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. — John Gerard Copy Share Image
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… — John Gerard Copy Share Image
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… — John Gerard Copy Share Image
If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent… — John Gerard Copy Share Image
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor… — John Gerard Copy Share Image
