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Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,

With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,

Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow

In our sustaining corn.

Shakespeare: Lear, act iv. sc. 4.

[783:3] See Shakespeare, page [48].

[783:4] Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.—Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1.

[783:5] See Shakespeare, page [77].

[783:6] See Publius Syrus, page [711].

[783:7] See Milton, page [234].