Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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Like ourselves , the Elizabethans found recreation for the body and refreshment for the mind in gardening , and the art ... the transition from the comparatively small medieval enclosure to the stately pleasuance of Elizabethan times .
Like ourselves , the Elizabethans found recreation for the body and refreshment for the mind in gardening , and the art ... the transition from the comparatively small medieval enclosure to the stately pleasuance of Elizabethan times .
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Shakespeare credits the Queen with the knowledge of herbs possessed by every Elizabethan housewife . In the days when a doctor could not be summoned at a moment's notice , it was the housewife's business to attend not only to the sick ...
Shakespeare credits the Queen with the knowledge of herbs possessed by every Elizabethan housewife . In the days when a doctor could not be summoned at a moment's notice , it was the housewife's business to attend not only to the sick ...
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The most interesting way is , I think , to make a small garden characteristic of Elizabethan times , a type evidently noted and admired by Shakespeare himself and wholly different from anything we have to - day , though signs are not ...
The most interesting way is , I think , to make a small garden characteristic of Elizabethan times , a type evidently noted and admired by Shakespeare himself and wholly different from anything we have to - day , though signs are not ...
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| Title | Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
| Author | Eleanour Sinclair Rohde |
| Publisher | Medici society, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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