338 SHAKESPEARE'S [WATER-SPANIEL. 
Water-spaniel. 
Two GenTLemen oF Verona, lil. I, 271. 
Tuery use to shear their hinder-parts, that so they may 
be the less annoyed in swimming. 
Topsell, ** Four-footed Beasts,” p. 122. 
Wiru these dogs we fetch out of the water such fowl as 
be stung to death by any venomous worm. 
Ibid., p. 134. 
Wax. 
Wax is the drasts [dregs] of honey, and within the 
substance thereof be gathered the liquors of honey meddled 
with the drasts of Wax. ‘Tables be filled and dressed with 
Wax, simple or coloured, and therein be letters and divers 
figures and shapes written or planed by the office of 
pointels [points]. And for divers uses linen cloths be 
waxed. And Wax keepeth and saveth books from rain 
and from water. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xix. § 61. 
He’s a man of wax. 
Romeo anp JULIET, i. 3, 75. 
I cannot blame you for loving of Sophos ; 
Why, he’s a man as one should picture him in Wax. 
“Wily Beguiled.” 
O root! O leg! O hand! O body! face! 
By Jove, it is a little man of Wax! 
Nat. Field, “A Woman is a Weathercock,” i, 2. 
WuEen he is in his scarlet clothes, he looks like a man 
of Wax, and J had as lief have a dog 0’ Wax; I do not 
think but he lies in a case o’ nights. 
Ibid, “Amends for Ladies,” iii, 3. 
Weasel. 
As You Lixe Ir, i. 5, 13, 
Tue Weasel is as it were a long mouse. This beast 
hath a guileful wit, and nourisheth her kittens, and beareth 
