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.

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    Its face is horrible, its hair very long and filthy. And it appears with its young which it carries in its arms ; and when sailors see it, they are much afeared, and throw it an empty bottle, with which it plays, until the ship has passed by. //^^^^^^ s^mtatis, bk. iv. § 83. Slug. Snail. Comedy of Errors, ii. 2, 196. ^. Snail. As You Like It, iv. i, 54. SxAiL is a worm of slime, and breedeth of slime, and is therefore alway foul and unclean ; and is a manner snake, and is an horned worm. And such worms be gendered principally in corrupt air and rain. Bartkolomew {Bertkelet), bk. xviii. § 70. Neither have I Dress'd Snails or mushrooms curiously before him. Ben Jonsn?:^ Every Man in his Humour,'' ii. 5. Some men trow, though it be not be believed, that the ship goeth slower, if he beareth the right foot of a Snail [Batman translates '''testudo'^ here by tortoise instead of Snail ]. Bartholomezv {Berthlet), bk. xviii. § 107. Snails without their' shells, or otherwise with their shells stamped and mixed sometimes with cheese-lope or rennet, do draw out thorns, or any other thing out of the flesh, though never so deep, if they be applied to the P^^^^- Lupton Notable Things, bk. i ^ 100. The two horns of a snail borne upon a man will pluck away carnal or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof. Ibid., bk. ix. !5 17. Snake. V. Serpent.