HERBS USED IN THE PRESENT TIME 39 



practice of mixing sage and other herbs with cheese 

 was common among the Romans." 



Savory (Satureid). 



Some Camomile doth not amiss, 

 With Savoury and some tansy. 



Muses Elysium. 



Here's flowers for you, 

 Hot Lavender, Mints, Savory, Marjoram. 



Winter^s XaUy iv. 4. 



Sound savorie, and bazil, hartie-hale, 

 Fat Coiwortes and comforting Perseline, 

 Cold Lettuce and refreshing Rosmarine. 



M.uiopoimos, 



Savory, satureia, was once supposed to belong to the 

 satyrs. "Mercury claims the dominion over this herb. 

 Keep it dry by you all the year, if you love yourself 

 and your ease, and it is a hundred pounds to a penny 

 if you do not." Culpepper follows this advice with a 

 long list of ailments, for all of which this herb is an 

 excellent remedy. Summer savory (S. hortemis) and 

 winter savory (S. Montana) are the only kinds con- 

 sidered in England as a rule, though Gerarde further 

 mentions " a stranger," which, " because it groweth 

 plentifully upon the rough cliffs of the Tyrrhenian Sea 

 in Italie, called Saint Julian rocke," is named after the 

 saint, Satureia Sancti Juliani. In Other countries summer 

 savory used to be strewn upon the dishes as we strew 

 parsley, and served with peas or beans ; rice, wheat 

 and sometimes the dried herb was " boyled among 

 pease to make pottage." Winter savory used to be 

 dried and powdered and mixed with grated bread, 

 " to breade their meate, be it fish or flesh, to give it a 

 quicker rellish." Here Parkinson breaks off to deliver 

 a severe reproof to " this delicate age of ours, which is 

 not pleased with anything almost that is not pleasant 



