240 SHAKESPEARE’S [ PELICAN. 
mother cometh again, she maketh sorrow three days for her 
birds. Then she smiteth herself in the breast, and springeth 
blood upon them, and reareth them from death to life ; 
and then for great bleeding the mother waxeth feeble, and 
the birds be compelled to pass out of the nest to get them- 
selves meat. And some of them for kind love feed the 
mother that is feeble; and some be unkind, and care not 
for the mother, and the mother taketh good heed thereto, 
and when she cometh to her strength, she nourisheth and 
loveth those birds that fed her in her need, and putteth 
away her other birds as unworthy and unkind, and suffereth 
them not to dwell nor live with her. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 29. 
Tue Pelican lives on the milk of the crocodile, and 
therefore of choice follows the crocodile. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii, § 97. 
Ir it be hung on the neck of any bird, it will fly con- 
tinually until it falls dead; and its right foot after three 
months, from the moisture and warmth which the bird has, 
will be generated alive, and will move itself. [N.B. The 
statement is (perhaps intentionally) obscure. ] 
Albertus Magnus, “‘ Of the Virtues of Animals,” 
