Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-

Date:: 1896

Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$whose duty it is to put it into the oven wants to put it in he wiil not be able to do so, but it will fly out. Albertiis Magnus, Of the Wonders of the World. Rose. Among all flowers of the world, the flower of the Rose is chief, and beareth the price. And therefore oft the chief part of man, the head, is crowned with flowers of Roses. Of green Roses aqua rosacea [rose-water] is made by seething of fire, or of the sun, and this water is good in ointment for ladies, for it cleanseth away webs and foul specks of the face, and maketh the skin thin and subtle. Powder of dry Roses comforteth wagging teeth that be in point to fall. Bartkolomew {Berthlet), bk. xvii. § 136. DoDONEus writeth of ten kind of Roses, among the which the Eglantine Rose, and Musk'- Rose, yellow and white. There is one Rose growing in England is worth all these Rosa sine spina [by which he seems to mean Oueen Elizabeth, and he breaks ofi^ into a discourse to the other flowers on self-indulgence, pillage of the clergy, op- pression of the poor, etc.]. Batman's addition to Bartholoinew, loc. cit. [Gerard ( Herbal, s.v^.) describes the following sorts of Roses : the White, the Red, the Provence or Damask, the Rose with- out prickles, the Holland or Provence, the Single and Double Musk-Rose, the Great Musk-Rose, the Velvet, the Yellow, the Double Yellow, the Double and Single Cinnamon. Of wild Roses: the Eglantine or Svveetbriar, the Double Eglantine, the Briar or Hip-tree, and the Pimpernell or Burnet. He saith further that the distilled water of Roses being put into junketting dishes, cakes, sauces and many other pleasant things giveth a fine and delectable taste. The making of the crude or raw conserve is very well known, as also sugar roset, and divers other pretty things made of sugar and Roses, which are imperti- nent unto our history, because I intend neither to make thereof an apothecary's shop, nor a sugar-baker's storehouse, leaving the rest for our cunning confectioners. Rose-water was used to wash in (Taming of the Shrew, Induction, i, 57), and to mix with wine. A cheater meeting$