6 . SHAKESPEARE’S [ALABASTER. 
somewhat blazing. And the female is nesh [soft]. Also 
this stone containeth and breedeth another stone within 
him. The virtue of this stone maketh a man sober, and 
augmenteth and increaseth riches, and so it doth love, and 
helpeth greatly to obtain and conquer victory and favour. 
If there be any man suspect of fraud of poisoning, if he be 
guilty, this stone put under his meat will not suffer him to 
swallow his meat, and if the stone be withdrawn, he shall 
not tarry to swallow his meat. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 39. 
Alabaster. 
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? 
Mercuant oF VENICE, i. 1, 83-4. 
Tuts stone helpeth to win victory and mastery. This 
gendereth and keepeth friendship. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 3. 
Almond. 
The parrot will not do more for an almond, 
Troitus anp Cressipa, v. 2, 193. 
[“ Almond for parrot” is a proverbial phrase so common as 
to need no reference. 
Almond milk was made of Almonds with neck of mutton, 
barley, herbs, and salt (“The Good House Wives Treasurie”). 
Almond butter was eaten in Lent, and also used as a cos- 
metic for the hands (Bex /Jonson’s “Staple of News,” and 
Shirley's (2) “ Andromana”). 
_ Paste of Almonds is also mentioned in the “Staple of News.”] 
Amber, [Lar. Electrum.] 
Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted. 
Love's Lazour’s Lost, iv. 3, 87, 
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery, 
TAMING OF THE SHREW, iv. 3, 58. 
ELECTRUM is a metal, and is more noble than other 
metals. And hereof be three manner of kinds—one is 
such, that when it runneth first out of the tree, it is 
fleeting and thin gum, but afterwards with heat or with 
cold it is made hard as a clear stone, as it were crystal. 
