22 SHAKESPEARE’S [BALM. 
Bazoons are a kind of apes, whose heads are like dogs, 
and their other parts like a man’s. Some are much given 
to fishing ; again, there are some which abhor fishes. Some 
there are which are able to write, and naturally to discern 
letters. They will eat venison, which they by reason of 
their swiftness take easily, and having taken it tear it 
to pieces, and roast it in the sun. 
Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 8, 9. 
Balm. 
Pierced to the soul with slander’s venom’d spear, 
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood. 
Kine Ricuarp IL, i. 1, 171-2. 
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds. 
3 Kine Henry VI., iv. 8, 41. 
Barm drunk in wine is good against the bitings of 
venomous beasts, comforts the heart, and driveth away all 
melancholy and sadness. The juice thereof glueth together 
green wounds, being put into oil, unguent or Balm for 
that purpose, and maketh it of greater efficacy. 
Gerara’s “ Herbal,” sv. 
Tuts Balm groweth in no place, but only there [ze., 
beside Cairo]. And though that men bring of the plants 
for to plant in other countries, they grow well and fair, 
but they bring forth no fructuous thing. And men cut the 
branches with a sharp flintstone or with a sharp bone, 
when men will go to cut them: for whoso cut them with 
iron, it would destroy his virtue and his nature. And men 
make always that Balm to be tilled of the Christian men 
or else it would not fructify, as the Saracens say them- 
selves: for it hath been often time proved. 
; Sir Fohn Mandeville, ch. v. 
[He gives elaborate directions for distinguishing the true from 
the counterfeit balm.] 
Balsam, Balsamum [i.c. Balm]. 
Timon oF ATHENS, lil. 5, IIo. 
Comepy oF Errors, iv. 1, 88. 
BaLsaMumo is set tofore all other smells, and was some- 
time granted but to one land among all lands, that is to 
wit Judea. And was not had nor found but in two 
gardens of the King’s. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 18. 
