go SHAKESPEARE'’S [DORMOUSE. 
that cutteth the tender wombs of crocodiles, and slayeth 
them. Dolphins know by the smell if a dead man that is 
on the sea ate ever of Dolphin’s kind; and if the dead 
man hath eaten thereof, he eateth him anon; and if he 
did not, he keepeth and defendeth him from eating and 
biting of other fish, and shoveth him and bringeth him to 
the cliff with his own wroting [cum rostris suis (Bartholo- 
mew)—so wroting is rooting with the snout, as a pig does}. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xiii. § 29. 
Tue Dolphin is called the brother of man, because he is 
in some degree like to man in his ways. They sleep on 
the water, so that they may be heard to snore. They live 
to 140 years. The Dolphin alone among fish has no gall. 
When a Dolphin dies, the other Dolphins come together 
and surround him, and bear him down to the depths, and 
bury him, lest other fish should eat him. Small Dolphins 
are always together like flocks of sheep; and they have 
two big Dolphins as guards. Dolphins have their eyes on 
their backs, and their mouths on the opposite side, and 
therefore they are not good at catching their prey, because 
of the want of agreement of the mouth and the eyes; 
therefore they turn their mouths towards the heaven, and 
their backs and eyes towards the earth, so as to follow their 
prey. They are said to have helped sailors when their 
ship was about to be wrecked. They are supposed also to 
weep when they are caught. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. ch. xxvii. 
Dormouse. 
Tweirru Nica, iii. 2, 20. 
Guires [i.e., Dormice] be little beasts, as it were great 
mice, and have that name (glires) for sleep makes them 
fat. They love their fellows that they know, and strive 
and fight against other. And they love their father and 
mother with great mildness and pity, and feed and serve 
them in their age. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 57. 
THE soles of the feet anointed with the fat of a Dor- 
mouse doth procure sleep. 
Lupton, “ A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. ii. § 16, 
