But _Misan_'s taken this just napping,
And _against all Things that can happen_
Both to the Shrub and Tree, has told some
How to make the deadliest _Wholesome_;
These venomous _Vulvaria_ grow
At _Vaux-Hall_ and _St. James's_ too;
Nay, and about the Tree so leap,
That very few good Plants can 'scape.


_The Names and Virtues_


Old Mother _D'Acier_, in her Notes
_On Homer_, some hard _Greek_ Word quotes,
Calls it _Nep, nep_,--I know not what,
And says it is the very Plant that
The tawny Queen to _Helen_ sent,
To cure her Griefs at all Event.

Great _Milton's Murd'rer_ says it is
The fam'd _Machaera Herculis_,
And proves from some old _Grecian_ Poet,
So plain that all Men sure must know it,
That of this _Tree_ the Club was made,
With which he overcame ('tis said)
_Thespius_' Daughters, all grown wild,
And _fifty Mad-Women_ made _mild_;
Which very Club--(it makes one Laugh)