338 SHAKESPEARE'S [WATER-SPANIEL. 



Water-spaniel. 



Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii. I, 271. 



THEY use to shear their hinder-parts, that so they may 

 be the less annoyed in swimming. 



Topsell, "Four-footed Beasts," p. 122. 



WITH these dogs we fetch out of the water such fowl as 

 be stung to death by any venomous worm. 



Ibid., p. 134. 



Wax. 



WAX is the drasts [dregs] of honey, and within the 

 substance thereof be gathered the liquors of honey meddled 

 with the drasts of Wax. Tables be filled and dressed with 

 Wax, simple or coloured, and therein be letters and divers 

 figures and shapes written or planed by the office of 

 pointels [points]. And for divers uses linen cloths be 

 waxed. And Wax keepeth and saveth books from rain 



and from water. Bartholomew (Bertbelet\ bk. xix. 61. 



He's a man of wax. 



ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 3, 75. 



I CANNOT blame you for loving of Sophos ; 



Why, he's a man as one should picture him in Wax. 



"Wily Beguiled." 



O FOOT! O leg! O hand! O body! face! 

 By Jove, it is a little man of Wax ! 



Nat. Field, "A Woman is a Weathercock," i. 2. 



WHEN he is in his scarlet clothes, he looks like a man 

 of Wax, and I had as lief have a dog o' Wax ; I do not 

 think but he lies in a case o' nights. 



Ibid., "Amends for Ladies," iii. 3. 



Weasel. 



As You LIKE IT, ii. 5, 13. 



THE Weasel is as it were a long mouse. This beast 

 hath a guileful wit, and nourisheth her kittens, and beareth 



