Vertues and Use.
Their Vertues are but a few, but those not to be despised, for the Decoction of the Thi∣stle in Wine being drunk, expels superfluous Melancholly out of the Body, and make a man as merry as a Cricket, superfluous Melan∣cholly causeth care, fear, sadness, despair, envy, and many evils more besides, but Religion, teacheth to wait upon Gods Providence, and cast our care upon Him, who careth for us; what a fine thing were it if men and women could live so? and yet seven yeers care and fear makes a man never the wiser, nor a farthing the richer. Dioscorides saith, the Root born about one doth the like, and removes all disea∣ses of Melancholly. Modern Writers laugh at him, let them laugh that wins, my Opinion is, that 'tis the best Remedy against all Me∣lancholly Diseases that grows, they that please may use it: 'tis under Capricorn, and therefore under both Saturn and Mars, one rids Me∣lancholly* 1.1 by Sympathy, the other by Antipa∣thy.