RICE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 259 



A ROBIN REDBREAST finding the dead body of a man 

 or woman will cover the face of the same with moss ; and 

 as some hold opinion, he will cover also the whole body. 



Lupton, " Notable Things," bk. i. 37. 



V. Ruddock. 



Reremouse, Rearmouse. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. 2, 4. 



V. Bat. 

 Rhinoceros. 



MACBETH, iii. 4, 101. 



RHINOCEROS, the unicorn, is a wild beast by kind, and 

 may not be tamed in no wise ; and if it hap that he be 

 taken in any wise, he may not be kept in no manner ; for 

 he is so unpatient and so angry that he dieth anon. 



Bartholomew (Bertke/et], bk. xviii. 90. 



A RHINOCEROS, his hide or skin of the colour of the 

 box-tree ; an enemy to all beasts of rapine and prey, as 

 the lion, leopard, bear, wolf, tiger, and the like ; but to 

 others as the horse, ass, ox, sheep, etc. which feed not 

 upon the life and blood of the weaker, but of the grass 

 and herbage of the field, harmless and gentle, ready to 

 succour them, when they be any way distressed. 



Thos. Heywood, "London's Gate to Piety" (1638). 



ALL the later Physicians do attribute the virtue of the 

 Unicorn's horn to the Rhinoceros' horn, but they are 

 deceived. Topsell, "Four-footed Beasts," p. 463. 



y. Unicorn. 

 Rice. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, n. 



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THE plants of Rice did grow in my garden. In Eng- 

 and we use to make with milk and Rice a certain food or 

 pottage. Many other good kinds of food is made with this 

 grain, as those that are skilful in cookery can tell. 



Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



