¶ Hereafter followeth the knowledge, properties, and the virtues of Herbs.   

¶ Of the knowledge & virtues of herbs, and the first letter beginneth with. A.  

¶ Agnus castus.  
AGnus castus is a herb that men call Tutsayne or Park leaves, & it hath leaves somedeal red: like to the leaves of Orage, & it hath signs in his leaves, as it were leaves of plantain, and he hath yellow flowers as great as a penny, and this herb beareth above at the crope black berries when they been ripe, & if they be not ripe they been yellow as the flower of it is. And this herb groweth moche in woods & in dry ground. ¶ The virtue of this herb is, that he will keep man and woman chaste, for as Dracolidon and Placius saith that this herb is called Agnus castus for this skill, for the use and the savour thereof maketh men chaste. Also he will open the poors, and let out wicked humours, & spices of the body. This herb destroyeth the moisture of man's seed. Also Authors say, let this herb be well sod with fennel seed, and a little eisell is good to destroy cold dropsy. Also let him be sod with smallage and Sauge in salt water, and than wash the hinder party of a man's head, he helpeth an evil that men call Litargia. Also this destroyeth the fowl lust of lechery and it be drunk, but men use to lay it on them sleeping. And therefore some men eat this herb roasted, for if men eat it raw he will lightly gender head ache. This herb is good to destroy the hardness and the stopping of the liver, and of the milt. Also a plaster of this herb is good to do away the ache of a man's head that is gendered of wicked humours, this herb is hot and dry and there be three spices of her. etc.   

¶ Apium.  
APium is an herb men call Smaledge or March, this herb hath leaves like to Lovage: but the leaves be not so long, also it is not so strong of savour as Lovage, and it hath seed as it were Percely, and it is like to Percely seed. ¶ The virtue of him is that he will make a man to make water, and this herb openeth the stopping of the liver. Also the seed thereof hardeth a man's womb. Also the property of him is to draw all the wicked humours of the body unto the head and to the stomach, & the womb, and therefore it is forbade to women that be with child, or that keepeth sucking children to eat of this herb lest they be mad, and take thereof the falling evil. This herb is hot and dry, and hath five spices of her. etc.   

¶ Auetum.  
Avetum is an herb that is called Auete otherwise dill, this hath leaves like to Fenel, and the same savour and beareth her seed as Fenell, but the sede of this is somewhat broad as the seed of Orage. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will make a man to piss. Also he suageth the rombulling & the wicked wind in a man's womb. Also it destroyeth the pox, & if the seed of this herb be brende and strawed upon a wound it healeth soon that wound, and namely if a man be scalded on his membres, or on his yard, it shall be hole in the same manner. Also a plaster made of this herb, and laid to the emeralds healeth them soon, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Apumerisus.  
APumerisus is an herb called Cerfoyle or Cheruyle, this herb hath small leaves like to the leaves of Hemeloke, but this herb is good in savour, and hath a white flower & long seed like to oats. ¶ The virtue is if that he be drunk with wine it shall make a man well to make water. Also he delivereth of the reins & of the bladder, and if he be drunk with wine, he letteth out and unbindeth the wicked wind fro the sides and the stopping of the womb, and of the liver, and of all other wounds, & this herb withholdeth casting. Also a plaster made of the herb & tempered with eisell destroyeth wild fire, and healeth the canker, this herb is one of the spices of Smaledge, it is hot and dry.   

¶ Absinthium.  
ABsinthium is an herb that men call worm wood, this herb hath leaves as Mugwort, and the leaves be somedeal white under, and he hath a great more, and of the more cometh out many branches, and beareth flowers as Mugwort. ¶ The virtue thereof is to comfort the stomach and cleanseth the heart. Galen sayeth that if this herb be given to an evil, of the which evil the matter is not fully defied it shall hard the stomach and let the digestion, and if the matter of the evil be riped, the herb shall make a man laxative. This herb is to put away drunkenness, also if this herb be drunk with spiconarde, it suageth the ache of the stomach & of the womb. Also if this herb be tempered with honey and drunk, it healeth the swelling of a man's mouth, & putteth away the blackness by a man's eye, and cleareth the eyen. Also if the juice of this herb be stilled in to a man's nostrylles, it drieth up the moisture that runneth out of him. Also it keepeth clothes from moths and thou put it in thy press, also it keepeth books from eating of worms, this herb is dry and hot & hath two spices.   

¶ Archemesia.  
ARchemesia is an herb that men call Mugwort, it is like to wormwood in leaves, but they be not fully so round, and it hath a longer stalk, and many coming out of one, & it beareth flowers as doth wormwood. ¶ The virtue of this herb is if a man take a journey, and beareth this herb with him, he shall not be weary ne have no travail in his way, also if this herb be in a house, there shall no wicked spirit dwell there, Also this herb puned with tallow helpeth the aching and soreness of a man's feet, also the powder of this herb drunk with lukewarm water helpeth the aching of a man's guts, it is hot and dry.   

¶ Affodillus.  
AFfodillus is an herb that men calleth Affadyll like to leek, and he hath yellow flowers, and at the top he hath round cods, when the flowers be falling they hath seed like to an onion. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that the branches of this herb is good to hele the dropsy. Also the flowers thereof drunk with wine, it healeth the biting of venomous worms. Also the juice with the more with a little myrrh, and a little sapheron sodde and meddled with sweet wine and strained, it healeth running eyen, also the more thereof burned in to powder put in to eyen that have lost her here shall make here to grow, & also a hard sharp cloth be wet in the juice of this herb, and therewith the morfewe or a place that moche bow is, be anointed with the cloth in the son, the morfewe and the bow shall fall away, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Astrologia longa.  
AStrologia longa is an herb called Mader, it hath leaves like to Mader, & hath a branch the length of a cubit, and many branches coming out of the more, the branches of this herb hath many knots right as hath Mader, & some what white flowers. ¶ The virtue is it will unbind the stopping of the liver, & let pass wicked winds. Also if this herb be drunk with wine he purgeth venom in a man's body, or without in the veins, wounds, that be touching. This herb is hot and dry, and shall be gathered in harvest.   

¶ Abrotanum.  
Abrotanun is an herb that men calleth Sothernwoode, and this herb hath a stalk as it were rue, and so he is branched, save this herb hath straighter leaves than hath rue. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that if the seed thereof be broken and drunken with water it helpeth the men that hath the stone, and the palsy, & if the herb be drunk with wine it helpeth him that is bitten with any venomous worms. Also the powder of this herb breaketh hard postumes. Also if this herb be brent, and the ashes be meddled with old Oil, and put to the place where lacked here, and it shall grow again, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Aristologia rotunda.  
ARistologia rotunda is an herb that is called Astrologe or galingale, this herb hath leaves like to a purse, and hath but one branch and green leaves above, & under been white, and it flowreth as it were betayn save the flowers been white. ¶ The virtue as hippocras sayeth is, if that he be drunken with hot water, it is medicinable for men that been stopped in the breast, & for the falling evil, and for the potagre, this herb is hot & dry, and shall be gathered in harvest, and this is a spice of red mader.   

¶ Ameos.  
AMeos is an herb called Amee, this hath leaves like to Eldern, but they been less and a long branch and flowreth, and seedeth as it were parsley, and the seed is like to the seed of parsley. ¶ The virtue of this herb is if it be drunk with honey it sleeth worms in a man's womb, and unbindeth great stopping of wicked winds in a man's womb, he breaketh the stone, he healeth a man's stomach if it be cold, he cleanseth the liver and the reins and wounds, he helpeth the biting of venomous beasts, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Alleluya.  
ALleluya is a herb called woodsore or stubworte, this herb hath iii leaves of the which ii been round and a little departed above and it hath a white flower, but no long stalk. ¶ The virtue of this herb is if it be roasted upon the coals in leaves of the red dock, than he shall frete away dead flesh, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Agrimonia.  
AGrimonia is an herb called Egrimonye, and the leaves be like to Tansey, but the leaves of this been greater, and he hath a blue flower, and when the flower is fall he hath seed that will hang in a man's clothes, this groweth by dyches, or hedges, and woods. ¶ The virtue is if he be eaten green with the rote he healeth the aching of the womb. Also this herb tempered with eysyl will heal a sore hurted with iron. Also if it be used in meats it will hele the soreness of the milt, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Auancia.  
AVancia is an herb called Auendre, it hath leaves like to an hare foot, this herb is called harefote, and he hath a yellow flower as it were Turmentyll. ¶ The virtue is if he be dried & made in powder, and put in a little wine or hot water and given to a man that hath the Fevers to drink, it shall help him soon. Also it helpeth much wounds, and the canker if it be drunk.   

¶ Altea.  
ALtea is an herb called the hollyhock or wild mallow, it hath leaves as it were mallow and hath a long branch, he seedeth as doth mallow. ¶ The virtue is if it be shredded with telow, and taken to a man that hath the potagre, he shall be hole within three days. Also if this herb be sudden with vinegar and with linseed, and laid unto a man's sides it departeth wicked gathering that been gendered together in a man's body it groweth in fields and hot places.   

¶ Amarista.  
AMarista is an herb called Mawthen or doctor fenel, this herb is much like to camomile, and flowreth as Camamyll, for it hath white flowers, & this herb stinketh as it groweth in the field, and in corn. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that the juice thereof drunk is good for the canker. Also to hele the pipes of the emeralds and there be two spices of the herb, one hath a white flower, the other a yellow flower.   

¶ Anisum.  
Anisun is an herb called Annies, it hath leaves as Comen or Fenel, but the seed is more than Fenell sede. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he unbindeth wicked winds and great humours, and he openeth the stopping of the liver. Also he maketh woman's milk to wax. Also he stirreth man and woman to works of kind. Also it maketh a man to make water & to sweet. Also it maketh the womb hard if it be lax, this herb or else the seed should be take moist, and roasted or perched in manner of medicine this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Alleum.  
ALleum is an herb called Garlic, this herb is comen. ¶ The virtue of him is that he will unbind all great stoppings and wicked winds in a man's body. Also he helpeth a man to make water, but nevertheless he grieveth a man's eyen for the great unbinding and drawing that he verivously draweth the sight. Also he destroyeth a venom within a man. Also he healeth cold sores as it were treacle. Also he doth a way the morfewe of bladders in what place that they been of the body if it be well rubbed therewith, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Astarton.  
AStarton is an herb called Lunarye, this herb groweth among stones or high places, this herb shineth by night, this herb hath his moisture yfound by shepherds in the field, and it hath yellow flowers hole and round as cokobell, or flowers of Floxglove, the leaves of this herb been zende blue, & they have the mark of the Moon in the mids as it were iii leaved grass, and the leaves been more than iii leaved grass, and been round as a penny, it hath a stalk & that is red, it smelleth as it were Musk, and the juice is yellow, this groweth in the new with Moon without leaves, & every day waxeth a new lief xu days, and after xu days he loseth a leaf as the Moon waxeth and waineth, and where soever this herb be he groweth in great quantity. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that who so eateth his bayns or else of the herb in the waning of the Moon when he is in signo virgins, if he have the falling evil he shallbe hole. Also who so hath the falling evil bear this herb about his neck and he shallbe hole. And it hath many more virtues than I can tell at this time.    

¶ The ii letter beginneth with. B.  

¶ Betonia.  
BEtonia is an herb called betake or byschope pysworte, this herb hath hole leaves, but they be indented by the sides without, & it hath a red flower in the crop of the stalk. ¶ The virtue of this herb is if he be pune and put to the wound in the head that is smitten with a stroke, he shall hele the wound fair and well, and the better if it be fresh. Also this herb will draw out broken bones of wounds as some auctors say. Also take the water of betake, or else break the leaves and take the juice and put it in to thine eyes, than shall you find that it is is good for aching or soreness of the eyen. Also take of Betayn a dragma and pune it and meddle it with water that is warm, and drink it four times fasting and it will break the web about the eyen, and cleanse them well & fair. Also if thou have watering eyen eat every day a little betake and it cleanseth them. Also if thou have aching eyen, take the leaves of betake fresh by themself, or else with a little water, and then wring out the juice, & put thereto a little rose water, warm them well together, and still it in to thine eyen, and afterward put above wool, and so thou shalt be hole. Also if thou bleed moche at the nose take betake and pune it with a little salt, and do it to thine nosethyrlles, as much as thou mayest with thy thumb and thy meddle finger, and than hold thy nosethyrlle with the same fingers, and the bsode shall staunch. Also if thou have sore tethe, take betake and seth it in old wine, or in eyfyll till it be sodde to the third part, and hold it in thy mouth, and thou shalt amend. Also if thou have the cough take two ounces of the powder of betake and a little honey, and seth it with easy fire, and use it ix days. Also if a man's yard be swollen or else sore, take betake & pune it with little wine, and after lay to the yard and he shallbe hole. Also if a man may not hold his meet within him, take four drams of the powder of Betayn and meddle it with honey that is sodde, & make pellets as great as a walsche note, & give him four days each day a pellet, and do him to drink ii spoonful of that water, & than he shall be hole. Also if a man be potagre, take betake and pune it & lay it to his feet, and he shall be amended. Also take a little betake or the powder and eat it early, and it shall help the fro drunkenness that day, these medicines been proved. This herb groweth in woods and holly places among bushes in dark places, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Balsaminta.  
BAlsaminta is an herb that men call horsemynt, this herb hath leaves like unto other mints, and some men calleth it water mint, it groweth moche by the water, but it hath a stronger saver than hath another mint. ¶ The virtue is that he will comfort the stomach, & make a man well to defy his meat. Also this herb purgeth a man within the body, and maketh him well to speak. Also the juice of this herb meddled with honey and a little wine doth away the schylke of a man's stomach, and other wicked winds of him. Also the juice of this herb drunk with wine ysode maketh a woman with child easily to bear her child, & soon to be delivered, this is hot and dry, and hath two spices.   

