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death. In kine and oxen they be common, and other- 
whiles in dogs, who are pestered with these Ticks. And 
in sheep and goats, a man shall find none other but 
Ticks. Holland's Pliny, bk. xi, ch. xxxiv. 
[Topsell (s.v. “‘ Sheep,” p, 479) distinguishes between lice and 
Ticks of sheep.] 
? 
Tiercel, or Tercel. 
Troitus anpD CressiDa, iii. 2, 56. 
V. 'Tassel-gentle. 
Tiger. 
Tue Tiger is the most swiftest beast in flight, as it 
were an arrow, and is a beast distingued with divers 
specks, and the river Tigris hath the name of this beast, 
for it is most swiftest of all floods. And the whelp is all 
glimy and sinewy. And the hunter taketh away the 
whelps, and fleéth soon away on the most swift horse that 
he may have, and when the wild beast cometh and findeth 
the den void, and the whelps away; then he riseth head- 
long, and followeth him by smell; and when the hunter 
heareth the grutching [grumbling, growling] of that beast 
that runneth after him, he throweth down one of the 
whelps; and the mother taketh the whelp in her mouth, 
and beareth him into her den, and layeth him therein, and 
cometh again after the hunter; but in the mean time the 
‘hunter taketh a ship, and hath with him the other whelps, 
and scapeth in that wise; and so her fierceness standeth 
in no stead; and the male recketh not of the whelps. 
And he that will bear away the whelps leaveth in the way 
great mirrors, and the mother followeth and findeth the. 
mirrors in the way, and looketh on them, and seéth her 
own shadow and image therein, and weeneth that she 
seéth her children therein, and is long occupied therefore’ 
to deliver her children out of the glass, and so the hunter 
hath time and space for to escape. And in the more 
Hyrcania breedeth many beasts of this kind. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 105. 
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