabious, different in nothing from the former, but onely it is smaller in all respects.  
The Corn Scabius, differeth little from the first, but that it is greater in all respects, and the Flowers more declining to Purple: And the Root creepeth under the upper crust of the Earth, and runneth not deep in the ground as the first doth.  
Place.] The first groweth most usually in Meadows, especially about London every where.  
The second in some of the dry Fields about this City, but not so plentiful as the former.  
The third, in the standing Corn, or Fallow Fields, and the borders of such like Fields.  
Time.] They Flower in June and July, and some abide Flowering until it be late in August, and the Seed is ripe in the mean time.  
There are many other sorts of Scabious, but I take those which I have here described to be most familiar with us; The virtues both of these and the rest being much alike, take them as followeth.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury owns the Plant. Scabious is very effectual for all sorts of Cough, 
Cough& short, ness of Breath, could phlegm, Inward Ulcers and Impostums pleurisy, Infection, Carbuncle or Plague Sores; pains or stitches in the side; Scabs, Tetters, Ringworms, Itch, inward Wounds, could swellings, shrunk Sinews, Frecles and Pimples Morphew& leprosy, Dandriff& Scurf, Green Wounds, Old sores& Ulcers splinters, thorns and broken Bones, &c.  shortness of Breath, and all other Diseases of the Breast and Lungs, ripening and digesting could phlegm, and other tough Humors, voiding them forth by Coughing and spitting: It ripeneth also all sorts of inward Ulcers& Impostumes, the pleurisy also, if the Decoction of the Herb dry or green be made in Wine,& drunk for some time together: four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of mithridate, or Venice Treacle, freeth the Heart from any Infection of Pestilence, if after the taking of it, the party sweat two hours in their Beds; and this Medicine be again and again repeated if need require: The green Herb bruised and applied to any Carbuncle or Plague sore, is found by certain experience to dissolve or break it in three hours space. The same Decoction also drunk, helpeth the pains and Stitches in the sides. The Decoction of the Roots taken for forty dayes together, or a dram of the powder of them taken at a time in Whey, doth( as Mathiolus saith) wonderfully help those that are troubled with running or spreading Scabs, tetters, or Ringworms, yea though they proceed of the French Pox, which he saith he hath tried by experience: The juice or Decoction drunk, helpeth also Scabs and breakings out in Itch and the like: The juice also made up into an ointment and used, is effectual for the same purpose. The same also helpeth all inward Wounds by the drying, cleansing and healing quality therein: A Syrup made of the juice and Sugar is very effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and so is the distilled water of the Herb and Flowers made in due season; especially to be used when the green Herb is not in force to be taken. The Decoction of the Herb and Roots outwardly applied, doth wonderfully help all sorts of hard or could Swellings in any part of the Body; and is as effectual for any shrunk Sinew or Vein. The juice of Scabious made up with the powder of Borax and camphor, cleanseth the skin of the Face or other part of the Body, not only from Freckles and Pimples, but also from Morphew and leprosy. The Head washed with the same Decoction, cleanseth it from Dandrif, Scurf, Sores Itches, and the like, being used warm. Tents also dipped in the juice or Water thereof, not onely healeth all green Wounds, but old Sores and Ulcers also: The Herb also bruised and applied doth in short time loosen, and cause to be drawn forth any Splinter, broken bone, Arrow-head, or other such like thing lying in the Flesh.   

Scurvy-grass.  
Descript.] OUR ordinary English Scurvy-grass hath many thick fat leaves, more long than broad, and sometimes longer and narrower, sometimes also smooth on the edges, and sometimes a little waved sometimes plain, smooth, and pointed, sometimes a little hollow in the middle and round pointed, of a sad green, and sometimes bluish colour, every one standing by itself upon a long Footstalk, which is brownish or greenish also from among which rise small slender Stalks, bearing a few leaves thereon like the other, but longer and lesser for the most part: At the tops whereof grow many whitish Flowers, with yellow threads in the middle, standing about a green Head which becometh the Seed Vessel, which will be somewhat flat when it is ripe, wherein is contained reddish Seed tasting somewhat hot: The Root is made of many white strings, which stick deeply in the mud, wherein it chiefly delighteth: yet it will well abide in the more upland and drier grounds, and tasteth a little brackish or Salt, even there, but not so much as where it hath the Salt water to feed upon.  
Place.] It groweth all along the Thames side, both on the Essex and Kentish shores, from Woolwich round about the Sea Coasts to Dover, Portsmouth, and even to bristol, where it is had in plenty: the other with round leaves groweth in the Marshes in Holland in Lincolnshire, and other places of Lincolnshire by the Sea side.  
Descript.] There is also another sort called Dutch Scurvy-grass, which is most known and frequent in Gardens, which hath divers fresh green, and almost round leaves rising from the Root, nothing so thick as the former, yet in some rich ground very large, even twice so big as in others, not dented about the edges, nor hollow in the middle, every one standing on a long Footstalk: from among these rise up divers long slender weak Stalks, higher than the former, and with more white Flowers at the tops of them, which turn into smaller pods, and smaller brownish Seed than the former: The Root is white, small, and threddy: The taste of this is nothing Salt at all, but hath an hot Aromatical spicy taste.  
Time.] It Flowreth in April or May, and give their Seed ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Jupiter. The English Scurvy-grasse is more used for the Salt taste it beareth, which doth somewhat open and cleanse, but the Dutch Scurvy-grasse is of better effect, and chiefly used( if it may be had) by those that have the scurvy, especially to purge and cleanse the blood, the Liver and the Spleen, for all which Diseases it is of singular good effect, 
Scurvy, Liver and Spleen.  by taking the juice in the Spring evry morning fasting in a cup of drink: The Decoction is good for the same purpose, and the Herb tunned up in new Drink, 
Flegmatick humors foul Ulcere, and Sore Morths, Spots,& Scars in the Skin.  either by itself or with other things, for it openeth Obstructions, evacuateth could clammy and Flegmatick Humors both from the Liver and the Spleen, wasting and consuming both the swelling and hardness thereof, and thereby bringing to the body a more lively colour. The juice also helpeth all foul Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth, if it be often gargled therewith; and used outwardly, cleanseth the Skin from Spots, marks, or Scars that happen therein.   

Self-heal.  
It is also called Prunell, Carpenters Herb, Hook-heal, and Sicklewort.  
Descript.] THe common Self-heal is a small low creeping Herb, having many small roundish pointed leaves somewhat like the leaves of Wild Mints, of a dark green colour, without any dents on the edges, from among which rise divers square hairy Stalks scarce a foot high, which spread sometimes into Branches with divers such small leaves set thereon, up to the tops, where stand brown spiked Heads, of many small brownish leaves like scales and Flowers set together, almost like the Head of Cassidony, which Flowers are gaping, and of a bluish purple, ar more pale blew, in some places sweet, but not so in others: The Root consists of many strings or fibres downward, and spreadeth strings also whereby it increaseth: The small Stalks with the leaves creeping upon the ground, shoot forth Fibres taking hold of the ground, whereby it is made a great tuft in short time.  
Place.] It is found in Woods and Fields every where.  
Time.] It Flowreth in May, and sometimes in April.  
Government and virtues.] Here is another Herb of Venus, Self-heal, whereby when you are hurt you may heal yourself, 'tis indeed a special Herb for inward and outward wounds, take it inwardly in Syrups for inward Wounds, outwardly in Unguents and plasters for outward. As Self-heal is like Bugle in form, so also in the Qualities and virtues serving for all the purposes whereto Bugle is applied with good success either inwardly or outwardly, 
Inward Wounds and Ulcers, Bruises.  for inward Wounds or Ulcers wheresoever within the Body, for Bruises and Falls, and such like hurts; if it be accompanied with Bugle, Sanicle, and other the like Wound Herbs it will be the more effectual, 
Flux of Blood, Foul Sores, Green wounds, headache, sores in the Mouth or Throat and secret parts.  and to wash or inject into Ulcers in the parts outwardly where there is cause to repress the heat and sharpness of Humors flowing to any fore Ulcer, inflammation, Swelling or the like, or to stay the Flux of blood in any Wound or Pa●t, this is used with good success, as also to cleanse the foulness of sores, and cause them more speedily to be healed, It is an especial Remedy for all green Wounds to sodder the lips of them, and to keep the place from any further Inconveniences: The juice hereof used with oil of Roses to anoint the Temples and Forehead, is very effectual to remove the headache: and the same mixed with Honey of Roses, cleanseth and healeth all Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat, and those also in the secret parts. And the Proverb of the Germans, French, and others is verified in this, That he needeth neither physician nor chirurgeon, that hath Self heal and Sanicle to help himself.   

The Service-tree.  
IT is so well known in the places where it grows that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It Flowreth before the end of May, and the Fruit is ripe in October.  
Government and virtues.] Services when they are mellow are fit to be taken to stay Fluxes, 

Fluxes, Scowrings and Castings.  
Bleeding of Wounds or at Mouth& Nose   scouring, and Castings, yet less than Medlars: if they be dried before they be mellow, and kept all the year, they may be used in Decoction for the said purpose, either to drink, or to bath the parts requiring it: and is profitably used in that manner to stay the bleeding of Wounds, and at the Mouth or Nose, to be applied to the Fore-head, and Nape of the Neck: and is under the Dominion of Saturn.   

Shepheards-Purse.  
IT is also called Whoremans-Parmacitty, Shepheards-Scrip, Shepheards-Pouch, Toy-wort, Pick-purse, and Case-weed.  
Descript.] The Root is small, white, and perisheth every year: The leaves are small and long, of a pale green colour, and deeply cut on both sides: Amongst which springeth up a Stalk which is small and round, containing small leaves upon it even to the top: The Flowers are white, and very small: After which come the little cases which hold the Seed, which are flat, almost in the form of a Heart.  
Place.] They are frequent in this Nation, almost by every Paths side.  
Time.] They flower al the Summer long, nay, some of them are so fruitful, that they flower twice a year.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Saturn, 
Stop fluxes, flux of the belly, spitting and pissing Blood, Terms stops, yell. Jaundice, pains, noise,& matterings in the Ears, Wounds.  and of a could, dry, and binding Nature like to him. It stops al fluxes of Blood either caused by inward or outward Wounds; as also flux of the Belly and Bloody Flux, spitting and pissing of Blood, stops the Terms in Women being bound to the wrists of the Hands, and the sols of the Feet, it helps the yellow Jaundice: The Herb being made into a Pultiss helps inflammations, and St. Anthonies fire; the juice being dropped into the Ears, helps the pains, noises, and matterings thereof. A good ointment may be made of it for al Wounds, especially Wounds in the Head.   

Smallage.  
THis also is very well known, and therfore I shal not trouble the Reader with any Description thereof.  
Place.] It groweth naturally in wet and Marsh Grounds, but if it be sown in Gardens, it there prospereth very well.  
Time.] It abideth green al the Winter, and Seedeth in August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Mercury. Smallage is hotter, drier, and much more Medicinable than parsley, for it much more openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, rarifieth thick phlegm, 
Liver& spleen Urine and Womens Courses, yell. Jaundice, Agues, Sore Mouths and Throats, Ulcers and Cankers, Wind, Worms, stinking breath.  and cleanseth it and the Blood withal. It provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, and is singular good against the yellow Jaundice: It is very effectual against Tertian and Quartan Agues, if the juice thereof be taken; but especially made into a Syrup. The juice also put to Honey of Roses, and Barley Water, is very good to gargoyle the Mouth and Throat of those that have Sores and Ulcers in them, and will quickly heal them: The same Lotion also cleanseth and healeth al other foul Ulcers and Cankers elsewhere if they be washed therwith. The Seed is especially used to break and expel wind, to kill Worms, and to help a stinking breath. The Root is effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, and is held to be stronger in operation than the Herb, but especially to open Obstructions, and to rid away an Ague, if the juice thereof be taken in Wine, or the Decoction thereof in Wine be used.   

Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort.  
Descript.] THe Root creepeth under ground far and near, with many joints therein, of a brown colour on the outside and yellowish within, shooting forth in divers places many weak round Stalks, full of joints, set with two leaves apiece at every one of them on the contrary side, which are ribbed somewhat like unto plantain, and fashioned like the common field white Campion leaves, seldom having any Branches from the sides of the Stalks, but set with divers Flowers at the top standing in long Husks like the wild Campions, made of five leaves apiece, round at the ends, and a little dented in the middle, of a pale Rose colour, almost white, sometimes deeper, and sometimes paler, of a reasonable good scent.  
Place.] It groweth wild in many low and wet grounds of this Land, by the Brooks, and sides of running Waters.  
Time.] I● flowereth usually in July, and so continueth al August, and part of September before they be quiter spent.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns it. The Country people in divers places do use to bruise the leaves of Sope-wort, and lay it to their Fingers, 
Cut Fingers, provokes Urin, Expels Gravel and ston, dropsy, French Pox.  Hands, or Legs when they are cut, to heal them up again. Some make great boast thereof that it is Diuretical to provoke Urine, and thereby to expel Gravel and the ston in the Reins or Kidneys: and do also account it singular good to avoid Hydropical Waters thereby to cure the Disease of the dropsy; And they no less extol it to perform an absolute cure in the French Pox, more than either Sarsaparilla, Gujacum, or China can do, which how true it is, I leave to others to judge.   

Sorrel.  
OUr ordinary Sorrel, which groweth in Gardens, and also wild in the Fields, is so well known that it needeth no Description.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of Venus. Sorrel is prevalent in al hot Diseases, to cool any inflammation and heat of Blood in Agues Pestilential or choleric, 
Cooleth inflammations, and heat of Blood, Agues, Quench thirst, provoke Appetite, Kill Worms, Womens Courses, fluxes, poison, Jaundice, Inward Ulcers, Itch, Teteers and Ringworms, Kernels in the Throat, Sore Mouth, imposthume, boil or Plague-sore.  or other sickness and fainting, rising from heat, and to refresh the overspent Spirits with the violence of furious or fiery fits of Agues, to quench thirst, and procure an Appetite in fainting or decayed Stomachs: for it resisteth the putrefaction of the Blood, killeth Worms, and is as a Cordial to the Heart, which the Seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding, and thereby stayeth the hot Fluxes of Womens Courses, or of Humors in the bloody flux, or flux of the Stomach. The Roots also in a Decoction, or in powder, is effectual for al the said purposes. Both Roots and Seed as well as the Herb is held powerful to resist the poison of the Scorpion. The Decoction of the Roots is taken to help the Jaundice, and to expel Gravel and the ston in the Reins or Kidneys The Decoction of the Flowers made with Wine and drunk helpeth the black Jaundice, as also the inward Ulcers of the Body or Bowels. A Syrup made with the juice of Sorrel and Fumitory is a sovereign help to kill those sharp humors that cause the Itch. The juice thereof with a little Vinegar serveth well to be used outwardly for the same cause, and is also profitable for Tetters, Ringworms, &c. It helpeth also to discuss the Kernels in the Throat, and the juice gargled in the Mouth, helpeth the Sores therein. The leaves wrapped up in a Colewort Leaf, and roasted under the Embers, and applied to a hard imposthume, Botch, boil, or Plague-sore, both ripeneth and breaketh it. The Distilled Water of the Herb is of much good use for al the purposes aforesaid.   

Wood Sorrel.  
Descript.] THis groweth low upon the Ground, having a number of leaves coming from the Root, made of three leaves like a trefoil but broad at the ends and cut in the middle, of a faint yellowish green colour, every one standing on a long Footstalk, which at their first coming up are close folded together to the Stalk, but opening themselves afterwards, and are of a fine sour relish, and yielding a juice which will turn read when it is clarified, and maketh a most dainty clear Syrup: Among these leaves riseth up divers slender weak Footstalks, with every one of them a Flower at the top, consisting of five small pointed leaves star fashion, of a white colour in most places, and in some dashed over with a small show of blushy, on the back side only: After the Flowers are past, follow small round heads, with small yellowish Seed in them: The Roots are nothing but small strings fastened to the end of a small long piece, al of them being of a yellowish colour.  
Place.] It groweth in many places of our Land, in Woods and Wood sides, where they be moist and shadowed, and in other places, not too much open to the Sun.  
Time.] It flowereth in April and May.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns it. Wood-Sorrel serveth to al the purposes that the other Sorrels do, and is more effectual in hindering the putrefaction of Blood, 
Ulcers, inflammations, procure Appetite, stay Vomiting, Pestilential fevers, hot swellings, canker or Ulcer in the Mouth, Wounds, or scabs, defluxions. & ulcers in the Mouth and Body, and in cooling& tempering heats& inflammations, to quench thirst, to strengthen a weak Stomach, to procure an Appetite, to stay Vomiting, and very excellent in any contagious sickness, or Pestilential fevers. The Syrup made of the juice is effectual in al the causes aforesaid, and so is the distilled Water of the Herb also. sponges or linen clothes wet in the juice and applied outwardly to any hot Swellings or inflammations, doth much cool and help them: The same juice taken and gargled in the Mouth, and after it is spit forth, fresh taken, doth wonderfully help a foul stinking Canker or Ulcer therein. It is singular good in Wounds, Thrusts, and Stabs in the Body, to stay bleeding, and to cleanse and heal the Wounds speedily; and helpeth to stay any hot defluxions into the Throat or Lungs.   

Sow-Thistles.  
SOw-Thistles are generally so well known that they need no Description.  
Place.] They grow in our Gardens and manured Grounds, and sometimes by old walls, the path sides of Fields and highways.  
Government and virtues.] This and the former are under the influence of Venus. Sow-thistles are cooling and somewhat binding, and are very fit to cool an hot Stomach, 
Pains and heat of the stomach, short Wind and Wheesing, gravel and ston; stinking Breath, speedy Delivery, strangury, Milk increased, Deafness& singing in the ears, inflamed Eyes, Wheals& blisters, Hemorrhoids, clear the Face.  and to eas the gnawing pains thereof: The Herb boiled in Wine is very helpful to stay the dissolutions of the Stomach; and the Milk that is taken from the Stalks when they are broken, given in drink, is beneficial to those that are short winded, and have a wheesing withal: Pliny saith, That it hath caused the Gravel and ston to be voided by Urin, and that the eating thereof helpeth a stinking brea●h: Three spoonfuls of the juice thereof taken in white Wine warmed, and some oil put thereto causeth Women in travail to have so easy and speedy delivery, that they may be able to walk presently after: The said juice taken in warm drink, helpeth the strangury and pains in making water. The Decoction of the leaves and Stalks, causeth abundance of Milk in Nurses, and their Children to be well coloured, and is good for those whose Milk doth curdle in their Breasts. The juice boiled or thoroughly heated with a little oil of bitter Almonds in the Pill of a Pomegranate, and dropped into the Ears, is a sure Remedy for Deafness, singings, and al other Diseases in them. The Herb bruised, or the juice, is profitably applied to al hot inflammations in the Eyes, or wheresoever else, and for Wheals, Blisters, or other the like eruptions of heat in the skin; as also for the heat and itching of the Hemorrhoids, and the heat and sharpness of Humors in the secret Parts of Man or Woman: The distilled Water of the Herb, is not only effectual for al the Diseases aforesaid to be taken inwardly with a little Sugar( which Medicine the daintiest Stomach will not refuse) but outwardly, by applying clothes or sponges wetted therein: It is wonderful good for Women to wash their Faces therewith, to clear the Skin, and give a lustre thereto.   

Southernwood.  
SOuthernwood is so well known to be an ordinary Inhabitant in our Gardens, that I shal not need to trouble you with any Description thereof. The virtues are as followeth:  
Time.] It flowereth for the most part in July and August.  
Government and virtues.] It is a gallant Mercurial Plant, worthy of more esteem than it hath. Dioscorides saith, That the Seed bruised, heated in warm Water and drunk, helpeth those that are Bursten, 
Bursten, cramps& convulsions, Sciatica, strangury, womens Courses, poison, Agues, Inflamed Eyes, pimples, bushes and Wheals, Worms, splinters& thorns, old ulcers, sores in the privities balness, French pox, ston, spleen and Mother.  or troubled with Cramps, or Convulsions of the Sinews, the Sciatica, or difficulty in making water, and bringeth down Womens Courses. The same taken in Wine is an Antidote, or Counter poison against al deadly poison, and driveth away Serpents, and other venomous Creatures; as also the smell of the Herb being burnt, doth the same, The oil therof anointed on the Back-bone before the Fits of Agues come, taketh them away: It taketh away inflammations in the Eyes, if it be put with some part of a roasted Quince, and boiled with a few crumbs of bread and applied. boiled with Barley Meal it taketh away Pimples, bushes, or Wheals, that rise in the Face or other part of the Body. The seed as well as the dried Herb is often given to kill the Worms in Children: The Herb bruised and laid to, helpeth to draw forth splinters and thorns out of the flesh. The Ashes thereof drieth up and healeth old Ulcers that are without inflammation, although by the sharpness thereof it biteth sore, and putteth them to sore pains: as also the sores in the privy Parts of Man or Woman. The Ashes mingled with old salad oil, helpeth those that have their Hair fallen, and are bald, causing the Hair to grow again either on the Head or Beard. Durantes saith, That the oil made of Southernwood and put among the ointments that are used against the French Disease, is very effectual, and likewise killeth Lice in the Head. The distilled Water of the Herb is said to help them much that are troubled with the ston, as also for the diseases of the spleen and Mother. The Germans commend it for a singular Wound Herb, and therefore call it Stabwort. It is held by al Writers, Ancient and Modern to be more offensive to the stomach than Wormwood.   

Spignel.  
Descript.] THe Roots of common Spignell do spread much and deep in the ground, many strings or branches growing from one Head which is hairy at the top, of a blackish brown colour on the outside and white within, smelling well, and of an aromatical taste, from whence rise sundry long stalks of most fine cut leaves like hairs, smaller then Dill, set thick on both sides of the Stalks, and of a good scent. Among these leaves rise up round stiff sta●ks, with a few joints and leaves at them, and at the tops an Umbel of fine pure white Flowers, at the edges whereof sometimes will be seen a show of reddish blushy colour, especially before they be full blown and are succeeded by small somewhat round Seed, bigger than the ordinary Fennel, and of a browner colour, divided into two parts, and crested on the back, as most of the Umbelliferous Seeds are.  
Place,] It groweth wild in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and other Northern Countries, and is also planted in Gardens.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Venus. Galen saith, 
Provoks Urine and Womens Courses, Strangury, pain in the stomach, Mother, joint aches; Tough phlegm, venomous Creatures  The Roots of Spignel are available to provoke Urine and Womens Courses, but if too much therof be taken it causeth headache: The Roots boiled in Wine or Water and drunk, helpeth the Strangury, and stoppings of the Urine, the wind, Swellings and pains in the Stomach, pains of the Mother, and all joint Aches. If the powder of the Roots be mixed with Honey, and the same taken as a licking Medicine, it breaketh tough phlegm, and drieth up the Rhewm that falleth on the Lungs. The Roots are accounted very effectual against the stinging or biting of any venomous Creature, and is one of the Ingredients in mithridate, and other Antidotes for the same.   

