[210] Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 33.
[211] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 378.
[212] “Execration against Vulcan,” 1640, p. 37.
[213] Singer’s “Notes,” 1875, vol. i. p. 283.
[214] See “Archæologia,” vol. iii. p. 33.
[215] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 693. Some think that the bullfinch is meant.
[216] Singer’s “Notes,” 1875, vol. v. p. 82; see Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 433.
[217] Some doubt exists as to the derivation of gull. Nares says it is from the old French guiller. Tooke holds that gull, guile, wile, and guilt are all from the Anglo-Saxon “wiglian, gewiglian,” that by which any one is deceived. Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 267.
[218] See D’Israeli’s “Curiosities of Literature,” vol. iii. p. 84.
[219] See Thornbury’s “Shakespeare’s England,” vol. i. pp. 311-322.