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dry, and in summer when the western wind bloweth, the 

 sticks and the nest be set on fire with burning heat of the 

 sun, and burneth strongly. Then this bird Phoenix cometh 

 wilfully into the burning nest, and is there burnt to ashes, 

 among these burning sticks. And within three days, a little 

 worm is gendered of the ashes, and waxeth little and little, 

 and taketh feathers, and is shaped and turned to a bird. 

 And is the most fairest bird that is, most like to the 

 peacock in feathers, and loveth wilderness, and gathereth his 

 meat of clean greens and fruits. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xii. 14. 



THE Phoenix is born among the Arabs, a bird of the 

 size of the eagle, its head adorned with plumes upstanding, 

 its jaws crested, about its neck a golden sheen, purple on its 

 hinder parts, except the tail on which a brilliant blue is 

 mixed with rose-coloured feathers, 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. 48. 



NEVER man was known to see him feeding. In Arabia 

 he is held a sacred bird, dedicated unto the sun ; he liveth 

 660 years. And the first thing that the young new Phoenix 

 doth is to perform the obsequies of the former Phoenix, late 

 deceased ; to translate and carry away his whole nest into 

 the city of the Sun, near Panchaea, and to bestow it full 

 devoutly there upon the altar. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. ii. 



IN the city Chora, there is one of these [date-] trees that 

 bears dates like to pearls, and the bird Phoenix is supposed 

 to have taken name of this date-tree, for it was assured to 

 me that the said bird died with that tree, and revived of 

 itself as the tree sprung again. Ibid ^ bk> xiil clu iv> 



Pig (i.e., Sucking-pig). 



COMEDY OF ERRORS, i. 2, 44. 

 TITUS ANDROMCUS, iv. 2, 145. 



PIG : A little young swine. 



Minsfotts Dictionary, s.v. 



