54 SHAKESPEARE'S [CARNATION. 
Carnation. V/V. Gilliflower. 
Carp. 
Here is a purr of fortune’s, sir, or of fortune’s cat—but not a musk- 
cat—that has fallen into the unclean fish-pond of her displeasure, and, 
as he says, is muddied withal ; pray you, sir, use the carp as you may. 
Att’s Wet, THAT Enps WELL, v. 2, 209. 
Tue Carp is a fish with scales like gold living in lakes or 
rivers. This fish has much cunning, so that it evades the 
net. For when it has entered the net, it swims round to 
look for the opening; and if it cannot find it, it tries to 
jump over the net so as to get into the open air. Sometimes 
it seeks a refuge under the net; sometimes it holds sea- 
weed in its mouth at the bottom of the water, so as to 
get over the net and escape; sometimes coming with a 
rush from above, it fixes its head firmly in the mud, so as 
to escape capture by getting its tail over the net. Its 
brain is said to grow and diminish as the moon waxes and 
wanes ; and though this holds with all fishes, yet especially 
so in this one, as among quadrupeds in the wolf and the 
dog. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iti. ch. xviii. 
V. Fish. 
Cat. 
Hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot at me. 
Mvucu Apo asour NorHIne, i, I, 259. 
[Gf Steevens’ notes.] 
Tue Cat falleth on his own feet when he falleth out of 
high places, and unneath is hurt when he is thrown down 
off an high place. And when he hath a fair skin, he is 
as it were proud thereof, and goeth fast about; and when 
his skin is burnt, then he bideth at home; and is oft for 
his fair skin taken of the skinner, and flain and slain. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 76, 
Witp Cats flee from the smoke of rue, and _ bitter 
almonds. The dirt of the Tom or of the She-Cat with 
mustard and vinegar cures baldness. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. ch. xxv. 
