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Chaucer brings the two together, for the word triacle is merely a corruption of theriaca, the unfailing cure for every thing. 'Crist, which that is to every harm triacle." "That is delightful: I thank you. And that is in Chaucer?" "Yes. In the Man-of-Law's Tale." "Shall I tell you how I was able to quote so correctly from Shakespeare? I have just come from referring to the passage.
I was stannin' at the coonter o' his shop waitin' for an unce o' sneeshin'; and Robert he was servin' a bit bairnie ower the coouter wi' a pennyworth o' triacle, when, in a jiffey, there cam' sic a blast, an' a reek fit to smore ye, oot o' the bit fire, an' the shop was fu' o' reek, afore ye could hae pitten the pint o' ae thoom upo' the pint o' the ither.
Eh, the fowth o' fushionless beggars I hae seen come to me like yersel'! Ow ay! it was aye wark they wad hae! an' cudna du mair nor a flee amo' triacle! What coonty are ye frae, wi' the lang legs an' the lang back-bane o' ye?" Cosmo told him. The hands of the old man rose from his sides, and made right angles of his elbows. "Weel," he said slowly, "that's no an ill coonty to come frae.
And there ben other trees, that beren hony, gode and swete: and other trees, that beren venym; azenst the whiche there is no medicyne but on; and that is to taken here propre leves, and stampe hem and tempere hem with watre, and then drynke it: and elle he schalle dye; for triacle will not avaylle, ne non other medicyne.
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