272 SHAKESPEARE’S [SALMON. 
Salmon. 
Kine Hewry V., iv. 7, 32. 
[It comes well to pass that he begins this course in a year 
when there is so great plenty of excellent venisons and such 
store of Salmons, that the like hath not been seen in the 
Thames these forty years (‘‘Chamberlain’s Letters to Sir 
Dudley Carleton,” from Wichol’s ‘‘ Progress of King James I,” 
vol. iii. p. 394). 
Half a Salmon cost gs. and a side of fresh Salmon 8s. in 
1573, but,—‘‘ You see this Salmon? it cost but sixpence” 
(Rowley, “A Woman Never Vexed,” Act. i.). 
Salmon was boiled in water with rosemary and thyme, and 
a quart of strong ale, and a good deal of vinegar was put in 
the broth (“‘ The Good Huswife’s Jewel,” part ii. p. 25). Calvered 
Salmon was a luxury (“‘ The Alchemist,” ii. 2).] 
Samphire. 
Kinc Lear, iv. 6, 16. 
Rock-SaMPHIRE groweth on the rocky cliffs at Dover, 
Winchelsea (by Rye), about Southampton, [and] the Isle of 
Wight. The leaves kept in pickle, and eaten in salads with 
oil and vinegar, is a pleasant sauce for meat. 
Gerard’s “ Herbal,” s.z. 
Sapphire. 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, v. 5, 75. 
SAPPHIRE 158 a precious stone, and is blue in colour, and 
most like to heavén in fair weather and clear, and is best 
among precious stones, and most precious, and most apt and 
able to fingers of kings, for it lighteneth the body, and 
keepeth and saveth limbs whole and sound. In the same 
veins of Sapphire in the middle is a certain kind of car- 
buncle found; therefore many men ween that the Sapphire 
is the carbuncle’s mother. And the Sapphire hath virtue 
to rule and accord them that be in strife, and helpeth 
much to make peace and accord. Also it hath virtue to 
abate unkind [unnatural] heat, for the Sapphire cooleth 
much the heat of burning fevers, if it be hanged nigh the 
pulse and the veins of the heart. Also it hath virtue to 
comfort and to glad the heart. His virtue is contrary to 
venom, and quencheth it every deal. And if thou put an 
attercop [spider] in a box, and hold a very Sapphire of 
