Note 611 — ACT II. SCENE I.

oil of ben] “‘Been or behen, in pharmacy, denotes a medicinal root, celebrated, especially among the Arabs, for its aromatic, cardiac, and alexiterial virtues.’ Chambers’s Dictionary. The same writer says, there are two kinds of been, white and red, and that they are both brought from the Levant, and have the same virtues, being substituted for each other.” Reed.