164 SHAKESPEARE'’S [HYNA. 
when the moon is passing through the sign Gemini; and 
then if they be taken, the huntsman must be sure to save 
every hair of their skins, and miss not one, so medicinable 
they are. Whosoever are haunted with sprites in the 
night-season, and be affrighted with such bugbears, let them 
but take one of the master-teeth of the Hyzna, and wear it 
about them tied by a linen thread, they shall be freed from 
all such fantastical illusions. And as for those that wear 
under the soles of their feet within the shoe a Hyzna’s 
tongue, there is not a dog will be so hardy as to bay or 
bark at them. And the hairs growing about the muzzle 
‘of this beast have an amatorious virtue with them to make 
a woman love a man, in case her lips be but touched 
therewith. If the side-posts or door-cheeks of any house 
be striked with the Hyzna’s blood, wheresoever magicians 
are busy with their feats and juggling casts, they shall take 
no effect, whether they be charms, exorcisms or invoca- 
tions; insomuch as they shall not be able to raise up 
spirits, nor have any conference with familiars by any 
means of conjuration, whether it be by torch-lights, by 
bason, by water, by globe or otherwise. A decoction made 
with the ashes of the pastern bone of the left leg, boiled 
together with the blood of a weasel, causeth as many as be 
anointed therewith to be odious in the eyes of all men. 
The hindmost end of the gut in this beast is of virtue 
that no captain, prince or potentate shall be able to wrong 
or oppress those who have but the same about them ; but 
contrariwise assureth them of good speed in all their 
petitions, and of happy issue in all suits of law and trials 
of judgments. Holland’s Pliny, bk. xxvili. ch. viii. 
Tue Hyzna when she mourns is then most guileful. 
“Euphues’ Golden Legacy.” 
Tue middle of his back is a little crooked or dented, 
the colour yellowish, but bespeckled on the sides with 
blue spots, which make him look more terrible, as if it 
had so many eyes. The eyes change their colour at the 
pleasure of the beast, a thousand times a day. The skilful 
lapidarists affirm that the beast hath a stone in his eyes (or 
rather in his head) called Hyena or Hyenius; but the 
