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whereupon you must straw some sugars, upon which lay 

 your roots after that you have taken them out of the pan. 

 These papers you must put into a stove or hot house to 

 harden ; but if you have not such a place, lay them before 

 a good fire. In this manner if you condite your roots, 

 there is not any that can prescribe you a better way. And 

 thus you may condite any other root whatsoever, which will 

 not only be exceeding delicate, but very wholesome. They 

 report that the herb Sea-holly, if one goat take it into her 

 mouth, it causeth her first to stand still, and afterwards 

 the whole flock, until such time as the shepherd take it forth 

 of her mouth. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



[References to the rejuvenating power of Eringoes, especially 

 when candied (or condite), occur in very many old plays.] 



Estridge. 



i. KING HENRY IV,, iv. I, 98. 

 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 13, 197. 



[Estridge, as Douce suggests, is probably a goshawk or 

 Estridge-falcon ; but the word was also commonly used for 

 ostrich.] 



Ewe. V. Sheep. 



Falcon. 



[Gervase Markham, in his treatise on Husbandry, devotes 

 twenty-six chapters to the treatment of the diseases of Hawks. 

 In the last chapter he says : " It is a known experience among 

 the best falconers, that if the Gerfalcon shall lose but two or 

 three drops of blood, it is mortal, and the Hawk will die 

 suddenly after ; which to prevent, if the blood proceed from 

 any pounce, which is most ordinary, then upon the instant 

 hurt, you shall take a little hard merchant's wax, and drop it 

 upon the sore, and it will presently stop it."] 



THE Falcon is a royal fowl, and desireth prey, and useth 

 to sit on his hand that beareth him, and is a bold bird 

 and an hardy, as is the goshawk. And hath little flesh in 

 comparison to his body, and hath many feathers ; and there- 

 fore he is more light to fly. And is so great-hearted that if 



