MOON-CALF. | NATURAL HISTORY. 205 
Ir you will catch Moles or wants, put garlic, leeks or an 
onion in the mouths of their holes, and you shall see them 
come or leap out quickly, as though they were amazed or 
astonied. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. ix. § 14. 
Mo tz’s blood sprinkled on a bald head makes the hairs 
come back. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 139. 
Motes have no ears, and yet they understand all speeches 
spoken of themselves. If a man eat the heart of a Mole 
newly taken out of her belly and panting, he shall be able 
to divine and foretell infallible events. There is nothing 
which is more profitable or medicinable for the curing of 
the bites of a shrew, than a Mole being flayed and clapped 
thereunto. For the changing of the hairs of horses from 
black to white, take a Mole and boil her in salt water, or 
lye made of ashes three days together, and when the water 
or lye shall be quite consumed, put new water or lye there- 
unto; this being done, wash or bathe the place with the 
water or lye somewhat hot; presently the black hairs will 
fall and slide away, and in some short time there will 
come white. Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 389-91. 
Ir the foot of a Mole be wrapped in a laurel-leaf and 
put into a horse’s ear, he will run away for fear ; and if it 
be put in the nest of any bird, no young ones will be 
hatched out of those eggs. 
Albertus Magnus, “ Of the Virtues of Animals,” 
Monkey. 
Mercuant or VENICE, lil. I, 124. 
V, Ape. 
[Monkeys were common pets for ladies, and shared their 
favour with dogs and paroquets (so Massinger, ‘New Way 
to Pay Old Debts”; Bex Jonson, ‘‘Cynthia’s Revels”; 
Middleton, “ Michaelmas Term,” etc.).] 
Moon-calf. 
Tempest, ii, 2, 111. 
A raxsE conception called mola or Moon-calf, that is to 
say, a lump of flesh without shape, without life, and so 
