CAMOMILE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 51 



of men. The Camel of Arabia hath two bunches on the 

 back, and the Camel of Bactria hath but one in the back, 

 on the which he beareth his burthen and charge, and 

 another on the breast, and leaneth thereon. And the 

 Camel hateth the horse by kind, and suffereth thirst four 

 days, and stirreth the water with his feet when he drinketh, 

 or else the drink doth him no good. Among four-footed 

 beasts Camels wax bald as men do, and as the ostrich and 

 certain beasts among fowls. Camels have the podagra and 

 the frenzy, and by the podagra their feet be strained, and 

 this evil slayeth them sometime. The Camel is the most 

 hottest beast of kind, and is therefore lean by kind, for 

 the heat draweth off all fatness of the blood, and therefore 

 the Camel is lean. Bartholomew (Eerthelet\ bk. xviii. 19. 



THOSE Camels which are conceived by boars are the 

 strongest, and fall not so quickly into the mire as other. 

 It is disdainful and a discontented creature. In the Lake 

 of Asphaltites, wherein all things sink that come in it, 

 many Camels and bulls swim through without danger. 



Topsell, "Four-footed Beasts/' pp. 72 and 75. 



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'hough the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows. 



i. KING HENRY IV., ii. 4, 441. 



THE oil compounded of the flowers is a remedy against 

 11 wearisomeness. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



THOUGH the Camomile, the more it is trodden and 

 pressed down, the more it spreadeth ; yet the violet the 

 oftener it is handled and touched the sooner it withereth 

 and decayeth. Lilly, "Euphues' Golden Legacy." 



THE Camomile shall teach thee patience, which thriveth 

 best, when trodden most upon. 



"The More the Merrier" (1608), quoted by Steevens. 



