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The Animal-Lore of Shalcspeare’s Time. 
His yong ones being hurt within the eies, 
He helpes them with the herbe calcedonies.” 
{Love’s Martyr , p. 122.) 
Drayton, in reference to the habit of feeding during 
flight, in his account of the effect produced upon various- 
creatures by the approaching Deluge, writes:— 
“ The swift-wing’d swallow feeding as it flies. 
With the fleet martlet thrilling thro’ the skies, 
Feeling th’ unusual moisture of the air, 
Their feathers flag, into the ark they come, 
As to the some rock or building, their own home/’ 
{Noah’s Flood.) 
In connexion with the herb-cure referred to in the last 
two lines of the quotation from Chester, it may be said 
that Reginald Scot, in his book on witchcraft, 1584, 
repeats with some caution statements as to the restorative 
effect of certain herbs:— 
“ And for that you shall not say that hearbs have no vertue, for 
that in this place I cite none, I am content to discover two or three 
small qualities and vertues, which are affirmed to be in hearbes; marry 
as simple as they be James and Jambres might have done much with 
them if they had had them. If you prick out a young swallowes eies,. 
the old swallow restoreth again their sight, with the application, they 
say, of a little celandine. Zanthus, the author of Histories, reporteth,. 
that a young dragon being dead, was revived by her dam, with an 
hearb called balim.” {Discovery of Witchcraft , p. 213, ed. 1654.) 
The heraldic Martin is always blazoned without legs. 
It was frequently borne as a charge by those 
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who took part in the Crusades, as indicating- 
the sacrifice of personal ease and comfort they were pre¬ 
pared to make. Guillim observes that— 
“ the martlet hath legs so exceeding short, that they can by no means 
go. And if perchance they fall upon the ground, they cannot raise 
themselves upon their feet, as others do, and so prepare themselves to 
flight. For this cause they are accustomed to make their nests upon 
rocks, and other high places, from whence they may easily take their 