Spleenwort, or Ceterach.  
Descript.] THe smooth Spleenwort from a black, threddy and bushy Root sendeth forth many long single leaves, cut in on both sides into round dents, almost to the middle, which is not so hard as that of Pollipody, each division being not always set opposite unto the other, but between each smooth, and of a light green on the upper side, and a dark yellowish roughness on the back, folding or rolling itself inward at the first springing up.  
Place.] It groweth as well upon Stone-walls as moist and and shadowy places about Bristol and other the West parts plentifully; as also on Framingham Castle, on Beckonsfield Church in berkshire, at Strowde in Kent and elsewhere, and abideth green all the Winter.  
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns it. It is generally used against infirmities of the Spleen, it helpeth the Strangury, and wasteth the ston in the Bladder, 
Spleen strangury, ston, yellow Jaundice; Running of the reins Melancholy Diseases.  and is good against the yellow Jaundice and the Hiccough; but the use of it in Women hindereth Conception. Mathiolus saith, That if a dram of the dust that is on the back side of the leaves, be mixed with half a dram of Amber in powder, and taken with the juice of Purslane or plantain, it will help the running of the Reins speedily, and that the Herb or Root being boiled and taken, helpeth all melancholic Diseases, and those especially that arise from the French Disease. Camerarius saith, That the Distilled ●ater thereof being drunk is very effectual against the ston in the Reins and Bladder: and that the Ly that is made of the Ashes therof being drunk for some time together, helpeth splenetic persons: It is used in outward Remedies for the same purpose.   

Star thistle.  
Descript.] A Common Star-thistle hath divers long and narrow leaves lying next the ground, cut or torn on the edges, somewhat deeply, into many almost even parts, soft or a little wooley all over the green among which rise up divers weak stalks partend into many Branches all lying or leaning down to the ground, that it seemeth a pretty Bush, set with divers the like divided leaves up to the tops, where severally do stand long and small whitish green heads, set with sharp and long white pricks( no part of the Plant being else prickly) which are somewhat yellowish: out of the middle whereof riseth the Flower composed of many small reddish purple threads; and in the Heads after the Flowers are past, come small whitish round Seed lying in down as others do. The Root is small, long, and woody, perishing every year, and rising again of its own sowing.  
Place.] It groweth wild in the fields about London in many places, as at Mile-end-green in Finsbury Fields beyond the windmills, and many other places.  
Time.] It Flowreth early, and Seedeth in July, and sometimes in August.  
Government and virtues.] This, as almost all Thistles are under Mars. 
Provoks Urine, ston, plague, fistula, french pox, Obstructions, Agues.  The Seed of this Star-Thistle made into powder and drunk in Wine, provoketh Urine, and helpeth to break the ston, and drive it forth. The Root in powder and given in Wine and drunk, is good against the Plague or Pestilence, and drunk in the mornings fasting for some time together, is very profitable for a Fistula in any part of the Body. Baptista Sardus doth much commend the distilled Water hereof being drunk; to help the French Disease, to open Obstructions of the Liver, and cleanse the blood from corrupted Humors, and is profitably given against Quotidian or Tertian Agues.   

Strawberries.  
THese are so well known through this Land, that they need no Description.  
Time.] They Flower in May ordinarily, and the Fruit is ripe shortly after.  
Government and virtues.] Venus owns the Herb. Strawberries when they are green, 
Cool the Liver, Spleen& Stomach, Quench Thirst, inflammations, Provoke Urine, stay the bloody flux and Womens Courses, panting of the heart Yellow Jaundice, Ulcers sore Mouths or Ulcers in the privities Loosteeth, Catarrhs Defluxions, Inflamed Eyes. bushes and Wheals, read Face, Deformities in the skin, films over the Eyes.  are could and dry, but when they are ripe they are could and moist: The Berries are excellent good to cool the Liver, the blood and the Spleen, or an hot choleric stomach; to refresh and comfort the fainting spirits, and to quench Thirst: They are good also for other inflammations, yet it is not amiss to refrain from them in a fever, lest by their putrefying in the stomach they increase the Fits. The leaves and Roots boiled in Wine and Water and drunk, do likewise cool the Liver and blood, and assuage all inflammations in the Reins and bladder, provoketh Urine, and allayeth the the heat and sharpness thereof: The same also being drunk stayeth the bloody Flux, and Womens Courses, and helpeth the swellings of the Spleen. The Water of the Berries carefully distilled is a Soverrign Remedy and cordial in the panting and beating of the Heart, and is good for the yellow Jaundice. The juice dropped into foul Ulcers, or they washed therewith, or the Decoction of the Herb and Root doth wonderfully cleanse, and help to cure them. Lotions and Gargles for sore Mouths, or Ulcers therein, or in the privy Parts, or elsewhere, are made with the leaves and Roots thereof; which is also good to fasten loose Teeth, and to heal spongy foul Gums: It helpeth also to stay Catarrhs or Defluxions of Rhewm into the Mouth, Throat, Teeth, or Eyes; The juice or Water is singular good for hot and read Inflamed Eyes, if dropped into them, or they bathed therewith; it is also of excellent property for all bushes, Wheals, and other breakings forth of hot and sharp humors in the Face and Hands, or other parts of the Body, to bath them therewith; and to take away any redness in the face or Spots, or other deformities in the skin, and to make it clear and smooth. Some use this Medicine; Take so many Strawberries as you shal think fitting, and put them into a Distillatory or Body of Glass fit for them, which being well closed, set it in a bed of Hors-dung for twelve or fourteen daies, and afterwards distill it carefully and keep it for your use: It is an excellent Water for hot inflamed Eyes, and to take away any film or skin that beginneth to grow over them, and for such other defects in them as may be helped by any outward Medicine.   

Succory.  
Descript.] THe Garden Succory hath longer and narrower leaves than Endive, and more cut in or to●n on the edges, and the Root abideth many years: It beareth also blew Flowers like End●ve, and the Seed is hardly distinguished from the Seed of the smooth or ordinary Endive.  
The wild Succory hath divers long leaves lying on the ground very much cut in or torn on the edges, on bolh sides even to the middle rib ending in a paint; sometimes it hath a read Rib down the middle of the leaves, from among which riseth up a hard, round, woody stalk spreading into many Branches, set with smaller and lesser divided Leaves on them up to the tops where stand the flowers, which are like the Garden kind as the Seed is also( only take notice that the Flowers of the Garden kind are gone in on Sunny day, they being to could that they are not able to endure the Beams of the Sun; and therefore most delight in the shadow.) The Root is white, but more hard and woody than the Garden kind: The whole Plant is exceeding bitter.  
Place.] This groweth in many places of our Land, in wast, untilled, and barren Fields. The other, only in Gardens.  
Gevernment and virtues.] It is an Herb of Jupiter. Garden Succory as it is more dry, and less could than Endive, so it openeth more. 
choleric, and flegmatick Humors, obstructions, yell. Jaundice, hot Reins,& urine, dropsy Agues, passions of the Heart, headache, swellings& inflammations, St Anthonies fire, bushes, wheals,& pimples, inflamed Eyes, too much Milk.  An handful of the leaves or Roots boiled in wine or water, and a draft therof drunk fasting, driveth forth choleric and Flegmatick Humors, openeth Obstructions of the Liver, gull, and Spleen; helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the heat of the Reins, and of the Urine; the dropsy also, and those that have an evil disposition in their Bodies by reason of long sickness, evil Diet, &c. which the Creeks call {αβγδ}, Cachexia. A Decoction therof made with wine and drunk, is very effectual against long lingering Agues; and a dram of the Seed in powder drunk in wine before the Fit of an Ague, helpeth to drive it away: The Distilled water of the Herb and Flowers( if you can take them in time) hath the properties, and is especial good for hot stomachs, and in Agues, either pestilential, or of long continuance, for swoonings, and passions of the Heart, for the heat and headache in Children, and to the blood and Liver. The said water or the juice, or the bruised leaves applied outwardly, allayeth swellings, inflammations, St. Anthonies Fire, bushes, Wheals, and Pimples, especially used with a little Vinegar, as also to wash pestiferous sores. The said Water is very effectual for sore Eyes that are inflamed with redness, and for Nurses Breasts that are pained by the abundance of Milk.  
The wild Succory as it is more bitter, so it is more strengthening to the Stomach and Liver.   

Stone-Crop, Prick-Madam, or small House-Leek.  
Descript.] IT groweth with divers trailing branches upon the ground, set with many thick, fat, roundish, whitish, green leaves, pointed at the ends; the Flowers stand many of them together, somewhat loosely: the Roots are small, and run creeping underground.  
Blace.] It groweth upon the Stone-wals and Mud-wals, upon the Tiles of Houses, and Penthouses, and amongst Rubbish, and in other Gravelly places.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June and July, and the leaves are green al the winter.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the Dominion of the Moon, could in quality, and something binding, and therfore very good to stay Defluxions, 
Binds, stay defluxions, bleeding stops, Cankers, sores, ulcers, choler, choleric Humors, poison, pestilent fevers, tertian agues, Kings-Evil, Knots and Kernels in the flesh, Piles.  especially such as fall upon the Eyes; it stops Bleeding both inward and outward, helps Cankers and al freting sores and Ulcers; it abates the heat of choler, thereby preventing Diseases thence arising from choleric Humors: It expels poison much, resisteth pestilential fevers, being exceeding good also for tertian Agues, you may drink the Decoction of it if you please for al the foregoing infirmities: It is so harmless an Herb, you can scarce use it a miss, being bruised and applied to the place it helps the Kings Evil, and any other Knots, or Kernels, in the flesh; as also the Piles.   

English Tobacco.  
Deseript.] THis riseth up with a thick round stalk, about two foot high, whereon do grow thick fat green leaves, nothing so large as the other Indian kinds, somewhat round pointed also, and nothing dented about the edges: The stalk brancheth forth, and beareth at the tops divers Flowers set in green Husks, like the other, but nothing so large; scarce standing above the brims of the Husks, round pointed also, and of a greenish yellow colour. The Seed that followeth is not so bright, but larger, contained in the like great heads. The Roots are neither so great, nor woody, and perishing every year with the hard frosts in Winter, but riseth generally of its own sowing.  
Place.] This came from some parts of basil, as is thought, and is more familiar in our Country than any of the other sorts; early giving ripe seed, which the other seldom do.  
Time.] It Flowreth from June sometimes to the end of August, or later, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time.  
Government and virtues.] It is a marshal Plant. It is found by good experience to be available to expectorate tough phlegm from the Stomach, 
Tough phlegm, Worms, Meagrim, pains in the Bowels, gravel,& ston Wind, Mother, toothache, Kings Evil, venomous Creature, Ague, cramps,& aches Sciatica, Itch, Scabs,& ulcers cankers& foul sores, lice, fresh Wound, old sores, Impostuns& hard swellings.  Chest, and Lungs. The juice therof made into a Syrup, or the distilled Water of the herb drunk with some Sugar, or without if you will: Or the smoke taken by a Pipe as is usual, but fasting. The same helpeth to expel Worms in the Stomach and Belly, and to ease the pains in the Head, or Meagrim, and the gripping pains in the Bowels: It is profitable for those that are troubled with the ston in the Kidneys, both to ease pains, and by provoking Urine, to expel Gravel and the ston engendered therein, and hath been found very effectual to expel windiness and other Humors which cause the strangling of the Mother. The Seed hereof is very effectual to help the toothache, and the Ashes of the burnt Herb, to cleanse the Gums, and make the Teeth white. The Herb bruised and applied to the place grieved with the Kings-Evil( as they call it) helpeth it in nine or ten dayes effectually. Monardus saith it is a counterpoison for the biting of any venomous Creature; the Herb also being outwardly applied to the hurt place. The Distilled Water is often given with some Sugar before the Fit of an Ague to lessen them, and take them away in three or four times using. If the distilled Fecies of the Herb having been bruised before the Distillation, and not Distilled dry, be set in warm dung for fourteen dayes, and afterwards hung up in a Bag in a Wine cellar; that liquour that Distilleth there-from, is singular good to use for Cramps, Aches, the Gout, and Sciatica, and to heal Itches, Scabs, and running Ulcers, Cankers, and foul Sores whatsoever. The juice is also good for al the said griefs, and likewise to kill Lice in Childrens heads. The green Herb bruised and applied to any green Wound, cureth any fresh Wound or Cut wheresoever: and the juice put into old Sores, both cleanseth and healeth them. There is also made hereof a singular good salue to help Impostumes, hard tumours, and other swellings by Blows or Fals.   

The Tamarisk-Tree.  
IT is so well known in the places where it grows, that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It Flowreth about the end of May or in June, and the Seed is ripe and blown away in the beginning of September.  
Government and virtues.] A gallant Saturnine Herb it is. If the Root, leaves, or young Branches be boiled in Wine or Vinegar and drunk, 
Spleen, Hemorrhoids, spitting blood, womens Courses, Jaundice,& colic Ven. Serpents, toothache, pain in the Ears, watering Eyes, Gangrenes,& Ulcers, Nits,& lice, spleen, burning& scalding, french pox leprosy and scabs, dropsy, melancholy, black jaundice.  and applied outwardly, it is very powerful against the hardness of the Spleen. The leaves boiled in Wine and drunk, is good to stay the bleeding of the Hemorrhoidal Veins, the spitting of blood, and Womens too abounding Courses, and helpeth the Jaundice, the colic, and the bitings of al venomous Serpents, except the Asp. The Bark is as effectual if not more to al the purposes aforesaid; and both it and the leaves boiled in Wine, and the mouth and the teeth washed therwith, helpeth the toothache; being dropped into the Ears, easeth the pains; and is good for the redness and watering of the Eyes. The said Decoction with some Honey put thereto, is good to stay Gangrenes and freting Ulcers, and to wash those that are subject to Nits and Lice. The Wood is very effectual to consume the Spleen, and therfore to drink out of Cups and Cans made therof, is good for splenetic persons. The Ashes of the Wood are used for al the purposes aforesaid, and besides, doth quickly help the Blisters raised by burnings or scaldings, by fire or water. Alpinus and Veslingius do affirm, That the egyptians do with as good success use the Wood hereof to cure the French Disease, as others do Lignum Vitae, or Guajacum; and give it also to such as are possessed with leprosy, Scabs, bushes, Ulcers, or the like; and is available also to help the dropsy, arising from the hardness and Obstruction of the Spleen, as also for melancholy, and the black Jaundice that ariseth therof.   

Garden tansy.  
GArden tansy is so well known, that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] D●me Venus was minded to pleasure Women with Child by this Herb; for there grows not an Herb fitter, for their uses than this is; it is just as though it were cut out for the purpose: The Herb bruised and applied to the Navel stays miscarriages, I know no herb like it for that use; boiled in ordinary Beer, and the Decoction drunk, doth the like; and if her Womb be not as she would have, this Decoction will make it as she would have it, or at least, as she should have it: Let those Women that desire Children love this Herb, 'tis their best Companion, th●ir Husband excepted. Also, it consumes the Flegmatick Humors, the could and moist constitution of Winter most usually infects the Body of man with, and that was the first Reason of eating Tansies in the Spring; At last the world being over-run with Popery, a Monster called Superstition perks up his head, and as a just judgement of God, obscures the bright beams of Knowledge by his dismal looks( Physitians seeing the Pope and his Imps selvish, they began to do so too) and now forsooth Tansies must be eaten only on Palm and Easter sundays, and their neighbour dayes: At last Superstition being too hot to hold, and the selfishness of Physitians walking in the clouds; after the friars and Monks had made the people ignorant, the Superstition of the time was found out, but the virtue of the Herb hidden; and now 'tis almost, if not altogether, left off: Surely our Physitians are beholding to none so much as they are to Monks and friars, for want of eating this Herb in spring, maketh people sickly in summer, and that makes work for the physician. If it be against any Man or Womens Conscience to eat a tansy in the spring, I am as unwilling to burden their Consciences as I am that they should burden mine: They may boil it in Wine and drink the Decoction, it will work the same effect. The Decoction of the Common tansy, or the juice drunk in wine, is a singular Remedy for al the griefs that come by stoping of the Urine, 
Disury, Strangury, Reins, Kidneys, Wind, Womb, Miscarriage, ston, Stomach, Worms, Cramps,  helpeth the Strangury, and those that have weak Reins and Kidneys. It is also very profitable to dissolve and expel wind in the stomach, Belly, or Bowels, to procure womens Courses, and expel windiness in the Matrix. If it be bruised, and often smelled unto, as also applied to the lower part of the Belly, it is very profitable for such women as are given to miscarry in Child-bearing, to cause them to go out their full time: It is used also against the ston in the Reins, especially to Men. The Herb fried with eggs( as is accustomend in the spring time) which is called a Tansi●, helpeth to digest, and carry downward those bad Humors that trouble the stomach: The seed is very profitably given to Children for the worms, and the juice in Drink is as effectual. Being boyl●d in oil, it is good for the sinews shrunk by C●amps, or pained with could, if thereto applied.   

Wild tansy, or Silver-weed.  
THis also is so well known that it needeth no Description.  
Place.] It groweth almost in every place.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June and July.  
Government and virtues.] Now Dame Venus hath fitted Women with two Herbs of one name, one to help Conception, the other to maintain Beauty: and what more can be expected of her? What now remains for you but to love your Husbands, and not to be wanting to your poor Neighbors? Wild tansy stayeth the Lask, and al the Fluxes of blood in men or women, 
Flux, Terms, stops vomiting of blood, whites Ruptures, bellyach, Sciaticv, joints, toothache, loos-teeth, Gums, Ulcers, in the Mouth, Wounds, sore Legs, Pimples, Freckles, Sun-burning.  which some say it will do if the green Herb be worn in the shoes, so it be next the skin; and 'tis true enough that 'twill stop the Terms if worn so, and the Whites too for ought I know. It stayeth also spitting or vomiting of blood. The powder of the dried herb taken in some of the distilled water, helpeth the Whites in women, but more especially if a little Coral and Ivory in powder be put to it: It is also much commended to help Children that are bursten, and have a rapture, being boiled in water and salt. Being boiled in wine and drunk, it easeth the gripping pains of the Bowels, and is good for the Sciatica and joint Aches. The same boiled in vinegar with Honey and alum, and gargled in the mouth, easeth the pains of the toothache, fasteneth loose teeth, helpeth the Gums that are sore, and settleth the palate of the mouth in its place when it is fallen down: It cleanseth and healeth the Ulcers in the Mouth or secret Parts, and is very good for inward wounds, and to close the lips of green wounds: as also to heal old, moist, corrupt running sores in the Legs, or else where; Being bruised and applied to the soles of the feet, and the hand-wrests, it wonderfully cooleth the hot fits of Agues, be they never so violent. The Distilled water cleanseth the skin of al discolourings therein, as Morphew, Sun-burning, &c. as also Pimples, Freckles, and the like; and dropped into the Eyes, or clothes wet therein and applied, taketh away the heat, and inflammations in them.   

Thistles.  
OF these are many kinds growing here in England, which are so well known, that they need no Description: Their difference is easily known by the places where they grow: viz.  
Place.] Some grow in Fields, some in Meadows, and some among the Corn: others, on Heaths, Greens, and wast Grounds in many places.  
Time.] They al Flower in July and August, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] Sure Mars rules it, it is such a prickly business. Al these Thistles are good to provoke Urine, and to amend the stinking smell thereof; 
Disury, ill smell, stinking Breath, Stomach.  as also the rank smell of the Armpits, or of the whole Body, being boiled in Wine and drunk; and are said also to help a stinking Breath, and to strengthen the Stomach. Pliny faith, That the juice bathed on the place that wanteth Hair, it being fallen off, will cause it to grow again speedily.   

The melancholy Thistle.  
Descript.] IT riseth up with a tender single hoary green stalk, bearing thereon four or five long hoary green leaves, dented about the edges, the points whereof are little or nothing prickly, and at the top usually but one head, yet sometimes from the bosom of the uppermost Leaf there shooteth forth another smaller head, scaly and somewhat prickly, with many reddish Purple Thrums, or thirds in the middle, which being gathered fresh, will keep the colour a long time, and fadeth not from the stalk in a long time, while it perfecteth the seed, which is of a mean bigness lying in the Down: The Root hath many long stringy fastened to the head, or upper part, which is blackish and perish not.  
There is another fort little differing from the former, but that the leaves are more green above, and more hoary underneath; and the stalk being about two foot high, beareth but one large scaly head, with thirds and seeds as the the former.  
Place.] They grow in many moist Meadows of this Land, as well in these Southern, as in the Northern parts.  
Time.] They Flower about July or August, and their Seed ripeneth quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis under Capricorn, and therfore under both Saturn and Mars, one rids melancholy by Sympathy, the other by Antipathy. Their virtues are but few, but those not to be despised; for the Decoction of the Thistle in Wine being drunk, expels superfluous melancholy out of the Body, 
melancholy.  and make a man as merry as a Cricket, superfluous melancholy causeth care, fear, sadness, despair, envy, and many evils more besides; but Religion teacheth to wait upon Gods Providence, and cast our care upon Him, who careth for us: What a fine thing were it if Men and Women could live so? and yet seven years care, and fear, makes a man never the wiser, nor a farthing the richer. Dioscorides saith, The Root born about one doth the like, and removes al Diseases of melancholy. Modern Writers laugh at him, let them laugh that wins; my Opinion is, That 'tis the best Remedy against al melancholy Diseases that grows: They that please, may use it.   

Our Ladies Thistle.  
Descript.] OUr Ladies Thistle hath divers very large and broad leaves, lying on the ground, cut in, and as it were crumpled, but somewhat hairy on the edges, of a white green shining colour, wherein are many lines and strakes of a milky white colour, running al over, and set with many sharp and stiff prickles al about: among which riseth up one or more strong, round, and prickly stalks, set full of the like leaves up to the top, where at the end of every branch, cometh forth a great prickly Thistle-like head, strongly armed with pricks, and with bright purple thrums rising out of the middle of them; after they are past, the seed groweth in the said heads, lying in a great deal of soft white Down, which is somewhat flatish and shining, large and brown. The Root is great, spreading in the ground, with many strings, and small fibres fastened thereto. All the whole Plant is bitter in taste.  
Place.] It is frequent on the Bank of almost every Ditch.  
Time.] It Flowreth and Seedeth in June, July, and August.  
Government and virtues.] Our Ladies Thistle is under Jupiter, and thought to be as effectual as Cardus Benedictus for Agues, and to prevent and cure infection of the Plague, as also to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, 
Agues, Plague, Obstructions, Liver, Spleen, dropsy, stitches in the side, Liver, spleen.  and thereby is good against the Jaundice; It provoketh Urine, breaketh and expelleth the ston, and is good for the dropsy: It is effectual also for the pains in the Sides, and many other inward pains and gripings? The Seed and distilled Water are held powerful to al the purposes aforesaid: and besides, it is often applied both inwardly to drink, and outwardly with clothes or sponges to the Region of the Liver to cool the distemperature therof, and to the Region of the Heart, against swoonings and passions of it. It cleanseth the blood exceedingly, and in spring if you please to boil the tender Plant,( but cut off the prickles, unless you have a mind to choke yourself) it will change your blood as the season changes, and that's the way to be safe, as to change as the times change, is the way to live secure; and that flatterers and weather-cocks know well enough.   

