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which eat thereof. The lion’s breath stinketh, and is 
right infectious and contagious, and infecteth other things, 
and his biting is deadly and venomous, and namely when 
he is wood. For the lion waxeth wood, as the hound 
doth. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 66. 
STRANGE it is that a Lioness, by showing her hinder 
parts to the male, should make him run away. 
Purchas ‘‘Pilgrims,” p. 557 (ed. 1616). 
Lizard. 
"Venom toads, or lizards’ dreadful stings. 
iii. Kine Henry VL, ii. 2, 138. 
Tue Lizard is a little beast painted on the back with 
shining specks as it were stars. The Lizard is so contrary 
to scorpions that the scorpions dread and lose comfort 
when they see the Lizard. The Lizard liveth most by 
dew ; and though he be a fair beast and fair painted, yet 
he is right venomous; for the worst medicine is made of 
the Lizard, for when he is dead in wine, he covereth their 
faces that drink thereof with vile scale ; therefore they 
eschew [Pensue. Bartholomew has—“<for this ointment 
they who envy the fairness of strumpets kill the Lizard” ] 
to put him in medicine and ointment that have envy 
to fairness of strumpets. His remedy is the yolk of 
an egg, honey and glass. And the gail of a Lizard stamped 
in water assembleth together weasels. And the Lizard 
lurketh in winter in dens and chines, and his sight 
dimmeth ; and in springing time he cometh out of his den, 
and feeleth that his sight faileth, and changeth his place, 
and seeketh him a place toward the East, and openeth 
continually his eyes toward the rising of the sun, until the 
humour in the eye be full dried, and the mist wasted that 
is cause of dimness in the eye. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 94. 
A creen Lizard hath a great delight to behold a man 
in the face, for he will lovingly fawn upon him as a dog 
with the moving of his tail, And as much as in him lies, 
will defend him from a serpent that lies lurking in the 
neaths to hurt him. 
Lupton, “Notable Things,” bk. vi. § 73. 
