OSPREY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 221 



THE women [of Portugal] are for the most part like 

 their Oranges, the fairer the outside the rottener within, 

 and the sounder at the heart, the rougher the skin. 



Heyzvood, "Challenge for Beauty," ii. i. 



[RECIPE] How to dress Oranges. 



"The Widow's Treasure (i 595). 



[RECIPE] To confect Orange pills. 



Second part of the "Good Huswife's Jewel," p. 42 (1597). 



Two lemons and an Orange pill. 



Bacchus' "Bounty" (1593). 



HERE'S New-Year's-Gift has an Orange and rosemary, but 

 not a clove to stick in't. 



Ben Jonson, "Christmas Masque" (1616). 



WINE will be pleasant in taste and in savour and colour; 

 it will much please thee, if an Orange or a lemon (stuck 

 round about with cloves) be hanged within the vessel, that 

 it touch not the wine. And so the wine will be preserved 

 from fustiness and evil savour. 



Lupton, " Notable Things," bk. ii. 40. 



[An Orangeado-pie is mentioned as a delicacy by Dekker in 

 one of his plays. 



Neither Pliny nor Bartholomew mentions oranges.] 



Osier. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 2, 112. 



V. Willow. 



WHAT is this snare to which young virgins haste, 

 But like the Osier wheel in rivers placed? 

 The fish yet free to enter wind about, 

 Whilst they within are labouring to get out. 



Heyzoood, " Anna and Phyllis," embl. 2. 



Osprey. 



As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it 

 By sovereignty of nature. 



CORIOLANUS, iv. 7, 34. 



THE Osprey only, before her little ones be feathered, 

 will beat and strike them with her wings, and thereby 



