¶ The Vertues.
Melilote boiled in sweet wine vntill it be soft, if you adde thereto the yolke of a rosted egge, the [ A] meale of Fenegreeke and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the roots of Marsh Mallowes and hogs greace stamped toge∣ther, and vsed as a pultis or cataplasma, plaisterwise, doth asswage and soften all manner of swel∣lings, especially about the matrix, fundament and genitories, being applied vnto those places hot.
With the juice hereof, oile, wax, rosen and turpentine, is made a most soueraigne healing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ B] drawing emplaster, called Melilote plaister, retaining both the colour and sauour of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, be∣ing artificially made by a skilfull Surgion.
The herbe boiled in wine and drunke prouoketh vrine, breaketh the stone, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the [ C] paine of the kidnies, bladder and belly, and ripeneth flegme, and causeth it to be easily cast 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The juice thereof dropped into the eies cleereth the sight, consumeth, dissolueth, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ D] taketh away the web, pearle, and spot in the eies.
Melilote alone with water healeth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 melicerides, a kinde of wens or rather apostems con∣teyning [ E] matter like honey; and also the running vlcers of the head, if it be laid to with chalke, wine and galls.
It likewise 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the paine of the eares, if the juice be dropped therein mixed with a little wine, and taketh away the paine of the head, which the Greekes call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, especially if the head be bathed therewith, and a little vineger and oile of Roses mixed amongst it.