2.30 SHAKESPEARE’S [PADDOCK. 
Paddock. 
Hamer, ili. 4, 190. 
MacserH, i. 1, 9. 
Ir is apparent that there be three kinds of frogs of the 
earth :—the first is the little green frog; the second is this 
Paddock, having a crook back; and the third is the toad. 
This second kind is found deep in the earth, in the midst 
of rocks and stones. Such as these are found near Tours 
in France, among a red sandy stone, whereof they make 
the mill-stones, and therefore they break that stone all in 
pieces before they make the millstone up, lest while the 
Paddock is included in the middle, and the mill-stone going 
in the mill, the heat should make the Paddock swell, and 
so the mill-stone breaking, the corn should be poisoned. 
Topsell, ‘History of Serpents,” p. 725. 
V. Toad, Frog. 
Palm-tree. 
As You Like Ir, iii, 2, 186. 
Ir the male Palm be felled, then is the female barren 
after two days out. The more noble and old the Palm is 
the better the fruit thereof’ And the Palm-tree beareth no 
fruit tofore an hundred years, and then it hath the first 
perfect and complete virtue. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 116. 
Pansy. 
Pansies that’s for thoughts. 
Hater, iv. 5, 175. 
Heart’s-EasE is named in English: Heart’s ease, Pansies, 
Live in idleness, Cull me to you, and Three faces in a 
hood. Gerard’s “ Herbal,” s.v. 
V. Heart’s-ease, Violet. 
Panther. 
Titus Anpronicus, i. I, 493. 
PantTuer is friend to all beasts save the dragon, for him 
he hateth full sore. And is a beast painted with small 
round speckles, so that all his skin without seemeth full of 
