[540] See “Archæological Journal,” vol. v. p. 301.
[541] The cod was what we now call the pod.
[542] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. p. 99.
[543] See “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” iii. 1.
[544] “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 677.
[545] See Beaumont and Fletcher, “Elder Brother,” iv. 4; Massinger, “New Way to Pay Old Debts,” ii. 2; Ben Jonson, “Cynthia’s Revels,” ii. 1, etc.
[546] “Plant-Lore of Shakespeare,” p. 173.
[547] Ibid., p. 179.
[548] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. ix. p. 227.
[549] “Notes to Hamlet,” Clark and Wright, 1876, p. 179.