FOOTNOTES:
[568] “Insects Mentioned by Shakespeare,” 1841, p. 181.
[569] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. pp. 190, 191.
[570] See Patterson’s “Insects Mentioned by Shakespeare,” 1841, pp. 104, 105.
[571] “Linnæan Transactions,” vol. xv. p. 407; cf. Virgil’s “Georgics,” iii. l. 148.
[572] “Glossary,” 1876, p. 238.
[573] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 973.
[574] Cf. “Macbeth” (iii. 4):
“There the grown serpent lies: the worm, that’s fled,
Hath nature that in time will venom breed.”
[575] Worm is used for serpent or viper, in the Geneva version of the New Testament, in Acts xxvii. 4, 5.
[576] See Hunt’s “Popular Romances of the West of England,” 1871, p. 415; and Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 270.
[577] Denham’s “Weather Proverbs,” 1842.
[578] “Folk-Lore Record,” 1878, vol. i. p. 45.
[579] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. iii. pp. 223, 287, 381.
[580] See article on “Spider-Lore,” in Graphic, November 13, 1880.
[581] “Insects Mentioned by Shakespeare,” 1841, p. 220.
[582] See Croker’s “Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland,” edited by T. Wright, 1862, p. 215.
[583] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. ii. pp. 50-55; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” pp. 181-183.
[584] See “Notes and Queries,” 6th series, vol. v. pp. 32, 173: also, Gilbert White’s “Natural History of Selborne,” letter xvii.
[585] “Zoology,” 1766, vol. iii. p. 15.
[586] Cf. “Hamlet,” iii. 4; here paddock is used for a toad.
[587] Patterson’s “Insects Mentioned by Shakespeare,” 1841, p. 137.
[588] Cf. “Titus Andronicus,” ii. 3; “Henry VIII.,” iii. 3.