188 SHAKESPEARE’S [LIZARD. 
Tue venom of the Lizard is deadly, and the remedy for 
it is made from the pounded flesh of scorpions. There is 
no animal more deceitful than the Lizard, and he envies 
man. In the flesh of the Lizard is virtue for extracting 
splinters and thorns. Its fat fattens much. 
Ffortus Sanitatis, bk. uu. § 130. 
Tue Lizard when he lies 
Too open to the hot sun faints and dies. 
Heywood’s “ Anna and Phillis,” emb. 16. 
LLL 
WHEN a certain man had taken a great fat Lizard, he 
did} put out her eyes with an instrument of brass, and so 
put her into a new earthen pot, which had in it two small 
holes or passages, big enough to take breath at, but too 
little to creep out at, and, with her, moist earth and a 
certain herb; and furthermore he took an iron ring, 
wherein was set an engagataes [Pagate] stone with the 
picture of a Lizard engraven upon it; and besides upon 
the ring he made nine several marks, whereof he put out 
every day one, until at the last he came at the ninth, and 
then he opened the pot again, and the Lizard did see as 
