PARTRIDGE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 235 



Parsley. 



Parsley to stuff" a rabbit. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, iv. 4, 100. 



[Parsley is one of the herbs used to make broth and farcing 

 enumerated in " The History of Jacob and Esau," iv. 5.] 



A SALAD of Parsley and the herb patience. 



"Look About You," i. 10. 



GOOD man-mender, 



Stop me with some Parsley like stuffed beef, 

 And let me walk abroad. 



Beaumont and Fletcher, " The Chances," iii. 2. 



TOUGH Welsh Parsley which in our vulgar tongue is 

 strong hempen halters. ibid., "The Elder Brother," i. 2. 



Partridge. 



ii. KING HENRY VI., iii. 2, 191. 



THE Partridge is an unclean bird, for strong liking of 

 lechery forgetteth the sex and distinction of male and 

 female. And is so guileful that the one stealeth the eggs 

 of the other, and sitteth abrobd on them ; but this fraud 

 hath no fruit, for when the birds be haught [grown], and 

 hear the voice of their own mother, they forsake her that 

 brooded them when they were eggs, and kept them as her 

 own birds, and turn and follow their own mother natural. 

 And the Partridge travaileth not in laying and in brooding, 

 like as other fowls do. And at the noise of a little bell, 

 he fleeth about upon the ground, and falleth into the gin 

 or net ere he be ware. The Partridge's gall, with even 

 weight of honey, cleareth much the sight ; and therefore it 

 shall be kept in a silver box. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet}, bk. xii. 30. 



A ( PARTRIDGE will cry aloud, and will tear or break 

 the cage or coop where she is fed, if there be any deadly 

 medicine or poison prepared within the same house, which 

 she doth feel presently, through a wonderful special and 

 rare gift of nature. Lupton, " Notable Things," bk. x. 99. 



THE Partridge, though cunning in many things, is foolish 

 in this, that where she can hide her head, she believes that 



