MOON-CALF.] NATURAL HISTORY. 205 



IF you will catch Moles or wants, put garlic, leeks or an 

 onion in the mouths of their holes, and you shall see them 

 come or leap out quickly, as though they were amazed or 

 astonied. Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. ix. 14. 



MOLE'S blood sprinkled on a bald head makes the hairs 

 come back. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 139. 



MOLES have no ears, and yet they understand all speeches 

 spoken of themselves. If a man eat the heart of a Mole 

 newly taken out of her belly and panting, he shall be able 

 to divine and foretell infallible events. There is nothing 

 which is more profitable or medicinable for the curing of 

 the bites of a shrew, than a Mole being flayed and clapped 

 thereunto. For the changing of the hairs of horses from 

 black to white, take a Mole and boil her in salt water, or 

 lye made of ashes three days together, and when the water 

 or lye shall be quite consumed, put new water or lye there- 

 unto ; this being done, wash or bathe the place with the 

 water or lye somewhat hot ; presently the black hairs will 

 fall and slide away, and in some short time there will 

 Come white. Topsell, "Four-footed Beasts," pp. 389-91. 



IF the foot of a Mole be wrapped in a laurel-leaf and 

 put into a horse's ear, he will run away for fear ; and if it 

 be put in the nest of any bird, no young ones will be 

 hatched out of those eggs. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of the Virtues of Animals." 



Monkey. 



MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii. I, 124. 



V. Ape. 



[Monkeys were common pets for ladies, and shared their 

 favour with dogs and paroquets (so Massinger, " New Way 

 to Pay Old Debts"; Ben Jonson, " Cynthia's Revels"; 

 Middleton, " Michaelmas Term/' etc.).] 



Moon-calf. 



TEMPEST, ii. 2, in. 



A FALSE conception called mola or Moon-calf, that is to 

 say, a lump of flesh without shape, without life, and so 



