Sentence:  Take the ſweete herbe called pleaſant content; with that make a perfume about your bed chamber and where you dyne: the ſavour of this is as ſure a repulſe to exile melancholie, as the <WSD>oſtracisme</WSD> was to the noble of "Athens". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state. (from 16th c.)