PUMPION. | NATURAL HISTORY. 2kT 
Pricket. 
Love’s Lazour’s Lost, iv. 2, 12, etc. 
A Buck is, the first year, a fawn; the second year, a 
Pricket ; the third year, a sorrel; the fourth year, a sore; 
the fifth, a buck of the first head; the sixth year, a 
complete buck. “The Return from Parnassus,” ii. 5. 
Primrose. 
Winter’s Tae, iv. 4, 122 
V, Oxlip, Cowslip. 
Provencal Roses. 
HaMLet, iii. 2, 288. 
Or Provence Roses there were various kinds; e.g., the 
Red Rose, the Damask Rose, and the Great Rose, or Rose 
of Holland. Gerard's “Herbal,” s.v. Rose, ¢.v. 
Prune. 
-[As to stewed Prunes, they were usual refreshments in houses 
of evil repute (i. ‘ King Henry IV.,” iii. 3, 128; ‘‘ Merry Wives 
of Windsor,” i. 1, 296; ‘“ Measure for Measure,” ii. I, 92, etc.) ; 
but prunes were also used by respectable people (‘‘ Winter's 
Tale,” iv. 3, 51). 
Damask Prunes (Lily, ‘‘Mother Bombie,” iii. 4) used in 
porridge were dried damsons. 
Prunes were made into tarts (“The Good Huswife’s 
Treasury,” p. 7).] 
Pumpion. 
This unwholesome ‘humidity, this gross, watery pumpion. 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, iii. 3, 44. 
Pumpions strangely hate oil, and love water. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. 1. § 352. 
Tue fruit of Pompions or melons boiled in milk and 
buttered is a good wholesome meat for man’s body. The 
flesh or pulp of the same sliced and fried in a pan with 
butter is also a'good and wholesome meat ; but baked with 
apples in an oven, it is food utterly unwholesome for such 
