John Gerard
John Gerard
John Gerard, also spelt John Gerarde,was a botanist and herbalist. He maintained a large herbal garden in London. His chief notability is as the author of a large – 1484 pages – and heavily illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. First published in 1597, it was the most widely circulated botany book in English in the 17th century...
cake colored good maid
Otemeale is good for to make a faire and wel colored maid to looke like a cake of tallow
cat ok
I did OK here, ... me and old cat survived.
captain men
On an eastern-rig, the captain can look out and see all the men on deck. On the other, you can only look where you're going.
heart men water
The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.
oil four salad
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
eye men onions
The onion being eaten, yea though it be boyled, causeth head-ache, hurteth the eyes, and maketh a man dimme sighted, dulleth the senses, ingendreth windinesse, and provoketh overmuch sleepe, especially being eaten raw
satisfaction may plant
If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.
home men jewels
If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.