28 SHAKESPEARE'S [BEAGLE. 



IN the year 1629 at Padua, preceding a great pestilence, 

 almost all the Bay-trees about that famous university grew 

 sick and died. Evelyn's " Sylva," bk. ii. ch. vi. 



Beagle. V. Brach. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 3, 195. 

 TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 3, 175. 



Bean. 



Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way 

 to give poor jades the bots. 



I KING HENRY IV., ii. I, 9-10. 



A fat and bean-fed horse. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, 45. 



THE Bean is a manner cod ware, and serveth to pottage, 

 and in old time men used to eat thereof. Beans cause 

 vain dreams and dreadful. Many meddle beans with bread- 

 corn, to make the bread the more heavy. By oft use 

 thereof the wits be dulled. Or else, dead men's souls be 

 therein. Therefore the bishop should not eat Beans. 

 Beans grow in Egypt with sharp pricks, therefore crocodiles 

 flee from them, and dread lest their eyes should be hurt 

 with the sharp pricks of them. Such a Bean is x cubits 

 long, with a head as a poppy, and therein Beans be closed, 

 and that head is red as a rose. And those Beans grow not 



On Stalks nor in cods. Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xvii. 64. 



THE skins of Beans applied to the place where the hairs 

 were first plucked up, will not suffer them to grow big, 

 but rather consumeth their nourishment. 



Gerard's " Herbal," bk. ii. ch. v. and vii. 



IN June buttered Beans saveth fish to be spent. 



Tusser, "A Hundreth Good Poyntes of Husbandrie." 



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You may imagine it to be Twelfth-day at night, and the 

 Bean found in the corner of your cake. 



Rowleys "Woman Never Vexed," ii. i. 



Now, now the mirth comes 

 With the cake full of plums. 

 Where Bean's the king of the sport here. 



HerricVs " Hesperides." 



