64 SHAKESPEARE’S [CIVET. 
comforteth the in-wit. One manner of Chrysolite is deemed 
golden by day, and fiery by night. And another manner 
kind is coloured as gold, and is right fair in sight in the 
morrow tide; and then as the day passeth his colour 
waxeth dim. And this stone taketh most soonest heat ; for 
if it be set by the fire, anon it waxeth on aflame. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 29. 
According to the Hortus Sanitatis (bk. iv. § 38), Chrysolite 
drives away demons and the worst melancholy fears if 
pierced, and the hole filled up with ass’s bristles, and the 
stone bound on the left arm. And some say that it drives 
away folly, and brings wisdom. 
Curyso.ite, the purer the sooner stained. 
“Euphues’ Golden Legacy.” 
Civet. 
A’ rubs himself with civet. 
Mvucw Apo asout Noruine, iil. 2, 45 
Civet is of a baser birth than tar, the very uncleanly flux of a cat. 
As You Like Ir, iii. 2, 69. 
Tuts is Civet, this comes from the cat’s tail, this per- 
fumes your ladies, this drug is precious and dear. 
Sharpham, “The Fleire.” 
I vow to poison your musk-~cats, if their Civet excre- 
ment do but once play with my nose. 
Dekker’s “ Gull’s Hornbook,” bk. ii. 
He wears Civet, 
And when it was ask’d him where he had that musk, 
He said all his kindred smelt so. 
“Soliman and Perseda,” i. 
(Civer as an ingredient of a pomandet.) «Lingua,” iv. 3, 
Musx-cat, I'ld make your Civet worship stink 
First in your perfumed buff. 
Thomas Razlins, ‘The Rebellion,” ii, 1. 
THis beast is a very clean beast, and therefore the place 
where it lieth must be swept every day and the vessels 
clean washed. The Civet or liquor running out doth go 
