45.
Reading edition
Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physick, not rehersed before.
Annis.
Archangel.[E261]
Betanie.
Charuiel.
Cinqfile.
Cummin.[E262]
Dragons.
Gromel[E264] séed, for the stone.
Hartstong.
Horehound.
Louage[E265] for the stone.
Licoras.
Mandrake.[E266]
Mogwort[E267] [Mogworth, 1577].
Pionées.
Poppie.
Rew.[E268]
Rubarb.
Smalach, for swellings.
Saxefrage, for the stone.
Sauin, for the bots.[E269]
Stitchwort.[E270]
Valerian.
Woodbine.[E271]
[26] Thus ends in bréefe, Of herbes the chéefe, To get more skill, Read whom ye will, Such mo to haue, Of field go craue.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · "Archangel." This is Archangelica officinalis, the stalks of which "were formerly blanched and eaten as Celeri.... The gardeners near LondonNote 2 · According to Cogan "Cummin" was extensively used for washing the face, it having the effect, if not used too often, of making the complexionNote 3 · Betany, in 1577. Thus mistakes in synonyms arise.Note 4 · "Detanie." Dittany (Origanum onites, Linn.) was commonly cultivated in gardens at this period. Gerard, p. 795, says it is "a hot and sharpe Note 5 · Gromell, Grummel, or Gray myle, as Turner says it should be written, from granum solis and milium solis together. "That is al one," says theNote 6 · "Louage," spelt in Prompt. Parv. and in Holland's Trans. of Pliny, love-ache, as though it were love-parsley. French levesche, A.S. lufesticNote 7 · "Mandrake." Matthioli (lib. iv. c. 61) tells us that Italian ladies in his own time had been known to pay as much as 25 and 30 ducats for onNote 8 · Mogwort. "Mugwort, a name that corresponds in meaning with its synonym wyrmwyrt, wormwood, from O.E. mough, moghe, or moughte, a maggot or mNote 9 · "Rew." Shakspere, Hamlet, iv. 5. 181: "There's rue for you; and here's some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays." And Winter's TaleNote 10 · "Bots." "Pease an beanes are as danke here as a dog, and this is the next way to give poor jades the bottes."—Shakspere King Henry IV. Act iNote 11 · "Stitchwort," spelt Stich-wurt in Mayer and Wright, Nat. Antiquities, 1857, and given from a thirteenth century MS. as the translation of "VNote 12 · "Woodbine," not a bine that grows in woods, but a creeper that binds or entwines trees, the honeysuckle. A.S. wudu-winde and wudu-bind, from