320 SHAKESPEARE'S [TURTLE. 
Tue Turquoise is formed beyond the farthest parts of 
India among the inhabitants of the mountain Caucasus, [and 
in] Carmania. They be found in icy cliffs hardly accessible, 
where you shall see them bearing out after the manner of 
bosses like unto: eyes. Holland’s Pliny, bk. xxxvii. ch. viii. 
A TRUE wife should be like a Turquoise stone, clear in 
heart in her husband’s health, and cloudy in his sickness. 
Alex Nicholas, “Discourse of Marriage and Wiving,” 
ch. xiv. § 18. 
Awnp true as Turquoise in the dear lord’s ring 
Look well or ill with him. 
Ben Fonson, “ Sejanus,” i. 1. 
Tue Turquoise, which who haps to wear 
Is often kept from peril. 
' Drayton, “ Muses’ Elysium.” 
Tue Turquoise doth move, when there is any peril pre- 
pared to him that weareth it. 
Edw, Fenton, “Secret Wonders of Nature.” 
Tue Turquoise is likewise said to take away all enmity, 
and to reconcile man and wife. Thos. Nicols, “ Lapidary.” 
[These three quotations are from Steevens’ notes to the 
passage in “ Merchant of Venice.”] 
Turtle, Turtle-dove. 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 154. 
Merry Wives or Winnpsor, iii. 3, 44. 
i, King Henry VI, ii. 2, 30. 
Tue Turtle hath that name of the voice, and is a simple 
bird as the culvour, but is chaste, far unlike the culvour 
and if he loseth his make [7.e., mate], he seeketh not com 
pany of any other, but goeth alone, and hath mind of the 
fellowship that is lost, and groaneth alway, and loveth and 
chooseth solitary places, and flieth much company of men 
