1 40 SHAKESPEARE'S [HARE. 



THERE is engendered in the sea also that which is called 

 Halcyoneum, made as some think of the nests of the 

 birds Halcyons ; but, as others suppose, of the filthy foam 

 of the sea. Four kinds there be of it. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxxii. ch. viii. 



INTO the nest of an Halcyon no bird can enter but the 



Halcyon. Lilly, "Sappho and Phaon," iii. 3. 



As the birds Halcyon which exceed in whiteness, I hatch 

 young ones that exceed in blackness. 



" Euphues' Golden Legacie." 



A LITTLE bird called the King's fisher, being hanged up 

 in the air by the neck, his neb or bill will be always direct 

 or straight against the wind. This was told me for a very 

 truth by one that knew it by proof, as he said. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. x. 96. 



BUT now how stands the wind ? 



Into what corner peers my Halcyon's bill ? 



Ha ! To the East ? Yes ! See, how stand the vanes ? 



East and by south. Marlowe, "Jew of Malta," i. I. 



As a Halcyon with her turning breast 

 Demonstrates wind from wind, and east from west. 

 Storer, "Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal" (i 599). 



Hare. 



[Melancholy] hare. 



i. KING HENRY IV., i. 2, 86. 



THE Hare is fearful, and fighteth not, and is feeble of 

 sight, as other beasts be, that close not the eye-lids in 

 sleeping ; and is better of hearing than of sight, namely 

 when he reareth up the ears. His ears be full long and 

 pliant, and that is needful for to defend the eyes that be 

 open, and not defended with covering, nor with heling to 

 keep them from gnats and flies great and small for against 

 noyful [/.., noxious] things, kind giveth remedy to 

 creatures. . . Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 68. 



