[433] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 48.

[434] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. vii. p. 277.

[435] “Natural History,” bk. viii. c. 19.

[436] “Arcana Microcosmi,” p. 151.

[437] 1852, vol. i. pp. 312-315.

[438] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 577; Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. v. p. 77.

[439] Halliwell-Phillipps’s “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” 1866, p. 331.

[440] Forby’s “Vocabulary of East Anglia,” vol. ii. p. 222.

[441] See Staunton’s “Shakespeare,” vol. i. p. 278.

[442] Cf. “King Lear,” iv. 6.