Flora's Lexicon/Bonus Henricus
ONUS HENRICUS, or GOOSEFOOT. Chenopodium. Class 5, Penrandria. Order: Digynia. The French people have given the name of their beloved king, Henry IV., to a beneficent and useful plant, which grows for the poor, and indeed seems exclusively to belong to them. In France it flourishes without any cultivation, and forms the asparagus and spinach of the poor; in England it is known also as wild spinach. The leaves are said to be of great service when applied to wounds. Happy is that king who deserves an homage so universal and so simple!
GOODNESS.
Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.
That he suspects none.
Shakspeare.
God’s benison go with you; and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
Shakspeare.
..He was too good to be
Where ill men were; and was the best of all
Amongst the rar’st of good ones.
Where ill men were; and was the best of all
Amongst the rar’st of good ones.
Shakspeare.
A most incomparable man; breathed, as it were,
To an untirable and continuate goodness.
To an untirable and continuate goodness.
Shakspeare.
So far as May doth other months exceed,
So far in virtue and in goodlihead
Above all other nymphs Tanathe bears the meed.
So far in virtue and in goodlihead
Above all other nymphs Tanathe bears the meed.
Thomson.
Your very goodness and your company
O’erpays all I can do.
O’erpays all I can do.
Shakspeare.