GRASS.] NATURAL HISTORY. 135 



Grape. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ii. I, 73. 



As You LIKE IT, v. I, 39. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. I, 170. 



THERE is a kind of black Grape named Inerticula, as a 

 man would say dull and harmless; but they that so called 

 it might more justly have named it The sober Grape ; 

 the wine made thereof is very commendable when it is old, 

 howbeit nothing hurtful, for never makes it any man 

 drunk ; and this property hath it alone by itself. 



Hollands Pliny, bk. xiv. chs. ii., iii. 



GRAPES may be kept the whole year. Take the meal 

 of mustard-seed, and strew in the bottom of any earthen 

 pot well leaded ; whereupon you shall lay the fairest 

 bunches of the ripest Grapes, the which you shall cover 

 with more of the foresaid meal, and lay upon that another 

 sort of Grapes, so doing until the pot be full. Then shall 

 you fill up the pot to the brim with a kind of sweet wine 

 called must. The pot being very close covered shall be 

 set into some cellar or other cold place. The Grapes you 

 may take forth at your pleasure, washing them with fair 

 water from the powder. 



Gerard's " Herbal," bk. ii. ch. cccxxiii. 



Gorse. 



TEMPEST, iv. I, 180. 

 [Distinguished from " furze."] 



^. Furze. 



Grass. 



GRASS cometh of the green, and is pleasing in sight, and 

 liking to beasts in pasture and meat, and comforteth the 

 sick in doing, for as in roots so in herbs and Grass be 

 many manner virtues. Herbs and Grass love stern weather, 

 rain and great showers, for heat and colour of herbs need 

 much moisture. Hounds know this herb, and eat it to 

 purge themselves, but they do it so privily, that unneath 

 men may spy it. Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xvii. 76. 



