TOAD. | NATURAL HISTORY. BIL 
killed the Toad, and so became grateful to her host which 
did nourish her in his chamber; for at the third time the 
Toad leaped off from the man’s mouth, and swelled to 
death, The mole also is an enemy to the Toad, for 
Albertus saw a Toad crying above the earth very bitterly, 
for a mole did: hold her fast by the leg within the earth, 
labouring to pull her in again, while the other strove to 
get out of her teeth; and so on the other side, the Toads 
do eat the moles when they be dead. The cat doth kill 
serpents and Toads, but eateth them not, and unless she 
presently drink she dieth for it. The Toads of the earth 
are more poisonful than the Toads of the water, except 
those Toads of the water, which do receive infection or 
poison from the water, for some waters are venomous— 
but the Toads of the land, which do descend into the 
marshes, and so live in both elements, are most venomous; 
and the hotter the country is, the more full are they of 
poison. When an asp hath eaten a Toad, their biting is 
incurable, and bears, being killed by men after that they 
have eaten salamanders or Toads, do poison their eaters. A 
Toad hath two livers, and although both of them are cor- 
rupted, yet the one of them is full of poison, and the 
other resists poison. The spittle of Toads is venomous, 
for if it fall upon a man, it causeth all the hair to fall off 
from his head. Plantain and ‘black hellebore, sea-crabs dried 
to powder and drunk, the stalks of dog’s-tongue, the 
‘powder of the right horn of a hart, the milt, spleen and 
heart of a Toad, also the blood of the sea-tortoise mixed 
with wine, cummin and the rennet of a hare, also the blood 
of a tortoise of the land mixed with barley-meal, and the 
quintessence of treacle, and oil of scorpions,—all these 
things are very precious against the poison of serpents and 
Toads, Topsell, “ History of Serpents,” pp. 726-30. 
THE jaws of a Toad, sweating and foaming out poison, 
are not more dangerous than a pen. 
Dekker’s “Dead Term.” 
Tuovu shalt eat nothing but a poached spider, and drive 
it down with syrup of Toads. 
“(A Match at Midnight,” i, 1. 
