62 SHAKESPEARE'S [CHERRY. 



Cherry. 



KING HENRY VIII., v. I, 169. 



[Gerard (" Herbal," s.v.) reckons up the following sorts of 

 Cherries: English, Flanders, Spanish, Gascon (late- ripe), Chester, 

 double -flowered, barren double -flowered, bird's Cherry or black 

 grape Cherry, another bird's Cherry, common black Cherry, 

 dwarf Cherry, greater and lesser heart Cherry (or Luke Ward's 

 Cherry and the Naples Cherry), large black Cherry, agriot, large- 

 fruited dwarf, and dun-coloured Cherry, besides many other un- 

 named sorts. Later, he speaks of Kentish Cherries and Morella 

 Cherries, but he has no good word to say of any of them. 



Evelyn (" Sylva," ch. xx.) says that Cherries were said to 

 have been brought into Kent out of Flanders by Henry VIII.] 



As many several change of faces 



As I have seen carved upon a Cherry-stone. 



Webster's " Devil's Law Case," iii. 4. 



Chestnut. 



Do you tell me of a woman's tongue, 



That gives not half so great a blow to hear 



As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire ? 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 2, 208. 



A CASTEIN tempered with a little honey healeth at the 

 best biting of a wood hound, or man's biting. Also the 

 rinds and leaves burnt and made to powder, tempered with 

 vinegar and laid to a young man's head in a plaster-wise, 

 maketh hair increase, and keepeth hair from falling. 



Bartholomew (Bertkelet), bk. xvii. 88. 



THE Chestnut is next the oak one of the most sought 

 after by the carpenter and joiner. It hath formerly built 

 a good part of our ancient houses in the City of London, 

 as does yet appear. If water touch the roots of the 

 growing trees, it spoils both fruit and timber. The beams 

 made of Chestnut-tree have this property, that, being some- 

 what brittle, they give warning, and premonish the danger 

 by a certain crackling which it makes. 



Evelyn s " Sylva," bk. i. ch. viii. 



MAIDS, if you look to roast your Chestnuts well, 

 Observe first with a knife to wound the shell ; 

 If with unbroken skin it touch the fire, 

 'Twill break in pieces, and with noise retire. 



Heywootfs "Anna and Phillis," emb. 33. 