¶ Beta.  
BEta is an herb called beat, this herb is comen, and groweth in gardens, and there be two spices thereof, and Diacolides sayeth, one is white another black.  
¶ The virtue of this herb is that the juice of this herb put it in to the nosethyrlles, it cleanseth a man's heed. Also this herb suageth the aching of a man's heed. Also it cleanseth the heed from nyttes, and from other vermin. Also it repaireth & keepeth the here of a man's heed. Also this herb destroyeth botches and biles. Also Diacolides sayeth, that upon the rote of this herb may be planted a graff that will afterward bear fruit, as upon the coal rote.   

¶ Borago domestices.  
BOrago Domestices is an herb called Borage, this groweth in gardens, and he hath short leaves and a blue flower. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will cleanse the red colour of man. Also this herb meddled with wine maketh a man glade and merry, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Bigula.  
BIgula is an herb called Brome Bugle this hath leaves some what round, and some what turning to black, and he hath a blue flower and somewhat boistous. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will hele wounds in a man's head. Also it breaketh and destroyeth the rheum in a man's head and the aching, he groweth in woods, and he is hot and dry, and there been ii spices of him.   

¶ Burneta.  
BVrneta is an herb called Burnet, & it hath a blue flower as hath Hayhove, and leaves like to Tansy, but they be not so great. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will destroy the great humours and the laxative within a man. Also he healeth and openeth the stopping of the liver, and maketh a man to piss. Also he healeth a man of the yellow evil. Also the juice meddled with honey and drunk, unbindeth & healeth the sore of the rib and paps, and there be ii spices of this herb one groweth in hard land and hath little leaves, another groweth in meadows and have more leaves.   

¶ Bursa pastoris.  
BUrsa pastoris is an herb called shepherds purse or tocheworte, this hath leaves departed somedeal as Burnet, & hath a white flower, and when he hath lost his flower, he hath the manner of a purse, in the which is sede. ¶ The virtue of this herb is he will soon staunch blood if he be drunk, it groweth in fields and gardens well nigh all about, and he is hot and dry.    

¶ The iii letter beginneth with. C.  

¶ Camamilla.  
CAmamilla is an herb called Camamyl, this herb hath leaves like to the mauthe and white flowers but he smelleth soot, & the maw the stinketh.  
¶ The virtue is if he be drunk with wine he breaketh the stone. Also he stroyeth the yellow evil. Also he healeth the aching of the liver. Also if he be chewed he healeth the sore of the mouth, this is hot and dry, and groweth most in gardens.   

¶ Calamintum.  
CAlamintum is an herb that is called calamint, this herb hath leaves like unto Mint, but the leaves been whiter and rounder than the leaves of Mint, and more stronger of savour, & it hath a white stalk. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will destroy a man's talon as hippocras saith, and there be three spices of this herb, one that is stony, another that is hery, another that is watery, & they be hot and dry, and he that is hery maketh a man moist, he that is stony if he be drunk he maketh a man that hath drunk venom hole. Also this herb made in plaster & laid to any venomous sore, it draweth the venom from within outward. Also who so drinketh this herb iii days, it healeth the yellow evil, he that is hairy it helpeth from the lepour, the juice of this herb put in to a man's ears, it killeth the worms therein, it comforteth the stomach and helpeth to defy, and it withdraweth casting.   

¶ Crassula mayor.  
CRassula maior, is an herb called Orpyn or Ormale, this herb hath somewhat thick leaves as it were Peny wort.  
¶ The virtue of this herb is if it be laid to a wound, he shall hele it without any help, this herb groweth in gardens.   

¶ Crassula minor.  
CRassula minor is an herb called Stonor or Stonecrope, it hath little leaves like to Orpin, and it groweth upon houses and walls & groweth somewhat hanging. ¶ The virtue of this herb is, he will make a man to live chaste, & is drunk for the ague.   

¶ Cituca.  
CItuca is an herb called Hembloke or herb Benet, it hath leaves like to parsley, and so he flowreth & seedeth as doth parsley, but this herb stinketh. ¶ The virtue is he keepeth maidens paps from great waxing. Also if the juice of this herb be drunk he destroyeth the great appetite of lechery. Also the juice of this with the spume of silver and swines grease destroyeth the hot potagre, and suageth the swelling, this herb is cold and dry.   

¶ Centuaria mayor.  
CEntuaria mayor is an herb that men calleth the more centaury or earth gell, this hath leaves like to the less centaury, but they be more whiter, and hath a stalk and yellow flowers, and flowreth not but in the tops. ¶ The virtue of this herb is if it be sodden with good wine & given a man to drink, it healeth the sickness of the liver. Also this herb sodden in wine and drunk, drieth up wild humours of a man's milt, this hath been often proved. Also the juice of this herb sodden in water is good to hele a wound of another place that is smitten with a canker if he be anointed therewith, it is hot & dry, and groweth in dry ground.   

¶ Centuaria minor.  
CEntuaria minor is an herb called the less Centory or christus lader, this hath leaves like to the more Centory, but the leaves been more green, and he hath three branches coming out of the more, & the flower somewhat red. ¶ The virtue is if the powder or the juice be meddled with old wine & drink is good to hele the stinging of an adder, or any other venomous be'st. Also if you have sore eyen, take the juice & anoint your eyen & thou shalt be hole. Also if thou have any venom within thee, take and pune this herb and temper it with aisel and drink it and you shall cast up all the venom, & it groweth in dry places.   

¶ Carin.  
CArin is a herb called caraway, it hath leaves like somewhat to Fenell, & a long stalk and round seed, more than the seed of parsley. ¶ The virtue of him is that he destroyeth wicked winds and the cough, and healeth men that hath the frenzy, and biting with venomous beasts. Also this herb meddled with ayselheleth scabs & tetters, and restoreth here there it falleth away, this herb is hot & dry, & groweth in gardens.   

¶ Celodonia.  
CElodonia is an herb called Celondyn or Deten wort, this hath leaves that been green and yellow flowers, and when he is broke he droppeth milk, & the leaves be somewhat like to columbine. ¶ The virtue of this herb as Plinius sayeth, if a swallows bird be hurt the dām● fetcheth of this herb and healeth him again. Also it healeth the ache of the tethe. Also it elenseth a man's heed. Also it healeth the canker and other sores in the month, this is hot and dry.   

¶ Cidamun.  
Cidamun is an herb called Hertnote, or Dylnote, or Flete, or Haleworte, this hath leaves like to Fenel, and white flowers and small stalks, & groweth in woods and meadows. ¶ The virtue is that he will fetch away dead flesh. Also this herb put on afore, or on a place that lacked here, it healeth it and restoreth here, this is hot and dry.   

¶ Caulis.  
CAulis is an herb called colewort, this herb is comen to you. ¶ The virtue of him is that he will cleanse fresh wounds, and the canker, & he'll sore eyen that have almost lost their sight. Also it maketh woman's milk to wax, and he comforteth the stomach. Also the juice of this herb tempered with alym & eisell suageth the lepre. Also it is good for drunkenness, & groweth in gardens.   

¶ Coriandrum.  
COriandrum is an herb called Cetriander, he hath leaves like to erthenote somedeal, & hath a little white flower & round sede somewhat white, & he is stronger in savour. ¶ The virtue is if the juice be drunk with honey, it sleeth all the worms in a man's body, & also hardeth a man's womb. Also if the seed of this herb be eat it driveth away the Fevers that come the third day, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Capillus veneris.  
CApillus veneris is called maiden here or water wortes, this hath leaves like to fern, but the leaves been small, and groweth upon stones and walls, and in the middle of the leaves is as it were a black here. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will break the stone. Also if it be drunk with wine it destroyeth the venom, he is cold and dry.   

¶ Crocus.  
CRocus is an herb called Saffron, this hath little leaves as it were grass, and blue flowers. ¶ The virtue of him is that he will destroy all manner of abomination of the stomach. Also he maketh a man to sleep. Also the flower is good for many medicyns, and namely for cooks co colour their pottage and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Centinodium.  
CEntinodium is an herb called Centinodi or swyngrasse, this herb groweth well-nigh over all. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will break the stone, this herb is hot & dry, & may be gathered at all times.   

¶ Caprifolium.  
CAprifolium is an herb called woodbine or withwind, this groweth in hedges or in woods, and it will beclyp a tree in her growing, as doth ivy, and hath white flowers. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will hele cankers, and wounds, and blanders, and aching of the teeth, and sores in a man's toens. Also it is good to he'll swelling that is smit with venom, this is hot & dry.   

¶ Canabaria.  
CAnabaria is an herb called wild hemp, this hath leaves like to hemp.  
¶ The virtue of this herb is that he is good for the Fever, and groweth moche by water.   

¶ Costus.  
COstus is an herb called cost or less Detain, this hath leaves as Detain, but they be not so moche, and the leaves be more whiter than the leaves of Detain. Also it is soot in summer. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he healeth the sickness of the breast and of the longs, & also he will break the postume. Also he draweth the humours of man's eyen. Also he is good for the stomach, and this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Cepe.  
CEpe is an herb called a Onion, this is comen enough. ¶ The virtue of this is that he will greatly comfort the stomach. Also he nessheth the womb. Also this herb with honey and eisell, & drunk is good to hell the biting of a mad dog. Also this herb meddled with woman's milk healeth the aching of eerens. Also the juice of this drunk with any liquor, is good for a man that hath soft suddenly his speech. Also the juice put to a man's nosethyrlses breaketh out the rheum or any other wicked stopping, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Columbina.  
COlumbina is an herb called Columbayne or Tockefote, or Coluerfote, or Sawnardes', this herb hath leaves somewhat like to Cesidony, but he droppeth no milk. ¶ The virtue is that he is good for a man that hath the quinsy, & should be gathered in august.   

¶ Cominum.  
COminum is an herb Called common, this hath leaves like to Coryandre, and he hath many branches coming out of the stalk, and he hath a strong savour. ¶ The virtue is that he destroyeth wicked winds and other evils of the stomach. Also he helpeth a man to make water, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Cardiaca.  
CArdiaca is an herb called Cardyake, or Assper, this herb hath leaves somewhat like to blind nettle, & he pricketh somewhat upon the tongue, and he hath little cods & therein his seed is. ¶ The virtue is that he is good for men that hath the falling evil. Also he is good for sauces.   

¶ Cisera.  
CIsera is an herb called French poise he hath leaves like a more poise, & also cods, he hath not so great leaves, nor so long cods as hath the other poise, & he hath spices of her white & red, & he groweth in gardens, & her seed in schaps as it were a poise.   

¶ chameleon.  
Chameleon is an herb called wosuesthestell or a white the stell, this herb hath white leaves great and broad, and hath a red flower and groweth in ways. ¶ The virtue of this herb is great, that if ye take this herb when the son is in Caprycorne with the new moon, if ye bear it with thee, or upon the there shall no mischief fall on the.   

¶ Consolida maior.  
COnsolida maior is an herb called confery, this hath leaves like to horshelme but they be not so white, & groweth in watery places, and hath two spices on her, the one hath a white flower, the other a red, and like they been of one virtue. ¶ The virtue is if a man be bruised within him or broke, take the rote of this herb, & roast him well among ashes, and take him to the sick fasting with honey, and let him eat it and he shall be hole. Also this herb hath broken seve, and he is hot & moist, and beareth black seed.   

¶ Consolida minor.  
COnsolida minor is called Daysye or Browswort, and he hath leaves like to the less centaury and a white flower. ¶ The virtue is that he is good to break botches, if he be puned and laid thereto, this is a spice of Confery, and he groweth wellnigh over all.   

¶ Consolida media.  
COnsolida media is called white Bothyn or white golds, this herb hath leaves somewhat long, and they been intended a little without, & hath a white flower that is some what like to days, and it groweth in meadows and lees.    

¶ The four letter beginneth with. D.  

¶ Dragancia.  
DRagantia is an herb called Dragance or Elderwort or Cerpentyne, this herb hath iii leaves in each branch, and they be some what sharp as an nedder. ¶ The virtue is and he be puned with wine he putteth away all manner of venom. Also he healeth aching of earen, and they be anointed therewith. Also if the powder of this herb be blown in a man's nose, it cleanseth the nose from running. Also it is good to destroy the gout, and the canker, and the festering of wounds, this herb groweth in woods and hills, and he is hot and moist, and must be gathered in the month of june and july.   

¶ Diptanum.  
DIptanum is called Detain or detandre, this herb hath leaves like to cost but they be green than the leaves of cost, and it hath a little white flower. ¶ The virtue is if a woman be with a deed body it will deliver her thereof, this herb will draw out an thorn, or iron out of a man's foot, or other places, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Daucus asinius.  
DAucus asinius is an herb called birdes-nest or Tanke, this herb hath leaves like to Hemlock, and hath a white flower. ¶ The virtue is that he is good to hele the dropsy and biting of venomous beasts. Also he openeth the stopping of the liver, and of the milt. Also he vubyndeth a man's womb, and maketh him laxative, this herb groweth in fields, and beareth his flower like to a byrdesneste, and this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Daucus creticus.  
DAucus creticus is an herb called the less tank, this hath leaves like to wild poppy, but the leaves been more whiter, and he hath a flower that is purple colour, this groweth in weet, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Dens leonis.  
DEns leonis is an herb called daundelyon or lions tooth, this hath leaves like to houndestoth, and he hath a yellow flower, and he hath no branch but as each flower springeth out of the more with a little branch, and it droppeth milk when it is broke. ¶ The virtue is that the more of it is good to hele the Fever quotidian, and it be drunk with wine, it groweth all about.   

¶ Dragancia faminea.  
DRagancia feminea is an herb called Dragaunce female, it hath leaves like to ivy, but they have white specks, and it hath a yellow stalk the length of two cubytzes, other while as it were a crooked staff, and like to a snake, and she beareth her seed as it were a cluster of grapes, and when the seed is ripe it is yellow, this herb groweth in dark places. ¶ The virtue of this is that if the seed thereof be puned with oil and put to a man's eyen, it healeth the aching of eyen. Also the juice of this herb with a little wool put to the nosethyrle, cleanseth the nose from all filth. Also the rote of this herb puned with white wine and honey healeth all wounds, and the canker arysed in. Also he that froteth his hand well with the rote of this herb, he may take edders without any apparel. Also the juice of this rote destroyeth the darkness of the eyen, if they be anointed therewith. Also if this herb be drunk with wine, he sterith a man unto lechery.    

