The Blossoming Rod

rds mentioned by Shakespeare which cannot, with propriety, be included in any of them. W

ch, on this account, in some parts of the country, is called "rain-bird;" the Golden Plover, whose Latin and French name, Pluvialis and Pluvier, have reference to the same peculiarit

rrot against rain."-As Yo

PA

ours, and aptitude for learning tricks and words, no doubt brought them into notice at an early

re for an almond."-Troilus

eason, is proverbial. Lieutenant Cassio thu

n officer. Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear and discourse fustian with one's own shadow? Oh, t

ROT-T

Ado about Nothing, the former is likened by the latter

only you excepted: and I would I could find in my he

pernicious suitor. I thank God, and my cold blood, I am of your humour for

hat mind! so some gentleman or other sha

make it worse, an 'twere

u are a rare pa

tongue is better th

your tongue, and so good a continuer: but

with a jade's trick

steps in and puts an

ut Nothing,

I. Act i. Sc. 3) apparently i

word thus explained:-"Popingay, a parrot; Pap

g Henry VIII. the following entry

de to a woman that wolde have gyven

STAR

to utter words must be of some antiquity, for Pliny alludes to the starlings which were tra

fers to the starlin

d, he would not

ngue to speak

nd him when h

r I'll holloa

starling shall

Mortimer,' an

anger stil

Part I. Ac

precision as if they had been spoken by some person in the next room; and when the bell rang for mass, the same bird called to its mistress, by name, "Mademoiselle, entendez-vous

INGFI

n kindness to her, remained so smooth and calm, that the mariner might venture on the sea with the happy certainty of

rtin's161 summer

Part I. Ac

and suspended by a single thread, would always turn its beak

(Act II. Sc. 2), sp

eir halc

e and vary of

re, Marlowe, in his

now stand

er peers my ha

so straight and rapid withal is its line of flight, that when the sunlight falls upon its brigh

by a bird in passing between two fixed points in its line of flight, and measure the distance between these points, we resolve the question to a simple "rule-of-three" sum; inasmuch as, knowing the number of yards flown in a certain number of seconds, we

as swall

onicus, Ac

conjectured to be nearly one hu

ft, and flies wit

III. Act

SWAL

e ground, and seeming almost to touch it, although flying with speed as un

rse will follo

run like swallo

onicus, Ac

your lordship, nor more willingly leaves winter; such

iest, is not always the first of our

ffo

re the swallow

of March w

ale, Act

MA

n, or, as it is called in the language of

uest of

nting martlet,

sionry, that the

ly here; no j

oigne of vantag

endant bed and

breed and haunt,

is del

, Act i

ng instance of what, in painting, is termed 'repose.' Their conversation very naturally turns upon the beauties of its situation, and the pleasantness of the air; and Banquo, observing the martlets' nests in every recess of the cornice, remarks that where these b

in the Merchant of Venice,

mar

weather on the

orce and road

Venice, Ac

ALLOW'

the property of restoring sight. This popular fallacy appears to be widely disseminated. The plant is the well-known Celandine (Chelidonium majus). It belongs to the Papaverace?, or poppies, an

t so obvious. Some authors assert that it was so called on account of its flowering about the time of the arrival of the

s as being especially selected for the purpose. Pliny observes (Hist. Nat. fol. 1530, p. 461, xv.): "Animalia quoque invenire herbas, inprimisque chelidoniam. Hac enim hirundines oculis pullorum in

saith) that the tale or fable grew, how, thorow an herbe the dams restore that thing, which healeth of itselfe: the very same doth Aristotle alleadge in the sixt booke of the historie of liuing creatures: the eies of young swallowes, saith he, that are not fledge, if a man do pricke them out, do grow againe, and afterwards do perfectly recouer their sight." Subsequently, when speaking of the "virtues" of the plant, the sage Gerard continues:-"The iuice of the herbe is good to sharpen the sight, for it clenseth and consumeth awaie slimie things that cleaue about the ball of the eie, and hinder the sight." The root was considered good for yellow-jaundice, and also (being chewed) for toothac

us that "Arondell" in French is "Hirundo

eater, whereof Dioscorides chiefely speaketh, being greene both winter and sommer; and the lesser springeth before swallowes come in, and is gone and withered long before their departure). Dioscorides likewise, and Pliny also, say it tooke that name from swallowes that cured their young ones' eyes, that were h

