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darnel: a grass, Lolium temulentum, a weed injurious to growing corn Lr. IV. iv. 5. ∥ In 1H6 III. ii. 44 there is possibly a ref. to the belief that ‘Darnell hurteth the eies and maketh them dim, if it happen in corne’ (Gerarde).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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