172 SHAKESPEARE’S [KNOT-GRASS. 
Tue Kites or Gleads are of the kind of hawks or birds 
of prey, only they be greater. These Gleads or Puttocks 
seem by the winding and turning of their tails to and fro 
as they fly to have taught pilots the use of the helm, After 
the sunsteads alway in summer they be troubled with the 
gout in their feet. Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. 10. 
Ir the Kite’s head be taken, and borne before the breast, 
it brings the love and favour of all men and women ; if 
it be hung on a hen’s neck, it will never cease to run, until 
it gets it off; and if a cock’s comb be anointed with its 
blood, from thenceforth it will not crow. In its knees 1s 
found a certain stone, if you look carefully, and if this be 
put in the food of two enemies, they will become friends, 
and there will be good peace between them. 
Albertus Magnus, “Of the Virtues of Animals.” 
Knot-grass [Polygonum Vulgare]. 
Hindering knot-grass. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, iil. 2, 239. 
We want a boy extremely for this function kept under 
for a year with milk and Knot-grass. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, ‘The Coxcomb,”’ ii. 1. 
[Steevens quotes also to the same effect, ‘The Knight of 
the Burning Pestle,” by the same authors, but I have not the 
reference. 
Knot-grass is binding, stays any flux, solders the lips of 
green wounds, and knits broken bones, according to Parkinson's 
“ Herbal.” ] 
Lady-smock (or Cuckoo-flower). 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, v. 2, 905. 
V. Cuckoo-bud. 
Lamb. 
Amonc all the beasts of the earth, the Lamb is most 
innocent, soft and mild; for he nothing grieveth neither 
hurteth nor with teeth nor with horn nor with claws. 
Those which be yeaned in springing time be more huge 
