48 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Apemantus . There’s a medlar for thee/ eat it. 
Timon . On what I hate I feed not. 
Apemantus. Dost hate a medlar h 
Timon . Ay, though it look like thee. 
Timon of Athens, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Mercutio. Now will he sit under a medlar tree, 
Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Scene 1. 
BLACKBERRY. 
Falstaff. ... if reasons were as plenty as 
blackberries I would give no man a reason upon 
compulsion, 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
Thersites. . . . -that stale old mouse- 
eaten dry cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, 
Ulysses,—is not proved worth a blackberry.— 
Triolus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 4. 
CRAB. 
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, 
/Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
Petrucio. Nay, come, Kate, come ; you must not 
look so sour. 
Katharine. It is my fashion, when I see a crab. 
Petrucio. Why, here’s no crab ; and therefore look 
not sour. 
Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Scene 1 . 
