BUTTERFLY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 47 



Burr. 



I am a kind of burr ; I shall stick. 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 3, 189-90. 



They are but burrs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery ; if 

 we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them. 



As You LIKE JT, i. 3, 13-6. 



[BURR] the Clete groweth by old walls ; and hight 

 Philanthropes, as it were loving mankind, for it cleaveth 

 to men's clothes by a manner affection and love, as it 

 seemeth. They heal smiting of scorpions, nor they smite 

 not a man that is balmed with the juice thereof. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 93. 



THE Burr or fruit of the lesser Burr dock before it be 

 fully withered, being stamped and put into an earthen 

 vessel, and afterwards when need requireth the weight of 

 two ounces thereof and somewhat more, being steeped in 

 warm water and rubbed on, maketh the hairs of the head 

 red ; yet the head is first to be dressed or rubbed with 

 nitre. The roots being stamped with a little salt, and 

 applied to the biting of a mad dog, cureth the same, and 

 so speedily setteth free the sick man. The juice of the 

 leaves drunk with old wine doth wonderfully help against 

 the bitings of serpents. The stalk of Clot burr before the 

 Burrs come forth, the rind pilled off, being eaten raw 

 with salt and pepper, or boiled in the broth of fat meat, 

 is pleasant to be eaten. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



Butterfly. 



Butterflies 

 Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 3, 78-9. 



There is diffcrency between a grub and a butterfly ; yet your butterfly 

 was a grub. 



CORIOLANUS, V. 4, I 1-2. 



BUTTERFLIES are small birds, which chiefly abound when 

 the mallows are in flower. Butterflies are flying grubs, 

 which get their food from flowers. The female lays eggs, 

 and dies after laying them ; the eggs last through the 



