1 9 o SHAKESPEARE'S [LOCUST. 



the deuce." But " Some fishes there be, which of themselves 

 are given to breed fleas and lice, among which the chalets, a 

 kind of turbot, is one " (Philemon Holland's Pliny, bk. ix. 

 ch. xlvii.) and perhaps the Loach is another.] 



Locust. 



OTHELLO, i. 3, 354. 

 [May perhaps be the fruit of the Locust-tree.] 



LOCUST hath that name for it hath long legs as the shaft 

 of a spear. And these worms that night Locust have no 

 king, and yet they pass forth ordinately in companies. 

 And hath a square mouth, and a sting instead of a tail, 

 and crooked and folding legs. And are gendered of the 

 southern wind, and excited to flight. And they die in the 

 Northern wind. Also this worm Locust for the most part 

 is all womb, and therefore it hath never meat enough. 

 And of their dirt worms be gendered. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. (" Of Birds ") 24. 



HE burneth corn with touching, and devoureth the 

 residue. In India be of them three foot in length, which 

 the people of the country do eat. 



Batfnatfs addition, ut supra. 



THE Locust [is] none other creature than the grass- 

 hopper. In Barbary [etc.] they are eaten ; nevertheless 

 they shorten the life of the eaters by the production at the 

 last of an irksome and filthy disease. In India they are 

 three foot long, in Ethiopia much shorter. 



Holinshed, " Description of England," p. 229. 



Louse. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. I, 72. 



A LOUSE is a worm of the skin, and grieveth more in 

 the skin with the feet and with creeping, than he doth 

 with biting, and is gendered of right corrupt _air and 

 vapours, that sweat out between the skin and the flesh by 

 pores. And some lice gender of sanguine humour, and be 

 red and great ; and some of phlegmatic humours, and they 

 be nesh and white ; and some of choleric humours, and be 



