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hairy, and forgetteth soon wildness. And some be pleasing 
in face with merry movings and playings, and resteth but 
little. And some be unlike to that other nigh in all 
manner points, for in the face is a long beard, and have 
a broad tail. That kind of Apes is next to man’s shape, 
and be diverse and distinguished by tails, and labour 
wonderly and busily to do all thing that they see: and 
so oft they shoe themselves with shoes that hunters. leave 
in certain places slyly, and be so taken the sooner; for 
while they would fasten the thong of the shoe, and would 
put the shoes on their feet, as they see the hunters do, 
they be oft taken with hunters ere they may unlace the 
shoes, and be delivered of them. The Ape is tamed 
and chastised by violence with beating and with chains, and 
is refrained with a clog, so that he may not run about 
freely at his own will, to abate his fierceness and outrage. 
And the Ape eateth all manner of meats and unclean 
things, and therefore he seeketh and looketh worms in 
men’s heads, and throweth them into his mouth, and 
eateth them. The lion loveth Ape’s flesh, for by eating 
thereof he recovereth when he is sore sick. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 96. 
Tue Ape ever killeth that young one which he loveth 
most with embracing it too fervently. 
Greene's “ Thieves Falling Out,” etc, 
Tll teach you 
To come aloft and do tricks like an ape. 
[V. Massinger, “The Bondman,” iii. 3, for various tricks taught 
to the ape.] 
(Katharina, in “The Taming of the Shrew” (ii. 1, 34)— 
I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, 
And for your love to her lead Apes in hell— 
alludes to the old proverb: 
Such as die maids do all lead Apes in hell— 
Compare Douce’s note on this passage. ] 
Ir you wish to frighten any man while asleep, put the 
skin of an Ape under his head. 
Albertus Magnus, ‘Of the Wonders of the World.” 
