A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of [the] herbes when they are stilled. Also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck by W.C.

Plantago.

☞This is called Plantaine, it is colde and drye in the .ii. degre, for head ache take Plantayne & bynd it aboute thy necke, & the ache shal go out of thy head. Also for desea∣ses in the body, sethe thys herbe in good lycour what ye wyll and vse to drynke it and it shall clense the mawe & the other inwardes. Also for him y^t bledeth at the nose gyue hym to drynke the ioyce of it and it shal cease lightly. Also yf y^e body of any man be wexen hard. stampe thys herbe with grece and make a playster of it & laye it on the hard∣nes and lyghtly it shalbe softe and

make it hole. Also for byting of a serpēt, take thys herbe and drynke it wyth wyne. Also for the desease in the mouth take the ioyce of thys herbe & holde it long in thy mouth and eat the leaues of thys he••b for hym that maye not wel pysse sethe this herbe and drinke it. Also for a rotten humour in the breast and a¦boute the harte take the ioyce of thys herbe the wayght of .x. d. and medle it with honye and giue hym to eate a sponfull at one tyme and that shal purge the breste, for ache in the r••te take thys herbe with vy¦neger and drynke it. Also it heleth woundes and clēseth the fylth out of woundes. Also it swadgeth ran kelynge and staunchethe the men∣cyons both with drinke and wyth playsters made with pouder of Ar¦moniake and of sandragoune and Barly medled w^t the whyte of eg∣ges made in a playster & layd to y^e

sore for the Canker and the payne in the gūmes, take the ioyce therof and medle it with hony and vyne∣ger and pouder of Alume and that shal slee the Canker in the mouth. Also for the feuers, stampe .iii. Ro∣tes of Plantayne, & tempre it with water and gyue it hym to drynke that hath the feuers and he shalbe hole, for the Iaundes stampe Plā¦tayne and Lettyse togyther & tem∣per them wyth vyneger and make a plaster there of and laye it to thy ryght syde & vse it tyl thou be hole, and it is good for the bytyng of an adder, drynke y^e ioyce of it & lay the substaunce of the herbe to the sore, for the same hange the rote of plan¦tayne aboute the necke of the paci∣ent and meruelously it helpeth, for the potager, and for the disease in y^• synowes stāpe the leues of it wyth a lyttell salte and playster it well therto, and meruelously it helpeth.