Crossword-Solution: CORDIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

For now, as if all the Muses were got with child, to bring forth bastard poets, without any commission, they do post over the banks of Helicon, until they make their readers more weary than post-horses; while, in the meantime, they, “Queis meliore luto finxit præcordia Titan,” {78} are better content to suppress the outflowings of their wit, than by publishing them to be accounted knights of the same order.

The pistil differs in length in the two forms of every heterostyled plant, and although a similar difference is very general with the stamens, yet in the two forms of Linum grandiflorum and of Cordia they are equal.

The mal caduco, cramps, convulsions, paralysies, epilepsies, tremor-cordia, retired nerves, ill vapours of the spleen, stopping of the liver, the stone, the strangury, hernia ventosa, iliaca passio; stops a disenteria immediately; easeth the torsion of the small guts: and cures melancholia hypocondriaca, being taken and applied according to my printed receipt.

Cicero says _subter præcordia_, which is about the waist; and Aratus says [Greek: hypo zônê], under the belt.

The Botanical novelties are an arborescent Salix, a ditto Cordia floribus suave odoratis, Phyllanthus Embelica.