The Folk-lore of Plants
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer176"Gadshill. We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible----[10] "Chamberlain. Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible." In Ben Jonson's "New Inn" (i. 1), it is thus noticed:-- "I had No medicine, sir, to go invisible, No fern-seed in my pocket."