264 SHAKESPEARE’S [RUBY. 
[BEFORE a wedding. | Let us dip our Rosemaries 
In one rich bowl of sack to this brave girl 
And to the gentleman. 
Fasper Mayne, “The City Match,” v. 1 (1639). 
Ruby. 
Measure ror Measure, ii. I, I0l. 
Amonc these red gems, the Rubies otherwise called car- 
buncles challenge the principal place. 
Hollana’s Pliny, bk, xxxvii. ch. 7. 
[So Minsheu’s Dictionary, “ Ruby, v. Carbuncle,” therefore we 
may suppose that the stones were considered to be identical.] 
V. Carbuncle. 
Ruddock. 
With fairest flowers, 
While summer iasts, and I live here, Fidele, 
I'll sweeten thy sad grave; thou shalt not lack 
The flower that’s like thy face, pale primrose, nor 
The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor 
The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 
Out-sweeten’d not thy breath: the ruddock would 
With charitable bill,—O bill, sore-shaming 
Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie 
Without a monument!—bring thee all this ; 
Yea, and furr’d moss besides, when flowers are none, 
To winter-ground thy corse. 
CyMBELINE, iv. 2, 218-29. 
Ca.u for the robin-redbreast and the wren 
Since o’er shady groves they hover, 
And with leaves and flowers do cover 
The friendless bodies of unburied men ; 
Call unto his funeral dole 
The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole 
To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm 
And (when gay tombs are robb’d) sustain no harm ; 
But keep the wolf from thence, that’s foe to men, 
For with his nails he'll dig them up again. 
Webster, “’ White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona,” Act. v. 
Vv. Redbreast. 
