[383] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. iii. p. 42.
[384] Dyce’s “Glossary to Shakespeare,” p. 466.
[385] From Tibert, Tib was also a common name for a cat.
[386] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 41.
[387] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 183.
[388] A gibbe (an old male cat), Macou, Cotgrave’s “French and English Dictionary.”
[389] “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 360.
[390] “Vulgar Errors,” bk. iii. p. 21, 1852; bk. i. p. 321, note.
[391] Ovid (“Metamorphoses,” bk. xv. l. 411) speaks of its changes of color.
[392] Cuvier’s “Animal Kingdom,” 1831, vol. ix. p. 226.