_Southern-wood or Boy's love_, is hot and dry in the third degree, resists poyson, kills worms, provokes lust; outwardly in plaisters it dissolves cold swellings, makes hair grow; take not above half a drachm at a time in powder. _Spinage._ I never read any physicall virtues of it. _Spleenwort_ is excellent good for melancholy people, helps the stranguary and breaks the Stone in the bladder. Boyl it and drink the decoction; but because a little boyling will carry away the strength of it in vapours, let it boyl but very little, and let it stand close stopped till it be cold before you strain it out; this is the generall rule for all Simples of this nature. _Spurge._ Better let alone that taken inwardly; hair anoynted with the juyce of it will fall off: it kills fish, being mixed with anything they will eat, outwardly it takes away Freckles and sunburning. _Sweet-Majorum_ is an excellent remedy for cold diseases in the brain, being only smelled to; it helps such as are given to much sighing, and easeth pains in the belly.... _Tansie._ The very smell of it staies abortion or miscarriages in women. The root eaten, is a singular remedy for the Gout; the rich may bestow the cost to preserve it. _Toad-flax_ clenses the Reins and Bladder, outwardly it takes away yellowness and deformity of the skin. _Toads-stools._ Whether these be roots or not it matters not much; for my part I know little need of them, either in food or Physick. _Tyme._ Helps coughs and shortness of breath, brings away dead children and the after birth, helps Sciatica, repels wind in any part of the Body, resisteth fearfullness and melancholy. _Valerian_, white and red, comforts the heart and stirs up lust. _Vervain._ A great clenser. Made into an oyntment it is a soveraign remedy for old headache. It clears the skin and causeth a lovely color. _Wake-Robins_ or _Cuckow-pints_. I know no great good they doe inwardly taken, unlesse to play the rogue withall, or make sport; outwardly applyed they take off Scurf, Morphew, or Freckles from the face, cleer the skin, and cease the pain of the Gout. _Water-Lilies._ The roots stop lust. I never dived so deep to find any other virtue. _Wood Bettony_ helps the falling sickness, and all headaches comming of cold, procures apetite, helps sour belchings, helps cramps and convulsions, helps the Gout, Kills worms, helps bruises, and cleanseth women after their labor. _Wormwood_ helps weakness of the stomack, clenses choller, kills worms, helps surfets, cleers the sight, clenses the Blood, and secures cloaths from moths. _Yarrow._ An healing herb for wounds. Some say the juice snuffed up the nose, causeth it to bleed, whence it was called Nose-bleed. CHAPTER XIV CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS