Bucklersbury

(London) was at one time the noted street for druggists and herbalists; hence Falstaff says-

“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.

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