SPERMACETI. | NATURAL HISTORY. 293 
Ir is said that no Sparrows have ever been seen at a 
ie called Lindham in the moors below. Hatfield [York- 
shire ]. 
Camden's “Britannia,” col. 850. 
Spawn. 
Corroanus, il. 2, 82. 
Tus is to be noted, that the foresaid engendering - of 
[fish] is not sufficient to accomplish generation, unless, when 
their eggs be laid or spawn cast, both male and female 
take it between them, and keep a-turning of it, thereby 
to breathe a lively spirit into it, and, as it were, besprinkle 
it with a vital dew, as it floateth upon the water. But 
turn they it and toss it, breathe they upon it as much as 
they will, yet all those little eggs of their spawn do not 
hit and come to proof; for if they did, all seas and lakes, 
and all rivers and pools, would be so pestered full with 
fishes, that a man would see nothing else. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. ix. ch. 1. 
VY. Fish. 
Spear-grass. 
i, Kinc Henry IV., ii. 4, 340. 
Spear-crass is good for the sciatica, or the gout. 
Lupton, “ Notable Things,” bk. ii. § 91. 
Toucuine the grass, which, by reason of the pricks that 
it bears is named Aculeatum, there be three sorts of it; 
the first is that which ordinarily hath five such pricks in 
the head or top thereof, and thereupon they call it Penta- 
dactylon, the Five-finger grass; these pricks, when they be 
wound together, they use to put up into the nostrils, and 
draw them down again, for to make the nose bleed. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. xxv. ch, xix. 
Spermaceti. 
Telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth 
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise. 
i. Kine Henry IV., i. 3. 58. 