¶ The .v. letter beginneth with. E.  

¶ Elena campana.  
ELena campana is an herb called Enule campaign or horseldron, this herb hath leaves as it were Comfery, but they be more whiter than the leaves of Comfery, and he hath a long stalk and a yellow flower. ¶ The virtue is if a man have wagging teth and eat thereof fasting, it will fastyn his tethe. Also if a man drink this herb it healeth him from the stone, and helpeth him to make water. Also if it be drunk, it delivereth a woman of a dead child. Also it hardyneth a man's womb if it be laxative, this herb healeth a man of the cough this herb is hot and moist, it groweth in woods and fields.   

¶ Endiva.  
ENdiua is an herb called endyfe or horse thestyll, this herb hath leaves like sowthystel, this hath pikes in the ridge and a yellow flower. ¶ The virtue of this herb is thet the juice thereof meddled with hot water, and drunk healeth the stopping of the milt and of the liver. Also it is good to hele the yellow evil, and the fever tertian, and the hot postume. Also this herb suageth the great heat of the liver, and of the stomach, and it is cold and moist.   

¶ Eruca.  
ERuca is an herb called skyrwhyte, this hath leaves like to bylre, but they be not so long, and it hath a great rote. ¶ The virtue is that the juice of the leaves wrong out, hold in a man's mouth healeth all the soreness of the mouth. Also it breaketh the stone. Also the juice of this herb sodde and drunk destroyeth black colour. Also it steereth a man much to lechery, and he use it. Also it helpeth a man to make water. Also the juice of this herb cleanseth a man if he be anointed therewith. Also the juice of this herb delivereth men and children from the cough, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Eufragia.  
EVfragia is an herb called Eufrasse: this herb hath little leaves like to her colour but they be not so moch as he, & he hath a white flower. ¶ The virtue is that he is good to he'll sore eyen, he groweth in meadows & hills.   

¶ Ebulus.  
EBulus is an herb called walwort, it hath leaves somedeal like Erderen and he hath a long stalk and groweth in fields.  
¶ The virtue is that he is good to destroy the dropsy, and scabs, or tetters. Also this herb draweth wicked humours out of a man this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Edera.  
EDera is an herb called ivy, this is common it is called houses, & towries, and hath leaves like to an herb called bryan, and it beareth fruit as it were bays. ¶ The virtue thereof is if it be sod and laid on a botch it healeth it soon. Also if thy head ache take the juice of this herb with oil of roses, and seth them together in wine, and anoint thy heed therewith, and thou shalt be hole. Also if thou will keep thy head from aching in the son, take the leaves of this herb, and pune them small, and then temper them with cysell and the oil of Roses, and then anoint thy forehead therewith.   

¶ Edera terrestris.  
EDera terrestris is an herb called orpyn, or heyhove, this hath leaves like to Carmynt, but they be not so moche, and hath in the crop a red flower. ¶ The virtue is if it be put in pottage among flesh, he will make the flesh tendre and nesshe.   

¶ Eborus.  
EBorus is an herb called long wort, or Pelyder of spain, this is like to Pedelion, but the leaves of this herb be not so much slit without, and he hath a flower as it were a pasnepe. ¶ The virtue is that he will hele scabs, the morfewe, and tetters. Also he healeth the emeralds, if it be laid to the place there it bleedeth. Also he purgeth the colour of the phlegm. Also he helpeth the from the toothache if it be sod with eisell, and hold a quantity in your mouth. Also this herb purgeth well the stomach and the womb. Also the powder of this herb meddled with a little growell shall slay worms. Also the juice of this herb meddled with milk shall slay fleece, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Elabrus.  
ELabrus is an herb called Cloventonge, or Pedelyon, this herb is much like to long wort, but not so flat as be the leaves of this herb, & he hath somedeal a broad flower, more than a penny, he hath a black rote and he is horrible in sight. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that if the powder thereof be meddled with growel or with meal it will slay rats and if a be'st piss blood, give him this herb and he is hole.   

¶ Epatica.  
EPatica is an herb called liverwort, this herb groweth in brims of waters, and in wells, and it will join to stones, and he groweth moche in walls of stone, & it hath neither stalk, not her flower but small to wnde leaves, and the more the leaves be better to medicines. ¶ The virtue is that he will destroy and cleanse the hardness of the liver. Also the leaves thereof medeled with swines grease will hele wounds. Also it is good to hele the Fever quartain.    

¶ The vi letter beginneth with. F.  

¶ Famula.  
FAmula is an herb called sperworte, or la●secle, this hath leaves like to a spear head, it hath a stalk, and in the top coming out many small stalks, & it hath a white flower, and it groweth in waters. ¶ The virtue thereof is that he is good to hele the fevers, and also for to break botches and biles, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Fumus terre.  
FUmus terre is an herb called fumeterry this herb hath leaves that been somewhat white under, and they been small, and it hath a flower of purpul colour, and this herb groweth in stalks, but not fullonge. ¶ The virtue is that he comforteth the stomach. Also he maketh a man to have appetite to meet, it helpeth a man to make water, and it openeth the stopping of the liver, & cleareth a man's blood. Also if the juice thereof be drunk it destroyeth scabs and itching, and bladders that been gendered of wicked humours, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Fragra.  
FRagra is an herb called strawberry, and this herb is common. ¶ The virtue thereof is that he is good to destroy a web in the lain. Also it is good to hele wounds. Also the juice medeled with honey, and drunk healeth the aching of a man's milt, this groweth in clean and dark places.   

¶ Fabaria mayor.  
FAbaria mayor is an herb called brokeleves, this herb hath round leaves & moche like to mints. ¶ The virtue thereof is, if he be puned with sheeps tallow, and made hot in manner of a plaster, and laid to any swelling it will hele it, this herb groweth in small brooks, & most among belton.   

¶ Filex.  
FIlex is an herb called fern, this herb is common, and there be iii spices thereof, one is called fern, and another is called polipode, another called Osmonde, and that is the ii spices, another is called verrew & that is the iii spice, polipode is good to make a man laxative, and he groweth in trees, Osmonde is good to hele broken bones, and it groweth in dyches and woods, the iii that men call ever verrew groweth on walls, and is good to hele the potagre, & he maketh strong a man's sinews, & he groweth in woods, dyches, and fields.   

¶ Filipendula.  
FIlipendula is an herb that men calleth Filipendull or dropworte, this is like to yaron, and he groweth next the ground, the leaves be more than the leaves of yaron, it hath a small stalk, and a flower somdele white, and in the more small pelettes like yshape as it were small pelettes round. ¶ The virtue is that he will destroy wicked winds about the liver and the milt. Also he helpeth to destroy the stone, it groweth in hollow places, and dry, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Feniculum.  
FEnicnlum is an herb that men calleth Fenell, this herb is common enough.  
¶ The virtue is, the seed when it is dry, it destroyeth wind in the stomach. Also it comforteth a man's stomach. Also he openeth the stopping of the reins & of the bladder. Also the juice of this herb stilled in to a man's eye doth away the web. Also if it be drunk with wine, it destroyeth all manner of venom. Also the juice dropped in to the ears sleeth worms, that been within. Also if it be drunk with wine it healeth the dropsy. Also it healeth all manner of swellings. Also if he be drunk with wine or water, it maketh a woman's milk to wax. Also if he be drunk with wine, it keepeth from casting. Also if he be meddled with oil it will hele the swelling of a man's yard. Also if thou will be steryed to lechery, take and drink the seed thereof with good wine.   

¶ Faxmus.  
FAxmus is an herb called hertwort or odobrame, this hath leaves yshape as a heart and hath a flower as were bugle, and a short stalk. ¶ The virtue is if he be broke and laid to a sore it healeth anon, this groweth in fields and meadows.   

¶ Finiculus porcinus.  
FIniculus porcinus is an herb called swines fenel or worm seed, this herb hath small leaves like to yaron, and of a stalk coming many branches it groweth upon walls, & hath small cods and small red seed. ¶ The virtue of this herb is, if a man eat the seed thereof, it destroyeth and slayeth the worms within the womb, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Febrifuga.  
FEbrifuga is called fetherfoy or vethut foye, this herb hath many stalks coming out of one stalk, and it hath a white flower as it were Mayes. ¶ The virtue is that he will comfort the stomach. Also it suageth the fever quotidian. Also it is good to hele the cramp that cometh of a cold stomach. Also if this herb be puned and laid to a sore that is bitten with a venomous worm or be'st it shall be hole. Also this herb tempered with eisell doth away the morfew. Also if this be puned and laid to a wound, in the which is broken bones, it shall hele the bones. Also the rote of this herb is good to staunch the blodymenson, this is hot and dry.   

¶ Filago.  
FIlago is an herb called feldewort, this herb hath leaves a little enlong, and it is like to horehounde, it is a little herb and it groweth in weet.   

¶ Flammula minor.  
Flammula minor is an herb called the less sperwort, it hath leaves as it were grass, but it is sharp as it were a spear. ¶ The virtue of this herb is if it be puned and laid to a hand that is bite, it shallbe hold anon.    

¶ The vii letter beginneth with. G.  

¶ Granum.  
GRanum is an herb called Gromell, or lytelwale, this hath leaves that been part enlonge, and hath a little white seed shape as a stone that men call mariery pearl. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he is good to hele the stone, and the evil of the bladder, this herb maketh a man to make water, and this is hot & dry.   

¶ Genescula.  
GEnescula is an herb called Genestre, or broom, this hath leaves like to Spygurnell, and they been a little longer, and it hath a yellow flower. ¶ The virtue is that he is good to knit bones & sinews together.   

¶ Genciana.  
GEnciana is an herb called bladmoyne or field wort. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he cleanseth the stopping of the stomach, the liver and the milt, & it be drunk with honey and water. Also it healeth the biting of venomous beasts. Alves; o it delivereth a woman of a dead child, and this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Galanga.  
GAlanga is an herb that men call galingale. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he comforteth the stomach, & it maketh a man to defy his meat. Also it unbindeth and letteth out wicked winds out of a man's body. Also it maketh a man's mouth sweet. Also it healeth the reins. Also it maketh a man to have appetite to a woman, & it is hot and dry.   

¶ Granum solis.  
GRanum solis is an herb called wild Gromell, this hath leaves somedeal like to Gromell, and his seed is like somedeal to that other grommel sede. Also he hath somedeal such a flower, nevertheless they differeth in the stalk, for the stalk of this herb is sharp and it groweth moche in weet.   

¶ Gladiolus.  
GLadiolus is an herb called Gladyoll, or Gladur, this herb hath leaves like to an herb called Getus, but it is not so green, it hath a yellow flower & a long stalk, and it groweth in water.   

¶ Graciadei.  
GRaciadei is an herb called graciadei, this hath leaves somedeal like to den's delion, but the leaves of this be somewhat sharp, and it hath yellow flowers, and it groweth in dry land.   

¶ Graciadei maior.  
GRaciadei maior is an herb called graciadei the more, this hath leaves like to cockle, & it hath a white flower, it groweth in dry ground, and when that it is broke it droppeth milk.    

¶ The viii letter beginneth with. H.  

¶ Hastula regia.  
HAstula regia is an herb called wodrofe, it hath leaves like to croyes' wort, and this herb is soot in savour, and a woman smell moche thereto it maketh her head to ache. ¶ The virtue thereof is if the more of it be puned with wine it shall hele sores of the mouth. Also take the seed of this herb and pune it and temper it with the sourest easel that ye can find and drink it, and it shall staunch the flix and hard the womb.   

¶ Herba crucita.  
HErba crucita is an herb called Croys wort or Exean, this hath little leaves and a small stalk, and also a white flower. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will he'll well wounds.   

¶ Herba christofori.  
HErba christofori masculus is an herb called herb christofer male, this herb hath leaves much like to less crowesape, but they been more white and not fully so long, and it groweth in dry ground, and also in watery places, and it hath a yellow flower. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he is good to hele the pestilence.   

¶ Herba walteri.  
HErba walteri is an herb called herb water, this hath leaves like to the leaves of parsley, and the leaves be thick, fat, and tender. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will cleanse wounds and hele them.   

¶ Herba Roberti.  
HErba Roberti is an herb called herb Robert, this hath leaves like to herb Jennet, it hath a small flower that is somdelred, it groweth in fields and in hedges, and in walls. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will hele wounds, and also the powder will slay the Canker.   

¶ Herba martis.  
HErba martis is an herb called mortagon, this herb hath leaves like to a letter. M. when he is a capital letter, & in some branch he hath ix leaves, and some more, and some fewer, and bringeth forth her leaves and seed together, this herb hath many wonderful virtues.   

¶ Herba johannis.  
HErba Johannes is an herb called saint johanes wort, it hath leaves like to the less Centory, it hath a yellow flower and a long stalk, and many stalks coming of one. ¶ The virtue is if he be in a house, he suffereth no wicked sprite dwell therein.   

¶ Herba Petri.  
HErba Petri is an herb called cowslop this herb hath leaves like to herb xpo for female, but they be more whiter, and it groweth in meadows.    

¶ The ix letter beginneth with. I.  

¶ jusquiamus.  
IVsquianus is an herb called Henbane or Hennebel, this herb hath leaves somewhat white under, and the leaves be flat a little without as it were sowthistel, it hath a flower somewhat white, and it hath a great stalk, and many branches coming out of one more, & it groweth in high ways. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that the oil made thereof is good to destroy all manner of gouts, and namely that that cometh of melancholy. Also the seed of this herb laid on a slayte stone and heat with the fire, and let it smoke in the man's mouth, it sleeth worms of the teeth. Also he suageth the cough and hot postume and hot potegre. Also the more is good for the toothache, and the juice of this is good for all manner of wounds, and the seed thereof should be gathered in August. Also if thou cast the seed thereof in the fire, all the hens that been over the fire shall fall in to the fire, and it is cold and dry.   

