54 SHAKESPEARE'S [CARNATION. 



Carnation. V. Gilliflower. 



Carp. 



Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's cat but not a musk- 

 cat that has fallen into the unclean fish-pond of her displeasure, and, 

 as he says, is muddied withal ; pray you, sir, use the carp as you may. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, v. 2, 20. 



THE Carp is a fish with scales like gold living in lakes or 

 rivers. This fish has much cunning, so that it evades the 

 net. For when it has entered the net, it swims round to 

 look for the opening ; and if it cannot find it, it tries to 

 jump over the net so as to get into the open air. Sometimes 

 it seeks a refuge under the net ; sometimes it holds sea- 

 weed in its mouth at the bottom of the water, so as to 

 get over the net and escape ; sometimes coming with a 

 rush from above, it fixes its head firmly in the mud, so as 

 to escape capture by getting its tail over the net. Its 

 brain is said to grow and diminish as the moon waxes and 

 wanes ; and though this holds with all fishes, yet especially 

 so in this one, as among quadrupeds in the wolf and the 



dog. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. ch. xviii. 



V. Fish. 

 Cat. 



Hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot at me. 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, i. I, 259. 



[Cf. Steevens' notes.] 



THE Cat falleth on his own feet when he falleth out of 

 high places, and unneath is hurt when he is thrown down 

 off an high place. And when he hath a fair skin, he is 

 as it were proud thereof, and goeth fast about ; and when 

 his skin is burnt, then he bideth at home ; and is oft for 

 his fair skin taken of the skinner, and flain and slain. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xviii. 76. 



WILD Cats flee from the smoke of rue, and bitter 

 almonds. The dirt of the Tom or of the She-Cat with 

 mustard and vinegar cures baldness. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. ch. xxv. 



