1 64 SHAKESPEARE'S [HYAENA. 



when the moon is passing through the sign Gemini ; and 

 then if they be taken, the huntsman must be sure to save 

 every hair of their skins, and miss not one, so medicinable 

 they are. Whosoever are haunted with sprites in the 

 night-season, and be affrighted with such bugbears, let them 

 but take one of the master-teeth of the Hyaena, and wear it 

 about them tied by a linen thread, they shall be freed from 

 all such fantastical illusions. And as for those that wear 

 under the soles of their feet within the shoe a Hyaena's 

 tongue, there is not a dog will be so hardy as to bay or 

 bark at them. And the hairs growing about the muzzle 

 of this beast have an amatorious virtue with them to make 

 a woman love a man, in case her lips be but touched 

 therewith. If the side-posts or door-cheeks of any house 

 be striked with the Hyaena's blood, wheresoever magicians 

 are busy with their feats and juggling casts, they shall take 

 no effect, whether they be charms, exorcisms or invoca- 

 tions ; insomuch as they shall not be able to raise up 

 spirits, nor have any conference with familiars by any 

 means of conjuration, whether it be by torch-lights, by 

 bason, by water, by globe or otherwise. A decoction made 

 with the ashes of the pastern bone of the left leg, boiled 

 together with the blood of a weasel, causeth as many as be 

 anointed therewith to be odious in the eyes of all men. 

 The hindmost end of the gut in this beast is of virtue 

 that no captain, prince or potentate shall be able to wrong 

 or oppress those who have but the same* about them ; but 

 contrariwise assureth them of good speed in all their 

 petitions, and of happy issue in all suits of law and trials 

 of judgments. Holland's Pliny, bk. xxviii. ch. viii. 



THE Hyaena when she mourns is then most guileful. 



"Euphues* Golden Legacy." 



THE middle of his back is a little crooked or dented, 

 the colour yellowish, but bespeckled on the sides with 

 blue spots, which make him look more terrible, as if it 

 had so many eyes. The eyes change their colour at the 

 pleasure of the beast, a thousand times a day. The skilful 

 lapidarists affirm that the beast hath a stone in his eyes (or 

 rather in his head) called Hyaena or Hyaenius ; but the 



