190 SHAKESPEARE’S [Locusr. 
the deuce.” But ‘Some fishes there be, which of themselves 
are given to breed fleas and lice, among which the chalczs, a 
kind of turbot, is one” (PAzlemon Holland’s Pliny, bk. ix. 
ch. xlvii.}\—and perhaps the Loach is another.] 
Locust. 
OTHELLO, i. 3, 354. 
[May perhaps be the fruit of the Locust-tree.] 
Locusr hath that name for it hath long legs as the shaft 
of a spear. And these worms that hight Locust have no 
king, and yet they pass forth ordinately in companies. 
And hath a square mouth, and a sting instead of a tail, 
and crooked and folding legs. And are gendered of the 
southern wind, and excited to flight. And they die in the 
Northern wind. Also this worm Locust for the most part 
is all womb, and therefore it hath never meat enough. 
And of their dirt worms be gendered. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. ( Of Birds”) § 24. 
He burneth corn with touching, and devoureth the 
residue. In India be of them three foot in length, which 
the people of the country do eat. 
Batman's addition, ut supra. 
Tue Locust [is] none other creature than the grass- 
hopper. In Barbary [etc.] they are eaten; nevertheless 
they shorten the life of the eaters by the production at the 
last of an irksome and filthy disease. In India they are 
three foot long, in Ethiopia much shorter. 
Holinshed, “ Description of England,” p. 229. 
Louse. 
TRoiLus anp Cressipa, v. I, 72. 
_. A Louse is a worm of the skin, and grieveth more in 
the skin with the feet and with creeping, than he doth 
with biting, and is gendered of right corrupt air and 
vapours, that sweat out between the skin and the flesh by 
pores. And some lice gender of sanguine humour, and be 
red and great; and some of phlegmatic humours, and they 
be nesh and white; and some of choleric humours, and be 
