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unto to pull it up, which will give a great shriek at the 
digging up; otherwise if a man should do it, he should 
surely die in short space after. Gerara’s “ Herbal,” 5.0. 
[Full directions are given by Lupton (‘Notable Things,” 
bk. iii. § 43) “to make the counterfeit Mandrake, which hath 
been sold by deceivers for much money,” from the ‘“ great 
double root of Briony ”—hair to be imitated by millet-seeds— 
and the whole to be buried “until it have gotten upon it a 
certain little skin.”] 
A Mawnprake’s voice, whose tunes are cries 
So piercing that the hearer dies. 
Dekker, “Double P. P.” 
Wiruovut the death of some living thing it cannot be 
drawn out of the earth to man’s use. Therefore they did 
