[184] Here ends the first chapter of “fowls,” that which follows being restricted to “hawks and ravenous fowls.”—W.
[185] This on “venomous beasts” will be found included in the “savage beasts” of the following.
[186] Here follows an account of the extermination of wolves, and a reference to lions and wild bulls rampant in Scotland of old.—W.
[187] Misprints for “pricket” and “sorel”; see Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, IV. ii. 58-63; The Return from Parnassus, etc., etc.—F.
[188] Here follows a discourse on ancient boar-hunting, exalting it above the degenerate sports of the day. This ends the chapter on “savage beasts.”—W.
[189] Galenus, De Theriaca ad Pisonem; Pliny, lib. 10, cap. 62.—H.
[190] Salust, cap. 40; Pliny, lib. 37, cap. 2.—H.
[191] See Diodorus Siculus.—H.
[192] The like have I seen when hens do feed upon the tender blades of garlic.—H.
[193] This gentleman caught such an heat with this sore load that he was fain to go to Rome for physic, yet it would not save his life; but he must needs hie homewards.—H.