BAY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 27 



Bat. 



All the charms 

 Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you. 



TEMPEST, i. 2, 339-40. 



Wool of bat, and tongue of dog. 



MACBETH, iv. i, 15. 



THE reremouse [i.e. Bat] hating light flyeth in the even- 

 tide with breaking and blenching and swift moving, with full 

 small skin of her wings. And is a beast like to a mouse 

 in sounding with voice, in piping and crying. And he is 

 like to a bird, and also to a four-footed beast ; and that is 

 but seld found among birds. Reremice be blind as moles, 

 and lick powder [dust] and suck oil out of lamps, and be 

 most cold of kind ; therefore the blood of a reremouse 

 [a]nointed upon the eye-lids sufFereth not the hair to grow 

 again. Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xii. 38. 



IF you wish to see anything submerged and deep in the 



night, and that it may not be more hidden from thee than 



in the day, and that you may read books in a dark night, 



anoint your face with the blood of a Bat, and that will 



happen which I say. 



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



Bay, -tree. 



Rosemary and bays. 



PERICLES, iv. 6, 160. 



The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd. 



KING RICHARD, ii. 4, 8. 



[" Bay " was used in Shakespeare's time as a synonym for 

 laurel." Cf. Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v., and Cooper's Thesaurus, 

 .v. Laurus.~\ 



THIS tree worshippeth the house, and maketh it fair, 

 "he land that beareth laurel-tree is safe from lightning both 

 field and in house. Bartholomew (Berthelei], bk. xvii. 48. 



BAY-BERRIES taken in wine are good against the bitings 

 of any venomous beast, and against all venom and poison. 

 The oil pressed out of these cureth them that are beaten 

 black and blue, and that be bruised by squats and falls. 

 Common drunkards were accustomed to eat in the morning 

 fasting two leaves thereof against drunkenness. 



Gerard's "Herbal," bk. iii. ch. Ixviii. 



