116 . SHAKESPEARE'’S [ FLEA. 
A Fea divided in two parts revives. If the water in 
which brambles have been boiled be sprinkled in a house, 
Fleas will be quite destroyed. When the blood of a goat 
is placed in a hole in a house, Fleas collect about it, and 
then die. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii, § 118, 
Wuen any draws nigh toward their death, and their. 
members lack blood and vital heat: then Fleas and lice 
leave them quite, or else draw to that part of the body 
where the said heat tarries the longest ; which is in the 
hole in the neck under the chin, etc. This is a token that 
death is at hand. 
Lupton, “*A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. iii. § 75. 
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Parish Accounts of St. Margaret’s, Westminster (1610). 
Ir is not any disgrace to a man to be troubled with 
Fleas, as it is to be lousy. Their first original is from 
dust. Mouffet, “Theatre of Insects,” p. 1102. 