The Woolley, or Cotton Thistle.  
Descript.] THis hath many large leaves lying on the ground, somewhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a green colour on the upper side, but covered over with a long hairy wood, or Cottony Down, set with most sharp and cruel pricks; from the middle of whose heads of Flowers come forth many purplish crimson thirds, and sometimes white, although but seldom: The Seed that followeth in these white downy heads is somewhat large, long, and round, resembling the seed of Ladies-Thistle, but paler: The Root is great, and thick, spreading much, yet usually death after seed-time.  
Place.] It groweth on divers Ditch Banks, and in the Cornfields, and highways, generally throughout the Land; and is often found growing in Gardens.  
Time.] It Flowreth and bearreth seed about the end of Summer, when other Thistles do Flower and Seed.  
Government and virtues.] It is a Plant of Mars. Dioscorides and Pliny writ, That the leaves and Roots hereof taken in drink, helpeth those that have a Crick in their Neck, 
Crick in the Neck, Spasm, convulsion Rickets.  that they cannot turn it unless they turn their whole Body. Galen saith, That the Root and leaves hereof are good for such persons that have their Bodies drawn together by some Spasm or Convulsion, or other infirmities, as the Rickets,( or as the college of Physitians would have it, the Rachites, about which name they have quarrelled sufficiently) in Children; being a disease that hindereth their growth, by binding their laws, Ligaments, and whole structure of their Body.   

The Fullers Thistle, or Teasel.  
IT is so well known that it needeth no Description, being used with the Cloath-workers.  
The wild Teasel is in all things like the former, but that the prickles are small, soft, and upright, not hooked or stif; and the Flowers of this are of fine blushy or pale Carnation colour, but of the manured kind whitish.  
Place.] The first groweth being sown in Gardens or Fields for the use of Cloath-workers: The other near Ditches and Cils of Water in many places of this Land.  
Time.] They flower in July, and are ripe in the end of August.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Venus. Dioscorides saith, That the Root bruised and boiled in Wine until it be thick, and kept in a brazen Vessel or Pot, and after spread as a salue and applied to the Fundament, 
Clefts, Cankers, fistulaes, Warts, Wens, Worms in the Ears, Sight, Redness in the Face, inflammations.  doth heal the clefts thereof, as also Cankers and Fistulaes therein, as also taketh away Warts and Wens: The juice of the leaves dropped into the Ears, killeth Worms in them. The distilled Water of the leaves dropped into the Eyes, taketh away redness and mists in them that hinder the sight; and is often used by Women to preserve their beauty, and to take away redness and inflammations, and al other heat or discolorings.   

Treacle Mustard.  
Descript.] IT riseth up with a hard round Stalk about a foot high, partend into some Branches, having divers soft green leaves somewhat long and narrow set thereon, waved, but not cut in on the edges, broadest towards the ends, and somewhat round pointed: The flowers are white that grow at the tops of the Branches, spike fashion one above another; after which come large round pouches, partend in the middle with a furrow, having one blackish brown seed on either side, somewhat sharp in taste, and smelling of garlic, especially in the Fields where it is natural, but not so much in Gardens: The Roots are small and thriddy, perishing every year.  
Give me leave here to ad mithridate Mustard, although it may seem more properly by the name to belong to the Alphabet M.   

mithridate Mustard.  
Descript.] THis groweth higher than the former, spreading more and longer branches, whose leaves are smaller and narrower, sometimes unevenly dented about the edges: the Flowers are small and white, growing on long branches, with much smaller and rounder Seed Vessels after them, and partend in the same manner, having smaller brown seeds than the former, and much sharper in taste: The Root perisheth after seed time, but abideth the first Winter after the springing.  
Place,] They grow in sundry places of this Land; as half a mile from Hatfield by the River side under a hedge as you go to Hatfield, and in the street of Peckham on Surrey side.  
Time.] They flower and seed from May to August.  
Government and virtues.] Both of them are Herbs of Mars. These Mustards are said to purge the Body both upwards and downward, 
Purge the body, terms provokes Imposthumes, Sciatica, poison venom, putrefaction.  and procureth Womens Courses so abundantly, that it suffocateth the Birth: It breaketh inward Impostumes being taken inwardly, and used in Clysters, helpeth the Sciatica: the seed applied outwardly doth the same. It is an especial Ingredient unto mithridate and Treacle, being of itself an Antidote resisting poison, venom, and putrefaction: It is also available in many causes for which the common Mustard is used, but somewhat weaker.   

The Black-Thorn, or Sloe-Bush.  
IT is so well known that it needeth no Description.  
Place.] It groweth in every Country, in the Hedges and Borders of Fields.  
Time.] It flowreth in April, and sometimes in March, but ripeneth the Fruit after al other Plums whatsoever, and is not fit to be eaten until the Autumn Frost have mellowed it.  
Government and virtues.] All the parts of the Sloe-bush are binding, cooling, and drying, and al effectual to stay bleeding at the Nose and Mouth, 
Binds, Cools, dries, bleeding, flux, gnawings in bowels and stomach, Sore Mouth& Throat, headache.  or any other place; the Lask of the Belly, or stomach, or the bloody Flux, the too much abounding of Womens Courses, and helpeth to ease the pains in the sides, bowels, and guts, that come by over-much scouring, to drink the Decoction of the Bark of the Roots, or more usually the Decoction of the Berries either fresh or dried. The Conserve is also of very much use, and most familiarly taken for the purposes aforesaid: But the distilled Water of the Flowers first steeped in Sack for a night, and drawn therefrom by the heat of Balneum Angliceabatth, is a most certain Remedy, tried and approved to ease al manner of gnawings in the Stomach, the sid●s and Bowels, or any gripping pains in any of them, to drink a small quantity when the extremity of pain is upon them: The leaves also are good to make Lotions, to gargoyle and wash the Mouth and Throat, wherein are Swellings, Sores, or Kernels, and to stay the Defluxions of Rhewm to the Eyes or other parts, as also to cool the heat and inflammations in them, and to eas hot pains of the Head, to bath the Fore-head and Temples therewith. The simplo distilled Water of the Flowers is very effectual for the said purposes, and the condensate juice of the Sloes. The distilled Water of the green Berries is used also for the said effects.   

Thorough-wax, or Thorough-leaf.  
Descript.] COmmon Through wax sendeth forth one strait round stalk, and sometimes more, two foot high and better, whose lower leaves being of a bluish green colour are smaller and narrower than those up higher, and stand close thereto, not compassing it, but as they grow higher they do more and more encompass the stalk, until it wholly( as it were) pass through them, branching toward the top into many parts, where the leaves grow smaller again, every one standing singly, and never two at any joint: The Flowers are very small and yellow, standing in tufts at the Heads of the Branches, where afterwards grow the Seed, and blackish, many thick thrust together: The Root is small, long, and woody, perishing every year after Seed time, and rising again plentifully of its own sowing.  
Place.] It is found growing in many Corn Fields, and Pasture grounds in this Land.  
Time.] It flowereth in July, and the Seed is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] Both this and the former are under the influence of Saturn. through wax is of a singular good use, for al sorts of Bruises and Wounds either inward or outward, and old Ulcers and Sores likewise, 
Bruises, Wounds, Ulcers, Ruptures, Navils sticking out.  if the Decoction of the Herb with Water or Wine be drunk, and the places washed therewith, or the juice or green Herb bruised or boiled either by itself, or with other Herbs in oil or Hogs Grease, to be made into an ointment to serve al the year: The Decoction of the Herb, or the powder of the dried Herb taken inwardly, and the same, or the green leaves bruised and applied outwardly, is singular good to cure Ruptures and Burstings, especially in Children, before it be too old. Being also applied with a little Flower and Wax to Childrens Navels that stick forth, it helpeth them.   

Time.  
IT is in vain to describe an Herb so commonly known.  
Government and virtues.] It is a notable strengthener of the Lungs, as notable a one as grows; neither is there scarce a better Remedy growing for that Disease in Children which they commonly call the Chin-cough, 
Lungs, Chin-cough, phlegm, shortness of breath, Worms, Terms provokes, safe and speedy Delivery to Women in travail, Afterbirth, hot swellings, Warts, Sciatica, sight, spleen, Gout, Cods swelled, lions, and Hips, Stomach, Expels Wind.  than it is: It purgeth the Body of phlegm, and is an excellent Remedy for shortness of Breath: It kills Worms in the Belly; and being a notable Herb of Venus provokes the Terms, gives safe and speedy Delivery to Women in travail, and brings away the After-birth: It is so harmless you need not fear the use of it. An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and Warts, helps the Sciatica, and dullness of sight, takes away the pains and hardness of the Spleen; 'tis excellent good for those that are troubled with the Gout, as also to anoint the Cods that are swelled; it easeth pains in the loins and Hips: The Herb taken any way inwardly comforts the stomach much, and expels wind.   

Wild Time, or Mother of Time.  
WIld Time also is so well known, it needs no Description.  
Place.] It may be found commonly in Commons, and other barren places throughout the Nation.  
Government and virtues.] This also is under the Dominion of Venus, 
Urin provokes, terms provokes, pain and gripings of the belly, Cramp, Ruptures, inflammations of Liver, pains of the Head, Frenzies, Lethargies, spitting and pissing Blood, Coughing, Vomiting, Head strengtheneth, Stomach, Reins, Womb, Wind, ston.  though under the Sign Aries, and therfore chiefly appropriated to the Head: It provoketh Urin and the Terms, and easeth the gripping pains of the Belly, Cramps, Ruptures, and inflammations of the Liver: If you make a Vinegar of the Herb as Vinegar of Roses is made, you may find out the way in my Translation of the London Dispensatory, and anoint the Head with it presently stops the pains thereof: It is excellent good to be given either in a frenzy or Lethargy, although they are two contrary Diseases: It helps spitting and pissing of blood, Coughing and Vomiting, it comforts and strengtheners both the Head, Stomach, Reins, and Womb, expels wind, and breaks the ston.   

Tormentil, or Setfoyl.  
Descript.] THis hath many reddish, slender, weak branches rising from the Root, lying upon the ground, or rather leaning than standing upright, with many short leaves that stand closer to the Stalks than cinquefoil doth( which this is very like) with the Footstalk encompassing the Branches in several places, but those that grow next to the ground are set upon long Footstalks, each whereof are like the leaves of cinquefoil, but somewhat longer and lesser, and dented about the edges, many of them divided but into five leaves, but most of them into sevens, whence it is also called Setfoyl; yet some may have six and some eight, according to the fertility of the soil: At the tops of the Branches stand divers small yellow Flowers consisting of five leaves, like those of cinquefoil, but smaller. The Root is smaller than Bistort, somewhat thick, but blacker without, and not so read within, yet sometimes a little crooked, having many blackish fibres thereat.  
Place.] It groweth as well in Woods and shadowy places, as in the open Champion Country, about the Borders of Fields in many places of this Land, and almost in every Broom Field in Essex.  
Time.] It flowereth al the Summer long.  
Government and virtues.] This is a gallant Herb of the Sun. Tormentil is most excellent to stay al kind of Fluxes of Blood or Humors in man or woman, 
Flux, Bleeding, Veins cut, Terms stops, fevers, Pestilence, small pox, Measles, Purples, poison, Spleen, Blood inflamed, Liver, Lungs, Yellow Jaundice, French Pox, Miscarriage, Diabetes, Worms, Ruptures, toothache, Wounds, Sores, Hurts, Gout, Scabby Heads.  whether at Nose, Mouth, Belly, or any Wound in the Veins or elsewhere: The juice of the Herb or Root taken in drink, not only resisteth al poison and Venom of any Creature, but of the Plague itself, and Pestilential fevers, and contagious Diseases, as the Pox, Measles, Purples, &c. expelling the Venom and Infection from the Heart by sweeting, if the green Root be not at hand to be had, the powder of the dry Root is as effectual, a dram thereof being taken every morning: The Decoction likewise of the Herbs and Roots made in Wine and drunk worketh the same effect; and so doth the distilled Water of the Herb and Root being steeped in Wine for a night, and then distilled in Balneo Mariae. This Water thus distilled taken with some Venice Treacle, and the party presently laid to sweat will certainly( with Gods help) expel any Venom or poison, or the Plague, fever, &c. for it is an Ingredient of especial respect in al Antidotes or Counterpoysons. There is not found any Root more effectual to help any Flux of the Belly, Stomach, Spleen, or Blood than this, to be taken inwardly, or applied outwardly. The juice taken doth wonderfully open Obstructions of the Liver and Lungs, and thereby in short space helpeth the yellow Jaundice: Some use to make Cakes hereof as well to stay al Fluxes as to restrain al choleric Belchings, and much Vomitings with loathings in the Stomach: The powder of the dried Root made up with the white of an Eg, and baked upon a hot Tile will do it. Andreus Valesius is of Opinion, That the Decoction of this Root is no less effectual to cure the French Pox than Guajacum, or China; and 'tis not unlikely, because it so mightily resisteth putrefaction. Lobel saith, That Rondelitius used it as hermodactyls for Joynt-aches: The powder also, or Decoction to be drunk, or to sit therein as a Bath, is an assured Remedy against Abortion in Women, if it proceed from the over fluxibility, or weakness of the inward retentive faculty: as also a plaster made therewith and Vinegar applied to the Reins of the Back, doth much help, not only this, but also those that cannot hold their Water, the powder being taken in the juice of plantain: and it is also commended against the Worms in Children. It is very powerful in Ruptures and Burstings: as also for bruises and Fals, to be used as well outward as inwardly. The Root hereof made up with Pellitory of Spain and alum, and put into an hollow Tooth, not only assuageth the pain, but stayeth the flux of Humors which caused it. Tormentil is no less effectual and powerful a Remedy for outward Wounds, Sores, and Hurts, than for inward, and is therefore a special ingredient meet to be used in Wound drinks, Lotions, and Injections for foul corrupt rotten Sores and Ulcers of the Mouth, Secrets, or other parts of the Body. And to put either the juice or powder of the Root into such ointments, plasters, and such things that are to be applied to Wounds and Sores: It also dissolveth all Knots, Kernels, and hardness gathered about the Ears, and Throat, and Jaws and the Kings evil if the leaves and Roots be bruised and applied thereto: The same also easeth the pains of the Sciatica or Hip-Gout by restraining the sharp Humors that flow thereto. The juice of the leaves and Roots used with a little Vinegar is also a special Remedy against the running Sores of the Head or other parts, Scabs also and the Itch, or any such eruptions in the Skin proceeding of Salt and sharp Humors: The same also is effectual for the Piles or Hemorrhoids if they be washed and bathed therewith, or with the Distilled water of the Herb and Roots: It is found also helpful to dry up any sharp Rhewm that distilleth from the Head into the Eyes causing, redness, pain, waterings, Itchings, or the like, if a little prepared Tutia, or white Amber he used with the Distilled water hereof: Many Women use this Water as a secret to help themselves and others when they are troubled with the too much flowing of the Whites or Reds, both to drink it, and inject it with a Syringe. And here's enough, only remember, the Sun challengeth the Herb.   

Turnsole, or Heliotropium  
Descript. THe greater Turnsole riseth up with one upright Stalk about a foot high or more, dividing itself almost from the bottom into divers smaller Branches of a hoary colour: at each joint of the Stalk and Branches grow two small broad leaves somewhat white or hoary also: At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand many small white Flowers consisting of four and sometimes five very small leaves, set in order one above another, upon a small crooked Spike, which turneth inwards like a bowed finger, opening by degrees as the Flowers blow open; after which in their places come forth small cornered, four for the most part standing together. The Root is small and threddy perishing every year, and the Seed shedding every year, raiseth it again the next Spring.  
Place.] It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth and Seedeth with us in England, notwithstanding it is not natural to this Land, but to Italy Spain and France, where it groweth plentifully.  
Government and virtues.] 'tis an Herb of the Sun, and a good one too. 
choler, phlegm, Stones, Disury, Terms provokes Gout, Warts, Wens, Disjunctures.  Dioscorides faith, That a good Handful of this, which is called the greater Turnsole, boiled in Water and drunk, purgeth both choler and phlegm: And boiled with Cummin and drunk, helpeth the ston in the Reins, Kidneys or Bladder, provoketh Urine and Womens Courses, and causeth an easy and speedy delivery in Childbirth. The leaves bruised and applied to places pained with the Gout, or that have been out of joint and newly set are full of pain, do give much ease. The Seed and the juice of the Leaves also being rubbed with a little Salt upon Warts, Wens, and other hard Kernels in the Face, Eyelids, or any other part of the Body, will by often using take them away.   

Meadow trefoil, or Honeysuckles.  
IT is so well known especially by the name of Honeysuckles, White and read, that I need not describe them.  
Place.] They grow almost every where in this Land.  
Government and virtues.] Mercury hath dominion over the common sorts. Dodoneus saith, The leaves and Flowers are good to ease the gripping pains of the Guts, the Herb being boiled and used in a Clyster: 
Belly-ach, inflammations, Pin and Web, Eyes.  if the Herb be made into a Pultis and applied to inflammations, it will ease them. The juice dropped into the Eyes is a familiar Medicine with many Country People to take away the Pin and Web( as they call it) in the Eyes, it also allayeth the Heat and Bloodshooting of them: Country people do also in many places drink the juice hereof against the biting of an Adder, and having boiled the Herb in Water, they first wash the place with the Decoction, and then lay some of the Herb also to the hurt place. The Herb also boiled in Swines Grease and so made into an ointment, is good to apply to the biting of any venomous Creature. 
venomous Beast, Disury, Wounds, Scars, Whites, Swellings, Apostums  The Herb also bruised and heated between two Tiles, and applied hot to the share, causeth them to make water who had it stopped before: It is held likewise to be good for Wounds, and to take away Scars. The Decoction of the Herb and Flowers with the Seed and Root taken for some time, helpeth Women that are troubled with the Whites. The Seed and Flowers boiled in Water, and after made into a Pultis with some oil and applied, helpeth hard swellings and Impostumes.   

Heart-trefoyl.  
Besides the ordinary sorts of Trefoyle here are two more remarkable, and one of which may probably be called Heart-trefoyle, not onely because the Leaf is triangular like the iHeart of a man, but also because each Leaf contains the perfect Icon of a Heart, and that in its proper colour, Viz. A flesh colour.  
Place.] It groweth in a Field between Longford and Bow, as also beyond Southwark toward Croyden, both in the right way and parts adjacent.  
Government and virtues.] It is under the dominion of the Sun, 
Heart strengtheneth vital spirit, fainting, swoonings, poison, Pestilence, evil vapours  and if it were used it would be found as great a strengthener of the heart, and cherisher of the vital spirit as grows, relieving the Body against Faintings, and Swoonings, fortifying it against poisons and Pestilence, and defending the Heart against the noisome vapours of the Spleen.   

Pearl-trefoyle.  
IT differs not from the common sort, save only in this one particular, that it hath a white spot in the Leaf like a Pearl; it is particularly under the dominion of the Moon, and its Icon sheweth that it is of singular virtue against the Pearl, 
Pin& Web in the Eye.  or pin and Web in the Eye.   

Tutsan, or Park Leaves.  
Descript.] IT hath many brownish shining round Stalks, crested all the length thereof, rising to be two and sometimes three foot high, branching forth even from the bottom, having divers joints, and at each of them two fair large leaves standing, of a dark bluish green colour on the upper side, and of a yellowish green underneath, turning reddish towards Autumn, but abiding on the Branches all the Winter: At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand large yellow Flowers, and Heads with Seed, which being greenish at the first, and afterward reddish, turn to be of blackish purple colour when they are through ripe, with small brownish Seed within them, and then yield a reddish juice or liquour, of a reasonable good scent, somewhat resinous, and of an harsh and stiptitch taste, as the leaves also and the Flowers be, although much less, but do not yield such a clear Claret Wine liquour as some say it doth: The Root is brownish, somewhat great hard, and woody, spreading well in the ground.  
Place. It groweth in many Woods, Groves, and Woody Grounds, as Parks and Forrests, and by hedge sides in many places of this Land, as in Hampsted Wood, by Ratley in Essex, in the Wild of Kent, and in many other places needless to recite.  
Time.] It Flowreth later than St. Johns, or St. Peters wort.  
Government and virtues.] It is an Herb of Saturn and a most noble Antevenerian. Tutsan purgeth choleric Humors as St. 
choler Sciatica, Gout, Burnings, Bleeding, Wounds, Ulcers.  Peters wort is said to do, for therein it worketh the same effects, both to help the Sciatica and Gout, and to heal burnings by fire: It stayeth also the bleeding of wounds if either the green herb be bruised, or the powder of the dry be applied thereto. It hath been accounted and certainly is a sovereign Herb to heal any Wound or Sore either outwardly or inwardly, and therefore always used in Drinks, Lotions, Balms, oils, ointments for any fort of green Wound, or old Ulcers and Sores, in all which the continual experience of former Ages hath confirmed the use therof to be admirable good, though it be not so much in use now as when Physitians and chirurgeons were so wise as to use Herbs more than now they do.   

Garden Valerian.  
Descript.] THis hath a thick short grayish Root lying for the most part above ground, shooting forth on all sides, other such like small pieces or Roots, which have all of them many long and great strings or fibres under them, in the ground, whereby it draweth nourishment. From the Heads of these Roots spring up many green leaves, which at first are somewhat broad and long without any division at all in them, or denting on the edges, but those that rise up after are more and more divided on each side, some to the middle Rib, being winged, as made of many leaves together on a Stalk, and those upon the Stalk in like manner are more divided, but smaller towards the top then below: The Stalk riseth to be a yard high or more, sometimes branched at the top, with many small whitish Flowers, sometimes dashed over at the edges with a pale purplish colour, of a little scent: which passing away there followeth small brownish white Seed that is easily carried away with the wind. The Root smelleth more strong than either Leaf or Flower, and is of more use in Medicine.  
Place.] It ts generally kept with us in our Gardens.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June and July, and continueth flowering until the Frosts pull it down.  
Government and virtues.] This also is under the Influence of Mercury. 
Disury, Strangury, Stitch, terms, provoks, breast, short wind, Cough, phlegm, Pestilence, Wind.  Dioscorides saith, That the Garden Valerian hath a warming Faculty and that being dried and given to drink, it provoketh Urine and helpeth the Strangury: The Decoction thereof taken, doth the like also, and taketh away pains of the sides, provoketh Womens Courses and is used in Antidotes. Pliny saith, That the powder of the Root given in drink, or the Decoction thereof taken, helpeth all stoppings and stranglings in any part of the Body, whether they proceed of pains in the Chest or sides, and taketh them away. The Root of Valerian boiled with Liquoris, raisins, and Annis Seed, is singular good for those that are short winded, and for those that are troubled with the Cough, and helpeth to open the passages, and to expectorate phlegm easily. It is given to those that are bitten or stung by any venomous Creature, being boiled in Wine, It is of special virtue against the Plague, the Decoction thereof being drunk, and the Root being used to smell unto; It helpeth also to expel the wind in the Belly. The green Herb with the Root taken fresh, being bruised and applied to the Head, 
headache, Eyes, Pin and Web, Wounds, Splinters, Thorns.  taketh away the pains and prickings therein, stayeth rheums and thin Distillations, and being boiled in white Wine, and the drop thereof put into the Eye, taketh away the dimness of the sight, or any Pin or Web therein: It is of excellent property to heal any inward Sores or Wounds, as also for outward Hurts or Wounds, and draweth any Splinter or Thorn out of the Flesh.   

