SHAKESPEARE'S 



[BIRD. 



BIRCH hath many hard twigs and branches with knots, 

 and therewith often children be chastised and beaten on the 

 bare buttocks and loins. And of the boughs and branches 

 thereof be besoms made to sweep and to cleanse houses of 

 dust and of other uncleanness. And this tree hath much 

 sour juice and somewhat biting. And men use therefore 

 in springing time and in harvest to drink it in stead of 

 wine but it feedeth not, nor nourisheth not, nor maketh 

 men drunk. Bartholomew (Bertbelef), bk. xvii. 159. 



Bird. 



THE crane that walketh for the watch by night, holdeth 

 a little stone in his foot, that if he hap to fall asleep, he 

 may be waked by falling of the stone. 



Bartholomew, Bertbelet, bk. xii., Introduction. 



To take the Birds that eat the seeds that are sown ; 

 seethe garlick that it may not grow again ; for it is said 



