PLANTAIN. | NATURAL HISTORY. 24.7 
Pismire. 
i. Kinc Henry IV., i. 3, 240. 
VY. Ant. 
Plantain. 
No salve, sir, but a plantain. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, iil. 1, 75. 
Your plantain-leaf is excellent ... for your broken shin. 
Romeo anv JuLigT, 1, 2, 52. 
WeysreaD hight Plantago [Plantain]. It healeth sore 
wounds and biting of wood hounds, and is contrary to 
venom, and namely [especially] to the venom of an attercop 
[spider ]. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 129. 
TY, Spider and Toad. 
Ir is certainly and constantly affirmed that on Midsummer 
Eve, that is the day before the Nativity of Saint John 
Baptist, there is found under the root mugwort a coal, 
which preserves or keeps them safe from the plague, car- 
buncle, lightning, the quartan ague, and from burning, that 
