212 SHAKESPEARE’S [MUSK-ROSE. 
Musk-rose. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. I, 252. 
[The Musk-rose was a moss-rose. Gerard describes and 
engraves several species. ] 
Mussel. 
TEMPEST, i. 2, 462, 
Tur Mussel is the male of the whale (g.v.). There are 
Mussels which are shell-fish, and from their milk oysters 
breed. The Mussel and the whale are examples of friend- 
ship, for as the whale’s eyes through the great weight of 
its brows are closed, the Mussel swims before it and points 
out those things which might be harmful to its bulk, and 
the Mussel takes the place of eyes for the whale. This 
sea-mussel which precedes the whale has no teeth, but 
bristles instead. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. § 57. 
[Two distinct fishes are evidently here described, but the 
habits of both are interesting. The engraving is of a shell-fish 
like a whelk. ; 
Mussels were seethed or boiled in their shells (second part 
of “The Good Huswife’s Jewel,” p. 53).] 
Mustard. 
TAMING OF THE SHREW, Iv. 3, 22. 
[Eaten with pancakes (As You LIKE IT, i. 2, 66).] 
Senvey hight Sinapis [i.e., Mustard], and healeth smiting 
of serpents and of scorpions, and overcometh venom of the 
scorpions, and abateth tooth-ache, and cleanseth the hair, 
and letteth the falling thereof. Bees love best the flowers 
and haunt them, and nevertheless bees touch never flowers 
of olive. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 155. 
Ir it be drunk fasting, it makes the intellect good. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 436, 
Ir helpeth those that have their hair pulled off; it 
taketh away the blue and black marks that come of 
bruisings. Gerard’s “Herbal,” s.2, 
