herblet

herb +‎ -let

herblet (plural herblets)

1. A small herb.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     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, Hans Christian Andersen, “Tommelise”, in Caroline Peachey, transl., Danish Fairy Legends and Tales‎, London: George Bell & Sons, pages 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.

• “herblet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Helbert, blether