238 SHAKESPEARE’S ~ [PEAR. 
Pear. 
Auu’s Wett THAT :Enps WELL, i. I, 178. 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, iv. 5, 100. 
Poperin pear. 
Romeo anp JuLiet, ii, I, 38. 
Few Pears weigh heavier than many apples, if they be 
on a beast’s back, And Pears have this property, that, if 
they be sod with toadstools, they take away from them all 
grief and malice. Powder or ashes of wild Pears drunken 
helpeth against fungus, toadstools. Alway after eating of Pears, 
wine shall be drunk, for without wine Pears be venom. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 124. 
[Gerard (‘‘ Herbal,” s.v.) names the following Pears: the 
Catharine, the Jenneting, St. James, Pear Royal, the Bergamot, 
the Quince Pear, the Bishop’s, and the Winter; also of wild 
Pears: the great and small Choke-Pears, the wild Hedge-Pear, 
the wild Crab-Pear, the lousy Wild-Pear, and the Crow-Pear. 
He states that all the garden Pears ‘before specified, and 
many sorts more, and those most rare and good, are growing 
in the ground of Master Richard Pointer, a most cunning and 
curious graffer and planter of all manner of rare fruits, dwelling 
in a small village near London, called Twickenham, and also 
in the ground of an excellent graffer and painful planter, Mr. 
Henry Banbury, of Tothill Street, near Westminster, and like- 
wise in the ground of a diligent and most affectionate lover of 
plants, Mr. Warner, near Horsely Down, by London.” 
‘Malone says that the Poperin Pear came from Poperingue, 
near Ypres, in French Flanders. 
Pear-pies are mentioned in Pveston’s “Tragedy of Cam- 
byses.’’] 
V. Warden. 
Pearl. 
As You Like It, v. 4, 63. 
MarcueriteE (i.e, Pearl) is chief of all white precious 
stones. It breedeth in flesh of shell-fish, and is sometime 
found in the brain of the fish ; and is gendered of the dew . 
of heaven, the which dew shellfish receive in certain times 
of the year. Of the which marguerites some be called 
Unions, and have a convenable name, for only one is found, 
and never two or more together. And those that be con- 
ceived of the morrow [i.e., morning] dew be made dim with 
the air of the even-tide. And some be found kindly [i.e., 
