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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$have pastime withal at their own pleasures, than otherwise suffered to live, as not able to be destroyed because of their great numbers. Harriioii's Description of England, p. 225 (1586), in Holitished. Buck. V. Hart, Stag, Deer. Bugle. [Bugle-Bracelet is probably a bracelet of glass beads (Winter's Tale, iv. 4, 224), but your Bugle eyeballs (As You Like It, iii. 5, 47) may refer to the Bugle or buffalo, as Bugle-browed in Middkton's Anything for a Quiet Life. Phebe quotes Rosalind's words with a difference in 1. 130 : He said mine eyes were black. Bartholomew (bk. xviii. § 15) describes the Bugle {i.e., buffalo) as black or red. Or Bugle eyeballs may have a similar mean- ing to Homer's ox-eyed.] Bugle flesh sod or roasted healeth man's biting. His marrow taken out of the right \Q.g doth away hair off the eyelids. His hoof with myrrh fasteneth wagging teeth. And Bugle-milk is full good against smiting of serpents and of scorpions, and against venom of the cricket [and of the salamander]. Also some be wonderful great, and nevertheless most quiver and swift ; in so much ut Jimum quern projiciunt in turning about falleth on their horns or ever it may come to the ground. When the cow's time of calving cometh, many of them come about her, and make of dirt as it were a wall. Bartholomew, at supra. Bull. Bulls of Ind be red, and swift and cruel, and their hair is turned in contrary wise, and such a Bull bendeth the neck at his own will, and putteth off darts and shot with hardness of the back ; and is fierce and is not over- come ; and when he is tied under a fig-tree, he loseth and leaveth all his fierceness, and is suddenly sober and soft. If thou dost cut and slit his skin, so that it arear some- what from his flesh with blowing with a pipe, and givest him afterward to eat, then he fatteth ; and is made fat$