[10] The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose Sable Armes Blacke as his purpose, did the night resemble When he lay couched in the Ominous Horse, Hath now this dread and blacke Complexion smear'd With Heraldry more dismall: Head to foote Now is he to take Geulles, horridly Trick'd

They talke of circles and of powerfull spells, Heeres heavenly art that all blacke art excells.

Such a reverend habit Should not give harbour to so blacke a falshood.

"Againe the dreadfull Cycones him dismay, And blacke Laestrigones, a people stout; Then greedie Scilla, under whom there bay Manie great bandogs, which her gird about; 540 Then doo the AEtnean Cyclops him affray, And deep Charybdis gulphing in and out; Lastly the squalid lakes of Tartarie, And griesly feends of hell him terrifie.

Heywood's I Edward IV.:"Commend me to blacke Luce, bouncing Bess, and lusty Kate, and the other pretty morsels of man's flesh.

There be diuers kinds of beasts, as namely blacke lyouns in great abundance, and apes also, and monkeis, and battes as bigge as our doues.

They haue their teeth blacked both men and women, for they say a dogge hath his teeth white, therefore they will blacke theirs.