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refraining of the barnacle, and dieth at last after vain 
travails, and hath no reward after his death for the service 
and travail that he had living, not so much that his own 
skin is left with him, but it is taken away, and the carrion 
is thrown out without sepulchre or burials—but it be so 
much of the carrion that by eating and devouring is some- 
time buried in the wombs of hounds and wolves. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 8. 
Wuen an Ass dieth, out of his body are engendered cer- 
tain flies called Scarabees. Asses are subject to madness 
when they have tasted to certain herbs growing near 
Potnias. Some have used to put into gardens the skull of 
a mare or she-ass that hath been covered, with persuasion 
that the gardens will be the more fruitful. The wolf with 
small force doth compass the destruction of an Ass, for the 
blockish Ass, when he seeth a wolf, layeth his head on his 
side, that so he might not see, thinking that, because he 
seeth not the wolf, the wolf cannot see him. 
Topsell, <‘ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 19-21. 
Ir a stone be bound to the tail of an Ass, he will not 
bray nor roar. 
The skin of an Ass when it is hung over boys prevents 
them from being frightened. 
If you wish that a man’s head should appear as an Ass’s 
head, take of the parings of [the hoof of ] an Ass, and rub 
the man’s head with them. ; 
Albertus Magnus, “Of the Wonders of the World.” 
In Africa also are wild Asses, among which one male 
hath many females; a jealous beast, who (for fear of after 
encroaching) bites off the stones of the young males, if the 
suspicious female prevent him not by bringing forth in a 
close place, where he shall not find it. 
‘ Purchas ‘* Pilgrims,” p. 558 (ed. 1616). 
Baboon. Y/Y. Ape, Monkey. 
You and your coach-fellow Nym ... had looked through the grate, 
like a geminy of baboons. 
Merry Wives oF Winpsor, ii. 2, 7-9. 
Cool it with a baboon’s blood, 
Then the charm is firm and good, 
Macsery, iv. 1, 37-8. 
