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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![eaned. And cold water of the North is good to them in summer, and warm water of the South is good to them in harvest. And herds know which of them may dure [endure] in winter ; for upon some is found ice, and upon some none ice is found ; and some of them be feeble, and may not shake off the ice ; and those that have long tails may worse away-with winter than those that have broad tails. And wool of Sheep that a wolf eateth is infected ; and the cloth that is made thereof is lousy. Also in Sheep is less wit and understanding than in another four-footed beast. Also thundering maketh solitary Sheep to cast their lambs ; the remedy and help thereof is to gather and bring them together into one flock. Bartholomew I^Bcrthelct), bk. xviii. § 81. Of Sheep, their wool is a singular benefit in a common- wealth, especially the Cotswold wool for fineness. And in Bartholomew's time, the staple for wool was not so well husbanded as it hath been since. The increase of pasture for Sheep hath so much decreased the tillage of corn, that, until it be restored again, there will grow a poor common-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100433x_0297.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
