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

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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$death. In kine and oxen they be common, and other- whiles hi dogs, who are pestered with these Ticks. And in sheep and goats, a man shall find none other but I icks. Holland's Pliny, bk. xi. ch. xxxiv. [Topsell {s.v. Sheep, p. 479) distinguishes between lice and Ticks of sheep.] Tiercel, or Tercel. Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2, 56. V. Tassel-gentle. Tiger. The Tiger is the most swiftest beast in flight, as it were an arrow, and is a beast distingued with divers specks, and the river Tigris hath the name of this beast, for it is most swiftest of all floods. And the whelp is all glimy and sinewy. And the hunter taketh away the whelps, and fleeth soon away on the most swift horse that he may have, and when the wild beast cometh and findeth the den void, and the whelps away ; then he riseth head- long, and foUoweth him by smell ; and when the hunter heareth the grutching [grumbling, growling] of that beast that runneth after him, he throweth down one of the whelps, and the mother taketh the whelp in her mouth, and beareth him into her den, and layeth him therein, and cometh again after the hunter ; but in the mean time the hunter taketh a ship, and hath with him the other whelps, and scapeth in that wise ; and so her fierceness standeth in no stead ; and the male recketh not of the whelps. And he that will bear away the whelps leaveth in the way great mirrors, and the mother followeth and findeth the mirrors in the way, and looketh on them, and seeth her own shadow and image therein, and weeneth that she seeth her children therein, and is long occupied therefore to deliver her children out of the glass, and so the hunter hath time and space for to escape. And in the more Hyrcania breedeth many beasts of this kind. Bartholomew (^Berthclet)^ bk. xviii. § 105. 20$