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The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Note 268:1 — SAFFRON.

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Fuller says of the crocodile—"He hath his name of χροχό-δειλος, or the Saffron-fearer, knowing himself to be all poison, and it all antidote."—Worthies of England, i, 336, ed. 1811.

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