The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

The makyng of a bathe medicinable. [See note at end. Mr Gillett, of the Vicarage, Runham, Filby, Norwich, sends me these notes on the herbs for this Bathe Medicin|able:—]

"Holy hokke / & yardehok ["YARDEHOK = Mallow, some species. They are all more or less mucilaginous and emollient. If Yarde = Virga; then it is Marshmallow, or Malva Sylvestris; if yarde = erde, earth; then the rotundifolia.—] ['The common Mallowe, or the tawle wilde Mallow, and the common Hockes' of Lyte's Dodoens, 1578, p. 581, Malua sylvestris, as distinguished from the Malua sativa, or "Rosa vltramarina, that is to say, the Beyondesea Rose, in Frenche, Maulue de iardin or cultiuée . . in English, Holyhockes, and great tame Mallow, or great Mallowes of the Garden." The "Dwarffe Mallowe . . is called Malua syluestris pumila."] / peritory [PARITORY is Pellitory of the wall, parietaria. Wall pellitory abounds in nitrate of potass. There are two other pellitories: 'P. of Spain'—this is Pyrethrum, which the Spanish corrupted into pelitre, and we corrupted pelitre into pellitory. The other, bastard-pellitory, is Achillea Ptarmica.—] [Peritory, parietaria, vrseolaris, vel astericum. Withals.] / and þe brown fenelle, [BROWN FENNELLE = probably Peucedanum officinale, or Hoss fennel, a dangerous plant; certainly not Anethum Graveolens, which is always dill, dyle, dile, &c.—] [? The sweet Fennel, Anethum Graveolens, formerly much used in medicine (Thomson). The gigantic fennel is (Ferula) Assafœtida.] [folio 186a]

walle wort [Sambucus ebulus, Danewort. See Mr Gillett's note for Book of Quintessence in Hampole's Treatises. Fr. hieble, Wallwort, dwarfe Elderne, Danewort. Cotgr.] / herbe Iohn [Erbe Iōn', or Seynt Ionys worte. Perforata, fuga demonum, ypericon. P. Parv.] / Sentory [Centaury.] / rybbe|wort [Ribwort, arnoglossa. Ribwoort or ribgrasse, plantago. Withals. Plantain petit. Ribwort, Ribwort Plantaine, Dogs-rib, Lambes|tongue. Cotgrave. Plantago lanceolata, AS. ribbe.] [RYBBEWORT, Plantago lanceolata, mucilaginous.—] / & camamelle, Line 992 hey hove [HEYHOVE = Glechoma hederacea, bitter and aromatic, abounding in a principle like camphor.—] / heyriff [HEYRIFF = harif = Galium Aparine, and allied species. They were formerly considered good for scorbutic diseases, when applied externally. Lately, in France, they have been admin|istered internally against epilepsy.—] [Haylife, an herbe. Palsgr. Galium aparine, hegerifan corn, grains of hedgerife (hayreve, or hayreff), are among the herbs pre|scribed in Lecchdoms, v. 2, p. 345, for "a salve against the elfin race & nocturnal [goblin] visitors, & for the woman with whom the devil hath carnal commerce."] / herbe benet [Herba Benedicta. Avens.] / brese|wort [BRESEWORT; if = brisewort or bruisewort, it would be Sambucus Ebulus, but this seems most un|likely.—BROKELEMPK = brooklime. Veronica Beccabunga, formerly considered as an anti-scorbutic applied externally. It is very inert. If a person fed on it, it might do some good, i.e. about a quarter of the good that the same quantity of water-cress would do. —BILGRES, probably = henbane, hyoscysmus niger. Compare Dutch [Du. Bilsen, Hexham, and German Bilse]. Bil = byle = boil, modern. It was formerly applied externally, with marsh-mallow and other mucilaginous and emollient plants, to ulcers, boils, &c. It might do great good if the tumours were unbroken, but is awfully dangerous. So is Peucedanum officinale. My Latin names are those of Smith: English Flora. Babington has re-named them, and Bentham again altered them. I like my mumpsimus better than their sumpsimus."] [Herbe a foulon. Fullers hearbe, Sopewort, Mocke-gillouers, Bruisewort. Cotgrave. "AS. 1. brysewyrt, pimpernel, anagallis·Anagallis, brisewort." Gl. Rawlinson, c. 506, Gl. Harl. 3388. Leechdoms, vol. 1, p. 374. 2. Bellis perennis, MS. Laud. 553, fol. 9. Plainly for Hembriswyrt, daisy, AS. dæges eage. "Consolida minor. Daysie is an herbe þat sum men callet hembrisworte oþer bonewort." Gl. Douce, 290. Cockayne. Leechdoms, v. 2, Glossary.] / & smallache, [Persil de marais. Smallage; or, wild water Parseley. Cot.]

broke lempk [Brokelyme fabaria. Withals. Veronica Becabunga, Water|Speedwell. 'Hleomoce, Hleomoc, brooklime (where lime is the Saxon name (Hleomoc) in decay), Veronica beccabunga, with V. anagallis. . "It waxeth in brooks" . . Both sorts Lemmike, Dansk. They were the greater and the less "brokelemke," Gl. Bodley, 536. "Fabaria domestica lemeke." Gl. Rawl. c. 607 . . . Islandic Lemiki. Cockayne. Gloss. to Leechdoms, v. 2. It is prescribed, with the two cent|auries, for suppressed menses, and with pulegium, to bring a dead child away, &c. Ib. p. 331.] / Scabiose [Scabiosa, the Herb Scabious, so call'd from its Virtue in curing the Itch; it is also good for Impostumes, Coughs, Pleurisy, Quinsey, &c. Phillips.] / Bilgres / wildflax / is good for ache; wethy leves / grene otes / boyled in fere fulle soft, Cast þem hote in to a vesselle / & sett youre soverayn alloft, Line 996 and suffire þat hete a while as hoot as he may a-bide; se þat place be couered welle ouer / & close on euery side; and what dissese ye be vexed with, grevaunce ouþer peyn, þis medicyne shalle make yow hoole surely, as men seyn." Line 1000