[91] "Now schalle I seye you semyingly of Countries and Yles that bea beyonde the Countries that I have spoken of. Wherefore I seye you in pessynge be [by] the Lord of Cathaye toward the high Ynde and towards Bacharye, men passen be a Kyngdom that men clepen Caldhille, that is a fair contree. And there growethe a maner of Fruyt, as though it weren Gowrdes, and when thei ben rype men kutten hem ato, and men fynden with inne a lytylle Best, in Flesche, in Bon and Blode, as though it were a lytylle Lamb withouten wolle. And men eten both the Frut and the Best, and that is a great Marveylle. Of that Frute I have eaten, alle thoghe it were wonderfulle but that I knowe wel that God is marveyllous in his Werkes." [92] See Herodotus (lib. iii. cap. 106); Ctesias (_Indica_); Strabo (lib. xv. cap. 21); Theophrastus _De Historia Plantarum_ (lib. iv. cap. 4); Pliny, _Naturalis Historia_. [93] "Master Tuggie," who lived in Westminster, was a famous grower of gilliflowers. See p. 116. [94] White lavender was a favourite with Queen Henrietta Maria. [95] This he tells us at the end of the preface to the _Paradisus_. "Thus have I shewed you both the occasion and scope of this Worke, and herein have spent my time, paines, and charge, which if well accepted, I shall thinke well employed, and may the sooner hasten the fourth Part, A Garden of Simples; which will be quiet no longer at home, then that it can bring his Master newes of faire weather for the iourney." [96] _Theatrum Botanicum_, p. 601. [97] _Ibid._, p. 43. [98] _Ibid._, p. 1405. [99] _Theatrum Botanicum_, p. 144. [100] _Ibid._, p. 281. [101] _Ibid._, p. 265. [102] _Ibid._, p. 384. [103] _Ibid._, p. 181. [104] _Ibid._, p. 422. Of this "Indian Spanish Counter poyson" Parkinson gives us the further interesting information that "the Indians doe not eate the bodies of those they have slaine by their poysoned arrowes untill they have lyen three or foure dayes with their wounds washed with the juice of this herbe; which rendereth them tender and fit to be eaten which before were hard." [105] _Theatrum Botanicum_, p. 767. [106] _Ibid._, p. 1397. [107] _Ibid._, p. 1259. [108] _Ibid._, p. 410. [109] _Ibid._, p. 518. [110] _Ibid._, p. 1330. [111] _Ibid._, p. 128. [112] _Ibid._, p. 74. [113] _Ibid._, p. 54. [114] _Ibid._, p. 1016. [115] _Ibid._, p. 63. [116] _Ibid._, p. 95. [117] _Theatrum Botanicum_, pp. 135, 191, 210, 233, 275, 408, 492, 613, 652, 693, 700, 790, 1075. [118] _Ibid._, p. 559. [119] _Ibid._, p. 700. [120] _Ibid._, p. 1075. [121] _Ibid._, p. 210. [122] _Ibid._, pp. 888 and 913. [123] _Ibid._, p. 144. CHAPTER VII THE LATER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HERBALS "Come into the fields then, and as you come along the streets, cast your eyes upon the weeds as you call them that grow by the walls and under the hedge-sides."--W. COLES, _The Art of Simpling_, 1656.