248 SHAKESPEARE'S [PLUM-TREE. 



bears the same about them. And Mizaldus the writer hereof 

 saith that he doth hear that it is to be found the same 

 day under the root of Plantain ; which I know to be of 

 a truth, for I have found them the same day under the 

 root of Plantain, which is especially and chiefly to be found 

 at noon. Lupton, "Notable Things," bk. i. 59. 



Plum-tree. 



ii. KING HENRY VI., ii. I, 97. 



OF the Plum-tree is niany manner of kind ; but the 

 Damascene [Damson] is the best that cometh out of 

 Damask. Only of this tree droppeth and cometh glue and 

 fast gum. Physicians say that it is profitable to medicine, 

 and for to make ink for writers' use. 



Bartholomew {Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 125. 



THERE are divers sorts of Plums, the Damson, the 

 Apricot, the Pear-Plum, the Wheaten Plum, the Levant 

 Plum, the White Shrag, the Bullace, the Sloes, the Snages, 

 besides other strange Plums that grow in other countries 

 to us unknown. 



Batman's addition to Bartholomew^ bk. xvii. 125. 



[Tusser, at the end of " January's Abstract," mentions be- 

 sides some of the above Plums, the Cornet-Plum, and Green or 

 Grass-Plums. 



References to Plum-broth, Plum-porridge, or Plum-pottage, 

 or, in other words, Plum-pudding, are common enough.] 



Pole-cat. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. I, 29. 



THE Pole-cat stinks very badly, especially when it is 

 angered. Like the badger it has short legs on the left 

 side, and longer ones on the right. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 113. 



Pome-water. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 2, 4. 



V. Apple. 



