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FLORA'S LEXICON. 



ONUS HENRTCUS, or GOOSEFOOT. 

 Chenopodium. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Or- 

 der: DIGYNIA. 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. Tn France it 

 flourishes without any cultivation, and forms the asparagus and 

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

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

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

 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 M#y 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. 



