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Briar. V. Rose. 
Timon oF ATHENS, iv. 3, 422. 
Tue root of the Briar-bush is a singular remedy found 
out by oracle against the biting of a mad dog. The fruit 
when it is ripe maketh most pleasant meats and banqueting 
dishes, as tarts and such like; the making whereof I commit 
to the cunning cook, and teeth to eat them in the rich 
man’s mouth. Gerard’s “Herbal,” bk. iii. ch. iii. 
Brimstone. /. Sulphur. 
To put fire in your heart, and brimstone in your liver, 
Twetrra NIGHT, ili, 2, 21-2. 
Ir you would have any beast or any part of the same 
(of what colour soever he be) to be turned into white, 
shave off the hairs, and smoke the same that is shaven 
with the fume of "Beinistone, and white hairs will grow 
there. You may prove the same in flowers. 
Lupton’s “Notable Things,” bk. vi. § 1. 
Brock [Badger]. 
Twetrru Nicut, il. 5, 11 
Tue Brock is a beast of the quantity of a fox, and his 
skin is full hairy and rough. In such beasts is wit and 
flight, and holdeth in the breath, and blowing ; [and] 
stretcheth the skin so holding their breathings, when they 
be hunted and chased with hunters’ dogs, and so they find 
sleight and manner, by such strutting out of the skin, to 
eschew and put off the biting of those hounds that so do 
pursue and follow to noy them, and also for to slay them, 
and in like wise put they off the smitings of the hunters. 
These beasts know when tempest shall fall, and maketh 
them therefore dens under earth with diverse enterings, and 
when the Northern wind bloweth, he stoppeth the north 
entering with his rough tail, and letteth stand open the 
south entering, and againwards, There is a manner kind of 
