202 SHAKESPEARE’S [MASTIFF, 
Mastiff. 
Kine Henry V.,, iil. 7, 151. 
Or Bandog—keeping the house—or molossus. 
Minsheu’s Dictionary, 5.7. 
Medlar. 
As You Like Ir, iii, 2, 125. 
Measure For Measure, iv. 3, 184. 
Romeo anp Juuiet, ii. 1, 36. 
So also Middleton, ‘Women Beware Women,” iv. 2, 100. 
[The prejudices of the nineteenth century will not allow the 
popular name of the Medlar in the sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries to be recalled.] 
Ir you graft the slips of a wilding or sour apple upon 
the stock of a hawthorn, you shall have Medlars grow 
thereof. This I have seen proved: therefore I affirm it 
for a very truth. Lupton, “ Notable Things,” bk. x. § 95. 
Tue graft should be taken from the middle of the 
tree ; for one from the top is faulty. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 294. 
Tue fruit of the three-grain [Neapolitan] Medlar is 
eaten both raw and boiled. These Medlars be oftentimes 
preserved with sugar or honey. Moreover, they are 
singular good for women with child; for they strengthen 
the stomach, and stay the loathsomeness thereof. 
Gerard’s “Herbal,” 5.7. 
Meptars, the best :—The Great Dutch, Neapolitan, and 
one without stones. 
Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 274. 
Mermaid. 
Pll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall. 
ili. Kino Henry VI., iii. 2, 186. 
VY. Siren. 
Milk. 
Wuen cow's Milk is first congealed, it is as it were a 
stone, and that happeth when it is meddled with water. 
Also when a child is nourished with hot Milk, his teeth 
