r8o 



SHAKESPEARE'S 



[LIBBARD. 



whale swallows the water, and rejects it, and repels that 

 very foul stench, and so saves and defends him and his. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 84, and bk. iv. 50. 



Libbard. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2, 551. 



V. Leopard. 



Lily. 



THE root thereof drunk with wine healeth biting of 

 serpents, and helpeth against the malice and venom of 



frogs. Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 91. 



IF the root be curiously opened, and therein be put 

 some red, blue or yellow colour that hath no caustic or 

 burning quality, it will cause the flower to be of the same 

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



, THE leaves of the herb applied are good against the 

 stinging of serpents. The roots boiled in wine causeth the 