alidonia maggiore of the Italians; Yerva de las gelondrinhas of the Spaniards; Chelidoine Felongue and Esclaire of th

e, to which wonderful properties have been likewis

ALLOW'

a sous or so a day. Now, I had the good fortune to see some of these 'swallow-stones,' and to examine them. I found them to be the hard polished calcareous opercula of some species of Turbo, and although their worn state precludes the idea of identifying the species, yet I am confident that they belong to no European Turbo. The largest I have seen was three-eighths of an inch long, and one-fourth of an inch broad; one side is flat, or nearly so, and the other is convex, more or less so in different specimens. Their peculiar shape enabl

usion which Longfellow has made to it in his poem of "Evangeline" would seem to confirm this impression, inasmuch as we

n his "Evange

climbed to the populo

yes that wondrous st

the sea to restore the

nd that stone in the

for defective sight. There is this difference, however, between the current opinion in Brittany and the popular notion in Acadia, that in the

for having been acquainted centuries ago with inventions which until recently were believed to be modern. Not being conversant, however, with Chinese, we are unable to sa

OSTR

The food of the ostrich is said to consist of the tops of shrubby plants, seeds, and grain; strange to say, however, it will swallow, with indiscriminating voracity, stones, sticks, pieces of metal, c

ying my head to him! but I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my

ng of the Indian Bustard (Eupodotis Edwardsii), says, "they will often swallow pebbles or any glittering object that attr

Prince of Wales," and his comrades, at the reb

ish'd, al

e estridges th

gles having la

Part I. Ac

PELI

her young with her own blood, it is not surprising that Shakesp

ends thus wide I

kind life-rend

em with m

Act iv

lf to a pelican when speakin

hion, that dis

s little mercy

shment! 'Twas

lican da

r, Act i

ai

ichar

thy frozen

cheek; chasing

om his nativ

nt.

lready, like

d out, and drun

II. Act

egards its origin, but none is more ingenious, and at the same time more plausible, than the explanation suggested by Mr. Bartlett, the energetic Sup

r nests, but without result; nevertheless they appear to take considerable notice of a pair of Cariamas in the same aviary. These birds have a habit of bending back their heads, and with open gaping mouths utter loud and somewhat distressing sounds. This habit at once attracts the flamingoes, and very frequently one or more of them advance towards the cariamas, and standing erect over the bird, by a slight up-and-down movement of the head, raise up into its mouth a considerable quantity of red coloured fluid. As soon as the upper part of the throat and mouth becomes filled, it will drop or run down from the corners of the flamingo's mouth; the flamingo then bends its long neck over the gaping cariama and pours this fluid into the mouth, and as frequently on the back of the cariama. Having seen this repeatedly, I took an opportunity of obtaining a portion of this fluid and submitted it to the examination of Dr. Murie. We placed it under the microscope, and find it composed of little else than blood; in fact, the red blood-corpuscles are wonderfully abundant in the otherwise clear and almost transparent glutinous fluid. That this does not proceed from any

valves. ?lian merely repeats this story, only he says the shell-fish are received into the stomach. In another place he says there is mutual hostility between the pelican and the quail. The pelican was known to the Romans under the name of onocrotalus. Pliny says this bird is like the swan, except that under the throat there is a sort of second crop of astonishing capacity. There is, of course, no doubt that the pelican is here intended. Cicero says there is a bird called platalea which pursues other birds and causes them to drop the fish they have caught, which it devours itself. He then gives the same story as ?lian, viz., that this bird softens shell-fish in its stomach, &c. The first part of this account is true of the parasitic gulls (Lestris). It is uncertain what bird Cicero alludes to by the name platalea. Pliny gives the same story as Cicero, and calls the bird platea. The fable, then, is no classical one. Whence did it originate? Does any pictorial representation occur on the Egyptian monuments, as Mr. Bartlett has been informed? I am inclined to think-but I speak under correction-that such a representatio

κτ?μοντε?,

κο?? ζωπυρο

e a pelican in the wilderness'-says: 'These birds [male pelicans] are said to kill their young offspring by blows of their beaks, and then to bewail their death for the space of three days. At length, however, it is said the mother bird inflicts a severe wound on herself, pouring the flowing blood over the dead young ones, which instantly brings them to life.' To the same effect write Eustathius, Isidorus, Epiphanius, and a host of other writers, except that sometimes it was the female who killed the young ones, while the male reanimated them with its blood. This fable was suppo

one, may have been intended by the Hebrew writers to apply either to such birds as, like the pelican and many others, possess the power of disgorging their food on being disturbed or alarmed, or to such birds as are accustomed to nourish their young from their own crops; and, in the latter case, the curious bloody secretion of the flamingo may well have given rise to the superstition concerning the pelica

narrowly, but was content to accept the common story as he f

ENGLI

Islands, but, strange as it may appear, there is evidence to show that the pelican,

