APE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 13 



hairy, and forgetteth soon wildness. And some be pleasing 

 in face with merry movings and playings, and resteth but 

 little. And some be unlike to that other nigh in all 

 manner points, for in the face is a long beard, and have 

 a broad tail. That kind of Apes is next to man's shape, 

 and be diverse and distinguished by tails, and labour 

 wonderly and busily to do all thing that they see : and 

 so oft they shoe themselves with shoes that hunters leave 

 in certain places slyly, and be so taken the sooner ; for 

 while they would fasten the thong of the shoe, and would 

 put the shoes on their feet, as they see the hunters do. 

 they be oft taken with hunters ere they may unlace the 

 shoes, and be delivered of them. The Ape is tamed 

 and chastised by violence with beating and with chains, and 

 is refrained with a clog, so that he may not run about 

 freely at his own will, to abate his fierceness and outrage. 

 And the Ape eateth all manner of meats and unclean 

 things, and therefore he seeketh and looketh worms in 

 men's heads, and throweth them into his mouth, and 

 eateth them. The lion loveth Ape's flesh, for by eating 

 thereof he recovereth when he is sore sick. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 96. 



THE Ape ever killeth that young one which he loveth 

 most with embracing it too fervently. 



Greenes "Thieves Falling Out," etc. 



I'll teach you 

 To come aloft and do tricks like an ape. 



[V. Massinger, " The Bondman/' iii. 3, for various tricks taught 

 the ape.J 



[Katharina, in "The Taming of the Shrew" (ii. I, 34) 



I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, 

 And for your love to her lead Apes in hell 



illudes to the old proverb: 



Such as die maids do all lead Apes in hell 

 Compare Douce's note on this passage.] 



IF you wish to frighten any man while asleep, put the 

 :in of an Ape under his head. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of the Wonders of the World." 



