300 SHAKESPEARE’S [SUGAR. 
Many have been helped that have had foul and leprous 
faces, only with the washing the same with distilled water 
of Strawberries ; the Strawberries first put into a close glass, 
and so putrified in horse-dung. 
Lupton’s “Notable Things,” bk. iii. § 82. 
[Strawberries were eaten with cream and sugar, or with claret 
and sugar, in the Continental fashion, according to Dr. Hart 
(“‘ Diet of the Diseased,” p. 60), where he orders them to be 
taken before other food.] 
Sugar. 
i. Kinc Henry IV. i, 4, 25. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, v. 2, 231. 
[The finest Sugar came from Barbary (Beaumont and Fletcher's 
“ Beggars Bush,” iv. 3, “ Webster's ‘‘Northward Ho!” ii. 1, 
and Marston’s ‘“‘What You Will,” ii. 2, 83). Parmesan Sugar 
was also a costly luxury (Chapman, “The Ball,” Act iii). The 
practice of drinking Sugar with wine was exclusively English, 
according to Fynes Moryson. There are frequent allusions 
to it, e.g. 
Fill us of your nippitate, sir, 
But hear ye, boy? 
Bring Sugar in white paper, not in brown. 
“Took about You,” sc. 2. 
A pound and a half of sugar cost in 1555 1s. 73d. (Brand's 
“Popular Antiquities,” vol. i. p. 425, mote.) 
Sugar will make a man kind (Brand, vol. ii. p. 95, zote).] 
Sugar-candy. 
i, Kino Hewry IV., iii. 3, 180. 
He’s a mere stick of Sugar-candy 
You may look quite through him. 
Webster, “Duchess of Malfi,”’ iti. 1. 
Sugar-sop. 
[Name of a servant in “Taming of the Shrew,” iv. 1, 95. 
A sweetmeat in Beaumont and Fletcher's ‘ Monsieur 
Thomas,” ii. 3.] 
Sweet Marjoram. VY. Marjoram. 
