48 SHAKESPEARE’S [ BUZZARD. 
winter, and in the summer become grubs, which, invigorated 
by the warmth of the sun and by nocturnal dew, produce 
wings for flying. Butterflies should be killed in the month 
of April when they hurt the bees. 
Hortus Sanitatis, part iii. (“ Of Birds”) § 96. 
Burrerriies be called small fowls, and be most in 
fruit in apples, and breedeth therein worms that come of 
their stinking filth, For of malshrags [caterpillars] cometh. 
and breedeth Butterflies, and of the dirt of Butterflies left 
upon leaves breedeth and cometh again malshrags. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 47. 
[In Mouffet’s “ Theatre of Insects” are described and pictured 
some eighty different moths and Butterflies (including apparently, 
some flies and beetles), but no English names are given. He 
says that the venomous dung of Butterflies, with aniseed, goat’s 
milk cheese, hog’s blood, galbanum, and opoponax made into 
troches (or lozenges) with good sharp wine, and dried in the 
sun, allure fish to your hook.] 
Buzzard. 
O slow-wing’d turtle! shall a buzzard take thee? 
TaMING OF THE SHREW, il. I, 208. 
More pity that the eagle should be mew’d 
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. 
Kine Ricwarp IIL, i. 1, 132-3. 
Tue Buzzard is of the class of hawks; but somewhat 
darker, and very slow and sluggish in flight; yet it lives 
on prey, which it is able to catch by cunning, or when it 
is let by some sickness or slowness. This bird is very 
sweet in taste. Hortus Sanitatis, ch. xvii. 
[A Buzzard was one of the chief dishes in Lieutenant Slicer’s 
valiant dinner, for which see Cartwright’s “The Ordinary,” ii. 1.] 
Cabbage or Cole or Colewort. 
Good worts! good cabbage ! 
Merry Wives or Winnsor, i. I, 124. 
Tue tombstone of the introducer of Cabbage into England 
is said to exist at Wimborne, probably the Sir “Anthony 
Ashley who was (according to Anthony-a~Wood) a woman- 
