POPPY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 249 



Poor-John. 



TEMPEST, ii. 2, 28. 



[Nares (Glossary, s.v) says that Poor - John was hake 

 salted and dried, and derives it from pauvre Jean, in preference 



to pauvre gens (Malone}^\ 



THE French carry into Italy dry fish called Poor- John 

 (brought to them by the English). 



Fynes Moryson, "Itinerary," part iii. p. 134. 



A SLOP of a rope-hauler is first broken to the sea in the 

 herring-man's skiff or cock-boat, where [he learns] to eat 

 Poor-John out of smutty platters, when he may get it, 

 without butter or mustard. Nasbe, "Lenten Stuff." 



THIS is a patent for the taking of Poor-John and barrel- 

 cod alive and so to preserve 'em in salt-water for the benefit 

 of the fish-mongers. Brome, "The Court-beggar," v. 2. 



WE thy old friends to thee unwelcome are, 



Poor-John and apple-pies are all our fare. 



No salmon, sturgeon, oysters, crab, nor conger. 



Sir John Harington^ " Epigrams," bk. ii. 50. 



Poperin-pear. 



ROMEO AND JULIET, ii. i, 38. 



V. Pear. 

 Popinjay. 



i. KING HENRY IV., i. 3, 59. 



V. Parrot. 



POPINJAY or parrot. 



Minsheu's Dictionary, s.v. 



THE parrot, the Popinjay, Philip-sparrow, and the cuckoo. 

 Nashe, "Lenten Stuff"; and cf. Nares' Glossary. 



Poppy. 



OTHELLO, iii. 3, 330. 



THIS seed is good to season bread with. 



Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



