110 The Animal-Lore of ShaJcsjoeare’s Time. 
man named Banks. This docile animal was taught to 
perform a variety of feats : among other exploits, he is 
reported to have climbed up to the top of St. Paul’s, 
though whether he went up by the galleries within or 
over the dome is not recorded. “ Could the little horse 
that ambled on the top of St. Paul’s carry all the 
people?” (Webster, Northward Noe, iv. 1). “ He keeps 
more ado with this monster than ever Banks did with 
his horse ” (Ben Jonson, J Every Man out of his Humour, 
iv. 5). “ I’ll teach thee to turn me into Banks his horse 
and to tell gentlemen I am a jugler and can shew tricks” 
(Decker, Satiromastix). 
Shakspeare alludes to Marocco in Love's Labour Lost, 
i. 2 : “ How easy it is to put ‘ years ’ to the word 4 three,’ 
and study three years in two words, the dancing horse 
will tell you.” As to the future fate of this intelligent 
quadruped we read in Mr. Payne Collier’s Poetical 
Decameron, 1820, that “poor Marocco and his master 
were many years afterwards both burnt in Portugal, or, 
as others say in Borne, for having dealings with the 
devil.” Sir Walter Kaleigh, in his History of the World, 
seems to have had a sort of presentiment of the fate of 
poor Banks, for speaking of “ the divers kindes of unlawful 
magicke,” he says, 
“ And certainly if Bankes bad lived in elder times he would have 
shamed all the inchanters of the world, for whosoever was most famous 
among them could never master or instruct any beast as he did his 
horse.” 
Sir Kenelm Digby also mentions this animal, and 
observes:— 
“He that should tell an Indian, what feates Banks his horse would 
do; how he would restore a glove to the due owner, after his master 
had whispered that mans name in his eare ; how he would tell the 
just number of pence in any piece of silver coyne barely shewed him 
by his master, would make him, I beleeve, admire more at this learned 
beast, then we do at their docile elephantes, upon the relations we 
have of them. Whereas every one of us knoweth by what means his 
