4 o SHAKESPEARE'S [BOX-TREE. 



IT has neither bones, feet nor wings. By sucking too 

 much blood, it often causes its own death. It draws out 

 putrid blood, and kills itself while healing its victim. 



H or tits San if at is, ch. cxxxi. 



Box-tree. 



Get ye all three into the box-tree. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 5, 18. 



Box holdeth long time shapes and figures which be made 

 therein ; so thereof be made fair images and long-during. 

 The shaving of Box dyeth hair that is oft washen in the 

 broth thereof. Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 20. 



FOOLISH empirics and women leeches do minister it 

 against the apoplexy and such diseases. Turners and 

 cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, do call this wood 

 dudgeon, wherewith they make dudgeon-hafted daggers. 



Gerard's "Herbal," bk. iii. ch. Ixx. 



THE leaves and the dust of the wood boiled in lye will 

 make hairs of an auburn (or Abraham) colour. I learned 

 of a friend who had tried it effectual, to cure the biting 

 of a mad dog take the leaves and roots of cowslips, of 

 the leaves of Box and penny-royal, of each a like quantity, 

 shred them small, and put them into hot broth, and let it 

 be so taken three days together, and apply the herb, etc., to 

 the bitten place with soap and hogs' suet melted together. 



Parkinson's " Herbal," s.v. 



Box-combs bear no small part 

 In the militia of the female art ; 

 They tie the links which hold our gallants fast 

 And spread the nets to which fond lovers haste. 



The oil assuages the tooth-ache. But the honey which is 

 made at Trebizond in Box-trees, renders them distracted 

 who eat of it. Evelyn's "Sylva," bk. ii. ch. vi. 