Vervain.  
Descript.] THe common Vervain, hath somewhat long and broad leaves next the ground deeply gash'd about the edges, and some only deeply dented, or cut all alike, of a blackish green colour on the upper side and somewhat gray underneath: The Stalk is square branched into several parts, rising about two foot high, especially if you reckon the long Spike of Flowers at the tops of them, which are set on all sides one above another, and sometimes two or three together, being small and gaping, of a purplish blew colour, and white intermixed, after which come small round Seed in small and somewhat long Heads: The Root is small and long, but of no use.  
Place.] It groweth generally throughout this Land in divers places by the Hedges and way sides, and other wast grounds.  
Time.] It Flowreth about July, and the Seed is ripe soon after.  
Government and virtues.] This also is an Herb of Venus, and an excellent Herb for the Womb, to strengthen it and remedy all the could griefs of it, as plantain doth the hot, the Herb bruised and hung about the Neck helps the headache. Vervain is hot and dry, bitter, opening Obstructions, 
Obstructions cleansing, Healing, yellow Jaundice, venomous Beasts, Pestilence, Agues, ●orms, Cough, shortness of Breath, whe●sing, ston Gravel, Reins Bladder. Womb, dropsy, Bleeding, Wounds, Ulcers Fistulaes, beadach, frenzy, Morphew, Freckles, Eyes.  cleansing, and healing, It helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the dropsy, and the Gout, the defects of the Reins and Lungs, and generally, all inward pains and torments of the Body, the leaves being boiled and drunk; The same is held to be good against the bitings of Serpents, and other venomous Beasts; and against the Plague and both Tertian and Quartan Agues, killeth and expelleth Worms in the B●lly, and causeth a good colour in the Face and Body, strengtheneth as well as correcteth the Diseases of the Liver and Spleen, is very effectual in all Diseases of the Stomach and Lungs, as Coughs, shortness of Breath and wheezings, and is singular good against the dropsy, to be drunk with some Peony Seeds, bruised and put thereto;& is no less prevalent for the defects of the Reins and bladder, to cleanse them of those Humors that engender the ston, and helpeth to break the ston and to expel Gravel: It consolidateth and healeth also all Wounds both inward and outward, and stayeth bleedings, and used with some Honey, healeth al old Ulcers and Fistulaes in the Legs or other parts of the Body, as also those Ulcers that happen in the Mouth, or used with old Hogs grease, it helpeth the Swellings and pains of the secret parts in man or Woman, as also for the Piles and Hemorrhoids: applied with some oil of Roses and Vinegar unto the Forehead and Temples, it easeth the inveterate pains and ache of the Head, and is good for those that are frantic. The leaves bruised, or the juice of them mixed with some Vinegar doth wonderfully cleanse the Skin, and taketh away Morphew, Freckles, Fistulaes, and other such like inflammations and deformities of the Skin in any part of the Body. The distilled water of the Herb when it is in his full strength, dropped into the Eyes, cleanseth them from Films, Clouds, or mist, that darken the sight, and wonderfully strengtheneth the optic Nerves; The said Water is very powerful in all the diseases aforesaid either inward or outward, whether they be old corroding Sores, or green Wounds.   

The Vine.  
THe leaves of the English Vine( I do not intend to sand you to the Canaries for a Medicine) being boiled make a good Lotion for sore Mouths, being boiled with Barley Meal into a Pultis, it cools inflammations of Wounds, 
Sore Mouths, inflammations, Womens Longing. ston,  the droppings of the Vine when 'tis cut in the Spring, which country people call Tears, being boiled into a Syrup with Sugar and taken inwardly is excellent to stay Womens Longings after every thing they see, which is a Disease many women with Child are subject too; The Decoction of Vine leaves in white Wine doth the like: also the Tears of the Vine drunk, two or three spoonfuls at a time, breaks the ston in the Bladder: This is a very good Remedy, and it is discreetly done to kill a Vine to cure a Man, 
Teeth black.  but the Salt of the leaves is held to be better.  
The Ashes of the burnt Branches will make Teeth that are as black as a coal to be as white as snow if you do but every morning rub them with it.  
It is a most gallant three of the Sun very simpatheticall with the Body of Man: and that's the reason spirit of Wine is the greatest Cordial amongst all vegetables.   

Violets.  
THese, both Tame and Wild, are so well known that they need no Description.  
Time.] They Flower until the end of July, but are best in March and the beginning of April.  
Government and virtues.] They are a fine pleasing Plant of Venus, 
inflammation, Eyes, Womb, headache, choler, quinsy, Fallingsickness, Swellings, pleurisy, phlegm, Hoarceness, Throat, Back, Reins. Bladder. Thirst, Heart.  of a mild nature, no way harmful. All the Violets are could and moist while they are fresh and green, and are used to cool any heat or distemperature of the Body either inwardly or outwardly, as inflammations in the Eyes, in the Matrix, or Fundament, in Impostumes also, and hot Swellings, to drink the Decoction of the leaves or Flowers made with Water in Wine, or to apyly them Pultis wise to the grieved place; it likewise easeth pains in the Head caused through want of-sleep; or in any other place arising of heat, being applied in the same manner, or with oil of Roses. A dram weight of the dried leaves of the Flowers of Violets( but the leaves more strongly) doth purge the Body of choleric Humors, and assuageth the heat being taken in a draft of Wine or any other drink: The powder of the Purple leaves of the Flowers onely picked and dried and drunk in Water is said to help the quinsy, and the Falling-sickness in Children, especially in the beginning of the Disease. The Flowers of the white Violets ripeneth and dissolveth Swellings. The Herb or Flowers while they are fresh, or the Flowers when they are dry, are effectual in the pleurisy, and all diseases of the Lungs, to lenifie the sharpness of hot rheums, and the Hoarseness of the Throat, the heat also, and sharpness of Urine, and all pains of the Back, or Reins and the Bladder: It is good also for the Liver and the Jauncice, and in all hot Agues to cool the heat and quench the Thirst: but the Syrup of Violets is of most use and of better effect, being taken in some convenient liquour; and if a little of the juice or Syrup of lemons be put to it or a few drops of the oil of Vitrol, it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and quench the Thirst, and giveth to the drink a Claret Wine colour, and a fine tart relish, pleasing the taste. Violets taken, or made up with Honey doth more cleanse then cool, and with Sugar contrariwise. The dried Flowers of Violets are accounted among the Cordial Drinks, powders, and other Medicines especially where cooling Cordials are necessary: The green leaves are used with other Herbs, to make plasters and Pultisces for inflammations and Swellings, and to ease pains wheresoever, arising of heat, and for the Piles also, being fried with Yolks of eggs and applied thereto.   

Vipers Bugloss.  
Descript.] THis hath many loug rough leaves lying on the ground, from among which rise up divers hard round Stalks, very rough as if they were thick set with prickles or hairs, wherein are set such like long rough hairy or prickly sad green leaves, somewhat narrow; the middle Rib for the most part being white. The Flowers stand at the top of the Stalks, branched forth into many long spiked leaves of Flowers, bowing or turning like the Turnsole, all of them opening for the most part on the one side, which are long and hollow, turning up the Brims a little, of a Purplish Violet colour in them that are fully blown, but more reddish while they are in the Bud as also upon their decay and withering; but in some places of a paler purple colour, with a long pointel in the middle, feathered or partend at the top: After the Flowers a●e fallen the Seeds growing to be ripe, are blackish, cornered and pointed somewhat like unto the Head of a Viper. The Root is somewhat great and blackish, and Wooly, when it groweth toward Seed time; and perisheth in the Winter.  
There is another sort little differing from the former, only in that it beareth white Flowers.  
Place.] The first groweth wild almost every where. That with white Flowers, about the Castle Walls in Lewes in Sussex.  
Time.] They Flower in Summer, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.  
Government and virtues.] It is a most gallant Herb of the Sun; it is pity it is no more in use then it is. It is an especial Remedy against the biting of the Viper, 
venomous Beasts, poison, Heart, Sadness, melancholy, Agues, Milk, loins, Back, Kidneys.  and all other Vememous Beasts or Serpents, as also against poison and poisonful Herbs. Dioscorides and others say, That whosoever shal take of the Herb or Root before they be bitten, shall not be hurt by the poison of any Serpent. The Roots or Seed are thought to be most effectual to comfort the Heart, and expel Sadness, or cause less melancholy, it tempers the Blood, and allayeth hot fits of Agues: The Seed drunk in Wine procureth abundance of Milk in Womens Breasts. The same also being taken easeth the pains in the loins, Back, and Kidneys: The distilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower, or his chiefest strength, is excellent to be applied either inwardly or outwardly for all the Griefs aforesaid. There is a Syrup made hereof very effectual for the comforting of the Heart, and expelling Sadness and melancholy.   

Wall-Flowers, or Winter Gilly Flowers.  
THe Garden ●inds are so well known that they need no Description.  
Descript.] The common single Wall-Flowers which grow wild abroad, hath sundry small, long, narrow, and dark green leaves, set without order upon small round whitish woody Stalks which bear at the tops divers single yellow Flowers one above another, every one having four leaves apiece and of a very sweet scent: after which come long Pods containing reddish Seed. The Root is white, hard and thriddy.  
Place.] It groweth upon Church Walls, and old Walls of many houses and other ston Walls in divers places. The other sorts in Gardens only.  
Time.] All the single kinds do flower many times in the end of Autumn, and if the Winter be mild all the Winter long, but especially in the Months of February, March and April, and until the heat of the Spring do spend them: But the double kinds continue not flowering in that manner all the year long, although they Flower very early sometimes, and in some places very late.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon rules them. Galen in his seventh Book of simplo Medicines saith, 
Obructions, Liver, Terms provokes, Afterbirth, Child, spleen, weakness Disjuncture, Gout, Sinews, apoplexy, palsy.  That the yellow Wall-Flowers worketh more powerfully than any of the other kinds, and is therefore of more use in physic; It cleanseth the blood and freeth the Liver and Reins from Obstructions, provoketh Womens Courses, expelleth the Secondine and dead Child, helpeth the hardness and pains of the Mother, and of the Spleen also, stayeth inflammations and Swellings, comforteth and strengtheneth any weak part, or out of joint: helpeth to cleanse the Eyes from mistiness and Films on them, and to cleanse soul and filthy Ulcers in the Mouth, or any other part, and is a singular Remedy for the Gout, and all Aches and pains in the joints and Sinews. A Conserve made of the Flowers is used for a Remedy both for the apoplexy and palsy.   

The Walnut three.  
IT is so well known, that it needeth no Description.  
Time.] It Blossometh early, before the leaves come forth, and the Fruit is ripe in September.  
Government and virtues.] This also is a Plant of the Sun: Let the Fruit of it be gathered accordingly, which you shal find to be of most virtue whilst they are green before they have shells. The Bark of the three, doth bind and dry very much, and the leaves are much of the same temperature; 
Binds, Driers, Worms, poison, Epidemical Diseases, inflammation in the Throat, wounds of the Sinews Gangrenes Carbuncles Flux, terms stops Baldness, quinsy, toothache, Mother colic, Wind, Agues, Deafness, Ears.  but the leaves when they are older, are heating and drying in the second degree, and harder of digestion than when they are fresh, which by reason of their sweetness are more pleasing and better digesting in the Stomach; and taken with sweet Wine, they move the Belly downward: but being old, they grieve the stomach; and in hot Bodies cause choler to abound, and the headache, and are an enemy to those that have the Cough; but are less hurtful to those that have colder stomachs, and are said to kill the broad Worms in the Belly or stomach. If they be taken with Onions, Salt, and Honey, they help the biting of a Mad Dog, or the Venom or infectious poison of any Beast, &c. Coneus Pompeius found in the Treasury of Methridates King of Pentus, when he was overthrown, a scroll of his own hand-writing, containing a Medicine against any poison and Infection, which is this, Take two dry Walnuts, and as many good Figs, and twenty leaves of Rue, bruised and beaten together with two or three corns of salt, and twenty Juniper Berries, which taken every morning fasting, preserveth from danger of poison or Infection, that day it is taken. The juice of the outer green Husks, boiled up with Honey, is an excellent gargoyle for sore Mouths, the Heat and inflammations in the Throat and stomach: The Kernels when they grow old, are more oily, and therfore not so fit to be eaten, but are then used to heal the Wounds of the Sinews, Gangrenes, and Carbuncles▪ The said Kernels being burned, are then very astringent, and will then stay Lasks and Womens Courses: being taken in read wine, and stay the falling of the Hair, and make it fair, being anointed with oil and wine: The green Husks will do the like being used in the same manner. The Kernels beaten with Rue and Wine, being applied, helpeth the quinsy: and bruised with some Honey and applied to the Ears, easeth the pains and inflammations of them: A piece of the green Husk put into a hollow Tooth, easeth the pains. The Catkins hereof taken before they fall off; dried, and given a dram therof in powder with white Wine, wonderfully helpeth those that are troubled with the rising of the Mother. The oil that is pressed out of the Kernels, is very profitably taken inward like oil of Almonds, to help the colic, and to expel wind very effectually, an ounce or two therof may be taken at a time. The young green Nuts taken before they be half ripe, and preserved with Sugar, are of good use for those that have weak stomachs, or defluxions thereon. The Distilled water of the green Husk before they be half ripe, is of excellent use to cool the heat of Agues, being drunk an ounce or two at a time, as also to resist the Infection of the Plague, if some therof he also applied to the Sores therof. The same also cooleth the heat of green wounds and old Ulcers, and healeth them being bathed therwith: The distilled water of the green Husks being ripe, when they are shelled from the Nuts, being drunk with a little Vinegar, is also found by experience to be good for those that are infected with the Plague, so as before the taking therof a vein be opened. The said water is very vood against the quinsy, being gargled and bathed therwith, and wonderfully helpeth Deafness, the noise and other pains in the Ears. The Distilled water of the young green leaves in the end of May, performeth a singular cure on foul running Ulcers and Sores, to be bathed with wet clothes or sponges, applied to them evening and morning.   

would, wield, or Dyers Weed.  
Descript.] THe common kind groweth bushing with many leaves, long, narrow, and flat upon the ground, of a dark bluish green colour, somewhat like unto Woad, but nothing so large, a little crumpled and as it were round pointed, which do so abide the first year: And the next spring from among them rise divers round stalks two or three foot high, beset with many such like leaves thereon, but smaller, and shooting forth some small Branches, which with the stalks carry many small yellow Flowers, in a long spiked head at the tops of them, where afterwards come the Seed, which is small and black, enclosed in heads that are divided at the tops into four parts. The Root is long, white, and thick, abiding the Winter: The whole Herb changeth to be yellow after it hath been in flower a whlle.  
Place.] It groweth every where by the way sides in moist grounds as well as dry, in corners of Fields and by-Lanes: and sometimes al over the field: in Sussex and Kent they call it Greenweed.  
Time.] It is in Flower about June.  
government and virtues.] Mathiolus saith, That the Root hereof, 
phlegm, Humors, tumours, venomous Beasts, Pestilence, Worms.  cutteth tough phlegm, digesteth raw phlegm, thinneth gross Humors, dissolveth hard tumours, and openeth Obstructions. Some do highly commend it against the bitings of venomous Creatures, to be taken inwardly and applied outwardly, to the hurt place; as also for the Plague or Pestilence. The people in some Countries of this Land, do use to bruise the Herb, and lay it to cuts or wounds in the hands or legs to heal them.   

Wheat.  
AL the several kinds hereof are so well known unto almost al People, that it is altogether needless to writ any Description therof.  
Government and virtues.] It is under Venus. Dioscorides saith, That to eat the Corns of green Wheat, is hurtful to the stomach, and breedeth Worms. 
could, Tetters, Ring-Worms, Ulcers, chaps in the Hands& Feet, Mad Dogs Eyes, Kings-Evil, Sinews; Pestilence, Seabs, leprosy, venomous Beasts, Cods, hoarseness.  Pliny saith, That the Corns of Wheat roasted upon an Iron Pan and eaten, is a present Remedy for those that are chilled with could. The oil pressed from Wheat between two thick plates of Iron or Copper heated, healeth al Tetters and Ringworms being used warm, and hereby Galen saith he hath known many to be cured. Mathiolus commendeth the same oil to be put into hollow Ulcers to heal them up, and it is also good for chaps in the Hands or Feet, and to make a rugged Skin smooth. The green Corns of Wheat being chewed, and applied to the place bitten by a Mad Dog, healeth it: Slices of Wheat-bread soaked in read Rose-water, and applied to the Eyes that are hot, read, and inflamed, or bloud-shotten, helpeth them. Hot Bread applied for an hour at a time for three dayes together, perfectly healeth the Kernels in the Throat, commonly called the Kings Evil. The Flower of Wheat mixed with the juice of Henbane, stayeth the Flux of Humors to the joints being laid thereon: The said Meal boiled in Vinegar, helpeth the shrinking of the Sinews saith Pliny; and mixed with Vinegar and Honey boiled together, healeth al Freckles, Spots, and Pimples on the Face. Wheat flower, mixed with the yolk of an Eg, Honey, and Turpentine, doth draw, cleanse, and heal any boil, Plague-sore, or foul Ulcer. The Bran of Wheat-meal steeped in sharp Vinegar, and then bound in a linen Cloth, and rubbed on those places that have the Scurf, Morphew, Scabs, o● leprosy, will take them away; the Body being first well purged and prepared. The Decoction of the Bran of Wheat o● Barley, is of good use to bath those places that are Bursten by a rapture: and the said Bran boiled in good Vinegar, and applied to swollen Breasts, helpeth them, and stayeth at inflammations: It helpeth also the Bitings of Vipers( which I take to be no other but our English Adder) and al other venomous Creatures. The leaves of Wheat-meal applied with some Salt, taketh away hardness of the skin, Warts, and hard Knots in the Flesh. Starch moistened with Rose-water and laid to the Cods, taketh away their Itching. Wafers put in water and drunk, stayeth the Lask and Bloody-Flux, and is profitably used both inwardly and outwardly for the Ruptures in Children: boiled in water unto a thick jelly and taken, it stayeth spitting of Blood: and boiled with Mints and Butter, it helpeth the hoarseness of the Throat.   

The Willow three.  
THese are so well known, that they need no Description: I shal therfore only show you the virtues thereof.  
Government and virtues.] The Moon owns it. Both the leaves, Bark, and the Seed are used to staunch Bleeding of Wounds, and at Mouth and Nose, spitting of Blood, and al other Fluxes of Blood in man or woman, 
staunch bleeding spitting of blood Fluxes of blood vomiting, distilations on the Lungs, wind, colic, heat of Lust, dimness of sight, and other Diseases in the Eyes, clear the Face, dry up Humors, Warts, corns& superfluous Flesh, Scurf, or Dandriff, fever.  and to stay vomiting, and provocation thereunto, if the Decoction of them in Wine be drunk. It helpeth also to stay thin, hot, sharp, salt Distillations from the Head upon the Lungs causing a Consumption: The leaves bruised with some Pepper and drunk in Wine, much helpeth the wind colic. The leaves bruised and boiled in Wine and drunk, stayeth the heat of Lust in Man or Woman, and quiter extinguisheth it if it be long used; the Seed is also of the same effect. The Water that is gathered from the Willow when it Flowreth, the Bark being slit, and a fitting Vessel set to receive it, is very good for redness and dimness of Sight, for films that grow over the Eyes, and stay the rheums that fall into them, to provoke Urine being stopped, if it be drunk; and to clear the Face and Skin from Spots and Discolourings. Galen saith, The flowers have an admirable Faculty in drying up Humors, being a Medicine without any sharpness or corrosion: You may boil them in white Wine, and drink as much as you will( so as you drink not yourself drunk.) The Bark work the same effects, if used in the same manner; and the three hath always Bark upon it, though not always Flowers: The burnt Ashes of the Bark, being mixed with Vinegar, taketh away Warts, Corns, and Superfluous Flesh, being applied to the place. The Decoction of the leaves or Bark in Wine, takes away Scurf, or Dandriff, by washing the place with it: 'tis a fine cool three, the boughs of which are very convenient to be placed in the Chamber of one sick of a fever.   

Woad.  
Descript.] IT hath divers large leaves, long, and somewhat broad withal, like to those of the greater plantain, but larger, thicker, of a greenish colour, and somewhat blue withal: From among which leaves riseth up a lusty stalk three or four foot high, with divers leaves set thereon; the higher the stalk riseth, the smaller are the leaves; at the top it spreadeth into divers branches, at the end of which appear very pretty little yellow flowers, and after they pass away like other flowers of the Field, come Husks, long, and somwhot flat withal: In form they resemble a tongue; in colour, they are black, and they hang bobbing downward. The Seed contained within these Husks( if it be a little chewed) gives an Azure ●●lour. The Root is white and long.  
Place] It is sowed in Fields for the benefit of it, where those that sow it, cut it three times a year.  
Time.] It Flowreth in June, but is long after before the Seed is ripe.  
Government and virtues.] It is a could, and dry Plant of Saturn. Some People affirm the Plant to be destructive to Bees, which if it be, I cannot help it: They say it possesseth Bees with a Flux, but that I can hardly believe, unless Bees be contrary to all other Creatures, I should rather think it possesseth them with the contrary Disease, the Herb being exceeding drying and binding. However, if any Bees be diseased thereby, the cure is to set Urine by th●m, but set it in such a Vessel that they cannot drown themselves, which may be Remedied if you put pieces of Cork in it. I  told you before the Herb was drying and binding, and so drying and binding, that it is not fir to be given inwardly. An ointment made therof stancheth Bleeding. A plaster made therof, and applied to the Region of the Spleen, ( and I pray you take notice, 
bleeding, spleen, Ulcers, Inflamtions, St. Anthonies fire, defluxions of Blood.  that the Spleen lies on the left side) takes away the hardness and pains thereof: The ointment is excellent good in such Ulcers as abound with moisture, and takes away the corroding and freting Humors: It cools inflammations, quencheth St. Anthonies fire, and stayeth Defluxions of Blood to any part of the Body.   

Woodbind, or Honeysuckles.  
IT is a Plant so common, that every one that hath Eyes knows them, and he that hath none cannot red a Description if I should writ it.  
Time.] They Flower in June, and the Fruit is ripe in August.  
Government and virtues.] Doctor Tradition, that grand Introducer of Errors, that Hater of Truth, that Lover of Folly, and that mortal Foe to Doctor Reason, hath taught the common People to use the leaves and Flowers of this Plant in Mouth Waters, and by long continuance of time hath so grounded it in the Brains of the vulgar, that you cannot beat it out with a Beetle: Al Mouth Waters ought to be cooling and drying, but Honeysuckles are cleansing, consuming, and digesting, and therfore no ways fit for inflammations: Thus Doctor Reason. Again, If you please we will leave Doctor Reason a while, and come to Doctor Experience, a learned Gentleman, and his Brother: Take a Leaf and chew it in your Mouth, and you will quickly find it likelier to cause a sore Mouth or Throat than to cure it. well then, if it be not good for this, What is it good for? 'tis good for something, for God and Nature made nothing in vain: It is an Herb of Mercury, 
Lungs afflicted, Asthma, Spleen provokes, Urin and speedy Delivery in Childbirth Cramps, Convulsions and palsies, Freckles, and Sun-burning.  and appropriated to the Lungs; the celestial Crab claims Dominion over it, neither is it a Foe to the lion: If the Lungs be afflicted by Jupiter, this is your Cure: It is fitting a Conserve made of the Flowers of it were kept in every Gentlewomans House; I know no better Cure for an Asthma than this: Besides, It takes away the evil of the Spleen, provokes Urine, procures speedy Delivery to Women in travail, helps Cramps, Convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever griefs comes of could or stoping: If you please to make use of it in an ointment, it will clear your Skin of Morphew, Freckles, and Sun-burning, or whatsoever else discolors it, and then the Maids will love it. I have done when I have  told you what Authors say, and cavelled a little with them; they say, The Flowers are of more effect than the leaves, and that's true; but they say, The Seeds are least effectual of al: but Dr. Reason  told me, That there was a Vital Spirit in every Seed to beget its like; and Dr. Experience  told me, That there was a greater heat in a Seed than there was in any other part of a Plant, and withal, That Heat was the Mother of Action, and then judge of old Dr, Tradition( who may well be honoured for his Age, but not for his Goodness) have not so poisoned the World with his Errors before I was born, that it was never well in its wits since, and there is great fear it will die mad.   

