An horshowe so great]
—estryge, i. e. ostrich: horshowe, i. e. horse-shoe.—In Struthiocamelus, a portion of that strange book Philomythie, &c., by Tho. Scot., 1616, a merchant seeing an ostrich, in the desert, eating iron, asks—
“What nourishment can from those mettals grow?
The Ostrich answers; Sir, I do not eate
This iron, as you thinke I do, for meate.
I only keepe it, lay it vp in store,
To helpe my needy friends, the friendlesse poore.
I often meete (as farre and neere I goe)
Many a fowndred horse that wants a shooe,
Seruing a Master that is monylesse: