98 SHAKESPEARE'S [EBONY. 



broken by natural maturity, and returns when the young 

 birds are hatched, and then feeds them until they attain to 

 perfect Strength. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. ch. i. 



HARTS that cast their horns, snakes their skins. Eagles 

 their bills, become more fresh for any other labour. 



Lilly, Prologue to "Campaspe." 



THE princely Eagle, fearing to surfeit on spices, stoopeth 



tO bite On WOrm-WOod. Ibid., Prologue to "Sapho and Phaon." 



THE Eagle is never stricken with thunder. 



Ibid.) Act iii. Scene 3. 



EAGLES cast their evil feathers in the sun. 



Ibid.) " Galatea," Act iii. Scene 4. 



Ebony. 



Black as ebony. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3, 247. 



EBONY is oft set by cradles, for black sights should not 

 fear the children. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet], bk. xvii. 52. 



EBONY is a tree whereof the wood is black as jet within, 

 and beareth neither leaves nor fruit. 



Batmarfs addition to Bartholomew^ I.e. 



Eel. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, i. 2, 30. 



THE Eel is generated from the slime of other fishes ; it 

 is hard to skin, and very difficult to kill, as it lives even 

 after it has been skinned ; it is disturbed by the sound of 

 thunder. It is most easily caught when the Pleiades have 

 set. And they say that in the Eastern river Ganges, Eels 

 are gendered with feet to walk on the land. Eels live for 

 eight years ; and they exist without water for six days while 

 the North-east wind blows, but less while the South wind 



