80 SHAKESPEARE’S — [cuckoo-FLOWER. 
Gerard calls the Round-rooted Crow’s-foot, or it may be the 
“‘ Cuckoo-bread,” “‘ Cuckoo-brood,” or as Gerard calls it, “ Cuckoo- 
meat,” 2.¢., the Oxalis acetosella. Gerard describes a variety 
of this plant with yellow flowers, and says that it has its name 
“because either the Cuckoo feedeth thereon, or by reason when 
it springeth forth and flowereth the Cuckoo singeth most.”] 
Cuckoo-flower. 
[See above and Lady-smock.] 
Currants. 
Winter’s Taz, iv. 3, 40. 
[Gerard only casually alludes to the Currant-bush which now 
grows in England, of which, however, Johnson, in his appendix 
to Gerard’s “‘ Herbal” gives a full description. These currants, 
therefore, will be currants of Zante or Cephalonia, as Fynes 
Moryson calls them.] 
Tue black Currants are used in sauces, and so are the 
leaves also by many. Parkinson's “ Herbal,” s.v. 
Cuttle. 
An you play the saucy cuttle with me. 
ii. Kine Hewry IV., ii. 4, 139. 
CuTTe-FisH is a kind of sea-fish, with a pointed snout, 
with which they pierce and sink ships in the Atlantic Ocean. 
Minsheu’s Dictionary, 5.2. 
Irs ink is so strong that when thrown on a lamp, men 
seem to be Ethiopians. It conceives by the mouth like a 
viper. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. ch. |xxxi. 
Cypress. 
Cypress chests. 
TaMInG OF THE SHREW, ii, 1, 353. 
Tus Cypress-tree is formable and necessary to edifying 
and building of _towers and temples, and for other great 
and pompous edifices. And for because it may not rot, 
