BULL.] NATURAL HISTORY. 45 



have pastime withal at their own pleasures, than otherwise 

 suffered to live, as not able to be destroyed because of 

 their great numbers. 



Harrison's "Description of England," p. 225 (1586), in Holinshed. 



Buck. V. Hart, Stag, Deer. 



Bugle. 



[Bugle-Bracelet is probably a bracelet of glass beads ("Winter's 

 Tale," iv. 4, 224), but "your Bugle eyeballs" ("As You Like It," 

 iii. 5, 47) may refer to the Bugle or buffalo, as " Bugle-browed " 

 in Middletoris "Anything for a Quiet Life." Phebe quotes 

 Rosalind's words with a difference in 1. 130: 



He said mine eyes were black. 



Bartholomew (bk. xviii. 15) describes the Bugle (*>., buffalo) 

 as black or red. Or " Bugle eyeballs " may have a similar mean- 

 ing to Homer's " ox-eyed."] 



BUGLE flesh sod or roasted healeth man's biting. His 

 marrow taken out of the right leg doth away hair off the 

 eyelids. His hoof with myrrh fasteneth wagging teeth. 

 And Bugle-milk is full good against smiting of serpents 

 and of scorpions, and against venom of the cricket [and 

 of the salamander]. Also some be wonderful great, and 

 nevertheless most quiver and swift ; in so much ut fimum 

 quern projiciunt in turning about falleth on their horns or 

 ;ver it may come to the ground. When the cow's time 

 calving cometh, many of them come about her, and make 

 dirt as it were a wall. Bartholomew, at supra. 



lull. 



BULLS of Ind be red, and swift and cruel, and their 

 lir is turned in contrary wise, and such a Bull bendeth 

 he neck at his own will, and putteth off darts and shot 

 ath hardness of the back ; and is fierce and is not over- 

 mie ; and when he is tied under a fig-tree, he loseth and 

 leaveth all his fierceness, and is suddenly sober and soft. 

 If thou dost cut and slit his skin, so that it arear some- 

 what from his flesh with blowing with a pipe, and givest 

 him afterward to eat, then he fatteth ; and is made fat 