¶ Isopus.  
ISopus is an herb called Isope, it hath leaves like to savoury, but they be not so broad, & he flowreth as doth savoury. ¶ The virtue thereof is that the juice thereof meddled with eisell, and put in a sore mouth healeth it. Also it sleeth worms in the womb and maketh the womb nesshe. Also if it be drunk green or else the powder, it maketh a man well colowred, it is hot and dry.   

¶ Ireose.  
IReose is an herb called Save, and his leaves be like to flowerdelyce, & it hath a white flower, and groweth in water.  
¶ The virtue thereof is that he will hele the aching of the sinews. Also it destroyeth the cough. Also if it be drunk with wine it destroyeth the wicked humours of the breast. Also it helpeth the biting of venomous beasts or worms. Also it destroyeth the cramp Also it delivereth a woman of a dead child, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Iris.  
IRis is an herb called flowerdelyse and it is like to Save almost in all manner features, but this herb hath a flower almost of purple colour, this groweth in waters and gardens, and he hath the same virtues that Save hath.   

¶ jua.  
IUa is an herb called ivy, this herb hath a rote even down to the ground growing, and it hath small leaves growing even by the ground. ¶ The virtue is if a man have a sore swelling about his ears, take this her be cumbonfitatibus of her in wine and oil and common, and than make a plaster thereof, and lay to the ears and it shall he'll them. Also take the knobs of the rote & dry them and cleanse them, and they have virtue to mast the laxative, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ jasia alba.  
IAsia alba is an herb called wild Tan say or goose grass, but they be more whiter, and it hath a yesowe flower, and it groweth down by the ground, as doth the strawberries. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good for the cleansing of a man's limbs, it groweth in meadows, sees, woods, & ways.   

¶ jasia nigra.  
IAsia nigra is an herb that men call matfeson, or bulwede, or yrenhard, or knop weed, this hath leaves like to scabious, and it hath a purple colour.   

¶ Ippia mayor.  
IPpia mayor is an herb called pympernel, or sefehele, or wayworte, or more crop, this hath leaves like to chyckewede, but the seve of this been less, and it hath a flower of purple colour, & it groweth in weet. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he is good to hele wounds, and so destroy venom, and is good for the postume, and to hele the sore eyen.   

¶ Ipia minor.  
IPia minor is an herb that men call cheek weed, this herb hath leaves like to pimpernel, and it hath a white flower, and it groweth in gardens and in fields. ¶ The virtue of this herb is, seethe it in running water and wash your scabey hands therein often times, and they shall be hole.    

¶ The ten letter beginneth with. L.  

¶ Lanisticum.  
LAnisticum is an herb called lovage, this herb hath leaves like to Lovage, but they be somedeal more, & it hath a long stalk, and it is strong in savour. ¶ The virtue is in the sede of her. Also the mories thereof drunk with wine, is good for the stomach, and for good digesting, this is hot and dry.   

¶ Lingua ceruina.  
LIngua ceruina is an herb called hearts tongue, this hath leaves like to the tongue of a heart, and it groweth in walls and dry places, & hath no seed, nor flower, nor stalk.  
¶ The virtue of this herb is that he will type the postume and break it, if it be sod with oil of Roses. Also if it be drunk with old wine, it hardyneth the womb. Also it healeth a man of the cough, this is hot & dry.   

¶ Lilium.  
LIlium is an herb that men call lily. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that if thou pune it with tallow, and seethe it with oil, and lay it to the place there as the cold postume is, it shall ripe him and break him. Also take the roots of lily, and the roots of the red dock, and the more of lovage, & put all these in wine & oil, the space of ii days and afterward let it seth and cleanse it, and do thereto wax and oil, and make anoyntment and that is good to hele the sores & hardness of a man's milt. Also take the knobs of the roots of the lily and roast them among the coals, and take oil olive and anoint there as the sore is.   

¶ Ligustrum.  
LIgustrum is an herb called primrose. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good for to make pottage. Also the juice put in a man's nose will destroy the megrim. Also the water that the rote is sudden in is good to unstop the conduits of urine.   

¶ Lingua bovis.  
LIngua bovis is an herb called Langde● beef. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good to do away the red colour of a man. Also if it be drunken it doth away the cardiacle and other wicked humours in a man's lungs. Also the juice of this herb drunk with hot water, maketh a man to have a good mind and good wit, this must be gathered in june or in july, and this is hot and dry.   

¶ Lingua serpentis maior.  
LIngua serpenris maior is an herb called Adder tongue, this herb hath leaves like to Affodyll, but they be more green, and also more sharp in the end, this must be gathered in the month of Apryll.   

¶ Lingua serpentis minor.  
LIngua serpentis minor is an herb called the less Adder tongue, this herb hath leaves somewhat like to Pygyll, and it hath a yellow flower, and out of the stalk cometh many branches, and it groweth in woods.  
¶ The virtue of this herb is good to lay to a cut, if it be bruised and laid thereto.   

¶ Lingua canis.  
LIngua canis is an herb called hounds tongue. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good to destroy the cough and the postume, and it will ripe a botch. Also this herb eaten is good for shaking of the heed, and maketh the throat and the breath smooth & supple. Also for the flux of the womb if thy feet be washed in the water that it is sudden in.   

¶ Lingua hircina.  
LIngua hircina is an herb called Buck shorn, or swyneskerce, this herb hath leaves flattered as it were an hearts horn, and it groweth creeping by the ground, & it hath a little white flower, it groweth in watery places. ¶ The virtue is that is cleanseth the stomach and refraineth the great heat, and healeth the brenning of fire, if that it be sudden and laid thereto.   

¶ Lupinus.  
Lupinus' is an herb called Lupyne, this herb hath leaves like to five leaved grass, the Lupyne hath vi leaves, and it hath a white flower, and a white seed that is somewhat brother, and it beareth cods somewhat like to benecoddes. ¶ The virtue of this herb is, if a man have worms in his womb, take the seed and make meal thereof, and the juice of worm wode and honey, and make a cake thereof and eat it, and it unbindeth the stopping of the liver & of the milt. Also it is good to destroy the dropsy. Also take the same meal and the juice of arsmert, & make thereof passed and lay it to thy ears, and it shall kill the worms within them or if thou make a cake thereof & heat it, it will do the same. Also if thou will take the juice of Lekes, and temper it with the meal, and put it in thy ears, it shall cleanse them from all wicked humours and stinking. Also take the same meal and temper it with oil, and it will break and ripe all manner of postumes. And this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Labrum veneris.  
LAbrum veneris is an herb that men calleth Sowthystell. ¶ The virtue of this herb is this, if a man have a hot fever, take the juice thereof and temper it with hot water, and let him drink it and he shall be hole. Also if a man have venom within him, take this herb and dry it and make powder thereof, and do the powder in good wine, and let him drink it, and it will cast up all the venom, this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Lavendula.  
LAuendula is an herb called lavender, if this be sudden in water, and given to a man that hath the palsy, it will hele him, and this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Lactuca.  
LActuca is a herb that is called lettuce or slope wort. ¶ The virtue of this herb is this, if it be eaten raw or sudden it engendereth good blood. Also this herb sudden with a little easel and Saffron and than drunken, it helpeth a man that is stopped in the liver and in the milt. Also if a man may not sleep, take the seed of this herb & stamp it to powder, & temper it with woman's milk and make a plaster thereof on lint, & lay it to the temples of thy head, & thou shalt sleep well, or else drink the powder thereof with milk. Also take the seed and temper it with oil of roses, and make a plaster and lay it to thy stomach, and it is good to destroy the hot postume. Also drink the juice of this herb, or powder the seed for it is good to hele the flix, but who that useth this herb overmuch, it will destroy their sight, this herb is cold and somewhat moist.   

¶ Lactuca siluatica.  
LActuca siluatica is an herb called wild lettuce, this herb hath leaves like to the thistle, and they be sharp and keen, and it hath a flower of purple colour, and it groweth in fields and in wheat, this herb is hot and dry. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that it taketh away the dimness of the eyes, meddle the juice of this herb with wine or honey, and the gall of an Austour, or other foul of prey, and put it all meddled in a glass, and put it in thy eyes iii times in a day or more, and in short space thy eyes shallbe clear, for it is a sovereign medicine. And because this herb is good for to clear the sight, some say that the Eagle cateth this herb when that he will flee high.   

¶ Lactuca leporica.  
LActuca leporica is an herb called Hate thystel, this herb hath leaves like unto Sowthystel, but the leaves be not so indented, it droppeth milk. ¶ The virtue of this herb is thus if a hare eat of this herb in summer when he is mad, he shallbe hole.  
Also take this herb & lay it to a man's side when he sleepeth, or else that he know not thereof, and it will hele him of the fevers.   

¶ lolium.  
lolium is an herb that men call cokle. ¶ The virtue of this herb is thus, if it be drunken with Radysshe, and a little salt, it is good to hele the Canker, or other wounds in peril. Also it is good to comfort the stomach and the liver. Also it will unbind the worms in a man's stomach. Also it helpeth a man to make water, and it is good for sore eyes. Also subfumigation thereof will make a woman to bear her child without any peril or harm. Also it will assuage the great pains of aching of the lypur, it is hot & dry.   

¶ Laparium rubeum.  
LAparium rubeum is an herb called red dock, if that a man take the juice thereof and hold it in his mouth, it will assuage the toothache. Also if a man have the kings evil take this herb and seth it in wine, and strain it and give it him to drink, and he shallbe hole if he use it oft. Also if that a man rub him with the juice, it doth away evil itchings. Also this herb is good to deliver winds that be stopped in a man's stomach by balking. Also this herb is good to make scabs and botches ripe. Also it is good to make a man to have a hard womb, & this herb is hot and dry.   

¶ Linum.  
LInum is an herb that men call flex, and it is good if a man take the seed thereof, and seethe it in water, it maketh a man laxative, and it is good to make a plaster thereof for aching sores. Also there is another spice thereof that is called Custula, and it is named in english Dodure, & it groweth among flex. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he is good to purge a man of the colour. Also if a great quantity thereof be taken, and sudden in Myrrh and oil together, and a plaster made thereof, it is good for the reins and for the breast, and for other aching limbs.   

Lauriola.  
LAuriola is a herb called laurel. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that it will make a man laxative, & it is good to purge a man of phlegm and of colour, it is good for a man that may not eat, for if the juice thereof be put in his ears, or if the said herb be stamped, & a suppository be made thereof and said on cotton, it will hele it. Also for them that here not well, put the juice in to his ears, and if there be any rotten humours it will dry them, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Licorisa.  
LIcorisa is an herb that men call lycoryse the rote of this herb is sweet, & it moisteth the kindly heat of a man, and it is good for the cough. Also if it be sudden in water, it will destroy a man's thirst. Also it maketh a man's breast, his throat, and his lungs moist, and in good temper. Also the water that liquorice is sudden in is good against all sickness of the breast, & for the a postume of the rib called pleuresy, it is cold & moist.    

¶ The xi letter beginneth with. M.  

¶ Millefolio minor.  
MIllefolio minor is an herb that is called the less millfoil, there is no difference of kind nor virtue between mylfoyle the less, and millfoil the more, save the more groweth in gardens, and the less in wild places, they be both of one strength.  
¶ The virtue of this herb shallbe declared in millfoil the more following by letter.   

¶ Mercurialis.  
MErcurialis is an herb that men call Mercury. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that he is good if a man have aching in his womb, give him to drink the juice and he shallbe hold, it will cleanse the stomach, and the seed will do the same. Also the juice tempered with white wine is good to he'll sore eyes, and if a worm or other vermin have bitten a man, take the juice & warm it, and wash it. Also if there be any worms cropen in to a man's ears, take the juice and warm it and put it in to his ears, & he shallbe hold, this is hot and dry.   

¶ Menta.  
MEnta is an herb that men call mint. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that if it be oft eaten, it will slay the worms in a man's womb. Also if a man have botches or other runnings or swellings in his head, take this herb and stamp it, and lay it to the sore, and it will hele it. Also if a man's tooth or the flesh of the tooth ache or stink: take this herb and seth it in white wine and in easel, and take that liquor and wash his mouth therewith, than take the powder of the herb and rub well his teeth therewith, and he shall have a sweet smelling mouth. Also take thou this herb and eisell & make sauce, and it will make the to have a talon to thy meet. Also when there shall be given any medicine to destroy venom, it willbe good to be given with the juice of this herb, for it hath many virtues, and namely for venom, there be many spices thereof, and it is hot and dry.   

¶ Menta romana.  
MEnta romana is an herb that men call white mint. ¶ The virtue of this herb is that the juice thereof will slay worms in a man's womb. Also the juice will slay worms in the nose thyrsses of a man. Also the powder thereof cast in a man's meet, shall make him well to defy his meat. Also the juice drunk sleeth the worms of the womb, if it be dropped in the ears, it sleeth the worms.   

¶ Malua.  
MAlua is an herb that men call mallow. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good if the leaves be stamped and laid to a man's stomach, it will break a hot postume in the beginning, or else meddle this herb with fresh swines grease, and lay it on a hot tile, & lay it all hot to the postume, and it shall ripe it, and break it. Also it is good to destroy the hardness of a man's liver and milt. Also it will make a man laxative, & it is good for plasters, it is cold and moist.   

¶ morel or nyghtshadowe.  
morel is an herb that men call night shadow, this herb is cold and dry in the ii degree, the leaves, the branches, and the fruits thereof be right good & best when they be green. ¶ The virtue is they be good for stopping of the splen and the liver, and best for the jaundesse to drink the juice of it with a little rhubarb. Also it is good for a postume in the stomach, in the bowels, or in the liver, seth the juice thereof with barley water and drink it.   

