[305] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 704; Halliwell-Phillipps’s “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” 1866, p. 398; Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 345; Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. vii. p. 264.
[306] “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 218.
[307] Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 19, 97, 677; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 59, 60.
[308] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 367.
[309] Marsden’s “History of Sumatra,” 1811, p. 276.
[310] Cf. “2 Henry VI.” iii. 2; “Troilus and Cressida,” v. 2.
[311] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. pp. 211, 212.
[312] “English Folk-lore,” 1878, p. 78.
[313] See Hunt’s “Popular Romances of West of England,” 1881, p. 380.
[314] Dyce’s “Glossary,” 1876, p. 288.