290 SHAKESPEARE'’S -  [sLuc. 
Irs face is horrible, its hair very long and filthy. And 
it appears with its young which it carries in its arms ; and 
when sailors see it, they are much afeared, and throw it 
an empty bottle, with which it plays, until the ship has 
passed by. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. § 83. 
Slug. 
Comepy oF Errors, ij. 2, 196. 
VY. Snail. 
Snail. 
As You Like It, iv. 1, 54. 
SnaIL is a worm of slime, and breedeth of slime, and is 
therefore alway foul and unclean; and is a manner snake, 
and is an horned worm. And such worms be gendered 
principally in corrupt air and rain. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 70. 
NerrHeER have IJ 
Dress’d Snails or mushrooms curiously before him. 
y 
Ben Fonson, “ Every Man in his Humour,” ii, 5. 
SoME men trow, though it be not be believed, that the 
ship goeth slower, if he beareth the right foot of a Snail 
[Batman translates “testudo” here by “tortoise” instead of 
; “po 
‘Snail | Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 107. 
SnaiLs without their shells, or otherwise with their 
shells stamped and mixed sometimes with cheese-lope or 
rennet, do draw out thorns, or any other thing out of 
the flesh, though never so deep, if they be applied to the 
place. Lupton “Notable Things,” bk. 1 § 100. 
Tue two horns,of a snail borne upon a man will pluck 
away carnal or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof. 
Ibid, bk. ix. § 17, 
Snake. /, Serpent. 