¶ mastic.  
mastic is an herb that men call gum, and it is hot and dry in the ii degree, and it is a gum of a tree growing in a part of the country of Grece, in the latter end of Vcre the men of that country slit the trees, and than make the ground clean all abouts and lay clothes round about the trees, or some other cunning to keep the gum from the ground in choosing of it, to know which is best, to take the best is white and clear, the white colour is next the best, and that is meddled with earth and somewhat dark, the best mastic hath virtue of constraining, comforting, cleansing, and losing of humours descending from the heed above to the eyes and to the teeth, and for the disease of the tempses made of an ascending wind from the stomach to the heed. Take powder of mastic with white sweet wine, and the white of an egg, and meddle them well together, and ye will ye may put in frankincense, & plaster it to the temples. Also seethe mastic in water and drink it, and it will comfort well the stomach and make good digestion, and it comforteth and relaxeth the stomach, and put to it fenes seed, and it putteth out wind out of the stomach. Also a plaster made of mastic and bull armoniac, and the white of an egg and vinegar, and lay it on the fork of the stomach or breast, it will constrain well the coloryke vanity. Also seth mastic in rain water and drink it warm, and this medicine is very good for the flux of the womb that cometh of a sharp lax that was taken before to stop him. Also boil mastic in rain water, or Rose water, with two or three cloves, and drink it warm, & that comforteth the vomit, and the flux of the womb that cometh of sharpness and violence of the medicine. Also mastic must have but little boiling for hurting of his virtue, and it should be given warm, for it constraineth the more when that it is given warm, than when it is over moche hot.   

¶ Magerum.  
MAgerum is an herb that is hot & dry in the second degree, the flowers and leaves be used in medicines, and it should be gathered in summer when it flowreth, and dry it in the shadow, and it may be kept a year. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good in comforting, losing, consuming, and of cleansing, if the powder of it be drunken in wine, or else boil the powder of it in wine, and it will heat well a stomach. Also it comforteth the digestion. Also take the leaves & flowers of magerum, and pune them a little, & make them hot in a pan, and lay it to the grievance, and it taketh away the disease in the stomach that cometh of wind. Also for the re●●me in the head, take this herb and bind it warm about thy head. Also it drieth the mother and consumeth the superfluity of it.   

¶ Millefolium mayor.  
MIllefolium mayor or yarrow is an herb that king Achilles did find, and therewith healed his men that were wounded with iron. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good for wounds, stamp this herb with swines grease, and plaster it to the wound, and it shall hele it, and the same is good for an ache in the breast or side, it is good for him that may not piss, take the juice of this herb and vinegar & drink it, and marvelously it helpeth a wound that hath taken cold, stamp this herb in butter, and lay it to the wound, and it will hele it well. Also to digest the stomach or that lieth therein, take the juice of it, & meddle it with water and honey, and drink it warm. Also it is good for diseases in the body, take the powder and meddle it with wine or with good ale, and drink it and it helpeth moche. Also it is good for the heart brenning. Also for the heedache stamp this herb, and plaster it to the head. Also for biting of a wood dog, stamp this herb with the grains of weet, and it healeth it. Also for him that may not hold his meat, take and stamp this herb with wine, and drink it warm.   

¶ Motherwort.  
Motherwort or mogwort, this herb is called in latin Artemesia, and it is hot and dry in the third degree, this herb helpeth a woman to conceive a child, cleanseth the mother, and maketh a woman to have her flowers, and it destroyeth the emeralds on this manner. first it must be gathered, than take the powder of motherwort, and of Horehound together, and straw it on the paps. Also if a child be deed in the mother's womb, take motherwort, & stamp it small, and make a plaster thereof and lay it to her womb all cold, and with the grace of God she shall have delyvetaunce without apparel, it is good for the stone and the gravel in the reins of a man or of a woman, if a man bear this herb upon him, there shall no venomous be'st grieve him. It is good for the yellow jaundice and it be drunken with wine, for it comforteth the stomach, and maketh a man or woman to have a good colour. Against ache of the bowels, powder of mugwort drunken with honey easeth greatly, and is good against many other sicknesses.   

¶ Maces.  
MAces is a spice that is called Mace, this spice is hot & dry in the second degree, maces is the tind or husk that groweth about the Nutmege, as the rind groweth about the hazel nut, it may be kept x, year in his virtue, it is comforting, dyssosuing, and consuming, the knowledge of fine maces is thus, it should be in colour like to fine gold, or else like to gold that silver is gift with, the which hath a sharp galage with a bitterness, and it soaketh like to earth, & it is to be refused, for it hath no sharp savour, for a cold stomach that may not defy nor degeste well, take maces and boil them in wine & drink it. Also a good plaster the which is best for a feeble stomach, and make powder of mastic and of maces, and meddle them with oil of Roses & wax, and make a plaster thereof and say it on the stomach of the sick parson. Also to cleanse the brain of superfluous humours, take a quantity of maces, and chew them well in thy mouth, & hold them there a while, and that shall lose the feumosyte of humours that rise up to the brain, & purge the superfluite of it. Also for feebleness of the stomach and the liver of a cold cause, and for the colic, and for the diseases of the spiritual members, or phlegm, boil maces in the juice of fennel, and in the end of the boyfing put in a little wine, than strain it and drink it, for it is the best remedy for the foresaid diseases. Also for the ache of the heart, use powder of maces in thy meats and drinks.   

¶ Menta.  
MEnta is an herb that is called red mint, it is hot and dry in the second degree, and there be two other mints, but I mean house mints, the which properly is said garden mints, for that most commonly is in medicines both green and dry, for great holsunnes it should be dried in a shadow place, and so it will be kept a year in great virtue, to dissolve or lose, to consume, of his proper quality, & to comfort of his sweet savour. ¶ The virtue is this, for the stinking of the mouth and filth of the gums & of the teeth, wash thy mouth and gums with vinegar that mints be sodden in, and after rub him with the powder of mints, or with dry mints to provoke the appetite when a impediment of the stomach cometh of cold humours being in the mouth of the stomach, make a salve of mints and vinegar with a little synamum and pepper, and use it well against vo mites that cometh of feebleness of the stomach or of cold causes, seethe mints in sage water and vinegar, and deep it in and lay it on the mouth of the stomach with the mints that be sudden therein. Also give to the patient to eat of the same mints for the sincopyne, and feebleness in fevers, and without fevers, or of medicine, or of what cause it be, stamp mints with vinegar, and a little wine if the patient be without fever, & if he be with fever, stamp mints with vinegar alone, than make a toast of sour breed, and toast it well till it be almost brent, then put it in that liquor, and let it lie therein till it be well soaked, than put it in to his nose and rub his lips, and gums, teeth, and temples therewith, and bind it to the pulse veins of his arms, & let the patient eat the moistness that is left and swallow it in. For to cleanse the mother, take the tender crops of mints, and seethe them in water or wine, and plaster it to the share, and to the reins. Against the congyling in a woman's breast, take the small stalks of mints and seth them in wine & oil, and plaster it about the teats. Also be it known that when any medicine should be given against venom, it should be given with the juice of mints, for mints have a manner of strength of drawing out venom, or else it should be given with wine that mints have be sudden in. For stopping of the splen and the liver, and of the ways of the urine of a cold humour and a hot without fever, take the juice of mints alone, or mints so den in wine, or the juice of mints meddled with honey, & give it to the patient. To slay worms in the belly, take the juice of mints and drink it, & thou shalt be hole. Also the juice of mints sleeth worms in the ears. For a tetter take the juice of mints, and put thereto brimstone and vinegar, & meddle them well together, and anoint the tetter therewith and thou shalt be hole. For a wound in the head, stamp mints & lay on the wound. etc. For pain in the side, take mints and seth them in old wine or ale, and with it stamp. xviii. grains of pepper, and drink it in the night, and it will ease the of thy pain.    

¶ The xii letter beginneth with. N.  

¶ Nux muscata.  
NVx muscata is a herb the which is called a nutmeg, it is hot and dry in the second degree, the best groweth in ynde, & in the time of his riping it is gathered, and seven year it may be kept, they that be plain and heavy after their kind, be best to be chosen. And when they be broken they fall not to powder, but they have a sweet and sharp savour, if they lack any of these aforesaid, they be not good for medicine. ¶ The virtue is of comforting by his sweet savour. For coldness and feebleness of digestion of the stomach, take in the morning half a nutmeg or a hole nutmeg, and eat it. Also for a cold stomach that is feeble of digestion, and for the liver, give him wine that nutmegis is boiled in. Also for the same boil nutmegis and mastic in wine and drink it, this is good for the diseases in the stomach, and in the bowels to break wind. Also in the recovering of a sickness to comfort the spiritual members, boil nutmegis and mastic in wine, and drink it. Also take a nutmeg and smell to it, and it will comfort the spiritual members.   

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

¶ The xiii letter beginneth with. O.  

¶ Olibanum.  
OLibanum is called Frankincense, this is hot and dry in the third degree, it is a gum of a tree in ynde, the cleanest is the best. Also there be trees of that kind growing in Damask, but not so clear nor good for it is darker of colour, therefore it is to be refused in medicine. ¶ The virtue is of comforting by his sweet savour. Also of closing and constraining, for the toothache that cometh of superfluity of humours of the heed, and specially by the veins, make a plaster of the powder of Frankincense with wine, and the white of an egg, and meddle them together, and plaster▪ them about the temples. Also to stop the ways of the veins above, take Frankincense, and chew it well in thy mouth, and that shall stop and let the flux of humours coming down to the nosthyrles, take pills of Frankincense, and swallow them down in the morning, than boil frankincense in wine, and at even drink that when thou goest to bed. Also these pills be good to help the digestion of the stomach, and good against sore balkyngꝭ. Also to the comforting and cleansing of the matrice, and helping of conception in the receiving the fume of Frankincense bindeth. Also boil powder of it in wine, and when it is meetly warm dip a cloth in it, and lay it so warm to the share of the patient, and greatly it comforteth the matrice.    

¶ The xiiii letter beginneth with. P.  

¶ Plumeus.  
plums be cold & moist some be white, and some be black, & some be red. They that be black and somewhat hard be the best, they be called Damsons, & wlan they be ripe gather them, and slit them, & spring vinegar upon them, and so they may be kept in a vessel of wood a year, and first when they be cut they must be laid in the son xu days to dry. ¶ The virtue of these Damsons have coldness & cleansing of the inward parts, wherefore they be good in fevers that be sharp, and for costyfnes of belly▪ that cometh of dryness, or of choleric humours drying, if it be new give it him to eat, if it be dry boil it in water, and give it the patient to drink thereof, this is good for the fever tertian, for stopping of the liver, for the jaundice and sharp fevers, it softeth the belly, it is good for default of appetite, and also for many other diseases.   

¶ Piper.  
PIper this is called Pepper, it is hot and dry in the fourth degree. There be three manner of peppers, black, white, and long Pepper. Diascorides and Constantyne say, that they be fruits of trees growing in ynde, and some say that Pepper is made black with brenning in the fire, for when it is gathered there be great multitude of serpents about it, and therefore they put it in the fire to burn the serpents that be a bout it, the Sarasyns dry it in an oven, because it shall not increase in an other land, but of all the peppers the black is best, and the most wholesome. ¶ The virtue is, take Pepper and put it in to thy nostrils, and it will make the to sneeze, and seth Pepper and figs in wine, and drink it, & it will cleanse the spiritual members of tough humours, and it is good for the pose that is taken of cold. Also for the same cate powder of Pepper with figs. Also powder of Pepper put in a man's meat comforteth the digestion of the stomach. Also put long Pepper in a roasted apple, and eat it, and it shall comfort the degestyon. Also powder of Pepper will frete away deed flesh or proud flesh, and long Pepper comforteth more than black. Also black Pepper hath virtue of losing, comforting, and of drawing, it cleanseth the spiritual members of cold phlegm, and vicious humours, & best when the powder of it is eaten with figs, for he hath great strength of heating & comforting the stomach, provoking appetite, but to sanguine & choleric persons it is not good to use Pepper, for it drieth and burneth blood, and it engendereth leper, and other evil sickness. Pluto sayeth, that Pepper is fowl to s● insight without black, and within white, a sharp savour and a sweet odour, little in quantity, and moche in virtue.   

¶ Pympernell.  
PYmpernell is an herb that groweth in sandy places at the foot of the hills.  
¶ The virtue is he is good for the fistula and canker, & he be puned and laid thereon. Also it is good for dimness of eyen, if that they be washed with the water that it is sodden in. Also the juice of this herb drunken will put away all venom from the body. Also this herb is good to hele wounds.   

¶ Pulegium.  
PUlegium is a herb called Pulyol royal it is hot and dry in the third degree, in the time of flowering it should be gathered, and it may be kept in his virtue a year, when it shall be used in medicines, take the leaves with the flowers and stripe them fro the stalks. ¶ The virtue is of losing and consuming. For a cold humour in the heed, take powder of it and heat it well in a skillet, and all hot bind it to the grievance without any liquor. Also for a great cold taken in the heed, and for a tough humour or a watery humour, make a gargarism, seth Pulyol royal, and dry figs in tart vinegar, and take a good spoonful thereof as hot as ye may sister it, and hold it in thy mouth till it be almost cold, than put it out & take as much more, and do so three or four times, and that shall spurge thy heed well of flew me Also seth it in wine and drink it, and it is good for the diseases in the stomach in guts, & for cold causes, or for wind in the stomach. Also it is good for tough phlegm in the breast, if thou take powder of it, and meddle it with claryfyde honey, and make a lectuary thereof, and use to eat thereof, or take the herb thereof and boil it with wine, honey, or water, and use to drink thereof. Also for the black colour drink the juice of it, but boil it with wine, and thou shalt be hole. Also for a itching bile, lay this herb in water, & use to wash the itching therein warm, and thou shalt be hole. Also for ache take this herb all green, and stamp it and plaster it to the ache, and it will ease it. Also against the cough boil this herb in wine, & drink it lukewarm, and this will make one piss well. For the disease in the belly, stamp this herb with common and water, and lay it hot to the navel, and lightly it shallbe hole. For the disease in the liver, stamp this herb & temper it with water and vinegar, & drink the juice thereof and thou shalt be hole. For an ache in the legs or arms, take the leaves of elder and Pulyall royal of everich alike moche, & stamp them together well, and plaster it to the grievance, and it is good for the fever tertian, if thou take the branches of this herb, and wrap it in a good lock of will, and give it to the patient, and lethym smell thereto before the fever come on him, and that shall do him great ease. For the heedache, take this herb and bind it fast round about thy heed, and anon it seizeth the ache. Also if a woman have a deed child in her womb, stamp this herb, & give it her to drink with old wine, and she shallbe delivered of it by the grace of god. For the cramp drink the juice with vinegar fasting, and it will put it away.   

