40 SHAKESPEARE’S [ BOX-TREE. 
Ir has neither bones, feet nor wings. By sucking too 
much blood, it often causes its own death. It draws out. 
putrid blood, and kills itself while healing its victim. 
Hortus Sanitatis, ch. cxxxi. 
Box-tree. 
Get ye all three into the box-tree. 
Twetrra NiGuT, ii. 5, 18. 
Box holdeth long time shapes and figures which be made 
therein; so thereof be made fair images and long-during. 
The shaving of Box dyeth hair that is oft washen in the 
broth thereof. Batobnen (Redes, Ue xvil; § 20. 
FooLisH empirics and women leeches do minister it 
against the apoplexy and such diseases. Turners and 
cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, do call this wood 
dudgeon, wherewith they make dudgeon-hafted daggers. 
Gerard’s “ Herbal,” bk. iii. ch. Ixx. 
Tue leaves and the dust of the wood boiled in lye will 
make hairs of an auburn (or Abraham) colour. I learned 
of a friend who had tried it effectual, to cure the biting 
of a mad dog—take the leaves and roots of cowslips, of 
the leaves of Box and penny-royal, of each a like quantity, 
shred them small, and put them into hot broth, and let it 
be so taken three days together, and apply the herb, etc., to 
the bitten place with soap and hogs’ suet melted together. 
Parkinson's “ Herbal,” s.v. 
Box-combs bear no small part 
In the militia of the female art ; 
They tie the links which hold our gallants fast 
And spread the nets to which fond lovers haste. 
The oil assuages the tooth-ache. But the honey which is 
made at Trebizond in Box-trees, renders them distracted 
who eat of it. Evelyn's “Sylva,” bk. ii. ch. vi. 
