58 SHAKESPEARE'S [CAT o' MOUNTAIN. 



sometimes there falleth as it were three blackish eggs, the 

 true and proper mothers and breeders of flies and cantha- 

 rides. There is not any one sort of Caterpillars, but they 

 are malign, naught and venomous. If you rub a naughty 

 or a rotten tooth with the colewort-Caterpillars, and that 

 often, within a few days following, the tooth will fall out 

 of his own accord. Caterpillars mixed with oil do drive 

 away serpents. Topsell, " History of Serpents," pp. 668-70. 



Cat o' Mountain. 



More pinch-spotted make them 

 Than pard or cat o' mountain. 



TEMPEST, iv. i, 262. 



V. Pard. 



IN the Senators' Palace [at Florence] I saw a Cat of the 

 Mountain, not unlike to a dog, with the head of a black 

 colour, and the back like an hedgehog, a light touch 

 whereof gave a very sweet scent to my gloves. 



Fynes Moryson, " Itinerary," part i., p. 149. 



Cedar. 



He shall flourish, 



And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches 

 To all the plains about him. 



KING HENRY VIII., v. 5, 54. 



CEDAR is a tree with merry smell, and endureth and 

 abideth long time, and is never destroyed with moth, 

 neither with the tree-worm. Then the Cedar-tree is always 

 green with good smell, and the smell of it driveth away 

 serpents and all manner of venomous worms. And the 

 apple of Cedar hath three manner savours. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet}, bk. xvii. 23. 



Evelyn ("Sylva," bk. ii., ch. iv.) says that chests and 

 presses of Cedar-wood corrupt woollen cloth and furs, but 

 preserve other goods from moths, and, indeed, that the 

 dust and very chips are exitial to moths and worms ; that 

 the oil yielded by the wood above all other best preserves 

 books and writings. 



