. Natural history in Shakespeare's time; being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Natural history. i88 SHAKESPEARE'S [lizard. The venom of the Lizard is deadly, and the remedy for it is made from the pounded flesh of scorpions. There is no animal more deceitful than the Lizard,, and he envies man. In the flesh of the Lizard is virtue for extracting splinters and thorns. Its fat fattens, much. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 130. The Lizard when he lies Too open to the hot sun faints and dies. Heyu-ood's "Anna and Phillis," emb. When
. Natural history in Shakespeare's time; being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Natural history. i88 SHAKESPEARE'S [lizard. The venom of the Lizard is deadly, and the remedy for it is made from the pounded flesh of scorpions. There is no animal more deceitful than the Lizard,, and he envies man. In the flesh of the Lizard is virtue for extracting splinters and thorns. Its fat fattens, much. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 130. The Lizard when he lies Too open to the hot sun faints and dies. Heyu-ood's "Anna and Phillis," emb. When a certain man had taken a great fat Lizard, he didjput out her eyes with an instrument of brass, and so put her into a new earthen pot, which had in it two small holes or passages, big enough to take breath at, but too little to creep out at, and, with her, moist earth and a certain herb; and furthermore he took an iron ring, wherein was set an engagataes [.'' agate] stone with the picture of a Lizard engraven upon it ; and besides upon the ring he made nine several marks, whereof he put out every day one, until at the last he came at the ninth, and then he opened the pot again, and the Lizard did see as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), b. 1848. London, E. Stock
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