HARE. | NATURAL HISTORY 141 
Like your melancholy Hare 
Feed after midnight. 
Webster, ** Vittoria Corombona.” 
- Howsozver Hares are thought to nourish melancholy, 
yet they are eaten as venison, both roasted and boiled. 
Fynes' Moryson, “Itinerary,” part iii. p. 149. 
[Hares were roasted (second part of “The Good Huswife’s 
Jewel,” 1597, p. 66) with parsley, thyme, savory, cream, butter, 
small raisins and barberries worked all together in the Hare’s 
belly, and served with venison sauce.] 
THE juice of henbane, mixed with the blood of an Hare, 
and sod within the skin of a Hare, it is said that all the 
Hares will gather together, which be within that trace 
where it is buried. This was affirmed for truth to 
Mizaldus. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. ii, § 5. 
[Hare-tip comes of seeing a Hare or longing for its 
flesh. Ibid., bk. ii, § 6.] 
Tue blood of an Hare dried and made in powder, and 
thrown upon flesh newly roasted or sodden, makes the 
same flesh seem to be bloody and corrupt. So that they 
that be present, and sees the same, unless such as know 
the secret thereof, will loathe to eat thereof (Mizaldus). 
Tbid., bk. vii. § 66. 
Wiru its brain boys’ gums are cleansed; for it has the 
property to make the teeth come quickly, and without 
ain. Its head burnt with bear’s grease, and used as a 
plaster, helps baldness, Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 83. 
In Chersonesus all the Hares have ordinarily two livers ; 
and (a wondrous thing it is to tell) if they be brought 
into other countries, one of the said livers they lose. 
Holland's Pliny, bk. xi. p. 341. 
' Some creatures there are that will never be fat, as the 
Hare and partridge. Ibid, p. 344. 
