TADPOLE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 301 



Swine. 



THE Swine froteth [rubs] and walloweth in dirt and in 

 fen [mud], and diveth in slime, and bawdieth himself 

 therewith, and resteth in a stinking place. And some 

 Swine be tame, and some wild. And among the tame the 

 males be called Boars and Barrows, and the females be 

 called Sows ; and they dig and root and seek meat under 

 earth. A Swine dieth if he loseth an eye. And Swine 

 have many sicknesses, and hold their heads aside ; and lie 

 more on the right side than on the left ; and wax fat in 

 forty days ; and fat sooner, if they suffer hunger three 

 days in the beginning of the feeding. Swine love each 

 other, and know each other's voice, and therefore, if any 

 cry, they cry all, and labour to help each other with all 

 their might. Tame Swine grunt in going, and in lying, 

 and in sleeping, and namely if they be right fat. And 

 Swine sleep faster in May than in other times of the year, 

 and that cometh of fumosity that stoppeth their brain that 

 time. The male hath more teeth than the female. And 

 when Swine be great, it doeth them good to eat berries, 

 and also bathing in hot water delighteth them. And they 

 be let blood on the vein under the tongue. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. 87 



Sycamore. 



ROMEO AND JULIET, i. I, 128. 



SYCAMORE is a nice fig-tree, as it were a fool, and 

 beareth certain sweet fruit that is never ripe at the fall. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 148. 



IT bringeth forth fruit three or four times in one year, 

 and oftener if it be scraped with an iron knife, or other 

 like instrument. We call it in English, Sycamore-tree, and 

 also mulberry-fig-tree. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



Tadpole. 



KING LEAR, iii. 4, 135. 



r. Frog. 



