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saddle, it will make him travel the better, although 

 he were half tired before. Of the Devil's-bit Scabious, 

 he tells us : " This root was longer until the devil (as 

 the friars say) bit away the rest of it from spite, 

 envying its usefulness to mankind ; for sure he was 

 not troubled with any disease for which it is proper." 



