60 SHAKESPEARE’S [ CHAMELEON. 
fearful beast with little blood, and changeth therefore 
colours. And is four manner divers [guadrupes (Bartholo- 
mew)|: he hath the face of the eft, and sharp claws and 
crooked, and the body sharp, and an hard skin as the 
crocodile. And his sides be even long to the nether parts 
of his womb as it were a fish; his face is as it were a 
beast compounded of a swine and of an ape; and his tail 
is full long and small at the end; and his feet be crooked 
as it were a little eft; and each of his feet is departed atwin 
[in two], and the comparison of one foot to another is as in 
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comparison of the thumb of a man to the other deal of 
the hand; and each of those two parts is divided in 
fingers ; and his claws be like to the claws of a bird, and 
all his body is rough and sharp as the body of a Bardan 
[partan (Bartholomew), (? pard or crab)]. His eyes be deep, 
great and round, and contained with a skin, like to the 
skin of the body, and that skin covereth the eyes. And 
he turneth and casteth oft his eyes hither and_ thither. 
And changeth his colour when his skin is blown, and his 
