tiNE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 327 



WHOSOEVER is stricken or hurt of any venomous worm, 

 _r other thing, or else bitten with a mad dog, let them 

 take heed diligently that the same thing that did hurt them 

 see them not until they be perfectly whole. For the 

 Hebrew Physicians say that the party hurt shall then die, 

 or else be in peril afresh ; yea, though they begin to wax 

 whole when they see them. 



Lupton, "Notable Things," bk. v. 72. 



Vine. 



COMEDY OF ERRORS, ii. 2, 176. 



VINES be perched and railed and bound to trees that be 

 nigh to them. The crooks of the Vines holdeth things that 

 be nigh thereto, for [so that] boughs and branches of the 

 Vine should not be slacked far for the succour, and shaken, 

 and disparpled [or "disparkled," i.e., "scattered"], and hurled 

 with blasts of wind, but they should so come to bear and 

 sive the fruit without peril. Rain gendereth and breedeth 

 certain worms and malshrags [caterpillars] and snails, that 

 grow and fret burgeoning and leaves of the Vine, and 

 leaveth lightly the Vine so spoiled, gnawn and eaten ; and 

 this evil breedeth in moist time, easy and soft. And of 

 evil blasts of winds cometh and breedeth as it were cob- 

 webs, and beclippeth [surrounds] and wasteth the fruit, and 

 burneth and grieveth it. Also the Vine hateth the radish, 

 and ail manner cole, and hateth also hazels, for when such 

 be nigh to the Vines, then the Vines be ailing and sick, 

 and nitre much like to salt alum and sea-water, and beans, 

 and vetches, and namely [especially] in the last, cutting be 

 venom to Vines, and destroy them. [Bartholomew -faba 

 ac vici< putamina ultima et maxime interimentia vitium sunt 

 venena.~\ And in some parts and countries be so great 

 Vines, that they make images, posts and stocks of Vines ; 

 as it fareth in the image and mammet [idol from Mahomet] 

 Jupiter in the city of Populonia. And men stied [climbed 

 Bartholomew^ upon a Vine to the top of the temple of 

 Diana of Ephesus. Also posts and pillars made of such 

 Vines dure and last without corruption long time. The 

 juice [of the Vine] with oil laid to an hairy place in a 

 plaster-wise doth away the hair. The rind of the Vine 

 doth away warts. Moreover the ashes of the Vine healeth 



