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ward, and cometh again into the den in the other side be- 
hind the lion, and reseth on him behindforth with biting 
and with claws. And so the Leopard hath often in that 
wise the mastery of the lion by craft and not by strength. 
This beast eateth sometime venomous thing, and seeketh 
then man’s dirt and eateth it, and therefore hunters 
hangeth such dirt in some vessel on a tree, and when the 
Leopard cometh to that tree, and leapeth up to take the 
dirt, then the hunters slay him in the meantime, while he 
is thereabout. Also sometime the Leopard is sick, and 
drinketh wild goat’s blood, and scapeth by it the sickness 
in that wise. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk, xviii. § 67. 
Tue Leopard flees when he sees a man’s scull, and he 
is afraid of the grass called Leopard-grass, and is killed by 
the herb which is called “ strangle-leopard ” [ perhaps aconite, 
—‘ Leopard’s bane”’]. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii, § 81. 
Lettuce. 
OTHELLO, i. 3, 324. 
_ Wuen it is old, it is hard, and use thereof appaireth 
[injures] the sight, and maketh it fail, and slayeth the feeling, 
