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candle, she casteth her foal. Also in the forehead of the 
colt breedeth a black skin of the quantity of a sedge, and 
the mother licketh it with her tongue, and taketh it away, 
and receiveth never the colt to suck her teats, but it be 
first taken away. Also the Mare is proud, and hath joy 
of her mane, and is sorry when it is shorn, as though the 
virtue of love were in the mane. Also a bird that hight 
Ibis [the stork] fighteth with the horse, because the horse 
driveth her out of her pasture and leys; for the stork is 
feeble of sight, and hath a voice as an horse; and when 
he flieth above an horse, he stonieth [astonisheth] him, and 
maketh him flee, and slayeth him sometime. 
- Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 40. 
A Mare will bring forth a foal of divers colours if she 
be covered with a cloth of divers colours, whiles she is 
taking the horse. The same may be proved with dogs 
and other beasts. Lupton, “Notable Things,” bk. v. § 1. 
Marigold. 
The marigold that goes to bed wi? the sun 
And with him rises weeping. 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 105. 
[Marigold is one of the herbs to make broth and farcing 
(enumerated in the ‘‘ History of Jacob and Esau,” iv. 5).] 
I ruink of kings’ favours as of a Marigold flower 
That, as long as the sun shineth, openeth her leaves, 
And with the least cloud closeth again. 
‘*A Knack to Know a Knave.” 
Ir the mouth be washed with the juice, it helpeth the 
tooth-ache. The yellow leaves of the flowers are dried and 
kept throughout Dutchland against winter to put into 
broths, in physical potions, and for divers others purposes, 
in such quantity, that in some grocers’ or spice-sellers’ 
houses are to be found barrels filled with them, and re- 
tailed by the penny more or less, insomuch that no broths 
are well made without dry Marigolds. 
Gerard’s “Herbal,” sv. 
