136 SHAKESPEARE’S [GRASSHOPPER. 
Tuer earth found in or about a man or woman’s skull is 
a singular depilatory, and fetcheth away the hair of the 
eyebrows. As for the Grass or weed that groweth therein 
(if any such may be found) it causeth the teeth to fall out 
of the head with chewing only. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. xxviii. ch. iv. p. 302, G. 
Five-Leavep Grass, through Jupiter’s force, doth resist 
venom or poison. Whereof if one leaf twice every day, 
morning and evening, be drunken with wine, it is said to 
put away the quotidian ague. Three leaves the tertian 
ague. And four leaves the quartan ague. 
Lupton, “ A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. iii. § 45. 
Tue fine Grass which groweth upon the banks of [the 
Dove] is so fine and batable [luxuriant], that there goeth 
a proverb upon the same; so oft as a man will commend 
his pasture, to say that there groweth no better feed on 
Dove-bank. Holinshed, “Description of England,” p. 98. 
Grasshopper. 
Romeo anv JuLIgT, i. 4, 60. 
TuHey never alter their place, or at least very seldom ; 
or if they do, they are ever after silent, they sing no 
more; so much doth the love of their native soil prevail 
with them. If clay be not dug up in due time, it will 
breed Grasshoppers. The Grasshoppers abounding in the 
end of spring do foretell a sickly year to come. Often- 
times their coming and singing doth portend the happy 
state of things. What year that few of them are to be 
seen, they presage dearness of victuals, and scarcity of all 
things else. Mouffer, “Theatre of Insects,” bk. i, ch. xvii. 
V. Locust. 
Griffin. 
Mivsummer Nicut’s Dream, il. I, 232. 
A Gripe is accounted among volatiles. And the Gripe 
is four-footed, and like to the eagle in head and in wings; 
and is like to the lion in the other part of the body, and 
