202 SHAKESPEARE'S [MASTIFF. 



Mastiff. 



KING HENRY V., iii. 7, 151. 



OR Bandog keeping the house or molossus. 



Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v. 



Medlar. 



As You LIKE IT, iii. 2, 125. 

 MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 3, 184. 

 ROMEO AND JULIET, ii. i, 36. 

 So also Middleton, "Women Beware Women," iv. 2, 100. 



[The prejudices of the nineteenth century will not allow the 

 popular name of the Medlar in the sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries to be recalled.] 



IF you graft the slips of a wilding or sour apple upon 

 the stock of a hawthorn, you shall have Medlars grow 

 thereof. This I have seen proved : therefore I affirm it 

 for a very truth. Lupton, " Notable Things," bk. x. 95. 



THE graft should be taken from the middle of the 

 tree ; for one from the top is faulty. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 294, 



THE fruit of the three-grain [Neapolitan] Medlar is 

 eaten both raw and boiled. These Medlars be oftentimes 

 preserved with sugar or honey. Moreover, they are 

 singular good for women with child ; for they strengthen 

 the stomach, and stay the loathsomeness thereof. 



Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. 



MEDLARS, the best : The Great Dutch, Neapolitan, and 

 one without stones. 



Evelyn, " Kalendarium Hortense," p. 274. 



Mermaid. 



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I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall. 



iii. KING HENRY VI., iii. 2, 186. 



V. Siren. 

 Milk. 



WHEN cow's Milk is first congealed, it is as it were a 

 stone, and that happeth when it is meddled with water. 

 Also when a child is nourished with hot Milk, his teeth 



