14 SHAKESPEARE'S [ APPLE. 
THE pepper-trees are great, and abound with Apes, who 
gather the pepper for the Indians gratis, brought thereunto 
by a wile of the Indians, who first gather some, and lay 
it on heaps, and then go away, at their return finding 
many the like heaps made by the emulous Apes. 
Purchas “ Pilgrims,” p. 457 (ed. 1616). 
Apple. 
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a 
squash is before ’tis a peascod, or a codling when ’tis almost an apple. 
Tweirra Nicut, i. 5, 165-7. 
She’s as like this as a crab’s like an apple. 
Kine Lear, i. 5, 15-6. 
[Gerard engraves the following sorts of apples: The Pome- 
water, the Baker’s Ditch, the Queening or Queen of Apples, 
the Summer Pearmain, the Winter Pearmain. 
Shakespeare mentions or alludes to several sorts of apples, 
viz., Apple-john, Pomewater, Codling, Carraway, Leather-coat, 
Lording, Pippin, Bitter-sweet, and Crab (¢.v.).] 
Apple-john. 
I am withered like an old apple-john. 
i. Kine Henry IV.,, iii. 3, 4-5. 
The prince once set a dish of apple-johns before him, and told him 
there were five more Sir Johns, and pulling off his hat, said: ‘I will 
now take my leave of these six, dry, round, old, withered knights,’ 
i Kino Henry IV., ii. 4, 4-9. 
[In Heywood’s “Fair Maid. of the Exchange,” Fiddle the 
clown takes it in snuff when he is called ‘“russeting” and 
‘* apple-john.”’] 
Tus apple will keep two years, but becomes very 
wrinkled and shrivelled. 
Steevens’ note, ii, Kinc Henry IV., ii. 4, 4. 
Apricock. 
Feed him with apricocks and dewberries. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, iii. 1, 169. 
Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks. 
Kine Ricwarp IL, iii. 4, 29. 