Wormwood.  
THree Wormwoods are familiar with us; one I shal, not describe, another I shal describe, and the third be critical at: And I care not greatly if I begin with the last first.  
Sea Wormwood hath gotten as many Names as virtues( and perhaps one more) Seriphian, Santonicon, Belgicum, Narbonense, Xantomicum, Misnense, and a matter of twenty more which I will not blot Paper withal: A Papist got the Toy by the end, and he called it Holy Wormwood; and in truth I am of Opinion, their giving so much Holiness to Herbs is the reason there remains so little in themselves. The Seed of this Wormwood is that which usually Women give their Children for the Worms: Of al Wormwoods that grow here, this is the weakest; I but Doctors commend it, and Apothecaries sel it, the one must keep his Credit and the other get Money, and that's the Key of the work. The Herb is good for something, because God made nothing in vain: will you give me leave to weigh things in the balance of Reason? Then thus, The Seeds of the common Wormwood are far more prevalent than the Seed of this to expel worms in Children, or people of ripe age: Of both, some are weak, some are strong. The Seriphian Wormseed is the weakest, and happily may prove to be fittest for weakest Bodies( for it is weak enough in al conscience) Let such as are strong take the common Wormseed, for the other will do but little good. Again, near the Sea many people live, and Seriphium grows near them, and therefore is more fitting for their Bodies, because nourished by the same Air; and this I had from Dr. Reason. In whose Body Dr. Reason dwells not, dwells Dr. Madness, and he brings in his Brethren, Dr. Ignorance, Dr. Folly, and Dr. Sickness, and these together make way for Dr. Death, and the latter end of that man is worse than the beginning. Pride was the cause of Adam's Fall; Pride begot a Daughter, I do not know the Father of it unless the Devil, but she christened it, and called it Appetite, and sent her Daughter to taste these Wormwoods, who finding this the least bitter, made the squeamish Wench extol it to the Skies, though the virtues of it never reached to the middle Region of the Air. Its due praise is this; It is weakest, therfore fitter for weak Bodies, and fitter for those Bodies that dwell near it, than those that live far from it: my reason is, The Sea( as those that live far from it, know when they come near it) casteth not such a smell as the Land doth: The tender Mercies of God being over al his Works, hath by his eternal Providence planted Seriphian by the Sea side, as a fit Medicine for the Bodies of those that live near it. Lastly, It is known to al that know any thing in the Course of Nature, That the Liver delights in sweet things; if so, it abhors bitter; then if your Liver be weak, it is none of the wisest courses to plague it with an Enemy: if the Liver be weak, a Consumption follows; would you know the Reason? 'tis this, A Mans Flesh is repaired by Blood, by a third Concoction which transmutes Blood into Flesh,( 'tis well I said[ Concoction] for if I had said[ boiling] every Cook would have understood me.) The Liver makes Blood, and if it be weakened that it makes not enough the Flesh wasteth; and why must Flesh always be renewed? Because the Eternal God when he made the Creation, made one part of it in continual dependency upon another. And why did he so? Because Himself is only Permanent, to teach us, That we should not fix our affections upon what is Transitory, but upon what endures for ever. The result of al is this, If the Liver be weak and cannot make Blood enough( I would have said[ Sanguifie] if I had written only to scholars.) The Seriphian which is the weakest of Wormwoods is better than the best. I have been Critical enough, if not too much.  
Place.] It grows familiarly in England by the Sea side.  
Descrip.] It starts up out of the Earth with many round woody hoary Stalks from one Root, its height is four fo: high, or three at the least. The leaves in longitude are long, in latitude narrow, in colour white, in form hoary, in simililude like Southernwood, only broader and longer, in taste, rather salt than bitter, because it grows so near the Salt water: At the joints with the leaves toward the tops it bears little yellow Flowers. The Root lies deep, and is woody.  
Common Wormwood I shal not describe, for every Boy that can eat an Egg knows it.  
Roman Wormwood: And why Roman, seeing it grows familiarly in England? It may be it was so called because 'tis good for a stinking breath, which the Romans cannot be very free from maintaining so many bawdy Houses by Authority of his Holiness.  
Descript.] The Stalks are slenderer and shorter than the common Wormwood by one foot at least; the leaves are more finely cut and divided than they are, but something smaller; both leaves and Stalks are hoary; the Flowers of a pale yellow colour, it is altogether like the common Wormwood, save only in bigness, for 'tis smaller; in taste, for 'tis not so bitter, in smell, for it is spicy.  
Place.] It groweth upon the tops of the Mountains( it seems 'tis aspiring) there 'tis Natural; but usually nursed up in Gardens for the use of the Apothecaries in London.  
Time.] Al Wormwoods usually flower in August, a little sooner or later.  
Government and virtues.] will you give me leave to be Critical a little? I must take leave: Wormwood is an Herb of Mars, and if Pontanus say otherwise he is beside the bridge: I prove it thus; What delights in marshal places, is a marshal Herb; but Wormwood delights in marshal places( for about Forges and Iron Works you may gather a Cart load of it) Ergo it is a marshal Herb. It is hot and dry in the first Degree, 
choler, venery, provokes Urin, Helps surfeits, Swellings, Appetite lost, yell. Jaundice,  viz. Just as hot as your Blood, and no hotter: It remedies the evils choler can inflict on the Body of Man by Sympathy. It helps the evils Venus and he wanton Girls produce by Antipathy: and it doth something else besides, It cleanseth the Body of choler( and who dares say Mars doth no good?) It provokes Urine, helps surfeits, Swellings in the Belly; it causeth an Appetite to meat, because Mars rules the attractive faculty in Man: The Sun never shone upon a better Herb for the yellow Jaundice than this is: Why should men cry out so much upon Mars for an Infortune( or Saturn either?) Did God make Creatures to do the Creation a mischief? This Herb testifies that Mars is willing to cure al the Diseases he causes; the truth is, Mars loves no Cowards, nor Saturn Fools, nor I either. Take of the Flowers of Wormwood, Rosemary, and Black-Thorn, of each a like quantity, half that quantity of Saffron, boil this in rhenish Wine, but put not in the Saffron till it is almost boiled: This is the way to keep a Mans Body in Health, 
Preserve Health, Terms provokes, Biting of Rats and Mice, mushrooms Wheals, bushes, black and blue Spots, quinsy, Eyes,  appointed by Camerarius, in his Book entitled, Hortus Medicus, and 'tis a good one too. Besides al this, Wormwood provokes the Terms. I would willingly teach Astrologers, and make them Physitians( if I knew how) for they are most fitting for the Calling; if you will not believe me, ask Dr. Hippocrates, and Dr. Galen, a couple of Gentlemen that our college of Physitians keep to vapour with, not to follow. In this one Herb I shal give the Pattern of a Rule to the Sons of Art, rough cast, yet as near the truth as the men of Benjamin could throw a ston; whereby my Brethren of the Society of Astrologers may know by a Penny how a Shilling is coined:( as for the college of Physitians they are too stately to learn, and too proud to continue: They say a Mouse is under the Dominion of the Moon, and that's the reason they feed in the night: The House of the Moon is Cancer;( Rats are of the same nature with Mice, but that they are a little bigger.) Mars receives his fall in Cancer, Ergo Wormwood being an Herb of Mars is a present Remedy for the biting of Rats and Mice. mushrooms( I cannot give them the title of Herba, Frutex, or arbour) are under the Dominion of Saturn( and take one time with another they do as much harm as good:) if any have poisoned himself by eating them, Wormwood an Herb of Mars cures him, because Mars is exalted in Capricorn the House of Saturn; and this it doth by Sympathy as it did the other by Antipathy. Wheals bushes, black and blue spots coming either by Bruises or Beatings, Wormwood an Herb of Mars helps, because Mars( as bad as you love him, and as il as you hate him) will not break your Head, but he'l give you a plaster. If he do but teach you to know yourselves, his courtesy is greater than his discourtesy. The greatest Antipathy between the Planets, is between Mars and Venus; one is hot, the other could; one Diurnal, the other Nocturnal; one dry, the other moist; their Houses are opposite; one Masculine, the other Feminine; one public, the other private; one is valiant, the other effeminate; one loves the light, the other hates it; one loves the field, the other the sheets: then the Throat is under Venus, the quinsy lies in the Throat, and is an inflammation there: Venus rules the Throat( it being under Taurus her Sign) Mars eradicates al Diseases in the Throat by his Herbs( of which Wormwood is one) and sand them to egypt on an errand never to return more: this by Antipathy. The Eyes are under the Luminaries; the right Eye of a Man, and the left Eye of a Woman, the Sun claims Dominion over: The left Eye of a Man, and the right Eye of a Woman, are the privilege of the Moon, Wormwood an Herb of Mars cures hoth; what belongs to the Sun by Sympathy, because he is exalted in his House; but what belongs to the Moon by Antipathy, because he hath his fall in hers. Suppose a Man be bitten or stung by a marshal Creature, imagine a Wasp, a Hornet, or Scorpion, Wormwood an Herb of Mars gives you a present cure: 
Biting or stinging by venomous Beeasts.  Then Mars as choleric as he is, hath learned that patience, to pass by your evil speeches of him, and tells you by my Pen, That he gives you no Affliction but he gives you a Cure; you need not run to Apollo not Aesculapius: and if he were so choleric as you make him to be, he would have drawn his Sword for anger to see the il conditions of those people that can spy his Vices and not his virtues. The Eternal God when he made Mars, made him for a public good, and the Sons of Men shal know it in the latter end of the world. Et saelum Mars solus habet. You say Mars is a Destroyer, mix a little Wormwood an Herb of Mars with your Ink, and neither Rats nor Mice will touch the Paper is written with it, and then Mars is a Preserver. Astrologers say Mars causeth Scabs and Itch, and the Virgins are angry with him, because wanton Venus  told them he deforms their Skin: But quoth Mars, my only desire is, they should know themselves; my Herb Wormwood will restore them to the Beauty they formerly had, and in that I will not come an inch behind my opposite Venus; for which doth the greatest evil, he that takes away an innate Beauty, and when he hath done, knows how to restore it again? or she that teaches a company of wanton Lasses to paint their Faces? If Mars be in the Virgin in a Nativity, they say he causes the colic,( 'tis well God hath set some body to pull down the pride of Man) He in the Virgin troubles none with the colic but them that know not themselves( for who knows himself may easily know al the World) Wormwood an Herb of Mars is a present cure for it: and whether it be most like a Christian to love him for his good, or hate him for his evil judge ye. I had almost forgotten that Charity thinks no evil: I was once in the Tower and viewed the Wardrobe, and there was a great many fine clothes( I can give them no other titie, for I was never neither linen or Woollen Draper) yet as brave as they looked, my opinion was, the moths might consume them( yea Henry the Eighth his Codpiece.) moths are under the Dominion of Mars, his Herb Wormwood being laid amongst clothes will make a moth scorn to meddle with the Cloath, as much as a lion scorns to meddle with a Mouse, or an Eagle a Fly. You say Mars is angry, and 'tis true enough, he is angry with my Country men for being such Fools to be lead by the Noses by the college of Physitians as they led Bears to Paris Garden. melancholy Men cannot endure to be wronged in point of good name, and that hath sorely troubled old Saturn, because they called him the greatest Infortune: In the Body of Man he rules the Spleen,( and that makes Covetous men so splenetic.) The poor old man lies crying out of his left side, Father Saturn's angry, Mars comes to him, come Brother, 
Spleen.  I confess thou art evil spoken of, and so am I, thou knowst I have my exaltation in my House, I'l give him an Herb of mine, Wormwood, to cure the poor man; Saturn consented, but spoken but little, and so Mars cured him by Sympathy. When Mars was free from War( for he loves to be fighting, and is the best friend a Soldier hath) I say, when Mars was free from War he called a council of War in his own Brain to know how he should do poor sinful man good,( desiring to forget his abuses in being called an Infortune) He musters up his own Forces and places them in Battalia, Oh! quoth he, why do I hurt a poor silly Man or Woman? His Angel Answers him, 'tis because they have offended their God.[ Look back to Adam] Well, says Mars, though they speak evil of me, I'l do good to them; Death's could, my Herb shall heat them, They are full of ill Humors( else they would never have spoken il of me) my Herb shal cleanse them and dry them: They are poor weak Creatures, my Herb shall strengthen them; they are dull witted, my Herb shall fortify their Apprehensions; and yet amongst Astrologers, al this doth not deserve a good word; Oh! the Patience of Mars.  

Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas  
Inque domus superum scandere cura fumit.   

Oh! happy he that can the Knowledge gain,  
To know th'eternal God made nought in vain.   
To this I add.  
I know the reason causeth such a Dearth  
Of Knowledge, 'tis because men love the Earth.  
The 〈◇〉 day Mars  told me he met with Venus, and he asked her what the Reason was that she accused him for abusing Women, he never gave them the Pox, in the Dispute they fel out, and in anger partend, and Mars  told me that his brother Saturn  told him, that an Antevenerial Medicine was the best against the Pox. 
French Pox.  Once 〈◇〉 Month he meets with the Moon, Mars is quick enough of speech, and the Moon not much behind hand( neither are most Women) The Moon looks much after Children, and Children are much troubled with the worms she desired a Medicine of him, he bad her take his own Herb Worm-wood: He had no sooner partend with the Moon but he met with Venus, and she was as drunk as a Bitch, Alas poor Venus quoth he What, thou a Fortune and be drunk? I'l give thee an Ampathetical Cure, take my Herb Wormwood: He had no sooner partend with the Moon, thou shalt never get a Surfet by drinking. A poor silly countryman hath got an Ague and cannot go about his business, 
Surfet, stinking Breath, Dull Brain, weak Sight.  he wishes he had it not, and so do I, but I'l tel him a Remedy whereby he may prevent it. Take the Herb of Mars Wormwood and if Infortunes will do good what will Fortunes do? Some say the Lungs are under Jupiter, and if the Lungs then the breath, and yet a man sometimes gets a stinking breath, and yet Jupiter is a Fortune forsooth; up comes Mars to him, come brother Jupiter, thou knowest I sent thee a couple of Trines to thy Houses last night the one from Aries and the other from scorpion, give me thy leave by Sympathy to cure the poor man by drinking a draft of Wormwood Beer every morning. The Moon was weak the other day, and she gave a man two terrible mischiefs, a dull Brain, and a weak sight, Mars lays by his sword and comes to her, Sister Moon saith he, This Man hath angered thee, but I beseech thee take notice he is but a Fool, prithee be patient, I will with my Herb Wormwood cure him of both Infirmities by Antipathy, for thou knowst, thou and I cannot agree; with that the Moon began to quarrel; Mars( not delighting much in Womens tongues) went away, and did it whether she would or no.  
He that reads this and understands what he reads, he hath a Jewel more worth than a Diamond: He that understands it not, is as little fit to give physic. There lies a Key in these Words, which will unlock( if it be turned by a wise hand) the Cabinet of physic: I have delivered it so plainly as I durst; 'tis not onely upon Wurmwood that I wrote, but upon all Plants Trees and Herbs: He that understands it not, is unfit in my Opinion) to give physic. This shal live when I am dead; and thus I leave it to the World, not caring a halfpenny whether they like or dislike it. The Grave equals all men, and therefore shall equal me with the Princes, until which time the eternal Providence is over me; then the il tongue of a prattling Priest, or of one who hath more Tongue then wit, or more Pride than Honesty, shal never trouble me. Wisdom is justified of her Children; and so much for Wormwood.   

Yarrow, called also Nosebleed, Milfoile, and Thousand Leaf.  
Descript.] IT hath many long leaves spread upon the ground and finely cut and divided into many small parts: Its Flowers are white but not al of a whiteness, and stayed in knots, upon divers green Stalks which rise, from among the leaves.  
Place.] It is frequent in all Pastures.  
Time.] It Flowreth late even in the latter end of August.  
Government and virtues.[ It is under the influence of Venus. 
Wounds, inflammations, Terms stops, bloody Flux, Baldness Ulcers, Fistulaes, Retentive, Faculty, Running of the Reins, Whites, Diabetes; toothache.  An ointment of them cures Wounds and is most fit for such as have inflammations, it being an Herb of Dame Venus; It stops the Terms in Women being boiled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk, as also the Bloody Flux; the ointment of it is not onely good for green Wounds, but also for Ulcers and Fistulaes, especially such as be bound with moisture; It stays the shedding off of Hair, the Head being bathed with the Decoction of it; inwardly taken it helps the retentive faculty of the Stomach, it helps the running of the Reins in men, and the whites in Women, and helps such as cannot hold their Water; and the leaves chewed in the Mouth ease the toothache; and these virtues being put together show the Herb to be drying and binding. Achilles is supposed to be the first that left the virtues of this Herb to posterity, having learned them of his Master Chyron the Cenature, and certainly a very profitable Herb it is in the Camp,& perhaps therefore called Militaris.    

DIRECTIONS.  
HAving in divers places of this Treatise promised you the way of making Syrups, Conserves, oils, ointments, &c. of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, &c. whereby you may have them ready for your use at such times when otherwise they cannot be had: I come now to perform what I Promised, and you shal find me rather better, than worse than my word.  
That this may be done Methodically I shal divide my Directions into Two grand Sections, and each Section into several Chapters, and then you shal see it look with such a Countenance as this is.  

Sect. 1. Of gathering, drying, and keeping Simples and their juices. 

Chap. 1. Of Leaves of Herbs &c.  
Chap. 2. Of Flowers.  
Chap. 3. Of Seeds.  
Chap. 4. Of Roots.  
Chap. 5. Of Barks.  
Chap. 6. Of juices.    
Sect. 2. Of making, and keeping Compounds. 

Chap. 1. Of Distilled Waters.  
Chap. 2. Of Syrups.  
Chap. 3. Of Juleps.  
Chap. 4. Of Decoctions.  
Chap. 5. Of oils.  
Chap. 6. Of Electuaries.  
Chap. 7. Of Conserves.  
Chap. 8. Of Preserves.  
Chap. 9. Of L●hochs.  
Chap. 10. Of ointments.  
Chap. 11. Of plasters.  
Chap. 12. Of Pultisses.  
Chap. 13. Of Troches.  
Chap. 14. Of Pills.  
Chap. 15. The way of fitting Medicines to Compound Diseases.     
Of all these in order.  

SECT. I. The way of gathering, drying, and preserving Simples and their juices.  

Chap. 1. Of Leaves of Herbs, or Trees.  
OF leaves, choose only such as are green and full of juice, pick them carefully, and cast away such as are any way declining, for they will putrifie the rest, so shal one handful be worth ten of those you buy in Cheap side.  
2. Note in what place they most delight to grow in, and gather them there, for betony that grows in the shadow is far better than that which grows in the Sun, because it delights in the shadow: So also ●uch Herbs as delight to grow near the Water let such be gathered as grow near the Water, though happily you may find some of them upon dry ground: The Treatise will inform you where every Herb delights to grow.  
3. The leaves of such Herbs as run up to Seed, are not so good when they are in Flower, as before( some few excepted, the leaves of which are seldom or never used) In such cases, if through ignorance they were not known, or through negligence forgotten, you had better take the top and the Flower than the Leaf.  
4. Dry them well in the Sun, and not in the shadow as the swing of Physitians is, for if the Sun draw away the virtues of Herbs, it must needs do the like by Hay by the same Rule, which the Experience of every Country Farmer will explode for a notable piece of non-sense.  
5. Such as are Artists in Astrology( and indeed none else are fit to make Physitians) such I advice, Let the Planet that governs the Herb be Angular, and the stronger the better; if they can in Herbs of Saturn, let Saturn be in the Ascendent; in the Herbs of Mars, let Mars be in the Mid-heaven, for in those Houses they delight; let the Moon apply to them by good Aspect, and let her not be in the Houses of their Enemies: if you cannot well stay till she apply to them, let her apply to a Planet of the same Triplicity; if you cannot weight that time neither, let her be with a fixed Star of their Nature.  
6. Having well dried them, put them up in brown Papers, sewing the Paper up like a Sack, and press them not too hard together, and keep them in a dry place near the fire.  
7. As for the duration of dried Herbs, a just time cannot be given, let Authors prate their pleasures: For,  
First, Such as grow upon dry grounds will keep better than such as grow on moist.  
Secondly, Such Herbs as are full of juice will not keep so long as such as are drier.  
Thirdly, such Herbs as are well dried will keep longer then such as are ill dried.  
Yet this I say, by this you may know when they are corrupted, Viz. By their loss of colour, or smell, or both, and if they be corrupted, reason will tell you that they must needs corrupt the Bodies of those people that take them.  
8. Gather all Leaves in the the hour of that Planet that governs them.   

Chap. 2. Of Flowers.  
1. THe Flower which is the beauty of the Plant, and of none of the least use in physic, groweth yearly, and it is to be gathered when it is in its prime.  
2. As for the time of gathering them, let the Planetary hour, and the Plant they come of, be observed, as we shewed you in the foregoing Chapter; as for the time of the day let it be when the Sun shines upon them that so they may be dry, for if you gather either Flowers when they are wet or dewy, they will not keep, and this I forgot before.  
3. Dry them well in the Sun, and keep them in Papers near the fire, as I shewed you in the foregoing Chapter.  
4. So long as they retain their colour and smell they are good, either of them being gone so is the virtue also.   

Chap. 3. Of Seeds.  
1. THe Seed is that part of the Plant which is endowed with a vital faculty to bring forth its like,& it contains potentially the whole Plant in it.  
2. As for place let them be gathered from the Plants where they delight to grow.  
3. Let them be full ripe when they are gathered, and forget not the celestial Harmony before mentioned, for I have found by experience that their virtues are twice as great at such times than others: There is an appointed time for every thing under the Sun.  
4. when you have gathered them dry them a little, and but a little in the Sun before you lay them up.  
5. You need be so careful of keeping them so near the fire as the other before mentioned, because they are fuller of Spirit, and therefore not so subject to corrupt.  
6. As for the time of their duration 'tis palpable they will keep good many years, yet this I say, they are best the first year, and this I make appear by a good Argument, They will grow soonest the first year they be set, therfore then are they in their prime, and 'tis an easy matter to renew them yearly.   

