[984] A king of Thrace who fed his horses with human flesh.
[985] "Birds called Diomedæ. Toothed they are, and they have eies as
red and bright as the fire: otherwise their feathers be all white.
Found they be in one place, innobled for the tombe and Temple of
Diomedes, on the coast of Apulia. Their manner is to cry with open
mouth uncessantly at any strangers that come aland, save only Grecians,
upon whom they wil seem to fawne and make signs of love ... as
descended from the race of Diomedes." Holland, X. 44.
[986] F. following Do. unnecessarily prints 'wee heare.'
[987] Bl. _creature_. F. first printed 'creator.'
[988] Disgrace attached to the elder because it was the tree on which
Judas hanged himself. F.
_George Peele_