BLOOD-SUCKER.] NATURAL HISTORY. 39 



Blind-worm. 



Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, 

 Come not near our fairy queen. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. 2, 11-12 



Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting. 



MACBETH, iv. I, 16. 



[Also called] sloe-worm, because it useth to creep and 

 live on sloe-trees. Minshetfs Dictionary, ' s.v. 



It is small, and has no eyes. Hortus Sanitatis, ch. xxxvi. 



THE Blind worm is sometimes confounded with the am- 

 nsbcena, a serpent with two heads, one in the usual place, 

 ie other at the end of its tail, and moving either way. 

 'his serpent is the first to appear, being anxious about its 

 eggs. While one part of it keeps watch, the other sleeps ; 

 and its eyes shine like lanterns. There is another that 

 walks upon its heels, and upon its tail. 



Chiefly from the Hortus Sanitatts, ch. ix. 



Bloodhound. 



You starved bloodhound. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., v. 4, 31. 



HOUNDS pursue the foot of prey by smell of blood. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 25. 



THERE is a certain class of hounds which know thieves 

 >y the smell ; and with implacable hatred distinguish them 

 "Om Other men. Hortus Sanitatis, ch. xxiv. 



Hood-SUCker (i.e., a Leech Minsheus Dictionary, s.v.). 



Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men. 



ii. KING HENRY VI., iii. 2, 226. 



A LEECH sitteth upon venomous things, and therefore 

 r heri he shall be set to a member because of medicine, first 

 shall be wrapped in nettles and in salt, and is thereby 

 >mpelled to cast out of his body if he hath tasted any 

 inomous thing in warm water. 



Bartbolo?new (Berthelet}, bk. xviii. 93. 



