236 SHAKESPEARE'S [PEA. 



her whole body is hidden, and when she sees no one, she 

 thinks that no one sees her. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. 98. 



PARTRIDGES do so fortify and impale their nests with 

 thorns and twigs of shrubs and bushes, that they be 

 sufficiently fenced against the invasion of wild beasts. 

 Partridges live 16 years. Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. xxxiii. 



IN Paphlagonia Partridges have two hearts. 



Ibid.) bk. xi. ch. xxxvii. 



SOME creatures there be that will never be fat, as the 

 hare and Partridge. uid. 



Pea. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2, 316. 



THE great Pease is called Roman Pease, or Garden Pease, 

 of some, Branch-Pease, French Pease, and Rouncivals. 



Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



[Rouncivals, Tusser tells us (October's " Husbandry," st. 30, 

 and November, st. 7), were gray Pease. He mentions also 

 Hastings (October, st. 32, margin, and November, st. 7) and 

 Fulhams (October, ut supra], A dish of buttered Pease is 

 mentioned in the Interlude of " The Trial for Treasure," and 

 in Greene's " Quip for an Upstart Courtier." 



White Pease-pottage consisted of boiled white Pease with 

 butter and verjuice and a little fine powder of March, and was 

 served upon sops (second part of the " Good Huswife's Jewel," 

 p. 26), and permission is accorded to boil porpoise and seal in 

 your Pease. 



The price of early Pease is given by Middleton as ten groats 

 the cod ("Blurt, Master Constable," iii. 3, 123), or four nobles 

 a peck may be nearer the mark (Dekker's " Bachelor's 

 Wedding."] 



Peach. 



[Shakespeare only uses " Peach-coloured."] 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 3, 12. 

 ii. KING HENRY IV., ii. 2, 19. 



[To the four sorts described by Gerard (viz., the White, the 

 Red, the d'Avant, and the Yellow), Johnson (1633) adds those 

 " choice ones " to be had from his friend Mr. Millen in Old 



