Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner].
- Robert Turner
- Date:
- 1664
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Or th’ Sea-encompaft Little World [our Ifle] A flowery Wreath your fragrant Leaves compile ; | Her fecret (and referved) worth you fing, | The precious Herbs o'th’ odoriferous Spring, | Prove Antickdayes, had reafon good to ftile | (Long fince) Britannia, the Happy Tle. | = Lonceadmir’d, yet wonder now nomore, | Old Rome’s ambitious Eagles {torm’d our Shore ; That Pitts from Mountains periwige’d with Snow, | Infeft a Region where fuch Simples grow , | That treacherous Saxons fack what Picts did {pare, And from Sea-Rovers turn our Land to fhare ; | Thatthe encroaching irreligions Dane | Shov’d the ufurping Saxon down again ; | That the audacions Norman did lay down | Ameaner Ducall for a Regall Crown. Let not tann’d Africk boaft fhe Wealth doth hide, Nor {welling Afia, [the firft Nurfe of Pride] Nor the yet-barbarous New World Roots unfold, | Weeds and Difeafes to confound the Old; _ Our World (our Ile but fearcht) affordeth {tore *Gainft moft of Natures foes. If we need more, | You thew the Vertue ; you the worth commend | Of Drugs foft Afia, Drugs fcorcht Africk fend ; Drugs our politer Europe, Drugs that home | From that great Afonarch, remote Nations come; _ | From fome of whom kinde Phebus goes not down, at's never difcontinued Rayes do crown. March to. : William Smith, late of 1663. Clare- Hall, Cambr.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30325730_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
