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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    Anchovies. Item, Anchovies and sack after supper. 2s. 6d. i. King Henry IV., ii. 4, 588-9. Anchovies, 6 sh. I swear but a saucer full. Brofnc, The Coveiit Garden Weeded. He doth learn to make strange sauces, to eat Anchovies, Maccaroni, Bovoli, Fagioli, and Caviare, because he loves em. Ben Jonsofi, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 3, Clem. For twelve pennyworth of Anchovies, eighteen- pence. Bess. How can that be .^ Clem. Marry, very well, mistress ; twelvepence Anchovies, and sixpence oil and vinegar. Nay, they shall have a saucy reckoning. Heyzvoofs Fair Maid of the West, ii. 2. In midst of meat they present me with some sharp sauce or a dish of delicate Anchovies, or a caviare. Lingua, ii. I. He feeds now upon sack and Anchovies. G. Wilkhis, Miseries of Enforced Marriage, iii. Anchovy (Gr. ijKpaaiKoXoc;) is a fish nearly like a sar- dine, so called because it has bile in its head—from ev (in), KepaQ (head), and ^6Xoc (bile). Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v. Animal. All that is comprehended of flesh and of spirit of life and so of body and soul is called animal—a beast^—whether it be airy as fowls that fly, or watery as fish that swim, or earthy as beasts that go on the ground and in fields, as men and beasts, wild and tame, or other that creep and glide on the ground. Some beasts have blood and some have none, as bees and all other beasts with riveiled bodies. But such beasts have other humour in stead of blood. It is said that in Ind is a beast wonderly shape[d], and is like to the bear in body and in hair and to a man in face. And hath a right red head, and a full great mouth, and an horrible, and in either jaw three rows of teeth