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A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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set it by one day, and dry it by the fire halfe an houre, and when
it is dry put it up into bagges.


_A good Plaister for the Strangury._

Take _Violets_, and _Hollyhokes_, and _Mercury_, the leaves of these
Hearbs, or the seeds of them, also the rinde of the _Elderne_ tree,
and _Leydwort_, of each of these a handfull, and beat them small,
and seeth them in water, till halfe be consumed, and put thereto
a little oyle Olive, and make thereof a plaister, and lay it to the
soare and reines; also in the summer thou must make him a
drink on this manner, take _Saxifrage_, and the leaves of _Elderne_,
five leav'd grasse, and seath them in a pottell of staile Ale, till the
halfe be wasted, then straine it, and keep it clean, and let the sick
drink thereof first and last, and if you lack these hearbs because of
winter, then take the roots of five-leav'd grasse, and dry them,
and make thereof a powder, then take Oyster-shells, and burne
them, and make powder also of them, and mingling them together,
let the sick use thereof in his pottage, and drink, and it
will help him.


_A Medicine for sore blood-shotten and Rhuematick
eyes._

Take ground _Ivy_, _Daises_, and _Celedony_, of each a like quantity,
stamp and straine out the juice out of them, and put to it a little
brown _Sugar_ Candy dissolved in white Rose-water, and drop two
or three drops of this liquor at one time into the grieved eye,
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