270 Notes and Illustrations. 
wyl bryng yt owght.”—Lambeth MS. 306, f. 65, quoted in Political, 
Relig. and Love Poems (E. E. Text Soc. ed. Furnivall), p. 36. 
40. 3. ‘“‘ Blessed Thistle.” ‘So worthily named for the singular 
wertues ‘that it hath. .. . ..- It sharpneth the wit and memorie, 
strengthneth all the principall parts of the bodie, quickneth all 
the senses, comforteth the stomacke, procureth appetite, and hath 
a speciall vertue against poyson, and preserueth from the Pestilence, 
and is excellent good against any kinde of Feuer, being vsed in 
this manner: Take a dramme of the powder, put it into a good 
draught of ale or wine, warme it and drink it a quarter of an hour 
before the fit doth come, then goe to bed, couer you well with 
clothes and procure sweate, which by the force of the herbe will 
easily come foorth, and so continue vntill the fit be past. . . . For 
which notable effects this herbe may worthily be called Benedictus 
or Omnimorbia, that is a salue for euery sore, not knowen to Physi- 
tians of old time, but lately reuealed by the speciali providence of 
Almighty God.”—Cogan’s Haven of Health, p. 545. 
40. 10. ‘“ Purslane,” in Turner’s Herball Purcellaine, in the Grete 
Herball Porcelayne, in Dodoens Purcelayne. ‘It is good against 
St. Antonies fier, called eryszpelas.” — Lyte’s Dodoens, p. 576. 
“Purslain in Latin is called Portulaca, a portula=a little gate, 
because they fancied it to be like one.”—Lemery’s Treatise on 
Foods, 1704, p. 92. 
40. 12. ‘‘ Rampions,” Fr. razponce, ‘a word mistaken as in the 
case of cerise and fease, for a plural, and the m inserted for euphony.” 
—Dr. Prior, Popular Names of British Plants. 
40. 13. ‘‘ Men say that who so taketh the seede of Rockat before 
he be beaten or whipt, shalbe so hardened that he shall easily 
endure the payne, according as Plinie writeth.”—Lyte’s Dodoens, 
p- 622. Whata pity Tusser did not know of this property of the 
Rocket! from his own account he had plenty of opportunities of 
testing it at Eton. 
40. 14. “Sage causeth wemen to be fertill, wherefore in times 
past the people of Egypt, after a great mortalite and pestilence, 
constreyned their wemen to drinke the iuyce therof, to cause them 
the sooner to conceyue, and to bring foorth store of children,”— 
Lyte’s Dodoens, p. 252. 
40. 6*. ‘‘Sampere is a weede growing neare the sea-side, and 
is very plentifull about the Ile of Man, from whence it is brought 
to diuers parts of England, preserved in Brine, and is no lesse 
wholesome than Capers.”—Cogan’s Haven of Health, p. 64. 
The Eng. Samphire is a corruption of the Fr. Herbe de Sazn/ 
Pierre, from its growing on the rocks on the sea-shore. The leaves 
are used in the form of a pickle as an article of diet. 
41. 2. ‘The /onzans had so much Veneration for them that they 
swore by Cadbdages, and were therein as superstitious as the Lg yprians, 
who gave divine Honours to Zeeks and Onzons, for the great Benefits 
