TIGER.] NATURAL HISTORY. 305 



death. In kine and oxen they be common, and other- 

 whiles in dogs, who are pestered with these Ticks. And 

 in sheep and goats, a man shall find none other but 

 Ticks. Holland's Pliny, bk. xi. ch. xxxiv. 



[Topsell (s.v. " Sheep," p. 479) distinguishes between lice and 

 Ticks of sheep.] 



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Tiercel, or Tercel. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 2, 56. 



V. Tassel-gentle. 

 Tiger. 



THE Tiger is the most swiftest beast in flight, as it 

 were an arrow, and is a beast distingued with divers 

 specks, and the river Tigris hath the name of this beast, 

 for it is most swiftest of all floods. And the whelp is all 

 glimy and sinewy. And the hunter taketh away the 

 whelps, and flee'th soon away on the most swift horse that 

 he may have, and when the wild beast cometh and findeth 

 the den void, and the whelps away ; then he riseth head- 

 long, and followeth him by smell ; and when the hunter 

 heareth the grutching [grumbling, growling] of that beast 

 that runneth after him, he throweth down one of the 

 whelps, and the mother taketh the whelp in her mouth, 

 and beareth him into her den, and layeth him therein, and 

 cometh again after the hunter ; but in the mean time the 

 hunter taketh a ship, and hath with him the other whelps, 

 and scapeth in that wise ; and so her fierceness standeth 

 in no stead ; and the male recketh not of the whelps. 

 And he that will bear away the whelps leaveth in the way 

 great mirrors, and the mother followeth and findeth the 

 mirrors in the way, and looketh on them, and see'th her 

 own shadow and image therein, and weeneth that she 

 see'th her children therein, and is long occupied therefore 

 to deliver her children out of the glass, and so the hunter 

 hath time and space for to escape. And in the more 

 Hyrcania breedeth many beasts of this kind. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 105. 



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