3oo SHAKESPEARE'S [SUGAR. 



MANY have been helped that have had foul and leprous 

 faces, only with the washing the same with distilled water 

 of Strawberries ; the Strawberries first put into a close glass, 

 and so putrified in horse-dung. 



Lupton's "Notable Things," bk. iii. 82. 



[Strawberries were eaten with cream and sugar, or with claret 

 and sugar, in the Continental fashion, according to Dr. Hart 

 (" Diet of the Diseased," p. 60), where he orders them to be 

 taken before other food.] 



Sugar. 



i. KING HENRY IV. ii., 4, 25. 

 LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2, 231. 



[The finest Sugar came from Barbary (Beaumont and Fletcher's 

 " Beggar's Bush," iv. 3, " Webster's " Northward Ho !" ii. i, 

 and Martian's "What You Will," ii. 2, 83). Parmesan Sugar 

 was also a costly luxury (Chapman, " The Ball," Act iii.). The 

 practice of drinking Sugar with wine was exclusively English, 

 according to Fynes Moryson. There are frequent allusions 

 to it, e.g. : 



Fill us of your nippitate, sir, 



But hear ye, boy ? 

 Bring Sugar in white paper, not in brown. 



"Look about You." sc. 21. 



A pound and a half of sugar cost in 1555 is. 7|d. (Brand's 

 "Popular Antiquities," vol. i. p. 425, note.) 



Sugar will make a man kind (Brand, vol. ii. p. 95, note).] 



Sugar-candy. 



i. KING HENRY IV., iii. 3, 180. 



HE'S a mere stick of Sugar-candy 

 You may look quite through him. 



Webster, "Duchess of Malfi," iii. i. 



Sugar-sop. 



[Name of a servant in "Taming of the Shrew," iv. i, 95. 

 A sweetmeat in Beaumont and Fletcher's " Monsieur 

 Thomas," ii. 3.] 



Sweet Marjoram. V. Marjoram. 





