194 SHAKESPEARE'S [MALLOW. 



ordinarily kept dry in a thick mass, and as need requireth 

 is dissolved and given in wine ; .but some think that the 

 blood of the female duck is better than that of the Mal- 

 lard Or drake. Holland's Pliny, bk. xxix. ch. v. 



YOUR citizens' wives love green geese in spring, Mallard 

 and teal in the fall, and woodcock in winter. 



Webster, "Westward Ho!" i. I. 



[Mallards were boiled with cabbage or onions ("Good Hus- 

 wife's Handmaid," p. 5), or stewed (" The Good Huswife's 

 Jewel").] 



Mallow. 



TEMPEST, ii. i, 144. 



HE that is balmed with the juice of the hock [i.e., 

 Mallow hollyhock], meddled with oil may not be grieved 

 with stinging of bees. Also members balmed with juice 

 thereof be not bitten of attercops [i.e., spiders], nor stung 

 of scorpions. The broth thereof maketh sleep, if the face 

 be washed therewith, and the outer parts of the body. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xvii. 107. 



IF a man or woman sup off a small draught (though it 

 were no more but half a spoonful) every day of the juice 

 of any Mallow, it skills not which, he shall be free from 

 all diseases and live in perfect health. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xx. ch. xxi. 



[Mallows were eaten as a vegetable (cf. " The Good Hus- 

 wife's Handmaid," p. i, and Evelyn's "Acetaria," 40).] 



Malmsey. 



KING RICHARD III., i. 4, 161. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., ii. I, 42, etc. 



MALMSEY and muscadine were wines of Candia. 



Fynes Moryson, " Itinerary," part iii. 



THE Vintners of the Low Countries (I will not say of 

 London) do make of Cute and wine mixed in a certain 



