302 SHAKESPEARE’S _ [TASSEL-GENTLE. 
Tassel-gentle. 
Romeo anp Juuiet, ii. 2, 160. 
TasseL, or Tiercel, or the male of a hawk. 
Minsheu's Dictionary, 5.7. 
Lonc-wincep Hawks, as the falcon gentle, and her 
Tiercel. Markham's ‘ Husbandry” (“ Of Hawks”), ch. i. 
_Tuen for an evening flight 
A Tiercel-gentle. Massinger, “ Guardian,” i. 1. 
I sHovtp not be so fond to mistake a Jenny Howlet 
for a Tassel-gentle. Brome, “The Northern Lass,” iii. 2. 
[Malone quotes from an old treatise on hawking, name not 
given: “The names of all manner of hawks, and to whom they 
belong :—For a Prince. There is a falcon gentle, and a Tiercel 
gentle; and these are for a prince.” ] 
Tench. 
i. King Henry IV., ii. 1, 17, 18. 
[“ Stung like a Tench” may perhaps refer to the small size 
of the scales of this fish. Nares quotes Wadlton’s ‘‘ Complete 
Angler” (part i. ch. xi.): “‘That the Tench is the physician 
of fishes, for the pike especially ; and that the pike, being either 
sick or hurt, is cured by the touch of the Trench.”] 
I Lone to see this fish. I wonder whether 
They will cut up his belly ; they say a Tench 
Will make him whole again. 
Fasper Mayne, “The City Match,” iii. 2 (1639). 
V, Fish. 
Thistle. 
Mucu Avo Asout Noruina, iii. 4, 76. 
THISTLE is a manner herb or a weed with pricks; the 
kind thereof is biting and cruel, therefore the juice thereof 
cureth the falling of the hair. The root thereof sod in water 
giveth appetite to drinkers, and it is no wonder though 
women desire it, for it helpeth the conception of male 
‘children. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 36. 
