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SHAKESPEARE'S 



[FLEA. 



A FLEA divided in two parts revives. If the water in 

 which brambles have been boiled be sprinkled in a house, 

 Fleas will be quite destroyed. When the blood of a goat 

 is placed in a hole in a house, Fleas collect about it, and 

 then die. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 118. 



WHEN any draws nigh toward their death, and their 

 members lack blood and vital heat : then Fleas and lice 

 leave them quite, or else draw to that part of the body 

 where the said heat tarries the longest ; which is in the 

 hole in the neck under the chin, etc. This is a token that 

 death is at hand. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. iii. 75, 



ITEM, paid to good wife Wells for salt to destroy the 

 Fleas in churchwardens' pew, 6d. 



Parish Accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster (1610). 



IT is not any disgrace to a man to be troubled with 

 Fleas, as it is to be lousy. Their first original is from 

 dust. Mouffet, "Theatre of Insects," p. 



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