200 SHAKESPEARE’S [MARJORAM. 
Lupton (“A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. vi. § 85, and 
bk. iv. § 79) confuses Marigolds with sunflowers. | 
Tuus the Marigold opens at the splendour of a hot 
constant friendship ‘twixt you both. — 
Middleton, “No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s,” i. I. 
Marjoram. 
Winter’s Tae, iv. 4, 104. 
Sweet Marjoram is a remedy against cold diseases of the 
brain and head, being taken any way to your best liking ; 
put up into the nostrils it provoketh sneezing, and draweth 
forth much baggage phlegm ; it easetn the toothache being 
chewed in the mouth ; being drunk, it is used in medicines 
against poison. The leaves, dried and mingled with honey, 
and given, dissolveth congealed or clotted blood, and 
putteth away black and blue marks after stripes and bruises 
being applied thereto. Gerard's “Herbal,” 5.2. 
As a plaster or drink, it cures those grieved by a 
scorpion, if mixed with vinegar and salt. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. 1. § 409. 
Witp Marjoram or Organy is profitably used in a looch, 
or medicine to. be licked, against an old cough and the 
stuffing of the lungs. The herb strewed upon the ground 
driveth away serpents. Gerard’s “ Herbal,” 5.0. 
Marl. 
Mucw Avo asout Noruine, ii. 1, 6%. 
We have pits of fat and white and other-coloured Marl, 
wherewith in many places the inhabiters do compost their 
soil, and which doth benefit their land in ample manner 
for many years to come. 
Holinshed, “Description of England,” p. 236. 
We have a kind of white Marl, which is of so great 
force, that if it be cast over a piece of land but once in 
three score years, it shall not need of any further com- 
posting. [It] lieth sometime a hundred foot deep. 
Ibid., p. 1¢9. 
