156 SHAKESPEARE'S [HERRING. 



Rue Rhubarb Smallage, for swellings Saxifrage, for the 

 stone Savin, for the bots Stitchwort Valerian Wood- 

 bine. 



Thus ends in brief 

 Of Herbs the chief. 

 To get more skill 



Read whom ye will 

 Such mo to have 

 Of field go crave. 



luster's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," 

 March's abstract. 



I HAVE brought here good Herbs, and of them plenty, 



To make good broth and farcing, and that full dainty. 



. . . Here is Thyme and Parsley, Spinach and Rosemary, 



Endive, Succory, Lacture, Violet, Clary, 



Liverwort, Marigold, Sorrell, Hart's Tongue, and Sage, 



Pennyroyal, Purslane, Bugloss and Borage, 



With many very good Herbs, mo than I do name. 



"The History of Jacob and Esau," iv. 5. 



BE not merry among those that put Bugloss in their 

 wine and sugar in thine. 



Lilly, "Sappho and Phaon," ii. I. 



SUCH unexpected kindness 

 Is like Herb John in broth 

 'T may e'en as well be laid aside as used. 



"A Warning for Fair Women," Act i., line 331. 



Herring. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. i, 40. 



THE Herring's eyes shine by night in the sea like a light, 

 but their virtue dies with the fish. Wherever they see a 

 light in the sea above the water, thither they swim in shoals. 

 The Herring is said to live on water only, as the salamander 

 on fire. The Herring helps against the bite of a dog, 

 and of a sea-dragon. Hortus Sa nhatis< bk. iv. 3. 



FRESH Herring plenty, Michell [/'.., Michaelmas] brings 

 With fatted crones, and such old things. 



Tusser, "Farmer's Daily Diet." 



