42 SHAKESPEARE’S [ BREESE. 
with heat turneth into Brass. Brass and copper be made 
in this manner as other metal be of brimstone and quick- 
silver, and that happeth when there is more of brimstone 
than of quicksilver. If Brass be meddled with other metal, 
it changeth both colour and virtue, as it fareth in latten. 
Brazen vessels be soon red and rusty, but they be oft scoured 
with sand, and have an evil savour and smell but they be 
tinned. Also Brass, if it be without tin, burneth soon. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xv. § 37. 
RIcHMONDSHIRE—the mountains plentifully yield lead, 
pit-coals and some Brass. .. . Cumberland hath mines of 
Brass [7.e., copper ]. 
Fynes Moryson, “Itinerary,” part iil, p. 144. 
Breese. 
Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt, 
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The breese upon her, like a cow in June, 
Hoists sails and flies. 
Antony anp Creopatra, iii, 10, 10-5. 
In her ray and brightness 
The herd hath more annoyance by the breese 
Than by the tiger. 
TroiLus anp Cressrpa, i. 3, 47-9. 
The horrid Breese man’s body doth not spare, 
He flies from us into the open air. 
But they fled home as herds of oxen do, 
When that the Breese doth force them for to go, 
In the springtime when days do longer grow. 
Tue fly called estrum is of a yellowish colour, who 
when it enters the ears of an ox causeth him to run mad; 
he carries before him a very hard, stiff and well-compacted 
sting, with which he strikes through the ox his hide. 
They follow oxen and horses and young cattle by scent of 
their sweat, because they cannot reach them with their sight, 
being very weak-sighted. They are generated of the worms 
that come out of the wood putrefied [or, according to 
another authority, from horse-leeches|. 
Mouffet, “Theatre of Insects,” Pp. 935-6.: 
