42 SHAKESPEARE'S [BREESE. 



with heat turneth into Brass. Brass and copper be made 

 in this manner as other metal be of brimstone and quick- 

 silver, and that happeth when there is more of brimstone 

 than of quicksilver. If Brass be meddled with other metal, 

 it changeth both colour and virtue, as it fareth in latten. 

 Brazen vessels be soon red and rusty, but they be oft scoured 

 with sand, and have an evil savour and smell but they be 

 tinned. Also Brass, if it be without tin, burneth soon. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet\ bk. xv. 37. 



RICHMONDSHIRE the mountains plentifully yield lead, 

 pit-coals and some Brass. . . . Cumberland hath mines of 

 Brass [i.e., copper]. 



Fynes Moryson, "Itinerary," part iii., p. 144. 



Breese. 



Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt, 



# # # # * 



The breese upon her, like a cow in June, 

 Hoists sails and flies. 



ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 10, 10-5. 



In her ray and brightness 



The herd hath more annoyance by the breese 

 Than by the tiger. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, i. 3, 47-9. 



The horrid Breese man's body doth not spare, 

 He flies from us into the open air. 



But they fled home as herds of oxen do, 

 When that the Breese doth force them for to go, 

 In the springtime when days do longer grow. 



THE fly called oestrum is of a yellowish colour, wh< 

 when it enters the ears of an ox causeth him to run mad 

 he carries before him a very hard, stiff and well-compact< 

 sting, with which he strikes through the ox his hide. 

 They follow oxen and horses and young cattle by scent of 

 their sweat, because they cannot reach them with their sight, 

 being very weak-sighted. They are generated of the worms 

 that come out of the wood putrefied [or, according t< 

 another authority, from horse-leeches]. 



Mouffet, "Theatre of Insects," pp. 935-6. 



