The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespear by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (top romance novels .TXT) ๐
[4:1] Perhaps the most noteworthy plant omitted is Tobacco--Shakespeare must have been well acquainted with it, not only as every one in his day knew of it, but as a friend and companion of Ben Jonson, he must often have been in the company of smokers. Ben Jonson has frequent allusions to it, and almost all the sixteenth-century writers have something to say about it; but Shakespeare never names the herb, or alludes to it in any way whatever.
[4:2] It seems probable that the Lily of the Valley was not recognized as a British plant in Shakespeare's time, and was very little grown even in gardens. Turner says, "Ephemer[=u] is called in duch meyblumle, in french Muguet. It groweth plentuously in Germany, but not in England that ever I coulde see, savinge in my Lordes gardine at Syon. The Poticaries in Germany do name it Lilium C[=o]vallium, it may be called in englishe May Lilies."--Names of Herbes, 1548. Coghan in 1596 says much the same: "I say nothing of them
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Ellipses in the text match the original. Ellipses in the poetry quotations are represented by a row of asterisks.
On page 432, the index entry "Butter" may have been intended to read "Butler".The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page 37: 1st Henry[original has Henrv] IV, act ii, sc. 4 (263).
Page 40: Winter's Tale, act[original has extraneous period] iv, sc. 4 (436).
Page 43: Troilus[original has Triolus] and Cressida
Page 60: garter coat of William Grey of Vitten"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 76: "Rose of Sharon"[quotation mark missing in original] was the large
Page 86: to whom the Elder tree was considered sacred."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 104: but[original has bnt] probably by the Romans
Page 105: 2nd Henry IV, act i,[original has period] sc. 2 (194).
Page 114: Troilus[original has Trolius] and Cressida, act ii, sc. 1 (109).
Page 163: Rots-curing hyphear, and the Mistletoe."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 199: a.d. 1275, 4 Edw: 1โ[original has extraneous quotation mark]
Page 205: quite equal to Chestnuts.[period missing in original]
Page 230: but in [original has extraneous word an] another place
Page 244: (22) Theseus.[original has Thesus]
Page 245: All's Well that Ends Well, act i[original has 1], sc. 3 (135).
Page 266: in connection with Rushes which is[original has it] not easy to understand
Page 282: ("Household Words," vol. xviii.).[closing parenthesis and period missing in original]
Page 282: as it proves so, praise it.[original has extraneous single quote]"
Page 286: (11) Polonius.[original has Polonis]
Page 292: its shadow be past away.[original has hyphen]
Page 292: the bee well knows that the darkness[original has period at the end of the line after dark and ness beginning the next line]
Page 294: (3)[number 3 and parentheses missing in original] And sweet Time true.
Page 295: "Peletyr, herbe, serpillum piretrum"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 311: into 'low
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