8 SHAKESPEARE'’S [ ANCHOVIES. 
Anchovies. 
Item, Anchovies and sack after supper. 2s. 6d. 
i, Kino Henry IV., ii. 4, 588-9. 
Ancuovies, 6 sh. I swear but a saucer full. 
Brome, “The Covent Garden Weeded.” 
He doth learn to make strange sauces, to eat Anchovies, 
Maccaroni, Bovoli, Fagioli, and Caviare, because he loves 
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em. Ben Fonson, “ Cynthia’s Revels,” ii. 3. 
Crem. For twelve pennyworth of Anchovies, eighteen- 
pence. 
Bess. How can that be? 
Ciem. Marry, very well, mistress; twelvepence Anchovies, 
and sixpence oil and vinegar. Nay, they shall have a saucy 
reckoning. Heywood's “Fair Maid of the West,” ii. 2. 
In midst of meat they present me with some sharp 
sauce or a dish of delicate Anchovies, or a caviare. 
“ Lingua,” ii. 1. 
He feeds now upon sack and Anchovies. 
G. Wilkins, ‘‘ Miseries of Enforced Marriage,” iii. 
_AncHovy (Gr. gyxpasixodoc) is a fish nearly like a sar- 
dine, so called because it has bile in its head—from e (in), 
xépac (head), and xoroc (bile). Minsheu’s Dictionary, s.v. 
Animal. 
Aut that 1s comprehended of flesh and of spirit of life 
and so of body and soul is called animal—a beast—whether 
it be airy as fowls that fly, or watery as fish that swim, 
or earthy as beasts that go on the ground and in fields, 
as men and beasts, wild and tame, or other that creep and 
glide on the ground. Some beasts have blood and some 
have none, as bees and all other beasts with rivelled bodies. 
But such beasts have other humour in stead of blood. 
It is said that in Ind is a beast wonderly shape[d], and 
is like to the bear in body and in hair and to a man in 
face. And hath a right red head, and a full great mouth, 
and an horrible, and in either jaw three rows of teeth 
