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And when the hearbe hath done his worke, they revive and wake, giving answers according to the vissions and illusions which they saw while they were wrapt in that order. '
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Parkinson's statement: "It is said of Pliny that if a traveller binde some of the hearbe [Artemisia] with him, he shall feele no weariness at all in his journey" (p. 72).
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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_Climene_, [A] with her haire trans-formed into an hearbe called _Venus_ maid, or Lady hearbe, & _Phœbus_ in a cruell indignation & wrathfull displeasure, she following of him weeping, from whom he fled hastening on forward hys swift horses, as one that flyeth from hys mortall and deadly enemie.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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"The East Indians do use to make little balls of the juice of the hearbe tobaco and the ashes of cockle-shells wrought up together, and dryed in the shadow, and in their travaile they place one of the balls between their neather lip and their teeth, sucking the same continually, and letting down the moysture, and it keepeth them both from hunger and thirst for the space of three or four days."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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There growes an hearbe within this field, and iff it were but knowne,
Kyng Estmere 1898
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There is also another great hearbe in forme of a Marigolde, ahout sixe foote in height; the head with the floure is a spanne in breadth.
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There is Shoemake well knowen, and vsed in England for blacke; the seede of an hearbe called Wasewowr: little small rootes called Cháppacor; and the barke of the tree called by the inhabitaunts Tangomóckonomindge: which Dies are for diuers sortes of red: their goodnesse for our English clothes remayne yet to be proued.
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There is an hearbe which in Dutch is called Melden.
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_ Aloës; _The hearbe Aloes_, _Sea Houseleeke_, _Sea aigreen_.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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_ Aconit; Aconitum, _A most venemous hearbe, of two principall kindes_; viz.,
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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