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blows. Among all Eels there is no male nor female, and 
they gender neither live creature nor egg, as they are 
neuter, Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. § 2. 
Tue Eel is a well known fish; and its virtues are won- 
derful; for if it dies from want of water and its body 
remains whole, and if strong vinegar be mixed with the 
blood of a vulture, and.it be put somewhere under dung, 
they will all revive just as they were before. And if the 
worm [? spinal marrow] of that Eel be extracted and set 
in the foresaid mixture for a month, the worm will be changed 
into a very black Eel, and if any one eat of that Eel he 
will die. Albertus Magnus, “Of the Virtues of Animals.” 
In many ponds, all the water and mud taken out, by 
and by Fels do breed, if rain-water come into them, for 
that’ with the dew, they do live and are nourished. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. iii, § 63. 
Ir you have many Eels in a vessel of wine, and put 
mulberries to them,—if any one drink of that, he will 
abhor wine for a year, and perhaps for ever. 
Albertus Magnus, ‘*Of the Wonders of the World.” 
Thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels. 
Pericues, iv. 3, 156. 
Fels that never will appear 
Tull that tempestuous winds or thunder tear 
Their slimy beds. 
Marston’s “Scourge of Villany,’ 
V. Fish. 
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satire vii. 1. 78. 
Eglantine. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. I, 252. 
[The sweet-briar.] 
V. s. Rose. 
Eisel. VY. Vinegar. 
HaMLeT, v. I, 299. 
