Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The pepper-trees are great, and abound with Apes, who gather the pepper for the Indians gratis, brought thereunto by a wile of the Indians, who first gather some, and lay it on heaps, and then go away, at their return finding many the like heaps made by the emulous Apes. Purchas' Pilgrims, p. 457 (ed. 1616). Apple. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy ; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a codling when 'tis almost an apple. Twelfth Night, i. 5, 165-7. She's as like this as a crab's like an apple. King Lear, i. 5, 15-6. [Gerard engraves the foUowins; sorts of apples : The Pome- water, the Baker^s Ditch, the Queening or Queen of Apples, the Summer Pearmain, the Winter Pearmain. Shakespeare mentions or alludes to several sorts of apples, viz., Apple-john, Pomevvater, Codling, Carravvay, Leather-coat, Lording, Pippin, Bitter-sweet, and Crab (^.'t'.).] Apple-john. I am withered like an old apple-john. i. King Henry IV., iii. 3, 4-5. The prince once set a dish of apple-johns before him, and told him there were five more Sir Johns, and pulling off his hat, said: 'I will now take my leave of these six, dry, round, old, withered knights.' ii. King Henry TV., ii. 4, 4-9. [In Heywood's Fair Maid of the Exchange, Fiddle the clown takes it in snuff when he is called russeting and apple-john.] This apple will keep two years, but becomes very wrinkled and shrivelled. Steevens' note, ii. King Henry IV., ii. 4, 4. Apricock. Feed him with apricocks and dewberries. Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 1, 169. Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks. King Richard II., iii. 4, 29.