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The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Note 44:1 — BURDOCK AND BURS.

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A Clote-leef he had under his hood For swoot, and to keep his heed from hete."

Chaucer, Prologue of the Chanounes Yeman (25).

This Clote leaf is by many considered to be the Burdock leaf, but it was more probably the name of the Water-lily.

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