106 SHAKESPEARE’S [ERINGO. 
cheerful of body and of speech; and helps in tempests. 
Also it makes the memory good. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. v. § 113. 
Ir any one carries an Emerald under his tongue, straight- 
way he will prophesy. 
Albertus Magnus, “Of the Virtues of Stones.” 
Eringo or Eryngo (é¢., Sea-holly). 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, v. 5, 23. 
Tue roots condited or preserved with sugar, as hereafter 
followeth, are exceeding good to be given unto old or aged 
people that are consumed and withered with age, and which 
want natural moisture; they are also good for other sorts 
of people that have no delight or appetite to venery, 
nourishing and restoring the aged, and amending the defects 
of nature in the younger. 
The manner to condite Eringoes : 
Refine sugar fit for the purpose, and take a pound of it, 
the white of an egg, and a pint of clear water; boil them 
together and skim it, then let it boil until it be come to 
good strong syrup, and when it is boiled, as it cooleth, add 
thereto a saucer-ful of Rose-water, a spoon-ful of cinnamon- 
water, and a grain of musk, which have been infused 
together the night before, and now strained; into which 
syrup being more than half cold, put in your roots to 
soak and infuse until the next day ;—your roots being 
ordered in manner hereafter following :—These your roots 
being washed and picked, must be boiled in fair water by 
the space of four hours, until they be soft, then must they 
be pilled clean, as ye pill parsnips, and the pith must be 
drawn out at the end of the root; and if there be any 
whose pith cannot be drawn out at the end, then you 
must slit them, and so take out the pith; these you must 
also keep from much handling, that they may be clean; 
let them remain in the syrup till the next day, and then 
set them on the fire in a fair broad pan until they be very 
hot, but let them not boil at all; let them there remain 
over the fire an hour or more, removing them easily in 
the pan from one place to another with a wooden slice. 
This done, have in a readiness great cap or royal papers, 
