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dry, and in summer when the western wind bloweth, the 
sticks and the nest be set on fire with burning heat of the 
sun, and burneth strongly. Then this bird Phoenix cometh 
wilfully into the burning nest, and is there burnt to ashes, 
among these burning sticks, ‘And within three days, a little 
worm is gendered of the ashes, and waxeth little and little, 
and taketh feathers, and is shaped and turned to a bird. 
And is the most fairest bird that is, most like to the 
peacock in feathers, and loveth wilderness, and gathereth his 
meat of clean greens and fruits. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 14. 
Tue Phoenix is born among the Arabs, a bird of the 
size of the eagle, its head adorned with plumes upstanding, 
its jaws crested, about its neck a golden sheen, purple on its 
hinder parts, except the tail on which a brilliant blue is 
mixed with rose-coloured feathers, 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 48. 
NeEvER man was known to see him feeding. In Arabia 
he is held a sacred bird, dedicated unto the sun; he liveth 
660 years. And the first thing that the young new Phoenix 
doth is to perform the obsequies of the former Phcenix, late 
deceased ; to translate and carry away his whole nest into 
the city of the Sun, near Panchaea, and to bestow it full 
devoutly there upon the altar. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. x. ch. it. 
In the city Chora, there is one of these [date-] trees that 
bears dates like to pearls, and the bird Phoenix is supposed 
to have taken name of this date-tree, for it was assured to 
me that the said bird died with that tree, and revived of 
itself as the tree sprung again. Wik, Be. Bil, che be: 
Pig (i.e., Sucking-pig). 
Comepy oF Errors, i. .2, 44. 
Tirus AnpRonicus, iv. 2, 145. 
Pic :—A little young swine. 
Minsheuw’s Dictionary, s.z. . 
