vi SHAKESPEARE'’S . [CRaB. 
may not close himself. And when the closing is so let, 
the Crab eateth and gnaweth the fish of the oyster. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xiii. § 29. 
Tue Crab goes backward, and has never known how to 
follow his nose. When he grows old, two stones of a 
white colour mixed with red are found in his head, which 
are said to be of such virtue that, given in drink, they 
heal punctures of the heart. There are some little Crabs 
on the coast of Judea which are called soldiers, because 
they run so fast and cannot be caught. And if one of 
them be cut in half, there is no flesh or superfluity at all 
to be found in its body, because they take no food. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. ch, xvi. | 
[In the Moluccas shipwrecked men were forced to build 
a fort] to defend themselves from certain Crabs of exceed- 
‘ng greatness, and in as great numbers, and of such force, 
that whosoever they got under their claws it cost him his 
life. Purchas, ‘* Pilgrims,” p. 504, ed. 1616. 
Crags here with us have a sympathy with the moon, 
and are fullest with her fulness. In India there is a 
contrary antipathy, for at full moon they are emptiest. 
Lbid., p. 505. 
Crab (i.c., Grab-apple). 
And sometimes lurk I in a gossip’s bowl 
In very likeness of a roasted crab. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. 1, 48. 
[Lamb’s wool was made of cultivated apples, not of crabs. 
Cf. Gerara’s “ Herbal,” s.v. Apple.] 
A cup of ale had in his hand, and a Crab lay in the fire. 
““«Gammer Gurton’s Needle.” 
Cricket. 
As merry as crickets, 
i, Kinc Henry IV.,, ii. 400. 
[Cricket] is a little beast, feeble and mightless and thievish 
and venomous with pricks and pikes. This beast goeth back- 
ward, and saweth and diggeth the earth, and worketh by 
night ; and is hunted with an ant tied with an hair, and 
thrown into his den: and the powder [dust] is first blown 
away, lest the ant hide herself therein, and so he is drawn 
to love of the ant. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 58, 
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