 
This excellent vegetable with its Latin name probably came to us from the Romans. "Letuce of lac derivyed is perchaunce; For milk it hath or yeveth abundaunce." It was cultivated by the Anglo-Saxons, who showed their knowledge of its narcotic qualities by giving it the name of Sleepwort; it is mentioned by Spenser as "cold Lettuce" ("Muiopotmos"). And in Shakespeare's time the sorts cultivated were very similar to, and probably as good as, ours. | ||||||
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