206 SHAKESPEARE’S [ Moss. 
hard withal, that unneath a knife will enter and pierce it 
either with edge or point. Howbeit a kind of moving 
it hath. Holland’s Pliny, bk. vii, ch. xv. 
Moss. 
Tirus Anpronicus, il. 3, 95. 
[Gerard (“ Herbal,” s.v.) states that he has found “ goldilocks, 
or golden maiden-hair, the bigger and less in great abundance,” 
between Hampstead Heath and Highgate, and ‘“‘club-moss or 
wolf-claw Moss” only upon Hampstead Heath, and he testifies 
that the latter Moss, if it be hanged in a vessel of “ floating 
wine, which is now become slimy,” the wine is restored to his 
former goodness. Moreover, the kind of Moss, which “is found 
upon the skulls or bare scalps of men and women lying long 
in charnel-houses or other places, where the bones of men and 
women are kept together, is thought to be a singular remedy 
against the falling evil, and the chin-cough in children, if it be 
produced and then given in sweet wine for certain days 
together.”] 
Moth. 
Corroanus, i. 3, 94. 
A Mors is a worm of clothes, and is gendered of cor- 
ruption of cloth, when the cloth is too long in press and 
thick air, and is not blown with wind, neither unfolded in 
pure air. And though he be a sensible beast, yet he hideth 
himself within the cloth, that unneath he is seen. Leaves 
of the laurel-tree, of cedars, and of cypress, and other such, 
put among clothes in hutches save the clothes and also books 
from corruption and eating of Moths. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 105. 
Ir you seethe the dregs, or mother, or foam of oil to the 
half, and therewith anoint the bottom, corners, and feet of 
any chest or press,—the clothes that you lay therein shall 
never be hurt with Moths (so that it be dry before you 
put therein your clothes). 
Lupton, “ Notable Things,” bk. ii. § 94. 
Morus breed in’ garments so much the sooner if a spider 
be shut in. They that sell woollen clothes use to wrap 
up the skin of a bird called the king-fisher amongst them, 
