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Whereupon you must straw some sugars, upon which lay 
your roots after that you have taken them out of the. pan. 
These papers you must put into a stove or hot house to 
harden; but if you have not such a place, lay them before 
a good fire. In this manner if you condite your roots, 
there is not any that can prescribe you a better way. And 
thus you may condite any other root whatsoever, which will 
not only be exceeding delicate, but very wholesome. They 
report that the herb Sea-holly, if one goat take it into her 
mouth, it causeth her first to stand still, and afterwards 
the whole flock, until such time as the shepherd take it forth 
of her mouth. Gerard’s “Herbal,” 5.7. 
[References to the rejuvenating power of Eringoes, especially 
when candied (or condite), occur in very many old plays.] 
Estridge. 
i, Kine Henry IV.,, iv. 1, 98. 
Antony ano CLeoparRa, iil, 13, 197. 
[Estridge, as Douce suggests, is probably a goshawk or 
Estridge-falcon; but the word was also commonly used for 
ostrich. ] : 
Ewe. VY. Sheep. 
Falcon. 
[Gervase Markham, in his treatise on Husbandry, devotes 
twenty-six chapters to the treatment of the diseases of Hawks. 
In the last chapter he says: “It is a known experience among 
the best falconers, that if the Gerfalcon shall lose but two or 
three drops of blood, it is mortal, and the Hawk will die 
suddenly after; which to prevent, if the blood proceed from 
any pounce, which is most ordinary, then upon the instant 
hurt, you shall take a little hard merchant’s wax, and drop it 
upon the sore, and it will presently stop it.”] 
Tue Falcon is:a royal fowl, and desireth prey, and useth 
to sit on his hand that beareth him, and is a bold bird 
and an hardy, as is the goshawk. And hath little flesh in 
comparison to his body, and hath many feathers; and there- 
fore he is more light to fly. And is so great-hearted that if 
