198 SHAKESPEARE’S [ MARBLE. 
tie some dog or some other living beast unto the root 
' thereof with a cord, and digged the earth in compass 
round about, and in the mean time stopped their own 
ears for fear of the terrible shriek and cry of this Man- 
drake. In which cry it doth not only die itself, but the 
fear thereof killeth the dog or beast which pulleth it out 
of the earth. 
Bullein, “ Bulwark of Defence against Sickness,” p. 41 
quoted in Reed’s Shakespeare. 
Ir the root be seethed for six hours with ivory, it 
softens it and makes it easy to work into any shape 
desired. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 276. 
I FRAMED a mole under my child’s ear by art; you 
shall see it taken away with the juice of Mandrake. 
Lilly, “‘ Mother Bombie,” v. 3. 
Marble. 
MacseTH, ill. 4, 22. 
Marsie stones be noble stones, and be praised for 
speckles and diverse colours. Over all things we may 
wonder that Marble stones be not hewed neither cloven 
with iron, neither with steel, with hammer nor with saw, 
as they be with a plate of lead set between nesh [soft] 
shingles or spoons. For with lead and not with iron 
Marble stones be hewen and cloven and planed, as shingles 
or small stones. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 69. 
Many mines of coarse and fine Marble are there in 
England ; but chiefly one in Staffordshire, another near to 
the Peak, the third at Vauldry (?), the fourth at Snothill (?) 
(belonging to the Lord Chandos), the fifth at Eaglestone, 
which ‘is of black Marble spotted with grey or white spots, 
the sixth not far from Durham. Of white Marble also we 
have store. The black Marble spotted with green is none 
of the vilest sort. 
Holinshed, *‘ Description of England,” p. 235. 
Mare. 
Kine Hewry V., ii. I, 25. 
THE name of an horse’s wife shall be called a Mare. 
And if a Mare, being with foal, smelleth the snuff of a 
