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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    Aspick {i.e., Asp). The pretty worm of Nilus there That kills and pains not. # # # # * Have T the aspic in my lips ? Dost fall r If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. ***** This is an aspic's trail ; and these fig-leaves Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves Upon the caves ot Nile. Antony and Cleopatra, v 2, 243-4, 296-9, 354-7- F. Adder, Serpent. Aspis is an Adder [^.i'.] worst and most wicked in venom and in biting ; he casteth out fleeing venom, and spitteth and springeth out venom by bitings. Of Adders that hight Aspis be divers manner kind, and have