camomile
“
the more it is trodden on, — Though the,
”
1 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 389.
“The style immediately ridiculed is that of Lyly in his
Euphues: ‘ Though the camomile the more it is trodden and pressed downe, the
more it spreadeth; yet the violet the oftener it is
handled and touched, the sooner it withereth and decayeth,’ etc.”
(FARMER)
.
“Again, in Philomela, the Lady
Fitzwater's Nightingale, by Robert Greene, bl. l. 1595, sig. I 4; ‘The
palme tree, the more it is prest downe, the more it sprowteth up; the camomill, the more it is troden, the sweeter smell it
yieldeth’”
(REED)
. Greene, in another work, his Carde of Fancie, has:
“The Camomill increaseth most beeing troden on.”
Sig. Q 2 verso, ed. 1608.