198 SHAKESPEARE'S [MARBLE. 



tie some dog or some other living beast unto the root 

 thereof with a cord, and digged the earth in compass 

 round about, and in the mean time stopped their own 

 ears for fear of the terrible shriek and cry of this Man- 

 drake. In which cry it doth not only die itself, but the 

 fear thereof killeth the dog or beast which pulleth it out 

 of the earth. 



Bullein^ "Bulwark of Defence against Sickness," p. 41 

 quoted in Reed's Shakespeare. 



IF the root be seethed for six hours with ivory, it 

 softens it and makes it easy to work into any shape 

 desired. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 276. 



I FRAMED a mole under my child's ear by art ; you 

 shall see it taken away with the juice of Mandrake. 



Lilly, " Mother Bombie," v. 3. 



Marble. 



MACBETH, iii. 4, 22. 



MARBLE STONES be noble stones, and be praised for 

 speckles and diverse colours. Over all things we may 

 wonder that Marble stones be not hewed neither cloven 

 with iron, neither with steel, with hammer nor with saw, 

 as they be with a plate of lead set between nesh [soft] 

 shingles or spoons. For with lead and not with iron 

 Marble stones be hewen and cloven and planed, as shingles 

 or small Stones. Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvi. 69. 



MANY mines of coarse and fine Marble are there in 

 England ; but chiefly one in Staffordshire, another near to 

 the Peak, the third at Vauldry (?), the fourth at Snothill (?) 

 (belonging to the Lord Chandos), the fifth at Eaglestone, 

 which is of black Marble spotted with grey or white spots, 

 the sixth not far from Durham. Of white Marble also we 

 have store. The black Marble spotted with green is none 

 of the vilest sort. 



Ho tin shed, "Description of England," p. 235. 



Mare. 



KING HENRY V., ii. I, 25. 



THE name of an horse's wife shall be called a Mare. 

 And if a Mare, being with foal, smelleth the snuff of a 



