64 SHAKESPEARE'S [CIVET. 



comforteth the in-wit. One manner of Chrysolite is deemed 

 golden by day, and fiery by night. And another manner 

 kind is coloured as gold, and is right fair in sight in the 

 morrow tide ; and then as the day passeth his colour 

 waxeth dim. And this stone taketh most soonest heat ; for 

 if it be set by the fire, anon it waxeth on aflame. 



Bartholomew (Bert6e/et), bk. xvi. 29. 



According to the Hortus Sanitatis (bk. iv. 38), Chrysolite 

 drives away demons and the worst melancholy fears if 

 pierced, and the hole filled up with ass's bristles, and the 

 stone bound on the left arm. And some say that it drives 

 away folly, and brings wisdom. 



CHRYSOLITE, the purer the sooner stained. 



" Euphues' Golden Legacy." 



Civet. 



A' rubs himself with civet. 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iii. 2, 45 



Civet is of a baser birth than tar, the very uncleanly flux of a cat. 



As You LIKE IT, iii. 2, 69. 



THIS is Civet, this comes from the cat's tail, this per- 

 fumes your ladies, this drug is precious and dear. 



Sbarpham, " The Fleire." 



I vow to poison your musk-cats, if their Civet excre- 

 ment do but once play with my nose. 



Dekker's "Gull's Hornbook," bk. ii. 



HE wears Civet, 



And when it was ask'd him where he had that musk, 

 He said all his kindred smeit so. 



" Soliman and Perseda," i. 



(CivET as an ingredient of a pomander.) "Lingua," iv. 3. 



MUSK-CAT, I'ld make your Civet worship stink 

 First in your perfumed buff. 



Thomas Razvlins, " The Rebellion," ii. i. 



THIS beast is a very clean beast, and therefore the place 

 where it lieth must be swept every day and the vessels 

 clean washed. The Civet or liquor running out doth go 



