Hyssop (Maplet)

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This is the entry for hyssop from Maplet's A Greene Forest.

Of Isope.

Isope is an Herbe of meane growth, but of much vertue, and principallye in purging the Lungs. Wherefore in the olde law sayeth Isidor, by a bunch of Isope, they would be counted and reckened cleane.