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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    somewhat blazing. And the female is nesh [soft]. Also this stone containeth and breedeth another stone within him. The virtue of this stone maketh a man sober, and augmenteth and increaseth riches, and so it doth love, and helpeth greatly to obtain and conquer victory and favour. If there be any man suspect of fraud of poisoning, if he be guilty, this stone put under his meat will not suffer him to swallow his meat, and if the stone be withdrawn, he shall not tarry to swallow his meat. Bartholomew {Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 39. Alabaster. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Merchant of Venice, i. i, 83-4. This stone helpeth to win victory and mastery. This gendereth and keepeth friendship. Bartholomezv i^Berthelet\ bk. xvi. § 3. Almond. The parrot will not do more For an almond. Troilus and Cressida, v. 2, 193. [ Almond for parrot is a proverbial phrase so common as to need no reference. Almond milk was made of Almonds with neck of mutton, barley, herbs, and salt ( The Good House Wives Treasurie). Almond butter was eaten in Lent, and also used as a cos- metic for the hands {Ben Jonson's Staple of News, and Shirley's (?) Andromana ). Paste of Almonds is also mentioned in the Staple of News.] Amber. [Lat. Electrum7\ Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted. Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3, 87. With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3, 58. Electrum is a metal, and is more noble than other metals. And hereof be three manner of kinds—^one is such, that when it runneth first out of the tree, it is fleeting and thin gum, but afterwards with heat or with cold it is made hard as a clear stone, as it were crystal.