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Fable - a short story which tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this type.
"...The Poets, and the ancient devisors of Fables, do speak much of that, Hydra Lernaea which was one of Hercules labors to overcome..."
Faeces - Refuse.
"...The Dregs and Faeces of of the Wine must be buried again, and the Spirits be Distilled out as before, and reserved by themselves..."
See: Deadly Nightshade, Belladonna, Hypnoticon, Solanum Manicon, Stramonium
"...I have done it often. I infused in a glass of wine one drachm of the root of an herb we call Belladonna, Fair Lady, not bruising it too much..."
Falcon - A hawk; but appropriately, a hawk trained to sport, as in falconry, which see. It is said that this name is, by sportsmen, given to the female alone; for the male is smaller, weaker and less courageous, and is therefore called tircelet or tarsel. This term, in ornithology, is applied to a division of the genus Falco, with a short hooked beak and very long wings, the strongest armed and most courageous species, and therefore used in falconry.
"...For Hawks do not only couple with their own kind, but with Falcons, Buzzards, and Eagles of diverse kinds, as also with most of those fowls that live upon the prey and spoil of other birds, and according to the diversity of those kinds , diverse kinds of Hawks are generated..."
