252 SHAKESPEARE’S [ PUPPY. 
as live idly, but unto robustious and rustic people nothing 
hurteth that filleth the belly. Gerard’s “Herbal,” s.v. 
[N.B.—Gerard gives six illustrations of “melons or Pom- 
pions,” of which some resemble vegetable marrows, and others 
water-melons. | 
Courtier. A GROAT 
My ordinary in Pompions baked with onions. 
Peregrine. Do such eat Pompions? 
Doctor. Yes, and clowns musk-melons. 
Brome, “The Antipodes,” iv. 5. 
For ought I see Pompions are as good meat [as 
asparagus] for such a hoggish thing as thou art. 
Ibid., ‘The Sparagus Garden,” iii. 8. 
Puppy. 
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iv. 4, 3 
V, Whelp. 
Purple (plant). 
Hatt, iv. 7, 171. 
[The Purple orchis (ovchis mas), which, according to Gerard, 
Pliny, and other authorities, has certain wonderful properties, 
derived by the doctrine of signatures from the shape of the 
root, to which also the “grosser name” is to be ascribed.] 
Puttock. 
ii. Kinc Henry VI, iii. 2, 191. 
Troitus ano Cressipa, v. I, 68. 
A BUZZARD, a glede, Puttock or kite. 
Minsheu’s Dictionary, s.v. Buzzard. 
[In the passage in ii. “King Henry IV.” the Puttock is evi- 
dently a kite, as also in Spenser's “Faery Queene,” v. xii. 30 
(quoted in Wares’ Glossary).] 
Quail. 
TroiLus anp Cressipa, v. I, 57. 
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 3, 37. 
{Latin, Coturnix (Minsheu’s and Cooper's Dictionaries).] 
Curtews hight coturnices, and hath that name of the 
sound of the voice. These birds have guides and leaders 
