DRAGON, | NATURAL HISTORY. gt 
Ir the viper find their nest, because she cannot eat all 
the young ones at one time, at the first she filleth herself 
with one or two, and putteth out the eyes of all the 
residue, and afterwards bringeth them meat and nourisheth 
them being blind, until the time that her stomach serveth 
her to eat them every one. But if it happen that in the 
mean time, any man chance to light upon these viper- 
nourished-blind Dormice, and to kill and eat them, they 
poison themselves through the venom which the viper hath 
left in them. Dormice are bigger in quantity than a 
squirrel. It is a biting and an angry beast. 
Topsell, ‘Four-footed Beasts,” p. 409. 
Dove. 
He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood. 
Troitus anp Cressipa, ill. I, 140. 
Wuew the Culver [7.e., Dove] hath birds [7.e., young], 
anon the male ruleth the birds. And if the female tarry 
over long ere she come to the birds for soreness of the 
birth, then the male’ smiteth and beateth her, and com- 
pelleth her to sit herself upon the birds. And when the 
birds wax, the male goeth and sucketh salt earth; and he 
giveth and putteth it in the mouth of the birds, to make 
them have talent to meat. A Culver hath no gall, and 
hurteth and woundeth not with the bill, but his own peer. 
And hath groaning instead of song. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 6. 
Doves are very hot, and eat small stones to temper the 
stomach, The fresh flesh of a Dove helps against serpents. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iti. ch. xxxil, 
VY, Pigeon. 
Dragon. 
A lonely dragon, that his fen 
Makes fear’d and talk’d of more than seen. 
CorroLanus, iv. 1, 30. 
Tue Dragon is most greatest of all serpents, and oft he 
is drawn out of his den, and reseth up into the air, and 
