106 SHAKESPEARE'S [ERINGO. 



cheerful of body and of speech ; and helps in tempests. 

 Also it makes the memory good. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. v. 113. 



IF any one carries an Emerald under his tongue, straight- 

 way he will prophesy. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of the Virtues of Stones." 



Eringo or Eryngo (/<?., Sea-holly). 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, v. 5, 23. 



THE roots condited or preserved with sugar, as hereafter 

 followeth, are exceeding good to be given unto old or aged 

 people that are consumed and withered with age, and which 

 want natural moisture ; they are also good for other sorts 

 of people that have no delight or appetite to venery, 

 nourishing and restoring the aged, and amending the defects 

 of nature in the younger. 



The manner to condite Eringoes : 



Refine sugar fit for the purpose, and take a pound of it, 

 the white of an egg, and a pint of clear water ; boil them 

 together and skim it, then Jet it boil until it be come to 

 good strong syrup, and when it is boiled, as it cooleth, add 

 thereto a saucer-ful of Rose-water, a spoon-ful of cinnamon- 

 water, and a grain of musk, which have been infused 

 together the night before, and now strained ; into which 

 syrup being more than half cold, put in your roots to 

 soak and infuse until the next day ; your roots being 

 ordered in manner hereafter following : These your roots 

 being washed and picked, must be boiled in fair water by 

 the space of four hours, until they be soft, then must they 

 be pilled clean, as ye pill parsnips, and the pith must be 

 drawn out at the end of the root ; and if there be any 

 whose pith cannot be drawn out at the end, then you 

 must slit them, and so take out the pith ; these you must 

 also keep from much handling, that they may be clean ; 

 let them remain in the syrup till the next day, and then 

 set them on the fire in a fair broad pan until they be very 

 hot, but let them not boil at all ; let them there remain 

 over the fire an hour or more, removing them easily in 

 the pan from one place to another with a wooden slice. 

 This done, have in a readiness great cap or royal papers, 



