186 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHA KESPEARE. 
nourisheth it: and the elements once out of it, it 
transmigrates. 
Lepidus. What colour is it of ? 
Antony. Of its own colour too. 
Lepidus . ’Tis a strange serpent. 
Antony. ’Tis so. And the tears of it are wet. 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. Scene 7. 
Othello. If that the earth could teem with woman’s 
tears, 
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile: — 
Othello, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Hamlet. Woul’t drink up Esil ? eat a crocodile ? 
Hamlet, Act v. Scene 1. 
TORTOISE. 
Prospero. Come forth, I say ; there’s other business 
for thee : 
Come, thou tortoise! 
The Tempest, Act i. Scene 2, 
Romeo. ...... 
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, 
Romeo and Juliet, Act v. Scene 1. 
ALLIGATOR. 
Romeo . An alligator stuff’d and other skins 
Of ill-shaped fishes; 
Romeo and Juliet, Act v. Scene 1. 
