ONION. | NATURAL HISTORY. 219 
out that Oil there in the water, all that is in the bottom, 
and hid by the ground, is the more clear and the more 
clearly seen of him. Kind of Oil maketh good savour in 
meat, and nourisheth light, and easeth, refresheth and com- 
forteth weary bodies and limbs. Many diverse Oils be 
pressed out of many diverse things: as Oil of Olive, Oil 
of Nuts, Oil of Poppy, Oil of Almonds, of Raphans 
[7.e., Radishes |, Oil of Linseed, Oil of Hemp, and of other 
such. And Oil slayeth bees, and footless beasts with long 
and pliant bodies, if it be shed upon them, and vinegar 
turneth them again to life, if it be shed upon them. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 112. 
Olive. 
As You Like It, iti. 5, 74. 
Tue tree thereof is most sad and fast, and pure and 
clean without rotting. And the Olive will not be hard 
beaten with stones and poles to gather the fruit thereof, as 
some men do that be unready and unwise, for it beareth 
the worse if it be so beaten. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 111, 
Tue eagle is never stricken with thunder, nor the Olive 
with lightning. Lilly, “Sappho and Phaon,” iii. 3. 
Score a gallon of sack, and a pint of Olives to the 
Unicorn. Beaumont and Fletcher, “The Captain,” iv. 2, 1. 
Onion. 
Auv’s Weti THat Enps WELL, v. 3, 321. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, iv. 2, 43. 
Ir bringeth out venom, and quencheth biting of a wood 
hound, and helpeth in other venoms by. bitings, and clari- 
fieth the skin, and openeth pores. To eat too much of 
them breedeth madness and woodness, and maketh dreadful 
dreams, and namely if men that be new recovered of sick- 
ness eat thereof. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii, § 42. 
THE juice anointed upon a pilled or bald head in the 
sun, bringeth again the hair very speedily. The Onion 
being eaten, yea, though it be boiled, causeth head-ache, 