-bone of a pelican. This interesting discovery was made known by M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, in an able article in the "Annales des Sciences

t recognition of the genus and species of bird to which it belongs. So precise a determination would not be always possible, but in the present case there need be no doubt; for I have sho

ICAN IN

orded to have occurred in England in recent ti

copied by Montagu,173 and subsequently by Dr. Fleming,174 but there is no evidence to show that the bird was a wild one. On the contrary, it is

as three yards and a half between the extremities of the wings; the chowle and beak answering the usual description; the ex

he king's pelicans was lost at St. Jam

y he saw a brown pelican fly over his head on Blackheath, in Ken

h of August, 1856, the remains of a pelican were picked up on the shore at Castle Eden, Du

lakes and watercourses of Hungary and Russia, and also seen further south in Asia and in Northern Africa." M. Milne-Edwards, however, has not quite deter

show the interest which attaches to the d

ong list of birds mentioned

CLU

oubtless, ere this have formed a just estimate of Shakespeare's qualifications as

ich he lived; and our admiration for him as a poet must be increased tenfold on perceiving that the beauteous thoughts, which he has clothed in such beauteous language, were dictated b

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Shakespeare, the Poet's father, was a member of the Municipal body (he filled the office of Chamberlai

ich, from the decease of the Poet to our own times, have been offered t

ty, and Characteristics of the Shakespeare

painted from the bust, and probably abou

n actor, characters in the decline of life, and that one of his relatives is reported to have seen him in the part

iam Shakespeare," by J. Ha

painted portraits. There was a contemporary, however, named John Taylor,

bage, "who is known to have hand

Shakespeare died in 1616, and

ell, Op. cit., p. 49), but it matters little, if w

ll be found duly crit

r a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish: a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool

tynge":-"For huntynge, as to myn entent, is too laboryous, for the hunter must alwaye renne and followe his houndes: traueyllynge and swetynge fu

ching will be fully discuss

White to Sir Robert Sidn

and Magnificent Festivities of Queen El

wick, and to watch and endeavour to keep them safe, by day and night. He is likewise to apprehend all offenders in vert and venison, and t

p,' the fox and hare are 'cased.'

n "umble pie." This was a venison pasty, made of the umbles (heart, liver, and lungs), and always

fterwards 'an old coney.' He is a beast of the warren, an

ire, Brockenhurst in Kent, Brockenborough in Wiltshire, Brockford in Suffolk, Brockhall in Northampton, Brockhampton in Oxford, Dorset, Gloucester, and Herefordshire, Brockham Green in Surrey, Brockholes in Lancashire and Yor

inter's Tale,

t is often called leathern-wings. C

3

edgehog

n my bare-foot

cks at my

, Act i

also known as the "rennie-mouse" or "reiny-mouse," although Miss Gurney, in her "Glossary of Norfolk Words," gives "ranny" for the shrew-mouse

ts mentioned in Shakspeare's Plays,"

Tribes of the Britis

llo Judico

on, "Cyrop

azine of Natural Hi

30. And this is not an isolated instance. Se

t, "Britis

"History of B

Sports," vo

ations," vol

ersia;" Johnston's "Sketches of Indian Field Sports;" Atkinson's "Travels in Or

1676. Part

f Stephen Grel

Naturalist" f

Sutherland,"

reat Sahar

Sutherland,"

o doubt, of a f

"Treatise

e," a name which is still given t

erie Queene," B

Emperor Frederic II., "De arte venandi cum avibus;" Albertus Magnus, "De Falconibus;" as also a dig

