336 SHAKESPEARE'S [WARDEN. 



tooth ; the same being burnt, pulverised and incorporate 

 with oil or wine serveth to anoint the heads of young 

 babes for to make the hair grow thick ; and in that 

 manner it is used to bring the hair again of elder folk, 

 when through some infirmity it is shed. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxiii. ch. xviii. 



IF an oak be set near unto a Walnut-tree, it will not 



Ibid., bk. xxiv. ch. i. 



Warden. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 20. 



FRUITS in Prime or yet lasting : Pears : Warden (to 

 bake) ; white, red and French Wardens (to bake or 

 roast), etc. 



Evelyns " Kalendarium Hortense," November and December. 



LEWES Warden (best without compare). 



Ibid., " Catalogue of Pears." 



WARDEN in mince-pies. 



" Good Huswife's Treasury." 



To conserve Wardens all the year in syrup. 



Second part of " The Good Huswife's Jewel/' p. 38. 



FOR tart-stuff either W 7 ardens, barberries, or damsons. 



" Good Huswife's Treasury," p. 7, a. 



I WOULD have him roasted like a Warden 

 In brown paper. 



Beaumont and Fletcher, " Cupid's Revenge," iv. 2. 



Wasp. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. i, 210, etc. 



HE is a political and flocking or gregal creature, subject 

 to monarchy, of a very quarrelsome disposition, and very 

 prone to choler. Isidore affirms that Wasps come out of 

 the putrefied carcase of asses, although he may be mis- 



