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out that Oil there in the water, all that is in the bottom, 

 and hid by the ground, is the more clear and the more 

 clearly seen of him. Kind of Oil maketh good savour in 

 meat, and nourisheth light, and easeth, refresheth and com- 

 forteth weary bodies and limbs. Many diverse Oils be 

 pressed out of many diverse things : as Oil of Olive, Oil 

 of Nuts, Oil of Poppy, Oil of Almonds, of Raphans 

 [/'.., Radishes], Oil of Linseed, Oil of Hemp, and of other 

 such. And Oil slayeth bees, and footless beasts with long 

 and pliant bodies, if it be shed upon them, and vinegar 

 turneth them again to life, if it be shed upon them. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 112. 



Olive. 



As You LIKE IT, iii. 5, 74. 



THE tree thereof is most sad and fast, and pure and 

 clean without rotting. And the Olive will not be hard 

 beaten with stones and poles to gather the fruit thereof, as 

 some men do that be unready and unwise, for it beareth 

 the worse if it be so beaten. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xvii. in. 



THE eagle is never stricken with thunder, nor the Olive 

 with lightning. Lilly, "Sappho and Phaon," iii. 3. 



SCORE a gallon of sack, and a pint of Olives to the 



Unicorn. Beaumont and Fletcher, "The Captain," iv. 2, I. 



Onion. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, v. 3, 321. 

 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iv. 2, 43. 



IT bringeth out venom, and quencheth biting of a wood 

 hound, and helpeth in other venoms by bitings, and clari- 

 fieth the skin, and openeth pores. To eat too much of 

 them breedeth madness and woodness, and maketh dreadful 

 dreams, and namely if men that be new recovered of sick- 

 ness eat thereof. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 42. 



THE juice anointed upon a pilled or bald head in the 

 sun, bringeth again the hair very speedily. The Onion 

 being eaten, yea, though it be boiled, causeth head-ache, 



