194 SHAKESPEARE’S [MALLOW. 
ordinarily kept dry in a thick mass, and as need requireth 
is dissolved and given in wine; but some think that the 
blood of the female duck is better than that of the Mal- 
lard or drake. Hollana’s Pliny, bk. xxix. ch. v. 
Your citizens’ wives love green geese in spring, Mallard 
and teal in the fall, and woodcock in winter. 
Webster, “Westward Ho!” i. 1. 
[Mallards were boiled with cabbage or onions (“Good Hus- 
wife’s Handmaid,” p. 5), or stewed (“The Good Huswife’s 
Jewel ”).] 
Mallow. 
TEMPEST, ii. I, 144. 
He that is balmed with the juice of the hock [ze., 
Mallow—hollyhock], meddled with oil may not be grieved 
with stinging of bees. Also members balmed with juice 
thereof be not bitten of attercops [7.e., spiders], nor stung 
of scorpions. The broth thereof maketh sleep, if the face 
be washed therewith, and the outer parts of the body. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 107. 
Ir a man or woman sup off a small draught (though it 
were no more but half a spoonful) every day of the juice 
of any Mallow, it skills not which, he shall be free from 
all diseases and live in perfect health. 
Holland’s Pliny, bk. xx. ch. xxi. 
[Mallows were eaten as a vegetable (cf “ The Good Hus- 
wife’s Handmaid,” p. 1, and Evelyn's “ Acetaria,” § 40).] 
Malmsey. 
Kino Ricuarp IIL, i. 4, 161. 
ii. Kinc Henry IV., ii. 1, 42, etc. 
Ma.tmsey and muscadine were wines of Candia, 
Fynes Moryson, ‘‘Utinerary,” part iii, 
Tue Vintners of the Low Countries (I will not say of 
London) do make of Cute and wine mixed in a certain 
