(= made a play), wherein Frogges made pastime. Bullein’s Bulwarke, 1562, or, The booke of Simples, fol. xvj. b.

The following note was originally labeled “67/991” (page 67, line 991) and was printed between the [notes for l. 280] and l. 300.

[l. 991.] Rosemary is not mentioned among the herbs for the bath; though a poem in praise of the herb says:

Moche of this herbe to seeth thu take

In water, and a bathe thow make;

Hyt schal the make lyȝt and joly,

And also lykyng and ȝowuly.

MS. of C. W. Loscombe, Esq., in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, i. 196.

[l. 995.] Bilgres. Can this be bugloss? I find this, as here, in juxtaposition with scabiose, in Bullein’s Bulwarke of Defence, Book of Simples, fol xvj. b. G. P. Marsh.

[l. 1004.] For Selden’s Chapter on Precedence, see his Titles of Honour, ch. xi. Rouge Dragon (Mr G. Adams) tells me that the order of precedence has varied from time to time, and that the one now in force differs in many points from Russell’s.