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the warmest side of the house. This furthermore is to be 

 noted, that of Honey the best which is heaviest and 

 moistest is always next the bottom. 



Holinsbed, "Description of England," p. 229. 



V. Bee. 



Honey-suckle. 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iii. i, 8. 



FLIES that die on the Honey-suckle become poison to 

 bees - Lilly, " Sappho and Phaon," ii. 4. 



Horse. 



HORSES be joyful in fields, and smell battles, and be 

 comforted with noise of trumps to battles and to fighting, 

 and be excited to run with noise that they know, and be 

 sorry when they be overcome, and glad when they have 

 the mastery. And so feeleth and knoweth their enemies 

 in battles, so far forth that they arise on their enemies with 

 biting and smiting, and also some know their own lords, 

 and forgetteth mildness, if their lords be overcome. And 

 many Horses weep when their lords be dead. Also oft 

 men that shall fight take evidence and divine and guess 

 what shall befall by sorrow or by the joy that the Horse 

 maketh. And those Horses be accounted best in war and 

 in battle, that thrust the head deepest into the water when 

 they drink. Also the gall of a Horse is accounted among 

 venom. His fresh blood and raw is venomous, as the 

 blood of a bull. The Horse's foam drunken with asses' 

 milk slayeth venomous worms. Also sometime Horses, 

 have the podagre, and lose the soles of their feet, and 

 then gendereth new. And sometime an Horse is wood 

 [/.., mad], and the token thereof is that his ears bend 

 toward the neck ; and this evil hath no medicine. And 

 the Horse knoweth his neighing that will fight with him, 

 and hath liking to stand in meads, and to swim in water,. 



