12 SHAKESPEARE’S [ APE. 
[After the account given above of the way in which Indians 
get the gold from the ants, Sir John Mandeville adds]: 
ANp in other times when it is not so hot, and that 
the Pismires [Ants] ne rest them not in the earth, then 
they get gold by their subtilty. They take mares that 
have young colts or foals, and lay upon the mares void 
vessels made therefor; and they be all open above, and 
hanging low to the earth; and then they send forth the 
mares for to pasture about those hills, and withhold the 
foals with them at home. And when the Pismires see 
those vessels they leap in anon, and they have this kind, 
that they let nothing be empty among them, but anon they 
fill it, be it what manner of thing that it be; and so they 
fill those vessels with gold. And when that the folk suppose 
that the vessels be full they put forth anon the young foals, 
and make them to neigh after their dams; and then anon 
the mares return towards their foals, with their charges of 
gold; and then men discharge them, and get gold enough 
by this subtility. For the Pismires will suffer beasts to go 
and pasture amongst them; but no man in no wise 
(chap. xxx.). 
If you stamp Lupins (which are to be had at the 
Apothecaries’) and therewith rub’ round about the bottom 
or lower part of any tree, no Ants or Pismires will go 
up and touch the same tree. 
Lupton’s “Notable Things,” bk. iv. § 77. 
Ir you burn the shells of snails with Styrax, and then 
sprinkle thereof upon an Ants’-hill, thereby they will be 
driven forth of the ground or place where they are. 
ae Ibid., bk. x. § 77. 
VY, Pismire. 
Ape. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. 2, 181. 
CyMBELINE, 1. 6, 39. 
Apzs have knowledge of elements, and be sorry in the 
full of the moon, and be merry and glad in the new of 
the moon. Of Apes be five manner kinds, of whom 
some have tails; and some be like to an hound in the 
face, and in the body like to an Ape. Some be rough and 
