304 SHAKESPEARE'S [ THROSTLE. 
barren land and untilled. And it is as it were a general 
rule, that all shrubs and trees with many thorns and pricks 
be wounden and wreathed together, and be clipped and 
succoured and defended each with other, and none of them 
hurteth other. And when they be felled or rooted up, 
they be bound in faggots and in heaps, and burnt in ovens 
and in furnaces, and for thorns be kindly dry, they be 
soon kindled in the fire, and give a strong light, and 
sparkleth, and cracketh, and maketh much noise, and soon 
after they be brought all to nought. Of thorns men make 
hedges and pavises [“ large shields,” according to Halliwell 
and Minsheu, but here certainly “fences ”—sepes, Bartholo- 
mew |, with which men defend and succour themselves and 
their own. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 149. 
Throstle, Thrush. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, iii. I, 130. 
Winter's Tae, iv. 3, 10. 
P ‘ 
Thrash, throssel or mavis. Minsheu’s Dictionary, 5.0. 
Tue Throstles or mavises all summer be painted about 
the neck with sundry colours, but in winter they be all of 
one colour. Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. xxix. 
Thyme. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. 1, 249. 
Vv. Cabbage. 
Tick. 
Troitus ano Cressipa, iii. 2, 315. 
Tick—a dog-louse. Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v. 
THERE is a creature which hath evermore the head fast 
sticking within the skin of a beast, and so by sucking of 
blood liveth, and swells withal: the only living creature of 
all other that hath no way at all to rid excrements out of 
the body ; by reason whereof when it is too full, the skin 
doth crack and burst, and so his very food is cause of his 
