122 SHAKESPEARE'S [FROG. 



Frog. 



Eye of newt and toe of frog, 

 Wool of bat and tongue of dog. 



MACBETH, iv. I, 14. 



[Note that the Frog occurs here among other animals sup- 

 posed to be venomous as an ingredient of the witches' cauldron.]' 



THE Frog crieth greedily and maketh much noise in those 

 marais [/.?., marshes] where he is bred. And some Frogs 

 be water-frogs ; and some be of moors and of marais. 

 And there is a manner Frog, that maketh an hound still 

 and dumb, if he cometh in his mouth. And the Frog hath 

 his own voice, and maketh not that voice but only in 

 water. His eyes shineth as a candle, and namely by night. 

 And all fish nourisheth and feedeth his brood, out-take[n] 

 the Frog. Then the Frog is watery and moorish, crying 

 and slimy, with a great womb and speckled there-under, 

 and is venomous, and abominable therefore to men and 

 most hated, and both in water and in land he liveth. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet], bk. xviii. 91. 



BY Frogs I understand not such as arising from putre- 

 faction are bred without copulation, and because they subsist 

 not long are called Temporaria. 



Sir Thos. Browne, "Vulgar Errors," bk. iii. ch. xiii. 



FORBEAR in plenty of other meat this wanton eating of 

 Frogs, as things perilous to life and health. They which 

 use to eat Frogs fall to have a colour like lead. They did 

 burn the young Frogs, putting the powder thereof into a 

 cat, whose bowels were taken out, then roasting the cat, 

 and after she was roasted, they anointed her all over with 

 honey, then laid her by a wood-side ; by the odour and 

 savour whereof, all the wolves and foxes lodging in the 

 said wood were allured to come to it, and then the hunters 

 lying in wait did take, destroy and kill them. The flesh 

 of Frogs is good against the biting of the sea-hare, the 

 scorpion, and all kind of serpents. The broth taken into- 

 the body with roots of sea-holm expelleth the salamander. 

 The little Frogs are an antidote against the Toads and 

 great Frogs. Topsell, "History of Serpents," pp. 722-3. 



V. Paddock, Toad. 



