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The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Note 275:1 — SAVORY.

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"His typet was ay farsud ful of knyfes And pynnes, for to give fair wyves."

Canterbury Tale, Prologue.

"The farced title running before the King."

Henry V, act iv, sc. 1 (431).

The word still exists as "forced;" e.g., "a forced leg of mutton," "forced meat balls."

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