SPERMACETI.] NATURAL HISTORY. 293 



IT is said that no Sparrows have ever been seen at a 

 place called Lindham in the moors below Hatfield [York- 

 shire]. Camderfs "Britannia," col. 850. 



Spawn. 



CORIOLANUS, il. 2, 82. 



THIS is to be noted, that the foresaid engendering of 

 [fish] is not sufficient to accomplish generation, unless, when 

 their eggs be laid or spawn cast, both male and female 

 take it between them, and keep a-turning of it, thereby 

 to breathe a lively spirit into it, and, as it were, besprinkle 

 it with a vital dew, as it floateth upon the water. But 

 turn they it and toss it, breathe they upon it as much as 

 they will, yet all those little eggs of their spawn do not 

 hit and come to proof; for if they did, all seas and lakes, 

 and all rivers and pools, would be so pestered full with 

 fishes, that a man would see nothing else. 



Holland's P/iny, bk. ix. ch. 1. 



V. Fish. 

 Spear-grass. 



i. KING HENRY IV., ii. 4, 340. 



SPEAR-GRASS is good for the sciatica, or the gout. 



Lupton, "Notable Things," bk. ii. 91. 



TOUCHING the grass, which, by reason of the pricks that 

 it bears is named Aculeatum, there be three sorts of it ; 

 the first is that which ordinarily hath five such pricks in 

 the head or top thereof, and thereupon they call it Penta- 

 dactylon, the Five-finger grass ; these pricks, when they be 

 wound together, they use to put up into the nostrils, and 

 draw them down again, for to make the nose bleed. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxv. ch. xix. 



Spermaceti. 



Telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth 

 Was parmaceti for an inward bruise. 



i. KING HENRY IV., i. 3. 58. 



