PEACOCK. | NATURAL HISTORY. 97 
Street, ze, Nutmeg (two sorts), Queen’s, Newington, Grand 
Carnation, Black, Mellicotton, Roman, Alberza, Island, and 
Du Troy. Also of ‘that kind of Peach which some call 
Nectarine, the Roman Red (the best of fruits), the Bastard 
Red, the little dainty Green, the Yellow, the White, the Russet, 
which is not so good as the rest.” 
Evelyn (‘ Kalendarium Hortense’) gives the following: 
Admirable, Alberge (Sir H. Capel’s), Alberge (small yellow), 
Almond Violet, Bourdin, Belle Cheuvreuse, Elruge Nectarine 
(excellent), Maudlin, Mignon, Morella, Musk Violet, Murrey 
Nectarine, Nutmeg (white, red), Man Peach, Persique, Ram- 
bullion, Sion (excellént), Orleans, Savoy Mellicotton, etc.] 
PeacueEs, by making the belly slippery, cause other meats 
to slip down the sooner. The kernel within the Peach- 
stone stamped small, and boiled with vinegar until it be 
brought to the form of an ointment, is good to restore and 
bring again the hair. Gerard’s “ Herbal,” s.v, 
To confect Peaches after the Spanish fashion. 
Second part of “ Good Huswife’s Jewel,” p. 43. 
Peacock. 
i. Kinc Henry VL, iii. 3, 6. 
His flesh is so hard that unneath [with difficulty] it 
rotteth, and is full hard to seething. The Peacock is a 
bird that loveth not his children; for the male seeketh out 
the female, and seeketh out her eggs for to break them, 
and the female dreadeth that, and hideth busily her eggs, 
lest the Peacock might soon find them. And the Peacock 
hath foulest feet and rivelled [7.e., wrinkled]. And he 
wondereth of the fairness of his feathers, and reareth them 
up, as it were a circle about his head, and then he looketh 
to his feet, and seeth the foulness of his feet, and, -like as 
he were ashamed, ‘he letteth his feathers fall suddenly, and 
all the tail downward, as though he took no heed of the 
fairness of his feathers. And hath a voice of a fiend, head 
of a serpent, pace of a thief. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xii. § 31. 
By his voice he frightens serpents, and drives away all 
venomous animals, so that they dare not stay where his 
voice is often heard. The Peacock when he ascends on 
high betokens rain. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. § 93. 
