BEAR.] NATURAL HISTORY. 29 



THE choosing of a person King or Queen by a bean 

 found in a piece of a divided cake was formerly a common 

 Christmas gambol in both the English universities. 



Brand's " Popular Antiquities," vol. i. p. 20. 



[See also the same author, p. 97, under " Mid -Lent Sunday/' 

 French Beans are mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's 

 " Tragedy of Bonduca " (i. 2).] 



SHE made me colour my hair with Bean-flower to seem 

 elder than I was. Webster s "Devil's Law Case," iv. 2. 



Bear. 



Thy groans 



Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts 

 Of ever-angry bears. 



TEMPEST, i. 2, 287-9. 



Wolves and bears, they say, 

 Casting their savageness aside, have done 

 Like offices of pity. 



WINTER'S TALE, ii. 3, 187-9. 



The rugged Russian bear. 



MACBETH, iii. 4., 100. 



Like to a chaos or an unlick'd bear-whelp 

 That carries no impression like the dam. 



3 KING HENRY VI., iii. 2, 161-2. 



One bear will not bite another. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 7, 19. 



Unicorns may be betray'd with trees. 

 And bears with glasses. 



JULIUS C.ESAR, ii. i, 204-5. 



AMID the desert rocks the mountain bear 

 Brings forth unform, unlike herself, her young ; 

 Nought else but lumps of flesh withouten hair. 

 In tract of time her often licking tongue 

 Gives them such shape, as doth (erelong) delight 

 The lookers on. 



Arthur Broke 1 s " Romeus and Juliet," Address to the Reader. 



WHEN the Bear cannot find origanum to heal his grief, 

 he blasteth all other leaves with his breath. 



Lilly's "Sappho and Phaon " (Prologue). 



