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Heath. 
TEMPEST, i. I, 70. 
Tue tender tops and flowers are good to be laid upon 
the bitings and stingings of any venomous beast ; of these 
flowers the bees do gather bad honey. 
Gerara’s “Herbal,” sv. 
Tue leaf of this plant is an enemy to serpents. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. xxiv. ch. ix. 
Ir it be eaten alone, it induces head-ache, therefore it 
should be eaten with lettuce or endive. If mixed with 
milk or vinegar and lozenges made of it, it can keep flesh 
from putrefaction. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 176. 
A xKinpD of broom, whereof brushes be made. 
Minshew’s Dictionary, 5.7. 
Hedgehog. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. 2, 9. 
Tue Urchin is a beast heled with pricks, hard and sharp, 
and his skin is closed about with pikes and pricks, andjhe 
closeth himself therewith. And is a beast of purveyance ; 
for he climbeth upon a vine or an apple-tree, and shaketh 
down grapes and apples. And when they be felled, he 
walloweth on them, and sticketh his pricks in them, and 
so beareth meat to his children in that manner wise. And 
there is a manner kind of Urchins with a white shell and 
white pikes, and layeth many eggs. Also the urchin hath 
feeble hearing, more feeble than other beasts with hard 
shells, and that go on four feet. In Urchins is wit and 
knowing of coming of winds north or south; for he maketh 
a den in the ground when he is ware that such winds 
come. And so sometime was one in Constantinople, that 
had an Urchin, and knew and warned thereby that winds 
should come, and of what side, and none of his neighbours 
wist whereby he had such knowledge and warning. Also 
the Urchin breedeth five eggs better than other, and the eggs 
of some be much and great, and some be less; for some 
