256 SHAKESPEARE'S [RaT. 
if the left be bound, he gendereth males, and he gendereth 
males in the Northern wind, and females in the Southern 
wind. And such Rams as have black veins under their 
tongues, such lambs they gender in colour, and if they be 
white, the lambs are white, and if they be speckled, the 
lambs be so. The Ram hath a full hard forehead, nigh as 
horn, and feeble temples, and somewhat gristly. And when 
it rains, they flee not the rain until they be dead. And 
they dread kindly the thunder, as sheep do. And they 
sleep with the sheep tofore midnight, and after part, and 
change, and turn from side to side in sleeping; for from 
springing-time to harvest, they sleep on the one side, and 
then unto springing-time they sleep on the other side; and 
hold up their heads while they sleep, except they be sick; 
and they chew their cud sleeping, as they do waking. 
And if it happen that they stray and go away, they come 
not again, but if the herd bringeth them again. And their 
flesh 1s better than flesh of lambs and of ewes. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 3. 
A coms made of the right horn of a Ram doth take 
away the head-ache being on the right side of the head, 
if the pained head be combed therewith. If the pain be on 
the left side of the head, then a comb made of the left 
horn of a Ram doth take it away. This I had out of. an 
old book. Lupton, “Notable Things,” bk. iv. § 4. 
THEY were wont to hang a shrimp at the horn of the 
Ram, and then the wolf will never set upon their flocks, 
If the horns of a Ram be buried in the earth, they will 
turn into the herb spirage [? misprint for spinach, or for 
spurge]; for rottenness and putrefaction is the mother of 
many creatures and herbs. 
Topsell, ‘‘Four-footed Beasts,” p. 493. 
V. Lamb, Sheep. 
Rat. 
The very rats 
Instinctively have quit it. 
TEMPEST, ii. I, 147, 
Tueir tail is counted venomous. The younger Rats 
bring food unto the elder, because they are grown to a 
great and unwieldy stature of body. With the dung of 
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