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Childing, wounded, winded, wise, sure.

Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man labouring at his rhymes, The ewe in the lambing shed.

With fire and sword the country round Was wasted jar and wide, And many a childing mother then, And newborn baby died; But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory.

The variety of daisy which children now call “Hen and Chickens” was known as the “childing daisy” in Gerard’s time.

The Daisy not only produces double flowers, but also the curious proliferous flower called Hen and Chickens, or Childing Daisies, or Jackanapes on Horseback.