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into to pull it up, which will give a great shriek at the 

 digging up ; otherwise if a man should do it, he should 

 surely die in short space after. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



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[Full directions are given by Lupton (" Notable Things," 

 )k. iii. 43) " to make the counterfeit Mandrake, which hath 



>en sold by deceivers for much money," from the "great 

 louble root of Briony " hair to be imitated by millet-seeds 

 ind the whole to be buried "until it have gotten upon it a 



;rtain little skin."] 



A MANDRAKE'S voice, whose tunes are cries 

 So piercing that the hearer dies. 



Dekker, "Double P. P." 



WITHOUT the death of some living thing it cannot be 

 Irawn out of the earth to man's use. Therefore they did 



