Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing.
Quotes about mandrake (3 Quotes)
The garden should be adorned with roses and lilies, the turnsole, violets, and mandrake there you should have parsley, cost, fennel, southernwood, coriander, sage, savory, hyssop, mint, rue, dittany, smallage, pellitory, lettuces, gardencress, and peonies. There should also be beds planted with onions, leeks, garlic, pumpkins and shallots. The cucumber growing in its lap, the drowsy poppy, the daffodil and brankursine ennoble a garden. Nor are there wanting, if occasion further thee, pottageherbs beets, herbmercury, orache, sorrel and mallows, anise, mustard, white pepper and wormwood do good service to the gardener. (Alexander of Neckham
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.