236 SHAKESPEARE’S [ PEA. 
her whole body is hidden, and when she sees no- one, she 
thinks that no one sees her. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. § 98. 
Partripces do so fortify and impale their. nests with 
thorns and twigs of shrubs and ‘bushes, that they be 
sufficiently fenced against the invasion of wild beasts. 
Partridges live 16 years. Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. xxxiii. 
In Paphlagonia Partridges have two hearts. 
Ibid., bk. xi, ch. xxxvii. 
Some creatures there be that will never be fat, as the 
hare and Partridge. Ibid. 
Pea. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, v. 2, 316. 
THE great Pease is called Roman Pease, or Garden Pease, 
of some, Branch-Pease, French Pease, and Rouncivals, 
Gerard’s “‘ Herbal,” s.v. 
[Rouncivals, Tusser tells us (October’s ‘‘ Husbandry,” st. 30, 
and November, st. 7), were gray Pease. He mentions also 
Hastings (October, st. 32, margin, and November, st. 7) and 
Fulhams (October, ut supra). A dish of buttered Pease is 
mentioned in the Interlude of “The Trial for Treasure,’’ and 
in Greene’s ‘Quip for an Upstart Courtier.” 
White Pease-pottage consisted of boiled white Pease with 
butter and verjuice and a little fine powder of March, and was 
served upon sops (second part of the ‘‘Good Huswife’s Jewel,’ 
p. 26), and permission is accorded to boil porpoise and seal in 
your Pease. 
The price of early Pease is given by Middleton as ten groats 
the cod (‘ Blurt, Master Constable,” iii. 3, 123), or four nobles 
a peck may be nearer the mark (Dekkers ‘Bachelor's 
Wedding.” ] 
Peach. 
[Shakespeare only uses ‘‘ Peach-coloured.”’] 
Measure For Measure, iv. 3, 12. 
ii. Kinc Hewry IV,, ii. 2, 19. 
[To the four sorts described by Gerard (viz., the White, the 
Red, the d@’Avant, and the Yellow), Johnson (1633) adds those 
“choice ones”? to be had from his friend Mr, Millen in Old 
