CROCODILE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 

 Crocodile. 



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Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of 

 the sun : so is your crocodile. 



ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 7, 29. 



If that the earth could teem with woman's tears 

 Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 



OTHELLO, iv. I, 256. 



The mournful crocodile 

 With sorrow snares relenting passengers. 



ii. KING HENRY VI., iii. I, 226. 



O LAND Crocodiles, 



Made of Egyptian slime, accursed women ! 



Massinger, "The Renegado," iii. i. 



THE Crocodile is a serpent that from a small egg, grows 

 in short time to a mighty length and bigness ; he is bold 

 over those that fly him, but fearful of them that pursue 





him ; the four winter months, November, December, 

 January and February, he eats not at all ; he hath no 

 tongue, but teeth sharp and long ; neither in feeding doth 

 he move his lower jaw. 



Thomas Heyzuood, " London's Peaceable Estate." 





