WILLOW. | NATURAL HISTORY. 343 
easily broken. Grains of Wheat chewed helpeth against the 
biting of a wode hound, for it draweth out the venom. 
Also bran of Wheat nourisheth little or else right nought. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 168. 
Whelp. 
i, Kinc Henry VIL, iv. 7, 35. 
Wuextps be the children of hounds, Hounds’ Whelps 
be whelped with sawing teeth though they be full small. 
And all beasts that have teeth like a saw and departed be 
gluttons and fight, as the hound, the wolf, the lion, the 
panther and such other ; and all such beasts gender imper- 
fect broods, and the cause is gluttony, for if she should 
abide until the Whelps were complete and perfect, they 
should slay the mother with strong sucking, and therefore 
it needeth that kind be hasty and speedful in such beasts. 
And authors command to take sucking Whelps wholesomely 
against venomous bitings, for such Whelps opened and laid 
hot to the biting of serpents draw out venom. And though 
they be melancholy beasts of quality and of complexion, 
yet they be quiver and swift by disposition of numbers, and 
be glad and merry, and play much, and that is because of 
their age. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 28. 
Wild-duck. 
i. Kinc Henry IV., ii. 2, 103, iv. 2, 20. 
V. Duck. 
Wild-Goose. 
i. Kino Henry IV., ii. 4, 1£2. 
V, Goose. 
Willow. 
OTHELLO, iv. 3, 28, etc. 
Wittow is a pliant tree and a nesh [soft], and according 
to binding and railing of vines and vine-branches. This 
tree hath no fruit but only seed or flower. And the seed 
thereof is of this virtue, that if a man drink of it, he shall 
get no sons, but only barren daughters. [Query, whether 
