X 
PREFACE 
calendar commences in April, since that would be 
the first month of the new year, Old Style, omitting 
the last five days of March. 
The second part of the work contains an Appendix 
in which every mention of plants and their direct 
products occurring in the poet’s plays and poems is 
arranged as it occurs, thus giving at a glance the 
number of plants and mode of allusion in each play, 
and also avoiding repetition. But the more beautiful 
passages are also quoted in the body of the work, and 
discussed by aid of various extracts from Elizabethan 
herbalists ; nor is their current folk-lore, legends, or 
botany neglected. 
J. Ho B. 
