2 SHAKESPEARE’S [ADAMANT. 
[Honey is put in opposition to “mortal Aconite” by Dekker 
in “The Devil’s Answer to Pierce Pennylesse.” 
Aconitum originated from the foam of Cerberus. V. Hey- 
wood’s “ Brazen Age.’’] 
Adamant. 
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, 
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, 
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre. 
Troius anp Cressipa, iii, 2, 184-6, 
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant ; 
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart 
Is true as steel; leave’ you your power to draw, 
And I shall have no power to follow you. 
Mripsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. 1, 195-9. 
Y. Diamond. 
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Apamas is a little stone of Ind, and is coloured as it 
were iron, and shineth as crystal; but it passeth never 
the quantity of a walnut. No thing overcometh it, neither | 
iron nor fire. And also it heateth never. But though it 
