98 SHAKESPEARE’S [ EBONY. 
broken by natural maturity, and returns when the young 
birds are hatched, and then feeds them: until they attain to 
perfect strength. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. ch. i, 
Harts that cast their horns, snakes their skins, Eagles 
their bills, become more fresh for any other labour. 
Lilly, Prologue to ‘“ Campaspe.” 
Tue princely Eagle, fearing to surfeit on spices, stoopeth 
to bite on worm-wood.  [did., Prologue to “Sapho and Phaon.” 
Tue Eagle is never stricken with thunder. 
Ibid, Act ii, Scene 3. 
Eac es cast their evil feathers in the sun. 
Ibid., “ Galatea,” Act iti. Scene 4. 
Ebony. 
Black as ebony. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, iv. 3, 247. | 
Exony is oft set by cradles, for black sights should not 
fear the children. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 52. 
Esony is a tree whereof the wood is black as jet within, 
and beareth neither leaves nor fruit. 
Batman's addition to Bartholomew, lc. 
Eel. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, i. 2, 30. 
Tue Eel is generated from the slime of other fishes; it 
is hard to skin, and very difficult to kill, as it lives even 
after it has been skinned ; it is disturbed by the sound of 
thunder. It is most easily caught when the Pleiades have 
set. And they say that in the Eastern river Ganges, Eels 
are gendered with feet to walk on the land. Eels live for 
eight years ; and they exist without water for six days while 
the North-east wind blows, but less while the South wind 
