48 SHAKESPEARE'S [BUZZARD. 



winter, and in the summer become grubs, which, invigorated 

 by the warmth of the sun and by nocturnal dew, produce 

 wings for flying. Butterflies should be killed in the month 

 of April when they hurt the bees. 



Hortus Sanitatis, part iii. ("Of Birds") 96. 



BUTTERFLIES be called small fowls, and be most in 

 fruit in apples, and breedeth therein worms that come of 

 their stinking filth. For of malshrags [caterpillars] cometh 

 and breedeth Butterflies, and of the dirt of Butterflies left 

 upon leaves breedeth and cometh again malshrags. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelef), bk. xviii. 47. 



[In Mouffet's " Theatre of Insects " are described and pictured 

 some eighty different moths and Butterflies (including apparently, 

 some flies and beetles), but no English names are given. He 

 says that the venomous dung of Butterflies, with .aniseed, goat's 

 milk cheese, hog's blood, galbanum, and opoponax made into 

 troches (or lozenges) with good sharp wine, and dried in the 

 sun, allure fish to your hook.] 



Buzzard. 



O slow-wing'd turtle ! shall a buzzard take thee ? 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. i, 208. 



More pity that the eagle should be mew'd 

 While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. 



KING RICHARD III., i. I, 132-3. 



THE Buzzard is of the class of hawks ; but somewh; 

 darker, and very slow and sluggish in flight ; yet it l 

 on prey, which it is able to catch by cunning, or when it 

 is let by some sickness or slowness. This bird is very 

 sweet in taste. Hortus Sanitatis, ch. xvii. 



[A Buzzard was one of the chief dishes in Lieutenant Slicer'< 

 valiant dinner, for which see Cartwright's "The Ordinary," ii. i. 



Cabbage or Cole or Colewort. 



Good worts ! good cabbage ! 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. I, I2J.. 



THE tombstone of the introducer of Cabbage into England 



is said to exist at Wimborne, probably the Sir Anthony 



.Ashley who was (according to Anthony-a-Wood) a woman- 



