252 SHAKESPEARE'S [PUPPY. 



as live idly, but unto robustious and rustic people nothing 

 hurteth that filleth the belly. Gerard's "Herbal," s.v. 



[N.B. Gerard gives six illustrations of "melons or Pom- 

 pions," of which some resemble vegetable marrows, and others 

 water-melons.] 



Courtier. A GROAT 



My ordinary in Pompions baked with onions. 

 Peregrine. Do such eat Pompions? 

 Doctor. Yes, and clowns musk-melons. 



Brome, "The Antipodes," iv. 5. 



FOR ought I see Pompions are as good meat [as 

 asparagus] for such a hoggish thing as thou art. 



Ibid., " The f-paragus Garden," iii. 8. 



Puppy. 



Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iv. 4, 3. 



V. Whelp. 

 Purple (plant). 



HAMLET, iv. 7, 171. 



[The Purple orchis (orchis mas), which, according to Gerard, 

 Pliny, and other authorities, has certain wonderful properties, 

 derived by the doctrine of signatures from the shape of the 

 root, to which also the "grosser name" is to be ascribed.] 



Puttock. 



ii. KING HENRY VI., iii. 2, 191. 

 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. I, 68. 



A BUZZARD, a glede, Puttock or kite. 



Minsbeus Dictionary, s.v. Buzzard. 



[In the passage in ii. " King Henry IV." the Puttock is evi- 

 dently a kite, as also in Spenser's " Faery Queene," v. xii. 30 

 (quoted in N ares' Glossary).] 



Quail. 



TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. I, 57. 

 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 3, 37. 



[Latin, Coturnix (Minsheus and Cooper's Dictionaries).] 



CURLEWS hight coturnices, and hath that name of the 

 sound of the voice. These birds have guides and leaders 



