E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Bucklersbury (London)
was at one time the noted street for druggists and herbalists; hence Falstaff says—
1
“I cannot cog, and say thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in men’s apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple time.”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 3.
