COCKLE. | NATURAL HISTORY. 67 
Ir any man wishes that a Cock should not crow, let him 
anoint its head and brow with oil. 
Albertus Magnus, “Of the Wonders of the World.” 
In the beginning of the night God causeth all the gates 
of heaven to be shut, and the Angels stay at them in 
silence, ‘and sendeth evil spirits into the world, which hurt 
all they meet; but after midnight they are commanded to 
open the same. This command and call is heard of the 
Cocks, and therefore they clap their wings and crow to 
awaken men; and then the evil spirits lose their power of 
hurting. 
Purchas, “ Pilgrims,” p. 194 (ed. 1616); cf Hamuet, i. 1, 147-155. 
Cockatrice. VY. Basilisk. 
Cockle. 
‘Hamer, iv. 5, 25. 
Tue flesh of river Cockles, whether raw or cooked, resist 
the stings of scorpions. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. ch. xxiii, 
CoLcHESTER oysters and your Selsey Cockles. 
Ben Fonson, “ The Fox,” ii. 1. 
Have our Cockles boiled in silver shells. 
Ben Fonson, “The Alchemist,” iv. 1. 
You may eat the cramm’d Cockle. 
Middleton, “A Game at Chess,” v. 3, 70, 
Cockle (plant). 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, iv. 3, 383. 
Ray is a certain herb; poets call this herb ungracious 
Cockle or weed; and it groweth among wheat in corrupt 
time and dry. And ray hath a sharp strength and work- 
ing, and somedeal venomous, and maketh men drunk, and 
