courser's
“hair, hath yet but life And not a serpent's poison— Which,
like the,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, i. 2.
187.
“Alludes to an old idle notion that the hair of a horse dropt
into corrupted water will turn to an animal”
(POPE)
. The fact is, the said hair moves like a living thing because a number of
animalculæ cling to it.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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