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candle, she casteth her foal. Also in the forehead of the 

 colt breedeth a black skin of the quantity of a sedge, and 

 the mother licketh it with her tongue, and taketh it away, 

 and receiveth never the colt to suck her teats, but it be 

 first taken away. Also the Mare is proud, and hath joy 

 of her mane, and is sorry when it is shorn, as though the 

 virtue of love were in the mane. Also a bird that hight 

 Ibis [the stork] fighteth with the horse, because the horse 

 driveth her out of her pasture and leys ; for the stork is 

 feeble of sight, and hath a voice as an horse ; and when 

 he flieth above an horse, he stonieth [astonisheth] him, and 

 maketh him flee, and slayeth him sometime. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. 40. 



A MARE will bring forth a foal of divers colours if she 

 be covered with a cloth of divers colours, whiles she is 

 taking the horse. The same may be proved with dogs 

 and other beasts. Lupton, "Notable Things," bk. v. i. 



Marigold. 



The marigold that goes to bed wi' the sun 

 And with him rises weeping. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 105. 



[Marigold is one of the herbs to make broth and farcing 

 'enumerated in the " History of Jacob and Esau," iv. 5).] 



I THINK of kings* favours as of a Marigold flower 

 That, as long as the sun shineth, openeth her leaves, 

 And with the least cloud- closeth again. 



" A Knack to Know a Knave." 



IF the mouth be washed with the juice, it helpeth the 

 tooth-ache. The yellow leaves of the flowers are dried and 

 kept throughout Dutchland against winter to put into 

 broths, in physical potions, and for divers others purposes, 

 in such quantity, that in some grocers' or spice-sellers' 

 houses are to be found barrels filled with them, and re- 

 tailed by the penny more or less, insomuch that no broths 

 are well made without dry Marigolds. 



Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



