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The sweet gale, Myrica Gale, and the sage, Salvia officinalis, were also similarly employed.

The popular name of a plant, also known as the sweet gale or gaul, sweet willow, bog or Dutch myrtle.

Footnote 7: Ale brewed of the herb called sweet gale, or Dutch myrtle, instead of hops.--Tr.

It is a shrub much like our sweet gale in Europe, and its leaves are very odorous, and, even when dried, retain their fragrance.��

Erasmus is, much more than Aretino or Castiglione, the representative of the spirit of his age, one over whose Christian sentiment the sweet gale of Antiquity had passed.