LEVIATHAN. | NATURAL HISTORY, 179 
for it stifleth natural feeling with sourness thereof. A manner 
kind of Lettuce groweth of itself without tilling, and if it 
be thrown into the sea, it slayeth all the fish that is nigh 
thereabout. Hawks scrape this herb, and take out the 
juice thereof, and touch and heal their eyes therewith, and 
do away dimness and blindness when they be old. And 
it healeth biting of serpents, and stinging of scorpions, 
if the juice thereof be drunk in wine, and the leaves, 
stamped and laid to the wound in a plaster wise, suageth 
and healeth all manner swelling. But oft use thereof, 
and too much thereof eaten grieveth the clearness of the 
eyes. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 92. 
By manuring, transplanting, and having a regard to the 
moon and other circumstances, the leaves of the artificial 
Lettuce are oftentimes transformed into another shape. If 
Lettuce be boiled, it is sooner digested, and nourisheth 
more. It is served in these days, and in these countries, 
in the beginning of supper, and eaten first before any other 
meat ; for being taken before meat it doth many times stir 
up appetite; eaten after supper it keepeth away drunken- 
ness which cometh by the wine. 
Gerara’s “Herbal,” s.z 
Wuen I nursed thee with Lettuce, would it had 
turned to hemlock. 
Lilly, “Sappho and Phaon,” iv. 2. 
Leviathan. 
Mipsummer Nicat’s Dream, ii. 1, 174, 
ia 
Tue Leviathan often lies in wait for the whale, and 
fights with him ; and all the fishes of the sea which behold 
the fight flock quickly to the tail of the whale. Now if 
the whale be overcome he must die, and those fish too, 
which he had girdled with his tail, are quickly swallowed. 
But if the Leviathan cannot overcome the whale, he emits 
from his jaws a most foul stench with water; but the 
