SHAKESPEARE'S 



[BASILISK. 



with five banks of oars to a side) ; so soon as ever the 

 vessel was perceived alone in the fleet to stand still, 

 presently they found one of these fishes sticking fast to the 

 very helm. But this prince was most astonished at this, 

 namely, That the fish sticking only to the ship should 

 hold it fast, and the same, being brought into the ship, 

 and there laid, not work the like effect. Neither do I 

 doubt but all the sort of fishes are able to do as much. 



Holland's Pliny; bk. xxxii. ch. i. 



Basilisk or Cockatrice. 



Make me not sighted like the basilisk ; 

 I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better 

 By my regard, but kill'd none so. 



WINTER'S TALE, i. 2, 388-90. 



Come, basilisk, 

 And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight. 



ii. KING HENRY VI., iii. 2, 52-3. 



THE Cockatrice is a king of serpents, and they be afeard 

 and flee when they see him. For he slayeth them with his 



