162 SHAKESPEARE'S [HORSE-LEECH. 



appointed, where they make sale of their infected ware, 

 and such as by this means do fall into many diseases and 

 maladies. Of such outlandish Horses as are daily brought 

 over unto us I speak not, as the jennet of Spain, the 

 courser of Naples, the hobby of Ireland, the Flemish roil 

 and Scottish nag. King Henry VIII. erected a noble 

 studdery, and for a time had very good success with them, 

 till the officers waxing weary procured a mixed brood 

 of bastard races, whereby his good purpose came to little 

 effect. Sir Nicholas Arnold of late hath bred the best 

 horses in England. 



Holinshed, "Description of England," p. 220. 



Horse-leech. 



KING HENRY V., ii. 3, 58. 



IN a river of Mauritania are found some of seven cubits 

 in length, which breathe, through perforations in the gullet. 

 Leeches are produced from rottenness, and it is not known 

 whether they gender. 



Jonstorfs "Natural History," bk. iv. ("On Insects"), tit. ii. ch. i. 



Hound. V. Dog. 

 Hysena. 



As You LIKE IT, iv. I, 1,56. 



HY^NA is a cruel beast like to the wolf in devouring 

 and gluttony. It is his kind to change sexes, for he is 

 now found male and now female, and is therefore an un- 

 clean beast. And cometh to houses by night, and feigneth 

 man's voice as he may, for men should trow that it is a 

 man. And herds tell that among stables, he feigneth 

 speech of mankind, and calleth some man by his own name, 

 and rendeth him when he hath him without. And he 

 feigneth oft the name of some man for to make hounds 

 run out, that he may take and eat them. And hath the 

 neck of the adder viper, and the ridge of an elephant, and 



