[255] Sir Thomas Browne’s “Vulgar Errors,” bk. iii. chap. 10.
[256] Also to the buzzard, which see, p. 100.
[257] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. iv. p. 67.
[258] “Glossary,” p. 243.
[259] “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 495; see Yarrell’s “History of British Birds,” 2d edition, vol. ii. p. 482.
[260] Ray’s “Proverbs,” 1768, p. 199.
[261] Cf. “Midsummer-Night’s Dream” (iv. 1). “the morning lark;” “Romeo and Juliet” (iii. 5), “the lark, the herald of the morn.”
[262] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 886; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 217.
[263] Chambers’s “Popular Rhymes of Scotland,” 1870, p. 192.
[264] See “English Folk-Lore,” p. 81.