The stalk is brownish and round at the bottom, and sometimes that from the middle upwards, three foot high or more, beset at certain distances with rundles or circles of many broad leaves, larger and broader for the most part than any other of this kinde, and of a dark green colour; It hath two or three, and sometimes four of these rundles or circles of leaves, and bare without any leaf between;

According to Quinn, the name “Johnny Conqueroo” was derived from a folk hero of the same name who was taken slave only to escape and torment his capturers.

We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.

Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.