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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$W^ater-spaniel. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. i, 271. They use to shear their hinder-parts, that so they may be the less annoyed in swimming, Topsell, Four-footed Beasts, p. 122. With these dogs we fetch out of the water such fowl as be stung to death by any venomous worm. Ibid., p. 134. Wax. Wax is the drasts [dregs] of honey, and within the substance thereof be gathered the liquors of honey meddled with the drasts of Wax. Tables be filled and dressed with Wax, simple or coloured, and therein be letters and divers figures and shapes written or planed by the office of pointels [points]. And for divers uses linen cloths be waxed. And Wax keepeth and saveth books from rain and from water. Bartholomezv {Berthekt), bk. xlx. § 61. He's a man of wax. Romeo and Juliet, i. 3, 75. I CANNOT blame you for loving of Sophos ; Why, he's a man as one should picture him in Wax. Wily Beguiled. O FOOT! O leg ! O hand ! O body ! face! By Jove, it is a little man of Wax ! Nat. Field, A Woman is a Weathercock, i. 2. When he is in his scarlet clothes, he looks like a man of Wax, and I had as lief have a dog o' Wax ; I do not think but he lies in a case o' nights. Ibid., Amends for Ladies, iii. 3. Weasel. As You Like It, ii. 5, 13. The Weasel is as it were a long mouse. This beast hath a guileful wit, and nourisheth her kittens, and beareth$