BLOOD-suCKER.]| NATURAL HISTORY. 39 
Blind-worm. 
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, 
Come not near our fairy queen. 
MrpsumMer NicuHt’s Dream, il. 2, II-12 
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting. 
Macsety, iv. 1, 16. 
[Also called] sloe-worm, because it useth to creep and 
live on sloe-trees. Minsheu’s Dictionary, s.v. 
It is small, and has no eyes. Hortus Sanitatis, ch. xxxvi. 
Tue Blindworm is sometimes confounded with the am- 
phisbena, a serpent with two heads, one in the usual place, 
the other at the end of its tail, and moving either way. 
This serpent is the first to appear, being anxious about its 
eggs. While one part of it keeps watch, the other sleeps ; 
and its eyes shine like lanterns. There is another that 
walks upon its heels, and upon its tail. 
Chiefly from: the Hortus Sanitatis, ch, ix. 
Bloodhound. 
You starved bloodhound. 
ii, Kinc Henry IV., v. 4, 31. 
Hounps pursue the foot of prey by smell of blood. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 25. 
THERE is a certain class of hounds which know thieves 
by the smell ; and with implacable hatred distinguish them 
from other men. Hortus Sanitatis, ch. xxiv. 
Blood-sucker (i.2., a Leech— Minsheu's Dictionary, s0.)e 
Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men, 
ii. Kine Henry VI, iii. 2, 226. 
A LEECH sitteth upon venomous things, and therefore 
when he shall be set to 2 member because of medicine, first 
he shall be wrapped in nettles and in salt, and is thereby 
compelled to cast out of his body if he hath tasted any 
venomous thing in warm water. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 93. 
