264 SHAKESPEARE'S [RUBY. 



[BEFORE a wedding.] Let us dip our Rosemaries 

 IN one rich bowl of sack to this brave girl 

 And to the gentleman. 



Jasper Mayne, "The City Match," v. i (1639). 



Ruby. 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. I, 101. 



AMONG these red gems, the Rubies otherwise called car- 

 buncles challenge the principal place. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxxvii. ch. 7. 



[So Minsheu's Dictionary, " Ruby, v. Carbuncle," therefore we 

 may suppose that the stones were considered to be identical.] 



V. Carbuncle. 

 Ruddock. 



With fairest flowers, 



While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, 

 I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shalt not lack 

 The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor 

 The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor 

 The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 

 Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : the ruddock would 

 With charitable bill, O bill, sore-shaming 

 Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie 

 Without a monument ! bring thee all this ; 

 Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, 

 To winter-ground thy corse. 



CYMBELINE, iv. 2, 218-29. 



CALL for the robin- redbreast and the wren 



Since o'er shady groves they hover, 



And with leaves and flowers do cover 



The friendless bodies of unburied men ; 



Call unto his funeral dole 



The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole 



To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm 



And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; 



But keep the wolf from thence, that's foe to men, 



For with his nails he'll dig them up again, 



Webster, " White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona," Act. v. 



V. Redbreast. 



