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"Cou' it by the auld wa's, Cou' it where the sun ne'er fa' Stoo it when the day daws, Cou' the nettle early." The juice of fumitory is said to clear the sight, and the kennel-wort was once a popular specific for the king's-evil. As disinfectants, wormwood and rue were much in demand; and hence Tusser says: "What savour is better, if physicke be true, For places infected, than wormwood and rue?"
A small portion of the wing magnified is represented at the bottom right hand corner, and detached scales more highly magnified next to it, exhibiting somewhat the form of battledoors. The curious spiked and spotted caterpillar feeds upon the common nettle.
Thus the nettle and milfoil, when carried about the person, were believed to drive away fear, and were, on this account, frequently worn in time of danger. The laurel preserved from misfortune, and in olden times we are told how the superstitious man, to be free from every chance of ill-luck, was wont to carry a bay leaf in his mouth from morning till night.
If he contradicts you, it's up with your stick and a crack on his skull, and as that only tickles him up having much the effect of a nettle under a donkey's tail you then go outside and mutually destroy as much of each other as can be effected in a fight.
They sting, as their trivial name indicates, like a nettle when incautiously touched. Red infusoria.
Ropes and nets are made from hemp and the common sting nettle, the latter being preferred. The nettle-stalks are soaked in water and then dried and pounded till the fibres separate. Ropes and cords are equal to those of civilized manufacture, though sometimes not quite as smooth. Thread for sewing and embroidery comes from China, and is purchased of Manjour traders.
A man not reformed as to the Spirit, is like a panther or an owl, and may be compared to a bramble and a nettle; but a man regenerated is like a sheep or a dove, and may be compared to an olive and a vine.
Which is about as well employed as the power of a hothouse would be in forcing up a nettle to the size of an elm. If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.
Its heady perfume, which disturbs the nerves, also, it is said, excites the senses. "For envy there are the bramble and the aconite, which, to be sure, is more exactly assigned to calumny and scandal; and, again, the nettle, which, however, is also interpreted by Albertus Magnus as figuring courage and expelling fear. "Greediness?" The Abbé paused to think.
And, since thou art a king, be thou discreet, Herb without virtue hold thou not of such price As herb of virtue and of odour sweet; And let no nettle vile, and full of vice, Mate him to the goodly fleur-de-lis, Nor let no wild weed full of churlishness Compare her to the lily's nobleness.
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