Natural History In Shakespeare's Time
Subtitle: Being Extracts Illustrative Of The Subject As He Knew It
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780766189171
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Shakespeare
First sentence: GERARD, in his "Herbal," says that the poison of the broad-leafed and mountain wolf's-bane "is of such force that, if a man especially, and then next any four-footed beast, be wounded with an arrow or other instrument dipped in the juice hereof, they die within half an hour after, remediless"; but the winter wolf'-bane is not without his peculiar virtues.