h'M C" A - : SHAKESPEARE'S 



[ADAMANT. 



[Honey is put in opposition to " mortal Aconite " by Dekker 

 in "The Devil's Answer to Pierce Pennylesse." 



Aconitum originated from the foam of Cerberus. V. Hey- 

 wood's " Brazen Age."] 



Adamant. 



As true as steel, 'as plantage to the moon, 

 As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, 

 As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 2, 184-6. 



You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant ; 

 But yet you draw not iron, for my heart 

 Is true as steel ; leave you your power to draw, 

 And I shall have no power to follow you. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, 195-9. 



V. Diamond, 





ADAMAS is a little stone of Ind, and is coloured as it 

 were iron, and shineth as crystal ; but it passeth never 

 the quantity of a walnut. No thing overcometh it, neither 

 iron nor fire. And also it heateth never. But though 





