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giuen vnto hawkes against sundrie diseases ;" and Turber- 

 vile, in his "Booke of Falconrie" (161 1), treats of a cure for 

 " a blow giuen to the eye, or of some other mischance," as 

 follows : — " Sometimes the eyes of hawkes are hurt by 

 some mishappe, some stripe, or otherwise, as I said afore. 

 Against such unlooked-for mischances, Master Malopin, in 

 his boke of the Prince, willeth to take the juice of Celon- 

 dine, otherwise Arondell, or Swallowes hearbe, and to 

 convey it into the eye. And if it bee not to be had 

 greene, to take it drie, and to beat it into powder, and 

 to blow it into her eye with a quill, and this shall recure 

 the hawke." 



A marginal note to this paragraph informs us that 

 " Arondell " in French is " Hirundo," a swallow, otherwise 

 called " Chelidon." 



Parkinson, in his " Theatrum Botanicum" (1640), alludes 

 ,to two species of Celandine, C. major and minor, and 

 sa y S : — " Some call them Chelidonia major and minor, and 

 tooke the name, as Dioscorides saith, because it springeth 

 when swallowes come in ; and withered at their going away 

 (which is true in neither, the greater, whereof Dioscorides 

 chiefely speaketh, being greene both winter and sommer ; 

 and the lesser springeth before swallowes come in, and is 

 gone and withered long before their departure). Dioscorides 

 likewise, and Pliny also, say it tooke that name from 

 swallowes that cured their young ones' eyes, that were hurt, 



* " Arondell," no doubt the old French, or a corruption of " Hirondelle,' 



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