, "Falconry in the Brit

amiliar expression formerly. In

this that 'cri

I. (Act v. Sc. 3)

souls, whose bodie

nt, and 'crie

slaughter. The expression, "Cry havoc, kings!" occurs in King

d let slip the

Act iii. Sc. 1)

voc, where you

dest wa

rick, "Falconry in

"yoke." Some editions read

pp. 57–59, "I'd w

, "A falcon tow'ring in

as a thing of the past, as indeed it is a sport now almost obsolet

arms-as the falcon, falconet, and saker-have derived their names from larger and more formidable birds of prey. Against this view it is asserted that the musket was inven

mber 30t

ols du Bassin du Léman." Bale,

Shakespeare, and of

Moor and

ogist" for 18

tural History," 1

amiliar History

ice in the raven will be found in the second vol

nithology," folio,

amiliar History

a bosom, hides my heart." Tw

," that is,

ghtingale that, if undisturbed, she sits and sings upon the same tree for many weeks together;" and Russell

tamorph." Boo

in 1598 in a volume entitled "Poems in Divers Humors." (See Ellis's "Specimens of the Early English Poets," vol. ii. p. 356, and F. T. Palgrave

e's Works" (Wilkin's

night. We have frequently listened with delight to the wood lark, skylark, thrush, sedge-warbler

Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. S

Ornithologische

Shel

bles soft."-Spenser'

ads "winter-guard;" but "to winter-ground" appears to have been a technical

ante,

of Shakespeare,

expression occurs again in The Merr

mmer comes, or cuc

s (Black Let

Universalis.

, of different hues. So in The M

(i.e. young lambs) which

ng to the parti-coloured dress whic

ied ninny

" speaks of "meadows t

owers. Sir J. E. Smith says they cover the meadows as with linen bleaching, whence the name of "ladysmocks" is sup

koo-flower" for "cuckoo-buds." Another writer says, "cuckoo-flower" must be wrong, and believes "cowslip-buds" the true reading, but this is clearly a mistake. Walley, the editor of Ben Jonson's Works, proposes to read "crocus-buds," which is likewise incorrec

rs's "Book of

upon a long pole, and carried upon men's shoulders

akespeare's Englan

h Army: its Origin, Progress, an

n, Progress, and Equipment." Lon

in its primary signification, implying, of the

ives us the origin of "The Bear and Ragged St

y father's badge, o

r chain'd to th

Part II. A

mpleat Game

nimals and Plants under

. i. 2

e Shrew, Act iv. Sc. 1, a

f Animals and Plants und

l. Soc. Apri

rwin,

r's "Chr

e Expenses of King Henry VIII." turkies are not once me

ic Society, Bengal,

p. 390

his victorious army, is depicted proceeding to the temple to offer his grateful thanks to the gods; and whilst certain priests in their gorgeous robes are casting incense about, and offering up sacrifices a

y Mr. Tegetmeier, with illustrations, will b

nimals and Plants under Dome

n the Animal E

tions of Briti

al Dictionary," Pr

eties, Habits, and Management." By W

ary," 4to.

History of the World,"

e ante,

y Sir Thos. Mallory, Knt., and fi

article "Chase;" also Holt White's note to

Buffon," xix.

ved, differs materially fro

tural History," se

end of

he Ibis," 1

adily accessible, we give the following interesting extract, sh

id. a pece

s at ?d.

at iid.

(no pric

or iiiid. a

d. or i?d

xvid.

Heronshaws or He

es iid.

s id.

d. or i?d.

Lapwings)

d. or i?d.

after

id. a pece

after i

es at ii

hanke

i.e. Bitt

unte

ffs and Reeve

es vid.

s xiid.

xiid.

es (no

at i?d.

s id.

ls id.

es (no

fter iii

es after i

es after x

fter xii

urse Accounts of the L'estranges of Hunstanto

f the Princess Mary, 1536–1544."

e-hawking will be found in Freeman and Salvin's "Falco

s Pollux, "De l

a Universalis

e bird is known a

ery egg. See 3 & 4 Ed. VI. c

ms, and Practice," by G. E. Freem

sation of George Neville, Archbishop of York, in the reign

ut of his Humour

kespeare's England,"

speare's England," i.

tleman's Recr

e pp. 1

s Origin, Progress, and Eq

in Maitland's "Hist.

inion of Captain Barwicke

Hewitt's official Tower Cat

Discourse of

k's "Des

, on which were suspended little metal, wooden, leather, or horn cylinders

. MSS., N

"?uvres," tom.

