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Falls hoarse from steep to steep, In close array, 

 Fit for the thickets and the tangling shrub, 

 Ye virgins, come. For you their latest song 

 The woodlands raise ; the clustering nuts for you 

 The lover finds amid the secret shade ; 

 And where they burnish on the topmost bough, 

 With active vigour crushes down the tree ; 

 Or shakes them ripe, from the resigning husk, 

 A glossy shower. 



These nuts are not much used in medicine, 

 but the cream of them is good for the stone, 

 and heat of urine ; emulsions made of them 

 with mead, are recommended for old dry 

 coughs. 



Quercentan gave a drachm of the powder 

 of nut-shells, mixed with an equal quantity 

 of prepared coral, in a glass of the water of 

 carduus benedictus, or corn poppy, in the 

 pleurisy. 



The wood of the hazel-tree is used for 

 making hoops for casks, hurdles, crates, 

 springles to fasten down thatch, fishing rods, 

 &c. ; it is also burnt for charcoal ; and in the 

 country where yeast is scarce, they twist the 

 slender branches of hazel together, and steep 

 them in ale yeast during its fermentation : 

 they are then hung up to dry, and at the next 

 brewing are put into the wort instead of 

 yeast. 



