PLANTAIN ] 



Pismire. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



i. KING HENRY IV., i. 3, 240. 



V. Ant. 



247 



Plantain. 



No salve, sir, but a plantain. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iii. I, 75. 



Your plantain-leaf is excellent ... for your broken shin. 



ROMEO AND JULIET, i, 2, 5 2 - 



WEYBREAD hight Plantago [Plantain]. It healeth sore 

 wounds and biting of wood hounds, and is contrary to 

 venom, and namely [especially] to the venom of an attercop 



[spider]. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 129. 



V. Spider and Toad. 



IT is certainly and constantly affirmed that on Midsummer 

 Eve, that is the day before the Nativity of Saint John 

 Baptist, there is found under the root mugwort a coal, 

 which preserves or keeps them safe from the plague, car- 

 buncle, lightning, the quartan ague, and from burning, that 



