320 SHAKESPEARE'S [TURTLE. 



THE Turquoise is formed beyond the farthest parts of 

 India among the inhabitants of the mountain Caucasus, [and 

 in] Carmania. They be found in icy cliffs hardly accessible, 

 where you shall see them bearing out after the manner of 

 bosses like unto eyes. Holland's Pliny, bk. xxxvii. ch. viii. 



A TRUE wife should be like a Turquoise stone, clear in 

 heart in her husband's health, and cloudy in his sickness. 



Alex Nicholas, "Discourse of Marriage and Wiving," 

 ch. xiv. 1 8. 



AND true as Turquoise in the dear lord's ring 

 Look well or ill with him. 



Ben Jonson, " Sejanus," i. I. 



THE Turquoise, which who haps to wear 

 Is often kept from peril. 



Drayton, " Muses' Elysium." 



THE Turquoise doth move, when there is any peril pre- 

 pared to him that weareth it. 



Edw. Fenton, " Secret Wonders of Nature." 



THE Turquoise is likewise said to take away all enmity, 

 and to reconcile man and wife. Thos. Nicols, "Lapidary." 



[These three quotations are from Steevens' notes to the 

 passage in " Merchant of Venice."] 



Turtle, Turtle-dove. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 154. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii. 3, 44. 



i. KING HENRY VI., ii. 2, 30. 



THE Turtle hath that name of the voice, and is a simple 

 bird as the culvour, but is chaste, far unlike the culvour, 

 and if he loseth his make [i.e., mate], he seeketh not com- 

 pany of any other, but goeth alone, and hath mind of the 

 fellowship that is lost, and groaneth alway, and loveth and 

 chooseth solitary places, and flieth much company of men 



