

i 4 SHAKESPEARE'S [APPLE. 



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 following 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, Pomewater, Codling, Carraway, Leather-coat, 

 Lording, Pippin, Bitter-sweet, and Crab (^.^.)-] 



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. i, 169. 



Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks. 



KING RICHARD II., iii. "4, 29. 



