is this where Beatrix Potter got her plot point for the Flopsy Bunnies, knocked out by lettuce trimmings from Mr MacGregor’s garden? My children were fascinated by the word “soporific”.pic.twitter.com/im9wVIaveC
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Lettuce: Tho' by Metaphor call'd Mortuorum Cibi by reason of its Soporiferous quality, ever was, and ſtill continues the principal Foundation of the univerſal Tribe of Sallets; which is to Cool and Refreſh, beſides its other Properties.
is this where Beatrix Potter got her plot point for the Flopsy Bunnies, knocked out by lettuce trimmings from Mr MacGregor’s garden? My children were fascinated by the word “soporific”.pic.twitter.com/im9wVIaveC
Could be. Evelyn is getting a lot of his folk wisdom about the virtues of various vegetables from Galen, so Potter might be reaching back to antiquity as well.
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