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
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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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    covetously and fret the grapes of the Vineyard, and namely when the keepers and wardens be negligent and reckless ; and it profiteth not that some unwise men doth, that close within the Vineyard hounds, that be adversaries to foxes, for few hounds so closed waste and destroy more grapes than many foxes should destroy, that come and eat thievishly. Therefore wise wardens of Vineyards be full busy to keep that no swine nor tame hounds nor foxes come into the Vineyard. Bartholomczu (Bertheiet), bk. xvii. ,^ 180. [Holinshed (Description of Britain, p. in) notes that there were enclosed parcels [i.e., of land] almost in every abbey yet called the vineyards, that Smithfield in the reign of King Stephen was a profitable vineyard, and that the Isle of Ely was in the first times of the Normans called L'Isle des Vignes.] Violet. Violet is a little herb in substance, and the flower thereof smelleth most, and so the smell thereof abateth the heat of the brain, and refresheth and comforteth the spirits of feeling, and maketh sleep. And the more virtuous the flower thereof is, the more it bendeth the head thereof^ downward. Bartholomew {Bcrtl:clet\ bk. xvii. § 191. Very many by these Violets receive ornament and] comely grace ; for there be made of them garlands for the] head, nosegays and posies ; yea gardens themselves receive by these the greatest ornament of all, chiefest beauty and most gallant grace ; for they admonish and stir up a man to that which is comely and honest. The seed is good] against the stinging of scorpions. Gerard's Herbal, i.e., where lie describes the purplel garden Violet, the white, the double purple (orj white), the yellow (wild or mouiitain), and the dogj Violet. 1 THINK of kings' favours as of a marigold flower, or] like the Violets in America, that in summer yield anj odoriferous smell, and in winter a most infectious savour. A Knack to Know a Knave.