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Heart Trefoil
Description. Besides the ordinary sort of Trefoil, here are two more remarkable, and one of which may be probably called Heart Trefoil, not only because the leaf is triangular, like the heart of a man, but also because each leaf contains the perfect icon of a heart, and that in its proper colour, viz. a flesh colour.
Place. It grows between Longford and Bow, and beyond Southwark, by the high-way, and parts adjacent.
Government and virtues. It is under the dominion of the Sun; and, if it were used, it would be found as great a strengthener of the heart, and cherisher of the vital spirits as grows, relieving the body against faintings and swoonings, fortifying it against poison and pestilence, and defending the heart against the noisome vapours of the spleen.