FRUITS. 
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1 st Witch. A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap, 
And mounch’d, and mounch’d, and mounch’d : 
Macbeth, Act i. Scene 3. 
PRUNES. 
Slender. ... I bruised my shin the other day 
with playing at sword and dagger with a master of 
fence, three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes ; 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. Scene 1. 
Pompey. . . . you being then, if you be re¬ 
membered, cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes. 
Measure for Measure, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Clown. . 
. four pound of prunes , 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Doll. He a captain ! He lives 
upon mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 4. 
Clown. 
note : 
DATES. 
. . Dates , — none ; that’s out of my 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Clown. . 
of currants ; 
CURRANTS. 
. . Three pound of sugar ; five pound 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 2. 
