LIME. | NATURAL HISTORY, 181 
corns of the feet to fall away within few days, with re- 
moving the medicine until it have wrought his effect. 
Ibid. 
Ir is called in English Lily of the Valley, or the Conval 
Lily, and May- Lilies, and in some places Liticonfancy. 
The flowers of the Valley Lily distilled with wine, and 
drunk, the quantity of a spoonful, restoreth speech unto 
those that have the dumb palsy, and that are fallen into 
the Apoplexy. The water aforesaid doth strengthen the 
memory that is weakened and diminished. The flowers of 
May-Lilies put into a glass, and set in a hill of ants close 
stopped for the space of a month and then taken out, 
therein you shall find a liquor that appeaseth the pain and 
grief of the gout, being outwardly applied, which is com- 
mended to be most excellent. Ibid., s.v. Lilly in the Valley. 
Ir you gather this herb while the sun is in the Sign 
of Leo, and mix it with the juice of laurel, then put it 
under dung for some time, worms will be generated, and if 
a powder be made of these, and be strewed about the neck 
of anyone, or in his clothes, he will never sleep, nor be 
able to sleep, until it has been removed. And if you shall 
anoint anyone with these worms, he will straightway be- 
come feverish. And if the said plant be placed in any 
vessel in which there is cow’s milk, and covered with the 
skin of a cow of one colour, all the cows will lose their 
milk. And this has been well tried in our time. 
Albertus Magnus, “Of Virtues of Herbs,” § 9. )s52 
Lime. V. Bird-lime. 
Termpsst, iv. I, 246. 
Lime. 
Mipsummer Nicur’s Dream, v. I, 132+ 
ii. Kinc Henry IV., ii. 4, 136, etc. 
Lime is called hot, for while it is cold in handling, it 
containeth privily within fire and great heat; and when it. 
is sprung [i.e., sprinkled] with water, anon the fire that is 
within .breaketh out. In the kind thereof is some wonder ; 
—for after that it is burnt, it is kindled in water that 
