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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    The choosing of a person King or Queen by a bean found in a piece of a divided cake was formerly a common Christmas gambol in both the English universities. Brandos Popular Antiquities, vol. i. p. 20. [See also the same author, p. 97, under Mid-Lent Sunday. French Beans are mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca (i. 2).] She made me colour my hair with Bean-flower to seem elder than I was. Websters Devil's Law Case, iv. 2. Bear. Thy groans Did make w^olves howl and penetrate the breasts Of ever-angry bears. Tempest, i. 2, 287-9. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside, have done Like offices of pity. Winter's Tale, ii. 3, 187-9. The rugged Russian bear. Macbeth, iii. 4, 100. Like to a chaos or an unlick'd bear-whelp That carries no impression like the dam. 3 King Henry VI., iii. 2, 161-2. One bear will not bite another. Troilus and Cressida, v. 7, 19. Unicorns may be betray'd with trees. And bears with glasses. Julius C^sar, ii. i, 204-5. Amid the desert rocks the mountain bear Brings forth unform, unlike herself, her young ; Nought else but lumps of flesh withouten hair. In tract of time her often licking tongue Gives them such shape, as doth (erelong) delight The lookers on. Arthur Broke's Romeus and Juliet, Address to the Reader. When the Bear cannot find origanum to heal his grief, he blasteth all other leaves with his breath. Lillfs Sappho and Phaon (Prologue).