168 SHAKESPEARE'S [ivy. 
Ivy. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, iv. 1, 48. 
Ivy multiplieth milk in goats that eat thereof. The 
root thereof pierceth things that be full hard; and is cold 
of kind, and tokeneth that the ground is of cold kind that 
it groweth in. And of Ivy is double kind, white and black, 
male and female; the male is harder in leaves and more 
fat and greater. The white Ivy hath white fruit, and the 
black hath black. The shadow thereof is noyful and 
grievous, and strong enemy to cold, and most loved of 
serpents, and breaketh walls and graves. Also the kind 
of Ivy is full wonderful in knowledge and assaying of 
wine. For it is certain, that if wine meddled with water 
be in a vessel of Ivy, the wine fleeth over the brink, and 
the water abideth. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 53. 
Tue gum of Ivy killeth lice and nits, and being laid to 
it taketh away hair. It is unwholesome to sleep under the 
Ivy or in an Ivy-bush. It maketh the head light and 
dizzy. 
Batman on Bartholomew, ut supra. 
AttuHoucn Ivy be cut asunder in many places, yet it 
continueth and liveth still. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. xvi. ch. 34. 
Tue liquor issuing out of Ivy is depilatory ; but as it 
taketh away hair, so it riddeth lice and vermin. The 
berries of Ivy colour the hair black. The juice of the 
Ivy-root, drawn with vinegar and taken in drink, is singular 
against the poison of the venomous spiders Phalangia. 
Ibid,, bk. xxiv. ch. 10. 
Boars cure their ailments with Ivy. A man crowned 
with Ivy cannot get drunk. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 172. 
Cato saith that a cup of Ivy will hold no wine at all. 
I have made some vessels of the same wood, which refuse 
no kind of liquor; and yet I deny not but the Ivy of 
Greece or Italy may have such a property. 
Holinshed, “ Description of England,” p. 239. 
