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Ahaz asked astrological beautiful Borage charming clock confess corner course daffodil daisy dance dark dear dinner door dream earwig ELIZABETH SHIPPEN GREEN eyes fancy Father Christmas feet flowers folio Freya garden ghost give gold green grow Gulielmus Chalcroft hand happy heart heaven herbs home end human imagination in-door Joy of Gardens Joyce Julie knew lamp laughed lawn leaves less light listened live Lloyd look Lord mandrake marjoram married married couple meadow memento mori mistletoe morning musician mysterious natural never night nursery old house old-fashioned Christmas once Perdita perhaps plants pleasure poet poetry rose-tree roses Rüdesheimer seemed shining silence sleep smile soon sound stars strange sun-dial sure sweet taste tell thing thought tree-top trees Uncle Jake village violets violin walk warm wild window wonderful
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Page 17 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Page 19 - And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken...
Page 19 - Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Page 18 - O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit : so wilt Thou recover me, and make me to live.
Page 89 - This darling flower, this early child of spring, " that comes before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty,
Page 94 - Elizabeth. A Curious herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physick. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick.
Page 95 - Strictly speaking, as the reader must be aware, the mandrake will only grow under a gallows-tree, for it finds its most sustaining nutriment in the juices that drip and drip from the bodies of decayed murderers. Its fat, fleshlike root is said to be shaped like a man, but in this particular Perdita has been disappointed, as, indeed, Gerarde was before her. "I myselfe and my servannts also have digged up, planted and replanted verie many; and yet never could either perceive shape of man and woman...
Page 91 - I know that are tit to study physic, physic without astrology being like a lamp without oil) you are the men I exceedingly respect, and such documents as my brain can give vou at present (being absent from study) I shall give you." Among the valuable hints which the learned Culpepper then proceeds to give, the following as to the proper time for gathering simples is not the least valuable: "Let the planet that governs the herb be angular, and the stronger the better; if they can, in herbs of Saturn,...
Page 99 - hath been a studie for the wisest, an exercise for the noblest, a pastime for the best, ... a science nobly supported by wise and kingly favourites ; the subject thereof so necessarie and delectable, that nothing can be confected either delicate for the taste, daintie for smell, pleasant for sight, wholesome for bodie, conservative or restorative for health, but it borroweth the relish of an herbe, the flavour of a flower, the colour of a leafe, the juice of a plant, or the decoction of a roote:...
Page 106 - Hemp-seed I sow, hemp-seed I sow, And he that must be my true love, Come after me and mow. And at the ninth time expect to see the figure of him you are to wed, or else hear a bell as before.