238 SHAKESPEARE'S [PEAR. 



Pear. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. i, 178. 

 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. 5, loo. 



Poperin pear. 



ROMEO AND JULIET, ii. I, 38. 



FEW Pears weigh heavier than many apples, if they be 

 on a beast's back. And Pears have this property, that, if 

 they be sod with toadstools, they take away from them all 

 grief and malice. Powder or ashes of wild Pears drunken 

 helpeth against fungus, toadstools. Alway after eating of Pears, 

 wine shall be drunk, for without wine Pears be venom. 



Bartholomew (Bertkelet}, bk. xvii. 124. 



[Gerard (" Herbal," s.v.) names the following Pears : the 

 Catharine, the Jenneting, St. James, Pear Royal, the Bergamot, 

 the Quince Pear, the Bishop's, and the Winter; also of wild 

 Pears: 'the great and small Choke-Pears, the wild Hedge-Pear, 

 the wild Crab-Pear, the lousy Wild-Pear, and the Crow-Pear. 

 He states that all the garden Pears " before specified, and 

 many sorts more, and those most rare and good, are growing 

 in the ground of Master Richard Pointer, a most cunning and 

 curious graffer and planter of all manner of rare fruits, dwelling 

 in a small village near London, called Twickenham, and also 

 in the ground of an excellent graffer and painful planter, Mr. 

 Henry Banbury, of Tothill Street, near Westminster, and like- 

 wise in the ground of a diligent and most affectionate lover of 

 plants, Mr. Warner, near Horsely Down, by London." 



Malone says that the Poperin Pear came from Poperingue, 

 near Ypres, in French Flanders. 



Pear-pies are mentioned in Preston's " Tragedy of Cam- 

 by ses."] 



y. Warden. 



Pearl. 



As You LIKE TT, v. 4, 63. 



MARGUERITE (i.e., Pearl) is chief of all white precious 

 stones. It breedeth in flesh of shell-fish, and is sometime 

 found in the brain of the fish ; and is gendered of the dew 

 of heaven, the which dew shellfish receive in certain times 

 of the year. Of the which marguerites some be called 

 Unions, and have a convenable name, for only one is found, 

 and never two or more together. And those that be con- 

 ceived of the morrow [i.e., morning] dew be made dim with 

 the, air of the even-tide. And some be found kindly [i.e., 



