Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    [Honey is put in opposition to mortal Aconite by Dekker in The Devil's Answer to Pierce Pennylesse. Aconitum originated from the foam of Cerberus. V. Hey- %vood's Brazen Age.] Adamant. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre. Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2, 184.-6. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant ; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel ; leave you your power to draw. And I shall have no power to follow you. Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. i, 195-9. f^. Diamond, Adamas is a little stone of Ind, and is coloured as it were iron, and shineth as crystal ; but it passeth never the quantity of a walnut. No thing overcometh it, neither iron nor fire. And also it heateth never. But though it