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Reading edition
Seedes and herbes for the Kitchen.
Auens.[E195]
Betanie.[E196]
Bléets or béets,[E197] white or yellow.
Bloodwoort[E198] [Bloodwoorth, 1577].
Buglas.[E199]
Burnet.[E200]
Burrage.[E201]
Cabage remoue in June.
Clarie.[E202]
Coleworts.[E203]
Cresses.
Endiue.
Fenell.[E204]
French Malows.
French Saffron set in August.
Langdebiefe.[E205]
Léekes[E206] remoue in June.
Lettis remoue in May.
Longwort.[E207]
Liuerwort.[E208]
Marigolds[E209] often cut.
Mercurie.[E210]
Mints at all times.
Nep.[E211]
Onions [Oyneons, 1577] from December to March.
Orach[E212] or arach, redde and white.
Patience.[E213]
Perceley.
Peneriall.[E214]
Primerose.[E215]
Poret.
Sage red and white.
Summer sauerie.
Sorell.
Spinage.[E218]
Suckerie.
Siethes.[E219]
Tanzie.[E220]
Time.
Violets of all sorts.
Winter sauerie.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · "Auens." "Avence herbe, Avancia, Sanamunda."—Prompt. Parv. By some called harefoot. It was used in cookery; see Pegge's Forme of Cury, ed. 1Note 2 · "Betanie." Lat. betonica, said by Pliny to have been first called Vettonica, from the Vettones, a people of Spain.Note 3 · "Bleets." The name of some pot-herb which Evelyn in Acetaria takes to be the "Good Henry," and remarks of it that, "'tis insipid enough." βλNote 4 · "Bloodwoort," called also Bloody-dock, from its red veins and stems. Rumex sanguineus, L. Called also Walwort and Danewort in Lyte's DodoensNote 5 · "The rootes of Borage and Buglosse soden tender and made in a Succade, doth ingender good blode, and doth set a man in a temporaunce."—A. BoNote 6 · "Burnet, a term formerly applied to a brown cloth, Fr. brunette, It. brunetta, and given to the plant so called from its brown flowers."—Dr.Note 7 · "Burrage." Fr. bourache, M. Lat. borago. Apuleius says that its original name was "corrago, quia cordis affectibus medetur," a word that theNote 8 · "Clarie." M. Lat. sclarea, from clarus = clear, and prefix ex. Called by the apothecaries clear-eye, translated into Oculus Christi, Godes-eNote 9 · "Coleworts." Dioscorides (quoted in Cogan's Haven of Health, p. 49) says (lib. 2, cap. 113) that "if they be eaten last after meats, they prNote 10 · The numerous virtues of this herb are thus summed up in the King's Coll. MS. of the Promptorium: "Bis duo dat maratrum, febres fugat atque vNote 11 · "Andreas the Herborist writeth that the root of the Langdebeefe tyed or bounde to the diseased place, swageth the ache of the veynes (calledNote 12 · "Leek." A remnant of A.S. porleac, from Lat. porrum and leac = a plant, Ger. lauch.Note 13 · "Longwort," called in Lyte's Dodoens, p. 125, Sage of Jerusalem, "whiche herbe hath no particular vse in Physicke, but it is much vsed in MeNote 14 · "Liuerwort," so called from the liver shape of the thallus, and its supposed effects in disease of the liver. O. L. Ger. Steenleuerwnyt. AccNote 15 · "Marigolds are hote and drye, an herbe well knowen and as vsual in the kitchin as in the hal: the nature whereof is to open at the Sunne risNote 16 · "Mercurie." A name rather vaguely applied in old works, probably the "Good Henry, Chenopodium Bonus Henricus." Called also "Allgood," Dutch Note 17 · "Nep," common Cat-mint. "Dronken with honied water is good for them that haue fallen from a lofte, and haue some bruse or squat, and burstinNote 18 · "Orach," Atriplex hortensis, or sativa, formerly Arach, Prompt. Parv. Arage, in MS. Harl. 979 Arasches, Fr. arroche, from Low Lat. aurago frNote 19 · "Patience," called in Lyte's Dodoens, p. 559, "Wild Docke," and stated to be a remedy for jaundice, the "bitinges and stinginges of ScorpionNote 20 · If the virtues of Penny Royal, as stated in Lyte's Dodoens, p. 232, be true, the use of it might now be advantageously adopted by the consumNote 21 · "Primerose," from Pryme rolles, the name it bears in old books and MSS. The Grete Herball, ch. cccl. says: "It is called Pryme Rolles of pryNote 22 · "Rosemary," Lat. rosmarinus, sea-spray, from its usually growing on the sea-coast and its odour, is recommended by Lyte for fastening loose Note 23 · Omitted in 1577.Note 24 · Omitted in 1577.Note 25 · "Safron," Sp. azafran, from Arabic al zahafaran. On the cultivation, etc., of Saffron in England, there is a long account in Harrison's DescNote 26 · "Spinage." "Called in Arabic Hispanach; 'Arabicæ factionis principes Hispanach, hoc est, Hispanicum olus nominant.'—Fuchs, Hist. Stirp. p. 6Note 27 · Lyte, p. 642, says: "Cyues or Rushe onions: this kinde of Leekes is called in English Cyues, and of Turner in Latine, Cepa pallacana, and inNote 28 · "Tanzie," Fr. athanasie, contracted to tanacée and tanaisie. Lyte says, p. 18, that it was sold in the shops under the name of Athanasia, th