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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    [Before a wedding.] Let us dip our Rosemaries In one rich bowl of sack to this brave girl And to the gentleman. Jasper Miiyne, The City Match, v. I (1639). Ruby. Measure for Measure, ii. i, loi. Among these red gems, the Rubies otherwise called car- buncles challenge the principal place. Ihlland''s Pliny, bk. xxxvii. ch. 7. [So Mins/ieii's Dictionary, Ruby, v. Carbuncle, therefore we may suppose that the stones were considered to be identical.] V. Carbuncle. Ruddock. With fairest flowers. While summer iasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : the ruddock would With charitable bill,—O bill, sore-shaming Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument!—bring thee all this ; Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. Cymbeline, iv. 2, 218-29. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover, .\nd with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men ; Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf from thence, that's foe to men. For with his nails he'll dig them up again. Webster, White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona, Act. v. V. Redbreast.