[601] Quoted in Singer’s “Shakespeare.”
[602] Cf. “King John” (iii. 1), where Constance gives a catalogue of congenital defects.
[603] “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” p. 150. See “Notes and Queries” for superstitions connected with drowning, 5th series, vol. ix. pp. 111, 218, 478, 516; vol. x. pp. 38, 276; vol. xi. pp. 119, 278.
[604] Dr. Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 95.
[605] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. iii. p. 225.
[606] See Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. vii. p. 347.
[607] Wright’s “Notes to King Lear” (1877), p. 196.
[608] “Worthies of England” (1662), p. 180.
[609] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” pp. 384, 385; Wright’s “Notes to King Lear,” pp. 154, 155.
[610] “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 121.