1 86 SHAKESPEARE'S [LIONESS. 



flesh of a Lion being eaten either by a man or woman, 

 which is troubled with dreams and fantasies in the night- 

 time, will very speedily and effectually work him ease and 

 quietness. The grease of a Lion being dissolved and pre- 

 sently again conglutinated together, and so being anointed 

 upon the body of those who are heavy and sad, it will 

 speedily extirpate all sorrow and grief from their hearts. 

 The gall of a Lion being taken in drink by anyone doth 

 kill or poison him out of hand. 



Topsell, " Four-footed Beasts," pp. 376-9. 



IF thongs be cut from a Lion's skin, a man girt with 

 them will not fear his foes ; and if his eyes be put under 

 the arm-pits, or worn, all beasts will bow their heads, and 

 flee behind his back. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of the Virtues of Animals." 



LIONS we have had very many in the North parts of 

 Scotland, and those with manes of no less force than those 

 of Mauritania ; but how and when they were destroyed as 

 yet I do not read. 



Holinsbed, " Description of England," p. 225. 



IN Pietra Rossa [Barbary], the Lions are so tame that 

 they will gather up bones in the streets, the people not 

 fearing them. The like Lions are in Guraigura, where 

 one may drive them away with a staff. At Agla the 

 Lions are so fearful, that they will flee at the voice of a 

 child, whence a cowardly braggart is proverbially called a 

 Lion of Agla. Purchai "Pilgrims," p. 621 (ed. 1616). 



Lioness. 



As You LIKE IT, iv. 3, 115. 



THE Lioness is more cruel than the lion, and namely 

 when she hath whelps, for she putteth her in peril of 

 death for her whelps. There is a little beast that the lion 

 and the Lioness dreadeth wonderfully, and that beast hight 

 Leontophonus. For that beast beareth a certain venom, 

 which slayeth the lion and the Lioness. Therefore this 

 said beast is taken, and afterward burnt, and the flesh 

 [which] is sprung [sprinkled] with the ashes, and laid and 

 set in meeting of ways, shall slay and destroy the lions 



