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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    p2 SHAKESPEARE'S [tassel-gentle. Tassel-gentle. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2, 160. Tassel, or Tiercel, or the male of a hawk. Minsheus Dictionary, s.v. Long-winged Hawks, as the falcon gentle, and her Tiercel. Markhain's Husbandry ( OF Hawks ), ch. i. Then for an evening flight A Tiercel-gentle. Massbigcr, Guardian, i. 1. I should not be so fond to mistake a Jenny Howlet for a Tassel-gentle. Broine, The Northern Lass, iii. 2. [Malone quotes from an old treatise on hawking, name not given : The names of all manner of hawks, and to whom they belong :—For a Pi'mce. There is a falcon gentle, and a Tiercel gentle ; and these are for a prince.] Tench. i. King Henry IV., ii. i, 17, 18. H [Stung like a Tench may perhaps refer to the small size of the scales of this fish. Nares quotes Walton's Complete Angler (part i. ch. xi.) : That the Tench is the physician of fishes, for the pike especially ; and that the pike, being either sick or hurt, is cured by the touch of the Trench.] I LONG to see this fish. I wonder whether They will cut up his belly ; they say a Tench Will make him whole again. Jasper Mapie, The City Match, iii. 2 (1639). V. Fish. Thistle. Much Ado About Nothing, iii. 4, 76. Thistle is a manner herb or a weed with pricks ; the kind thereof is biting and cruel, therefore the juice thereof cureth the falling of the hair. The root thereof sod in water giveth appetite to drinkers, and it is no wonder though women desire it, for it helpeth the conception of male