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One remarkable feature of the work is the number of verses 

 vvhich are employed as a mcmoria technica for remembering the dis- 

 tinctions and virtues of plants. Some of these occur in thc Glossary 

 (see ippia, yris, origanum, senacio, tormentilla) ; an interesting onc 

 from the body of the work is (fol. 240 verso) : 



' Si sis leprosus, si stultus, si furiosus, 

 Dicit borago, gaudia semper ago.' 



Another (fol. 243 verso), almost identical with a verse in the ' Regimen 

 Sanitatis Salernitanum/ is 



' Post pisces nuces, post carnes caseus aptus:' 



and a very curious set of lines (fol. 253) to be used as a charm for 

 stopping fire is 



' Sancte Columquille remove mala dampna faville, 

 Atque Columquillus salvet ab igne domus/ 



There are also some English words in the work itself which do 

 not find a place in the Glossary, and which may be of interest. 

 Such are 



Fol. 98. De tussi puerorum quEe dicitur chincac. 

 100. De dolore pectoris qui anglice dicitur/rt///^. 

 158. De passione crurium quae vulgo dicitur bonsJiaive. 

 159. De apostemate et cissuris in calcaneo quae vulgahter 



dicuntur miile. 

 297. Pulvis pro instrumento illo bellico sive diabohco quod 

 vulgaliter dicitur gunne. 



The Calendar of Walter de Elvesden S of Gonville Hall in 

 Cambridge, seems to have been a famous one in its day ; at any 

 rate, there is in the Bodleian a MS. (Laud, 662) which accepts it 



* With regard to Walter de Elvesden or Elveden I am indebted to the Librarian of Caius 

 College, Cambridge (Mr. R. L. Bensly), for the information that Walter de Elveden (near 

 Rushford, Norfolk) was Vicar-General to Bateman (?), Bishop of Norwich, and was an early 

 benefactor to Gonville Hall and the donor of several MSS. Mr. Bensly has kindly supplied 

 the following references : Blomefield's Norfolk (1805), i. 421, 452; ii. 535; iii. 632, 647: 

 Parker, Hisl. and Antiq. (1721), 65, 72: Documents relating to the Univ. and Coll. of 

 Cambridge, i. 17, 18. From these it appears that he was Professor of Civil Law, Archdeacon 

 of Sudbury in 1351, Rector of Snetterton in 1352, and of Shropham in 1358. 



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