230 SHAKESPEARE'S [PADDOCK. 



Paddock. 



HAMLET, in. 4, 190. 

 MACBETH, i. i, 9. 



IT is apparent that there be three kinds of frogs of the 

 earth : the first is the little green frog ; the second is this 

 Paddock, having a crook back ; and the third is the toad. 

 This second kind is found deep in the earth, in the midst 

 of rocks and stones. Such as these are found near Tours 

 in France, among a red sandy stone, whereof they make 

 the mill-stones, and therefore they break that stone all in 

 pieces before they make the mill-stone up, lest while the 

 Paddock is included in the middle, and the mill-stone going 

 in the mill, the heat should make the Paddock swell, and 

 so the mill-stone breaking, the corn should be poisoned. 



Topsell, "History of Serpents," p. 725. 



V. Toad, Frog. 

 Palm-tree. 



As You LIKE IT, iii. 2, 186. 



IF the male Palm be felled, then is the female barren 

 after two days out. The more noble and old the Palm is 

 the better the fruit thereof And the Palm-tree beareth no 

 fruit tofore an hundred years, and then it hath the first 

 perfect and complete virtue. 



Bartholomew (Bertkelet), bk. xvii. 116. 



Pansy. 



Pansies that's for thoughts. 



HAMLET, iv. 5, 175. 



HEART'S-EASE is named in English : Heart's ease, Pansies, 

 Live in idleness, Cull me to you, and Three faces in a 



hood. Gerard 1 s " Herbal," s.v. 



V. Heart's-ease, Violet. 

 Panther. 



TITUS ANDRONICUS, i. I, 493. 



PANTHER is friend to all beasts save the dragon, for him 

 he hateth full sore. And is a beast painted with small 

 round speckles, so that all his skin without seemeth full of 



