PUMPION.] NATURAL HISTORY. 251 



Pricket. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 2, 12, etc. 



A BUCK is, the first year, a fawn ; the second year, a 

 Pricket ; the third year, a sorrel ; the fourth year, a sore ; 

 the fifth, a buck of the first head ; the sixth year, a 

 complete buck. "The Return from Parnassus," ii. 5. 



Primrose. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 122 



V. Oxlip, Cowslip. 



Provencal Roses. 



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HAMLET, iii. 2, 288. 



OF Provence Roses there were various kinds ; e.g., the 

 Red Rose, the Damask Rose, and the Great Rose, or Rose 



of Holland. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. Rose, q.v. 



Prune. 



[As to stewed Prunes, they were usual refreshments in houses 

 of evil repute (i. " King Henry IV.," iii. 3, 128 ; " Merry Wives 

 of Windsor," i. I, 296; "Measure for Measure," ii. I, 92, etc.); 

 but prunes were also used by respectable people (" Winter's 

 Tale," iv. 3, 51). 



Damask Prunes (Lilly, " Mother Bombie," iii. 4) used in 

 porridge were dried damsons. 



Prunes were made into tarts (" The Good Huswife's 

 Treasury," p. 7).] 



Pumpion. 



This unwholesome humidity, this gross, watery pumpion. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii. 3, 44. 



PUMPIONS strangely hate oil, and love water. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 352. 



THE fruit of Pompions or melons boiled in milk and 

 buttered is a good wholesome meat for man's body. The 

 flesh or pulp of the same sliced and fried in a pan with 

 butter is also a good and wholesome meat ; but baked with 

 apples in an oven, it is food utterly unwholesome for such 



