2o6 SHAKESPEARE'S [MOSS. 



hard withal, that unneath a knife will enter and pierce it 

 either with edge or point. Howbeit a kind of moving 

 it hath. Holland's P/iny, bk. vii. ch. xv. 



Moss. 



TITUS ANDRONICUS, ii. 3, 95. 



[Gerard (" Herbal," s.v.) states that he has found " goldilocks, 

 or golden maiden-hair, the bigger and less in great abundance," 

 between Hampstead Heath and Highgate, and " club-moss or 

 wolf-claw Moss " only upon Hampstead Heath, and he testifies 

 that the latter Moss, if it be hanged in a vessel of " floating 

 wine, which is now become slimy," the wine is restored to his 

 former goodness. Moreover, the kind of Moss, which " is found 

 upon the skulls or bare scalps of men and women lying long 

 in charnel-houses or other places, where the bones of men and 

 women are kept together, is thought to be a singular remedy 

 against the falling evil, and the chin-cough in children, if it be 

 produced and then given in sweet wine for certain days 

 together."] 



Moth. 



CORIOLANUS, i. 3, 94. 



A MOTH is a worm of clothes, and is gendered of cor- 

 ruption of cloth, when the cloth is too long in press and 

 thick air, and is not blown with wind, neither unfolded in 

 pure air. And though he be a sensible beast, yet he hideth 

 himself within the cloth, that unneath he is seen. Leaves 

 of the laurel-tree, of cedars, and of cypress, and other such, 

 put among clothes in hutches save the clothes and also books 

 from corruption and eating of Moths. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xviii. 105. 



IF you seethe the dregs, or mother, or foam of oil to the 

 half, and therewith anoint the bottom, corners, and feet of 

 any chest or press, the clothes that you lay therein shall 

 never be hurt with Moths (so that it be dry before you 

 put therein your clothes). 



Lupton, " Notable Things," bk. ii. 94. 



MOTHS breed in garments so much the sooner if a spider 

 be shut in. They that sell woollen clothes use to wrap 

 up the skin of a bird called the king-fisher amongst them, 



