RAM.] NATURAL HISTORY. 255 



THE Radish is hostile to vines ; for though they be 

 sown round them, they [the vines] turn away from them, 

 because of repugnance of nature. It helps against the bitings 

 of vipers. With honey it restores hair in baldness. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 384. 



WE will have a bunch of Radish, and salt, to taste our 



wine. 



Ben Jonsorfs " Every Man in his Humour," i. 5, ad Jin. 

 So Randolph, " The Jealous Lovers," iii. 5. 



Raisin. 



Raisins o' th' sun. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 26. 



RAISIN is made in many manner wise. For sometime 

 the stalk thereof is woven and wound, and so the 

 grape in certain days is for-dried by heat of the sun. And 

 this is best to eat. And sometime the grapes be wounden 

 in vine-leaves, and be bound with thread, for the grapes 

 should not seed, and be put in an oven so bound and 

 wrapped, and be dried when the heat is temperate. In 

 such manner sometime Raisins be made in chimneys. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 183. 



[The first mode of preparation will produce " raisins of the 

 sun."] 



ALMONDS and Raisins. 



Anthony Munday, "English Roman Life," ch. iii. (1590). 



MALAGA Raisins to make him long-winded. 



Webster's " Devil's Law Case," iv. I. 



Ram. 



As You LIKE IT, iii. 2, 87. 



THE Ram is a beast that beareth wool, pleasing in heart, 

 and mild by kind, and is duke, prince and leader of sheep. 

 Therefore kind giveth him great strength passing other 

 sheep. The Ram hath a worm in his head, and for fretting 

 of that worm and itching, the Ram is excited and busheth 

 full strongly, and smiteth full hard all that he meeteth. 

 He is more cruel in heart than the ewes, and his cruelness 

 abateth if his horns be pierced nigh to the ear. If his 

 right gendering stone be bound, he gendereth females, and 



