352 SHAKESPEARE’S [WORM 
Woodcocks were baked (Dekher’s “‘ Raven’s Almanac”) an 
made into pies (Wedster’s ‘‘Westward Ho!”), and served o1 
buttered toast (Bex Jonson’s ‘‘ Epicure,” Middleton's ‘Nev 
Way to pay Old Debts ”).] 
Worm. 
A Worm is a beast that oft engendereth of flesh and o 
herbs, and gendereth oft of gall, and sometime of corruptior 
of humours, and sometime of meddling of male and female. 
and sometime of eggs, as it well appeareth of scorpions 
and of tortoises and newts. And worms come out of their 
dens in springing - time. Of Worms be many manner 
diverse kinds, for some be water-worms, and some be land- 
worms; and of those some be in herbs and in worts, as 
malshrags [caterpillars] and other such; and some be in 
trees, as tree-worms; and some in clothes, as moths; and 
some in flesh as maggots, that breed of corrupt and rotted 
moisture in flesh ; and some in beasts within and without, 
as long Worms in children’s wombs, and lice and nits in 
heads, and all such Worms breed and gender of corrupt 
humours in bodies of beasts within and without. And 
‘there be other Worms of the earth, which be long and 
round, nesh [soft] and smooth, as angle-twitches, and 
moles do hunt them under earth, and with angle-twitches 
fish is taken in waters, when fish-hooks be baited with such 
Worms instead of bait. And such Worms help against cramp, 
and against shrinking of sinews, and also against biting of 
serpents and against smiting of scorpions. And among 
Worms, some be foot-less, as adders and serpents, and some 
nave six feet, and some be full evil and malicious, and 
enemies to mankind, as serpents and other venomous 
Worms; and some Worms be round of body, and hath 
no sinews nor bones, great nor small, neither gristles, 
neither blood ;—and all such dieth if they be anointed 
with ‘oil, and do quicken again in vinegar. And some 
Worms gender and be gendered, and some be gendered 
and gender not, as the Salamander. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 115. 
Or earth-worms some are bred only in the earth, and 
others among plants, and in the bodies of living creatures, 
Worms are found to be very venomous in the kingdom of- 
Mogor, and the inhabitants there do stand in so great fear 
