[521] See Dr. Prior’s “Popular Names of British Plants,” 1870, p. 139.
[522] Cf. “Taming of the Shrew,” i. 1.
[523] Cf. what Egeus says (i. 1) when speaking of Lysander:
“This man hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child;
Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes
And interchanged love-tokens with my child.”
[524] Dian’s bud is the bud of the Agnus castus, or chaste tree. “The virtue this herbe is, that he will kepe man and woman chaste.” “Macer’s Herbal,” 1527.
[525] Cupid’s flower, another name for the pansy.
[526] Notes to “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” 1877. Preface, p. xx.
[527] “Natural History,” bk. xxv. chap. 94.
[528] Phillips’s “Flora Historica,” 1829, vol. i. pp. 324, 325; see Smith’s “Dictionary of the Bible,” 1869, vol. ii. p. 1777.
[529] “Mystic Trees and Flowers,” by M. D. Conway; Fraser’s Magazine, 1870, vol. ii. p. 705.