200 SHAKESPEARE'S [MARJORAM. 



Lupton ("A Thousand Notable Things," bk. vi. 85, and 

 bk. iv. 79) confuses Marigolds with sunflowers.] 



THUS the Mangold opens at the splendour of a hot 

 constant friendship 'twixt you both. 



Middleton, "No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's," i. i. 



Marjoram. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 104. 



SWEET Marjoram is a remedy against cold diseases of the 

 brain and head, being taken any way to your best liking ; 

 put up into the nostrils it provoketh sneezing, and draweth 

 forth much baggage phlegm ; it easeth the toothache being 

 chewed in the mouth ; being drunk, it is used in medicines 

 against poison. The leaves, dried and mingled with honey, 

 and given, dissolveth congealed or clotted blood, and 

 putteth away black and blue marks after stripes and bruises 

 being applied thereto. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



As a plaster or drink, it cures those grieved by a 

 scorpion, if mixed with vinegar and salt. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 409. 



WILD Marjoram or Organy is profitably used in a looch, 

 or medicine to be licked, against an old cough and the 

 stuffing of the lungs. The herb strewed upon the ground 

 driveth away serpents. Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. 



Marl. 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. i, 66. 



WE have pits of fat and white and other- coloured Marl, 

 wherewith in many places the inhabiters do compost their 

 soil, and which doth benefit their land in ample manner 

 for many years to come. 



Holinshed, "Description of England," p. 236. 



WE have a kind of white Marl, which is of so great 

 force, that if it be cast over a piece of land but once in 

 three score years, it shall not need of any further com- 

 posting. [It] lieth sometime a hundred foot deep. 



Ibid., p. 109. 



