HARE.] NATURAL HISTORY 141 



Like your melancholy Hare 

 Feed after midnight. 



Webster, " Vittoria Corombona." 



HOWSOEVER Hares are thought to nourish melancholy, 

 yet they are eaten as venison, both roasted and boiled. 



Fynes Moryson, "Itinerary," part iii. p. 149. 



[Hares were roasted (second part of " The Good Huswife's 

 Jewel," 1597, p. 66) with parsley, thyme, savory, cream, butter, 

 small raisins and barberries worked all together in the Hare's 

 belly, and served with venison sauce.] 



THE juice of henbane, mixed with the blood of an Hare, 

 and sod within the skin of a Hare, it is said that all the 

 Hares will gather together, which be within that trace 

 where it is buried. This was affirmed for truth to 



Mizaldus. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. ii. 5. 



[HARE-LIP comes of seeing a Hare or longing for its 

 flesh. Ibid., bk. ii. 6.] 



THE blood of an Hare dried and made in powder, and 

 thrown upon flesh newly roasted or sodden, makes the 

 same flesh seem to be bloody and corrupt. So that they 

 that be present, and sees the same, unless such as know 

 the secret thereof, will loathe to eat thereof (Mizaldus). 



Ibid., bk. vii. 66. 



WITH its brain boys' gums are cleansed ; for it has the 

 property to make the teeth come quickly, and without 

 pain. Its head burnt with bear's grease, and used as a 

 plaster, helps baldness. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 83. 



IN Chersonesus all the Hares have ordinarily two livers ; 

 and (a wondrous thing it is to tell) if they be brought 

 * ito other countries, one of the said livers they lose. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xi. p. 341. 



SOME creatures there are that will never be fat, as the 

 [are and partridge. ibid., P . 344 . 



