140 SHAKESPEARE’S [HARE 
Tuere is engendered in the sea also that which is called 
Halcyoneum, made as some think of the nests of the 
birds Halcyons; but, as others suppose, of the filthy foam 
of the sea. Four kinds there be of it. 
Holland's Pliny, bk. xxxii, ch, viii. 
Into the nest of an Halcyon no bird can enter but the 
Halcyon. Lilly, “Sappho and Phaon,” iii. 3. 
As the birds Halcyon which exceed in whiteness, I hatch 
young ones that exceed in blackness, 
“ Euphues’ Golden Legacie.” 
A uittre bird called the King’s fisher, being hanged up 
in the air by the neck, his neb or bill will be always direct 
or straight against the wind. This was told me for a very 
truth by one that knew it by proof, as he said. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. x. § 96. 
Bur now how stands the wind? 
Into what corner peers my Halcyon’s bill? 
Ha! To the East? Yes! See, how stand the vanes? 
East and by south. Marlowe, “Jew of Malta,” i. 1. 
As a Halcyon with her turning breast 
Demonstrates wind from wind, and east from west. 
Storer, “Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal” (1599). 
Hare. 
[Melancholy] hare. 
i, Kinc Henry IV., i. 2, 86. 
Tue Hare is fearful, and fighteth not, and is feeble of 
sight, as other beasts be, that close not the eye-lids in 
sleeping ; and is better of hearing than of sight, namely 
when he reareth up the ears. His ears be full long and 
pliant, and that is needful for to defend the eyes that be 
open, and not defended with covering, nor with heling to 
keep them from gnats and flies great and small for against 
noyful [i.e., noxious] things, kind giveth remedy to 
creatures. < Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 68. 
