MUSCADEL.] NATURAL HISTORY. 209 



MICE are multiplied in dry seasons (which the store of them 

 this dry winter 1613 confirmeth) of which there are great 

 ones in Egypt with two feet which they use as hands, not 

 going but leaping. Purchas' "Pilgrims," p. 560 (ed. 1616). 



Mulberry. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. 1, 170. 



CORIOLANUS, ill. 2, 79. 



LEAVES thereof slayeth serpents, if they be thrown or 

 laid upon them. The J eaves sod in rain - water maketh 

 black hair, and healeth the biting of attercops [spiders], 

 and easeth the tooth-ache. Of Mulberries is noble drink 

 made ; elephants drink thereof, and be the more bold and 

 hardy. Bartholomew (Bertbelet\ bk. xvii. 100. 



THE Mulberries [in Hegesander's time] did not bring 

 forth fruit in twenty years together, and so great a plague 

 of the gout then reigned and raged so generally, as not 

 only men, but boys, wenches, eunuchs and women were 

 troubled with that disease. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



Mule. 



WINE -drinking is forbidden the Mule. The more 

 water that the Mule drinketh, the more good his meat 

 doth him. Also the Mule hath no gall openly seen upon 

 nis liver - Bartholomew (BertMet}, bk. xviii. 72. 



IF you fumigate a house with the left hoof of a Mule, 

 no rat will remain in that house. The ashes of a Mule's 

 hoofs cure baldness. Hortus 8 anitatis, bk. ii. 98. 



MULES are broken of their flinging and wincing, if they 

 use often to drink wine. Holland?* Pliny, bk. viii. ch. xliv. 



THE epithets of a Mule are these : pack-bearer, dirty, 

 Spanish, rough and bi-formed. 



Topsell, " History of Four-footed Beasts," s.v. 



Muscadel, or Muscadine. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, iii. 2, 172. 



[Muscadel and brawn were usual refreshments at Christmas 

 (so Beaumont and Fletcher's " Loyal Subject,'" iii. 4, also 

 Tamer Tamed," iv. I, and "The Pilgrim," ii. i. 





