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aining of the barnacle, and dieth at last after vain 

 travails, and hath no reward after his death for the service 

 and travail that he had living, not so much that his own 

 skin is left with him, but it is taken away, and the carrion 

 is thrown out without sepulchre or burials but it be so 

 much of the carrion that by eating and devouring is some- 

 time buried in the wombs of hounds and wolves. 



B Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xviii. 8. 



WHEN an Ass dieth, out of his body are engendered cer- 

 in flies called Scarabees. Asses are subject to madness 

 when they have tasted to certain herbs growing near 

 Potnias. Some have used to put into gardens the skull of 

 a mare or she-ass that hath been covered, with persuasion 

 that the gardens will be the more fruitful. The wolf with 

 small force doth compass the destruction of an Ass, for the 

 blockish Ass, when he seeth a wolf, layeth his head on his 

 side, that so he might not see, thinking that, because he 

 seeth not the wolf, the wolf cannot see him. 



Topsell, (i Four-footed Beasts," pp. 19-21. 



IF a stone be bound to the tail of an Ass, he will not 

 bray nor roar. 



The skin of an Ass when it is hung over boys prevents 

 them from being frightened. 



If you wish that a man's head should appear as ah Ass's 

 head, take of the parings of [the hoof of] an Ass, and rub 

 the man's head with them. 



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



IN Africa also are wild Asses, among which one male 

 hath many females ; a jealous beast, who (for fear of after 

 encroaching) bites off the stones of the young males, if the 

 suspicious female prevent him not by bringing forth in a 

 close place, where he shall not find it. 



Purcbas' ''Pilgrims," p. 558 (ed. 1616). 



Baboon. V. Ape, Monkey. 



You and your coach-fellow Nym . . . had looked through the grate, 

 like a geminy of baboons. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 2, 7-9. 



Cool it with a baboon's blood, 

 Then the charm is firm and good. 



MACBETH, iv. i, 37-8. 



