306 SHAKESPEARE’S [TIKE. 
i 
A Ticer is bigger than the greatest horse. It hath been 
falsely believed that all Tigers be females, and that they 
engender with the wind. The male is seldom taken, be- 
cause at the sight of a man he runneth away. When they 
hear the sound of bells and timbrels, they grow into such 
a rage and madness, that they tear their own flesh from 
their backs. The Indians near the River Ganges have a 
certain herb growing like Bugloss,. which they take and. 
press the juice out of it, and in still, silent, calm nights, 
they pour the same down at the mouth of the Tiger’s 
den, by virtue whereof the Tigers are continually enclosed, 
not daring to come out over it through some secret oppo- 
sition in nature, but famish and die, howling in their caves 
through intolerable hunger. The manner of this beast is, 
when she seeth that her young ones are shipped away, she 
maketh so great lamentation upon the sea-shore, howling, 
braying and ranking [perhaps “raging”: Spenser uses the 
adverb “rank” in this sense], that many times she dieth 
in the same place; but if she recover all her young ones 
again, she departeth with unspeakable joy, without taking 
any revenge for their offered injury. 
Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 548-9. 
Tue Tiger as fierce and cruel as lions, making prey of 
man and beast, yet rather devouring black men than 
white ; whose mustachios are holden for mortal poison, and, 
being given in meats, cause men to die mad. 
Purchas “Pilgrims,” p. 559 (ed. 1616). 
Tike, Tyke. 
Kine Lear, iii. 6, 73. 
Kine Hewry V., ii. 1, 31. 
[Tyke is now so well known a word for “cur,” that Steevens’ 
and Malone’s notes on the latter passage seem to us ridicu- 
lous.] 
Toad. 
A Toap is a manner venomous frog, and dwelleth both 
in water and in land; and he changeth his skin in age; 
and eateth alway certain herbs, and keepeth and holdeth 
