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Fables of Flowers for the Female Sex. With Zephyrus and Flora, a Vision

Note 23 — FABLE XX. The DEADLY NIGHTSHADE[23].

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The juice of this weed was generally supposed to be used in Enchantments—There are however several sorts of it, all of which are not esteemed deadly; but only this mentioned here, the juice of whose berries so intoxicated the army of Sweno the Danish King, being mixed in their liquor, that they became an easy prey to the Scotch army, which surprised and cut most of them to pieces.

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