

LEOPARD.] NATURAL HISTORY. 177 



Lemon. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2, 653. 



[Probably unknown to Bartholomew, who does not mention 

 lemons nor oranges.] 



IT is eaten seasoned with salt. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 260. 



THY breath smells of Lemon-pills. 



Webster, "Duchess of Malfi," ii. I. 



IF you want Lemon- waters 

 Or anything to take the edge of the sea off, 

 Pray speak and be provided. 



Beaumont and Fletcher, " Tamer Tamed," iv. 4. 



V. also Cloves. 

 Leopard. 



KING RICHARD II., i. I, 174. 



THE Leopard is a beast most cruel, and is gendered in 

 spouse breach of a pard and of a lioness. The Leopard 

 is a full resing [i.e., raging] beast and headstrong, and 

 thirsteth blood, and the female is more cruel than the male, 

 and pursueth his prey startling and leaping and not 

 running, and if he taketh not his prey in the third leap, 

 or in the fourth, then he stinteth [i.e., ceaseth] for indig- 

 nation, and goeth backward, as though he were overcome. 

 And he is less in body than the lion, and therefore he 

 dreadeth the lion, and maketh a cave under earth with 

 double entering, one by which he goeth in, and another by 

 which he goeth out. And that cave is full wide and large 

 in either entering, and more narrow and strait in the 

 middle. And so when the lion cometh, he fleeth and 

 falleth suddenly into the cave, and the lion pursueth him 

 with a great rese [i.e., rush, or rage], and entereth also 

 into the cave, and weeneth there to have the mastery of 

 the Leopard, but for greatness of his body he may not pass 

 freely by the middle of the den, which is full strait, and 

 when the Leopard knoweth that the lion is so let and 

 holden in the strait place, he goeth out of the den for- 



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