O Honesty from loden stalks the seedes cometh foorth in a flat
thinne cod sharp pricked in fashion of the moone somehwhat
blackish
O Honesty three skinned cod two, overworne
ashe the innermost whereon the seed doth cleave thin, cleere
shining like a shred of white satten newly cut from the
peece
Honesty O thy transparency edible Lunaria
biennis Lunaria rediviva in cruce
salus
O Bolbonac Lunarie White
Sattin Sattin-flower Prick-song-woort Herbe aux Lunettes:
spectacle-plant Honestie Shillings Silverplate Judas
Pence Pennieflower Two-Pennies-in-a-Purse Money-in-both-Pockets Nummularia:
coin-shaped
O Money money money numinous in a
vas deferent
O Honesty much cited daily
applicable
Loosely adapted from Gerard's Herball, 1597; Coats, 1956
and my Century Dictionary, 1933.
Posted especially for Thomas Arthur