[631] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 150.

[632] See “English Folk-Lore,” p. 156.

[633] See Shortland’s “Traditions and Superstitions of the New-Zealanders,” 1856, p. 131.

[634] Liber Secundus—“De Febribus,” p. 923, ed. 1595.

[635] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 906.

[636] See 4th series, vol. x. pp. 108, 150, 229, 282, 356.

[637] See Dyce’s “Shakespeare,” vol. vii. p. 239.

[638] “The Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” 1860, pp. 1-64.

CHAPTER XI.

CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH THE CALENDAR.