56 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
lago. 
lettuce; 
LETTUCE. 
. if we will plant nettles, or sow 
Othello, Act i. Scene 3. 
MUSHROOM. 
Prospero . . . . and you, whose pastime 
Is to make midnight mushrooms; 
Tempest, Act v. Scene 1. 
SAMPHIRE. 
Edgar. . . . half way down 
Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 
King Lear, Act.iv. Scene 6. 
ONION. 
Bottom. And, most dear actors, 
eat no onions, 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Lord. And if the boy have not a woman’s gift, 
To rain a shower of commanded tears, 
An onion will do well for such a shift; 
Which in a napkin being close convey’d 
Shall in despite enforce a watery eye. 
Taming of the Shrew (Induction), Scene 1. 
Lafeu. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon :— 
All’s Well that Ends Well, Act v. Scene 3. 
Enobarbus. —and, indeed, the tears live in 
an onion that should water this sorrow. 
