136 The Animal-Lore of Shakspeares Time. 
they and the bottle-makers were formerly united into one company 
passeth my skill to conjecture. The best horns in all England, and 
freest to work without flaws, are what are brought out of this county to 
London, the shop-general of English industry.” ( Worthies of England , 
vol. i. p. 537.) 
Fuller, taking a line of Drayton’s Polyolbion , 
“ Set the hand-dog on the hull,” 
as his text, thus moralizes on the favourite amusement of 
bull-baiting:— 
“ It seems that both the gentry and country-folk in this shire 
[Somersetshire] are much affected with that pastime, though some 
scruple the lawfulness thereof. 1. Man must not be a barrater, to set 
the creatures at variance. 2. He can take no true delight in their 
antipathie, which was the effect of his sin. 3. Man’s charter of 
dominion empowers him to be a prince, but no tyrant, over the 
creatures. 4. Though brute beasts are made to be destroyed, they are 
not made to be tormented. Others rejoyn, that Grod gave us the crea¬ 
tures as well for our pleasure as necessity; that some nice consciences, 
that scruple the baiting of bulls, will worry men with their vexatious 
cruelties. All that I dare interpose is this, that the tough flesh of 
bulls is not onely made more tender by baiting, but also thereby it is 
discoloured from ox-beef, that the buyer be not deceived.” ( Worthies , 
vol. ii. p. 277.) 
That neat was a general term for oxen we learn from 
Shakspeare:— 
“ Leontes. Come, captain. 
We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain: 
And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf 
Are all call’d neat.” 
( Winter's Tale , i. 2, 123.) 
A young ox or bullock was called a slot, a young heifer 
a whie ,—names still used in Yorkshire. Page bye was a 
term applied in the northern counties of England to cows 
with white faces, having white spots or streaks. 
Shakspeare has no mention of the Antelope. Spenser 
classes this harmless creature with beasts of 
prey :■— 
Antelopes. 
