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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![with sweetmeats, as with figs and grapes and raisins. Some Bulls have movable horns, and move them one after another in fighting ; and be always fierce when they be taken, and destroy themselves, and die for indignation. Bartholomezv {Berthlet), hk. xviii. § loo. If the right knee of a Bull be tied with a broad band, it will make him tame. Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things, bk. iii. § 64. A BULL is the husband of a cow, and ringleader of the herd. When Bulls fight with wolves, they wind their tails together, and so drive them away with their horns. The blood of Bulls is accounted among the chiefest poisons. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts, pp. 47-50. [In Cibola, near Mexico,] they drink the blood of the ox hot (which of our Bulls is counted poison). Purchas' Pilgrims, p. 778 (ed. 1616). Bullock. V. Bull. Bunting. My dial goes not true ; 1 took this lark for a bunting. All's Well that Ends Well, ii, 5, 6-7. The goss-hawk beats not at a bunting. Rafs Proverbs. [The Bunting is the woodlark.] Burnet. The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. King Henry V., v. 2, 49. Burnet is a singular good herb for wounds; it stauncheth bleeding, as well inwardly taken, as outwardly applied. The lesser Burnet is pleasant to be eaten in salads, in which it is thought to make the heart merry and glad, as also being put into wine, to which it yieldeth a certain grace in the drinking. Gerard's Herbal, j.r. [Evelyn, in his Acetaria, or Discourse of Sallets, gives the same characteristics of Burnet.J](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100433x_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
