Note 14 — ACT I. SCENE I.
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May-butter] “If during the moneth of May before you salt your butter you saue a lumpe thereof, and put it into a vessell, and so set it into the Sun the space of that moneth, you shall finde it exceeding soueraigne and medicinable for wounds, straines, aches, and such like grievances.” G. Markham’s English Housewife, p. 199, ed. 1637.