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SHAKESPEARE'S 



[LIZARD. 



THE venom of the Lizard is deadly, and the remedy for 

 it is made from the pounded flesh of scorpions. There is 

 no animal more deceitful than the Lizard, and he envies 

 man. In the flesh of the Lizard is virtue for extracting 

 splinters and thorns. Its fat fattens much. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 130. 



THE Lizard when he lies 



Too open to the hot sun faints and dies. 



He-flood's "Anna and Phillis," emb. 16. 



WHEN a certain man had taken a great fat Lizard, he 

 did put out her eyes with an instrument of brass, and so 

 put her into a new earthen pot, which had in it two small 

 holes or passages, big enough to take breath at, but too 

 little to creep out at, and, with her, moist earth and a 

 certain herb ; and furthermore he took an iron ring, 

 wherein was set an engagataes [? agate} stone with the 

 picture of a Lizard engraven upon it ; and besides upon 

 the ring he made nine several marks, whereof he put out 

 every day one, until at the last he came at the ninth, and 

 then he opened the pot again, and the Lizard did see as 



