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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Briar. V. Rose. TiMON OF Athens, iv. 3, 422. The root of the Briar-bush is a singular remedy found out by oracle against the biting of a mad dog. The fruit when it is ripe maketh most pleasant meats and banqueting dishes, as tarts and such like ; the making whereof I commit to the cunning cook, and teeth to eat them in the rich man's mouth. Gerard's Herbal, bk. iii. ch. iii. Brimstone. V. Sulphur. To put fire in your heart, and brimstone in your liver. Twelfth Night, iii. 2, 21-2. If you would have any beast or any part of the same (of what colour soever he be) to be turned into white, shave off the hairs, and smoke the same that is shaven with the fume of Brimstone, and white hairs will grow there. You may prove the same in flowers. Luptotis Notable Things, bk. vi. § i. Brock [Badger]. Twelfth Night, ii. 5, 114. The Brock is a beast of the quantity of a fox, and his skin is full hairy and rough. In such beasts is wit and flight, and holdeth in the breath, and blowing ; [and] stretcheth the skin so holding their breathings, when they be hunted and chased with hunters' dogs, and so they find sleight and manner, by such strutting out of the skin, to eschew and put off the biting of those hounds that so do pursue and follow to noy them, and also for to slay them, and in like wise put they off the smitings of the hunters. These beasts know when tempest shall fall, and maketh them therefore dens under earth with diverse enterings, and when the Northern wind bloweth, he stoppeth the north entering with his rough tail, and letteth stand open the south entering, and againwards. There is a manner kind of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100433x_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
