You may add, if you please, to this proportion of water, or one Gallon more, two handfuls of Sweet-bryar-leaves, and one of Betony.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
You may make also strong and small by putting into it Orris-roots; or with Rose-mary, Betony, Eye-bright and Wood-sorrel; or adding to it the tops of Hypericon with the flowers of it; Sweet-bryar, Lilly of the valley.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
Under the froth of flowers were the purple vetch-clumps, yellow milk vetches, and the scattered pink of the wood-Betony, and the floating stars of marguerites.
"The White Peacock"
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence