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springeth the sooner. And if any hair cometh therein, 
there falleth a great sickness; and the ache ceaseth not ere 
the hair cometh out with the Milk, or rotteth. And a 
black woman hath much better Milk and more nourishing 
than a white woman. A drop of good Milk put on the 
nail abideth continually, and droppeth not away. 
Bartholumew (Berthelet), bk. xix: § 63. 
Cow’s Milk is the better and more wholesome, if the 
most deal of wateriness be consumed and wasted by stones 
of the rivers that be heated fiery hot and then quenched 
therein. Ibid., § 65. 
[Stow, in his “Survey of London,” gives the price of milk 
in his youth (c¢yca 1535) as three ale-pints for a halfpenny in 
the summer, nor less than one ale-quart for a halfpenny in the 
winter, always hot from the kine, and he fetched it from the 
Minories farm just outside Aldgate. ] 
Mint. 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 104. 
Mint is an herb with good smell, and thereof is double 
kind, wild and tame. It taketh away abomination of 
wambling, and abateth the yexing [7.e., hiccough]. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 106. 
Ir is taken inwardly against scolopenders, bear-worms, 
sea-scorpions and serpents. It is applied with salt to the 
bitings of mad dogs. It will not suffer milk to curdle in 
the stomach, therefore it is put in milk that is drunk for 
fear that those who have drunk thereof should be strangled. 
Gerard’s *‘ Herbal,” s.v. 
Misletoe. 
Tirus Anpronicus, ii. 3, 95. 
Mistietoz with red lily opens all locks. If the afore- 
said be hung on a tree with the wing of a swallow, thither 
will congregate all the birds within quite five miles, and 
this last has been tried in my time. 
Albertus Magnus, “ Of Virtues of Herbs,” § tro. 
Mite. 
Auu’s We._t tTHaT Enps WELL, i. 1, 154. 
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