122 SHAKESPEARE’S [ FROG. 
Frog. 
Eye of newt and toe of frog, 
Wool of bat and tongue of dog. ' 
Macsery, iv. I, 14. 
[Note that the Frog occurs here among other animals sup- 
posed to be venomous as an ingredient of the witches’ cauldron.] 
Tue Frog crieth greedily and maketh much noise in those 
marais [i.e., marshes] where he is bred. And some Frogs 
be water-frogs; and some be of moors and of marais. 
And there is a manner Frog, that maketh an hound still 
and dumb, if he cometh in his mouth. And the Frog hath 
his own voice, and maketh not that voice but only in 
water. His eyes shineth as a candle, and namely by night. 
And all fish nourisheth and feedeth his brood, out-take[n] 
the Frog. Then the Frog is watery and moorish, crying 
and slimy, with a great womb and speckled there-under, 
and is venomous, and abominable therefore to men and 
most hated, and both in water and in land he liveth. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 91. 
By Frogs I understand not such as arising from putre- 
faction are bred without copulation, and because they subsist 
not long are called Temporaria. 
Sir Thos, Browne, “Vulgar Errors,” bk. iii. ch. xiil. 
Forsear in plenty of other meat this wanton eating of 
Frogs, as things perilous to life and health, They which 
use to eat Frogs fall to have a colour like lead. They did 
burn the young Frogs, putting the powder thereof into a 
cat, whose bowels were taken out, then roasting the cat, 
and after she was roasted, they anointed her all over with 
honey, then laid her by a wood-side; by the odour and 
savour whereof, all the wolves and foxes lodging in the 
said wood were allured to come to it, and then the hunters 
lying in wait did take, destroy and kill them. The flesh 
of Frogs is good against the biting of the sea-hare, the 
scorpion, and all kind of serpents. The broth taken into 
the body with roots of sea-holm expelleth the salamander. 
The little Frogs are an antidote against the Toads and 
great Frogs. Topsell, ‘* History of Serpents,” pp. 722-3. 
V. Paddock, Toad. 
