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killed him.] The eagles when they shake their wings 
make the Dragons afraid with their rattling noise, then the 
Dragon hideth himself within his den. The eagle devoureth 
the Dragons and little serpents upon earth, and the Dragons 
again and serpents do the like against the eagles in the 
air. /The griffins are likewise said to fight with the Dragons 
and overcome them. The panther [g.v.] also is an enemy 
unto the Dragons, and driveth them many times into their 
dens. Topsell, “History of Serpents,” pp. 706-15. 
Tue inhabitants of Paraca, by eating a Dragon’s heart 
and liver, attain to understand the language (if so I may 
term it) of beasts. Purchas’ “Pilgrims,” p. 457 (ed. 1616). 
Drone. 
A huge feeder ; 
Snail slow in profit, and he sleeps by day 
More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me. 
MercuanT oF VENICE, li. 5, 48. 
Tue Drone is a larger kind of bee; and it eats the 
fruit of others’ labour; for it eats what it has not worked 
for, as it makes no honey. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. (“Of Birds”), ch. li. 
Duck. 
Ir you see Ducks fly massed together, even though the 
sky be clear, you will expect rain speedily; if they flap 
their wings together while on the land, you may suppose 
that there will be a gale. 
Fonston, “ Natural History of Birds,” ch. iii. § 3 (1657). 
Eagle. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, iv. 3, 334. 
Amonc all manner kinds of divers fowls, the Eagle is 
the more liberal and free of heart; for the prey that she 
taketh, but it be for great hunger she eateth not alone, but 
putteth it forth in common to fowls that follow her; but 
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