278 SHAKESPEARE'’S [SEA-MEW. 
Sea-mew. 
Tempest, ii. 2, 176. 
[Sea-mew, a small gull.] 
In the Lake of Como, certain fishers in the winter did 
draw with their nets to the dry land a great sort of Sea- 
mews, seeming to be dead, which were joined together 
with their bills or nebs in one another’s tail; and being 
warmed with their guts, were found alive. 
Lupton, “Notable Things,” bk. vi. § 88. 
Sedge. 
Taminc oF THE SHreEw, Induction, 2, 53. 
SepcE is an herb most hard and sharp, and hurteth 
never man but he toucheth it. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 35. 
SEDGES or sheargrass, whereof is made mats and hassocks 
to sit and kneel upon ; with the said Sedges is made Ham- 
boroughs {i.e., collars] for the necks of horses, instead of 
leather harness, and for other cartage and plough. 
Batman’s addition to Bartholomew, loc. cit. 
Serpent. 
Aut kind of Serpents and adders, that by kind may 
wrap and fold his own body, hath many corners and angles 
in such folding, and goeth never straight. And of adders 
is many manner kind; and how many kind, so many 
manner venom, and how many species, so many manner 
malice, and so many manner sores and aches, as there are 
colours, And an adder grieveth most now with biting, 
now with blowing, now with smiting with the tail, and now 
with stinging, now with looking and sight. The Serpent 
Dipsas is so little, that he uneath [scarcely] is seen when 
men tread thereon, and the venom thereof slayeth ere it be 
felt, and he that dieth by that venom feeleth no sore. Some 
have two heads, as the adder Amphisbena, one in the one 
end, and another in the tother end, and runneth and 
glideth and wriggleth with wrinkles, circles and draughts 
of the body after either. head, as though one mouth were 
