g2 SHAKESPEARE’S [DRAGON. 
the air is moved by him; and also the sea swelleth 
against his venom. And he hath a crest with a little 
mouth, and draweth breath at small pipes and strait, and 
reareth his tongue, and hath teeth like a saw. And hath 
strength, and not only in teeth, but also in his tail, and 
grieveth both with biting and with stinging, and hath not 
so much venom as other serpents; for to the end to slay 
any thing, to him venom is not needful; for whom he 
findeth he slayeth, and the elephant is not sicher of him 
[safe from him] for all his greatness of body, for he lurketh 
in the way where the elephant goeth, and bindeth and 
spanneth his legs, and strangleth and slayeth him. The 
Dragon breedeth in Ind and in Ethiopia, there as is great 
burning of continual heat. The Dragon is twenty cubits 
great. Oft four or five of them fasten their tails together, 
and reareth up the heads, and sail over sea and over rivers 
to get good meat. The cause why the Dragon desireth his 
blood is coldness of the elephant’s blood, by the which the 
Dragon desireth to cool himself. The Dragon is a full 
thirsty beast, insomuch that unneath [hardly] he may have 
