¶ The Vertues.
The blacke Mullein, with his pleasant yellow floures, boiled in water or wine and drunken, is [ A] good against the diseases of the brest and lungs, and against all spitting of corrupt rotten matter.
The leaues boiled in water, stamped and applied pultis wise vpon cold swellings (called Oede∣mata) [ B] and also vpon the vlcers and inflammations of the eies, cureth the same.
The floures of blacke Mullein are put into lie, which causeth the haire of the head to wax yel∣low, [ C] if it be washed and combed therewith.
The leaues are put into cold ointments with good successe, against scaldings and burnings with [ D] fire or water.
Apuleius reporteth a tale of Vlysses, Mercurie, and the inchantresse Circe, and theirvse of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ E] herbes in their in cantations and witchcrafts.