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it faileth never, but abideth and dureth and lasteth always 
in the first estate and condition; and hath a right good 
savour, and most sweetest smelling. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 24. 
Cypress groweth in divers places of England where it 
hath been planted, as at Sion, a place near London, some- 
time a house of Nuns. Gerard’s “ Herbal,” 5.2. 
Tue leaves of Cyprus do make the hair red. 
Gerard’s “ Herbal,” s.v. “ Privet,” 
[Cyprus (“Winter’s Tale,” iv. 3, 221), ze, lawn or crape, was 
so called from the island, whence it first was brought to Eng- 
land.] 
Dace. 
If the young dace be a bait for the old pike. 
ii. Kinc Henry IV.,, iii. 2, 356. 
[Minsheu (Dictionary, s.v.) gives apua for the Latin of ‘Dace, 
and Cooper (“ Thesaurus,” s.v.) explains apwa—or, as he writes it, 
aphya—as a “fish having [its] beginning of abundance of rain.’”’| 
Daffodils. 
Daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty, 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 118. 
[Gerard describes fourteen kinds of Daffodils, to which John- 
son adds eighteen more.] 
A carapLtasm made of the root of Daffodil, honey and 
oatmeal draws forth spills, shivers, arrow-heads, and thorns, 
and whatsoever stick within the body. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. xxi. ch. xix. 
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Daisy. 
y Daisies pied. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, v. 2, 904. 
Darsy or Ox-eye: The young roots are frequently eaten 
by the Spaniards and Italians all the spring till June. 
Evelyn's “ Acetaria,” § 22. 
