2 1 4 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



Shakspere would seem to have held the latter opinion, 

 if the fruit of the c&sius be really intended, since he 

 possibly used the name as more euphonious than 

 " blackberry," or equivalent to it, as done by Lyte, in 

 his old Herbal, a work which Shakspere would have 

 access to. Titania is giving her gracious behest to the 

 four fairies : 



" Be kind and courteous to this gentleman, 

 Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes : 

 Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, 

 With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries." 



Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. I . 



The derivation of the name "dewberry" is uncertain. 

 Certainly the first part is not referable in any degree to 

 " dew," the morning moisture upon the grass. Nor does 

 it appear, as conjectured by some, to be from the Anglo- 

 Saxon name of the dove, an idea founded upon the 

 colour of the ripened fruit. Dr. Prior's researches point 

 rather to its being a sort of descendant of " theve-thorn," 

 literally a low or inferior sort of bramble, the word 

 employed by Wiclif in the apologue, Judges ix. 14. Over 

 casius there is no difficulty. Csesius is the Latin repre- 

 sentative of the famous old Greek word yXavicoe, so rich 

 in association, and which is so happily preserved in one 

 of Kingsley's most delightful legacies to people who have 

 learned that first and finest of the fine arts, the art of 

 thankfulness to men of genius ; and in the appellation of 

 that charming shore-plant, the Glaucium luteum, or "sea- 

 side yellow poppy." The primary or fundamental sense 



