Hamlet vocabulary

The fiscal’s wife is something of an herb-woman, and has stocks to hand. Doubtless she has the simples that you’re needing.

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the odd conceits of the poets, the simples of the physicians, and in all things, to the end that when they shall be willed to talk of any of them, they may be ignorant in nothing.

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, p.138 (1578)

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  I bought an unction of a mountebank,

  So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,

  Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,

  Collected from all simples that have virtue

  Under the moon, can save the thing from death

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.

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The first fellow that picked an herb to cure himself had a bit of pluck. Simples. Want to be careful. Enough stuff here to chloroform you.

James Joyce. Ulysses

AMO. I savour no sampsuchine in it.

PER. I am a Nulli-fidian, if there be not three-thirds of a scruple more of sampsuchinum in this confection, than ever I put in any. I'll tell you all the ingredients, sir.

AMO. You shall be simple to discover your simples.