PEACOCK.] NATURAL HISTORY. 237 



Street, i.e., Nutmeg (two sorts), Queen's, Newington, Grand 

 Carnation, Black, Mellicotton, Roman, Alberza, Island, and 

 Du Troy. Also of " that kind of Peach which some call 

 Nectarine, the Roman Red (the best of fruits), the Bastard 

 Red, the little dainty Green, the Yellow, the White, the Russet, 

 which is not so good as the rest." 



Evelyn (" Kalendarium Hortense ") gives the following : 

 Admirable, Alberge (Sir H. Capel's),' Alberge (small yellow), 

 Almond Violet, Bourdin, Belle Cheuvreuse, Elruge Nectarine 

 (excellent), Maudlin, Mignon, Morella, Musk Violet, Murrey 

 Nectarine, Nutmeg (white, red), Man Peach, Persique, Ram- 

 bullion, Sion (excellent), Orleans, Savoy Mellicotton, etc.] 



PEACHES, by making the belly slippery, cause other meats 

 to slip down the sooner. The kernel within the Peach- 

 stone stamped small, and boiled with vinegar until it be 

 brought to the form of an ointment, is good to restore and 

 bring again the hair. Gerard's "Herbal, 



s.v. 



To confect Peaches after the Spanish fashion. 



Second part of " Good Huswife's Jewel," p. 43. 



Peacock. 



i. KING HENRY VI., iii. 3, 6. 



His flesh is so hard that unneath [with difficulty] it 

 rotteth, and is full hard to seething. The Peacock is a 

 bird that loveth not his children ; for the male seeketh out 

 the female, and seeketh out her eggs for to break them, 

 and the female dreadeth that, and hideth busily her eggs, 

 lest the Peacock might soon find them. And the Peacock 

 hath foulest feet and rivelled [/.*., wrinkled]. And he 

 wondereth of the fairness of his feathers, and reareth them 

 up, as it were a circle about his head, and then he looketh 

 to his feet, and seeth the foulness of his feet, and, like as 

 he were ashamed, he letteth his feathers fall suddenly, and 

 all the tail downward, as though he took no heed of the 

 fairness of his feathers. And hath a voice of a fiend, head 

 of a serpent, pace of a thief. 



Bartholomew (Bertkelet), bk. xii. 31. 



BY his voice he frightens serpents, and drives away all 

 venomous animals, so that they dare not stay where his 

 voice is often heard. The Peacock when he ascends on 

 high betokens rain. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. 93. 



