330 SHAKESPEARE’S [VIOLET. 
covetously and fret the grapes of the Vineyard, and namely 
when the keepers and wardens be negligent and reckless ; 
and it profiteth not that some unwise men doth, that close 
within the Vineyard hounds, that be adversaries to foxes, 
for few hounds so closed waste and destroy more grapes 
than many foxes should destroy, that come and eat 
thievishly. Therefore wise wardens of Vineyards be full 
busy to keep that no swine nor tame hounds nor foxes 
come into the Vineyard. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 180. 
[Holinshed (‘‘ Description of Britain,” p. 111) notes that 
there were enclosed parcels [2z.2., of land] almost in every 
abbey yet called the vineyards, that Smithfield in the reign of 
King Stephen was a profitable vineyard, and that the Isle of 
Ely was in the first times of the Normans called L’Isle des 
Vignes.] 
Violet. 
Vioter is a little herb in substance, and the flower 
thereof smelleth most, and so the smell thereof abateth the 
heat of the brain, and refresheth and comforteth the spirits 
of feeling, and maketh sleep. And the more virtuous the 
flower thereof is, the more it bendeth the head thereof 
downward. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii, § 191. 
Very many by these Violets receive ornament and 
comely grace ; for there be made of them garlands for the 
head, nosegays and posies; yea gardens themselves receive 
by these the greatest ornament of all, chiefest beauty and 
most gallant grace; for they admonish and stir up a man 
to that which is comely and honest. The seed is good * 
against the stinging of scorpions. 
Gerard’s “ Herbal,” s.v., where he describes the purple 
garden Violet, the white, the double: purple (or 
white), the yellow (wild or mountain), and the dog 
Violet. 
I rHinx of kings’ favours as of a marigold flower, or 
like the Violets in America, that in summer yield an 
odoriferous smell, and in winter a most infectious savour. 
‘“°A Knack to Know a Knave,” 
