138 SHAKESPEARE’S [GUDGEON. 
of great oxen, or of bugles [ze., buffaloes] or of kine; so 
that men make cups of them to drink of; and of their 
ribs and of the pens [7.e., feathers] of their wings, men 
make bows full strong, to shoot with arrows and quarrels. 
Sir Fohn Mandeville, ch. xxvi. ad fin. 
Gripes make their nests of gold, though their coats are 
feathers, Lilly, “ Galatea,” ii. 3. 
Tue Griffin never spreadeth her wings in the sun, when 
she hath any sick feathers. 
Lilly, “Sappho and Phaon”’ (Prologue at the Blackfriars). 
Gudgeon. 
This fool gudgeon, 
MercuanT oF VENICE, i, I, 102. 
Some say that the Gudgeon feeds on dead carcases, but 
fishermen hold this to be a fable. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. § 41. 
Some have said that the Gudgeon is generated from the 
brain of horses. 
Fonston, “ Natural History,” bk. ii, tit. i. ch. x. 
Wuar fish soever you be, you have made both me and 
Philantus to swallow a Gudgeon. 
“Euphues”; so Dekker’s “Honest Whore,” part ii. ii, 2. 
a 
Gurnet. 
A soused gurnet. 
i. Kine Henry IV., v. 2, 11. 
[Gurnet is, called in Latin] cuculus, either from the 
sound which it makes in common with the bird of that 
name [i.e. cuckoo], or because, when it is taken in nets, it 
utters the word cu. 
Fonston, “ Natural History,” bk. ii. tit. ili, ch. i, p. 2. 
[Gurnets cost 2s. 6d. to 3s. each in 1573. 
Soused Gurnet was a term of reproach; wide Steevens’ 
Shakespeare, vol. viii. p. 549.] 
