70 SHAKESPEARE'S [COPPER. 
the hook with his fins, and letteth it not pass till he have 
gnawn the meat. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xiii. § 29. 
FENNEL was commonly eaten with Conger. 
Ben ‘fonson, “Bartholomew Fair,” and ‘ Philaster.” 
Copper. 
i. Kine Henry IV., iii. 3, 162. 
V. Brass. 
Copper is lately not found, but restored again to light. 
Strangers have most commonly the governance of our mines. 
Holinshed, ‘Description of England,” p. 238. 
Coral. 
Full fathom five thy father lies ; 
Of his bones are coral made. 
‘TEMPEST, i. 2, 397. 
Cora is gendered in the Red Sea, and is a tree as long 
as it is covered with water; but anon as it is drawn out 
of water and touched with air, it turneth into stone. 
Witches tell that this stone withstandeth lightning. His 
might and virtue is wonderful, for it putteth off lightning, 
whirlwind, tempest and storms from ships and houses that 
it is in. And it is double white and red, and is never 
found passing half a foot long. And the red helpeth 
against the fiend’s guile and scorn, and against divers 
wondrous doing, and multiplieth fruit, and speedeth begin- 
ning and ending of causes and of needs. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk xv. § 33. 
[Szr Thomas Browne (“ Vulgar Errors,” bk. ii. ch. v.), doubts 
whether Coral be soft under water, and adds that “a gentleman 
caused a man to go down into the sea no less than a hundred 
fathom to see if it were so.” Truly there were divers in those 
days! Further (bk. v. ch. xxiii.) he says: “Though Coral 
doth properly preserve and fasten the teeth in men, yet it is 
used in children to make an easier passage for them, and for 
that intent is worn about their necks.”]. . 
