Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.
- Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Burr. I am a kind of burr ; T shall stick. Measure for Measure, iv. 3, 189-90. They are but burrs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery; if we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them. As You Like It, i. 3, 13-6. [Burr] the Clete groweth by old walls; and hight Philanthropos, as it were loving mankind, for it cleaveth to men's clothes by a manner affection and love, as it seemeth. They heal smiting of scorpions, nor they smite not a man that is balmed with the juice thereof Bartholomew [Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 93. The Burr or fruit of the lesser Burr dock before it be fully withered, being stamped and put into an earthen vessel, and afterwards when need requireth the weight of two ounces thereof and somewhat more, being steeped in warm water and rubbed on, maketh the hairs of the head red; yet the head is first to be dressed or rubbed with nitre. The roots being stamped with a little salt, and applied to the biting of a mad dog, cureth the same, and so speedily setteth free the sick man. The juice of the leaves drunk with old wine doth wonderfully help against the bitings of serpents. The stalk of Clot burr before the Burrs come forth, the rind pilled off, being eaten raw with salt and pepper, or boiled in the broth of fat meat, is pleasant to be eaten. Gerard's Herbal, s.v. Butterfly. Butterflies Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. Troilus and Cressida, iii. 3, 78-9. There is difFerency between a grub and a butterfly ; yet your butterfly was a grub. CoRioLANUS, V. 4, 11-2. Butterflies are small birds, which chiefly abound when the mallows are in flower. Butterflies are flying grubs, which get their food from flowers. The female lays eggs, and dies after laying them ; the eggs last through the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100433x_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