¶ Pencedanum vel Feniculus Porcinus.  
PEncedanum, this herb is called mayth hogs fennel, or maiden weed, this herb is hot and dry in the third degree, when this herb is gathered for medicines, the rote is better than the herb, when the roots be gathered they may be kept all a year. ¶ The virtue is he purgeth, it is good for the strangulyon or the flix, and good for stopping of the splen and the liver, Boil this herb in wine or water, and give it to the patient to drink. Also seth it in oil & wine, and plaster it to the share, and it will help the strangulion or the flix. Also the same plaster is good for hardness of the splen, it molyfyeth that. Also against the cold humours of the spiritual members, give him to drink water with barley, and this herb sudden together, and if it be a fervent cold humour, then seth the barley and the herb in wine, and give it to the patient to drink with liquorice.   

¶ Petrocilium.  
PEtrocilium, this is called parsley, this is hot & moist in the third degree. ¶ The virtue is it multiplieth greatly man's blood and doth away the tysyke. It helpeth well to destroy the Fever tertian. It is good for the side and the dropsy. It comforteth the heart and the stomach. And it is good in pottage, and to stop chickens.   

¶ Peritorium.  
PEritorium, this herb is called Peritory, and it is hot and dry. ¶ The virtue of this herb is thus, if a man have an evil stomach or else aching within him, take this herb and seth it in thy pottage, and eat thereof and thou shall do well. Also this herb is good to hele one of the stone, if he be bathed with it.   

¶ Plastinaca.  
PLastinaca, this is called a Pasnep, it is hot & moist in the second degree, there be two manner of Pasneppes, the one is the Pasnep of the garden, and the other is the wild Pasneppe, they be more used to meat than to medicine. ¶ The virtue is to gendre thick blood & moche, wherefore it stirreth the lust of the body if it be much used, therefore it is good for a man that is newly recovered out of his great sickness to use to eat of it a while. Also they be good to be eaten raw, or sudden for the melancholy humours green and not dry. To make a syrup to stir the lust of the body, & for to comfort the digestion, take roots of Pas; neppes, and seth them well in water, than take them out and cast away the water, and the roots that be in gobbets boil them again in water, than put thereto honey well clarified, and let them boil unto the thickness of honey, and continually stir it that it cleave not to the vessel and in the middle of the boiling, put in Almonds if ye have them, and in the end of the boiling put in ginger, galingale, and a little Pepper, Nutmeg, and other sweet savoured spices. Also Pasneppes may be sown in Decembre, january, and March, in fat ground and deep dolven, and lose ground, and best digged, and they be somewhat windy, boil them in two waters, but cast away the first water. Also there is a Pasney that is somewhat red, the which may be eaten both raw and sudden, & with them and navews together ye may make a very good meat, and fair and red in colour, the which be sudden as Pasneppes be.   

¶ Plantago.  
PLantago, this is called plantain, it is cold and dry in the second degree.  
¶ The virtue is this, for headache take plantain and bind it about thy neck, and the ache shall go out of the heed. Also for diseases in the body, seth this herb in good liquor in what ye will, and use to drink it, and it shall cleanse the maw, & the other inwards. Also for him that bleedeth at the nose, give him to drink the juice of it, and it shall seize lightly. Also if that the body of any man be wexen hard, stamp this herb with grease and make a plaster of it, and lay it on the hardness, and lightly it shallbe soft and make it hole. Also for biting of a serpent, take this herb and drink it with wine. Also for the disease in the mouth, take the juice of this herb, & hold it long in thy mouth, and eat the leaves of this herb. For him that may not well piss, seethe this herb and drink it. Also for a rotten humour in the breast, and about the heart, take the juice of this herb the weight of ten d. and meddle it with honey, and give him to eat a spoonful at one time, and that shall spurge the breast. For ache in feet, take this herb with vinegar, and drink it. Also it healeth wounds, and cleanseth the filth out of wounds. Also it suageth rankeling, and stauncheth the mentions both with drink & with plasters made with powder of Armonyake, and of sankdragone, & barley meal, with the white of eggs made in a plaster, and laid to the sore. For the canker and the pain in the gums, take the juice thereof and meddle it with honey and vinegar, and powder of Alum, and that shall slay the Canker in the mouth. Also for the fevers stamp three roots of plantain, and temper it with water, and give it him to drink that hath the Fevers, and he shall be hole. For the jaundice stamp plantain and lettuce together, and temper them with vinegar, & make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the right side, and use it till thou be hole, & it is good for the biting of an adder, drink the juice of it, and lay the substance of the herb to the sore. For the same hang the rote of plantain about the neck of the patient, and marvelously it helpeth. For the potagre, and for the disease in the sinews, stamp the leaves of it with a little salt, & plaster it well thereto, & marvelously it helpeth.   

¶ Porrum.  
Porrun, this is called a leek, it is hot and dry in the third degree, it desireth lose ground and fat, & well donged, in that they shall best profit in hot places and temperate, they may be sown in Decembre in temperet places, and cold. They may be sown in january, February & March, when the ground is well digged and dight, and it may be sown by itself, or meddled with other sedes of herbs in good fat ground well digged, and turned above it with good dung, this seed would be sown somewhat thick, & when they be somewhat sprung, take up the greatest leeks, & plant them in furrows, but take away none of their roots when ye set them in the furrows, but when ye set them with a dybble cut away the roots almost up to the leek heed, and cut away the uppermost of the leaves, they may be planted in july, August, Septembre, and Octobre, they be much profitable in March, and in Apryll next following, but in your planting you shall not seek after fat soft ground, for menely ground that is best, and that ground that is almost dry is best, there is two manner of setting of Lekes, one is in furrows as is the manner in Bonony, & the furrow must be fro the other a span large, and the leeks must be set in the furrow four fingers breed each fro other, and when ye make the next furrow cast the earth on the leeks, and tread it down softly with thy foot. The second manner is thus, when the ground is well digged and raked, then make holes with a great dybble, & every hole fro other a large span and more, in which the leeks must be set in, but fill not thy holes, nor put earth on them, but let them be void. three weeks, when weeds grow among them pull them up, and keep them clean fro weeds. divers auctors say that the leeks that be thus planted be better than any other, or they may wellbe planted among great onions, and when the onions be taken away, weed the leeks and you shall find them fair and good, and when ye pluck up leave some in a place, leave some for seed, the which seed may be kept three year, and it be hanged up in the hulls, leeks be best sudden, or three times washed before they be eaten. ¶ The virtue is for a wound, take leeks & stamp them well with honey, and lay it to the wound, and it will hele it. For the cough take the juice of leeks and use to drink it. For the same, take the juice of Lekes, and meddle it with woman's milk, and use to drink it, and it will cleanse the longs of all vices.  

¶ Fracturas solidat: duritasque relaxat  
Vulnusque appositum: cito cum sale claudit.    

¶ Piretrum.  
PIretrum, this is called Pelleter, it is hot and dry in the third degree, the rote is used in medicines, five year he may be kept in his virtue, and know ye well that his sharpness is not known anon, it should be puned & holden in the mouth. ¶ The virtue is of losing, and drawing, and of consuming. To make a gargarism, take pelleter and figs, and boil them in vinegar or in sweet wine, and it will cleanse the brain of superfluity of phlegm. Also if it be chewed in the mouth, it helpeth the palsy in the tongue. Also for the palsy and the potagre, stamp it and seethe it in wine and oil, and plaster it to the grievance, this plaster helpeth moche therefore, if thou may have green pelyter stamp it, and lay it soaking in wine xv. days, and after boil it well and put there to wax & oil, for this is the best ointment for all the foresaid diseases.   

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

¶ Polipodium.  
POlipodium, this is called Polypodye, it is hot in the third degree, and dry in the second degree. This Polypody is a fern that groweth upon oaks, or on walls, or stones, but the Polypody that groweth on Okes is the best, gather the roots of it and lay it a day in the son, chose that is green, and that which appeareth dry, when it is broken it is to be refused. ¶ The virtue is of dissolving, of drawing, of purging phlegm, and specially of melancholy, wherefore commonly he is put in boiling, and to flewmatyk, and melancholious hole men, he is given to preserve their health, and know well that in the boiling of Polypody should be put in some thing to exclude and put out ventuosyte as Anise seed, Fenel sede, for they exclude out moche wind, and unbindeth humours. Also for the quotidian, and for Illica passio, and to keep a man's health, do thus stamp half an ounce of polypody or an ounce, if ye will have it much laxative, than boil it with prunes and violets in fennel water or anise, in a great quantity, than strain it and give it the patient at evening & at morning. Also stamp it & seth it in water with fennel seed, & make a good broth thereof with a chicken therein, with sweet savoured spices, and give the patient to eat. Also make a drink thereof after this manner, stamp it and boil it in wine and after put more wine thereto, & so make up your drink with sweet savoured spices.   

¶ Pienium.  
PIenium, this is called Pyeny, it is hot and dry in the second degree, so sayeth hippocras and Galen the good philosophers say that the rote thereof goth to divers medicines, and it will last ten year, and it is cold. ¶ The virtue is good for the palsy, dry the rote and drink powder with Caster sudden in wine. Also the same is good for the stone. Also if a man be costive and may not go to draft, take and straw the powder thereof on cotton, and put in to his fundament, and drink the powder in white wine. Also for a man or woman that hath the falling evil, eat it and drink it in wine. Also hang the rote about his neck, and it will save him without doubt within xu days. Also it helpeth the sores in the mouth. Also if thou seth it in wine, it helpeth the splen. Also drink Pyeny with water and honey, and do thereto powder of Colyandre, and this is good for the stomach, for the milt, & for gravel in the reins. Also it is good for women for divers diseases, and seth it in white wine, and give a woman to drink thereof, & it will he'll here bladder, and make here to piss the stone, and it will hele her of the matry●. Also Pyeny seed when it is black, it maketh deliverance of the bed of the child in her womb, and at every time when she shall use to drink it, she must drink xu sedes at one time.    

¶ The xu letter beginneth with. Q.  

¶ Quinquefolio.  
QVinquefolio, this is called Quynckefoyle, it is cold & dry in the second degree, this herb is good for ache in a man's limbs and for ache of the heed, mouth, tongue, and throat that is sore, take and seth this herb in wine, and give the patient to drink thereof three days first and last, and he shall be hole. Also stamp it and drink the juice of it in ale, and it will cease the aching and gnawing of a man or woman. Also if a man bleed sore at the nose give him to drink the juice of it with wine, and anoint his heed well with the juice of this herb, & anon the blood shall staunch. For to slay a canker, seth it in wine with the grease of a swine, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it on the canker, & it shall slay it. Also take powder of Quynckefoyle, and meddle it with honnyl and therewith rub thy mouth, tongue, throat, & the cheeks with in, and it will spurge it well. Also for poison or biting of a serpent, take the juice of quynckfoyle, and drink it with wine, and marvelously it resisteth venom.    

¶ The xvi letter beginneth with. R.  

¶ Rybbeworte.  
RYbbeworte is an herb that groweth in gardens. ¶ The virtue is good for the fever quartan, take the juice of this herb, and drink it two hours before that ye think the disease shall come to you, and by the grace of God it shall go fro you. For them that here not well, put in to their ears the juice, and if there be any rotten humours it will dry them.   

¶ Rednetle.  
REdnetle is called a palyfe of the greeks, it is hot of virtue, for it burneth them that touch it. ¶ The virtue is good for the jaundice if it be sudden in wine and drunk, it cleanseth the colour marvelously. For the old cough seth thesedes in water, and put honey thereto, and drink it, and it will hele the cough, and take away the coldness of the lungs, and swelling of the belly. Also vinegar that the seed of netels is sudden in is good against scurf in the head, if the head be washed therewith ii or iii times, and then rinsed with fair water.   

