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Parsley. 
Parsley to stuff a rabbit. 
TaminG oF THE SHREW, iv. 4, I00. 
[Parsley is one of the herbs used to make broth and farcing 
enumerated in ‘‘ The History of Jacob and Esau,” iv. 5.] 
A saLap of Parsley and the herb patience. 
“Look About You,” i. 10. 
Goop man-mender, 
Stop me with some Parsley like stuffed beef, 
And let me walk abroad. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, “'The Chances,” iii, 2. 
ToucH Welsh Parsley which in our vulgar tongue is 
strong hempen halters. Ibid., “The Elder Brother,” i. 2. 
Partridge. 
ii. King Henry VI, iii. 2, 191. 
Tue Partridge is an unclean bird, for strong liking of 
lechery forgetteth the sex and distinction of male and 
female. And is so guileful that the one stealeth the eggs 
of the other, and sitteth abrood on them; but this fraud 
hath no fruit, for when the birds be haught [grown], and 
hear the voice of their own mother, they forsake her that 
brooded them when they were eggs, and kept them as her 
own birds, and turn and follow their own mother natural. 
And the Partridge travaileth not in laying and in brooding, 
like as other fowls do. And at the noise of a little bell, 
he fleeth about upon the ground, and falleth into the gin 
or net ere he be ware. The Partridge’s gall, with even 
weight of honey, cleareth much the sight; and therefore it 
shall be kept in a silver box. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 30. 
A parrripce will cry aloud, and will tear or break 
the cage or coop where she is fed, if there be any deadly 
medicine or poison prepared within the same house, which 
she doth feel presently, through a wonderful special and 
rare gift of nature. Lupton, “ Notable Things,” bk. x. § 99. 
Tue Partridge, though cunning in many things, is foolish 
in this, that where she can hide her head, she believes that 
