Author of "The Plant Lore and Garden-craft of Shakespeare."

LONDON:

ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER Row, E.C.

1883.

PREFACE.

THIS little book is a reprint of two papers written for THE ANTIQUARY

in October and November 1881.

In "The Plant Lore and Garden-craft of Shakespeare" I did my best to claim the great Poet as a brother-gardener: I here try to claim him as a brotherangler.

The frontispiece, representing an angler of the time of Shakespeare, is taken from "The Song of the Nightingale," in the ROXBURGHE BALLADS, Vol. II., p. 253 (ed. Chappell). For the use of the illustration I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. F. J. Furnivall.

Bitton Vicarage, April 1883.

H. N. E.