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maketh men insuperable, and maketh a man gracious and 
steadfast, and victor, wise and ready and cunning in plea, 
and accordeth friends, and quencheth thirst in the mouth. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi.'§ 17 
Caraway. 
We will eat a last year’s pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of 
caraways, and so forth, : 
* ii, Kine Henry IV., v. 3, 3- 
[Whether “Caraways” is a kind of apple, or the well-known 
seeds, the learned commentators on Shakespeare have left -un- 
decided. To the many references in Steevens’ Shakespeare may 
be added Dekker’s “ Bankrupt’s Banquet” and Heywood’s “Fair 
Maid of the West,” in both which places the seeds are alluded 
to. Possibly Caraway-seeds were to be eaten with the pippin 
to correct its crudity, for Gerard says that they are very good 
for the stomach, help digestion, assuage and dissolve all windi- 
ness (“ Herbal,” s.v.). ; 
Sir John Neville at the marriage of his daughter in 1530 
provided among a great quantity of other spices ‘1 pound of 
Caraways” for one shilling.] 
Carbuncle. 
A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, 
Were not so rich a jewel. 
CortoLanus, i. 4, 55. 
