82 CHAPTER X. 



noticed the affection of the Nightingale for the 

 Pomegranate : 



" Nightly she sings in yon Pomegranate tree." 



I wonder, he says, where Shakespeare got his idea. 

 Pliny does not mention it in his wonderful account 

 of the Nightingale. The Pomegranate, when wild, is 

 armed. 



