216 SHAKESPEARE'S [NIGHTINGALE. 



in wine for three days cause loathing of wine in drunkards. 

 [This is a quotation from Pliny, bk. xxx., where Holland 

 translates "owls' eggs."] Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. 84. 



Nightingale. 



[In Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny is a most 

 elequent description of the Nightingale, too long to quote 

 (bk. x. ch. xxix.). Also (ch. xlii.) he says that Germanicus 

 and Drusus had two Nightingales that were taught to speak 

 Latin and Greek yea, and were able to continue a long speech 

 and discourse.] 



Night-raven. 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 3, 84. 



V. Night-crow and Raven. 



THERE is another kind of Night-raven, black, of the 

 bigness of a dove, flat-headed, out of the which groweth 

 three long feathers, like the cop of a lap-wing, his bill 

 grey, using a sharp voice ; whose unaccustomed appearance 

 betokeneth mortality. He preyeth on mice, weasels, and 

 Such like. Batman's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xii. 27, 



Nit. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. I, 150. 



THESE are little, white, living creatures. The Philosopher 

 affirms that they are called the eggs of lice. They are 

 like to the flowers of Jessamine that grows with us. For 

 as Jessamine brings flowers without seed, so Lice bring 

 forth eggs without young ones in them. 



Thos. Mouffet, " Theatre of Insects," bk. ii. ch. xxxv. 



Nut. 



As You LIKE IT, iii. 2, 115. 



DROPPING of the leaves thereof grieveth and noyeth other 

 trees about, that be nigh thereto. The fruit thereof hath 

 so great virtue, that if it be put among frog - stools and 

 venomous meats, it spoileth and destroyeth and quencheth 

 all the venom that is therein. And all manner apples that 



