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Burr. 
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. 
Measure For Measurg, iv. 3, 189-90. 
They are but burrs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery; if 
we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them. 
As You Like It, i, 3, 13-6. 
[Burr] the Clete groweth by old walls; and hight 
Philanthropos, as it were loving mankind, for it cleaveth 
to men’s clothes by a manner affection and love, as it 
seemeth. They heal smiting of scorpions, nor they smite 
not a man that is balmed with the juice thereof. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 93. 
Tue Burr or fruit of the lesser Burr dock before it be 
fully withered, being stamped and put into an earthen 
vessel, and afterwards when need requireth the weight of 
two ounces thereof and somewhat more, being steeped in 
warm water and rubbed on, maketh the hairs of the head 
red; yet the head is first to be dressed or rubbed with 
nitre. The roots being stamped with a little salt, and 
applied to the biting of a mad dog, cureth the same, and 
so speedily setteth free the sick man. The juice of the 
leaves drunk with old wine doth wonderfully help against 
the bitings of serpents. The stalk of Clot burr before the 
Burrs come forth, the rind pilled off, being eaten raw 
with salt and pepper, or boiled in the broth of fat meat, 
is pleasant to be eaten. Gerard’s “Herbal,” 5.0. 
Butterfly. 
Butterflies 
Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. 
Troius anp Cressipa, iii. 3, 78-9. 
There is differency between a grub and a butterfly ; yet your butterfly 
was a grub, 
Corioanus, v. 4, II-2. 
ButrerFLizs are small birds, which chiefly abound when 
the mallows are in flower. Butterflies are flying grubs, 
which get their food from flowers. The female lays eggs, 
and dies after laying them; the eggs last through the 
