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SHAKESPEARE'S 



[CHAMELEON. 



fearful beast with little blood, and changeth therefore 

 colours. And is four manner divers \_quadrufes (Bartholo- 

 mew}'] : he hath the face of the eft, and sharp claws and 

 crooked, and the body sharp, and an hard skin as the 

 crocodile. And his sides be even long to the nether parts 

 of his womb as it were a fish ; his face is as it were a 

 beast compounded of a swine and of an ape ; and his tail 

 is full long and small at the end ; and his feet be crooked 

 as it were a little eft ; and each of his feet is departed atwin 

 [in two], and the comparison of one foot to another is as in 





comparison of the thumb of a man to the other deal oi 

 the hand ; and each of those two parts is divided ii 

 fingers ; and his claws be like to the claws of a bird, am 

 all his body is rough and sharp as the body of a Bard, 

 [partan (Bartholomew}, (? pard or crab)]. ' His eyes be deep, 

 great and round, and contained with a skin, like to th< 

 skin of the body, and that skin covereth the eyes. An< 

 he turneth and casteth oft his eyes hither and thither. 

 And changeth his colour when his skin is blown, and hi: 