Chap. 4. Of Roots.  
1. OF Roots choose such as are neither rotten nor worm-eaten, but proper in their taste, colour, and smell, such as exceed neither in so fine●sr hardness.  
2. Give me leave to be a little critical against the Vulgar received Opinion, which is, that the sap falls down into the Root in Autumn, and rises again in Spring, as men go to Bed at night and rise in the morning; and this idle tale of untruth is so grounded in the Heads not onely of the Vulgar but also of the Learned, that a man cannot drive it out by reason: I pray let such Sap-mongers answer me to this Argument, If the Sap fall into Root in the fall of the Leaf, and lie there all the Winter, then must the Root grow onely in the Winter, as experience witnesseth, but the Root grows not at all in the Winter, as the same experience teacheth, but onely in the Summer. Ergo,  
If you set an apple Kernel in the Spring, you shal find the Root to grow to a pretty bigness in that Summer, and be not a whit bigger next Spring: What doth the Sap do in the Root al that while; pick straws? For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.  
The truth is, when the Sun declines from the tropic of Cancer, the Sap begins to congeal both in Root and branch, when he toucheth the tropic of Capricorn and ascends to us ward, it begins to wax thin again, and by degrees as it congealed: But to proceed.  
3. The drier time you gather your Roots in, the better they are, for they have the less excrementions moisture in them.  
4. Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.  
5. Such Roots as are great will keep longer then such as are small, yet most of them will keep a year.  
6. Such Roots as are soft it is your best way to keep them always near the fire, and take this general Rule for it, If in Winter time you find any of your Roots, Herbs or Flowers begin to grow moist, as many times you shal especially in the Winter time( for 'tis your best way to look to them once a month) dry them by a very gentle fire, ot if you can with convenience keep them near the fire, you may save yourself the labour.  
7. It is in vain to dry such Roots as may commonly be had, as parsley, Fennel, plantain, &c. but gather them onely for present need.   

Chap. 5. Of Barks.  
1. BArks which Physitians use in Medicines are these sorts, Of Fruits, of Roots, of Boughs.  
2. The Barks of Fruits is to be taken when the Fruit is full ripe, as oranges, lemons, &c. but because I have nothing to do with Exoticks here I shal pass them without any more words.  
3. The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.  
4. As for the Bark of Roots, 'tis this, and thus to be gotten, Take the Roots of such Herbs as have a pith in them, as parsley, Fennel, &c. slit them in the middle, and when you have taken out the pith( which you may easily and quickly do) that which remains is called( though something improperly) the Bark and indeed is only to be used.   

Chap. 6. Of juices.  
1. juices are to be pressed out of Herbs when they are young and tender, and also out of some Stalks, and tender tops of Herbs and Plants, and also out of some Flowers.  
2. Having gathered your Herb you would preserve the juice of, when it is very dry( for otherwise your juice will not be worth a Button) bruise it very well in a ston Mortar with a wooden Pestle, then having put it into a Canvas Bag( the Herb I mean, not the Mortar, for that will yield but little juice) press it hard in a press, then take the juice and clarify it.  
3. The manner of clarifying of it is this, put it into a Pipkin or skillet, or some such thing, and set it over the fire, and when the scum riseth, take it off let it stand over the fire till no more Scum rise, then have you your juice clarified, cast away the Scum as a thing of no use.  
4. When you have thus clarified it, you have two ways to preserve it all the year.  
First, When it is could put it into a Glass, and put so much oil on it as will cover it the thickness of two fingers, the oil will swim at top, and so keep the Air from coming to it to putrifie it; when you intend to use it, do no more but so, power out into a porringer, a little more then you intend to use, and if any oil come out with it( as if the Glass be not full 'tis a hundred to one if there do) you may easily scum it off with a Spoon, and put the juice you use not into the Glass again it will quickly sink under the oil: This is the first way.  
Secondly, the second way is a little more difficult, and the juice of Fruits is usually preserved this way, when you have clarified the juice as before, boil it over the fire, till( being could) it be of the thickness of Honey, this is most commonly used for Diseases of the Mouth, and is called Rob and Sapa.  
And thus much for the first Section, the Second follows.    

SECT. II. The way of making and keeping all necessary Compounds.  

Chap. 1. Of Distilled waters.  
HItherto we have spoken of Medicines which consist in their own Nature, which Authors vulgarly call Simples, though something improperly, for indeed and in truth, nothing is simplo but the pure Elements; all things else are compounded of them: We come now to treat of the Artificial Medicines, in the front of which( because we must begin somewhere) we place Distilled Waters; in which consider.  
1. Waters are distilled our of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.  
2. We treat not of strong Waters but of could, as being to Act Galen's Part and not Paracelsus.  
3. The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigour and so ought the Flowers also.  
3. The vulgar way of Distillation which people use, because they know no better, is in a pewter Still, and although Distilled Waters are the weakest of al Artificial Medicines,& good for little unless for mixtures of other Medicines, yet this way distilled they are weaker by many degrees than they would be, were they distilled in Sand: If I thought it not impossible to teach you the way of distilling in Sand by writing, I would attempt it.  
5. When you have distilled your Water put it into a Glass,& having bound the top of it over with a Paper pricked full of holes, that so the excrementitious and fiery vapours may exhale( which indeed are they that cause that settling in distilled Waters called the Mother, which corrupts the Waters and might this way be prevented) cover it close and keep it for your use.  
6. stoping distilled Waters with a Cork makes them musty, and so will a Paper also if it do but touch the Water, your best way then is to stop them with a Bladder, being first wet in Water, and bound over the top of the Glass.  
Such could Waters as are distilled in a pewter Still( if well kept) will endure a year, such as are distilled in Sand, as they are twice as strong, so will they endure twice as long.   

Chap. 2. Of Syrups.  
1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a Liquid form, composed of Infusion, Decoction and juice: And 1. for the more grateful taste. 2. For the better keeping of it, with a certain quantity of Honey or Sugar; hereafter mentioned boiled to the thickness of new Honey.  
2. You see at the first view that this aphorism divides itself into three Branches, which deserves severally to be treated of, viz. 

1. Syrups made by Infusion.  
2. Syrups made by Decoction.  
3. Syrups made by juice.    
Of each of these( for your Instructions sake kind Country men and women) I speak a word, or two or three apart.  
First, Syrups made by Infusion are usually made of Flowers, and of such Flowers, as soon loose both colour and strength by boiling, as Roses Violets, Peach-Flower-&c. My Translation of the London Dispensatory will instruct you in the rest: They are thus made, having picked your Flowers clean, to every pound of them ad three pound( or three pints, which you will for it is all one) of Spring Water made boiling hot by the fire, first put your Flowers in a pewter Pot with a cover, then pour the Water to them, then shutting the Pot, let it stand by the fire to keep hot twelve hours, then strain it out( in such Syrups as purge, as Damask Roses, Peach-Flowers, &c. The usual and indeed the best way is to repeat this Infusion, adding fresh Flowers to the same liquour divers times that so it may be the stronger) having strained it out put the Infusion into a pewter basin, or an Earthen one well glassed, and to every pint of it, ad two pound of fine Sugar, which being only melted over the fire without boiling, and scummed, will produce you the Syrup you desire.  
Secondly, Syrups made by Decoction are usually used of Compounds, yet may any simplo Herb be thus converted into Syrup; Take the Herb, Root or Flower you would make into Syrup and bruise it a little, then boil it in a convenient quantity of Spring Water, the more water you boil in it the weaker will it be, a handful of the Herb, Root, &c. is a convenient quantity for a pint of Water; boil it till half the Water be consumed, then let it stand till it be almost could, and strain it( being almost could) through a woollen cloath, letting it run out at leisure without pressing, to every pint of this Decoction ad one pound of Sugar and boil it over the fire till it come to a Syrup, which you may know if you now and then cool a little of it in a Spoon scum it all the while it boils, and when it is sufficiently boiled: whilst it is hot strain it again through a woollen cloth, but press it not; thus have you the Syrup perfected.  
Thirdly, Syrups made of juices are usually made of such Herbs as are full of juice, and indeed they are better made into a Syrup this way than any other; the Operation is thus, having beaten the Herb in a ston mortar with a wooden Pestle, press out the juice and clarify it as you were taught before in the juices, then let the juice boil away till a quarter of it( or near upon) be consumed, to a pint of this ad a pound of Sugar, and boil it to a Syrup, always scumming it, and when it is boiled enough, strain it through a woollen cloath as we taught you before, and keep it for your use.  
3. If you make Syrups of Roots that are any thing hard, as Parsley, Fennel, and grass Roots, &c. when you have bruised them, lay them in steep sometime in that Water which you intend to boil them in, hot, so will the virtue the better come out.  
4. Keep your Syrups either in Glasses or ston Pots, and stop them not with Cork, nor Bladder, unless you would have the Glass break and the Syrup lost; and as many Opinions as there are in this Nation, I suppose there are but few or none of this, only bind a Paper about the mouth.  
5. All Syrups if well made will continue a year, with some advantage yet of all, such as are made by Infusion keep the least while.   

Chap. 3. Of Juleps.  
1. JUleps were first invented as I suppose in Arabia, and my reason is, because the word Juleb is an arabic word.  
2. It signifies only a pleasant Potion, and was vulgarly used( by such as were sick and wanted help, or such as were in health, and wanted no money) to quench thirst.  
3. Now a daies 'tis commonly used, 

1 To prepare the Body for Purgation  
2 To open Obstructions, and the Pores.  
3 To digest tough Humors.  
4 To qualify hot distempers, &c.    
4. It is thus made( I mean simplo Juleps, for I have nothing to say to Compounds here; al Compounds have as many several ideas as men have Crotchets in their Brain) I say simplo Juleps are thus made: Take a pint of such distilled Water as conduceth to the Cure of your distemper, which this Treatise will plentifully furnish you withal, to which ad two Ounces of Syrup conducing to the same effect( I shal give you Rules for it in the last Chapter) mix them together, and drink a draft of it at your pleasure; If you love tart things, ad ten drops of oil of Vitrol to your pint, and shake it together, and it will have a fine grateful taste.  
5. Al Juleps are made for present use, and therfore it is in vain to speak of their duration.   

Chap 4. Of Decoctions.  
1. AL the difference between Decoctions, and Syrups made by Decoction, is this, Syrups are made to keep, Decoctions only for present use; for you can hardly keep a Decoction a week any time, if the weather be hot, not half so long.  
2. Decoctions are made of leaves, Roots, Flowers, Seeds, Fruits, or Barks, conducing to the Cure of the Disease you make them for; in the same manner are they made as we shewed you in Syrups.  
3. Decoctions made with Wine last longer than such as are made with Water, and if you take your Decoction to cleanse the Passages of Urine, or open Obstructions, your best way is to make it with white Wine instead of Water, because this is most penetrating.  
4. Decoctions are of most use in such Diseases as lye in the Passages of the Body, as the Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys, Passages of Urine, and Bladder, because Decoctions pass quicker to those places than any other form of Medicines.  
5. If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any Syrup, fit for the occasion you take it for, which is bitter, you may and no harm done.  
6. If in a Decoction you boil both Roots, Herbs, Flowers, and Seeds together, let the Roots boil a good while first, because they retain their virtue longest; then the next in order by the same Rule, viz. 1. Barks, 2. the Herbs, 3. the Seeds, 4. the Flowers, 5. the Spices if you put any in, because their virtues comes soonest out.  
7. Such things as by boiling cause sliminess to a Decoction, as Figs, Quince-seeds, Linseed, &c. your best way is, after you have bruised them, to tie them up in a linen rag, as you tie up a Calves Brains, and so boil them.  
8. Keep al Decoctions in a Glass close stopped, and in the cooler place you keep them, the longer will they last ere they be sour.  
Lastly, The usual Dose to be given at one time, is usually two, three, four, or five ounces, according to the age and strength of the Patient, the season of the year, the strength of the Medicine, and the quality of the Disease.   

Chap. 5. Of oils.  
1. oil Olive, which is commonly known by the name of salad oil, I suppose because it is usually eaten with salads by them that love it; If it be pressed out of ripe Olives, according to Galen is temperate, and exceeds in no one quality.  
2. Of oils, some are simplo, and some are Compounds.  
3. simplo oils are such as are made of Fruits or Seeds, by expression, as oil of sweet and bitter Almonds, Linseed, and Rapeseed oil, &c. of which see my Dispensatory.  
4. Compound oils are made of oil of Olives and other Simples, imagine Herbs, Flowers, Roots, &c.  
5. The way of making them is this, Having bruised the Herbs or Flowers you would make your oil of, put them in an earthen pot, and to two or three handfuls of them power a pint of oil, cover the pot with a paper, and set it in the Sun, about a fortnight or less according as the Sun is in hotness; then having warmed it very well by the fire, press out the Herbs, &c. very hard in a press, and ad as many more Herbs to the same oil, bruised( the Herbs I mean not the oil) in like manner, set them in the Sun as before, the oftener you repeat this, the stronger will your oil be; at last when you conceive it strong enough, boil both Herbs and oil together till the juice be consumed, which you may know by its leaving its bubbling, and the Herbs will be crisp, then strain it, whilst it is hot, and keep it in a ston or glass Vessel for your use.  
6. As for chemical oils, I have nothing to say in this Treatise.  
7. The General use of these oils is for pain in the Limbs, roughness of the skin, the itch, &c. as also for ointments and plasters.  
8. If you have occasion to use it for Wounds or Ulcers, in two ounces of oil, dissolve half an once of Turpentine, the heat of the fire will quickly do it, for oil itself is offensive to Wounds, and the Turpentine qualifies it.   

Chap. 6. Of Electuaries.  
PHysitians makes more a quoil then needs behalf about Electuaries: I shal prescribe but one general way of making them up; as for the ingredients you may vary them as you please, and according as you find occasion by the last Chapter.  
1. That you may make Electuaries when you need them, it is requisite that you keep always Herbs, Roots, Seeds, Flowers, &c. ready dried in your House, that so you may be in readiness to beat them into powder when you need them.  
2. Your better way is to keep them whole than beaten, for being beaten they are the more subject to lose their strength, because the Air soon penetrates them.  
3 If they be not dry enough to beat into powder when you need them, dry them by a gentle fire till they are so.  
4 Having beaten them, sift them through a fine Tiffany scarce, that so there may be no great pieces found in your Electuary.  
5 To one ounce of your powder, ad three ounces of clarified Honey; this quantity I hold to be sufficient: I confess Authors differ about it. If you would make more or less Electuary, vary your proportions accordingly.  
6 Mix them well together in a Mortar, and take this for a truth, You cannot mix them too much.  
7 The way to clarify Honey, is to set it over the fire in a convenient vessel till the scum arise, and when the scum is taken off, it is clarified.  
8 The usual dose of Cordial Electuaries, is from half a dram to two drams; of Purging Electuaries, from half an ounce to an ounce.  
9 The manner of keeping them is in a Pot.  
10 The time of taking them, is either in the morning fasting, and fasting an hour after them; or at night going to bed, three or four hours after Supper.   

Chap. 7. Of Conserves.  
1. THe way of making Conserves is Two-fold, one of Herbs and Flowers, and the other of Fruits.  
2. Conserves of Herbs and Flowers are thus made: If you make your Conserves of Herbs, as of Scurvy-grass, Wormwood, Rue, or the like take only the Leaves and tender tops( for you may beat your heart out before you can beat the Stalks small) and having beaten them, weigh them-and to every pound of them ad three pound of Sugar, beat them very well, together in a Mortar, you cannot beat them too much.  
3. Conserves of Fruits, as of Barberries, Sloes, and the like, is thus made: First scald the Fruit, then rub the Pulp through a thick hair Sieve made for the purpose, called a Pulping Sieve; you may do it for a need with the back of a Spoon, then take this Pulp thus drawn, and ad to it its weight of Sugar and no more, put it in a pewter Vessel, and over a Charcoal fire stir it up and down till the Sugar be melted, and your Conserve is made.  
4. Thus have you the way of making Conserves; the way of keeping of them, is in Eatrhen Pots.  
5. The Dose is usually the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time morning and evening, or( unless they be purging) when you please.  
6. Of Conserves, some keep many yeers, as Conserves of Roses; others but a year, as Conserves of borage, Bugloss, Cowslips, and the like.  
7. Have a care of the working of some Conserves presently after they are made, look to them once a day, and stir them about; Conserves of borage, Bugloss, and Wormwood have gotten an excellent faculty at that sport.  
8. You may know when your Conserves are almost spoiled by this, You shal find a hard crust at top with little holes in it, as though Worms had been eating there.   

Chap. 8. Of Preserves.  
OF Preserves are sundry sorts, and the Operations of al being something different we will handle them al apart.  
There are preserved with Sugar, 

1 Flowers.  
2 Fruits,  
3 Roots.  
4 Barks.    
1. Flowers are but very seldom preserved, I never saw any that I remember, save only Cowslip Flowers, and that was a great fashion in Sussex when I was a Boy: It is thus done, first, Take a flat Glass, we call them Jar Glasses, strew in a lain of fine Sugar, on that a lain of Flowers, on that another lain of Sugar, on that another lain of Flowers, do so till your Glass be full; then tie it over with a Paper, and in a little time you shal have very excellent and pleasant Preserves.  
There is another way of Preserving Flowers, namely with Vinegar and Salt, as they pickle Capers and Broom Buds, but because I have little skill in it myself I cannot teach you.  
2. Fruits, as Quinces and the like, are preserved two ways.  
First, boil them well in Water, and then pulp them through a Sieve as we shewed you before; then with the like quantity of Sugar boil the Water they were boiled in to a Syrup, viz. A pound of Suga● to a pint of liquour; to every pound of this Syrup ad four ounces of the Pulp, then boil it with a very gentle fire to the right consistence, which you may easily know if you drop a drop of it upon a Trencher, if it be enough it will not stick to your fingers when it is could.  
Secondly, Another way to preserve Fruits is this: First, pare off the rind, then cut them in halves and take out the Core; then boil them in Water till they are soft, if you know when Beef is boiled enough, you may easily know when they are; then boil the Water with its like weight of Sugar into a Syrup, put the Syrup into a Pot, and put the boiled Fruit as whole as you left it when you cut it into it, and let it so remain till you have occasion to use it.  
3. Roots are thus preserved: First, scrape them very clean, and cleanse them from the Pith if they have any, for some Roots have not, as Eringo and the like; boil them in Water till they be soft, as we show you before in the Fruits, then boil the Water you boiled the Roots in into a Syrup as we shewed you before, then keep the Root: whole in the Syrup till you use them.  
4. As for Barks we have but few come to our hands to be done, and those of those few that I can remember, are Orranges, lemons, Citrons, and the outer Bark of Walnuts which grows without the shell, for the shells themselves would make but scurvy Preserves: these be they I can remember, if there be any more put them into the Number.  
The way of preserving these is not al one in Authors, for some are bitter, some are not; such as are bitter, say Authors, must be soaked in warm Water, often times changed till their bitter taste be fled; but I like not this way, and my reason is this, because I doubt when their bitterness is gone, so is the virtue also: I shal then prescribe one common way, namely the same with the former, viz First boil them whole till they be soft, then make a Syrup with Sugar and the liquour you boiled them in, and keep the Barks in the Syrup.  
5. They are kept in Glasses, or glassed Pots.  
6. The preserved Flowers will keep a year if you can forbear eating of them; the Roots and Barks much longer.  
7. This A●t was plainly and clearly at first invented for delicacy, yet came afterwards to be of excellent use in physic: For,  
First, Hereby Medicines are made pleasant for sick and queazy Stomachs, which else would loathe them.  
Secondly, Hereby they are preserved from decaying a long time.   

Chap. 9. Of Lohochs.  
1. THat which the Arabians call Lohoch, and the Greeks Eclegma, the Latins call Linctus, and in plain English, signifies nothing else, but a thing to be licked up.  
2 Their first invention was, to prevent and remedy afflictions of the Breast and Lungs, to cleanse the Lungs of phlegm, and make it fit to be cast out.  
3 They are in Body thicker than a Syrup, and not so thick as an Electuary.  
4 The manner of taking them, is often to take a little with a Liquoris stick, and let it go down at leisure.  
5 They are easily thus made: Make a Decoction of any Pectoral Herbs, the Treatise will furnish you with enough, and when you have strained it, with twice its weight of Honey or Sugar, boil it to a Lohoch: If you are molested with tough phlegm, Honey is better than Sugar, and if you ad a little Vinegar to it you will do well, if not, I hold Sugar to be better than Honey.  
6 It is kept in Pots, and may be kept a year and longer.  
7 Its use is excellent for roughness of the Windpipe, inflammations of the Lungs, Ulcers in the Lungs, difficulty of Breath, Asthmaes, Coughs and distillation of Humors.   

Chap. 10. Of ointments.  
1 VArious are the ways of making ointments which Authors have left to posterity, which I shal omit, and quote one which is easiest to be made, and therfore most beneficial to people that are ignorant in physic, for whose sakes I writ this: It is thus done,  
Bruise those Herbs, Flowers, or Roots you would make an ointment of, and to two handfuls of your bruised Herbs ad a pound of Hogs Greas tried, or cleansed from the Skins, beat them very well together in a ston Mortar with a wooden Pestle, then put it in a ston Pot( the Herbs and Grease I mean, not the Mortar) cover it with a paper, and set it either in the Sun, or some other warm place, three, four, or five daies, that it may melt; then take it out and boil it a little, then whilst it is hot, strain it out, pressing it out very hard in a Press, to this Grease ad as many more Herbs bruised as before, let them stand in like manner as long, then boil them as you did the former; if you think your ointment be not strong enough you may do it the third and fourth time; yet this I tel you, the fuller of juice your Herbs are, the sooner will your ointment be strong: the last time you boil it, boil it so long till your Herbs be crisp and the juice consumed, then strain it, pressing it hard in a Press, and to every pound of ointment ad two ounces of Turpentine, and as much Wax, because Grease is offensive to Wounds as well as oil.  
2 ointments are vulgarly known to be kept in Pots, and will last above a year, above two year.   

Chap. 11. Of plasters.  
1 THe Greeks made their plasters of divers Simples, and put metals in most of them, if not in al; for having reduced their metals into powder, they mixed them with that fatty substance whereof the rest of the plaster consisted, whilst it was yet hot, continually stirring it up and down lest it should sink to the bottom; so they continually stirred it till it was stiff; then they made it up in rolls, which when they need for use they could melt by the fire again.  
2 The Arabians made up theirs with Meals, oil, and Fat, which needed not so long boiling.  
3 The Greeks Emplaisters consisted of these Ingredients: metals, Stones, divers sorts of Earth, Feces, juices, Liquoris, Seeds, Roots, Herbs, Excrements of Creatures, Wax, Rozin, Gums.   

Chap. 12. Of Pultisses.  
1 PUltisses are those kind of things which the Latins call Cataplasmata, and our learned Fellows, that if they can red English thats all, call them Cataplasms, because 'tis a crabbed word few understand; it is indeed a very fine kind of Medicine to ripen Sores.  
2 They are made of Herbs and Roots fitted to the Disease and Member afflicted, being chopped small and boiled in Water almost to a Jelly, then by adding a little Barley Meal, or Meal of Lupines, and a little oil, or rough Sheep Suet, which I hold to be better, spread upon a cloath and applied to the grieved place.  
3 Their use is to ease pains, to break Sores, to cool inflammations, to dissolve hardness, to ease the Spleen, to concoct Humors, to dissipate swellings.  
4 I beseech you take this Caution along with you, Use no Pultisses( if you can help it) that are of a heating Nature, before you have first cleansed the Body, because they are subject to draw the Humors to them from every part of the Body.   

