WALNUT. | NATURAL HISTORY. 335 
the Vulture is a much stinking fowl, and unclean. And 
the Vulture is contrary to serpents ;—for if his feathers be 
burnt, the smell thereof driveth away serpents. And the 
heart thereof maketh a man sicher [secure] and safe that 
beareth it among serpents and wild beasts. The heart 
bound in a lion’s skin, or in a wolf’s skin, driveth away 
fiends. His right foot bound to the left foot healeth that 
acheth ; the left foot also healeth the right foot. His 
tongue plucked out with iron, and hanged about a man’s 
neck in new cloth, maketh a man gracious to get of a 
man what he desireth. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 35. 
Wall-newt. 
Kine Lear, iii, 4, 135. 
V. Lizard. 
Walnut. 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, iv. 2, 170. 
In great French nuts generally the shape of the cross is 
printed within, as they know well that take heed thereto. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 108. 
Dry Nuts taken fasting with a fig and a little rue 
withstand poison, prevent and preserve the body from the 
infection of the plague. The green and tender nuts boiled 
in sugar, and eaten as sucket, are a most pleasant and 
delectable meat, and expel poison. The oil of Walnuts 
made in such manner as oil of almonds maketh smooth 
the hands and face, and taketh away scales or scurf, black 
and blue marks that come of stripes or bruises. With 
onions, salt and honey, they are good against the biting of 
a mad dog or man, if they be laid upon the wound. 
Gerard’s “ Herbal,” sa. 
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[A recipe for confection of Walnuts is given in the second 
part of “The Good Huswife’s Jewel,” p. 40.] 
Apverse and contrary Walnuts are to the nature of 
onions, and do keep down and repress their strong smell 
which riseth from them, after a man hath eaten them. 
The shell of a Walnut is good to burn or sear an hollow 
