248 SHAKESPEARE'’S [ PLUM-TREE. 
bears the same about them. And Mizaldus the writer hereof 
saith that he doth hear that it is to be found the same 
day under the root of Plantain; which I know to be of 
a truth, for I have found them the same day under the 
root of Plantain, which is especially and chiefly to be found 
at noon. Lupton, ‘Notable Things,” bk. i. § 59. 
Plum-tree. 
ii, Kinc Henry VI, ii. 1, 97. 
Or the Plum-tree is many manner of kind; but the 
Damascene [Damson] is the best that cometh out of 
Damask. Only of this tree droppeth and cometh glue and 
fast gum. Physicians say that it is profitable to medicine, 
and for to make ink for writers’ use. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 125. 
THERE are divers sorts of Plums, the Damson, the 
Apricot, the Pear-Plum, the Wheaten Plum, the Levant 
Plum, the White Shrag, the Bullace, the Sloes, the Snages, 
besides other strange Plums that grow in other countries 
to us unknown. 
Batman's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xvii. § 125. 
[Tusser, at the end of “ January’s Abstract,” mentions be- 
sides some of the above Plums, the Cornet-Plum, and Green or 
Grass-Plums, 
References to Plum-broth, Plum-porridge, or Plum-pottage, 
or, in other words, Plum-pudding, are common enough.] 
vs 
Pole-cat. 
Merry Wives or Winnsor, iv. I, 29. 
Tue Pole-cat stinks very badly, especially when it is 
angered. Like the badger it has short legs on the left 
side, and longer ones on the right. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. 1. § 113. 
Pome-water. 
Love’s Lapour’s Lost, iv. 2, 4. 
V. Apple. 