Chap. 13. Of Troches.  
1 THe Latins call them Placentulae, or little Cakes( and you might have seen what the Greeks call them too, had not the last Edition of my London Dispensatory been so hellishly printed; that's al the Commonwealth get by one Stationers printing anothers Copies, viz. To plague the Country with false Prints, and disgrace the Author) the Greeks {αβγδ}, and {αβγδ}; they are usually little, round, flat Cakes, or you may make them square if you will.  
2 Their first invention was, that powders being so kept might resist the intromission of Air, and so endure pure the longer.  
3 Besides, They are the easier carried in the pockets of such as travail: Many a man( for example) is forced to travail whose Stomach is too could, or at least not so hot as it should be, which is most proper, for the Stomach is never could till a man be dead; in such a case 'tis better to carry Troches of Wormwood, or of Galanga, in a paper in his pocket, and more convenient behalf than to lug a Galli-pot along with him.  
4 They are thus made: At night when you go to bed, Take two drams of fine Gum Tragacanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilled Water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shal find it in such jelly as Physitians call Mussilage; with this you may( with a little pains taking) make any powder into Past, and that Past into little Cakes called Troches.  
5 Having made them, dry them well in the shadow, and keep them in a Pot for your use.   

Chap. 14. Of Pills.  
1 THey are called Pilulae, because they resemble little balls; the Greeks call them Catapotia.  
2 It is the Opinion of Modern Physitians, That this way of making up Medicines, was invented only to deceive the palate, that so by swallowing them down whole, the bitterness of the Medicine might not be perceived, or at least it might not be unsufferable; and indeed most of their pills, though not al, are very bitter.  
3 I am of a clean contrary Opinion to this: I rather think they were done up in this hard form, that so they might be the longer in digesting, and my Opinion is grounded upon Reason too, not upon Fancy nor Hearsay. The first invention of pills was to purge the Head: now as I  told you before, such imfirmities as lay near the passages were best removed by Decoctions, because they pass to the grieved part soonest; so here, If the infirmity lye in the Head or any other remote part, the best way is to use pills, because they are longer in digestion, and therfore the better able to call the offending humour to them.  
4 I● I should tel you here a long Tale of Medicines working by Sympathy and Antipathy, you would not understand a word of it, they that are fit to make Physitians may find it in the Treatise: All Modern Physitians know not what belonged to a Sympathetical Cure, no more than a Cuckoo knows what belongs to Flats and Sharps in music, but follow the vulgar road, and call it, a Hidden Quality, because 'tis hide from the Eyes of Dunces; and indeed none but Astrologers can give a reason of it, and physic without Reason is like a Pudding without Fat.  
5 The way to make pills is very easy, for with the help of a Pestle and mortar, and a little diligence, you may make any powder into pills, either with Syrup or the Jelly I  told you of before.   

Chap. ult. The way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause of the Disease and part of the Body afflicted.  
THis being indeed the Key of the Work, I shal be something the more diligent in it: I shal deliver myself thus, 

1 To the Vuglar.  
2 To such as study astrology, or such as study physic Astrologically.    
First, to the Vulgar: Kind Souls, I am sorry it hath been your hard mishap to have been so long trained in such Egyptian darkness, even darkness which to your sorrows may be felt: The vulgar Road of physic is not my practise, and I am therfore the more unfit to give you advice; and I have now pulished a little 
Galen's Art of physic.  Book which will fully instruct you, not only in the knowledge of your own Bodies, but also in fit Medicines to remedy each part of it when afflicted; mean season take these few Rules to stay your Stomachs.  
1 With the Disease, regard the Cause, and Part of the Body afflicted: for example, Suppose a Woman be subject to miscarry through Wind, thus do, 

1 Look [ Abortion] in the Table of Diseases, and you shal be directed by that how many Herbs prevent Miscarriage.  
2 Look [ Wind] in the same Table, and you shal see how many of those Herbs expel Wind.    
These are the Herbs Medicinal for your G●ief.  
2 In al Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.  
3 In mixed Diseases there lies some difficulty, for sometimes two parts of the Body are afflicted with contrary Humors the one to the other; sometimes one part is afflicted with two contrary Humors, as sometimes the Liver is afflicted with choler and Water, as when a man hath both a dropsy and the yellow Jaundice, and this is usually mortal.  
In the former, suppose the Brain be too could and moist, and the Liver too hot and dry, thus do, 

1 Keep your Head outwardly warm.  
2 Accustom yourself to smell of hot Herbs.  
3 Take a pill that heats the Head at night going to Bed.  
4 In the morning take a Decoction that cools the Liver, for that quickly passeth the Stomach, and is at the Liver immediately.    
You must not think( Courteous People) that I can spend time to give you examples of al Diseases; these are enough to let you see so much light as you without Art are able to receive: If I should set you to look upon the Sun I should dazzle your Eyes, and make you blind.  
Secondly, To such as study Astrology( who are the only men I know that are fit to study physic, physic without Astrology, being like a Lamp without oil) You are the Men I exceedingly respect, and such Documents as my Brain can give you at present( being absent from my study) I shal give you, and an Example to show the proof of them.  
1 fortify the Body with Herbs of the Nature of the lord of the Ascendent, 'tis no matter whether he be a Fortune or an Infortune in this case.  
2 Let your medicine be something Antipathetical to the lord of the Sixth.  
3 Let your medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.  
4 If the lord of the Tenth be strong, make use of his Medicines.  
5 If this cannot well be, make use of the Medicines of the light of time.  
6 Be sure always fortify the grieved part of the Body by Sympathetical Remedies.  
7. Regard the Heart, keep that upon the Wheels because the Sun is the Fountain of Life, and therefore those universal Remedies Aurum potabile, and the philosophers ston, cure al Diseases by only fortifying the Heart.  
But that this may appear unto you as clear as the Sun when he is upon the Meridian, I here quote you an example, which I performed when I was as far off from my Study as I am now, yet am I not ashamed the World should see how much or little of my Lesson I have learned without Book.  
On July, 25. 1651. there came a Letter to me out of Bedfordshire, from a Gentleman( at that time) altoge●her to me unknown, though since well known, who was a Student both in Astrology& physic: the words are these,  
Mr. Culpeper,  
MY Love remembered unto you, although I know you not by face, yet because I do much respect that pretty little Lark you so lately let fly into the World, which you call Semiotica Uranica, which I have lately taken into my Cage; I am therfore emboldened to writ unto you in the behalf of a Neighbors Wife, who is taken with a violent Disease which began in the lower parts of her Body, but is now ascended upwards, and tormenteth her in her Breast, Throat, Tongue, and Lips: This Disease took possession of her( as she relateth to me) about a fortnight before Michaelmas last, but the certain day and hour she is not able to nominate; she sent for me, and inquired whether she were not under an ill Tongue or not, or of what nature the Disease was? I have sent you the enclosed invidiam, I could find but one testimony of Fascination or Witchcraft, which was one Sign possessing the Cusps of the Twelfth and First Houses, which to me holds forth no more than a strong suspicion of the Querent: However I am confident there is a Natural Disease which hurts much, because the Lord of the sixth, which usually gives signification of Natural Diseases, is now placed in the Ascendent; but at present I forbear to make any large discourse of my own Opinions, being desirous that you would endeavour your skill in this Cure, for there is not a Doctor of them all far or near that have been so skilful to find out the Disease, much less to effect the Cure. Sir, I expect your Answer; mean time bid you farewell, and remain yours in Affection, &c.  
 
The enclosed invidiam.  
 
My Answer to the Letter, was to this effect:  
Sir,  
I Received yours, July 25. wherein I find your enclosed invidiam, and( I suppose) the Nature of the Disease, and have sent you such an Answer as I could, being far from my Study, which I entreat you to take in good part, being Festinanti calamo Conscripta. As for the ignorance of your Country Doctors, they wanting the true judgement of astrology, is to me no ways admirable; I perceive you to be a young man by the time of your Genesis, which you also sent me, beware whom ye trust with that, he that knows your Nativity knows when ill Directions operate, and if he be an enemy, knows when to do you a mischief; If Cecil had not had Essex his Nativity, he had never gotten his Head off, but to instruct you being a young Student, I shal give you my judgement Methodically.  
Diacritica.] You say you can find no Arguments of Witchcraft, but only one Sign possessing the Cusps of both Twelfth and Ascendent, but if you had regarded the Propinquity of Venus to Saturn, you would have made another of that, yet do not I think she is bewitched, because of other more prevalent testimonies; the Moon passing from the beams of Mars to the beams of Venus, may seem to give some suspicion of Honesty, and the Disease to come that way, which is increased by Mars his being in the Ascendent in scorpion, and the Dragons tail upon the Cusp, yet I can hardly believe this, for Cauda in a human Sign usually gives slanders and not tales of Truth; 'tis a hundred to one if she suffer not in point of good name by the vulgar[ this was too true] Besides, the nearness of Venus to Saturn may well show trouble of Mind, and it being in the Ninth House, pray inquire whether she have not been troubled about foam tenants in Religion[ the trouble of mind was true, but it was about a stranger, which the Ninth House also signifies.]  
Diagnostica.] Venus, Lady of the Twelfth, and Ascendent, and Eighth, shows her always to be her own foe in respect of Health; and truly I believe the originol of the Disease was a Surfet either by eating moist Fruits, or else by catching wet in traveling; Venus with Saturn who is in square to the Ascendent troubles her Breasts with tough phlegm and melancholy: Besides, there being a most forcible reception between the Moon and Venus from fruitful signs, I question whether she be not with Child or not, the Moon being in the Fifth House, Mars is Lord of the Disease, really in the Scorpion, and accidentally in the Ascendent, together with Aries on the sixth, show the Disease keeps his Court in the Womb, and accidentally afflicts the Head from thence, so that heat of the Womb must needs be cause of the present distemper, and Mars in a moist Sign in the first near the second, may well denote heat, and breaking out about her Face and Throat.  
Prognostica.] Whether she will be Curable or not, or how, or when the Disease will End, is our next Point? Truly I can see no danger of Death, the Moon being strong in her Hain, and applying by Trine with a strong reception to the Lady of the Ascendent; yet this is certain, Mars strong in a fixed sign will maintain the Disease stoutly, her hopes will be but small when Venus comes to the Body of Saturn, viz. August. 2. for she will be overpressed with melancholy, the time I suppose of her Cure may be( if good courses be taken) when Mars leaves the Sign he is in, and comes to the place where the Body of Jupiter is, or at least then it may turn to another Disease more propitious: the Sun strong in the Tenth shows she may be Cured by Medicine, and he being exalted in the Seventh, and caput there, I do not know but you are as likely a man to do it, as any.  
Indicationes Curativae.] It is confessed here that the Sun being exceeding strong in the tenth House, should naturally signify the curative Medicine, and as true that the evil of Mars, viz. Heat of the Womb, and a salt humour in the blood ought to be removed before you meddle with the tough phlegm in the Breast, but yet seeing the Disease seems rather to participate of offending heat than any other simplo quality, you must have a care of hot Medicines lest you go about ignem olea extinguere, the Medicines must first be cool, Secondly, strengthening the Womb, Thirdly, repressing the vapours, Fourthly, of the nature of Sol and Venus.  
Therapeutice.] To this intent I first commend unto you stinking Arrach, a pattern whereof I have sent you here enclosed, you may find it upon dunghills, especially such as are made of Hors-dung: It is could and moist, an Herb of Venus in the Scorpion; also Ros Solis an Herb of the Sun, and under the celestial Crab, may do very well, and the better because Venus is in Cancer: It grows upon bogs in untilled places, and is in flower about this time: It grows very low, with roundish green leaves full of read hairs, and is fullest of due when the Sun is hottest, whence it took its name; to these you may ad tansy, which I take to be an Herb of Venus in Libra, and lettuce if you please which is an Herb of the Moon, Mars having his fall in Cancer they are all harmless, you may use them according to your own discretion: also Orpine, another Herb of the Moon is very good in this case.  
Sir, I wish you well, and if you esteem of my Lark above his deserts, I pray trim his Feathers from him( correct the Errors by the Errata) else will he make but unpleasing music. Thus remains yours, &c.  
I the rather choose this Figure to judge of, because none should have just occasion to say of us Astrologers that we do as Physitians vulgar practise is, when they judge of Piss; pump what they can out of the Querent, and then judge by his words; of which I will rehears you one merry story, and so I will conclude the Book.  
A Woman whose Husband had bruised himself, took his water and away to the Doctor trots she; the Doctor takes the Water and shakes it about, How long hath this party been ill( saith he) Sr. saith the Woman, He hath been ill these two dayes, This is a mans water quoth the Doctor presently, this he learned by the word HE; then looking on the water he spied blood in it, the man hath had a bruise saith he, I indeed saith the Woman, my Husband fell down a pair of stairs backward, then the Doctor knew well enough that what came first to danger must needs be his back and shoulders, said, the bruise lay there; the woman she admired at the Doctors skill, and  told him, that if he could tel her one thing more she would account him the ablest physician in Europe; well, what was that? How many stairs her Husband fell down this was a hard Question indeed, able to puzzle a stronger Brain than Mr. Doctor had, to pumping goes he, and having taken the Urinell and given it a shake or two, inquires whereabout she lived, and knowing well the place, and that the Houses thereabouts were but low built Houses, made answer( after another view of the Urine for fashions sake) that probably he might fall down seven or eight stairs, ah, quoth the woman, now I see you know nothing, my Husband fell down thirty; thirty I quoth the Doctor, and snatching up the Urinell, is here all the Water saith he? no saith the Woman, I spilled some of it in putting of it in, look you there quoth Mr. Doctor, there were all the other stairs spilled.  
Yet mistake me not, I do not deny but such whose daily experience is to judge waters, and usually judge a hundred in a day may know something by them: If any thing may be known by Urine, I am sure it may by Art, put them both together, vis unita fortior. Thus I take my leave of you; be diligent and I am yours.  
Nich. Culpeper.     

The TABLE of DISEASES.  

A  

ABortion, 36 328 352.  
Adders, 70 362.  
Afterbirth, 23 25 42 64 69 82 98 104 130 144 166 294 299 328 359 368.  
Aconitum. 300.  
Agues, 6 7 13 17 19 23 23 31 33 45 46 60 67 73 84 94 96 99 105 106 112 113 121 130 131 134 136 142 147 150 158 169 192 307 307 323 325 333 341 345 347 349 350 353 355 365 367 368 369 378.  
Ague in the Breast, 11.  
Andicomes, 42 170.  
apostemes, 65 86 96 105 111 128 139 174 362.  
Appetite procure, 10 23 31 33 61 64 136 153 302 310 317 343.  
Appetite lost, 112 117 141 342.  
Arteries, 26 28 50 119.  
St. Anthonies fire. 4 29 67 73 77 90 117 122 123 137 151 306 307 316 325 349 373.  
Almonds of the Ears, 36 54 171.  
ache, 300 312 350 368.  
Adust choler, 56 88.  
Adust Melancholl, 110.  
Asthma, 141 373.  
Apoplexy, 140 143 157 161 192 368.  
Arm-pits ill scent, 314 354.    

B  

Blindness, 146 324  
Blows, 152 154.  
Belly-ach, 153 168 353 362  
Bones out of joint, 301.  
Blastings by Lightning, 307.  
Burning by gun-powder, 307  
bloody Urine, 308.  
Biting of Rats and Mice, 376  
Baldness, 29 93 151 191 369 379.  
Barrenness, 15 56 140 171.  
Belly, 22 26 53 114 136 143 147 150 151 165 170 194 300 302.  
Belly openeth, 20 309 318.  
Belly binding, 318 318 322  
Belching, 48.  
Breath difficult, 2 325.  
Biting of mad dogs, 3 13 22 31 50 102 112 131 299 301.  
— venomous beasts, 3 4 13 20 24 31 35 50 56.  
— Serpents, 6 9 19 20 22 301 314 329.  
Easeth pains of the back, 4.  
strengtheners the back. 4.  
Bruises inward, 6.  
Breast cleanseth, 6.  
Cut and cleanse tough Humors of the Breast, 7.  
Breakings-out in any part of the body, 9.  
Bursten, 22 330 345 358.  
Blains, 105.  
Binding, 10 11 32 34 76 103 121 166 173 191 302 349 357 369.  
Beauty, 58 76 77 93 115 331.  
Breath, 160 160.  
Breath short, 12 22 25 27 42 94.  
Breath stinking 29 320 342 344 354 379  
Bleeding 5 14 17 28 31 36 46 46 48 55 67 70 76 103 106 124 127 131 132 138 140 145 149 156 163 163 167 172 172 191 297 309 325 328 330 332 340 349 360 363 365 372  
Bleeding in the Mouth, 5 14 17 32 301 308 357 371  
Bleeding at the Nose, 5 14 17 31 301 357 371  
Bleeding by Leeches stays, 26  
Bleeding inward 27 28 36 55  
Blood 129 308 323 323 360  
Blood cooleth 23 71 307 317  
Blood ill 39  
Blood purgeth 43 368  
Bloody Flux 6 22 23 37 41 46 67 70 71 102 103 106 108 115 117 120 134 135 137 138 139 145 165 167 187 308 313 323 329 332 348 357 371 379  
Black and blue spots 2 35 52 57 63 169 192 331 376  
Bowels 57 75 80 141 316  
Bees 132 151  
Black Jaundice 45 343 351  
Bladder 44 50 77 83 98 100 102 117 121 144 151 365 367  
Blisters 29 80 309 344  
Blisters to draw 80  
Breast 75 83 103 107 153 194 364  
Back 69 77 170 317 367 368  
Brain 19 21 53 68 78 92 96 113 132 136 140 143 292 292 300  
Burning 4 11 17 23 28 29 41 73 83 93 93 122 133 135 141 144 187 293 295 298 301 328 351 363  
Blemishes 103  
Births 166  
Bruises 2 3 17 30 40 47 57 63 67 83 86 98 112 134 140 148 152 169 171 187 193 331 333 340 358 360  
Bots 112  
boils 23 31 32 68 147 168 327 343  
Bees stinging 335  
Breasts 74 105 159 300  
Broken bones 42 44 47 74 85 96 98 100 106 114 134 163 331 338    

C  

Carbuncles, 335 338 369.  
Casting 5 317 340.  
Conception helpeth, 56 328.  
choleric bushes, 73.  
— Fluxes, 307.  
Corruption, 75  
choleric humors, 105 298 350.  
Counter poison, 136 345 360.  
Consumption of the Lungs, 153 327.  
Catarrhs, 158 306 312 348.  
Chest, 170.  
Cachexia 7 1075 84.  
Cancers, 6 19 58 71 104.  
Cantharides, 35 174.  
Cankers, 9 29 36 42 48 50 51 54 55 67 85 91 95 103 107 108 118 138 139 165 170 301 312 329 335 335 341 350 350 356.  
Child birth, 31 100.  
chaps, 303 327 370.  
cleansing, 29 84 87 109 189 365.  
cleanse the blood, 70.  
cleanse the body of sharp humors that cause the itch and scabs, 7.  
Chincough, 152 358.  
colic, 6 12 20 22 34 53 57 61 89 93 96 98 99 107 118 121 124 128 133 136 140 168 170 189 390 302 303 309 319 334 336 351 369.  
Wind colic, 3.  
Cough, 6 12 25 31 33 39 42 61 64 67 73 78 98 100 102 103 107 113 120 123 129 130 132 136 144 147 149 151 153 165 167 170 171 186 187 189 190 292 293 300 303 307 313 320 325 329 334 337 359 364 365 369.  
Cough in children, 314.  
cattle poisoned, 127.  
choler in the stomach. 118.  
choler, 10 23 23 34 60 75 83 92 97 99 106 110 114 124 126 134 139 142 150 153 159 302 310 315 316 323 350 361 363 369 375.  
choler black, 22.  
choler purgeth, 3  
could, 31 53 47 155 164 171 300 337 370.  
Chilblains, 29 102 125 137.  
Cods, 26 125 137 151 128 359 371.  
Congealed blood, 2 17 69 90 101 102.  
Cools, 11 32 50 61 103 121 357.  
Cools the Liver, 307.  
Convulsion, 3 20 26 31 42 52 61 65 77 91 95 106 111 112 113 114 119 122 136 140 152 164 167 194 336 345 356 373.  
Cramp, 3 20 26 41 42 52 53 61 65 77 95 100 106 111 112 113 114 122 136 140 152 155 164 166 167 171 294 300 308 323 329 336 345 350 352 359 378.  
Consumption, 39 41 42 50 50 84 113 130 136 144 192 301 320 328.  
Corns, 132 172.  
Clotted blood 63 86 323.  
Costiveness, 66.  
Corrosion, 105.  
Curdled milk, 26 187.  
Cut fingers, 342.    