, "Arcadia,

e ante,

Omina: Ornithologia.

phical Transa

agoras is again alluded t

mak'st me wav

inion with

animals infu

trunks

Venice, Ac

y, an allied species, Ph. sinens

m. It is bound in soft parchment, and entered in the catalogue as "

s recorded in the "Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King

in to Mr. Frank Buckland's journal, Land and Water, i

found at the end of Freeman and Salvin's "Falconr

in Land and Wate

be found an interesting article upon the sub

Feltwell Hall, Norfolk, still keep and use trained cormorants; as, through

l, from the Italian ghezzo. Dr. Jamieson, how

ct v. Sc. 2, and Timon o

"Curiosities of Lit

1, 312. Doubtless compiled from Greene's "Art of Coney

t-teacher," Henry IV.

d is still called "Marti

t the old French, or a c

a "swallow-stone" in the eye would be much more inconv

nor does he vouch for their having been found by others in the nests. We have examine

. On the contrary, he says it is found in the stomach of the bird! "In ventre hirundinum pullus l

s contributed by the author in an article

ds of India,"

e editio

e estridges tha

gles having l

have been so incorrect as to describe them as "winging the wind;" 2. The word "bated," if intended to refer to eagles, and not to ostriches, would have be

séries, tom. vi

, 1868, p

ossiles de la F

is," iii. p.

l. Orn. Di

Brit. An." p

Wilkin's ed. v

DE

3, 15, 1

ry,

, 12,

leers

3, 14,

ling, 1

le Goo

les, 2

ing

, 18, 1

17, 20

ls,

bolts

tching,

ing,

ieces, 72

Jove,

lime,

traps

of son

r domestic

bird,

Ouze

, 12,

ing,

ly, 17,

ard,

ge,

ger

9. derivati

ption

e of,

e of

t, 198

llar, 1

Wild-go

15. and C

age o

egged

-pated

s, 3

ncestry of d

hoop, 1

nd pye

crow,

ghting,

trel

259. fishi

ng's,

of th

ng, 12

tril

t, 17,

. black

for

s of, 111.

t-,

e-,

luck

their rela

havo

7–156. hab

of,

, 152

t, 20

, 1

8, Intro. -sho

ing, 6

d, 10,

dappe

rs,

1. of Pa

enus

k-,

le-,

house

's, 193. timi

dish

se, 13

17, 19,

7. -hunt

3–40. ag

of,

e,

e of

ity of

f vict

flight,

of vis

hawking, 36, 37.

w, 6

muske

es, 5

e, 3

. docility

tle,

rd-,

ercel

. qualities

of th

s of

ch,

g, 3,

7, Intro. Gad

17, 20

lded-, 1

t the br

r, 6, 1

5. fligh

-,

, 235

g, 4,

11, I

209. former

s,

ving,

the

rm, 17

17,

97. a gr

bble-

value o

d-,

pper, 1

. Great-cr

le,

a-fow

6. -catc

pers

rd, 5

275. da

11,

. how to

of,

ngs of

of,

nn'd

of, 50. sun

ms,

og, 13

aw, 75

. -hawking

s of fa

d,

, 8, 9

g, 4,

daw,

, 1

s, 58

g, 67

bird,

rel,

isher

47. habit

of,

mened

bit thin

. decoying f

at heaven's

of mo

and sing

the, 1

of taki

hman's cl

e,

258,

on of the, 55.

ie,

ard,

ten

in,

t, 277

13,

17,

rigin of t

e Royal,

ket

-crow

, 124. lame

ding,

inst a thor

g by d

of,

its associ

cter mali

des, 97. its f

ve wit

s misunde

y to the f

in medic

note

ring hab

g nest

l-ome

its power ov

ich,

el,

72. -teac

16. in kite'

king

ing-

5. introduc

e of

ty of

it,

86. fable

n of fable

in Engl

0. introduct

king

80. Barba

ier-

icated

iers,

g youn

er'd

st,

e of

ch,

tage

nt,

ne,

8. -fight

of th

recip

rry

ntro. -nettin

0. of ill

g its yo

ers o

of,

n battle-f

rophetic p

ty of

s, qua

139. -tea

in,

dove,

k,

covering wit

fowl

ulls,

ells,

l,

ing,

rm, 16,

13, 15,

33. -net

e, 3

144. fall

e-,

lip, 145. va

owhaw

229. how t

unded, 1

. how to m

king

ng-hor

, 274. ta

op,

low,

herb, 279.

habits of

of th

of th

s dow

o, 206. warr

el, 13

-gentl

3. and Fa

137. song

e,

r, 3

ing,

13, 15

n, a cur

, 3,

. introduct

y-fow

e-dov

repulsive h

ail,

17,

hing

l, 13

at, 13

duck,

owl, 2

goose

ose cha

-groun

. courage

ity of

of,

, 271. spring

's head,

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riber'

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