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SHAKESPEARE'S 



[LETTUCE. 



ward, and cometh again into the den in the other side be- 

 hind the lion, and reseth on him behindforth with biting 

 and with claws. And so the Leopard hath often in that 

 wise the mastery of the lion by craft and not by strength. 

 This beast eateth sometime venomous thing, and seeketh 

 then man's dirt and eateth it, and therefore hunters 

 hangeth such dirt in some vessel on a tree, and when the 

 Leopard cometh to that tree, and Jeapeth up to take the 



dirt, then the hunters slay him in the meantime, while he 



is thereabout. Also sometime the Leopard is sick, and 



drinketh wild goat's blood, and scapeth by it the sickness 



in that wise. Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 67. 



THE Leopard flees when he sees a man's scull, and he 

 is afraid of the grass called Leopard-grass, and is killed by 

 the herb which is called " strangle-leopard " [perhaps aconite, 

 "Leopard's bane"]. Hortui Sanitatis, bk. ii. 81. 



Lettuce. 



OTHELLO, i. 3, 324, 



WHEN it is old, it is hard, and use thereof appaireth 

 [injures] the sight, and maketh it fail, and slayeth the feeling, 