D  

drowsiness, 320.  
All sudden Diseases, 2.  
Dissiness of the head, 2.  
Draw forth the dead child, 4.  
Drive away flies or wasps, 7.  
Difficulty of making water, 20  
Cause Delivery of women, 25  
Difficulty of breathing, 49 82 130 171 189.  
Defluxions of Rhewm, 306 312 316 317 319 320 327 329 348.  
Dum palsy, or loss of speech 320  
Distillations of the Lungs, 371  
Defluxions of Blood, 373.  
Dandriff, 29 87 151 160 338  
Dead child, 3 42 43 98 104 113 155 294 299 368.  
Deformity, 99 101 298 348.  
Deafness, 9 56 102 125 153 335 344 370.  
Diabets, or them that cannot keep their water, 36 85 360 380.  
Digests, 13 22 29 66.  
Dissolve inward congealed blood, 22 66.  
Disury, 25 26 27 29 34 41 41 43 44 45 49 50 62 75 75 79 82 84 88 89 93 96 99 102 104 110 113 114 115 118 121 130 131 134 135 136 137 139 147 149 169 172 184 187 189 189 311 352 362 364.  
Dislocations, 41 44.  
Dogs, 112 131.  
dropsy, 2 7 10 19 20 25 31 42 44 53 58 92 96 103 104 106 111 113 121 122 126 129 136 144 153 153 155 164 165 187 190 194 194 195 300 301 304 325 333 342 349 351 355 365  
Dimness of Sight, 96 136 157 295 299 303 313 320 323 325.  
dullness of spirit, 113 329 335 372.  
dullness 79  
Drying 11 34 50 76 103 108 121 168 173 305 357 369.  
Drunkenness 135  
Dreams 142 160 307  
Disjunctures 168 172    

E  

Expel the dead birth 3 328  
Expel the plague 8  
Expel venom or poison 8  
Expel the after-birth 9 12 24  
Expel dead birth 3 24 328  
Eyes pained 9  
Eyes read 9  
Eyes watering 9  
Evil disposition of the body 7 10  
Ephialtes or the mere 47 77  
Excoriations 94 131 150 162 276 301  
Expel wind 133 136 334 359 359  
Evil vapours 362  
Ears 13 26 61 70 92 93 100 105 130 132 135 139 144 157 159 173 187 189 191 293 295 301 316 323 334 344 361 370  
Ears imposthumed or foul 6  
Earwigs 124  
Epidemical Diseases 12 31 40 48 49 64 147 174 175 176 369  
Eyes 5 13 20 24 25 32 37 46 58 61 68 69 80 82 90 91 92 94 95 96 97 103 104 108 110 122 123 130 132 133 146 151 154 158 187 292 308 313 351 356 365 371 372 377  
Eyes inflamed 14    

F  

Fractures 41  
Flies to keep them from sores of cattle 18  
Films in the Eyes 69 100 348 368  
Flagging breasts 140  
Fainting spirits 310 317  
Flegmatick humors 339 349  
Flux of blood 341 360 371  
Falling off of hair 379  
Face 372  
Fainting 22 88 112 140 294 317 362  
Falling-sickness 3 31 42 67 77 100 103 108 111 113 118 119 126 129 135 136 140 151 155 161 168 187 187 189 292 294 296 300 301 304 306 320 329 366  
Fals 2 4 40 47 63 67 83 86 138 152 187 331 300  
Fat decreateth 20  
Felons 2 17 26 68 170  
Fatness 70 100  
phlegm 10 39 42 44 44 50 61 75 80 82 92 97 99 102 106 111 112 114 121 122 126 130 133 135 154 158 164 189 194 300 310 316 334 337 358 361 364 370  
pleas 11 18  
fevers 23 38 39 67 86 105 128 316 360 372  
Fistulaes 9 19 47 55 67 90 104 107 118 138 139 170 172 174 189 293 312 313 335 356 365 379  
Flux 14 26 29 33 36 37 46 49 50 67 75 76 87 103 105 106 108 114 115 117 120 120 122 124 131 132 134 135 136 139 140 149 156 162 162 163 165 167 167 184 184 291 301 306 308 309 310 313 316 317 318 326 330  
Flux of the belly 4 360  
Forgetfulness 110  
Freckles 42 61 77 79 82 83 87 87 91 92 95 101 104 122 147 169 184 193 315 337 338 353 365 371 373  
Frenzy 1 77 100 132 189 301 306 307 359 365  
French pox 14 56 96 119 125 130 133 318 330 342 345 347 351 360 378  
Fundament 82 101 159 316 356    

G  

Gout in the hands 8  
Gout in the knees 8  
Gout in the feet 8  
Gauled feet 28  
Green sickness 60  
Green wounds 163 191 293 300 312 330 332 333 338 340 365  
gull 84 88 89 123  
Gangrenes 42 47 74 85 139 172 351 369  
Gaul● 52  
Gnats 97 146  
Gout 3 6 13 17 22 24 26 31 41 51 60 61 67 74 82 90 92 93 94 95 105 107 114 116 123 124 125 126 127 136 137 143 155 163 168 169 170 172 173 292 293 294 296 300 301 304 307 323 325 359 361 361 363 368  
Gums 36 54 120 194 316 353  
Guts 301  
Gravel 42 44 54 55 61 62 75 89 102 110 115 116 117 118 139 155 160 172 188 293 299 311 315 332 336 342 344 350 365  
Gravel in the kidneys 4 20 37  
gripping 89 150  
groin 168    

H  

Hip gout 8 20 67  
Help Hearing decayed 9  
Hair, to turn it yellow 23  
High colour 35  
hectic fever 41  
Heat 84 108 122 132 139 139 305 316  
Head sore 102 160  
headache 29 44 75 90 92 98 100 105 113 132 135 142 157 164 189 292 294 301 308 316 340 349 358 364 365 366 369  
Head 19 36 38 57 68 77 114 140 153 153 159 292 295 298 320 325  
Head purgeth 14  
Head grieved with could 3  
Heart comforteth 21 22  
Heart, maketh it merry 17 22  
Heart 48 112 113 143 154 168 317 319 328 348 349 355 362 367 368  
Hemorrhoids 60 65 74 82 101 105 107 133 137 167 167 171 299 344 351 361  
Hornets 377  
Hoarceness 61 67 102 103 105 144 170 302 306 310 329 367 371  
Humors 62 79 105 129 147 153 158 159 190 303 315 318 361 370 371 372 373  
Humors ill 43  
Hypochondria 84 88  
Hiccough 85 99 120 160  
Hairs on the Eye-lids 110  
Henbane 111 172  
Hemlock 111 172  
Heat of Urin 142 144 307  
Hair restoreth 144 169 193 310 354  
Helps digestion 317 317 331 334  
Hips 359  
Hurts 360    

I  

Imposthums to break 7 317  
Infection, to preserve from it 12 317 338 369  
inflammations in the Eyes 119 125 143 157 173 309 344 345 348 349 353 358 366  
inflammations in the breast& Lungs 119  
Inward pains 122  
Inward Ulcers 131 343  
inflammations in wounds 308  
Joynt-aches 3 316 325 346 360  
inflammations, cooleth 342  
inflammation of the Liver 359  
Jaundice yellow 2 4 7 8 14  
Jaundice black 2 45 110 127  
Jaundice 6 10 19 20 25 31 36 52 53 84 88 106 110 123 135 167 170 187 189 294 295 300 316 323 324 343 451 355 367  
Jaws 82 138  
joints 17 25 28 44 61 67 74 95 105 107 112 116 119 125 154 170 172 294 296 300 300 320 331 353 368  
Illiack Passion 334  
inflammations stayeth 11  
inflammations 4 5 11 23 26 36 39 40 43 52 54 62 67 68 73 74 77 78 83 89 90 92 92 103 104 105 117 117 121 122 123 124 128 129 130 132 137 139 140 142 143 145 146 151 157 159 159 163 167 168 173 184 187 191 293 301 305 306 307 307 308 316 324 340 343 347 349 356 362 366 367 369 371 373 379  
Imposthums 161 161 170 193 312 327 329 332 337 343 350 357  
Impostums hard, dissolve 23  
Itch 3 9 10 23 24 26 38 39 65 67 82 87 95 110 112 115 119 129 130 131 136 141 153 172 174 302 328 335 338 343 343 350 361  
Indigestion 31 57 112 141 142 147 318    

K  

Kibes 9 102 125 137  
Knots in the Flesh 67 72 350  
Kernels 83 119 152 350 358 362  
Kings Evil 17 24 41 54 60 96 101 108 112 115 137 146 152 160 166 175 312 323 335 350 350 361 371  
Kidneys 44 77 117 137 151 352 368    

L  

Liver annoyed by heat or could 6  
Liver strengthen 6 152  
Lungs strengthen 8  
Lungs exulcerated 8  
Lasks 10 70 167 310 316 317 323 332 357 369 371  
Liver grown 47 320  
Limbs 136  
Loss of voice 140  
lousy evil 169  
loins pained 170 359 368  
leprosy 4 14 24 42 52 93 101 102 104 126 136 153 160 169 171 174 318 338 351 371 371  
Lethargy 3 14 79 110 111 140 168 171 186 189 292 295 320 329 335 359  
Liver 23 33 48 53 65 75 83 83 84 87 88 89 94 96 106 110 112 117 119 120 130 131 140 145 151 160 184 187 189 301 310 317 320 323 339 347 355 360 367  
Liver openeth 6  
Liver purgeth and cleanseth 6 10  
Lice 10 45 103 129 324 345 350 351  
Lechery 123  
Loathing of meat 87 99 156 323  
looseness 85  
Loose Teeth 95 308 316 353  
Longings 156  
Lungs 12 64 73 75 78 102 103 133 147 149 170 171 192 303 358 360 367 373  
Lust provokes 20 64 68 69 119 159 160 169 185 189  
Lust stops 121 142 307 372    

M  

Milk amends 99 142 344 368  
Members disjointed 106 134 303  
Marks 146 154 294 297 321 331  
Mandrakes 172  
Matrix 36 316  
Milk too much 349  
Marks in the Skin 26  
mere 47 296  
Madness 126  
Mad dogs 3 13 22 31 92 110 111 133 159 172 176 371  
measles 4 36 154 328 360  
Megrim 25 105 350  
melancholy 8 17 22 39 48 88 96 99 113 126 148 158 159 164 294 296 303 318 346 351 354 368  
Memory 19 56 96 136 143 157 320 329  
Mother 4 15 20 25 31 35 42 49 58 85 87 94 98 136 155 158 164 170 172 184 189 293 299 325 334 334 336 345 346 350 368 369  
Mineral vapours 111  
Mind 22  
Milk in Nurses 39 99 150 305 314  
Milk curdling 26  
Milk in cattle 72  
Mouth 54 67 156  
Morphew 4 42 83 85 87 87 91 92 95 102 122 130 143 148 152 169 172 193 315 325 338 353 365 371 373  
Muscles cut 71 152  
Miscarriage 156 156  
mushrooms 99 169 191 376    

N  

Nocturnal pollutions 119 160  
Nettles 132  
Neck 356  
N●vil of children 308 358  
Nails in the flesh draw forth 6 161  
Nepples 105  
Nerves 25 37 365  
Nightshade eaten 172  
Noise in the Ears 9 29 102 125 129 153 154 341  
Nits 151  
Nose 133  
Noli me tangere 103    

O  

Obstructions of the Liver 2 3 7 19 21 22 29 31 104 108 110 129 131 148 152 153 188 293 299 299 314 326 333 341 347 349 351 355 368  
Noise and singing in the Ears 9 29  
Obstructions of the Gal 148 333 349  
Obstructions of the Reins 368  
Open the Body 324  
Obstructions 2 3 25 29 31 42 44 58 60 66 72 75 80 84 88 96 99 134 167 323 326 332 365 370  
Obstructions of the Spleen 2 3 19 22 29 110 129 131 152 153 188 293 299 314 341  
Open the Liver 13  
Open the Spleen 13  
Opium 99 166    

P  

Pains in the Bowels 350 357  
Purge the Body 357  
Preserve health 376  
Pain in the Stomach 8 24 344 346 357  
Pain in the Spleen 8 24  
Pain in the Belly 8 359  
Plague sores 310 335 343  
Pox small 4 36  
Pricks 4  
Purge the liver and stomach 324  
poison expelleth 8  
Pin and Web, skins and films over the sight 9 91 123 143  
Purge for the Spring 11  
Preservative against al diseases caused by Saturn 12  
Purge choler 19 158 303 316 318 322  
Purge phlegm 19 303 322 328  
putrefaction 75 141 317 357  
Passion of the Heart 94 319  
Purgeth Urine 120  
Pestilential fevers 144 154 299 344 350  
Pains in the sides 152 323 325 338 355 357  
palate of the Mouth 160  
Pains in the Neck 166 307  
Pains in the Ears 302 304 316 323 325 341 351  
Procure sleep 306 316 317  
Pains in the Head 306 316 327 329 359  
Pains in the Eyes 316  
Pains of the stomach, belly, spleen or sides 326  
Pain 8 31 44 85 166 169 312  
Pains in the Reins 20 20  
Pains eased that come of could or wind 12  
Pains in the sides 24 44 60 66  
palsy 31 65 67 77 92 100 113 135 136 140 143 148 161 300 300 329 329 330 335 368 373  
Piles 37 73 82 92 136 137 156 293 301 302 361 367  
Pissing blood 6 31 46 62 64 77 131 141 359  
Pin and Web 9 301 362 363 364  
Plague 8 22 32 36 40 49 56 81 81 144 299 324 325 347 355 360  
Pestilence 37 39 48 58 64 67 81 84 86 90 91 94 110 111 112 128 135 136 154 184 185 120 328 360 362 364 365 370 371  
Plague resist 12  
Plague expelleth 8  
Pluresy 12 63 105 119 147 150 170 171 306 337 367  
poison 22 25 36 39 40 49 54 81 86 91 94 99 112 113 121 128 130 130 141 144 147 151 153 155 159 169 170 174 175 300 310 343 344 350 357 360 362 367 369  
poison resisteth 12 25  
Phtisick 12 33 64 120 138 144 150 165 186 292 301 303 307 319 320  
Purples 36 105 360  
bushes 32 65 105 304 307 318 345 348 349 351 376  
Pimples 79 104 110 132 137 307 318 325 338 345 349 353 371  
Polipus 82 91 172 303  
Privities 73 119 144 146 301    

Q  

Quartan Agues 96 126 303 309  
Quotidian Agues 75 96  
quinsy 37 67 76 129 146 147 187 312 366 369 376  
Quickens the sences 329    

R  

Refreshing to feet gauled with traveling 11  
Radical moisture 41  
read Eyes 65 307 316 317  
Redness 137 356  
Raise blisters 31  
Retention of meat 320 380  
Running sores 335  
Raw Humors 75 83 85  
Rhewm 73 75 78 78 83 107 132 135 139 155 158 171 301 302 361 367  
Reds 38 316 361  
read Faces 65 83 132 348  
Reins 44 77 96 98 100 102 121 129 141 144 151 299 301 307 318 336 349 352 359 360 365 367  
Rickets 91 356  
Ringworms 39 42 56 58 85 123 130 145 173 302 302 325 335 338 343 370  
Roughness of the sk●n 151 169  
Running of the Reins 14 36 143 145 307 316 317 323 326 330 332 380  
Ruptures 22 31 33 34 36 41 52 67 71 75 76 80 82 83 90 93 98 112 115 131 132 138 140 152 167 187 313 326 331 333 346 353 358 359 360 371    

S  

Sight decayeth through age 97  
Serpents drive away 97  
Sadness 99 368  
Sore Breasts 103 307  
Stinking waters 111 194  
strengtheners Nature 113  
Speech lost 143  
Scabby heads 151 171 361  
Sweat provoketh 155  
Stupidity of the sences 157 320  
Sore travail 164  
Sucking Children 187  
Swollen Gums 308  
stiffness of sinews 308  
Stop defluxions of the Head and stomach 318  
Spots scars, and marks in the skin 339  
Stop defluxions of the Eyes 349  
Sore Legs 353  
Short winded 364  
Superfluous flesh 372  
strengtheners Members out of joint 6  
Sore Mouth 8 110 115 151 160 167 172 194 301 308 308 309 312 317 3●9 339 341 343 348 358 366  
Sore Throat 8 110 115 151 167 172 193 308 312 317 329 340 341 343 3●8  
Sores in the privy Parts 9 308 333 340 345  
Spasmus 9  
Sharpness of Urine 94  
Skin 79 83 99 115 296 315 321 344 348 361 365 370 371  
Scald-heads 38 144  
Scaldings 23 93 137 135 144 151 187 193 301 351  
Scabs 9 10 23 26 29 32 39 47 51 65 67 87 102 104 110 112 115 119 130 136 141 153 159 172 184 189 193 302 323 325 335 338 344 350 351 361 371  
Scabby, scald, or leprous heads 20 38 61 109 138  
Scars 52 79 146 321 362  
Sciatica 8 13 17 20 26 50 60 67 78 78 85 100 105 107 114 116 118 125 126 127 135 136 137 148 166 169 170 172 292 296 298 300 304 311 312 323 325 335 345 353 393 357 359 361 363  
Scurf 32 82 93 101 102 148 149 151 338 372  
Serpents biting 160 189  
Serpents stinging 6 24 97  
Seed increaseth 66 95  
Scurvy 43 79 136 141 153 311 315 339  
Sides 75 106 112 130 329  
stiffness 28  
Shingles 67 73 189 302  
Shortness of breath 82 101 103 129 133 136 147 149 151 170 171 190 193 303 307 319 358 365  
smell lost helpeth 29  
small pox 154 314 328 360  
Sneezing 107 154 169 192  
Sore Mouth 34 37 39 47 72 145  
Sores 3 22 37 38 49 50 50 52 55 90 102 106 112 138 144 149 159 165 300 302 307 315 323 325 328 330 331 340 345 350 360 363 365  
Old sores 6 324 333 338 345 350  
Running sores 29  
Spitting blood 21 31 37 64 64 73 87 95 134 135 184 190 301 316 323 328 341 351 359 371  
Splinters 42 68 85 96 114 122 168 169 298 345 364  
Splinters draws forth 6 17  
Spleen 4 16 31 44 53 79 84 88 94 96 97 98 100 106 110 113 114 120 121 129 135 140 148 149 151 153 157 160 161 169 172 187 303 316 339 345 346 347 351 351 359 360 368 372 373 378  
Spleen, mollify the hardness therof 7  
Stopings of the Spleen 8 9  
Spots 22 26 42 49 61 76 79 82 101 103 122 129 143 146 147 321 337 371  
Stitches 20 21 31 42 45 53 56 94 112 135 174 189 327 329 364  
Stomach 33 46 57 63 80 83 94 94 97 106 112 117 117 121 1●0 133 136 140 141 147 153 153 155 157 159 160 187 189 191 302 307 316 317 318 320 320 323 323 327 347 354 357 359 359 369 369  
Stomach warms 64  
gripping pains in the stomach 8  
Stomach to meat procure 23  
Stomach cooleth 23  
Stoppings 9 19 89  
surfeits 13 51 145 306 376  
Swellings 17 22 32 43 51 52 53 65 68 73 83 85 86 93 94 117 134 144 149 151 154 154 159 300 312 323 324 327 330 332 338 340 344 349 350 359 362 366 367 368 376  
Swelling of the Cods 90 128 325  
Strangury 9 12 20 44 72 96 102 114 116 131 136 144 158 160 188 299 304 315 326 344 345 346 346 352 364  
ston in the Kidneys 33 37 42 55 63 75 94 110 156  
ston 3 20 20 24 26 31 34 37 43 44 45 46 50 50 52 62 66 66 69 89 99 102 106 112 115 116 117 122 127 131 135 136 137 141 149 151 155 160 163 165 172 184 187 188 188 190 293 299 302 302 311 313 315 318 323 326 333 334 335 342 343 344 345 346 350 352 355  
Sunburning 30 76 83 91 92 143 152 193 353 373  
Swoonings 22 39 88 112 164 194 317 362  
Sinews 3 17 20 31 31 37 50 53 65 90 100 106 119 119 124 144 154 164 166 168 185 195 338 368 368 371    

T  

Teeth cleanse 10  
Thrusts 4  
tumours 17 370  
tired Horses 18  
Tenasmus 76  
Teeth hollow 100  
Testicles 170 173  
Tendon or Muscles 193  
Tough phlegm 335 336 346 350  
Teeth black 366  
Teeth loose 19 115 348  
toothache 10 13 17 20 22 31 36 45 58 67  
Teeth 192 193  
Tertian Agues 301 350  
Terms stops 13 29 36 37 48 58 64 67 74 77 103 106 108 115 117 120 127 131 132 134 139 145 156 162 164 165 167 173 184 293 297 301 306 307 308 309 313 316 328 332 341 341 343 345 346 348 351 353 357 360 361 369 379  
Terms provokes 3 7 14 15 25 31 34 43 44 49 52 56 61 64 66 68 76 79 82 86 92 94 98 99 107 111 113 114 119 127 130 135 136 140 147 148 149 153 158 164 166 171 172 187 294 299 324 330 334 336 336 352 357 359 359 364 368 376  
Tetters 32 39 42 56 58 123 130 131 132 145 159 168 302 302 318 325 335 335 338 343 370  
Thorns 42 68 89 96 100 114 122 131 151 168 169 298 338 364  
Thirst 105 132 142 302 342 347 367  
Throat 14 24 39 54 70 82 86 136 138 316 367  
toothache 3 102 107 125 129 167 167 169 294 299 301 306 308 314 320 323 350 351 353 360 369 380  
travail in Women 116  
Trembling 77 88 140  
Trembling of the heart 317    

V  

Urine sharp 62 367  
Urine provoke 3 7 8 9 19 20 56 56 61 83 92 106 111 112 129 136 141 153 155 164 188 313 314 319 323 324 328 330 332 334 336 336 341 342 346 347 348 353 355 359 361 372 373 376  
Urine stops 12 326  
Vomiting provoke 10 19  
Vessel broken 71  
venereous Dreams 121 142 160 307  
Ulcers in the privities 127 148 184 307 312 332 348 361  
Uvula 138 167 169 172  
Vital spirits 143  
Venom 144 336 357 360  
Vital spirits 154 362  
Ulcers in the Eyes 324  
Ulcers of the Nose 325  
vermin 324  
Venerial sores 335  
venomous Beasts 3 4 13 20 24 31 35 36 39 46 50 54 55 56 61 86 91 96 97 99 103 106 111 112 112 120 121 129 130 130 134 136 139 141 153 169 172 184 187 189 294 299 300 346 350 351 362 365 367 369 370 371 377  
Vertigo 2 3 25 29 42 55 77 100 140 171  
Veins broken 40 138 330  
Vipers 32 71 360  
Ulcers 4 5 9 13 14 17 29 30 36 37 38 39 40 47 48 50 52 55 58 61 62 94 65 67 70 71 73 75 75 76 79 83 85 86 89 90 91 92 94 97 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 112 113 115 117 122 126 127 128 130 131 133 135 139 146 148 149 155 157 161 162 162 165 170 172 293 299 300 301 301 302 309 313 314 315 319 326 328 330 332 335 337 338 340 341 343 348 350 350 358 363 365 370 371 373 379  
Ulcers in the Mouth 332 333 339 344 353 361 368  
— in the Throat 332 333  
— Kidneys 332  
— Reins 333  
— Legs 334  
Ulcer putrefied 17 19  
Ulcers inveterate 6 14 17  
Venery 143 184 314 325  
Venery provoke 27  
Vomiting 5 19 33 36 46 48 52 52 85 89 140 159 160 163 163 184 190 294 307 309 310 317 331 343 359 360 371  
Vomiting blood 134 153    

w  

Worms in the Ears 356  
Women to cleanse, newly brought in bed 2  
Womens Courses stay( see Terms 5  
Whites stop 5 318 353 361  
Wounds inward 6 8 333  
Womens Courses provokes 8 9 12 22 155  
Wheals 9 26 29 51 65 105 110 293 304 307 318 325 344 345 348 349 376  
Women in Childbed 22 296  
Womens Breasts 26 170 187  
Weakness by long sickness 39  
Wheezing 49 94 99 102 129 147 151 170 171 303 318 344 365  
Womens speedy delivery 72 136 151 297 344 359 373  
Wolf-bane 111  
Womens longings 117 156 366  
Womens breasts 119 125 131 310  
Women with Child 140  
Whites in Women 141  
Wasps 151 335  
Womens diseases 158  
Whitloes 170  
Wind colic 334 371  
Watching 84 121 125 132 142 191  
Water, for them that cannot keep it 36 143  
Warts 46 58 102 150 168 304 325 356 359 362 371 372  
Weariness 28 33 53 112 130 172  
Wens 22 101 166 356 362  
Wind 13 25 45 56 61 86 87 94 99 99 100 102 123 147 153 157 160 170 184 187 190 320 336 342 344 350 352 364 369  
Wind break 9  
Witchcraft 2 25 31 128 134 161  
Whites 5 14 16 29 38 48 67 74 145 307 309 316 320 362 380  
Whitloes 42  
Worms 3 4 18 25 31 36 49 52 58 60 75 76 87 89 95 97 105 106 111 112 113 117 124 126 129 130 131 135 136 141 159 172 175 176 319 325 326 329 335 342 342 345 350 352 358 360 365 369 370  
Womb 15 26 42 98 100 107 139 153 166 170 186 190 301 307 311 352 359 365 366  
Wounds 4 5 5 9 17 31 33 34 36 37 40 45 47 48 62 70 71 71 73 127 128 129 131 133 134 135 139 145 146 152 155 156 162 165 172 184 185 187 190 298 299 301 302 315 326 331 337 338 341 344 350 353 358 360 362 363 364 365 369 370 379  
Wounds inward 21 340  
Wry necks 90 96 169  
Wrinkles 76 122    

Y  

Yellow Jaundice 39 44 55 58 67 70 96 99 104 110 112 113 118 126 129 130 130 145 148 149 153 158 301 320 327 328 333 341 341 346 348 349 360 365 376    
FINIS.