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barren land and untilled. And it is as it were a general 

 rule, that all shrubs and trees with many thorns and pricks 

 be wounden and wreathed together, and be clipped and 

 succoured and defended each with other, and none of them 

 hurteth other. And when they be felled or rooted up, 

 they be bound in faggots and in heaps, and burnt in ovens 

 and in furnaces, and for thorns be kindly dry, they be 

 soon kindled in the fire, and give a strong light, and 

 sparkleth, and cracketh, and maketh much noise, and soon 

 after they be brought all to nought. Of thorns men make 

 hedges and pavises [" large shields," according to Halliwell 

 and Minsheu, but here certainly " fences "-sepes, Bartholo- 

 mew~\ with which men defend and succour themselves and 

 their own. Bartholomew (Eertbelet\ bk. xvii. 149. 



Throstle, Thrush. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. I, 130. 

 WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 10. 



Thrash, throssel or mavis. Mimbeus Dictionary, s.v. 



THE Throstles or mavises all summer be painted about 

 the neck with sundry colours, but in winter they be all of 

 one colour. Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. xxix. 



Thyme. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, 249. 



V. Cabbage. 

 Tick. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 2, 315. 

 TICK a dog-louse. MitsMs Dictionary, s.v. 



THERE is a creature which hath evermore the head fast 

 sticking within the skin of a beast, and so by sucking of 

 blood liveth, and swells withal : the only living creature of 

 all other that hath no way at all to rid excrements out of 

 the body ; by reason whereof when it is too full, the skin 

 doth crack and burst, and so his very food is cause of his 





