LEVIATHAN.] NATURAL HISTORY, 179 



for it stifleth natural feeling with sourness thereof. A manner 

 kind of Lettuce groweth of itself without tilling, and if it 

 be thrown into the sea, it slayeth all the fish that is nigh 

 thereabout. Hawks scrape this herb, and take out the 

 juice thereof, and touch and heal their eyes therewith, and 

 do away dimness and blindness when they be old. And 

 it healeth biting of serpents, and stinging of scorpions, 

 if the juice thereof be drunk in wine, and the leaves, 

 stamped and laid to the wound in a plaster wise, suageth 

 and healeth all manner swelling. But oft use thereof, 

 and too much thereof eaten grieveth the clearness of the 



eyes. 



Bartholomew (Berthelei), bk. xvii. 92. 



BY manuring, transplanting, and having a regard to the 

 moon and other circumstances, the leaves of the artificial 

 Lettuce are oftentimes transformed into another shape. If 

 Lettuce be boiled, it is sooner digested, and nourisheth 

 more. It is served in these days, and in these countries, 

 in the beginning of supper, and eaten first before any other 

 meat ; for being taken before meat it doth many times stir 

 up appetite ; eaten after supper it keepeth away drunken- 

 ness which cometh by the wine. 



Gerard's ''Herbal," s.v. 



WHEN I nursed thee with Lettuce, would it had 

 turned to hemlock. 



Lilly j " Sappho and Phaon," iv. 2. 



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eviathan. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. i, 174. 



THE Leviathan often lies in wait for the whale, and 



ights with him ; and all the fishes of the sea which behold 



:he fight flock quickly to the tail of the whale. Now if 



:he whale be overcome he must die, and those fish too, 



r hich he had girdled with his tail, are quickly swallowed. 



Jut if the Leviathan cannot overcome the whale, he emits 



:om his jaws a most foul stench with water ; but the 



