BAY. ] NATURAL HISTORY. 27 
Bat. 
All the charms 
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you. 
TEMPEST, 1. 2, 339-40. 
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, : 
MacsetH, iv. I, 15. 
Tue reremouse [i.e. Bat] hating light flyeth in the even- 
tide with breaking and blenching and swift moving, with full 
small skin of her wings. And is a beast like to a mouse 
in sounding with voice, in piping and crying. And he is 
like to a bird, and alco to a four-footed beast ; and that is 
‘but seld found among birds. Reremice be blind as moles, 
and lick powder [dust] and suck oil out of lamps, and be 
most cold of kind; therefore the blood of a reremouse 
[a]nointed upon the eye-lids suffereth not the hair to grow 
again, Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 38. 
Ir you wish to see anything submerged and deep in the 
night, and that it may not be more hidden from thee than 
in the day, and that you may read books in a dark night, 
—anoint your face with the blood of a Bat, and that will 
happen which I say. 
Albertus Magnus, <‘Of the Wonders of the World.” 
Bay, -tree. 
Rosemary and bays, 
Pericies, iv. 6, 160. 
The bay-trees in our country are all wither’d. 
Kine Ricuarp, ii. 4, 8 
“ Bay” was used in Shakespeare’s time as a synonym for 
y : oe ynonym 
“laurel.” Ch Minsheu’s Dictionary, s.v., and Cooper’s Thesaurus 
Y> 9 
s.v. Laurus. | 
Tuis tree worshippeth the house, and maketh it fair. 
The land that beareth laurel-tree is safe from lightning both 
in field and in house. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 48. 
Bay-Berrizs taken in wine are good against the bitings 
of any venomous beast, and against all venom and poison. 
The oil pressed out of these cureth them that are beaten 
black and blue, and that be bruised by squats and falls. 
Common drunkards were accustomed to eat in the morning 
fasting two leaves thereof against drunkenness. 
Gerard’s “Herbal,” bk. iti. ch. Ixviti. 
