286 _ SHAKESPEARE'S [sHELL. 
wealth. The more Sheep, the dearer [cheaper?] the wool, 
the flesh and the fell; the more Sheep, the dearer corn and 
grain, beside beef, butter, eggs and cheese. Pastures 
consume tillage ; the want of tillage breeds beggars, decays 
villages, hamlets and upland towns. It is better to want 
wool than corn, Sheep than men, but excess and. prodigality, 
which cannot away-with measure, have brought this England 
to great penury. . 
Batman's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xviii. § 81. 
SHEEP are wont to follow them that stop their ears with 
their wool. Lupton, “Notable Things,” bk. v. § 48. 
Asour Erythrea, there is such abundance of good pasture 
and herbs so grateful to Sheep, that if they be not let blood 
once in thirty days, they perish by suffocation, and the milk 
of those Sheep yieldeth no whey. The rams of England 
have greater horns than any other rams in the world, and 
sometimes they have four or six horns on their head, as 
hath been often seen. In very cold countries, when snow 
and winter covereth the earth, then Sheep have no galls, 
but in the summer when they go abroad again to feed in 
the fields, they are replenished with galls. Sheep, when 
they have eaten Eryngium [sea-holly], all stand still, and 
have no power to go out of their pastures till their keeper 
come and take it out of their mouths. The Sheep of 
Lydia and Macedonia grow fat with eating of fishes. If 
there appear upon grass spiders’ webs, or cobwebs which 
bear up little drops of water, then they must not be 
suffered to feed in those places for fear of poisoning. 
Because the head of Sheep is most weak, therefore it ought 
to be fed turned from the sun. 
Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 464-69. 
Shell. 
Kine Lear, i. 5, 26. 
Py Iris an usual thing to crush and break both egg- and 
fish-shells, so soon as ever the meat is supped and eaten 
out of them, or else to bore the same through with a 
spoon, steel or bodkin. [Marginal note: Because after- 
wards no witches might prick them with a needle in the 
