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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    scape without peril,—for he throweth so much water out of his mouth upon the ship, that he overturneth it sometime or drowneth it. And also he is so huge in quantity that when he is taken, all the country is the better for the taking. Also he loveth his whelps with a wonder love, and leadeth them about in the sea long time. And if it happeth that his whelps be let with heaps of gravel and by default of water, he taketh much water in his mouth, and throweth upon them, and delivereth them in that wise out of peril. And he settetK them alway between himself and the sun on the more sicher [safe] side. And when strong tempest ariseth, while his whelps be tender and young, he swalloweth them up into his own womb ; and when the tempest is gone and fair weather come, then he casteth them up whole and sound. Also against the Whale fighteth a fish of serpent's kind, and is venomous, as a crocodile ; and then other fish come to the Whale's tail, and if the Whale be overcome, the other fish die. And if the venomous fish may not over- come the Whale, then he throweth out of his jaws into the water a fumous smell most stinking ; and the Whale