¶ Rosa.  
ROsa, this is called red Rose, it is cold in the first degree, & dry in the second degree, dry Roses and green roses be used in medicines, and of green roses be made many confections. Also dry roses be put in medicines, when a receit of Roses is made, for they be soon made in powder, of roses is made mell roset, sugar roset, syrup of roses, a lectuary of roses, water of roses, and oil of roses. Melroset is made thus, take fair purified honey, & new red roses, the white ends of them clipped a way, then chop them small, and put them in to the honey, and boil them menely together, to know when it is boiled enough, ye shall know it by the sweet odour and the colour rufe, five year he may be kept in his virtue. ¶ The virtue of the roses be of comforting, and by the honey he hath virtue of cleansing. In winter and in summer it may be given competently to feeble, sick, phlegmatic, melancholy, and choleric people. Also Mulsa is made of water and meal roset, and it may be given after the third day that it cometh out of the bathe. For to cleanse the stomach of cold humour, give him melroset with water that fennel sede is boiled in putting therein iii grains of salt, if the sick may take it, this should be the quantity of Roses and honey. In vii pound of honey put a pound of roses. Sugar roset is made thus, take new gathered Roses, and stamp them right small with sugar, than put it in a glass and xxx days let it stand in the son, and stir it well and meddle it well together, and so it may be kept three year in his virtue. The quantity of sugar and Roses should be thus in four pound of sugar a pound of Roses, he hath virtue of constraining, and comforting of the flux in the womb, take sugar roset and powder of mastic, of every one a dragma, and medse them well together and give it to the sick, after that give him rose water that mastic and cloves be sudden in. Syrup of Roses is made thus, some do take roses dight as it is beforesaid, & boil them in water, and in that water strained they put sugar and make a syrup thereof, and some do make it better, for they put Roses in a vessel having a straight mouth, and they put to the roses hot water, and they let it stand a day and a night, and of that water putting to it sugar they make syrup, and some do put more of roses in the foresaid vessel, and more of hot water, & let it stand as is beforesaid, and so they make a red water, and make there of a syrup, and some do stamp new roses, and they strain out the juice of it, and sugar therewith they make syrup, & this is the best making of syrup, and know well that syrup made of fresh & new roses, some what meanly they be lax, in the end they bind, but syrup made of dry roses, first and last they bind. Syrup of Roses hath virtue of comforting, and constraining against the flux of the womb, and he vomit give it him with rain water, or with Rose water in a fever. After letting of blood, give it to him with cold water. Also the same for the syncopyne. Oil of roses is made thus, some boil roses in oil and keep it. Some do fill a glass with roses and oil, and they boil it in a cauldron full of water, and this oil is good. Some stamp fresh roses with oil, and they put it in a vessel of glass, and set it in the son l days, and this oil is good against chafing of the liver, if it be anointed therewith. Also it is good for the disease in the head that cometh of heat, anoint the forehead, and the temples with oil of roses, the water of roses hath virtue of comforting, and constraining against the flux of the womb, and vomit. Also give him rose water to drink, or else Rose water boiled with mastic and cloves, it is best against the flux and feebleness of virtue if it come of a flux by a sharp medicine. Also rose water is good for the syncopyne, and the cardiacle, give it him to drink, and sprinkle the water on his face, and the water is good for eyes, and in ointments for the face, for it taketh away the wembes and the superfluite and straineth the skin. Also dry roses put to the nose to smell, do comfort the brain, and heart, and quencheth the spirit. Also against the flux of the womb, and colour, give him roses boiled in rain water. Also a plaster made of Roses, and the white of eggs and vinegar, & dip a sponge in it, and lay it on thy mouth of the stomach, against the Syncopyne, give him to drink water that Roses have be boiled in, and give him powder of roses in a rear egg, to make oil of roses, take ii pound of oil, and a pound and an half of roses, and put all in a glass, and put the glass in a cawderon full of water, and hang it therein, and boil it till the third part be wasted, and after strain it through a linen cloth, and keep it for your use, for this oil is losing, and serveth for many things. Some do put Rose water in a glass, and they put Roses with their dew thereto, and they make it to boil in water, than they set it in the son till it be red, & this water is best, this hath virtue of comforting, and constraining, and for the flux of the womb, and against vomit.   

¶ Rosemary.  
rosemary is an herb that is hot and dry. ¶ The virtue is good against all evils in the body, take the flowers and put them in a linen cloth, and so boil them in fair clean water to the half, & cool it and drink it. Take the flowers and make powder thereof, and bind it to the right arm in a linen cloth, and it shall make the light and merry. Also eat the flowers with honey fasting with sour breed, and there shall rise in the none evil swellings. Also take the flowers, and put them in a chest among your clothes or among books, and moths shall not hurt them, boil the flowers in goats milk, and than let them stand all a night under the air fair covered, & after that give him to drink thereof that hath the tysyke, & it shall deliver him. boil the leaves in white wine, and wash thy face therewith, thy beard, and thy brows, and there shall no corns grow out, but thou shall have a fair face, put the leaves under thy beds heed, and thou shall be delivered of all evil dreams. Break the leaves small to powder, and lay them on a canker, and it shall slay it. Take the leaves & put them in to a vessel of wine, and it shall preserve it fro tartness and evil savour, and if thou sell that wine, thou shall have good luck in the sale. if thou be feeble with unkindly sweet, take and boil the leaves in clean water, and when the water is cold, do thereto as much of white wine, and then make therein sops, and eat well thereof, and thou shalt recover appetite. If thou have the flux, boil the leaves in strong eisell, and bind them in a linen cloth, and bind it to thy womb, and anon the flux shall withdraw. If thy legs be blown with the gout, boil the leaves in water, and then take the leaves and bind them in a linen cloth about thy legs, and it shall do the good. Take the leaves and boil them in strong aisel, and bind them in a cloth to thy stomach, and it shall deliver the of all evils. If thou have the cough, drink the water of the leaves boiled in white wine, and it will hele the. Take the rind of Rosemary, and make powder thereof, and drink it for the pose, and it shall help the. Take the timber thereof, and burn it to cools, & make powder thereof, and then put it in a linen cloth and rub thy tethe therewith, and if there be any worms therein it shall slay them, and keep thy teeth from all evils. Also make the a box of the wood and smell to it, and it shall preserve thy youth. Also put thereof in thy doors, or in thy house, and thou shall be without danger of adders and other venomous serpents, make the a barrel thereof, and drink thou of the drink that standeth therein, & thou needs to fere no poison that shall hurt the. And if thou set it in thy garden, keep it honestly, for it is much profitable. Also if a man have lost his smelling of the air, or else he may not draw his breath, make a fire of the wode, and take his breath therewith, and give it him to eat, and he shallbe hole.   

¶ Ruta.  
RVta, this is called rue, this is hot and dry in the second degree, the leaves and the sedes be used in medicines, the sedes may be kept. x. year, and the leaves a year. ¶ The virtue is of purging, dissolving, and consuming. For the heedache, take the juice of rue, and heat it, and put it in to his nostrils, for it spurgeth out phlegm and cleanseth the brain, the juice sudden with wine is good for the same. For feebleness of sight, put rue in a pot with ale, and let the patient use to drink of it. For stopping of the splen and liver, the strangury and the flux, seth rue in wine with roots of Fenell, or powder of rue with the juice of Fenel and drink it warm. Also for an ache or freting, stamp rue with powder of common, and plaster it to the grievance. Also against venom, drink the juice of rue. For biting of a venomous best or worm, plaster rue to the biting. For feeble eye sight, still water of rue and roses together, and put thereof in your eyes. Also an ointment for sore eyes, stamp rue and fennel together of each like moche by weight, and meddle them with honey and Eufrose, & it is a good ointment for sore eyes. Take rue, cumin, and Pepper, of each a like moche by weight, & grind them small together, and meddle them with honey and vinegar, and it is good for the ache in the breast, and in the reins.    

¶ The xvii letter beginneth with. S.  

¶ Sinapium.  
SInapium, it is called Mustard, it is hot and dry in the middle of the four degree, & not the herb but the seed is put in medicines. five year he may be kept in his virtue. ¶ The virtue is of losing, of drawing, of making thine, and of consuming. For the palsy of the tongue, take and chew the seed in your mouth, & hold it under the tongue, and it shall do you good. Also for the palsy in other membres, seth the seed in wine, and lay it to the sore place, and it is best in the beginning of the disease. Also take the powder of it, and put it in to your nostrils, and it will make you to sneeze, and it cleanseth the brain, and superfluity of flume. Also seth it in wine and figs, and hold it warm in your mouth till it be almost cold, then take as much more, & do so. v. or. vi. times a day, & as much another day, and this is good for an old pose of tough and flumy humour in the heed. Also for stopping of the splen and the liver, seth the seed in water with roots of fennel, then strain it, and put thereto honey, and give it to the sick to drink. For hardness of the splen, seth the herb of it in wine, and plaster it to the grievance. For to ripe and break a postume, stamp this herb well with hogs grease, and lay it to the postume. Also for the strangury, take this herb, and seethe it in oil and wine, and plaster it to the grievance, and it will lose it. Also for the sciatica, and for old sores, take mustard seed, and the third part of crumbs of white bread, and figs, honey, and vinegar, after as the ache of the sore requireth, the more of the figs and honey, that is there the more sharper is the strength of the seed, and the more bread and vinegar that is in it, the more weaker is the seed, but I say not that ye shall put this confection to all sores, but to great and old sores, his virtue is if he be eaten, it sharpeth a man's wit, it cleanseth the belly, it breaketh the stone, it purgeth the urine, menstruosity and comforteth the stomach.   

¶ smallage.  
smallage is an herb that groweth in gardens, it is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree, & dry in the mids of the same. ¶ The virtue is good for cold and wicked humours in the stomach, and comforteth the stomach, the liver, and the lungs, & it is good for wounds, take Smalage sede, rue seed, Pepper, and salt, & grind them well together, and temper them with wine and drink it. For ranklings and to cease the brenning and aching, & to bring them to their kind again. Also it is good to drink for the fever tertian.   

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

¶ Satureia.  
SAtureia is called savoury, it is hot and dry in the four degree. ¶ The virtue of this is it purgeth the body, seth it in wine or water and drink it, & it purgeth the reins, the bladder, the menstruosity in the bowels, it purgeth the lungs & loseth great humours, and compelleth and putteth him our by the mouth by spitting, therefore he is brenning & stirreth him that useth lechery, therefore it is forbid to use it moche in meats. Soak it in vinegar or wine, and drink it, and it shall make the have a meek stomach. Also when it flowreth, it should be gathered and dried, & powder made thereof. Also take the powder of savoury, and boil it with clarified honey, and use to eat thereof, or boil it in wine and drink it, & it will lose tough phlegm in the breast. Also for fretting in the belly drink powder of it in warm wine, & thou shall be hole. Also if ye take the less savoury, it hath the same virtue & strength that the other savoury hath. Also make gruel with water and flower, and powder of savoury, and eat thereof, and that shall cleanse all the spiritual members of a man.   

¶ Saxfrage.  
SAxfrage is hot and dry in the third degree. ¶ The virtue is good for the stone, seth the rote of it in wine, and drink it. Also it is good for the disease of colic and the strangury, & the powder of it be eaten with an egg, it is good for the same. It may be kept in his virtue. three year.   

¶ Scabiosa.  
SCabiosa is called Scabias, it is hot and dry in the third degree, to dry it there is no profit in it. ¶ The virtue is good for the scabs, take the juice of it, vinegar, & oil, and boil them together till they wax thick and keep it for it is good for scabs. For the emeralds seth them in water, them sit over it, and take the fume of it and use it, and thou shall be hole. Stamp it and seth it in wine, and the drink is good to destroy humours in the stomach, and drink it every day fasting with Eurose, and thou shall be hole, and thou shall never have the Pestilence breeding within the while thou do use it. For the liver stamp it & seth it in wine, & drink it.   

¶ Sothernwood.  
SOthernwood is an herb that groweth in the field. ¶ The virtue of it is good for the cough, and for binding in the belly, and in the breast, and for disease in the bones, and good for them that may not well piss, take the seed of this herb and stamp it, and drink it with water, and it is good for all the aforesaid. Also for the diseases in the side, stamp this herb with betake & drink it, and it helpeth well. Also for the biting of a serpent, and for venom, stamp this herb and drink it with wine, and it is good. Also for the cold fever, stamp this herb with wine, and drink it, and thou shall be hole.   

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

¶ stitch wort.  
stitch wort or byrdestonge, this is hot and moist in the first degree. ¶ The virtue of this herb is this, it is good to hele stitches, wounds, and also the sore eyes.   

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

¶ Sene.  
Seen is hot and dry in the four degree it groweth on the other side the see, and most about Babylon, the best be the flowers and the branches of it. ¶ The virtue is good for many diseases, as the falling evil, for the synecop, for the splen, for the emeralds, & for the quartan, syrup made of it boiled in water, and sugar is good for all the aforesaid, syrup made with the juice of Borage is good for the aforesaid. Also Dyascorides commandeth to make Exmell of the aforesaid with boiling of vinegar and honey, & it will be good for the aforesaid. And this herb may be kept ten year in his strength and virtue.   

¶ Selondyne.  
SElondyne is hot and dry in the four degree, & Galyen saith that it is good for sore eyes. ¶ The virtue is good for sore eyes, take the juice of selondyne, & the rote boil it well together in a pan, & when it is cold anoint thy eyes therewith. Take selondyne and wring out the juice, and meddle it with white wine, and anoint thy visage therewith, and it shall do away frakles of the visage. The juice of selondyne & goats dung meddled together small in a mortar, then if thou lay it to a canker in a woman's pap, it shall slay the canker. Also take the juice of selondyne, and powder of brim stone, and meddle them well together, and it will help to do away the morfewe, & seth the rote in wine, and when the pot is taken down, let him hold his mouth open over it, that the brethe may go in to his body, and that shall slay the canker in the mouth, it is good for him that hath drunken venom with his own stolen, and that will save him.   

¶ Sauayne.  
SAuayne is hot and dry in the second degree. ¶ The virtue is good to slay worms in the womb, and to bring them out if it be sudden in wine, and give to the patient to drink. It is good with butter or grease to make an ointment for the scab that runneth to hele it and dry it up, and it is good for the headache, if it be stamped and tempered with vinegar, & make a plaster thereof, and lay it to thy temples & upon the mould of thy heed.   

¶ Scabiose.  
SCabiose is cold and moist in the ii degree. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good for the liver, stamp it and seethe it in wine. And it will destroy wicked humours in the stomach, and drink it every day fasting with Eurose, and thou shall▪ never have postume breeding within thee, as long as thou dost use this medicine.    

¶ The xviii letter beginneth with. T.  

¶ Townecresses.  
TOwnecresses, is hot and dry in the third degree, the seed will endure good .v. year. ¶ The virtue is good to staunch the flux and the mention, if thou take the seed and brose it in a mortar of brass, and give the sick to drink thereof three days every day a penny weight at ones with red wine warmed, & in these iii days he shall be staunched, or else he shall die of that evil, it is good for the palsy, and for the maleflanke, take the seed and seth it with wine and do it in a pocket, and bind it to the side there as the grievance is. Also it is good for him that may not piss, take the seed & seth it in wine and oil olive, & bind it to thy share. It is good for a man's fundament that goeth out, if it be taken of cold, than it must be put in again, and straw the powder on the fundament, thy reins with honey, and then straw the powder above with the powder of Comen, or powder of Calafine, for all these be kindly for it. Also take the stalks of Townecresses, and bren them, and there shall no venomous be'st, ne worm abide the savour, nor smell thereof, but he shall die or else fly away.   

