46 SHAKESPEARE'S [BULLOCK. 



with sweetmeats, as with figs and grapes and raisins. Some 

 Bulls have movable horns, and move them one after another 

 in fighting ; and be always fierce when they be taken, and 

 destroy themselves, and die for indignation. 



Bartholomew (Berthelei), bk. xviii. 100. 



IF the right knee of a Bull be tied with a broad band, 

 it will make him tame. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. iii. 64. 



A BULL is the husband of a cow, and ringleader of the 

 herd. When Bulls fight with wolves, they wind their tails 

 together, and so drive them away with their horns. The 

 blood of Bulls is accounted among the chiefest poisons. 



/) "Four-footed Beasts," pp. 47-50. 



[!N Cibola, near Mexico,] they drink the blood of the 

 ox hot (which of our Bulls is counted poison). 



Purcbas* "Pilgrims," p. 778 (ed. 1616). 



Bullock. V. Bull. 



Bunting. 



My dial goes not true ; I took this lark for a bunting. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ii. 5, 6-7. 



The goss-hawk beats not at a bunting. 



Ray's " Proverbs." 

 [The Bunting is the woodlark.] 



Burnet. 



The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. 



KING HENRY V., v. 2, 49. 



BURNET is a singular good herb for wounds ; it 

 stauncheth bleeding, as well inwardly taken, as outwardly 

 applied. The lesser Burnet is pleasant to be eaten in 

 salads, in which it is thought to make the heart merry 

 and glad, as also being put into wine, to which it yieldeth 

 a certain grace in the drinking. Gerard's "Herbal," /.r. 



[Evelyn, in his " Acetaria, or Discourse of Sallets," gives the 

 same characteristics of Burnet] 





