[295] Cf. “Troilus and Cressida,” iii. 3.
[296] Cf. “Richard II.” i. 1.
[297] Mr. Harting, in his “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” quotes an interesting correspondence from “Land and Water” (1869), on the subject.
[298] See Sir Thomas Browne’s Works, 1852, vol. ii. pp. 1-4.
[299] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. pp. 366, 367.
[300] Cf. “The Tempest,” iii. 3; “All’s Well that Ends Well,” i. 1; “Antony and Cleopatra,” iii. 2; “Cymbeline,” i. 6.
[301] Works, 1852, vol. i. pp. 277-284.
[302] See Aldis Wright’s “Notes to The Tempest,” 1875, p. 129.
[303] Daily Telegraph, January 31, 1880; see Southey’s “Commonplace Book,” 1849, 2d series, p. 447.
[304] See Dove, pp. 114, 115.