36 . SHAKESPEARE’S [ BIRD. 
Bircw hath many hard twigs and branches with knots, 
and therewith often children be chastised and beaten on the 
bare buttocks and loins. And of the boughs and branches 
thereof be besoms made to sweep and to cleanse houses of 
dust and of other uncleanness. And this tree hath much 
sour juice and somewhat biting. And men use therefore 
in springing time and in harvest to drink it in stead of 
wine but it feedeth not, nor nourisheth not, nor maketh 
men drunk. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 159. 
Bird. 
Tue crane that walketh for the watch by night, holdeth 
a little stone in his foot, that if he hap to fall asleep, he 
may be waked by falling of the stone. 
Bartholomew, Berthelet, bk. xii., Introduction. 
To take the Birds that eat the seeds that are sown: 
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seethe garlick that it may not grow again; for it is said 
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