love taken every day for twenty days will help those "that by witchcraft (as it is thought) have become half foolish to become perfectly restored to their former good estate." That the best starch is made from the root of cuckoo-pint, and that in former dayes when the making of our ordinary starch "was not knowen or frequent in use; the finest Dames used the rootes hereof to starch their linnen, which would so sting, exasperate and choppe the skinne of their servants' hands that used it, that they could scarce get them smooth and whole with all the nointing they could doe before they should use it againe." That the root of this same herb, cut small and mixed with a sallet of white endive or lettice, is "an excellent dish to entertain a smell-feast or unbidden unwelcome guest to a man's table, to make sport with him and drive him from his too much boldnesse; or the pouder of the dried roote strawed upon any daintie bit of meate that may be given him to eate; for either way within a while after the taking of it, it will so burne and pricke his mouthe that he shall not be able either to eate a bit more or scarce to speak for paine and so will abide untill there be some new milk or fresh butter given, which by little and little will take away the heate and pricking and restore him againe." That another "good jest for a bold unwelcome guest" is to infuse nightshade in a little wine for six or seven hours and serve it to the guest, who then "shall not be able to eat any meate for that meale nor untill he drinks some vinegar which will presently dispell that qualitie and cause him to fall to his viands with as good a stomach as he had before." That sufferers from toothache should rub the bruised root of crowfoote on to their fingers; by causing "more paine therein than is felt by the toothach it taketh away the pain." That the juice of fumitory, if dropped in the eyes, will take away the redness and other defects, "although it procure some paine for the present and bringeth forth teares." That the hunters and shepherds of Austria commend the roots of the supposed wolf's-bane "against the swimming or turning in the head which is a disease subject to those places rising from the feare and horroure of such steepe downfalls and dangerous places which they doe and must continually passe." That scabious, if bruised and applied "to any place wherein any splinter, broken bone, or any such like thing lyeth in the flesh doth in short time loosen it and causeth it to be easily drawen forth." That butcher's broom was used in olden times to preserve "hanged meate" from being eaten by mice and also for the making of brooms, "but the King's Chamber is by revolution of time turned to the Butcher's stall, for that a bundle of the stalkes tied together serveth them to cleanse their stalls and from thence have we our English name of Butcher's broom." That the down of swallow-wort "doth make a farre softer stuffing for cushions or pillowes or the like