Note 320 — ACT V.

Topsel in his account of the lion writes:—“Their sight and their smelling are most excellent, for they sleep with their eyes open, and because of the brightness of their eyes they cannot endure the light of fire, for fire and fire cannot agree: also their smelling (for which cause they are called Odorati) is very eminent, for if the lioness have committed adultery with the leopard the male discovereth it by the sense of his nose.”—History of Fourfooted Beasts, ed. 1658, p. 360.