1 6 SHAKESPEARE'S 



Aspick (i.e., Asp). 



The pretty worm of Nilus there 

 That kills and pains not. 



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Have I the aspic in my lips ? Dost fall ? 

 If thou and nature can so gently part, 

 The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, 

 Which hurts, and is desired. 



[ASPICK. 



This is an aspic's trail ; and these fig-leaves 

 Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves 

 Upon the caves of Nile. 



ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v 2, 243-4, 296-9, 

 354-7- 



V. Adder, Serpent. 



ASPIS is an Adder [^.^.] worst and most wicked in 

 venom and in biting ; he casteth out fleeing venom, 



and spitteth and springeth out venom by bitings. Of 

 Adders that hight Aspis be divers manner kind, and have 





