The name of Shakespeare was very common. See note on The tenant of Ingon, [page 192], above.
Page 208.—Volumes have been written on the plant-lore, etc. The best of these is Rev. H. N. Ellacombe's Plant-Lore and Garden-craft of Shakespeare, which is quoted on the next page.
Apricocks. An old form of apricots.
Page 209.—In the compass of a pale. Within the limits of an enclosure, or walled garden.
Knots. Interlacing beds. Compare Milton, P. L. iv. 242: "In beds and curious knots"; and Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1. 249: "thy curious-knotted garden."
He that hath suffer'd, etc. King Richard.
At time of year. That is, at the proper season.
Confound itself. Ruin or destroy itself. Compare The Merchant of Venice, iii. 2. 278:—
"Never did I know