272 SHAKESPEARE'S [SALMON. 



Salmon. 



KING HENRY V., iv. 7, 32. 



[It comes well to pass that he begins this course in a year 

 when there is so great plenty of excellent venisons and such 

 store of Salmons, that the like hath not been seen in the 

 Thames these forty years (" Chamberlain's Letters to Sir 

 Dudley Carleton," from A 'idiot's " Progress of King James I.," 

 vol. iii. p. 394). 



Half a Salmon cost 93. and a side of fresh Salmon 8s. in 

 1573, but, "You see this Salmon? it cost but sixpence" 

 (Rowley, "A Woman Never Vexed," Act. i.). 



Salmon was boiled in water with rosemary and thyme, and 

 a quart of strong ale, and a good deal of vinegar was put in 

 the broth (" The Good Huswife's Jewel," part ii. p. 25). Calvered 

 Salmon was a luxury (" The Alchemist," ii. 2).] 



Samphire. 



KING LEAR, iv. 6, 1 6. 



ROCK-SAMPHIRE groweth on the rocky cliffs at Dover, 

 Winchelsea (by Rye), about Southampton, [and] the Isle of 

 Wight. The leaves kept in pickle, and eaten in salads with 

 oil and vinegar, is a pleasant sauce for meat. 



Gerard's "Herbal," s.-v. 



Sapphire. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, v. 5, 75. 



SAPPHIRE is a precious stone, and is blue in colour, and 

 most like to heaven in fair weather and clear, and is best 

 among precious stones, and most precious, and most apt and 

 able to fingers of kings, for it lighteneth the body, and 

 keepeth and saveth limbs whole and sound. In the same 

 veins of Sapphire in the middle is a certain kind of car- 

 buncle found ; therefore many men ween that the Sapphire 

 is the carbuncle's mother. And the Sapphire hath virtue 

 to rule and accord them that be in strife, and helpeth 

 much to make peace and accord. Also it hath virtue to 

 abate unkind [unnatural] heat, for the Sapphire cooleth 

 much the heat of burning fevers, if it be hanged nigh the 

 pulse and the veins of the heart. Also it hath virtue to 

 comfort and to glad the heart. His virtue is contrary to 

 venom, and quencheth it every deal. And if thou put an 

 attercop [spider] in a box, and hold a very Sapphire of 



