[275] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 365.
[276] “Animal Kingdom,” 1829, vol. viii. p. 427.
[277] See Sir Thomas Browne’s Works, 1852, vol. i. pp. 334-337.
[278] “Æneid,” bk. iv. l. 462.
[279] “Metamorphoses,” bk. v. l. 550; bk. vi. l. 432; bk. x. l. 453; bk. xv. l. 791.
[280] “2 Henry VI.” iii. 2; iv. 1.
[281] “Titus Andronicus,” ii. 3.
[282] Cf. “Lucrece,” l. 165; see Yarrell’s “History of British Birds,” vol. i. p. 122.
[283] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 209.
[284] The spelling of the folios is “howlets.” In Holland’s translation of Pliny (chap. xvii. book x.), we read “of owlls or howlets.” Cotgrave gives “Hulotte.”