216 SHAKESPEARE’S [ NIGHTINGALE. 
in wine for three days cause loathing of wine in drunkards. 
[This is a quotation from Pliny, bk. xxx., where Holland 
translates “ owls’ eggs.” | Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. § 84. 
Nightingale. 
[In Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny is a most 
elequent description of the Nightingale, too long to quote 
(bk. x. ch. xxix.). Also (ch. xlii.) he says that Germanicus 
and Drusus had two Nightingales that were taught to speak 
Latin and Greek—yea, and were able to continue a long speech 
and discourse. | 
Night-raven. 
Mucu Apo asout Noruine, ii. 3, 84. 
VY. Night-crow and Raven. 
Tuere isanother kind of Night-raven, black, of the 
bigness of a dove, flat-headed, out of the which groweth 
three long feathers, like the cop of a lap-wing, his bill 
grey, using a sharp voice; whose unaccustomed appearance 
betokeneth mortality. He preyeth on mice, weasels, and 
such like. Batman's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xii. § 27. 
Nit. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, iv. 1, 150. 
Tuese are little, white, living creatures. The Philosopher 
affirms that they are called the eggs of lice. They are 
like to the flowers of Jessamine that grows with us. For 
as Jessamine brings flowers without seed, so Lice bring 
forth eggs without young ones in them. 
Thos. Mouffet, ‘Theatre of Insects,” bk. ii. ch. xxxv. 
Nut. 
As You Like Ir, iii. 2, 115. 
Droppine of the leaves thereof grieveth and noyeth other 
trees about, that be nigh thereto. The fruit thereof hath 
so great virtue, that if it be put among frog-stools and 
venomous meats, it spoileth and destroyeth and quencheth 
all the venom that is therein. And all manner apples that 
