148 The Tragical Kitchen Gar diner I 



There were many other kinds of plants 

 that were antiently admitted into the 

 potagery and boiler, before fpinage, and 

 other greens brought from Spain^ and 

 unknown to this and fome other parts 

 of the world, were in ufe 5 to wit, the 

 young tender leaves of the lapathim acu- 

 turn majus & fninimumy as they are fi- 

 gur'd and defcrib'd by Gerard, p. 388. 

 and by Tarkinfony p. 1224. (as the com- 

 mon mercury, from its leaves and me- 

 thod of feeding fomewhat ally*d to fpi- 

 nage) is now eaten by country people, 

 as alfo hop-tops, nettles, &c. The 

 lyjimachia Jiliquofa glabra minor, the 

 fmall, fmooth, codded willow herb, 

 when frefh and tender, may be ufed a- 

 mongft the boil'd or raw fallets j the 

 paler white poppcy is eaten by the Ge- 

 noefe , by the Spaniard the tops of worm- 

 wood, with oil alone, and without fo 

 much as bread 5 as alfo coriander and 

 rue, which Galen, that prince of herba- 

 rifts, was accuftom'd to eat raw and by 

 it felf, without oil and fait 5 not to men- 

 tion the very thiftles, plants and herbs 

 that grew heretofore in the hedges. But 

 of this enough. 



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