126 SHAKESPEARE'’S [GINGER. 
[The Gilliflower or Gillyvor is the pink or carnation, and is 
to be distinguished from the Gillyflower of the wall, z.2., wall- 
flower. ] 
Tue Gilliflower also, the skilful do know, 
Doth look to be covered in frost and in snow: 
The knot and the border, and rosemary gay, 
Do crave the like succour for dying away. 
Tusser, “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,” 
ch, xxii. st. 22: December’s Husbandry, 
Ginger. 
Tweirte Nicut, ii. 3, 126. 
Measure For Measurg, iv. 3, 6, 9. 
Some Ginger is tame, and some is wild; the wild Ginger 
hath more sharper savour than hath the tame, and is more 
sadder and faster, and not so white, but it breaketh more 
sooner. And the more whiter it is, and the more new, 
the more sharp it is and the more better. And Ginger is 
kept three years in good might and virtue, but afterward 
it waxeth dry, and worms eat and gnaw, and make holes 
therein and rotteth also for moisture thereof. Who that 
purposeth to keep Ginger by long continuance of time shall 
put Ginger among pepper, that the moisture of the Ginger 
may be tempered and suaged by dryness of the pepper. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 195. 
THERE are some who season Ginger with honey and 
some with rob [a barbarous word signifying the juice of 
herbs or fruits defoccate—Cooper’s “‘ Thesaurus’ ]—and some 
with water and salt; and that, lest it putrefy; and it is 
converiient in food, and is eaten with fish and salt. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 525. 
Green Ginger will cure me of a grievous fit of the colic. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, “ Scornful Lady,” iv. 1. 
[For a race of Ginger (‘‘ Winter’s Tale,” iv. 3, 20), or raze 
(i. “King Henry IV.,” ii. 1, 26), which was probably cheap, as 
the Clown in the “ Winter’s Tale” says that he may beg it 
compare Greene’s “Looking-Glass for London and England eB 
