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Fool. She will taste as like this as a crab does to a 
crab. 
King Lear, Act i. Scene 5. 
BILBERRY. 
Pistol. Cricket, to Windsor chimneys Shalt thou 
leap : 
Where fires thou find’st unraked and hearths unswept, 
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry; 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Scene 5. 
DEWBERRY. 
Titania. Feed him with . . . dewberries; 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 1. 
NUTS. 
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind, 
Such a nut is Rosalind. 
As You Like It, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Thersites. Hector shall have a great catch if he 
knock out either of your brains ; ’a were as good 
crack a fusty nut with no kernel. 
Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Hamlet. . . . such officers do the king best 
service in the end : he keeps them, like an ape doth 
nuts, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be 
last swallowed : 
Hamlet, Act iv. Scene 2. 
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