46 FLORA'S LEXICON 



Ox\US HENRICUS, or GOOSEFOOT. 

 Chenopodium. Class 5, Pentandria. Or- 

 der: Dioynia. The French people have 

 given the name of their beloved king-, Henry 

 IV., to a beneficent and useful plant, which 

 grows for the poor, and indeed seems exclu- 

 sively to belong to them. In France it 



flourishes without any cultivation, and forms the asparagus and 



spinach of the poor ; in England it is known also as wild spinach. 



The leaves are said to be of great service when applied to wounds. 



Happy is that king who deserves an homage so universal and so 



simple ! 



GOODNESS. 



Whose nature is so far from doing harms, 

 That he suspects none. 



Shakspeare. 



God's benison go with you ; and with those 



That would make good of bad, and friends of foes ! 



Shakspeare. 



■ He was too good to be 



Where ill men were ; and was the best of all 

 Amongst the rar'st of good ones. 



Shakspeare. 



A most incomparable man ; breathed, as it were, 

 To an untirable and continuate goodness. 



Shakspeare. 



So far as May doth other months exceed, 

 So far in virtue and in goodlihead 

 Above all other nymphs Tanathe bears the meed. 



Thomson. 



Your very goodness and your company 

 O'erpays all I can do. 



Shakspeare. 



