58 SHAKESPEARE’S [cat 0’ MOUNTAIN. 
sometimes there falleth as it were three blackish eggs, the 
true and proper mothers and breeders of flies and cantha- 
rides. There is not any one sort of Caterpillars, but they 
are malign, naught and venomous. If you rub a naughty 
or a rotten tooth with the colewort-Caterpillars, and that 
often, within a few days following, the tooth will fall out 
of his own accord. Caterpillars mixed with oil do drive 
away serpents. Topsell, “ History of Serpents,” pp. 668-70. 
Cat o’ Mountain. 
More pinch-spotted make them 
Than pard or cat o’ mountain. 
TEmpEsT, iv. I, 262. 
V. Pard. 
In the Senators’ Palace [at Florence] I saw a Cat of the 
Mountain, not unlike to a dog, with the head of a black 
colour, and the back like an hedgehog, a light touch 
whereof gave a very sweet scent to my gloves. 
Fynes Moryson, “Itinerary,” part i, p. 149. 
Cedar. 
He shall flourish, 
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches 
To all the plains about him. 
Kine Henry VIIL, v. 5, 54. 
CepaR is a tree with merry smell, and endureth and 
abideth long time, and is never destroyed with moth, 
neither with the tree-worm. Then the Cedar-tree is always 
green with good smell, and the smell of it driveth away 
serpents and all manner of venomous worms, And _ the 
apple of Cedar hath three manner savours. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 23. 
Evelyn (‘“Sylva,” bk. ii, ch. iv.) says that chests and 
presses of Cedar-wood corrupt woollen cloth and furs, but 
preserve other goods from moths, and, indeed, that the 
dust and very chips are exitial to moths and worms; that 
the oil yielded by the wood above all other best preserves 
books and writings. 
