210 SHAKESPEARE’S [ MUSHROOM. 
Eggs and Muscadine were supposed to be restorative of the 
vital powers (“ Tamer Tamed,” i. 1; “ Cupid’s Revenge,” i. I; 
and many other plays of Massinger, Middleton, Brome, etc.). 
Muscadines were also compounds to sweeten the breath 
(Wardes’ “ Treatise of Alexis of Piedmont'’s Secrets,” 1562).] 
Muscapines of Candia whereof and especially of red 
Muscadine there is great plenty in this island, wherewith 
England for the most part is served. 
Fynes Moryson, “Itinerary,” part 1. p. 256. 
‘Mushroom. 
TEMPEST, v. I, 39. 
[Gerard describes not very clearly various kinds of edible 
and poisonous fungi, but thinks Mushrooms poor food.] 
V. Toad-stool. 
Iratian delicate oiled Mushrooms, 
Massinger, “ Guardian,” ii. 2; so Ben Fonson, “ Alchemist,” ii. 2. 
Two small. casks—one of blue figs, the other of pickled 
Mushrooms. Fasper Mayne, ‘The City Match,” v. 4. 
Musk, Musk-cat. 
Merry Wives of Wiwnpsor, il. 2, 68. 
Auw’s Wett tHat Enps WELL, v. 2, 21. 
In the mountains of Ind be some Cuprioli [deer] that 
eateth herbs with good smell and savour, and in their feet 
be certain hollowness, in the which certain humours be 
gathered, and breedeth posthumes [i.e., imposthumes, ab- 
scesses|, the which posthumes first be ripened, and then 
broken with moving and with froting [#.e., rubbing], and 
thrown out of the body with small hairy leaves. And the 
substance, that is contained within the skin, is best of 
smelling, and most precious among spicery, and most 
profitable and virtuous in medicine, and that we call 
commonly Musk. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 23. 
In the flank of the Musk-cat grows an imposthume 
from collected humours, and when this is ripe, the beast 
bruises and rubs it against a tree, and so it is broken, and 
the matter runs out, and thickens and hardens there, and 
the substance of the humour is called Musk. The whole 
