228 SHAKESPEARE'’S [OxLIP. 
world, for they are moved with their ears, turning in a 
flexible manner sometime one way and sometime another. 
In some countries they wash them all over with wine for 
two or three days together, which doth wonderfully tame 
them, though they have been never so wild. If a wild Ox 
be tied with a halter of wool, he will presently wax tame. 
If the Ox bend to the right side and lick that, it presageth 
a storm; but if he bend to the left side, he foretelleth a 
calm, fair day. In like manner, when he loweth and 
smelleth to the earth, or when he feedeth fuller than 
ordinary, it betokeneth change of weather. If a wolf's 
tail be hanged in the rack or manger where an Ox feedeth, 
he will abstain from eating. If seed be cast into the earth 
out of an Ox’s horn, it will never spring up well out of 
the earth, or at the least not so well as when it is sowed 
by the hand of man. Of the teeth of Oxen I know no other 
use but scraping and making paper smooth with them ; 
their gall being sprinkled among seed which is to be sown 
maketh it come up quickly, and killeth field-mice that taste 
of it. The dung of Oxen is beneficial to bees if the hives. 
be anointed therewith, for it killeth spiders, gnats and 
drone-bees, When a man biteth any other living creature, 
seethe the flesh of an Ox or a calf, and after five days lay 
it to the sore, and it shall work the ease thereof. If one: 
make a small candle of paper and cow's marrow, setting the. 
same on fire, under his brows or eye-lids which are bald 
without hair, and often anointing the place, he shall have: 
very decent and comely hair grow thereupon. There is. 
in the head of an Ox a certain little stone, which only in 
the fear of death he casteth out at his mouth ; if this stone- 
be taken from them suddenly by cutting the head, it doth. 
make children to breed teeth easily, being soon tied about 
them. When the bee hath tasted of the flower of the 
corn-tree, she presently dieth, except she taste the urine of 
a man or an Ox. Topsell, ‘‘Four-footed Beasts,” s.v. 
V. Cow and Bull. 
Oxlip. 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 125. 
Oxurps, so called because oxen and cows delight in 
eating them, Minsheu’s Dictionary, 5.2, 
Oxuips or Paigles. Gerard’s* Herbal,” 5,0, 
