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39. 37. ‘“‘Spinage.” “Called in Arabic Hrspanach: ‘ Arabice factio- 
nis principes Avspanach, hoc est, Hispanicum olus nominant.’— 
Fuchs, Hist. Stirp. p. 668. Dodoens (bk. v. 1. 5) tells us, ‘ Spz- 
nachiam nostra etas appellat, nonnulli spzzacheum olus. Ab Arabibus 
et Serapione AH7zspanac dicitur.’ Brunfelsius (ed. 1531) says ex- 
pressly at p. 16, ‘ Quz vulgo spznachia hodie, Atriplex A/ispanzenszs 
dicta est quondam; eo quod ab Hispania primum allata est ad 
alias exteras nationes.’ Tragus also calls it Olus Hispanicum ; 
Cotgrave, Herbe d’ Espaigne; and the modern Greeks o7ravayuov.” 
—Dr. R. A. Prior. 
39. 39. Lyte, p. 642, says: ‘‘ Cyues or Rushe onions: this kinde 
of Leekes is called in English Cyues, and of Turner in Latine, 
Cepa pallacana, and in Greke Gethyun, which he Englisheth by al 
these names, a Cyue, a Civet, a Chyue, or Szweth.” 
39. 40. “‘Tanzie,” Fr. a‘hanasze, contracted to ¢anacée and fanazsze. 
Lyte says, p. 18, that it was sold in the shops under the name of 
Athanasia, the Greek word for immortality, and that it was so called, 
“quod non cito flos inarexat.” A cake used to be made in which 
tansy was one of the ingredients, and which was called Tansay- 
Cake. ‘The following recipe for it is given in MS. Sloane 1986, 
f. 100: 
‘‘ Breke egges in bassyn, and swynge hem sone, 
Do powder of peper therto anone, 
Then grynde /ansay, tho juse owte wrynge, 
To blynde with tho egges, withowte lesynge. 
In pan or skelet thou shalt hit frye, 
In buttur well skymm et wyturly, 
Or white grece thou may take therto, 
Geder hit on acake, thenne hase thou do, 
With platere of tre, and frye hit browne, 
On brodeleches serve hit thou schalle, 
With fraunche-mele! or other metis withalle.” 
In Halliwell’s Dict. is also given a recipe for a dish called Zansze. 
Cogan, in his Haven of Health, p. 65, says: ‘It is much vsed 
‘among vs in England about Easter, with fried egs, not without 
good cause, to purge away the fleame engendred of fish in Lent 
season, whereof wormes are soone bred in them that be thereto 
disposed, though the common people vnderstand not the cause, 
why Zanszes are more vsed after Lent, than at any other time of the 
yeare.” ‘*To prevent being Bug-bitten. Put a sprig or two of 
Tansy at the bed head, or as near the pillow as the smell may be 
agreeable.” —T. Cosnett’s Footman’s Directory, p. 292. ‘‘ For to 
dystroy a Wrang Nayle, othewyse callyd a Corne. Take wylde 
tansey, and grynde yt, and make yt neshe, and ley it therto, and it 
1 A dish composed chiefly of eggs and sheeps’ fat. 
