MUSCADEL. | NATURAL HISTORY. 209 
Micz are multiplied in dry seasons (which the store of them 
this dry winter—1613—confirmeth) of which there are great 
ones in Egypt with two feet which they use as hands, not 
going but leaping. Purchas’ * Pilgrims,” p. 560 (ed. 1616). 
Mulberry. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ili. 1, 170. 
CorioLanus, iii, 2, 79. 
Leaves thereof slayeth serpents, if they be thrown or 
laid upon them. The leaves sod in rain- water maketh 
black hair, and healeth the biting of attercops [spiders], 
and easeth the tooth-ache. Of Mulberries is noble drink 
made; elephants drink thereof, and be the more bold and 
hardy. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 100. 
Tue Mulberries [in Hegesander’s time] did not bring 
forth fruit in twenty years together, and so great a plague 
of the gout then reigned and raged so generally, as not 
only men, but boys, wenches, eunuchs and women were 
troubled with that disease. Gerard’s “Herbal,” 5.7. 
Mule. 
Wiwe-drinking is forbidden the Mule. The more 
water that the Mule drinketh, the more good his meat 
doth him. Also the Mule hath no gall openly seen upon 
his liver. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 72. 
Ir you fumigate a house with the left hoof of a Mule, 
no rat will remain in that house. The ashes of a Mule’s 
hoofs cure baldness, Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 98. 
Mutes are broken of their flinging and wincing, if they 
use often to drink wine. Holland’s Pliny, bk. viii. ch, xliv. 
Tue epithets of a Mule are these :—pack-bearer, dirty, 
Spanish, rough and bi-formed. . 
Topsell, “ History of Four-footed Beasts,” s.v. 
Muscadel, or Muscadine. 
TaMING OF THE SHREW, Ili. 2, 172. 
[Muscadel and brawn were usual refreshments at Christmas 
{so Beaumont and Fletchers “Loyal Subject,” iii, 4, also 
“Tamer Tamed,” iv. 1, and “The Pilgrim,” ii. 1. 
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