330 SHAKESPEARE'S [VIOLET. 



covetously and fret the grapes of the Vineyard, and namely 

 when the keepers and wardens be negligent and reckless ; 

 and it profiteth not that some unwise men doth, that close 

 within the Vineyard hounds, that be adversaries to foxes, 

 for few hounds so closed waste and destroy more grapes 

 than many foxes should destroy, that come and eat 

 thievishly. Therefore wise wardens of Vineyards be full 

 busy to keep that no swine nor tame hounds nor foxes 

 come into the Vineyard. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 180. 



[Holinshed ("Description of Britain," p. in) notes that 

 there were enclosed parcels [i.e., of land] almost in every 

 abbey yet called the vineyards, that Smithfield in the reign of 

 King Stephen was a profitable vineyard, and that the Isle of 

 Ely was in the first times of the Normans called L'Isle des 

 Vignes.] 



Violet. 



VIOLET is a little herb in substance, and the flower 

 thereof smelleth most, and so the smell thereof abateth the 

 heat of the brain, and refresheth and comforteth the spirits 

 of feeling, and maketh sleep. And the more virtuous the 

 flower thereof is, the more it bendeth the head thereof 

 downward. Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 191. 



VERY many by these Violets receive ornament and 

 comely grace ; for there be made of them garlands for the 

 head, nosegays and posies ; yea gardens themselves receive 

 by these the greatest ornament of all, chiefest beauty and 

 most gallant grace ; for they admonish and stir up a man 

 to that which is comely and honest. The seed is good 

 against the stinging of scorpions. 



Gerard's " Herbal," s.v., where he describes the purple 

 garden Violet, the white, the double purple (or 

 white), the yellow (wild or mountain), and the dog 



Violet. 



I THINK of kings' favours as of a marigold flower, or 

 like the Violets in America, that in summer yield an 

 odoriferous smell, and in winter a most infectious savour. 



"A Knack to Know a Knave." 



