...but that she takes her simpling quite seriously — " that excellent art of simpling which" — she sometimes quotes at me from Gerarde — " hath been...number of out-of-the-way rooms and cupboards which 99 you don't know what to do with. In one of these rooms — prettily looking out across the sun-dial...

...excellent art of simpling which " — she sometimes quotes at me from Gerarde — " hath been a stuclie for the wisest, an exercise for the noblest, a pastime...number of out-of-the-way rooms and cupboards which 99 •i you don't know what to do with, in one of these rooms — prettily looking out across the sun-dial...

...of an herbe, the flavour of a flower, the colour of a leaf, the juice of a plant or the decoration of a roote . . . who would therefore, look dangerously up at Planets that might look safely down at plants." And the answer, who indeed? Before setting out to create a garden of herbs...

...the noblest, a pastime for the best .... a science nobly supported by wise and kingly favour! tes ; the subject thereof so necessarie and delectable that...is the number of out-of-the-way rooms and cupboards 1YJELF£ AND MY JERVANNTJ1 DIGGED VP PLANTED AND REPIANTED verie MANY and yet never could eiiher perceive...