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15. Jotham's apologue. For the parable of Jotham, see 

 Judges, ix. 8-15 : ' The trees went forth on a time to anoint 

 a king over them, &c.' 



17. it came to be spoken of. By, for example, John Brown, D.D. , 

 in his Dictionary of the Bible. 



20. Chaucer . . . a word in its favour. ' Sweet as is the 

 bremble-flour.' Tale of Sir Thopas, Stanza VI. [But probably 

 Chaucer means the dog-rose.] 



42. Rub us, from Lat. ruber, red. 



48. to run amok. To run wild, attacking all who come in the 

 way. Amok (amuck) is a Malay word. 



50. countered. Opposed, from Lat. contra, against. 



59. trellis. Lattice- work. (Lat. tres, three, licium, a thread.) 



60. rasp or hyndberry. Hogg in The Queen's Wake (Bonnie 

 Kilmeny) has 



To pu' the hyp and the hyndberr^, 



And the nut that hangs from the hazel tree. 



60. cloudberry. Grows, without prickles, in peaty mountainous 

 places in the north of Great Britain ; the fruit orange-red ; 

 known in Scotland as avrons. 



60. the dewberry. Shakespeare refers to it in A Midsummer 

 Night's Dream, III. i, 



Feed him with apricots and dewberries, 



With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. 



68. The cut-leaved variety. Found in Surrey. 

 94. as Cotvper says. In The Task, Bk. I. 121 



berries that emboss 

 The bramble, black as jet. 



114. dree his weird. Endure or bear his fate. 

 127. the Libyan wrestler. Antaeus. 

 134. Milton's words. In Comus, 1. 270. 



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