LIME.] NATURAL HISTORY. 181 



corns of the feet to fall away within few days, with re- 

 moving the medicine until it have wrought his effect. 



Ibid. 



IT is called in English Lily of the Valley, or the Conval 

 Lily, and May - Lilies, and in some places Liticonfancy. 

 The flowers of the Valley Lily distilled with wine, and 

 drunk, the quantity of a spoonful, restoreth speech unto 

 those that have the dumb palsy, and that are fallen into 

 the Apoplexy. The water aforesaid doth strengthen the 

 memory that is weakened and diminished. The flowers of 

 May-Lilies put into a glass, and set in a hill of ants close 

 stopped for the space of a month and then taken out, 

 therein you shall find a liquor that appeaseth the pain and 

 grief of the gout, being outwardly applied, which is com- 

 mended to be most excellent. ibid., s.v. Lilly in the Galley. 



IF you gather this herb while the sun is in the Sign 

 of Leo, and mix it with the juice of laurel, then put it 

 under dung for some time, worms will be generated, and if 

 a powder be made of these, and be strewed about the neck 

 of anyone, or in his clothes, he will never sleep, nor be 

 able to sleep, until it has been removed. And if you shall 

 anoint anyone with these worms, he will straightway be- 

 come feverish. And if the said plant be placed in any 

 vessel in which there is cow's milk, and covered with the 

 skin of a cow of one colour, all the cows will lose their 

 milk. And this has been well tried in our time. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of Virtues of Herbs," 9. 



Lime. V. Bird-lime. 



TEMPEST, iv. I, 246. 



Lime. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, v. i, 132. 

 ii. KING HENRY IV, ii. 4, 136, etc. 



LIME is called hot, for while it is cold in handling, it 



containeth privily within fire and great heat; and when it 



is sprung [i.e., sprinkled] with water, anon the fire that is 



within breaketh out. In the kind thereof is some wonder; 



for after that it is burnt, it is kindled in water that 



