[138:1] For a testimony of the high value placed on the Leek by the Greeks see a poem on Μῶλυ, in "Anonymi Carmen de Herbis" in the "Poetæ Bucolici et didactici."
LEMON.
| Biron. | A Lemon. | |
| Longaville. | Stuck with Cloves. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost, act v, sc. 2 (654). | ||
LETTUCE.
| Iago. | If we will plant Nettles or sow Lettuce. (See [Hyssop].) | |
| Othello, act i, sc. 3 (324). | ||
This excellent vegetable with its Latin name probably came to us from the Romans.