nd children, father and mother,
brother and sister, and all thy dearest friends should die before thy face,
thou couldst not grieve or shed a tear for them."

"Qui semel id patera mistum Nepenthes Iaccho
Hauserit, hic lachrymam, non si suavissima proles,
Si germanus ei charus, materque paterque
Oppetat, ante oculos ferro confossus atroci."

Helena's commended bowl to exhilarate the heart, had no other ingredient,
as most of our critics conjecture, than this of borage.

_Balm_.] Melissa balm hath an admirable virtue to alter melancholy, be it
steeped in our ordinary drink, extracted, or otherwise taken. Cardan, _lib.
8._ much admires this herb. It heats and dries, saith [4129] Heurnius, in
the second degree, with a wonderful virtue comforts the heart, and purgeth
all melancholy vapours from the spirits, Matthiol. _in lib. 3. cap. 10. in
Dioscoridem_. Besides they ascribe other virtues to it, [4130]"as to help
concoction, to cleanse the brain, expel all careful thoughts, and anxious
imaginations:" the same words in effect are in Avicenna, Pliny, Simon
Sethi, Fuchsius, Leobel, Delacampius, and every herbalist. Nothing better
for him that is melancholy than to steep this and borage in his ordinary
drink.

Mathiolus, in his fifth book of Medicinal Epistles, reckons up scorzonera,
[4131]"not against poison only, falling sickness, and such as are
vertiginous, but to this malady; the root of it taken by itself expels
sorrow, causeth mirth and lightness of heart."

Antonius Musa, that renowned physician to Caesar Augustus, in his book
which he writ of the virtues of betony, _cap. 6._ wonderfully commends that
herb, _animas hominum et corpora custodit, securas de metu reddit_, it
preserves both body and mind, from fears, cares, griefs; cures falling
sickness, this and many other diseases, to whom Galen subscribes, _lib. 7.
simp. med._ Dioscorides, _lib. 4. cap. 1. &c._

Marigold is much approved against melancholy, and often used therefore in
our ordinary broth, as good against this and many other diseases.

_Hop_.] Lupulus, hop, is a sovereign remedy; Fuchsius, _cap. 58. Plant.
hist_. much extols it; [4132]"it purgeth all choler, and purifies the
blood." Matthiol. _cap. 140. in 4. Dioscor._ wonders the physicians of his
time made no more use of it, because it rarefies and cleanseth: we use it
to this purpose in our ordinary beer, which before was thick and fulsome.

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