no SHAKESPEARE'S [FILBERT. 



I DO look now for a Spanish Fig, or an Italian salad 

 daily. Webster, " Vittoria Corrombona." 



POISONED! A Spanish Fig 

 For the imputation. 



Ibid., "Duchess of Malfi," ii. 3. 



A LADDER made of the wood of a Fig-tree hath a mar- 

 vellous property ; for if flesh in the seething thereof be 

 often stirred therewith, or if it be in the pot while it is 

 seething, it makes the flesh to be sooner sodden. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. x. 98. 



Filbert. 



TEMPEST, ii. 2, 175. 



A CATALOGUE of the best Filberts : 

 White) A , 

 Red J Avelans ' 

 Large Hazel. 

 Long, Thin, and Great Round Nuts. 



Evelyn, " Kalendarium Hortense. ; ' 



THEY engender much ventosity, if they be ate with the 

 small skins ; therefore to take away the grief, it is good 

 to blanch them in hot water. The skin thereof meddled 

 with honey helpeth against falling of hair, and maketh hair 

 grow in the body. Bartholomew (BertMet), bk. xvii. 109. 



A SUPERSTITIOUS notion prevails with the common people, 

 that if it rains about the time of Midsummer Eve, the 

 Filberts will be spoiled that season. 



Brand's " Popular Antiquities," vol. i. p. 253. 



IF it be rubbed on the heads of boys who have eyes of 

 different colours, it takes away the diversity. It helps 

 against venom and bites, and especially with figs and rue 

 against the punctures of scorpions. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. ch. cccxiii. 



