162 SHAKESPEARE’S [ HORSE-LEECH. 
appointed, where they make sale of their infected ware, 
and such as by this means do fall into many diseases and 
maladies. Of such outlandish Horses as are daily brought 
over unto us I speak not, as the jennet of Spain, the 
courser of Naples, the hobby of Ireland, the Flemish roil 
and Scottish nag. King MHenry VIII. erected a noble 
studdery, and for a time had very good success with them, 
till the officers waxing weary procured a mixed brood 
of bastard races, whereby his good purpose came to little 
effect. Sir Nicholas Arnold of late hath bred the best 
horses in England. 
Holinshed, “Description of England,” p. 220. 
Horse-leech. 
Kine Henry V., ii. 3, 58. 
Ix a river of Mauritania are found some of seven cubits 
in length, which breathe, through perforations in the gullet. 
Leeches are produced from rottenness, and it is not known 
whether they gender. 
Fonston’s “Natural History,” bk. iv. (“On Insects’’), tit. ii, ch. i. 
Hound. /. Dog. 
Hyena. 
As You Like It, iv. 1, 156, 
Hyna is a cruel beast like to the wolf in devouring 
and gluttony. It is his kind to change sexes, for he is 
now found male and now female, and is therefore an un- 
clean beast. And cometh to houses by night, and feigneth 
man’s voice as he may, for men should trow that it is a 
man. And herds tell that among stables, he feigneth 
speech of mankind, and calleth some man by his own name, 
and rendeth him when he hath him without. And he 
feigneth oft the name of some man for to make hounds 
run out, that he may take and eat them. And hath the 
neck of the adder viper, and the ridge of an elephant, and 
