DAISY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 81 



it faileth never, but abideth and dureth and lasteth always 

 in the first estate and condition ; and hath a right good 

 savour, and most sweetest smelling. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xvii. 24. 



CYPRESS groweth in divers places of England where it 

 hath been planted, as at Sion, a place near London, some- 

 time a house of Nuns. Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. 



THE leaves of Cyprus do make the hair red. 



Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. " Privet." 



[Cyprus ("Winter's Tale," iv. 3, 221), i.e., lawn or crape, was 

 so called from the island, whence it first was brought to Eng- 

 land.] 



Dace. 



If the young dace be a bait for the old pike. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., iii. 2, 356. 



\Minsheu (Dictionary, j.#.) gives apua for the Latin of Dace, 

 and Cooper ("Thesaurus" s.v.) explains apua or, as he writes it, 

 aphya as a " fish having [its] beginning of abundance of rain."] 



Daffodils. 



Daffodils, 



That come before the swallow dares, and take 

 The winds of March with beauty. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 118. 



[Gerard describes fourteen kinds of Daffodils, to which John- 

 son adds eighteen more.] 



A CATAPLASM made of the root of Daffodil, honey and 

 oatmeal draws forth spills, shivers, arrow-heads, and thorns, 

 and whatsoever stick within the body. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxi. ch. xix. 



Daisy. 



Daisies pied. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2, 904. 





DAISY or Ox-eye: The young roots are frequently eaten 

 by the Spaniards and Italians all the spring till June. 



Evelyn's "Acetaria," 22. 



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