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the warmest side of the house. This furthermore is to be 
noted, that of Honey the best which is heaviest and 
moistest is always next the bottom. 
Holinshed, “Description of England,” p. 229. 
V, Bee. 
Honey-suckle. 
Mucs Apo azsout Noruina, iii. 1, 8. 
Fires that die on the Honey-suckle become poison to 
bees. Lilly, “Sappho and Phaon,” ii. 4. 
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Horses be joyful in fields, and smell battles, and be 
comforted with noise of trumps to battles and to fighting, 
and be excited to run with noise that they know, and be 
sorry when they be overcome, and glad when they have 
the mastery. And so feeleth and knoweth their enemies 
in battles, so far forth that they arise on their enemies with 
biting and smiting, and also some know their own lords, 
and forgetteth mildness, if their lords be overcome. And 
many Horses weep when their lords be dead. Also oft 
men that shall fight take evidence and divine and guess 
what shall befall by sorrow or by the joy that the Horse 
maketh. And those Horses be accounted best in war and 
in battle, that thrust the head deepest into the water when 
they drink. Also the gall of a Horse is accounted among 
venom. His fresh blood and raw is venomous, as_ the 
blood of a bull. The Horse’s foam drunken with asses’ 
milk slayeth venomous worms. Also sometime Horses. 
have the podagre, and lose the soles of their feet, and 
then gendereth new. And sometime an Horse is wood 
[i.e mad], and the token thereof is that his ears bend 
toward the neck; and this evil hath no medicine. And 
the Horse knoweth his neighing that will fight with him, 
and hath liking to stand in meads, and to swim in water, 
as 
