180 SHAKESPEARE’S [LIBBARD. 
Se 
whale swallows the water, and rejects it, and repels that 
very foul stench, and so saves and defends him and his. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 84, and bk. iv. § 50, 
Libbard. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, v. 2, 551. 
VY. Leopard. 
Lily. 
Tue root thereof drunk with wine healeth biting of 
serpents, and helpeth against the malice and venom of . 
frogs. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § gt. \5° 
Ir the root be curiously opened, and therein be put 
some red, blue or yellow colour that hath no caustic or 
burning quality, it will cause the flower to be of the same 
colour. Gerard’s “Herbal,” 5.0, 
Tue leaves of the herb applied are good against the 
stinging of serpents. The roots boiled in wine causeth the 
