290 SHAKESPEARE'S [SLUG. 



ITS face is horrible, its hair very long and filthy. And 

 it appears with its young which it carries in its arms ; and 

 when sailors see it, they are much afeared, and throw it 

 an empty bottle, with which it plays, until the ship has 

 passed by. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. 83. 



Slug. 



COMEDY OF ERRORS, ii. 2, 196. 



^ Snail. 

 Snail. 



As You LIKE IT, iv. I, 54. 



SNAIL is a worm of slime, and breedeth of slime, and is 

 therefore alway foul and unclean ; and is a manner snake, 

 and is an horned worm. And such worms be gendered 

 principally in corrupt air and rain. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xviii. 70. 



NEITHER have I 

 Dress'd Snails or mushrooms curiously before him. 



Ben Jonson, " Every Man in his Humour," ii. 5. 



SOME men trow, though it be not be believed, that the 

 ship goeth slower, if he beareth the right foot of a Snail 

 [Batman translates "testudo" here by "tortoise" instead of 



ct Qnoil "1 



Bartholomew (Bertkelei), bk. xviii. 107. 



SNAILS without their shells, or otherwise with their 

 shells stamped and mixed sometimes with cheese-lope or 

 rennet, do draw out thorns, or any other thing out of 

 the flesh, though never so deep, if they be applied to the 



P ' Lupton "Notable Things," bk. I 100. 



THE two horns of a snail borne upon a man will pluck 

 away carnal or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof. 



lbid*> bk. ix. 17. 



Snake. V. Serpent. 



