84 SHAKESPEARE’S [DEW-BERRY. 
Dew-berry. 
Mrpsummer Nicut’s Dream, iii. 1, 169. 
Also in Marlow’s “Dido, Queen of Carthage,” iv, 5 
[The Dew-berry is the Rubus cesius, or heath bramble. The 
commentators explain this word as either raspberry or goose- 
berry. ] 
Diamond. VY. Adamant. 
Diamonp that will receive but one form. 
“Euphues’ Golden Legacie.” 
Tue third part [of Ind] toward the Septentrion is full 
cold ; so that for pure cold and continual frost, the water 
becometh crystal. And upon the rocks of crystal grow the 
good diamonds that be of trouble colour. Yellow crystal 
draweth colour like oil. And they be so hard that no man 
may polish them. And men find many times hard Diamonds 
in a mass, that cometh out of gold, when men pure it and 
fine it out of the mine; when men break that mass in 
small pieces. And they grow many together, one little, 
another great. And they grow together male and female. 
And they be nourished with the dew of heaven. And they 
engender commonly and bring forth small children, that 
multiply and grow all the year. I have oft times assayed 
that if a man keep them witha little of the rock, and 
wet them with May-dew often-times, they shall grow every 
year; and the small will wax great. For right as the 
fine pearl congealeth and waxeth great of the dew of 
heaven, right so doth the very Diamond. And men shall 
bear the Diamond on his left side; for it is of greater 
virtue then, than on the right side. For the strength of 
their growing is toward the North, that is the left side of 
the world; and the left part of man is when he turneth 
his face toward the East. He that beareth the Diamond 
upon him, it giveth him hardiness and manhood, and it 
keepeth the limbs of his body whole. It giveth him victory 
of his enemies in play and in war (if his cause be rightful) ; 
and it keepeth him that beareth it in good wit; and it 
keepeth him from strife and riot, from sorrows and from 
enchantments, and from fantasies and illusions of wicked 
