why do cabbages always feature in medieval texts in such dubious and insalubrious connections?“A worme hatte vermis and is a beste �at ofte gendre� of fleisse and of herbes and gendre� ofte of caule, and somtyme of corrupcioun of humours, and somtyme of medlynge of male and femele, and somtyme of eyren, as it fare� of scorpiouns, tortuses, and euetes. (Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatibus Rerum, Book 18, Chapt 115, p. 1264)”
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