306 SHAKESPEARE'S [TIKE. 



A TIGER is bigger than the greatest horse. It hath been 

 falsely believed that all Tigers be females, and that they 

 engender with the wind. The male is seldom taken, be- 

 cause at the sight of a man he runneth away. When they 

 hear the sound of bells and timbrels, they grow into such 

 a rage and madness, that they tear their own flesh from 

 their backs. The Indians near the River Ganges have a 

 certain herb growing like Bugloss, which they take and 

 press the juice out of it, and in still, silent, calm nights, 

 they pour the same down at the mouth of the Tiger's 

 den, by virtue whereof the Tigers are continually enclosed, 

 not daring to come out over it through some secret oppo- 

 sition in nature, but famish and die, howling in their caves 

 through intolerable hunger. The manner of this beast is, 

 when she seeth that her young ones are shipped away, she 

 maketh so great lamentation upon the sea-shore, howling, 

 braying and ranking [perhaps " raging": Spenser uses the 

 adverb " rank " in this sense], that many times she dieth 

 in the same place ; but if she recover all her young ones 

 again, she departeth with unspeakable joy, without taking 

 any revenge for their offered injury. 



Topsell, " Four-footed Beasts," pp. 548-9. 



THE Tiger as fierce and cruel as lions, making prey of 

 man and beast, yet rather devouring black men than 

 white ; whose mustachios are holden for mortal poison, and, 

 being given in meats, cause men to die mad. 



Purckas* "Pilgrims," p. 559 (ed. 1616). 



Tike, Tyke. 



KING LEAR, iii. 6, 73. 

 KING HENRY V., ii. i, 31. 



[Tyke is now so well known a word for " cur," that Steevens' 

 and Malone's notes on the latter passage seem to us ridicu- 

 lous.] 



Toad. 



A TOAD is a manner venomous frog, and dwelleth both 

 in water and in land ; and he changeth his skin in age ; 

 and eateth alway certain herbs, and keepeth and holdeth 



