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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Note E202 — 39.

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"Clarie." M. Lat. sclarea, from clarus = clear, and prefix ex. Called by the apothecaries clear-eye, translated into Oculus Christi, Godes-eie, and See-bright, and eye-salves made of it. Salvia Sclarea, Linn. "Called in French Ornale or Fonte-bonne; it maketh men dronke and causeth headache, and therefore some Brewers do boyle it with their Bier in steede of Hoppes."—Lyte's Dodoens, ed. 1578, p. 253.

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