84 SHAKESPEARE'S [DEW-BERRY. 



Dew-berry. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. I, 169. 



Also in Marlow's "Dido, Queen of Carthage," iv, 5 



[The Dew-berry is the Rubus ccesius, or heath bramble. The 

 commentators explain this word as either raspberry or goose- 

 berry.] 



Diamond. V. Adamant. 



DIAMOND that will receive but one form. 



"Euphues' Golden Legacie." 



THE third part [of Ind] toward the Septentrion is full 

 cold ; so that for pure cold and continual frost, the water 

 becometh crystal. And upon the rocks of crystal grow the 

 good diamonds that be of trouble colour. Yellow crystal 

 draweth colour like oil. And they be so hard that no man 

 may polish them. And men find many times hard Diamonds 

 in a mass, that comet h out of gold, when men pure it and 

 fine it out of the mine ; when men break that mass in 

 small pieces. And they grow many together, one little, 

 another great. And they grow together male and female. 

 And they be nourished with the dew of heaven. And they 

 engender commonly and bring forth small children, that 

 multiply and grow all the year. I have oft times assayed 

 that if a man keep them with a little of the rock, and 

 wet them with May-dew often-times, they shall grow every 

 year ; and the small will wax great. For right as the 

 fine pearl congealeth and waxeth great of the dew of 

 heaven, right so doth the very Diamond. And men shall 

 bear the Diamond on his left side ; for it is of greater 

 virtue then, than on the right side. For the strength of 

 their growing is toward the North, that is the left side of 

 the world ; and the left part of man is when he turneth 

 his face toward the East. He that beareth the Diamond 

 upon him, it giveth him hardiness and manhood, and it 

 keepeth the limbs of his body whole. It giveth him victory 

 of his enemies in play and in war (if his cause be rightful) ; 

 and it keepeth him that beareth it in good wit ; and it 

 keepeth him from strife and riot, from sorrows and from 

 enchantments, and from fantasies and illusions of wicked 



