Which curious women use in many a nice disease ; For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out a herb that is called Adder's-tongue ; As Nature it ordain'd its own like hurt to cure, And sportive did herself to niceties inure. A History of British Ferns - Página 332por Edward Newman - 1854 - 343 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 páginas
...[these, The wonder-working dill he gets not far from Which curious women use in many a nice disease. For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, • He aeeketh out an herb that's called adder's-tongue; As nature it ordain'd, its own like hurt to cure,... | |
| George Johnston, George Tate - 1853 - 444 páginas
...Buskin burn, on Coldingham moor, in a field once cultivated, but now running to moor, J. Hardy. June. " For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out an herb that 's called AdderVtongue, As Nature it ordain'd, its own like hurt to cure,... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1855 - 430 páginas
...Which he about his head that hath the megrim binds; Which curious women use in many a nice disease ; For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out a herb that is called Adder's-tongue; And sportive did herself to niceties inure. As Nature... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1855 - 612 páginas
...The wonder-working Dill he gets not far from these, Which curious women use in many a nice disease ; For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out a herb that is called Adder's-tongue ; As Nature it ordain'd its own like hurt to cure,... | |
| Edwin Lees - 1856 - 358 páginas
...tongue of a serpent, whence its name ; and Drayton thus indicates the vulgar idea respecting it : " For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out a herb that's called adder's-tongue, As nature it ordaiu'd its own like hurt to cure."... | |
| Zachary James Edwards - 1862 - 148 páginas
...this is a small Sub-order. We have but one species to each genus. 1. Adder's-tongues. Ophioglossa. " For them, that are with newts, or snakes, or adders...an herb that's called Adder's-tongue, As nature it ordained its own like hurt to cure, And sportive did herself to niceties inure." Plate I, fig. 1. Adder's-tongue.... | |
| 1871 - 720 páginas
...whose beauty is such, that very many artists have thought the same to be mixed with verdigrease. " For them that are with newts or snakes or adders stung,...an herb that's called adder's-tongue, As nature it ordain'd its own like hurt to cure, And sportive did herself to niceties inure." Osmunda regalis, Linn.... | |
| Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 páginas
...The wonder-working Dill he gets not far from these, Which curious women use in many a nice disease ; For them that are with Newts, or Snakes, or Adders stung He seeketh out a herb, that is called Adder's-tongue ; As Nature it ordain'd its own like hurt to cure,... | |
| 1886 - 646 páginas
...Should anyone be bitten by snakes, tradition assures a complete antidote in the adder's-tongue fern : For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out a herb that is called adder's tongue ; As Nature it ordained its own like hurt to cure,... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 212 páginas
...Polyolbion, describes one of the herbalists, and tells us how he went to work with his simples : — For them that are with newts, or snakes, or adders stung, He seeketh out a herb, that is called adder's tongue. As Nature it ordain'd its own like hurt to cure,... | |
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