212 SHAKESPEARE'S [MUSK-ROSE. 



Musk-rose. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, 252. 



[The Musk-rose was a moss-rose. Gerard describes and 

 engraves several species.] 



Mussel. 



TEMPEST, i. 2, 462. 



THE Mussel is the male of the whale (q.v.). There are 

 Mussels which are shell-fish, and from their milk oysters 

 breed. The Mussel and the whale are examples of friend- 

 ship, for as the whale's eyes through the great weight of 

 its brows are closed, the Mussel swims before it and points 

 out those things which might be harmful to its bulk, and 

 the Mussel takes the place of eyes for the whale. This 

 sea-mussel which precedes the whale has no teeth, but 

 bristles instead. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. 57. 



[Two distinct fishes are evidently here described, but the 

 habits of both are interesting. The engraving is of a shell-fish 

 like a whelk. 



Mussels were seethed or boiled in their shells (second part 

 of "The Good Huswife's Jewel," p. 53).] 



Mustard. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, iv. 3, 22. 

 [Eaten with pancakes (As You LIKE IT, i. 2, 66).] 



SENVEY hight Sinapis [i.e., Mustard], and healeth smiting 

 of serpents and of scorpions, and overcometh venom of the 

 scorpions, and abateth tooth-ache, and cleanseth the hair, 

 and letteth the falling thereof. Bees love best the flowers 

 and haunt them, and nevertheless bees touch never flowers 

 of olive. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 155. 



IF it be drunk fasting, it makes the intellect good. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 436. 



IT helpeth those that have their hair pulled off; it 

 taketh away the blue and black marks that come of 

 bruisingS. Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. 



