70 SHAKESPEARE'S [COPPER. 



the hook with his fins, and letteth it not pass till he have 



gnawn the meat. Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xiii. 29. 



FENNEL was commonly eaten with Conger. 



Ben Jonscn, "Bartholomew Fair," and "Philaster." 



Copper. 



i. KING HENRY IV., iii. 3, 162. 



V. Brass. 



COPPER is lately not found, but restored again to light. 

 Strangers have most commonly the governance of our mines. 



Holinsked, "Description of England," p. 238. 



Coral. 



Full fathom five thy father lies ; 

 Of his bones are coral made. 



TEMPEST, i. 2, 397. 



CORAL is gendered in the Red Sea, and is a tree as long 

 as it is covered with water ; but anon as it is drawn out 

 of water and touched with air, it turneth into stone. 

 Witches tell that this stone withstandeth lightning. His 

 might and virtue is wonderful, for it putteth off lightning, 

 whirlwind, tempest and storms from ships and houses that 

 it is in. And it is double white and red, and is never 

 found passing half a foot long. And the red helpeth 

 against the fiend's guile and scorn, and against divers 

 wondrous doing, and multiplieth fruit, and speedeth begin- 

 ning and ending of causes and of needs. 



Bartholomew (Berthelei), bk xv. 33. 



[Sir Thomas Browne (" Vulgar Errors," bk. ii. ch. v.) f doubts 

 whether Coral be soft under water, and adds that " a gentleman 

 caused a man to go down into the sea no less than a hundred 

 fathom to see if it were so." Truly there were divers in those 

 days ! Further (bk. v. ch. xxiii.) he says : " Though Coral 

 doth properly preserve and fasten the teeth in men, yet it is 

 used in children to make an easier passage for them, and for 

 that intent is worn about their necks."]. 



