“Now if a shepherd know not which grass will bane, or which not, how is he fit to be a shepherd?” (Herbert, The Country Parson, p. 60; bane means poison).
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Bane? I thought uthor that was an enemy. Wartch the vocabulary
Context; in the context, it’s poison, in others, an enemy. Obviously closely related senses.