Heart’s-Ease

This is that herb which such physicians as are licensed to blaspheme by authority, without danger of having their tongues burned through with an hot iron, called an herb of the Trinity. It is also called by those that are more moderate, Three Faces in a Hood, Live in Idlene , Cull me to you; and in Su ex we call them Pancies. Place. ] Besides those which are brought up in gardens, they grow commonly wild in the fields, especially in such as are very barren: sometimes you may find it on the tops of the high hills. Time. ] They flower all the Spring and Summer long. Government and virtues. ] The herb is really saturnine, something cold, viscous, and slimy. A strong decoction of the herbs and flowers (if you will, you may make it into syrup) is an excellent cure for the French pox, the herb being a gallant anti venereal: and that antivenereals are the best cure for that disease, far better and safer than to torment them with the flux, divers foreign physicians have confe ed. The spirit of it is excellently good for the convulsions in children, as also for the falling sickne , and a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs, itch, . It is under the celestial sign Cancer.