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Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce.
Alexanders, at all times.
Artichoks.
Blessed thistle,[E221] or Carduus benedictus.
Cucumbers in April and May.
Cresies, sowe with Lettice in the spring.
Endiue.
Mustard séede, sowe in the spring and at Mihelmas.
Musk million, in April and May.
Mints.
Purslane.[E222]
Radish, and after remoue them.
Rampions.[E223]
Rokat,[E224] in April.
Sage.[E225]
Sorell.
Spinage, for the sommer.
Sea holie.[E226]
Sperage, let growe two yeares, and then remoue.
Skirrets, set these plants in March.
Suckerie.
Tarragon, set in slippes in March.[1]
Violets [of all coulors].[2]
These buie with the penie, Or looke not for anie.
Capers.
Lemmans.
Oliues.
Orengis.
Rise.
Sampire.[E227]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · "Blessed Thistle." "So worthily named for the singular vertues that it hath.... It sharpneth the wit and memorie, strengthneth all the princNote 2 · "Purslane," in Turner's Herball Purcellaine, in the Grete Herball Porcelayne, in Dodoens Purcelayne. "It is good against St. Antonies fier, Note 3 · "Rampions," Fr. raiponce, "a word mistaken as in the case of cerise and pease, for a plural, and the m inserted for euphony."—Dr. Prior, PopNote 4 · "Men say that who so taketh the seede of Rockat before he be beaten or whipt, shalbe so hardened that he shall easily endure the payne, accoNote 5 · "Sage causeth wemen to be fertill, wherefore in times past the people of Egypt, after a great mortalite and pestilence, constreyned their weNote 6 · "Sea holie." Eryngium maritimum, Linn. "The leaves are good to be eaten in sallads."—Langham's Garden of Health. "The young and tender shootNote 7 · Tarragon, April, 1577.Note 8 · Omitted in 1577.Note 9 · "Sampere is a weede growing neare the sea-side, and is very plentifull about the Ile of Man, from whence it is brought to diuers parts of En