FURZE. | NATURAL HISTORY. 123 
THaT a woman may confess what she has done :—Catch 
a live Water-frog, and take out its tongue, and put the 
Frog back into the water, and put the tongue over the 
region of the woman’s heart while she is asleep, and when 
she is questioned, she will tell the truth. 
Albertus Magnus, ‘Of the Wonders of the World.” 
Frocs abound where snakes do keep their residence. 
Holinshed, “Description of England,” p. 228. 
Fumitory. 
Rank fumitory 
Kine Henry V., v. 2, 45. 
Fumitory [ fumus terre] springeth and groweth out of 
the earth in great quantity, as smoke doth, or fumosity that 
cometh of the earth. And the more green the herb is, the 
better it is; and is of no virtue when it is dry. And is 
an herb with horrible savour and heavy smell, and is nathe- 
‘less most of virtue. For it cleanseth and purgeth melan- 
cholia, phlegm and cholera. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 69. 
Doves are delighted with it. 
Minsheu’s Dictionary, 5.7. 
Furze. 
TEMPEST, iv. I, 180, 
Is full bitter to man’s taste, and is a shrub that groweth 
in a place that is forsaken, stony and untilled. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 80. 
Cammock [or rest-harrow or Ground-furze] hath this 
singular virtue, that it gendereth fire of itself, for when 
the leaves thereof fall and be dry, those leaves by a little 
blast of hot wind and drought are set on fire. 
[bid., bk. xvii. § 138. 
