170 SHAKESPEARE’S [JEWEL. 
Emperor glazed the church withal that standeth at the Fall 
of Tangra, but I cannot imagine that light should enter 
thereby. The writers also divide this stone into five kinds, 
of which the one is in colour like unto lion-tawny, another 
streaked with white veins, the third with yellow lines, the 
fourth is garled [variegated] with divers colours, among 
which some are like drops of blood (but those come out 
of Ind), and the fifth shining-black as any raven’s feather. 
Holinshed, “ Description of England,” p. 239. 
Jewel. 
Mercnant oF Venice, iii, 1, QI. 
In the earth are many kinds of humours. Some there 
are which are hardened by nature; from these all ores of 
metal are generated, from which gold and silver are made. 
Some there are which are turned from fluid into stone, from 
whence precious stones grow. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. v. (Introduction). 
Were there no sun, by whose kind, lovely heat, 
The earth brings forth those stones we hold of price. 
Heywood, First Part of “King Edward IV.” 
[This same theory is alluded to in Glapthorne's “ Hollander.”] 
Here's a Jewel for thee, 
A pretty wanton label for thine ear, 
Dekker, “Witch of Edmonton,” iii. 2. 
I woutp have a Jewel for mine ear, 
And a fine brooch to put into my hat. 
Marlowe, “Dido, Queen of Carthage,” i, 1. 
A DIAMOND ring out of her ear. 
Randolph, “Jealous Lovers,” i. 8 (stage direction), 
[So also Beaumont and Fletcher's “A King and No King,” 
i. 1, and Ben Jonson’s “Every Man in his Humour,” iv. 9, 
etc. In the same author “ Fox,” (ii. 5) we find: 
WERE you enamoured on his copper rings 
His saffron Jewel, with the Toad-stone in’t ? 
VY, Gem. 
