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Quotation dates: 1533
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Verbene, n. [e.m.E. verbena (1562), L. verbēna.] Verbena. — 1533 Bell. Livy I 54/34, 55/7.
‘Deliuer to me’ said the feciall ‘the herbe namyt verbene’ … Incontinent the feciall past to the tour of capitoll and pullit vp the said herbe … This fecial … maid Spurius Fusius fader patrat and twichit baith his hede and his hare with the herbe verbene [L. verbena]
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