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Tue Radish is hostile to vines; for though they be 
sown round them, they [the vines] turn away from them, 
because of repugnance of nature. It helps against the bitings 
of vipers. With honey it restores hair in baldness. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 384. 
We will have a bunch of Radish, and salt, to taste our 
wine. 
Ben Fonson’s “Every Man in his Humour,” i. 5, ad fin. 
So Randolph, “The Jealous Lovers,” iii. 5. 
Raisin. 
Raisins o’ th’ sun, : 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 3, 26. 
Ratsin is made in many manner wise. For sometime 
the stalk thereof is woven and wound, and so _ the 
grape in certain days is for-dried by heat of the sun. And 
this is best to eat. And sometime the grapes be wounden 
in vine-leaves, and be bound with thread, for the grapes 
should not seed, and be put in an oven so bound and 
wrapped, and be dried when the heat is temperate. In 
such manner sometime Raisins be made in chimneys. 
Bartlolomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 183. 
[The first mode of preparation will produce “raisins of the 
sun.” 
Axmonps and Raisins. 
Anthony Munday, “ English Roman Life,” ch. iii. (1590). 
Mataca Raisins to make him long-winded. 
Webster's “ Devil’s Law Case,” iv. 1. 
Ram. ; 
As You Like It, iii 2, 87. 
Tue Ram is a beast that beareth wool, pleasing in heart, 
and mild by kind, and is duke, prince and leader of sheep. 
Therefore kind giveth him great strength passing other 
sheep. The Ram hath a worm in his head, and for fretting 
of that worm and itching, the Ram is excited and busheth 
full strongly, and smiteth full hard all that he meeteth. 
He is more cruel in heart than the ewes, and his cruelness 
abateth if his horns be pierced nigh to the ear. If his 
right gendering stone be bound, he gendereth females, and 
