TADPOLE, | NATURAL HISTORY. 301 
Swine. 
Tue Swine froteth [rubs] and walloweth in dirt and in 
fen [mud], and diveth in slime, and bawdieth himself 
therewith, and resteth in a stinking place. And some 
Swine be tame, and some wild. And among the tame the 
males be called Boars and Barrows, and the females be 
called Sows; and they dig and root and seek meat under. 
earth, A Swine dieth if he loseth an eye. And Swine 
have many sicknesses, and hold their heads aside; and lie 
more on the right side than on the left; and wax fat in 
forty days; and fat sooner, if they suffer hunger three 
days in the beginning of the feeding. Swine love each 
other, and know each other’s voice, and therefore, if any 
cry, they cry all, and labour to help each other with all 
their might. Tame Swine grunt in going, and in lying, 
and in sleeping, and namely if they be right fat. And 
Swine sleep faster in May than in other times of the year, 
and that cometh of fumosity’ that stoppeth their brain that 
time. The male hath more teeth than the female. And 
when Swine be great, it doeth them good to eat berries, 
and also bathing in hot water delighteth them. And they 
be let blood on the vein under the tongue, 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk, xviii. § 87. 
Sycamore. 
Romeo anv JULIET, 1. 1, 128. 
SycaMoRE is a nice fig-tree, as it were a fool, and 
beareth certain sweet fruit that is never ripe at the fall. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 148, 
Ir bringeth forth fruit three or four times in one year, 
and oftener if it be scraped with an iron knife, or other 
like instrument. We call it in English, Sycamore-tree, and 
also mulberry-fig-tree. Cunrd’s Beta” ay 
Tadpole. 
_ Kine Leak, iii. 4, 135. 
V. Frog. 
