156 SHAKESPEARE'’S [HERRING. 
Rue—Rhubarb—Smallage, for swellings—Saxifrage, for the 
stone—Savin, for the bots—Stitchwort—Valerian—W ood- 
bine. 
Thus ends in brief Read whom ye will 
Of Herbs the chief. Such mo to have 
To get more skill Of field go crave. 
Tusser's “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,” 
March’s abstract. 
I wave brought here good Herbs, and of them plenty, 
To make good broth and farcing, and that full dainty. 
. . . Here is Thyme and Parsley, Spinach and Rosemary, 
Endive, Succory, Lacture, Violet, Clary, 
Liverwort, Marigold, Sorrell, Hart’s Tongue, and Sage, 
Pennyroyal, Purslane, Bugloss and Borage, __, 
With many very good Herbs, mo than I do name. 
“The History of Jacob and Esau,” iv. 5. 
Be not merry among those that put Bugloss in their 
wine and sugar in thine. 
Lilly, “Sappho and Phaon,” ii. 1. 
SucH unexpected kindness 
Is like Herb John in broth— 
*T may e’en as well be laid aside as used. 
«A Warning for Fair Women,” Act 1. line 331. 
Herring. 
Twerry NicHT, iii, 1, 40. 
Tue Herring’s eyes shine by night in the sea like a light, 
but their virtue dies with the fish. Wherever they see a 
light in the sea above the water, thither they swim in shoals. 
The Herring is said to live on water only, as the salamander 
on fire. The Herring helps against the bite of a dog, 
and of a sea-dragon. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. § 3. 
Fresu Herring plenty, Michell [i.e., Michaelmas] brings 
With fatted crones, and such old things. 
Tusser, “Farmer’s Daily Diet.” 
