8 SHAKESPEARE'S [ANCHOVIES. 



Anchovies. 



Item, Anchovies and sack after supper. 2s. 6d. 



i. KING HENRY IV., ii. 4, 588-9. 



ANCHOVIES, 6 sh. I swear but a saucer full. 



rome,-"The Covent Garden Weeded." 



HE doth learn to make strange sauces, to eat Anchovies, 

 Maccaroni, Bovoli, Fagioli, and Caviare, because he loves 

 'em. Ben Jonson, " Cynthia's Revels," ii. 3. 



CLEM. For twelve pennyworth of Anchovies, eighteen- 

 pence. 



BESS. How can that be ? 



CLEM. Marry, very well, mistress ; twelvepence Anchovies, 

 and sixpence oil and vinegar. Nay, they shall have a saucy 

 reckoning. Heywood's " Fair Maid of the West," ii. 2. 



IN midst of meat they present me with some sharp 

 sauce or a dish of delicate Anchovies, or a caviare. 



"Lingua," ii. i. 



He feeds now upon sack and Anchovies. 



G. WilkinS) " Miseries of Enforced Marriage," iii. 



ANCHOVY (Gr. f-y/c/oadt/coXoc) is a fish nearly like a sar- 

 dine, so called because it has bile in its head from v (in), 



(head), and ^oXoc (bile). Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v. 



Animal. 



ALL that is comprehended of flesh and of spirit of life 

 and so of body and soul is called animal a beast whether 

 it be airy as fowls that fly, or watery as fish that swim, 

 or earthy as beasts that go on the ground and in fields, 

 as men and beasts, wild and tame, or other that creep and 

 glide on the ground. Some beasts have blood and some 

 have none, as bees and all other beasts with rivelled bodies. 

 But such beasts have other humour in stead of blood. 



It is said that in Ind is a beast wonder ly shape[d], and 

 is like to the bear in body and in hair and to a man in 

 face. And hath a right red head, and a full great mouth, 

 and an horrible, and in either jaw three rows of teeth 



