IO 



SHAKESPEARE'S 



[ANT. 



anointed with lion's dirt [kidney-fat]. If the tail of an 

 old wolf be hanged at the cows' stall the wolves will not 

 come there nigh. Bear's eyes taken out of the head, and 

 bound together under the right arm of man, abateth the 

 fever quartan. Also the long teeth of a wolf healeth lunatic 

 men. Tame four-footed beasts dread and flee if they see a 

 wolf's eye taken out of the head. If thou besmokest the 

 house with the lungs of an ass thou cleansest the house of 

 serpents and other creeping worms. 



Bartholomew {Berthelei}, bk. xviii. I. 



Ant. 



Sometimes he angers me 

 With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant. 



i. KING HENRY IV., iii. 



149. 



We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring 

 i' the winter. 



KING LEAR, ii. 4, 68. 



SLEIGHT and business of them is much. For in summer 

 they gather store by the which they may live in winter ; 



