= = a aa 
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saddle, it will make him travel the better, although 
he were half tired before. Of the Devil’s-bit Scabious, 
he tells us: “ This root was longer until the devil (as 
the friars say) bit away the rest of it from spite, 
envying its usefulness to mankind; for sure he was 
not troubled with any disease for which it is proper.” 
