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if I fought not with fifty of them I am a bunch of 
radish : 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
PARSLEY. 
Biondello. ... I knew a wench married in 
an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to 
stuff a rabbit; 
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 4. 
PEASCOD. 
Touchstone. ... I remember, when I was in 
love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him 
take that for coming a’night to Jane Smile : . . 
and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of 
her; from whom I took two cods, and, giving her 
them again, said, with weeping tears, Wear these for my 
sake. 
As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 4. 
Mdlvolio. 
peascod, 
as a squash is before ’tis a 
Twelfth Night, Act i. Scene 5. 
Hostess. Well, fare thee well : I have known thee 
these twenty-nine years, come peascod time; 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 4. 
Fool [pointing to Lear). That’s a sheal’d peascod. 
King Lear, Act i. Scene 4. 
