278 SHAKESPEARE'S [SEA-MEW. 



Sea-mew. 



TEMPEST, ii. 2, 176. 

 [Sea-mew, a small gull] 



IN the Lake of Como, certain fishers in the winter did 

 draw with their nets to the dry land a great sort of Sea- 

 mews, seeming to be dead, which were joined together 

 with their bills or nebs in one another's tail ; and being 

 warmed with their guts, were found alive. 



Lupton, "Notable Things," bk. vi. 88. 



Sedge. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, Induction, 2, 53. 



SEDGE is an herb most hard and sharp, and hurteth 

 never man but he toucheth it. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 35. 



SEDGES or sheargrass, whereof is made mats and hassocks 

 to sit and kneel upon ; with the said Sedges is made Ham- 

 boroughs [i.e., collars] for the necks of horses, instead of 

 leather harness, and for other cartage and plough. 



Batman's addition to Bartholomew, /or. at. 



Serpent. 



ALL kind of Serpents and adders, that by kind may 

 wrap and fold his own body, hath many corners and angles 

 in such folding, and goeth never straight. And of adders 

 is many manner kind ; and how many kind, so many 

 manner venom, and how many species, so many manner 

 malice, and so many manner sores and aches, as there are 

 colours. And an adder grieveth most now with biting, 

 now with blowing, now with smiting with the tail, and now 

 with stinging, now with looking and sight. The Serpent 

 Dipsas is so little, that he uneath [scarcely] is seen when 

 men tread thereon, and the venom thereof slayeth ere it be 

 felt, and he that dieth by that venom feeleth no sore. Some 

 have two heads, as the adder Amphisb<ena, one in the one 

 end, and another in the tother end, and runneth and 

 glideth and wriggleth with wrinkles, circles and draughts 

 of the body after either head, as though one mouth were 



