110 SHAKESPEARE’S [FILBERT. 
I po look now for a Spanish Fig, or an Italian salad 
daily. Webster, “ Vittoria Corrombona.” 
PotsoneD! A Spanish Fig 
For the imputation. 
Ibid., ‘Duchess of Malfi,” ii. 3. 
A LappER made of the wood of a Fig-tree hath a mar- 
vellous property; for if flesh in the seething thereof be 
often stirred therewith, or if it be in the pot while it is 
seething, it makes the flesh to be sooner sodden. 
Lupton, “ A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. x. § 98. 
Filbert. 
Tempest, ll. 2, 175. 
A caTALocuE of the best Filberts : 
a \ Avelans. 
Large Hazel. 
Long, Thin, and Great Round Nuts. 
Evelyn, “‘Kalendarium Hortense.” 
Tuey engender much ventosity, if they be ate with the 
small skins; therefore to take away the grief, it is good 
to blanch them in hot water. The skin thereof meddled 
with honey helpeth against falling of hair, and maketh hair 
grow in the body. - Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 109. 
A suPERSTITIOUS notion prevails with the common people, 
that if it rains about the time of Midsummer Eve, the 
Filberts will be spoiled that season. 
Brand’s “Popular Antiquities,” vol. i. p. 253. 
Ir it be rubbed on the heads of boys who have eyes of 
different colours, it takes away the diversity. It helps 
against venom and bites, and especially with figs and rue 
against the punctures of scorpions, 
. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. ch. cecxiii. 
