LEOPARD. | NATURAL HISTORY. 177 
Lemon. 
Love’s Lazour’s Lost, v. 2, 653. 
{Probably unknown to Bartholomew, who does not mention 
lemons nor oranges. | 
Ir is eaten seasoned with salt. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 260. 
Tuy breath smells of Lemon-pills, 
Webster, “Duchess of Malfi,” ii. 1. 
Ir you want Lemon-waters 
Or anything to take the edge of the sea off, 
Pray speak and be provided. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, “'Tamer Tamed,” iv. 4. 
V, also Cloves. 
Leopard. 
Kine Ricuarp IL, i. 1, 174. 
Tue Leopard is a beast most cruel, and is gendered in 
spouse breach of a pard and of a lioness, The Leopard 
is a full resing [i.e., raging] beast and headstrong, and 
thirsteth blood, and the female is more cruel than the male, 
and pursueth his prey startling and leaping and _ not 
running, and if he taketh not his prey in the third leap, 
or in the fourth, then he stinteth [7.e., ceaseth] for indig- 
nation, and goeth backward, as though he were overcome. 
And he is less in body than the lion, and therefore he 
dreadeth the lion, and maketh a cave under earth with 
double entering, one by which he goeth in, and another by 
which he goeth out. And that cave is full wide and large 
in either entering, and more narrow and strait in the 
middle. And so when the lion cometh, he fleeth and 
falleth suddenly into the cave, and the lion pursueth him 
with a’ great rese [2.¢., rush, or rage], and entereth also 
into the cave, and weeneth there to have the mastery of 
the Leopard, but for greatness of his body he may not pass 
freely by the middle of the den, which 1s full strait,—and 
when the Leopard knoweth that the lion is so let and 
holden in the strait place, he goeth out of the den for- 
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