Our men vpon fish-dayes had rather eate the rootes with oyle and vineger, then to eate good stockfish.
Cruz, whose name was Robert Swancon, whose death was hastened by eating of rootes and other vnnatural things to slake their raging hunger in our trauaile, and by our hard and cold lodging in the open fields without tents.
But the bread they make there, is certaine cakes made of rootes called Cassaui, which is something substantiall, but it hath but an vnsauorie taste in the eating thereof.
There growe in that Countrey a kinde of Rootes which they call in their language Hasez, whereof in necessitie they make bread.
M605) The bread of this countrie is also made of rootes which are like the Batatas.
And the stocke whereon those rootes doe grow is like an Elder tree: they make their ground in little hillocks and in each of them they thrust 4.
They pare these rootes and stamp them and squese them in a thing like a presse: the iuyce that commeth from them is of an euill smell.
The moneth of May approching and no manner of succour come out of France, we fell into extreme want of victuals, constrained to eate the rootes of the earth and certaine sorrell which we found in the fields.
The Indians fed vpon rootes and herbes which they seeke in the fields, and vpon wild beasts, which they kil with their bowes and arrowes: and it is a verie gentle people.
The rootes be long, not vnlike to the rootes of Couch grasse, ramping and creeping within the vpper crust of the earth farre abroade, whereby it encreaseth greatly.
The Vine and the Coleworts be so contrarie by nature that if you plant Coleworts neere to the rootes of the Vine, of it selfe it will flee from them.
E199] "The rootes of Borage and Buglosse soden tender and made in a Succade, doth ingender good blode, and doth set a man in a temporaunce.
They were associated with other loathsome objects besides toads, for "Poisonous Mushrooms groweth where old rusty iron lieth, or rotten clouts, or neere to serpent's dens or rootes of trees that bring forth venomous fruit.
And this experience I have of them, that the juyce of the leaves and rootes of Deysies being put into the nosethrils purgeth the brain; they are good to be used in pottage.
Maister Guise had of late, and still hath (for aught that I know) a manor in Glocestershire, where certeine okes doo grow, whose rootes are verie hard stone.
Michaels Mount, where at a low water they cast aside the sand, and dig them vp: they are full of rootes of trees, and on some of them nuts haue beene found, which confirmeth my former assertion of the seas intrusion.
Soon after his marriage Colonel Cobb settled in Georgia, where were born those two distinguished lawyers and soldiers, Howell and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb.
Mercer, who successfully combatted the various arguments adduced by Mr. Rootes in support of his address.
At the foote of the rocke for running water, and gathering rootes for your dinner, sir.
Daisie-rootes parted and set, as Flowre-deluce and Camomile, when you see them grow too thicke or decay.
And you may helpe them much by enlarging their rootes with the taws of the tree, whence you take them.
Artichoakes are renewed by diuiding therootes into sets, in March, euery third or fourth yeare.
Also, when he is set with moe tops than the rootes can nourish, the tops decaying, blacken the boughes, and the boughs the armes, and so they boile at the very heart.
Some vse to bare trees rootes in Winter, to stay the setting til hotter seasons, which I discommend, because, 1.
Thin setting and sewing (so the rootes stand not past a foot distance) is profitable, for the hearbs will like the better.
And we see by thoserootes continually and plentifully springing, notwithstanding so deadly wounded.
Some run now in the wood, and there for rootes do seeke, Base meat would here be counted good too bad that we mislike Our clothes now rot with sweat, and from our backs do fall, Saue that whom nature wils for shame, we couer nought at all.
By rootes and leaues they liue, as beasts doe in the wood: Among these heathen who can thriue, with this so wilde a food?
A man must expect th’ende of euery thinge whereunto it tendeth: for God plucketh vppe by the rootes many men, to whom hee hath giuen abundaunce of wealth and treasure.
I have seen them of nine inches about They grow near therootes of elmes.
If you digge under the turfe of this circle, you will find at the rootes of the grasse a hoare or mouldinesse.
The rootes which are counterfited and made like litle puppettes and mammettes which come to be sold in England in boxes with heir [hair] and such forme as man hath, are nothyng elles but folishe fened trifles and not naturall.
I have in my tyme at diverse tymes tak[=e] up the rootes of mandrake out of the grounde but I never saw any such thyng upon or in them as are in and upon the pedlers rootes that are comenly to be solde in boxes.
I have in my tyme at diverse tymes taken up the rootes of Mandrag out of the grounde, but I never saw any such thyng upon or in them, as are in and upon the pedlers rootes that are comenly to be solde in boxes.
And now you must choose the biggest rootes you can find, such as are three or four inches about, and let every root be nine or ten inches long, and contain three joints.
Upon many cliffes and hills are yet to be seen the rootes and old remaines of vines.
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