146 SHAKESPEARE’S [ HART. 
Tue stag and hind feeling themselves poisoned with 
some venomous weed among grass where they pasture go 
by and by to the artichoke, and therewith cure themselves. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. viii. ch. xxvii. 
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Tuts creature of all diseases is not subject to the fever, 
but he is good to cure it. 
Tbid., bk. ii, ch. xxxil. 
Ir together with deer’s blood, there be burnt the herb 
Dragon, Bastard Marjoram, and Orchanet, in a fire made 
with Lentisk wood, serpents will gather round together 
into an heap; take away the same blood and put into the 
fire the root of Pyrethrum (Pellitory of Spain), they will 
scatter asunder again. Ibid., bk. xxviii. ch. ix, 
Harts are deceived with music, for they so love that 
harmony, that they forbear their food to follow it. They 
live very long—2,112 years. The bones of young Harts 
are applied for making of pipes, but if a young one be 
pricked in his legs with cactus, his bones. will never make 
pipes. If men drink in pots wherein are wrought Harts’ 
horns, it will weaken all force of venom. The magicians 
have also devised that if the fat of a dragon’s heart be 
bound up in the skin of a roe, with the nerves of a Hart, 
it promiseth victory to him that beareth it on his shoulder, 
and that if the teeth be so bound in a roe’s skin, it 
maketh one’s lord, master, or all superior powers, exorable 
and appeased towards their husbands and suitors. Orpheus, 
in his Book of Stones, commandeth a husband to carry 
about him a Hart’s horn, if he will live in amity and con- 
cord with his wife. 
Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. rol-s. 
THe young males which our fallow deer do bring forth 
are commonly named according to their several ages ;—for 
the first year it is a fawn, the second a pricket, the third 
a sorrel, the fourth a sore, the fifth a buck of the first 
head. In examining the condition of our red deer, I find 
that the young male is called in the first year a calf, in 
the second a brocket, the third a spay, the fourth a stagon 
or stag, the fifth a great stag, the sixth an Hart, and so 
forth unto his death. And with him in degree of venery 
