186 SHAKESPEARE'’S [LIONESS. 
flesh of a Lion being eaten either by a man or woman, 
which is troubled with dreams and fantasies in the night- 
time, will very speedily and effectually work him ease and 
quietness. The grease of a Lion being dissolved and pre- 
sently again conglutinated together, and so being anointed 
upon the body of those who are heavy and sad, it will 
speedily extirpate all sorrow and grief from their hearts, 
The gall of a Lion being taken in drink by anyone doth 
kill or poison him out of hand. 
Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 376-9. 
Ir thongs be cut from a Lion’s skin, a man girt with 
them will not fear his foes; and if his eyes be put under 
the arm-pits, or worn, all beasts will bow their heads, and 
flee behind his back. 
Albertus Magnus, “Of the Virtues of Animals.” 
Lions we have had very many in the North parts of 
Scotland, and those with manes of no less force than those 
of Mauritania; but how and when they were destroyed as 
yet I do not read. 
Holinshed, “ Description of England,” p. 225. 
In Pietra Rossa [Barbary], the Lions are so tame that 
they will gather up bones in the streets, the people not 
fearing them. The like Lions are in Guraigura, where 
one may drive them away with a staff. At Agla the 
Lions are so fearful, that they will flee at the voice of a 
child, whence a cowardly braggart is proverbially called a 
Lion of Agla. Purchas’ “ Pilgrims,” p. 621 (ed. 1616). 
Lioness. 
As You Like Ir, iv. 3, 115. 
Tue Lioness is more cruel than the lion, and namely 
when she hath whelps, for she putteth her in peril of 
death for her whelps. There is a little beast that the lion 
and the Lioness dreadeth wonderfully, and that beast hight 
Leontophonus. For that beast beareth a certain venom, 
which slayeth the lion and the Lioness. Therefore this 
said beast is taken, and afterward burnt, and the flesh 
[which] is sprung [sprinkled] with the ashes, and laid and 
set in meeting of ways, shall slay and destroy the lions 
