80 SHAKESPEARE'S [CUCKOO-FLOWER. 



Gerard calls the Round-rooted Crow's-foot, or it may be the 

 " Cuckoo-bread," " Cuckoo-brood," or as Gerard calls it, " Cuckoo- 

 meat," i.e., the Oxalis acetosella. Gerard describes a variety 

 of this plant with yellow flowers, and says that it has its name 

 " because either the Cuckoo feedeth thereon, or by reason when 

 it springeth forth and flowereth the Cuckoo singeth most."] 



Cuckoo-flower. 



[See above and Lady-smock.] 



Currants. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 40. 



[Gerard only casually alludes to the Currant-bush which now 

 grows in England, of which, however, Johnson, in his appendix 

 to Gerard's " Herbal " gives a full description. These currants, 

 therefore, will be currants of Zante or Cephalonia, as Fynes 

 Moryson calls them.] 



THE black Currants are used in sauces, and so are the 

 leaves also by many. Parkinson's "Herbal," s.v. 



Cuttle. 



An you play the saucy cuttle with me. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., ii. 4, 139. 



CUTTLE-FISH is a kind of sea-fish, with a pointed snout, 

 with which they pierce and sink ships in the Atlantic Ocean. 



Minsheus 'Dictionary, s.v. 



ITS ink is so strong that when thrown on a lamp, men 

 seem to be Ethiopians. It conceives by the mouth like a 

 viper. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. ch. Ixxxi. 



Cypress. 



Cypress chests. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. i, 353. 



THIS Cypress-tree is formable and necessary to edifying 

 and building of towers and temples, and for other great 

 and pompous edifices. And for because it may not rot, 



