MITE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 203 



springeth the sooner. And if any hair cometh therein, 

 there falleth a great sickness ; and the ache ceaseth not ere 

 the hair cometh out with the Milk, or rotteth. And a 

 black woman hath much better Milk and more nourishing 

 than a white woman. A drop of good Milk put on the 

 nail abideth continually, and droppeth not away. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xix. 63. 



Cow's Milk is the better and more wholesome, if the 

 most deal of wateriness be consumed and wasted by stones 

 of the rivers that be heated fiery hot and then quenched 

 therein. ibid., 65. 



[Stow, in his " Survey of London," gives the price of milk 

 in his youth (circa 1535) as three ale-pints for a halfpenny in 

 the summer, nor less than one ale-quart for a halfpenny in the 

 winter, always hot from the kine, and he fetched it from the 

 Minories farm just outside Aldgate.] 



Mint. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 104. 



MINT is an herb with good smell, and thereof is double 

 kind, wild and tame. It taketh away abomination of 

 wambling, and abateth the yexing [i.e., hiccough], 



Bartholomew (Bertkelei), bk. xvii. 106. 



IT is taken inwardly against scolopenders, bear-worms, 

 sea-scorpions and serpents. It is applied with salt to the 

 bitings of mad dogs. It will not suffer milk to curdle in 

 the stomach, therefore it is put in milk that is drunk for 

 fear that those who have drunk thereof should be strangled. 



Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. 



Misletoe. 



TITUS ANDRONICUS, ii. 3, 95. 



MISTLETOE with red lily opens all locks. If the afore- 

 said be hung on a tree with the wing of a swallow, thither 

 will congregate all the birds within quite five miles, and 

 this last has been tried in my time. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of Virtues of Herbs," 10. 



Mite. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. I, 154. 



V. Worm. 



