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Keech. 
ii. Kino Henry IV,, ii, 1, 101, 
A Keecw is the fat of an ox rolled up by the butcher 
into a round lump. 
Steevens, loc. cit., and cf Kinc Henry VIII i. 1, 55. 
Kernel. V. Nut. 
Kex. 
Kine Henry V., v. 2, 
V, Hemlock. 
Kite. 
A Krre is weak in flight and in strength. And is a 
bird that may well away with travail, and therefore he 
taketh cuckoos upon his shoulders, and beareth them, lest 
they fail in space of long ways, and bringeth them out of 
the countries of Spain. .And he is a ravishing fowl, and 
hardy among small birds, and a coward and fearful among 
great birds, and dreadeth to lie in wait to take wild birds, 
and dreadeth not to lie in wait to take tame birds, and 
lieth oft in wait to take chickens, and he eateth carrions 
and unclean things. And is taken with the sparhawk, and 
for his faintness and cowardness he is overcome of a bird 
that is less than he. And in youth there seemeth no 
difference between the Kite and other birds of prey; but 
the longer he liveth, the more he sheweth that his own 
kind is unkind. And there is a manner Kite, that taketh 
birds in the beginning, and afterward he eateth guts of 
beasts, and taketh unneath afterward flies and small worms. 
And he dieth for hunger at the last, and is a cruel fowl 
about his birds [#.e., young], and is sorry when he seeth 
them fat; and to make them lean, he beateth them with 
his bill, and withdraweth their meat; and hath a voice of 
plaining and of moan, as it were messenger of hunger ; 
for when he hungereth, he seeketh his meat weeping with 
voice of plaining and of moan. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 26, 
