134 SHAKESPEARE'S [GOOSEBERRY. 



JOHN DE LA HAY held a parcel of land of Will. 

 Barneby Lord of Lastres in County Hereford, and was to 

 render thence 2od. yearly, and one Goose fit for the Lord's 

 dinner on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. 



B hunts "Jocular Tenures," 10 Edward IV., p. 8. 



[An old proverb: "Teach him a trick to shoe the goose" 

 ("Bacchus' Bounty," and "Parliament of Birds").] 



SOME hold an opinion that in over rank soils Goose- 

 dung doth so qualify the batableness [fertility] of the soil, 

 that their cattle is thereby kept from the garget, and sundry 

 other diseases, although some of them come to their ends 

 now and then by licking up of their feathers. 



Holinsbed) "Description of England," p. 222. 



Gooseberry. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., i. 2, 194. 



GOOSEBERRY, because they commonly make goose-sauce 

 with Gooseberries. Its flavour is like that of the green fig. 



Minsheu s Dictionary, s.v. 



IN English Gooseberry, and fea-berry in Cheshire. The 

 fruit is used in divers sauces for meat, as those that are 

 skilfull in cookery can better tell than myself. They are 

 used in broths instead of verjuice, which maketh the broth 

 not only pleasant to the taste, but is greatly profitable to 

 such as are troubled with a hot burning ague. They pro- 

 voke appetite. [The fruit must have been very small, as] 

 there is another whose fruit is almost as big as a small 

 cherry. These plants do grow in our London gardens and 

 elsewhere in great abundance. 



Gerard's " Herbal," bk. iii. ch. xxii. 



[Johnson (Gerard's " Herbal/' loc. cit.} mentions six sorts of 

 Gooseberries : the long green, the great yellowish, the blue, the 

 great, round red, the long red, and the prickly.] 



