126 SHAKESPEARE'S [GINGER. 



[The Gilliflower or Gillyvor is the pink or carnation, and is 

 to be distinguished from the Gillyflower of the wall, i.e., wall- 

 flower.] 



THE Gilliflower also, the skilful do know, 

 Doth look to be covered in frost and in snow: 

 The knot and the border, and rosemary gay, 

 Do crave the like succour for dying away. 



Tusser, " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," 

 ch. xxii. st. 22 : December's Husbandry. 



Ginger. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 3, 126. 

 MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 3, 6, 9. 



SOME Ginger is tame, and some is wild ; the wild Ginger 

 hath more sharper savour than hath the tame, and is more 

 sadder and faster, and not so white, but it breaketh more 

 sooner. And the more whiter it is, and the more new, 

 the more sharp it is and the more better. And Ginger is 

 kept three years in good might and virtue, but afterward 

 it waxeth dry, and worms eat and gnaw, and make holes 

 'therein and rotteth also for moisture thereof. Who that 

 purposeth to keep Ginger by long continuance of time shall 

 put Ginger among pepper, that the moisture of the Ginger 

 may be tempered and suaged by dryness of the pepper. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet], bk. xvii. 195. 



THERE are some who season Ginger with honey and 

 some with rob [a barbarous word signifying the juice of ^ 

 herbs or fruits defoccate Cooper's "Thesaurus"] and some 

 with water and salt ; and that, lest it putrefy ; and it is 

 convenient in food, and is eaten with fish and salt. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 525. 



GREEN Ginger will cure me of a grievous fit of the colic. 

 Beaumont and Fletcher, " Scornful Lady," iv. i . 



[For a race of Ginger (" Winter's Tale," iv. 3, 20), or raz< 

 (i. " King Henry IV.," ii. I, 26), which was probably cheap, a< 

 the Clown in the " Winter's Tale " says that he may beg it, 

 compare Greene's " Looking-Glass for London and England " 



