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pretty early in the summer, in order that the ground may acquire 
sufficient hardness to resist the seeds of thistles and other weeds, 
even at the risk of requiring another stirring.—M. 
55. 7. This can only refer to garden beans, but the practice is 
now obsolete. 
55. 8. See note to 51. 16. 
55. 10. ‘‘ Wormwood, a word corrupted from A.S. wermod, Ger. 
wermuih, O.S. weremede, words which seem to be compounded with 
Ger. wehren, A.S. werran=to keep off, and mod or made=maggot, 
but which, by an accidental coincidence of sound, have been 
understood as though the first syllable were worm. L. Diefenbach 
would prefer to derive it from a Celtic root that means “bitter,” 
Welsh chwerw, Cornish wherow. Be its origin what it may, it 
was understood in the Middle Ages as meaning a herb obnoxious 
to maggots, and used to preserve things from them, and was also 
given as an anthelmintic or worm medicme: Artemisia Absinthium, 
her, R.A. Prior, Pop. Names of Brit. Plants. ‘‘ Two sorts of 
Wormewood are well knowen of many, that is, our common Worme- 
wood, and that which is called Ponticum, now sowen in many 
gardens, and commonly called French-wormewood. And while it is 
yong, it is eaten in Salats with other herbes, to the great com- 
moditie of the stomacke and Liuer. For it strengthneth a weake 
stomacke, and openeth the Liuer and Splene. For which purpose 
there is to be had in the Stilliard at London a kind of wine named 
Worme-wood wine, which I would wish to be much used of all 
such Students as be weake of stomacke. They may easily haue a 
rundlet of three or foure gallons or lesse, which they may draw 
within their owne chambers as need requireth. I was woont when 
appetite failed to steepe a branch or two of common Wormewood 
in halfe a pint of good white wine, close couered in some pot all 
night, and in the morning to straine it through a clean linnen 
cloth, and put in a little sugar and warme it, and so drinke it. Or 
sometime to burne a little quantitie of wine with sugar, and a 
branch or two of Wormewood put into it. Wherein I have found 
many times marvellous commoditie, and who so shall vse it now 
and then, shal be sure of a good stomacke to meat, and be free 
from wormes.”—Cogan’s Haven of Health, p. 55. ‘‘ Wormwood, 
centaury, pennyroyal, are likewise magnified and much prescribed, 
especially in hypochondrian melancholy, daily to be used, sod in 
ee om Anat. of Melancholy, D432. 
595. ‘As many doo more,” z.e. as many others do. Cf. 63. 18. 
56. A ices is a proverb : **One scabb’d sheep’s enough to 
spoil a dee eC 
56. 11. In Lincolnshire corn affected by the smut is called Parson 
corn, Ae reason assigned being that when tithes were paid in kind, 
the sheaves that had the most smuts in them were always given to 
the parson, if he could be seduced into taking them.—See Peacocws 
Gloss. of Manley, etc., E. Dial. Soc. 1877. 
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