16 SHAKESPEARE’S [ASPICK. 
Aspick (i.e, Asp). 
The pretty worm of Nilus there 
That kills and pains not. 
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Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? 
If thou and nature can so gently part, 
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, 
Which hurts, and is desired. 
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This is an aspic’s trail; and these fig-leaves 
Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves 
Upon the caves of Nile. 
Anrony and CLEOPATRA, V. 2, 243-4, 296-9, 
354-7- 
VY, Adder, Serpent. 
Aspis is an Adder [¢.v.] worst and most wicked in 
venom and in biting; he casteth out fleeing venom, 
Pkg 
and spitteth and springeth out venom by bitings. Of 
Adders that hight Aspis be divers manner kind, and have 
