FRUITS. 
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.ripe red cherries ; 
Venus and Adonis. 
GOOSEBERRY. 
Falstaff. . . . not worth a gooseberry. 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act i. Scene 2. 
MULBERRY. 
Titania . Feed him with. 
.mulberries ; 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 1. 
Volamnia .correcting thy stout heart, 
Now humble, as the ripest mulberry 
That will not hold the handling: 
Coriolanus, Act iii. Scene 2. 
When he was by, the birds such pleasure took, 
That some would sing, some other in their bills 
Would bring him mulberries, 
Venus and Adonis. 
MEDLARS. 
Touchstone . Truly, the tree yields bad fruit. 
Rosalind. I’ll graff it with you, and then I shall 
graff it with a medlar: then it will be the earliest 
fruit in the country : for you’ll be rotten ere you be 
half ripe, and that’s the right virtue of the medlar. 
As You Like It, Act iii. Scene 2. 
