GEORGE HERBERT 89 



of London, whom I could particularlie name, if I should not 

 seeme to offend them by such my demeanour and dealing. 

 The Description of England, 1577 (in Hollinshed's Chronicles}. 



Y^OU may be on land, yet not in a garden. GEORGE 



A noble plant suits not with a stubborn ground. 

 The charges of building and making of gardens are unknown. 

 Although it rain, throw not away thy watering-pot. 

 Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener. 

 A garden must be looked unto and dressed, as the body. 



Jaculc. Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs. 1640. 



In the knowledge of simples, wherein the manifold wisdom 

 of God is wonderfully to be seen, one thing would be carefully 

 observed which is, to know what herbs may be used instead 

 of drugs of the same nature, and to make the garden the shop ; 

 for home-bred medicines are both more easy for the parson's 

 purse, and more familiar for all men's bodies. So, where the 

 apothecary useth either for loosing, rhubarb, or for binding, 

 bolearmena, the parson useth damask or white roses for the 

 one, and plantain, shepherd's-purse, knot-grass for the other, 

 and that with better success. As for spices, he doth not only 

 prefer home-bred things before them, but condemns them for 

 vanities, and so shuts them out of his family, esteeming that 

 there is no spice comparable for herbs to rosemary, thyme, 

 savory, mints ; and for seeds to fennel and carraway-seeds- 

 Accordingly, for salves, his wife seeks not the city, but prefers 

 her garden and fields, before all outlandish gums. And surely 

 hyssop, valerian, mercury, adder's tongue, yarrow, melilot, and 

 St John's wort made into a salve, and elder, camomile, mallows, 

 comphrey, and smallage made into a poultice, have done great 

 and rare cures. A Priest to the Temple ; or the Country Parson, 

 his Character and Rule of Holy Life. 1652. 