¶ Tapsubarbesto.  
TApsubarbesto is called Melon, it is cold and dry. ¶ The virtue of it is good for the emeralds, and it be sudden in wine and scummed clean. Also it is good to wash the grievance therewith. It is good also for the flux in the belie. To provoke vomit, take two drams of the powder of the rote of Melon, and drink it in wine, and it will provoke vomit. Also the sedes provoketh urine and causeth the to piss, and cleanseth the reins & the bladder of gravel & stones.    

¶ The xix letter beginneth with. V  

¶ violet.  
violet is cold in the first degree, and moist in the second. ¶ The virtue of it is good for a blast in the eyes, take the roots of violets, and stamp them with myrrh and saffron, & at night lay it to the sore eyes. Also for a wound in the head, stamp the leaves of violets with honey and vinegar, and plaster it to the wound, and it shall hele it. Also for them that may not sleep for sickness, seethe this herb in water, and at even let him soak well his feet in the water to the ankles, when he goth to bed, bind of this herb to his temples, and he shall sleep well by the grace of Gad. Take Vyolettes, Myrrh, and Saffron, and make a plaster, and lay it to the sore eyes that be swollen, and it shall cease aching, and bate the swelling.   

¶ Vua suavis.  
Wa suavis, this is called the sweet raysyn, it is hot and moist. ¶ The virtue is of cleansing, scouring, or smothing. raisings eaten or boiled in wine is good for the cold cough. Also seth them in wine and they be good to plaster on the cold postume, and also good for the cold stomach.   

¶ vervain.  
vervain, this is hot and dry in the second degree. ¶ The virtue is good for all manner of evils of venom, if the patient drink it tempered with wine, and stamp the herb, and lay it on every manner of biting of venomous be'st, and it will drawout the venom and save the sore, who that useth it, it will make good breath, & do away the stink of the mouth. Also who that hath the Fever tertian, take iii roots and iii crops of the same herb, and stamp them and temper them with fair clean water, and give it to the patient to drink. Also who that hath the fever quartain, let him take the same drink. Also it is good for the stomach, the liver, and the lungs. Also take vervain, Betayne, and Saxfrage, of every of them a like moche, and stamp them with white wine tempered, and this is good for them that hath the stone. Also they that bear vervain upon them, they shall have love and grace of great masters, and they shall also grant him his asking, if that his asking be good and rightful, this herb is hot and dry.    

¶ The twenty letter beginneth with. w.  

¶ watercresses.  
WAtercresses be hot and dry in the second degree. ¶ The virtue of this herb is good if ye seethe them in water by themself, and drink it, or seth it in flesh and sup of the broth, and it will cleanse well the inward membres. Also it is good against the strangulyon and the flux.   

¶ wild neep or woodbine.  
Wild neep or woodbine, this herb beareth a flower like to the hop, & after the flower he beareth a green berry, & it hath a great root. ¶ The virtue of this herb is most in the rote, it is good for sinews that be shrunken, or cut to make them souple, and to have their own course in their proper kind. Go to the rote of wild Neppe, that is like woodbine, & make a hole in the mids of the rote, then cover it well again that no air go out, nor that no rain go in, nor water, powder, nor the son come not to much to it, let it stand so all a night and a day, then after that go to it, and thou shalt find therein a certain liquor, take out that liquor with a spoon, and put it in to a clean glass, and do so every day as long as thou findest aught in the hole, and this must be done in the month of Apryl, or May, them anoint the sore with it against the fire, then wet a linen cloth in the same liquor, and lap it about the sore, and it shall be hole in short space on warantyse, by the grace of god. For the gout a sovereign medicine, take the rote of wild Nep, and the rote of the wild dock sudden by itself, and cut them in thine pieces, and part away the utter rind, and cut them in quarters, then boil them in clean water. two. or. three hours, then stamp them in a mortar as small as can be, then put thereto a quantity of soot of a chymny, and temper them with the milk of a cow that the here is of one colour, then take the piss of a man that is fasting, & make a plaster thereof, and boil it together, and as hot as ye may suffer it, lay it to the grievance a day and a night, & so do. ix. times, and it shall, he'll the on warantyse by the grace of God.   

¶ wormwood.  
WOrmwood is hot and dry in the second degree. ¶ The virtue is good for worms in the womb, if it be stamped and the juice wrong out, and mingled with sweet milk, and give to the patient to drink, and seethe this herb in wine, and make a plaster to the womb, make powder of worm wood, Centory, betayne, of each a like much by weight, and meddle all well together, and the powder will slay worms in the womb, both when it is eaten in pottage and drunken. Also for the milt that is swollen of a cold matter, seth it in wine and let the sick drink thereof, and that shall hele him, and make a plaster of the substance of the herb, and say it all hot to thy womb against the grievance. Also stamp wormwood & temper it with vinegar, & with toasted sour breed grounden therewith, & the juice of mints, and the juice of plantain, of each a like moche, and fry them well together, then make a plaster and lay it to the mouth of the stomach, and this shall staunch breaking or casting, For worms in a man's ears be it serpent or erewygge, take the juice of wormwood, and put it in the ere. Also for the dropsy seth it in wine, & give the sick to drink at morning and at evening, and it shall help him.   
FINIS.   

¶ Hereafter followeth the virtue of the Oaken tree.  
IN the Oak be four things beside the leaf the which be right profitable to the health of man, that is to weet the acorn, and the cup that it groweth in, the galls and the lime. The carnels in powder be profitable against the feebleness of the vertiver of retentive, that is to say against feebleness of brain, and against the passion called diabetican, and against the strangury, and against the sickness called dissenturian, and against the stone in the reins, and the bladder, and it is good for them that may not hold their water. The cup of the Acorns is good against vomits of colour, and against sneezing, and it drieth, & consumeth phlegm in the mouth of the stomach. The gall after the opinion of Albert, so that they be not greatly hollow be good against the flux, and against sliding and slypernes of guts, and against the flowers of women, and that powder helpeth them of many infirmities. etc. ¶ Also by experience of Gardyners, and planters, the powder of the gall minged with honey, pierce a hole in a tree, and put it therein, and the fruit shall be black. Now with the lime of the Oak, physicians, and Surgyans do many cures therewith, & of it is made an ointment for the palsy, and of a man's yard, and against an infirmity called deabetan. Also thereof is made a syrup for the dropsy that cometh of cold called yposarco, and it consumeth watery humours. And also men be cured by the fruit of axes quartan, tertian, and cotidyan. Also in the tree is a thing growing, which women know by experience it maketh them hastily to be delivered of child, which dowche men call it Archemsel, and thereof is made beads. ¶ The last conclusion of this Oaken leaves, of this leaves is distilled a water, which healeth all the flux of the womb called dyssentuaryan, lavaryan, and dyaryan. Also it is good for the flowers of women, and for the Emeralds. Also this lief in powder put in the nose, stauncheth the bleeding thereof, and spitting of blood. Also this lief is wholesome against the ache of the heart, against the epilation of the liver, and of the splen, & against the neezing, & against the cough, and the head ache, and against the ache of the stomach, & the wind of the stomach, and against the colic, & the ache of the womb, and the flanks, and it breaketh the stone of the reins, and the bladder, and also women that be cold, it disposeth them to be able to conceive, it is wholesome to all manner of creatures of all manner ages, & for all diseases to be taken at all times of the year. etc. ¶ wherefore surgeons knowing the truth layeth Oaken leaves upon wounds, and that done they need none other ointment, it healeth all manner of wounds, the canker, the fistula, and saint Anthony's fire, a vain made in the water of the Oak healeth the dropsy, and all sepournesse. Also who soever once in the week eateth one of the leaves, he shall never have stinking breath, nor the tooth ache, nor putrefaction in his gums. etc. nor of his ears.  

¶ This is the making of Aqua vite perfectissima.  
TAke the rote of Saxfrage, & Parsley, Alyssaunder, Fenell, Time, hyssop, Pynyryall, Rosemary, Laveder, primrose, Mint, Origan, Sauge, calamint, avence, Bittayn, Saveyn, of each half a quartron, Galynga le, black Pepper, white Pepper, long Pepper, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each an ounce, Camel, Maces, Quylybes, of each two ounces, Setwale, Peletre of spain, tree of Aloes, of each an ounce and an half, and stamp thine herbs, and powder thy spices, and put them together in the wine, and let them stand all night, & on the morrow distil them through a serpentory, this water hath many virtues, and it is better at the first distillation of the Canon, then at the third distillation of the Serpentorye. etc.   

¶ To graff and plant.  
TO graff fruit that they shall have no core. Take a graff and bow it in both ends combing, and cut both ends graftwyse, and so fasten them into the stock. And if it grow so with the tree cut away the great end, and let the smaller end grow, and his fruit shall have no core▪ ¶ if thou wilt graff divers fruits upon one stock, that hath as many branches as thou wilt have graffs on, and in every branch set a graff in manner and form as it is said before, & evermore chose thy graff on the son side of the tree that beareth it, and next the top if you may, & then mayst thou graff divers fruits in one cleft, but none of them may be thicker than other as thy reason will tell the in that working. ¶ It is to be noted the graffers say, that every tree that is set on saint Lambardes' day, shall prove and come to profit.   
¶ Finis.   

¶ Here beginneth the table of this present book.  

A.  
¶ Agnus castus.  
Apium.  
Auctum.  
Apium risus.  
Absinthium.  
Archemesia.  
Affodillus.  
Astrologia longa.  
Abrotanum.  
Astrologia rotunda.  
Ameos.  
Alleluya.  
Agrimonia.  
Auancia.  
Altea.  
Amarista.  
Anisum.  
Alleum.  
Astarton.   

B  
¶ Betonia.  
Balsaminta.  
Beta.  
Borago domestices.  
Bigula.  
Burneta.  
Bursa postoris.   

C  
¶ Camamilla.  
Calamintum.  
Crassula maior.  
Crassula minor.  
Cituca.  
Centuaria maior.  
Centuaria minor.  
Carin.  
Celodonia.  
Cidamum.  
Causis.  
Cortandrum.  
Capillus veneris.  
Crocus.  
Centinodium.  
Caprifolium.  
Canabaria.  
Costus.  
Cepe.  
Columbina.  
Cominum.  
Cardiaca.  
Cisera.  
chameleon.  
Consolida maior.  
Consolida minor.  
Consolida media.   

D  
¶ Dragancia.  
Diptanum.  
Daucus asinius.  
Daucus creticus.  
Dens leonis.  
Dragancia feminea.   

E  
¶ Elena campana.  
Endiva.  
Eruca.  
Eufragia.  
Ebulus.  
Edera.  
Edera terestris.  
Eborus.  
Esabrus.  
Epatica.   

F  
¶ Famula.  
Fumus terre.  
Fragra.  
Fabaria maior.  
Filex.  
Filipendula.  
Feniculum.  
Faxmus.  
Finiculus porcinus.  
Febrifuga.  
Filago.  
Flammula minor.   

G  
¶ Granum.  
Genescula.  
Genciana.  
Galanga.  
Granum solis.  
Gladiolus.  
Gracia dei.  
Gracia dei maior.   

H  
¶ Herba cruciata.  
Herba christofori.  
Herba walteri.  
Herba Roberti.  
Herba martis.  
Hastula regia.  
Herba johannis.  
Herba Petri.   

I  
¶ jusquiamus.  
Isopus.  
Ireose.  
Iris.  
jua.  
jacia alba.  
jasia nigra.  
Ippia maior.  
Ippia minor.   

L  
¶ Lanesticum.  
Lingua ceruina.  
Lilium.  
Ligustrum.  
Lingua bovis.  
Lingua Serpentis ma.  
Lingua Serpentis mi.  
Lingua canis.  
Lingua hircina.  
Lupinus.  
Labrum veneris.  
Lavendula.  
Lactuca.  
Lactuca siluatica.  
Lactuca leporica.  
lolium.  
Laparium rubeum.  
Linum.  
Lauriola.  
Licorisa.   

M  
¶ Millefolio minor.  
Mercurialis.  
Menta.  
Menta romana.  
Malua.  
morel or night shadow.  
mastic.  
Magerum.  
Millefolium maior.  
Motherwort, or  
Mugwort.  
Maces.  
Menta.   

N  
¶ Nux muscata.  
Napo.   

O  
¶ Olibanum.   

P  
¶ Plumeus.  
Piper.  
Pympernell.  
Pulegium.  
Pencedamum vel Feniculus porcinus.  
Petrocilium.  
Peritorium.  
Plastinaca.  
Plantago.  
Porrum.  
Piretrum.  
Papaver.  
Polipodium.  
Pienium.   

Q  
¶ Quinquefolio.   

R  
¶ Rybbeworte.  
Rednetell.  
Rosa.  
Rosemary.  
Ruta.   

S  
¶ Sinapium.  
Smalege.  
Saluia.  
Satureia.  
Saxfrage.  
Scabiosa.  
Sothernwood.  
sengreen.  
Stytcheworte.  
Scamony.  
Sene.  
Selyndyne.  
Sauayne.  
Scabiose.   

T  
¶ Townecresses.  
Tapsubarbesto.   

V  
¶ violet.  
Vua suavis.  
vervain.   

W  
¶ watercresses wild neep or woodbine.  
wormwood.   

¶ The virtue of the Oaken tree.  
¶ The Oaken leaf.  
¶ The making of Aqua vite perfectissima.  
¶ Graffing & planting.   
¶ Finis Tabule.   

¶ Imprinted by me Robert wire, dwelling in saint martin's parish, at the sign of saint Iohn evangelist, beside Charing Cross.  
 printer's device of Robert Wyer: McKerrow 69 
ROBERT wire.