CROCODILE. | NATURAL HISTORY. 73 
Crocodile. 
Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of 
the sun: so is your crocodile. 
Antony anp CLEOPATRA, il. 7, 29. 
If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears 
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 
OTHELLO, iv. I, 256. 
The mournful crocodile 
With sorrow snares relenting passengers. 
ii. Kino Henry VI, iil. 1, 226. 
O tanpb Crocodiles, 
Made of Egyptian slime, accursed women ! 
Massinger, “The Renegado,”’ iii. 1. 
Tue Crocodile is a serpent that from a small egg, grows 
in short time to a mighty length and bigness; he is bold 
over those that fly him, but fearful of them that pursue 
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him; the four winter months, November, December, 
January and February, he eats not at all; he hath no 
tongue, but teeth sharp and long; neither in feeding doth 
he move his lower jaw. 
Thomas Heywood, “ London’s Peaceable Estate.” 
