1 30 SHAKESPEARE'S [GOAT. 



And by remedy of Goats' horns divers manner kind of 

 venom is overcome. With new Goat-skins wounds be holp 

 and healed. Goat's blood meddled with marrow and sod 

 excludeth poison of venom, biting of creeping worms, and 

 smiting of scorpions be saved and healed. And a certain 

 beast sucketh goat's milk of the udder and teats, and then 

 the milk is destroyed and wasted, and the goat waxeth 

 blind thereby. Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 24. 



WILD Goats dwell in high rocks and crags ; and if they 

 perceive sometime that they be pursued of men or of wild 

 beasts, they fall down headlong out of the high crags, and 

 save themselves harmless on their own horns. Also the 

 leopard drinketh milk of the wild Goat, and voideth 

 sorrow and woe. Ibid., 22. 



WHEN he is wounded, he eateth Dragon tea, and taketh 

 so the arrow out of the body. Serpents hate and flee the 

 wild Goat, and may not suffer the breath of him. 



Ibid., 35. 



THE hot blood of the Goat buck nesheth and carveth 

 the hard adamant stone, that neither fire nor iron may 

 overcome. And the Goat buck hath many and strong 

 horns, and much fatness and namely within about the reins, 

 and then he dieth lightly, but the fatness be withdrawn. 

 Sometime it happed that a Goat buck was seen with horns 

 in the legs, and that was full wonderful to see. The liver 

 of the Goat buck helpeth against biting of the wood 

 hound. ibid., 60. 



GOATS will not stray nor wander, if you cut off their 

 beards. 



Lupton's " A Thousand Notable Things," bk. v. 58. 



THE bite of the Goat is deadly to trees. And Goats 

 die if they lick honey. They live on venomous herbs. If 

 Goats drink or eat out of vessels of tamarisk, they will 

 have no spleen. If they lick serpents after these have cast 

 their skin, they will not grow old, though they become 



