28 SHAK ESPEARE'S [ BEAGLE. 
In the year 1629 at Padua, preceding a great pestilence, 
almost all the Bay-trees about that famous university grew 
sick and died. Evelyn's “ Sylva,” bk. ii. ch. vi. 
Beagle. VY. Brach. 
Twetrra NIcHT, i. 3, 195. 
Timon oF ATHENS, iv. 3, 175. 
Bean. 
Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way 
to give poor jades the bots. 
1 Kine Henry IV., ii. 1, 9-10. 
A fat and bean-fed horse. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, il. I, 45. 
Tue Bean is a manner codware, and serveth to pottage, 
and in old time men used to eat thereof. Beans cause 
vain dreams and dreadful. Many meddle beans with bread- 
corn, to make the bread the more heavy. By oft use 
thereof the wits be dulled. Or else, dead men’s souls be 
therein. Therefore the bishop should not eat Beans. 
Beans grow in Egypt with sharp pricks, therefore crocodiles 
flee from them, and dread lest their eyes should be hurt 
with the sharp pricks of them. Such a Bean is x cubits 
long, with a head as a poppy, and therein Beans be closed, 
and that head is red as a rose. And those Beans grow not 
on stalks nor in cods. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 64. 
Tue skins of Beans applied to the place where the hairs 
were first plucked up, will not suffer them to grow big, 
but rather consumeth their nourishment. 
Gerard’s “Herbal,” bk. ii. ch. v. and vii. 
In June buttered Beans saveth fish to be spent. 
Tusser, “A Hundreth Good Poyntes of Husbandrie.” 
You may imagine it to be Twelfth-day at night, and the 
Bean found in the corner of your cake. 
Rowley’s “Woman Never Vexed,” ii. 1. 
Now, now the mirth comes 
With the cake full of plums. 
Where Bean’s the king of the sport here. 
Herrick's “‘ Hesperides.” 
