138 SHAKESPEARE'S [GUDGEON. 



of great oxen, or of bugles [/.., buffaloes] or of kine ; so 

 that men make cups of them to drink of ; and of their 

 ribs and of the pens [i.e. , feathers] of their wings, men 

 make bows full strong, to shoot with arrows and quarrels. 



Sir John Mandeville, ch. xxvi. ad Jin. 



GRIPES make their nests of gold, though their coats are 

 feathers. Lilly, "Galatea," ii. 3. 



THE Griffin never spreadeth her wings in the sun, when 

 she hath any sick feathers. 



Lilly, " Sappho and Phaon " (Prologue at the Blackfriars). 



Gudgeon. 



This fool gudgeon. 



MERCHANT OF VENICE, i. I, 102. 



SOME say that the Gudgeon feeds on dead carcases, but 

 fishermen hold this to be a fable. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. 41. 



SOME have said that the Gudgeon is generated from the 

 brain of horses. 



Jonston, " Natural History," bk. ii. tit. i. ch. x. 



WHAT fish soever you be, you have made both me and 

 Philantus to swallow a Gudgeon. 



"Euphues"; so Dekker's "Honest Whore," part ii. ii. 2. 



Gurnet. 



A soused gurnet. 



i. KING HENRY IV., v. 2, II. 



[GURNET is called in Latin] cuculus, either from the 

 sound which it makes in common with the bird of that 

 name [i.e. cuckoo], or because, when it is taken in nets, it 

 utters the word cu. 



Jonston, " Natural History," bk. ii. tit. iii. ch. i. p. 2. 



[Gurnets cost 2s. 6d. to 35. each in 1573. 

 Soused Gurnet was a term of reproach ; vide Steevens 

 Shakespeare, vol. viii. p. 549.] 



