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from the instrument in the action. The poison of the 
Crocodile worketh by cold air and light, and therefore by 
the want of both is to be cured. 
Topsell, *‘ History of Serpents,” pp. 683-92. 
Crow. 
Crows are fatted with the murrion flock. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. 1, 97. 
Tue Crow is a bird of long life. And diviners tell 
that she. taketh heed of spyings and awaitings, and teacheth 
and sheweth ways, and warneth what shall fall. But it 
is full unlawful to believe, that God showeth his privy 
_ council to Crows. Among many divinations, diviners mean 
that Crows token rain with greding and crying. And is 4 
jangling bird and unmild, and grievous to men there they 
dwell. And eateth unclean meats and venomous, and liveth 
right long. In age their feathers wax white; but in, 
flesh within, the longer they live, the more black they be. 
Crows rule and lead storks, and come about them as it 
were in routs, and fly about the storks, and defend them. 
and fight against .other birds and fowls that hate storks. 
And take upon them the battle of other birds upon their 
own peril. And an open proof thereof is,—for in that 
time that the storks pass out of the country Crows be 
not seen in places where they were wont to be; and also 
for they come again with sore wounds, and with voice of 
blood that is well known, and with other signs and tokens, 
and show that they have been in strong fighting. And 
the mildness of the bird is wonderful. For when father 
and mother in age be both naked and. bare of feathers, 
then the young Crows hide and cover them with their 
feathers and gather meat and feed them. And sometime 
when the father and mother wax old and feeble, then the 
young Crows underset them and rear them up with their 
wings, and comfort them to use to fly, to bring the 
members that be diseased into state again, 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 9. 
In the solstice the Crow is seized with disease; it feeds 
freely on nuts. It lies in wait for the eggs of the dove, 
to break them and suck them. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iti. che xxxiii. 
