130 SHAKESPEARE'S [GoaT. 
And by remedy of Goats’ horns divers manner kind of 
venom is overcome. With new Goat-skins wounds be holp 
and healed. Goat’s blood meddled with marrow and sod 
excludeth poison of venom, biting of creeping worms, and 
smiting of scorpions be saved and healed. And a certain 
beast sucketh goat’s milk of the udder and teats, and then 
the milk is destroyed and wasted, and the goat waxeth 
blind thereby.. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 24. 
Wixtp Goats dwell in high rocks and crags; and if they 
perceive sometime that they be pursued of men or of wild 
beasts, they fall down headlong out of the high crags, and 
save themselves harmless on their own horns. Also the 
leopard drinketh milk of the wild Goat, and  voideth 
sorrow and woe. Ibid., § 22. 
Wuen he is wounded, he eateth Dragon tea, and taketh 
so the arrow out of the body. Serpents hate and flee the 
wild Goat, and may not suffer the breath of him. 
Ibid, § 35. 
Tue hot blood of the Goat buck nesheth and carveth 
the hard adamant stone, that neither fire nor iron may 
overcome. And the Goat buck hath many and strong 
horns, and much fatness and namely within about the reins, 
and then he dieth lightly, but the fatness be withdrawn. 
Sometime it happed that a Goat buck was seen with horns 
in the legs, and that was full wonderful to see. The liver 
of the Goat buck helpeth against biting of the wood 
hound. Tbid., § 60. 
Goats will not stray nor wander, if you cut off their 
beards. 
Lupton’s “ A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. v. § 58. 
Tue bite of the Goat is deadly to trees. And Goats 
die if they lick honey. They live on venomous herbs, If 
Goats drink or eat out of vessels of tamarisk, they will 
have no spleen. If they lick serpents after these have cast 
their skin, they will not grow old, though they become 
