46 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Claudio. Give not this rotten orange to your friend ; 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act ii. Scene i; 
Act iv. Scene I. 
Menenius. . . . you wear out a good whole¬ 
some forenoon, in hearing a cause between an orange 
wife and a fosset-seller; 
Coriolanus, Act ii. Scene i. 
LEMON. 
Biron. A lemon. 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
CHERRIES. 
Demetrius. O, how ripe in show 
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow ! 
Helena. So we grew together, 
Like to a double cherry. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Constance. A cherry, 
King John, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Lady. ... ’tis as like you 
As cherry is to cherry. 
King Henry VIII., Act v. Scene 1. 
Gower. and with her neeld composes 
Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry; 
That even her art sisters the natural roses; 
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry : 
Pericles, Act v. 
