THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE APPLE AND PEAR. 
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2 . 
A close resemblance is thus marked 
“ An apple cleft in two is not more twin 
Than these two creatures.” 
12 th Night, V. i. 
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“ An evil soul producing holy witness, 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath !” 
Merchant of Venice, I. 3. 
4 * 
<s There’s small choice in rotten apples.” 
Taming of the Shrew, I. 1. 
A false resemblance is shewn by 
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“ As much as an apple doth an oyster.” 
Taming of the Shrew, I. 1. 
6 . 
The English in courage are, like their bulldogs attacking Russian bears, liable to 
“ Have their heads crushed like rotten apples.” 
Henry V, III. 7. 
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Trifling young men are thus hit off: 
“ These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse 
And fight for bitten apples.” 
Henry VIII, V. 3. 
8 . 
Though one daughter is as like another, 
And again, 
“ As a crab is like an apple 
“ She will taste like this as a crab does to a crab.’ 
King Lear, I. 5, 
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A cap is ridiculed as a “custard-coffin” and a slashed sleeve is 
“ Carved up and down 
Like an apple tart.” 
Taming of the Shrew, IV. 3. 
xo. 
“ I am wither’d like an old Apple John.” 
1st Henry IV, III. 3. 
11. 
1st Drawer. “What the devil has thou brought there? 
Apple John? Thou knows’t Sir John cannot endure 
An Apple John.” 
