herblet

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Noun

herblet (plural herblets)

1. A small herb.
   • circa 1609 William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2,

     The herbs that have on them cold dew o’ the night

     Are strewings fitt’st for graves. Upon their faces.

     You were as flowers, now wither’d: even so

     These herblets shall, which we upon you strew.

   • 1822, Henry Francis Cary (translator), Ode, Book 4, No. 18, by Pierre de Ronsard, The London Magazine, Volume 5, June 1822, p. 510,

     God shield ye, bright embroider’d train

     Of butterflies, that, on the plain,

     Of each sweet herblet sip;

   • 1907, Caroline Peachey (translator), “Thumbelina” by Hans Christian Andersen in Danish Fairy Legends and Tales, London: George Bell & Sons, pp. 194-195,

     […] she dined off the honey from the flowers, and drank from the dew that every morning spangled the leaves and herblets around her.

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