Citations:simpling

English citations of simpling

• 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 2, canto 3:

  Or witches simpling, and on gibbets
  Cutting from malefactors snippets?

• 1724, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 2nd edition:

  Simpling, gathering of Simples or Physical Herbs in the Fields.

• 1833, William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself, page 47:

  The knowledge necessary for writing a work on the arts, differs as much from that acquired by the simple traveller, as the art of simpling doth from the science of botany.